(From an Act of Aug. 18, 1905)

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, That from and after the passage of this Act a new county be, and is, hereby created and laid out from the counties of Habersham and Franklin, and bounded as follows: Beginning at the corner of land lots Nos. 216, 217, 222 and 223, in twelfth land district in the county of Habersham, on the waters of the Tugaloo river; thence south sixty degrees west to the corner of land lots numbers 207, 208, 213, and 214; thence south seventeen degrees west, a straight line to mile post 562 of the Southern railroad; thence south seventeen degrees west to the line between the counties of Habersham and Banks; thence south eighty degrees east to a post oak corner; thence along what is known as the line road between the counties of Habersham and Banks to the Franklin county line; thence along the same road, the line between the counties of Habersham and Franklin, to the south end of public bridge across Leatherwood creek; thence from the south end of said bridge a straight line to mile post 13 on the Elberton air line branch of the Southern railroad; thence north forty-five degrees east to a birch tree on Tugaloo river in said Franklin county; and thence the same direction to the line between the State of Georgia and the State of South Carolina in said Tugaloo river; thence up said river along the line between the State of Georgia and the State of South Carolina in said river to a point opposite the mouth of Word's creek, the same being the present existing line between the counties of Habersham and Franklin; thence up said sixth along the line between said States, as aforesaid, to a point n sixth sixty degrees east from the beginning point; thence south sixty degrees west to the beginning corner.

Source: Ga. Laws 1905, p. 58