LEGISLATIVE ACTS AFFECTING THE FORMATION OF AND BOUNDARIES OF FAYETTE CO., GEORGIA

1870 - 1899

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PUBLIC LAWS, PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, AT THE 
SESSION OF 1870, WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE GOVERNMENT OF GEORGIA AND 
COURT CALENDAR, ETC., 
PUBLIC LAWS 1870. 

1870 Vol. 3 -- Page: 45

Sequential Number: 040 
Law Number: [No. 40. -- O. 66.  

Full Title: An Act to lay off and organize a new county out of the counties of Campbell and Carroll; to 
change the line between the counties of Campbell and Fayette, to add a portion of the county of Fayette to 
that of Campbell; to move the county site of Campbell to some suitable and convenient place on the Atlanta 
& West Point Railroad, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

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 authority of the same, That from and after Tuesday after the first 
Monday in November next, a new county shall be laid off and organized out of the counties of Campbell 
and Carroll, to be included in the following limits, to-wit: beginning on the west bank of the Chattahoochee 
river, in the dividing line between the counties of Campbell and Carroll, at the south-east corner of land lot 
number ninety-seven in the third district of Carroll county; thence running north-west course to the south-
east corner of land lot number two hundred and twenty-one; thence to run to the Paulding line at the north-
west corner of land lot number two hundred and forty-nine in the second district of Carroll county; thence 
along the dividing line of Carroll and Paulding to the Campbell line; thence along the dividing line of 
Paulding and Campbell to the Cobb line; thence along the dividing line of Cobb and Campbell to the 
Chattahoochee river; and thence down the west bank of said river to the point of beginning. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That on said Monday in November next, all persons included within the limits 
of said county, who are entitled by law to vote, shall, at the several precincts of said new county, elect their 
respective county officers, who shall hold their offices for their several terms according to the laws of this 
State, 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, and the 
superintendents of such elections shall meet at Chapel Hill, in


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said county, on the day after the election, and consolidate the election returns and send the same to the 
Governor, properly certified to, who shall commission the officers elect for their respective terms. 

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Ordinary of said new county elect, with four commissioners, to-wit: 
John C. Bowden, W. N. Magouirk, J. H. Winn, and Ephraim Pray, be, and they are hereby, appointed a 
Board of Commissioners for said county, who 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 new county, and 
said board shall lay off said new county into militia districts, and advertise for the election of a requisite 
number of Justices of the Peace, who, when elected, shall be commissioned by the Governor. 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all unfinished business in any of the courts of the counties out of which 
said new county is formed, which by law would be in said new county, be transferred to the respective 
courts and officers of said new county to proceed in the same manner as they would have done in the 
original counties. 

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Superior Court of said new county shall be held on the third Monday 
in April and October in each year. 

Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the new county described in the first section of this Act be called and 
known by the name of Douglass county, and attached to the Thirty-sixth (36th) Senatorial District, Third 
(3d) Congressional District, Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, and the first (1st) brigade of the 11th division of 
the Georgia Militia. 

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That all officers now in commission in said new county shall hold their 
commissions until their successors shall have been elected and commissioned, and are hereby authorized to 
administer the oath of office to the officers elect in said new county. 

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the county of Campbell be and hereby is included within the following 
limits, to-wit: beginning on the east bank of the Chattahoochee river, on the dividing line between the 
counties of Campbell and Coweta; running along said line to Nixon Ford on Line Creek at the south-west 
corner of fraction lot of land number one hundred and seventy-eight (178) in the original seventh (7th 
District of Fayette county; thence running north along the dividing line between the counties of Fayette and 
Campbell to the southwest corner of fractional lot of land number nine (9) in the original ninth (9th) 
District of Fayette county; thence running direct to the southeast corner of lot of land number one hundred 
and eighty-eight (188) in the 13th District


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of Fayette county, intersecting the Clayton line; thence along the dividing line between the counties of 
Fayette and Clayton to the Fulton county line; thence along the dividing line of Fayette and Fulton counties 
to Campbell county line; thence along the dividing line of Fulton and Campbell counties to the 
Chattahoochee river; thence down said river to the point of beginning. 

Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That that portion of Fayette county included in the limits of Campbell county 
in the preceding section be, and it is hereby taken from the county of Fayette and added to and made a part 
of the county of Campbell. 

Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the county site of Campbell county be, and is hereby, moved to some 
convenient and suitable place on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad in Campbell county; that such place 
be selected by a popular vote of all the citizens entitled by law to vote in the county of Campbell laid off 
and described in section eighth (8th) of this Act, which election shall be held on Tuesday after the first 
Monday in November next, at the several precincts included within the limits of the county; that the 
superintendents of said election shall meet at Campbellton on the day after the election and consolidate the 
election returns of said county site before the Ordinary, who shall, with four (4) commissioners to be 
selected by him, residing near the county site, without delay purchase a sufficient tract of land for the court 
house and jail, and proceed to build the same out of any funds belonging to the county, not otherwise 
appropriated, or to make such other arrangements for the building thereof as they may think will best 
promote the interest of the county. 

Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior Court and said Commissioners 
shall, immediately after said county site is located, rent for the time being a suitable house for the courts of 
said county and temporarily furnish all the public buildings necessary for said county, at the new county 
site, except the jail, which shall remain at Campbellton until a safe jail is built at the new county site, and 
said Commissioners are hereby authorized to sell or otherwise dispose of the public buildings at 
Campbellton and invest the proceeds in the public buildings at the new county site equally. 

Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That all vacancies of office caused by changing the lines of the county of 
Campbell be filled as vacancies in other counties are filled. 

Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That all suits pending in the county of Fayette which would properly be in 
the county of Campbell, as herein laid off, be transferred to the respective courts of Campbell. 

Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That the new county described in section first (1st) of this Act and Campbell 
county be, and they are hereby, entitled to one (1) Representative in the Legislature of this State. 


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Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against the provisions of this Act 
be, and they are hereby, repealed.

Approval Date: Approved October 17, 1870.

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1899 
Part I.--Public Laws. 
TITLE V. COURTS. 

1899 Vol. 1 -- Page: 49

Sequential Number: 038 

Short Title: FAYETTE COUNTY TRANSFERRED FROM COWETA TO FLINT CIRCUIT. 
Law Number: No. 308. 

Full Title: An Act to rearrange the Flint and Coweta circuits by taking from the Coweta circuit the county 
of Fayette, and adding said county to the Flint circuit, and for other purposes.

Section I. 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 first day of January, 1900, the county of Fayette shall 
become a part of the Flint judicial circuit, and shall cease to be a part of the Coweta judicial circuit; 
provided, this Act does not affect the office of solicitor-general of the Coweta circuit during his present 
term of office, and he is still authorized to discharge the duties of said office during said term. 

Sec. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the time of holding the superior court of said 
county of Fayette shall be the same as that now fixed by law.

Sec. III. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act 
be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Approval Date: Approved December 20, 1899.

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