1852 Acts of the General Assembly, of the State of Georgia, passed at Milledgeville at a biennial session, November, December and January 1851-2.
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Page 56-58: Whitefield county—Boundary. (No. 27.) An Act to lay out and form a new county out of the county of Murray, and to organize the same. Approved, December 30, 1851. 14. Section I. 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 immediately alter the passage of this Act, a new county shall be laid out from the county of Murray, to be included within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning at the south-west corner of the county of Murray; running from thence east with the line between Murray and Gordon counties, until it strikes the mouth of the Conasauga river; thence up and with the meanders of said river, to the mouth of Sugar Creek; thence with the meanders of said creek to the Tennessee line; thence west with said line to the line of Walker and Murray county; thence south with the line of Murray and Walker to the [place of] beginning. 15. Sec. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the new county described in the first Section of this Act, shall be known by the name of Whitfield county and be attached to the Cherokee Judicial Circuit, to the fifth Congressional District, and to the forty-fifth Senatorial District, and to the first Brigade of the twelfth Division Georgia Militia. 16. Sec. 111. Be it further enacted by the authority Election or aforesaid, That the persons included within the said new county, entitled to vote for Representatives in the General Assembly, shall on the first Monday in February, 1852, proceed to elect five Justices of the Inferior Court, a Clerk of the Superior Court, a Clerk of the Inferior Court, a Sheriff, a Coroner, a Tax Collector, and Receiver of Tax Returns, a County Surveyor, for said county ; the election for said officers shall be held at Dalton, Tilton, Tunnel Hill, and Varnal's Station, and shall be conducted in manner as is now prescribed by law, and the Governor, on the same being certified to him, shall commission such persons as returned to him as elected at such elections, to hold their respective offices for and during the terms prescribed by law ; and that the Justices of the Inferior Court, after they shall have received their commissions, shall proceed to lay out and divide said new county into Militia Districts, and advertise for the election of the requisite number of Justices of the Peace, and the Governor, on being duly certified of the election of such Justices of the Peace, shall commission them according to law. 17. Sec. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of said Whitfield county, shall have full power and authority to select and locate a site for the public buildings in said county, and the said Justices, or a majority of them, arc hereby authorized to purchase a tract or lot of land for the location of the county site, to lay off the same into lots, and sell the same at public sale for the benefit of said county, or make such other arrangements or contracts in relation to the location of the county site and public buildings as they may deem most advantageous to the public good. 18. Sec. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the elections of the county generally, and Election pm. the precincts for all elections shall be established at the places of holding Justices Courts in the several districts in said county, and votes received at them accordingly. 19. Sec. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Justices of the Peace and Bailiffs, within the limits of said new county, shall hold their commissions and exercise the duties of their several offices within the said limits of the aforesaid county, until their successors shall have been elected and commissioned. 20. Sec. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all process, executions, other final process in the hands of the Sheriff, Coroners, and Constables of county of which the new county may be formed, and which properly belongs to 6aid new county, and which may have been levied or in part executed, and such proceedings therein not finally disposed of at the time of passing this Act, shall be delivered over to the corresponding officers of said new county, and such officers are hereby authorized and required to proceed with the same and in the same manner as if such process had been originally in their hands ; Provided, That, in publication of the time and places, and proceedings of the like character in the new county, shall be made for the ' time now prescribed by law, and all such process which properly belongs to the county out of which said new county may be formed, which may be in the hands of the officers of said new county, shall in like manner be delivered over to the officers of said county to be executed by them in the manner herein prescribed. 21. Sec. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Superior Courts for said county shall be held on the first Monday in April, and Tuesday after the first Monday in October; * and the Inferior Courts on the first Monday in January and July. 22. Sec. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whereas there is now an outstanding debt against the county of Murray, that said new county shall pay or cause to be paid one-half of said debt, and the Justices of the Inferior Court of Murray county, and the Justices of the Inferior Court for said new county, shall have full power to adjust and settle the same, and all things done in relation thereto shall be binding; and for the purpose of paying Paid one-half of said debt, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Whitfield county shall be authorized and required to levy an extra tax on the citizens of said county. 23. Sec. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against the provisions of this Act, be and the name are hereby repealed.
Page 222: The time for Superior Court, Cherokee Circuit, Whitfield County: On the second Monday, in April and October in each and every year.
Page 364: Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that John Hamilton, P C McOwen, L W Ernest, A E Blunt, William P Chester, Edward White and E J Tarver, be and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Dalton Academy, in the county of Whitfield, and that they be invested with all the powers, rights and privileges of the Trustees of the Calhoun Academy in the county of Gordon.
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