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Newton
County, Georgia
Georgia's Secession from the Union
We the people of the
State of Georgia in Convention assembled do declare and
ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained that the
ordinance adopted by the State of Georgia in convention on
the 2nd day of Jany. in the year of our Lord seventeen
hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the constitution of the
United States of America was assented to, ratified and
adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the general
assembly of this State, ratifying and adopting amendments to
said constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and
abrogated. We do further declare and ordain that the union
now existing between the State of Georgia and other States
under the name of the United States of America is hereby
dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is in full
possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty
which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
Passed January 19, 1861.
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Website updated: Wednesday, 28-Jul-2021 13:05:46 CDT