Newton County GaArchives News.....Militia District January 3 1895
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Georgia Enterprise
OFFICE BOARD COMMISSIONERS, Newton County, August 20 1894
     Upon the filing of the petition to form a new militia district in Newton 
county, it is-
ORDERED, by the Board of Commissioners of said county, That U. G. Hardeman, 
Wil Eakes and R. C. Cook, citizens of the districts from which it is proposed 
to make the new district, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, whose 
duty it shall be to lay out and define such lines, and report the same to the 
Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Newton county at their next 
regular meeting in September.
T. A. PERRY, Chairman Board Commissioners.
GEORGIA, Newton County,
To the Hon. Board of Commissioners.
     We the undersigned commissioners, appointed to lay off the new district,  
known as the Oxford District, beg leave to submit the following report:
  We unanimously recommend the boundary lines to be as follows:
commencing at a point on the Northeastern boundary of Covington, where the road 
to Jersey intersects said boundary at the termination of Pace street; thence 
along said road, in a northerly direction, to a point near Mrs. Mary Cook’s 
residence, where said road intersects the south boundary of lot 316, of ninth 
district, as shown by map of Newton county, on file in the Ordinary’s office; 
thence in a westerly directly along the south boundary  of lots 316, 315, 314, 
313, 312, of said 9th district, and 426, 425, 408, of 4th district, to a point 
of south boundary of said lot 408 of said 4th district, where Big Gum Creek 
intersects South boundary of lot 408; thence along said Big Gum Creek, in a 
southeasterly direction, to a point where said creek empties into Yellow river. 
Thence along said river, in a southerly direction, to a point where the Georgia 
railroad intersects said river, thence along said Georgia railroad track, in an 
easterly direction, to a point where the Northwestern boundary of Covington 
intersects said railroad; thence along said boundary line to the beginning 
points.
Respectfully submitted,
ULLA G. HARDEMAN
W. J. EAKES
R. C. COOK
Commissioners,
Filed in Office November 19, 1894
     The report of the commissioners appointed in this case, to lay out and 
define the lines of said Militia District having been filed in this office, and 
after examination, and the Board being satisfied that a sufficient number of 
persons subject to militia duty reside within the boundary lines of said New 
district, and that enough persons are left in the old districts from which
said new district was taken to form a Captains Militia Company, and there being 
no objections filed, the same is hereby approved by the Board, and all the 
proceedings in said case ordered to be spread on the minutes of this body.
T. A. PERRY,
Chairman Board Commissioners.



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