Bleckley County GaArchives News.....A PROCLAMATION September 11, 1912
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The Athens Banner September 11, 1912
A PROCLAMATION
Submitting a proposed 
amendment to the 
Constitution of the State 
of Georgia, to be voted 
or it the General State 
election to be held on 
Wednesday. October 2, 
1912, said amendment 
providing for the 
creation of the County of 
Bleckley. By His 
Excellency JOSEPH M. 
BROWN, Governor
_________________________
     State of Georgia
  Executive Department, 
Atlanta, G&., July 30th, 
1912. 
Whereas, the General 
Assembly at its session 
in 1912 proposed an 
amendment to the 
Constitution of this 
State as set forth in an 
Act approved July 30, 
1912, to-wit: 
An Act to propose to the 
qualified electors of 
this State an amendment 
to Paragraph 2, Section 
1, Article 11, of the 
Constitution of the State 
of Georgia, as amended by 
the ratification by the 
qualified voters of this 
State of the Act approved 
July 19. 1904, and by the 
Act approved July 31st, 
1906, and for other 
purposes: Section 1. Be 
it enacted by the General 
Assembly of the State of 
Georgia, and it is hereby 
enacted by the authority 
of the same, that the 
following amendment is 
hereby proposed to 
Paragraph 2, Section 1, 
Article 11, of the 
Constitution of the State 
of Georgia, as amended by 
the ratification of the 
qualified voters of said 
State of the Act approved 
July 19th, 1904, and of 
the Act approved July 
1st, 1906, to-wit: 
By adding to said 
paragraph the following 
language: “Provided, 
however, that in addition 
to the counties now* 
provided for by this 
Constitution there shall 
be a new county laid out 
and created from the 
territory now composing 
Pulaski County, to be 
made up and composed of 
all that part of the 
territory of Pulaski 
County lying north and 
east of a line extending 
northwest and southeast 
across said county, said 
line beginning at the 
point on the boundary 
line of Pulaski and Dodge 
Counties where land lots 
Nos. 123 and 148, in the 
20th Land District of 
Pulaski County meet, and 
thence extending from 
said point in a 
northwesterly direction 
along the line dividing 
said Lots 123 and 148; 
thence continuing in a 
northwesterly direction 
along the dividing lines 
of the following land 
lots: Nos. 122 and 149, 
121 and 150, in the 20th 
Land District: and Nos. 
300 and 301, 299 and 302, 
298 and 303. 297 and 304, 
296 and 305, 295 and 306, 
294 and 307, 293 and 308. 
292 and 309, 291 and 310, 
290 and 311, 289 and 312, 
288 and 313, 287 and 314, 
286 and 315, in the 21st 
Land District, and Nos. 
354 and 361, and between 
Lots 360 and 355, and 
between 359 and 356, be 
tween 358 and 357 in the 
24th Land District, to 
the Ocmulgee River and to 
the line of Houston 
County, That the said new 
county shall be known as 
the County of Bleckley, 
and the City of Cochran 
shall be the county site 
of the same. That the 
said County of Bleckley 
shall be attached to the 
same Congressional 
District, and to the same 
Judicial Circuit and to 
the same State Senatorial 
District to which the 
County of Pulaski Is 
attached at the data of 
the ratification of this 
amendment. That all legal 
voters residing In the 
limits of the County of 
Bleckley, entitled to 
vote for members of the 
General Assembly under 
the laws of Georgia, 
shall on the first 
Wednesday in January 
following the 
ratification of this 
proposed amendment, elect 
an Ordinary, a Clerk of 
the Superior Court, a 
Sheriff, a Coroner, a Tax 
Col­ lector, a Tax 
Receiver, a County 
Surveyor, and a County 
Treasurer, and one 
Commissioner of Roads and 
Revenues for said new 
county and said election 
shall he held at Cochran. 
That the Superior Court 
of said Bleckley County 
shall be held on the 
second Monday in January 
and the first Monday in 
July of each year. That 
the Congressional and 
Senatorial Districts, the 
Judicial Circuit to which 
said County is attached, 
and the time of holding 
the terms of the Superior 
Court, and the limits of 
the County, shall be as 
designated above until 
changed by law. Provided, 
that the laws applicable 
to the organization of 
new counties as found in 
Sections 829 to 848 
Inclusive, of the Code of 
1911, are here­ by made 
applicable to said County 
of Bleckley, whenever the 
same may be created by 
the proposed amendment to 
the Constitution and that 
said county when created, 
shall become a statutory 
county and shall be at 
times subject to all laws 
applicable to all other 
counties In this state.' 
Section 2. Be it further 
enacted. That whenever 
the above proposed 
amendment to the 
Constitution shall be 
agreed by two-thirds of 
the members elected to 
each of the two houses of 
the General Assembly, and 
the same has been entered 
on their journals, with 
the yeas and nays taken 
thereon, the Governor 
shall, and he is hereby 
authorized and instructed 
to cause the above 
proposed amendment to be 
published in at least two 
newspapers In each 
Congressional District in 
this state, for the 
period of two months' 
next preceding the time 
of holding the next 
general election, 
Governor is further 
authorized and directed 
to provide for the sub­ 
mission of the amendment 
proposed for ratification 
or rejection to the 
electors of this state at 
the next general election 
to be held after said 
publication, at which 
election every person 
shall be qualified to 
vote whereas is entitled 
to vote for members of 
the General Assembly. All 
persons voting at said 
election in favor of 
adopting the said 
proposed amendment shall 
have written or printed 
on their ballots the 
words: "For amendment to 
the Constitution creating 
the County of Bleckley,” 
and all persons op­ posed 
to the adoption of the 
said pro­ posed amendment 
shall have written or 
printed on their ballots 
the words: “Against the 
amendment of the 
Consultations creating 
the County of Bleckley.” 
If a majority of the 
electors qualified to 
vote for members of the 
General Assembly voting 
thereon shall vote for 
ratification of said 
proposed amendment, then 
the Governor shall, when 
he ascertains the same 
from the Secretary of 
State, to whom the 
returns from said 
election shall be 
referred as In the cases 
of elections for members 
of the General Assembly, 
to count and ascertain 
the result. Issue his 
proclamation for one 
Insertion Id 
!one daily paper of the 
state announcing such 
result aryl declaring the 
amendment ratified. 
Section 3. Be It further 
enacted, That all laws 
and parts of laws in 
conflict with this Act 
be, and the same are 
hereby repealed. Now, 
therefore, I, Joseph M. 
Brown. Governor of said 
State, do issue this my 
proclamation hereby 
declaring that the 
foregoing proposed 
amendment to the 
Constitution is submitted 
for ratification or 
rejection to the voters 
of the State qualified to 
vote for members of the 
General Assembly at the 
next general election to 
be held on Wednesday, 
October 2, 1912. JOSEPH 
M. BROWN, Governor. By 
the Governor, PHILIP 
COOK. Secretary of 
State.. 



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