Thomas-Lowndes County GaArchives History .....Creation of Thomas and Lowndes Counties December 23 1825
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ACTS OF THE General Assembly OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED AT MILLEDGEVILLE, AT AN
ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 1825.
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COUNTIES.
1825 Vol. 1 -- Page: 54
Sequential Number: 029
Short Title: To form two new counties from the counties of Irwin and Decatur.
Type: AN ACT
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 passing of this act the seventeeth and eighteenth districts, and
such parts of the twenty-third and nineteenth districts of Decatur county as lie on
the east side of the Oaklokna river, together with the thirteenth and fourteenth
districts of Irwin county do form and constitute a new county called Thomas.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth,
fifteenth and sixteenth districts of Irwin county form and constitute a new county
called Lowndes.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all officers civil and military within the
limits of the two new counties of Thomas and Lowndes as aforesaid do hold their
commissions in the same manner as if elected for said counties.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the new counties of Thomas and Lowndes be
and are hereby attached to the southern circuit of this state, and to the second
brigade and sixth division of Georgia militia.
THOMAS W. MURRAY
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ALLEN B. POWELL,
President of the Senate.
G. M. TROUP, Governor.
Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 23, 1825.

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