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(From an Act of Aug. 17, 1905)
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after
the passage of this Act, a new county shall be, and the same is, hereby
laid out and created from the county of Dooly, in said State, embracing
the following territory and with the following boundary lines, to wit:
All that portion of Dooly county lying south of the dividing lines between
the sixth and eleventh, and between the seventh and tenth land districts
of said county and the extension of said line due west through the ninth
land district of said county, down to a line beginning at the southwest
corner of lot of land number one hundred and eighty in the fourteenth
district of Dooly county, Georgia, at Swift creek. Running due east through
the fourteenth and the thirteenth land districts of said county along
the said land lines to a point where land lots one hundred and ninety-two,
and one hundred and ninety-three in the thirteenth district of Dooly county,
Georgia, corner on the present boundary line between the county of Dooly
and the county of Wilcox; so that said new county shall contain all that
part of the ninth district in said Dooly county, including land lots numbers
thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, and thirty-six, and
all lots and fractional lots in said ninth district south of the above
numbered lots; also the tenth, eleventh, the Cordele land district, fractional
part of the fifteenth land district, and all that portion of the thirteenth
and fourteenth districts of said Dooly county lying north of line beginning
at the southwest corner of lot land number one hundred and eighty in the
fourteenth district of Dooly county, Georgia, at Swift creek. Running
due east through the fourteenth and the thirteenth land districts of said
county along the said land lines to a point where land lots one hundred
and ninety-two and one hundred and ninety-three in the thirteenth district
of Dooly county, Georgia, corner on the present boundary line between
the county of Dooly and the county of Wilcox. So that said new county
will be bounded on the north by the east and west line separating the
sixth land district from the eleventh land district; the seventh land
district from the tenth land district of Dooly county, and extending on
west through the ninth land district along the northern boundary lines
of land lots thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five and thirty-six,
in said ninth land district of Dooly county; on the east by Wilcox county;
on the south by Worth county; and by the line beginning at the southwest
corner of lot of land number one hundred and eighty, in the fourteenth
district of Dooly county, Georgia, at Swift creek. Running due east through
the fourteenth and the thirteenth land districts of said county along
the said land lines to a point where land lots one hundred and ninety-two
and one hundred and ninety-three in the thirteenth district of Dooly county,
Georgia, corner on the present boundary line between the county of Dooly
and the county of Wilcox and on the west by Flint river.
Source: Ga. Laws 1905, p. 52
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