LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE FORMATION AND BOUNDARY CHANGES OF HENRY COUNTY

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED AT MILLEDGEVILLE, AT AN ANNUAL SESSION; IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1823. 
Resolutions WHICH ORIGINATED IN SENATE. 

1823 Vol. 1 -- Page: 217

Sequential Number: 179

IN SENATE, Nov. 18, 1823.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the commissioners appointed by the last legislature to sell the fractional surveys be authorised and required to expose to sale all the fractional surveys lying in the county of Walton, which were within the ninth district, formerly Henry County: Provided, Said fractions and islands shall be advertised and sold upon the same terms and conditions as the fractional surveys authorised to be sold by an act passed at the last session of the legislature.

Approval Date: Approved, Nov. 23, 1823.

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA

PASSED In November and December, 1842

COUNTIES

1842 Vol 1—Page 66

FULL Title: AN ACT to alter and change the line dividing the counties of Pike and Henry, so as to include lots of land, numbers sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six , and ninety-six in the third district of Henry county, belonging to James T. Ellis, and William Ellis , in the county of Pike

Section 1, Be it enacted buy 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 after the passage of this act, the present line dividing the counties of Pike and Henry, shall so diverge from its present direction , as to include lots of land numbers sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, and ninety-six, in the third district of Henry county , belonging to James T. Ellis and William Ellis, in the county of Pike.

Sec.2 And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all laws and parts of law militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

William B. Wofford

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Robert M. Echols

President of the Senate.

Charles J. McDonald

Governor

Approval Date: Assended to 8^th December, 1842

Extracted By Bob Ellis Duluth Ga.

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ACTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, 1849-50. 

1849 Vol. 1 -- Page: 137

Sequential Number: 167 

Full Title: AN ACT to add a part of the county of Henry to the county of Butts, and to designate the time for holding elections for county officers in the county of Gordon for the year 1850.

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 after the passage of this act, the county line between the counties of Butts and Henry be and the same is hereby altered so as to include the residences of A. P. Johnson, William Young,

Page: 138
Andrew J. Grimmet, William B. Shields, Paschal H. Jackson, Jonathan Collins, George R. Lewis, Minton Jinks, Jesse Hendly, Isaac N. Bishop, and Martin Couger, now in the county of Henry, and that their residences and the lands on which they now reside, be added to and become a part of the county of Butts.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the persons included within the county of Gordon, entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall on the first Monday in May next (instead of the first Monday in February next, as authorized by the act laying off and organizing said county,) elect five Justices of the Inferior Court, a Clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts each, a Sheriff and Coroner, a Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns, and a County Surveyor.

And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approval Date: Approved, February 23, 1850.
 

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1858. 
PART I.--PUBLIC LAWS. 
TITLE VIII. NEW COUNTIES AND COUNTY LINES.*

* For act to locate and define the line between the counties of Berrien and Coffee. see Cities and Towns, Title III, No. 139; being an act to amend the several acts of force in relation to the incorporation of the town of West Point, in Troup, &c. &c..... &c.—Section XI.

And for adding certain lots of Land, in the 4th district of Irwin, to the county of [Illegible Text].—See same title and number, section X.

1858 Vol. 1 -- Page: 46

Sequential Number: 038 
Law Number: No. 36. 

Full Title: An act to change the line between Henry and Clayton counties.

97. Section I. Be it enacted, &c., That the line between Henry county and Clayton, be so changed as to include lots of land number 248 and 232, in the twelfth, it being the residence of Thomas Gardner, to the county of Henry. 

98. Sec. II. Repeals conflicting laws.

Approval Date: Assented to, December 13, 1858.

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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AT THE SESSION OF 1870. 
PART I.--PUBLIC LAWS. 
TITLE IV. COUNTIES AND COUNTY LINES. 
I.—NEW COUNTIES. 
II.—COUNTY LINES CHANGED. 

1870 Vol. 1 -- Page: 27

Sequential Number: 022 
Law Number: (No. 22.) 

Full Title: An Act to change the lines between the counties of Butts and Henry.

Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the lines between the counties of Butts and Henry be so changed as to embrace in the county of Butts lots Nos. 126 and 91, now in the second district of Henry county. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approval Date: Approved October 25, 1870.

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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED AT ITS SESSION IN JULY AND AUGUST, 1872. 
PART II. LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS. 
TITLE II. COUNTIES AND COUNTY LINES. 

1872 Vol. 1 -- Page: 408

Sequential Number: 289 
Law Number: (No. 289 -- O. No. 335.) 

Full Title: An act to change the county lines of the counties of Dodge and Telfair, so as to include lots of land numbers 107, 134, 135, 136 and 137, in the thirteenth district of Dodge, in the county of Telfair; also, the line between the counties of Henry and DeKalb, so as to include in DeKalb county lots of land numbers 228 and 229, in the twelfth district of Henry county.

Section 1. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That, from and after the passage of this act, the county lines of the counties of Dodge and Telfair be so changed as to include in the county of Telfair lots of land numbers 107, 134, 135, 136 and 137, now in the thirteenth district of the county of Dodge. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the county line between the counties of Henry and DeKalb be so changed as to include in the county of DeKalb lots of land numbers 228 and 229, in the twelfth district of Henry county, the same being the lands occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth Cook. 

Sec. 3. Repeals conflicting laws.

Approval Date: Approved August 26, 1872.

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