GEORGIA - HISTORY Electoral Districts 1834 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm From Galileo digital Library http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/tmp/homepage_banner_...._default_1.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1834. [missing title] ELECTIONS. 1834 Vol. 1 -- Page: 106 Sequential Number: 081 Full Title: AN ACT to create additional Election Precincts in the county of Henry, and the several counties therein named, and to change the places of several Election Precincts in the several counties therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for all elections for governor, members of Congress, members of the State Legislature, electors of president and vice-president, and for all county officers in the county of Henry, to be held at the house of Augustus Y. Adamson, in the eight hundred and eighty-eighth district of Georgia militia in said county, under all the rules, regulations, and restrictions that are now by law pointed out in the act of the General Assembly of the State, passed on the 23d day of December, 1830, prescribing the mode of holding elections at the several election precincts in the several counties of this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That under the provisions aforesaid it shall and may be lawful for elections for governor, elections for electors for president and vice- president of the United States, representatives to Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers to be held at the houses of the following persons and following places hereinafter named, in the following counties, under the same rules and regulations as govern other election precincts therein, to wit: -- In the county of Madison, there shall be an election precinct established at the store of Thomas A. Brewer; In the county of Cobb, at a place called Lebanon, in the eight hundred and forty-fifth district of Georgia militia; In the county of Bullock, at the muster-ground club- house of the forty-fifth district of Georgia militia; In the county of Crawford, at the house of Ephraim Rentfroe, in the sixth district of Georgia militia; In the county of Houston, one at the place of holding justices' courts in the lower fifth district, and one at the place of holding justices' courts in the newly created or sixth district of said county, and one in the thirteenth district; In the county of Lowndes, one at the place of holding justices' ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Page: 107 courts in Captain Ganus's company district, one at the place of holding justices' courts in Captain Bell's company district, and one at the place of holding justices' courts in Captain M`Cranie's company district, and at the place of holding justices' courts in Captain Gaulding's district; In the county of Stewart, at the house of Turner Evans; And in the county of Thomas, at the house of Benjamin Warmacks; In the county of Carrol, at Villarica, at the Carrol Gold Mine, in lieu of that held at the house of William H. Mallory, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Cherokee, one on lot number twelve hundred and thirty-three in the fifteenth district and second section of said county, at such house as the presiding managers may select, in lieu of that held at the house of John Tate, which is hereby abolished; one at the house of Jesse Greene, at Long Swamp, in lieu of that held at the house of Suny Eaton, which is hereby abolished; and one at the house of Randal M`Donald; In the county of Decatur, at the house of Whiteman H. Owens, in the fourteenth district, in lieu of that at the house of Lyman Shepherd, in the twenty- first district, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Forsyth, at Hickory Grove, on lot number two hundred and ninety-eight in the third district and first section of originally Cherokee, now Forsyth county, in lieu of that held at the house of Leonard B. Jones, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Gwinnett, at the house of Thomas M`Guire, in lieu of that held at the house of Charles Gordian, which is hereby abolished; And in the county of Telfair, at the house of Archibald Campbell, in lieu of that held at the house of Duncan M`Rae, in Captain Robinson's district, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Sumpter, at Danville, in lieu of that held at the house of Hortense Anna Harris, which is hereby abolished; That the election now held at the house of Louis Laniers, formerly Alexander Bird's, in the nineteenth district of Bryan county, shall hereafter be held at the house of John Rogers in said district; That the election precinct heretofore established at the house of William Lawless in Cherokee county be removed to lot number six hundred and sixty-one, second district and second section of said county, to be held on said lot at such place as the superintending managers may select. ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Page: 108 SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. And that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to release the several managers at the several precincts hereby removed from the liability to meet at the court-house on the several subsequent days following elections; but this act shall be construed in affirmance thereof under all the laws, restrictions, compensations, and immunities entailed under the general law, and all local county laws governing the same. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, December 20th, 1834.