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 * Thomas of Whitfield, ||Williams of Chattooga,
 * Trippe, ||Williams of Harris,
 * Turner of Hancock,||Williamson,
 * Warner, ||Winn of Gwinnett,
 * Webb, ||Wofford,
 * Wellborn, ||Wood,
 * West, ||Yates,
 * Whelchel, ||Yopp,
 * Wicker, ||Young of Irwin.
 * Willingham, ||
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 * Wellborn, ||Wood,
 * West, ||Yates,
 * Whelchel, ||Yopp,
 * Wicker, ||Young of Irwin.
 * Willingham, ||
 * }
 * Wicker, ||Young of Irwin.
 * Willingham, ||
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So the motion prevailed.

On motion of Mr. Stephens, of Taliaferro, the Door Keeper was directed to employ an assistant.

Mr. Nisbet, from the committee appointed to report an Ordinance to assert the right and fulfil the obligation of the State of Georgia to secede from the Union, reported the following:

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 people of the State of Georgia in Convention on the second day of January 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of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying and adopting amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.

We do further declare and ordain, That the Union now subsisting 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 the