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(From an Act of June 9, 1825)
Be in 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 the territory
acquired of the Creek nation of Indians by the United States
for the use of Georgia, as described in the articles of a treaty
entered into and concluded between the commissioners on the part
of the United States and the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of
the Creek nation of Indians, at the Indian Springs, on the twelfth
day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, shall form
and be divided into five sections, as follows, to wit: All that
part of said territory which lies sought of a line commencing
on Flint river, opposite where the line dividing the counties
of Houston and Dooly strikes said river, and running due west
to the Chattahoochee, shall form what shall be called section
the first; and the criminal jurisdiction thereof shall be attached
to the county of Dooly. All that part of said territory which
lies north of the line aforesaid, and south of the line commencing
on Flint river, opposite where the original line dividing the
counties of Monroe and Houston, and running due west to the Chattahoochee
river, shall form the second section; and the criminal jurisdiction
thereof be, and the same is hereby attached to the county of
Houston. And all that part of said territory which lies north
of the line last aforesaid, and south of a line commencing on
Flint river, where the original line dividing the counties of
Henry and Monroe strikes said river, and running due west until
it strikes the Chattahoochee river, shall be, and the same is
hereby called the third section; and the criminal jurisdiction
thereof attached to the county of Pike. And all that part of
said territory which lies north of said line, and east of the
Chattahoochee river, shall form the fourth section; and the criminal
jurisdiction thereof shall be attached to the county of Fayette.
And all that part of said territory lying west of the Chattahoochee
river, and east of the dividing line between this State and the
State of Alabama, shall form the fifth section; and the criminal
jurisdiction thereof shall be attached to the county of Pike.
Source: Ga. Laws 1825 Extra. Session, p. 3.
(From an Act of Dec. 11, 1826)
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 all that part of the
territory lately acquired from the Creek Indians, lying between
the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers, immediately above the old
lines of Early county, and known as the first section, shall
form one county to be called Lee.
That all that part of said territory lying between the rivers
aforesaid, and known as the second section, shall form one county
to be called Muscogee.
That all that part of said territory lying between said rivers,
and known as the third section, shall form one county to be called
Troup.
That all that part of said territory east of the Chattahoochee,
and known as the fourth or upper section, shall form one county
to be called Cowetaw [sic].
And that all that part of said territory lying west of the
said river Chattahoochee, shall form one county to be called
Carroll. . . .
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all that part of
De Kalb county lying below a certain line beginning on the Chattahoochee
river, at the upper corner of Fraction No. one hundred and thirteen,
in the fourteenth district formerly Fayette now De Kalb, thence
running along the line of lots on the range of said district
to the upper corner of lot No. one hundred and twenty-four --
all that part of said district below said line to be added to
and become a part of Coweta county.
Source: Ga. Laws 1826, p. 57.
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