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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. 



GEORGIA. 



A RESOLUTION concerning the ceding of the jurisdiction over certain lands in the 

 State of Georgia to the United States of America for tlie purpose of establishing a 

 national forest reserve or park. 



Whereas there is a widespread movement in this country asking that 

 the Federal Government pui'chase from the present owners certain 

 forest-covered hinds lying within the high mountain regions of the 

 States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Geoi-gia, and Tennessee, 

 about the headwaters of the larger streams flowing through these and 

 adjacent States, for the purpose of establishing in this region a national 

 forest reserve, which will forever protect the sources of the rivers that 

 furnish our water powers and navigation facilities, which will demon- 

 strate to the people of the country how such forest-covered areas can 

 be managed and perpetuated to the best advantage, and which will 

 become a great national resort within easy reach, at all seasons, of 

 much of the larger portion of the population of this country; and 

 whereas this general assembly desires to place on record its interest 

 in, and encouragement of, a movement which promises such great and 

 lasting benefits to the people of Georgia and the neighboring States: 



Be it resolved hy the general assembly of the State of Georgia, That 

 this general assemblj^ hereby expresses its willingness to cede to the 

 United States of America the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia in 

 and over such of the forest-covered mountain lands in this State as 

 may be needed for the purpose of establishing such national forest 

 reserve or national park, when the land areas of such tract or tracts 

 have been designated, and a plat or plats of the same deposited with 

 the secretary of state in Atlanta: Provided, That the State shall 

 retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over said 

 tract or tracts so far that all civil and criminal processes issued under 

 the authority of the State may be executed thereon in like manner as 

 if this act were not in force: And j>7'0vided further. That said cession 

 of jurisdiction shall not take effect until the United States shall have 

 acquired title to said tract or tracts. 



The general assembly respectfully asks the favorable consideration 

 of this measure by Congress. 



Clark Howell, 



President of the Senate. 

 Chas. S. Northen, 



Secretary of the Senate. 

 John D. Littt.e, 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



Jno. T. Boifeuillet, 

 Clerk of the House of Representatives. 

 Approved December 18, 1900. 



A. D. Candler, Governor. 



