(From an Act of Dec. 3, 1832)

Sec. 1. 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 so much of the counties of Habersham and Hall, as lies west of a line beginning at the Mouth of Leathers' Spring Branch, in said county of Hall, and running up said branch until it crosses the road leading from Leathers' Ford to Habersham, by way of George Garmons -- Thence with said road to the fork of Tessentee road -- thence with said Tessentee road to the Habersham line -- thence with said line to a line dividing lots number twenty-four and twenty-five, in the first district of said Habersham county -- thence due north to a line dividing the first and fourth districts -- thence west to a line between lots numbers forty-eight and forty-nine, in said fourth district -- thence due north until it intersects the line of the county of Cherokee; shall form and become a part of Cherokee county.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first, second, third and fourteenth districts of the first section of said county of Cherokee, shall form and become one county, to be called Forsyth.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said county of Cherokee as lies within the fourth, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and such parts of the sixth and eleventh districts of said first section, as lies south of the mountains, to be more particularly designated by a line hereafter to be run including such parts of the counties of Hall and Habersham herein-before added to said county of Cherokee, shall form and become one county, to be called Lumpkin.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and ninteenth, and so much of the sixth and eleventh districts of the first section, as lies north of the mountains, and of the before-mentioned line to be run, shall form and become one county, to be called Union.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the first, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, ninteenth and twentieth districts of the second section, and so much of the first, second and third districts, as lies east of a line to be run, commencing at the centre of the north line of the third district in said third section and running due south to the south line of the first district in said section, shall form and become one county, to be called Cobb.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the second, third, fourth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth and such parts of the twenty-third, twenty-second and twenty-first district of the second section as lies east of a line to be run, commencing at the centre of the north line of the twenty-third, and running due south to the south line of the twenty-first district, shall form and become one county, to be called Cherokee.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and such parts of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth districts as lie east of a line commencing at the centre of the south line of the twenty-fourth, and running due north to the north line of the twenty-fifth, and so much of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh districts of said second section, as lies east of a range of mountains running north and south through said district, shall form and become one county, to be called Gilmer.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That such parts of the twenty-seventh, twenty-sixth, twenty-fifth and twenty-fourth districts of the second section, as lie west of the lines herein-before designated, and the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth districts of the third section, and the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth districts of the fourth section, shall form and become one county, to be called Murray.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That such parts of the twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third districts of the second section as lie west of the line herein-before designated, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth districts of the third section, shall form and become one county, to be called Cass [later renamed Bartow].

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth districts of the third section, and the third, fourth, fifth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth districts of the fourth section, shall form and become one county, to be called Floyd.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That so much of the first, second and third districts of the third section, as lies west of the line herein-before designated, and eighteenth, ninteenth, twentieth, twenty-first districts of the third section, and the first, second and seventeenth districts of the fourth section, shall form and become one county, to be called Paulding.

Source: Ga. Laws 1832, p. 56.