Schley County GaArchives History .....Schley Co. Delegates To Georgia Succession Convention January 19, 1861
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ORDINANCE OF SECESSION OF GEORGIA
(Passed in the State Capitol at Milledgeville on 19 January 1861, by a vote of 
208-89.)

AN ORDINANCE 
to dissolve the union between the State of Georgia and other States united 
with her under a compact Government entitled "The Constitution of the United 
States of America."

We the people of the State of Georgia, in Convention assembled, do declare and 
ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by 
the people of the State of Georgia in Convention on the second day of January, 
in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the 
Constitution of the United States of America was assented to, ratified and 
adopted; and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this 
State ratifying and adopting amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby 
repealed, rescinded and abrogated.

We do further declare and ordain, that the union now subsisting between the 
State of Georgia and other States, under the name of the United States of 
America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is in the full 
possession and exercise of all those rights of soverneignty which belong and 
appertain to a free and independant State.

Passed, 19 JaNUARY 1861.

Georgia Succession Convention Delegates


SCHLEY COUNTY
William Allen Black
Hiram L. French



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