44 Ga. 163 | Ga. | 1871
The Legislature of Georgia, by an Act approved October 17, 1870, provided for the organization of a new county, and by the second section thereof it was enacted “ that all persons included within the limits of said county who are entitled by law to vote, shall, at the several precincts of said county, elect their county officers, etc., and also, at the same time and places, by ballot, locate their county site at some suitable and convenient place in said new county, under the same rules and regulations as other elections. The third section enacts that the Ordinary of said new county elect, with four commissioners therein named, shall, after the county site is located as hereinbefore provided, purchase a tract of land at said county site, lay off the same into town lots and sell them at public sale, and apply the proceeds of the same to the building of a Court-house and jail for said county.” It appears from the record an election was held in this new county, and the commissioner’s, after such election, in the opinion entertained by them, located the county site at a point not receiving a majority of the ballots cast at such election. They were proceeding to sell the lots and erect the
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