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Gordon County's Original Boundaries

Gordon County's Original Boundaries

(Act of Feb. 13, 1850)

AN ACT to lay out and organize a new county from the counties of Floyd and Cass, and to attach the same to a Senatorial District.

Section 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 from and after the passage of this act, a new county shall be laid out from the counties of Floyd and Cass, to be included within the following limits, towit: Beginning at the southwest corner of lot of land number one hundred and forty-one, in the twenty-fourth district of the third section of now Floyd county, thence north also said land lines in the said district and in the twenty-fifth district of said section until the line shall come opposite to the northwest corner of the county of Cass, adjoining the county of Murray, thence eastward along the line now dividing the counties of Cass and Murray, thence south along the line now dividing the counties of Gilmer and Cherokee from the county of Cass to the southwest corner of lot of land number one hundred and thirty-six in the twenty-third district of the second section, and thence along the dividing line of lots, taking eight ranges, to the starting point.

Source: Ga. Laws 1849-50, p. 124.

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