Hancock County: The Act of Creation of Hancock County.  December 17, 1793

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Georgia.  The Act of Creation of Hancock County.  December 17, 1793


The History of Hancock County, Georgia by Elizabeth Wiley Smith.  Wilkes 
Publishing Company, Inc. Washington, GA, Jan 1974. Page ix.

THE CREATION OF HANCOCK COUNTY

An Act to lay out a county out of a part of the counties of Washington and 
Greene

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of 
Georgia in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same,
That a new county shall be laid off out of a part of the counties of 
Washington and Greene, in the following manner:  A line shall be run 
beginning near Alexander's Mill on the north fork of the Ogeechee, to run in 
a direct course to Foster's plantation on the Oconee river; Thence down the 
same to the mouth of Buck Creek, near the Rock landing; thence a direct line 
to where the lower trading road crosses Town Creek, from thence with a road 
leading from the Rock landing to George town, to where the same crosses the 
river Ogeechee; thence up Ogeechee to the beginning, and all that part of the 
counties of Washington and Greene comprehended within, and lying between the 
said lines and boundaries shall be a county, and known by the name of the 
county of Hancock; and Hermon Reynolds, Mathew Rabon, James Adams, Abraham 
Miles, and John Mitchell, shall be and they are hereby appointed 
commissioners, and they or a majority of them, are veiled with full power and 
authority to fix on the most convenient and centr5al place within said 
county, at which courts and elects shall be held, as soon as suitable 
buildings are erected thereat (sic).  And the said commissioners, or a 
majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with fit 
and proper persons for the purpose of building a courthouse and gaol in the 
county aforesaid; which after at least thirty days notice, shall be let to 
the lowest bidder.

Provided:  That until the courthouse shall be erected, the courts shall be 
held at the house of John W. Whatley.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid:  That the justices of 
the inferior court of the said county are hereby authorized and empowered to 
levy a tax on the inhabitants, and taxable property, within the same, for the 
purpose of erecting a courthouse and gaol in the county aforesaid; which 
shall be done in such a manner as ion the judgment of the court shall be 
least burdensome to the inhabitants.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Henry Graybill 
shall be, and is hereby appointed to run the upper and lower lines bounding 
the said county; and that the charges thereof shall be paid by the inferior 
court of the said county, to be levied, as in this act directed.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,  That all civil and 
military officers within the boundaries of the said county, shall be, and 
they are hereby confirmed in their commissions.

					
William Gibbons - Speaker of the House of Representative
Benjamin Taliaferro - President of the Senate

George Mathews - Governor
December 17, 1793