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(From an Act of Feb. 16, 1854)
An Act to lay out and form a new County from parts of the
Counties of Early and Randolph, and to organize the same, and
to attach it to the Second Congressional District and to the
Southwestern Judicial Circuit.
SECTION I. 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, that a new county shall be laid out and
organized from parts of the Counties of Early and Randolph, to
be included in the following boundaries, to wit: commencing at
the mouth of Colomokee Creek, on the Chattahoochee river, on
lot of land (372) three hundred and seventy-two, in the (5th)
fifth District of Early County, thence up said creek to where
it crosses the east and west line between lots of land 173 and
174, thence due east on said line between numbers 13 and 14 in
said (5th) fifth District of Early to Spring Creek, in the fourth
District, thence up Spring Creek to the north and south line,
dividing lots number 348 and 359, in the fourth District of Early,
thence north along said parallel line to the line at present
dividing the counties of Early and Randolph, thence west on said
county line to the corner between lots of land numbers sixty
and seventy-one, in the seventh District of Randolph County,
thence north on the line between said lots to the corner of numbers
53 and 68 in said seventh District of Randolph County, thence
west to the corners of 68 and 93, thence south between 69 and
92, to the north line of said lots thence west to the corners
of numbers 92 and 109, thence north to the line dividing the
seventh and eighth Districts of Randolph County, between the
lots of land numbers 81 and 120, in the said seventh District,
thence west on said District line to the Chattahoochee river,
thence down said river to the beginning.
SEC. XIII. And be it further enacted, That lot of land number
ninety-two in the 7th District of Randolph County, and included
in the said new county, be and is hereby retained in and continued
in the County of Randolph, upon which S. P. Burnett resides,
and which composes his plantation, be and are hereby added to
and made a parl of said new county.
Source: Ga. Laws 1853-54, p. 292.
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