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  • Reprinted from Georgia Bar Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3 (February, 1956), and published with the permission of the Georgia Bar Association.
• Paragraph 2
  • the Georgia Militia Districts are very much alive and enter daily into the activities of all of our citizens in anything connected with (1) the territorial jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace Courts; (2) the boundaries of election districts; (3) the return of property for taxation; (4) stock and fence laws; (5) the conveyancing of land in headright Counties; and (6) in all other circumstances specifically referred to in the laws of the Senate as presently codified.
• Paragraph 4
  • Militia Districts had their origin in the colonial Acts of Jan. 24, 17551 and Sept. 29, 1773,2 and the basic principles were adopted and adapted in all subsequent enactments of the State Legislature.
• Paragraph 13
  • Practically all of the Georgia Militia Districts are known by name as well as number and those names remain unchanged year after year, in contrast to the earlier years when the name of the Captain then commanding was given to his District. The fact that names instead of numbers were formerly more popular is evidenced by the fact that the drawers in all six Land Lotteries between 1805 and 1832 entered their residences as being in (for example) Captain Smith’s District in Burke County, instead of giving the number of that same district.
  • It is today impossible to identify (for example) Captain Wiggins’ District of Washington County, as it was known in 1807, with any of the numbered Districts as they existed in that County that year or any following year.

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Citation Listing

Alex M. Hitz, “Georgia Militia Districts,” 'Georgia Bar Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3 (February, 1956): 16–34.“Georgia Archives Research,” University System of Georgia, Digital Library of Georgia (https://www.georgiaarchives.org/documents/research/Georgia_Militia_Districts.pdf: accessed 11 December 2018), journal article, “Georgia Militia Districts.”

Subsequent Note

Hitz, “Georgia Militia Districts”.

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