Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Georgia Law, Georgia Georgia. Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia ATLANTA: BYRD PRINTING CO. 19190000 English

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1919 19190000 COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE 1919 BYRD PRINTING CO., State Printers, ATLANTA, GA.

PART III.CORPORATIONS TITLE I.MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS TITLE II.PRIVATE AND SCHOOL CORPORATIONS

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TITLE I. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. ACTS. [Illegible Text] School Tax, authority to increase. Adairsville, State School Fund for; how paid. Adairsville Taxation Ad Valorem. Adel, Charter of Town of, repealed. Adel, City of, incorporated. Americus Taxation Ad Valorem; authority to execute and sell notes. Arlington; additional Aldermen; elections and terms of Mayor, etc; tax returns; tax equalizers. Atlanta Charter Amendments. Ball Ground, Tax Levy for Town of. Baxley Ad Valorem Tax, increase of. Beverly, Repeal of Charter of Town of. Blakely; salaries; permanent registration of voters; school tax election. Bogart, Town of; corporate limits extended. Boston School Tax, authority to increase. Boston Tax Ad Valorem. Buford Charter Amendment as to Bonds. Butler, Charter for City of. [Illegible Text]; corporate limits; street improvements; assessments. Camilla; street improvements; assessments; terms of aldermen; wards. Canton; increase of taxes, terms of Councilmen, and salaries. Carrollton School Commissioners; vacancies in Board, how filled. Carrollton Street Improvements and Assessments. Chipley Waterworks, Sewerage. Electric Lights, Bonds, etc. (two acts). Clermont Occupation Tax. Cobbtown, City of, Incorporated. Cobbtown, Repeal of Charter of Town of. Cochran Street Improvements; bonds. Columbus Corporate Limits, Election to Extend. Cordele; permanent registration of voters; increase of school tax. Darien Police Court Sentences. Dearing; time of elections; increase of taxes. Decatur School Tax, Increase of. Decatur Street Improvement Assessments against Railroad Companies. Dexter; increase of taxes. Dublin Charter Amendments. Eatonton Assessments for Sidewalks. Eatonton; increase of taxes. Farmington, Charter of. Glenwood Public School System. Hawkinsville Street Improvements and Assessments. Hawkinsville Tax Ad Valorem. Hazlehurst Charter Amendments. Hogansville, City of; Charter Amendments. Hogansville School Bonds; election for. Hogansville School System. Hoschton, City of, Incorporated. Hoschton, Repeal of Charter of Town of. Jefferson; increase of Tax Ad Valorem. Jeffersonville [Illegible Text]. Repeal of Charter Provisions as to.

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Jesup; elections of officers; Council meetings; penalties for offenses. Jesup School System, Election to Abolish. [Illegible Text], City of; new charter. LaGrange; authority as to streets; mode of paying taxes. Lawrenceville; corporate limits extended; compensation of clerk and attorney. [Illegible Text] Emergency Tax to Replace Burned School Buildings. Macon Charter Amendments. Madison; bonds for paving, election to authorize. Madison School Bonds, election to authorize. Madison Street Improvements and Assessments. Mansfield; time of elections. Marietta; bonds for street improvements, elections to authorize. Marietta; Mayor's eligibility for re-election, referendum as to. Marietta Street Improvement Certificates. Midville; authority to sell real estate; increase of commutation tax. Monroe School Tax, Increase of. Mount Vernon, Town of; new charter. Mystic, Town of; corporate limits extended. Nashville School Tax. Newborn, Town of; registration of voters. Offerman, Incorporation of Town of; election as to. [Illegible Text], Incorporation of Town of. Pelham Chaingang. Pembroke; election and terms of Mayor, Council, Clerk, etc. Pineview Tax Ad Valorem. Quitman School Tax. Rome; new charter; election as to ratification. Roswell Bonds for Street Improvements, Election for. Sandersville, City of; new charter. Savannah Appropriations for Charitable Purposes. Savannah Board of Sanitary Commissioners. Savannah Charter Amendments. Savannah Harbor Lines Extended. Savannah Municipal Wharf, Authority to Establish. Savannah Pension Board, Authority to Create, etc. Smithville Corporate Limits Extended. [Illegible Text]; increase of ad valorem tax. Sylvester, City of; new charter. Sylvester School System; amending Act. Talbotton; election of marshal; payments from State school fund; school census. Tallapoosa School Tax, Increase of. Tallulah Park, Town of; corporate limits changed. Thomasville, Authority to Close Street. Thomasville School Tax, Increase of. Tifton Sewerage System. Unadilla, Town of; bonds for electric lights, election as to. Uvalda, Town of; school bonds, election as to. Valdosta City Hospital, Authority to Establish. Vadosta School Bonds, Election as to. Valdosta School Tax, Election as to Increase; scholastic year; payments from State fund. Warrenton School Tax, Increase of. Waycross School Tax, Elections as to Increase; board of education incorporated, etc. Waynesboro Street Commutation Tax Increased. White, Town of, Incorporated. Willacoochee, Town of; increase of tax rate. Woodbury; sewerage and lighting systems, election as to bonds for, etc. Wrens, Town of; increase of tax rate. Wrightsville; council increased; time of elections; Mayor's term. ABBEVILLE SCHOOL TAX; AUTHORITY TO INCREASE. No. 111. An Act to amend an Act to establish a system of public schools for the town of Abbeville; to provide for a Board of Education; to empower the mayor and council of said

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town to levy and collect a tax for the support and maintenance thereof, and to authorize the County School Commissioner of Wilcox County to pay over to said Board of Education such part of the State School Fund as may be the pro rata share of said town, and for other purposes, approved December 3, 1895, and Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the City of Abbeville to levy and collect for school purposes a tax not to exceed one per cent per annum on all taxable property in said city and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of same: Section 1. That on and after the passage of this Act, that Section 5 of the Act establishing the public school system for the town of Abbeville, approved December 3, 1895, be amended by striking from Section 5 of said Act, beginning in the 8th line, after the word exceed, the words one-half of one per cent, and inserting in lieu thereof the words one per cent, so that when said Act is so amended it shall read as follows: Section 5. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council of said town be empowered and authorized to levy and collect such tax as will be sufficient, when added to the sums received from the public school fund of the State, to support and maintain said school for at least six scholastic months in each year, and shall collect the same by the first day of January of each year and pay it over to the board of education. But said tax shall not exceed one per cent per annum on all taxable property, and none of said school tax shall be used for any other purpose than in support and maintenance of the public schools; and of the funds thus paid over to the Board of Education, said board shall make such distribution and divisions between the white and colored children of said town as they shall deem equitable and just. Act of 1895 amended. Sec. 5 as amended. Tax limit 1 per cent. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this. Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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ADAIRSVILLE; STATE SCHOOL FUND FOR; HOW PAID. No. 11. An Act to amend an Act approved August 17, 1909, establishing a public school system for the town of Adairsville, in Bartow County, and for other purposes, by repealing and striking therefrom Section 5 and inserting in lieu thereof a new section authorizing and directing the payment of the proportion of the common school fund due and payable to the town of Adairsville, direct to the treasurer of the Board of Education of said town by the State Superintendent of Schools, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved August 17, 1909, establishing a public school system for the town of Adairsville, Bartow County, Georgia, and for other purposes, be and the same is hereby amended by repealing and striking therefrom Section 5 as it appears thereon, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Act of 1909 amended. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall be the duty of the school board of the Board of Education of said town of Adairsville to have, prepare and furnish the State School Superintendent, from time to time (commencing with the year 1919) as required by law, or by the State school authorities, a list, or census of all pupils residing in said town, entitled to the State school fund, and the said State Superintendent of Schools shall pay over to the treasurer of said board such proportion of the educational fund of said State as said pupils are entitled to, under the rules of distribution prescribed by law, said fund to be applied by said board to the maintenance of said schools according to law. Substitute for Sec. 5. Payment of State fund to Board of Education. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws and charter provisions in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 21, 1919.

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ADAIRSVILLE TAXATION AD VALOREM. No. 10. An Act to amend the charter of the town of Adairsville, in Bartow County, Georgia, so as to authorize and empower the mayor and council of said town to assess, levy and collect annually an ad valorem tax not exceeding one per cent on all the taxable property, real and personal, in said town, subject to State taxation, in addition to the school tax and that necessary to pay its bonded indebtedness, as now provided by law, and to provide by ordinance, for the assessment, levy and collection thereof, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that on and after the passage and approval of this Act the charter of the town of Adairsville, in Bartow County, Georgia, be and the same is hereby amended so as to authorize and empower the mayor and council of said town, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to assess, [Illegible Text] and collect annually an ad valorem tax not exceeding one per cent on all the taxable property, real and personal, in said town, subject to State taxation, in addition to the school tax and that necessary to pay its bonded indebtedness, as now prescribed by law, and said mayor and council of said town of Adairsville are hereby authorized and empowered to provide, by ordinance, for the assessment, levy and collection thereof; provided said ordinances are not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of said State. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws and charter provisions in conflict with this Act be and they are hereby repealed. Approved July 21, 1919.

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ADEL, CHARTER OF TOWN OF, REPEALED. No. 2. An Act to repeal an Act approved December 19, 1900, reincorporating the town of Adel, and to grant a new charter to the town of Adel, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, and constituting the present charter of the town of Adel, in originally Berrien, now Cook County, Georgia. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the Act approved December 19, 1900, re-incorporating the town of Adel, and granting a new charter to said town of Adel, and the Acts amendatory thereof, approved August 17, 1908, August 17, 1911 and all other Acts constituting the present charter of the town of Adel, in originally Berrien, now Cook County, be and the same are hereby repealed. Repeal on adoption of new charter. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this Act shall become operative when a bill entitled An Act to incorporate the City of Adel, etc., shall have been approved by the Governor of the State of Georgia. See following Act. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all other Acts in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. ADEL, CITY OF, INCORPORATED. No. 3. An Act to incorporate the City of Adel; to provide that all valid contracts heretofore entered into by the town of Adel, or the mayor and council of the town of Adel, shall be good and valid for or against the City of Adel; to provide that all property now held and owned by the town of Adel, or the mayor and council of Adel, shall

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be and become the right and property of the City of Adel, and that all rights and liabilities of the town of Adel, or the mayor and council of Adel, shall accrue to and against the City of Adel; to provide that all ordinances of the town of Adel, or the mayor and council of Adel, not in conflict with this charter, shall be valid and enforcible as ordinances of the City of Adel; to define the limits of the City of Adel; to provide for a mayor and councilmen and other officers of said city, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and the manner of their election; to provide for streets and sidewalks, and the working or paving of the same; to provide for a system of sanitary sewage; to provide for a system of water works and electric lighting system; to declare and define the police powers of said city, and to provide for all matters of municipal concern and cognizance; to provide for taxation or granting of licenses to all kinds of business, trades and professions, and to grant a charter to said city under the corporate name of the City of Adel, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of same, that from and after the passage of this Act, the inhabitants of the territory now embraced in, and known and heretofore incorporated as the town of Adel, in originally Berrien, but now Cook County, by an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 19, 1900, and any amendatory or subsequent Acts, and embraced at present in the following boundaries: Beginning at a point where Fourth street in the original town of Adel crosses the track of the Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway, and extending north from said point two-thirds of a mile; extending east to branch known as Bear Creek; extending south from said point sixty-three hundredths of a mile; and extending west from said point two-thirds of a mile, or the boundaries as defined by said Act incorporating said town of Adel, or any Acts amendatory thereof, be and they are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the City of Adel, and the

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City of Adel is hereby chartered and made a city under said corporate name, and by that name is established, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and are hereby vested with all the rights, powers and privileges incident to municipal corporations in this State, or cities thereof, and all rights, powers, titles, property, easements and hereditaments now belonging and in any wise appertaining to said town of Adel, or the mayor and council of Adel, as heretofore incorporated, shall be and are hereby vested in the City of Adel, as created by this Act, and the said City of Adel, in Cook County, Georgia, created, established and declared by this Act may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal, make and enact through its mayor and council such ordinances, rules, regulations and resolutions for the transaction of its business and for the welfare and proper government of said city as said mayor and council deem best and not inconsistent with the laws of Georgia and the United States, and the said City of Adel shall be capable in law to purchase, hold, enjoy, receive, possess and retain in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any estate or estates, real or personal, lands, tenements, hereditaments of any kind whatever within or without the corporate limits of said city for corporate purposes; and to sell, alien, exchange or lease the same or any part thereof; the said City of Adel, created by this Act, is hereby made responsible as a body corporate for the legal debts and liabilities and undertakings of whatever kind or nature, of said town of Adel, or the mayor and council of Adel heretofore incorporated; and all ordinances now in force in the town of Adel and enacted by the municipal authorities of the town of Adel or by the mayor and council of Adel, and not repugnant to this charter or the laws of Georgia, shall be, and are hereby continued in force in said City of Adel, incorporated by this Act, and the present mayor and councilmen of the town of Adel shall continue in office as the mayor and councilmen of the City of Adel, incorporated under this Act, until their present terms expire, or their successors are elected and qualified, and all other officers of the town of Adel shall continue in

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office in the City of Adel until their present terms expire or their successors are elected and qualified. New charter. Territory Included. See Secs. 2 and 3. Corporate name. General powers. Succession to liabilities, etc. Mayor, etc., continued in office. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that the starting point from which the boundaries of said city shall be measured is the center of the junction of Fourth Street and the track of the Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway. Boundaries. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, that the boundaries of said city shall be as follows: Beginning at said starting point and extending north from said point two-thirds of a mile; extending east to branch known as Bear Creek; extending south from said point sixty-three hundredths of a mile; and extending west from said point two-thirds of a mile. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that the municipal government of said city shall consist of a mayor and five councilmen, a secretary and treasurer, both of which last named offices may be filled by the same person or by different persons; and whether the said offices be filled by the same person or by different persons, there shall be a bond given of such sum as may be prescribed by council for each of said offices, payable to the City of Adel; all of whom except the secretary and treasurer shall be elected on the day fixed by ordinance. All of which officers shall hold their office for a term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; each of whom shall take an appropriate oath provided by ordinance before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, which may be administered by any person authorized to administer oaths under the laws of this State; that the council may elect or appoint such other subordinate officers as may become necessary at any time for the enforcement of the provisions of this charter or any ordinance passed by said council in pursuance of the rights and powers herein conferred, or which are already in existence, all of which subordinate officers as may be thus appointed or elected shall be deemed and held to be lawful officers of this State and the City of Adel. All such subordinate officers shall hold their offices at the will of the council, and receive such salary as may be fixed by the council, each of whom shall take an appropriate cath before entering upon the discharge

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of their respective duties, and shall give such bond as the council may require. Mayor and council. Secretary and treasurer. Term of office. Other officers. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, that there shall be elected on the third Wednesday in October, 1919, and annually thereafter, a mayor and five councilmen to serve one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified; said election to be held under the laws of said State applicable, and under such further rules and regulations as may be by ordinance adopted; the date of holding such election may be changed by ordinance, provided such change does not effect to lengthen the term of office of the officers of said City of Adel at the time the change is made; the day of election may be changed, but the term of office of all officers of said town shall be for one year from their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified, except in case of election to fill a vacancy, in which case it shall be until the next regular election. Election of mayor, etc. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, that at the first meeting [Illegible Text] the councilmen, after their election and qualification, they shall elect one of their number as mayor pro tem, who shall be the presiding officer of said city council at all deliberations, and he shall be allowed a vote on all questions whether there be a tie or not, and who shall also, in the absence or disqualification of the mayor, exercise all the functions of the office of the mayor in all and every particular whatever; and all duties, powers, rights, and privileges conferred by this charter on the mayor of said City of Adel, may, and shall be exercised by the mayor pro term in the absence or disqualification of the mayor, without being especially conferred on the mayor pro tem by this charter; that the council, including the mayor pro tem, shall constitute the legislative body of said city; any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business but no ordinance shall be declared passed and become the law of the said city unless it receives at least three votes in favor of its passage. Mayor pro tem. Quorum of council. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, that the legislative body of said city shall provide by ordinance the manner of holding

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elections, as well as to fix the qualifications of voters, and the eligibility of citizens to hold office in said city; provided such ordinances be not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State or the United States. Powers. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, that if any vacancy should occur in any of the offices provided for in this charter, the council or a majority of them, shall order an election to fill such vacancy, and the person or persons so elected shall hold their offices until the next regular election thereafter and until their successors are elected and qualified. Removal beyond the limits of said city, or conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, in any of the courts of said State, shall vacate the office of the person so removing or convicted. Vacancies. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, that the mayor, and in his absence, the mayor pro tem, and in the absence of both, any one or more members of the council, may hold mayor's court for the purpose of trying offenders against the laws and ordinances of said city, and may exercise all the powers conferred by this charter upon the mayor, and may punish for a violation of a law or ordinance of said city, by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, imprisonment in the city jail, or the county jail, by permission of the county authorities, not exceeding sixty days. Work on the streets or other public works under the supervision of the chief of police, marshals, or convict warden of said city, not exceeding sixty days, one or more or all of these, at the discretion of the trial court. While sitting as a court for the trial of offenders the said court shall have the power to punish for contempt by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, imprisonment or work in the manner already described in this section, not exceeding fifty days, one or more or all of these at the discretion of the trial court. There may be an appeal in any case from the mayor's court to council, the judgment therein may be reviewed by certiorari to the Superior Court of Cook County. Mayor's court. Penalties. Contempts. Appeal; certiorari. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, that the mayor of said city shall be ex-officio a justice of the peace, as far as to authorize

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him to administer oaths, attest deeds, mortgages, or any other instrument or paper which a justice of the peace is authorized to attest, to issue warrants for any offenses committed within the corporate limits of said city against any law or ordinance of said city or of this State, and when the offense is against laws of the State, the mayor may hear evidence and commit to jail or take bond for appearance before the State court having jurisdiction of the offense, the same as a justice of the peace could do; if the offense charged in the warrant be one against the laws or ordinances of the city, the arresting officer shall carry the accused before the mayor's court for trial, and none other, and the same shall be disposed of as other cases of arrest not made under warrant. All warrants issued by the mayor, or those acting in his stead, shall be directed To the chief of police of Adel, or any marshal thereof, and to all and singular the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables of this State, and any one of said officers shall have the same authority to execute said warrants as the sheriffs have to execute criminal warrants. Mayor ex-officio J. P. Commitments. Form of warrant. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, that the mayor, or those holding mayor's court in his stead, shall have power and authority to subpoena witnesses to attend the mayor's court under the same rules and regulations that govern the Superior Courts of this State, and to compel their attendance, and to punish any witness who has been subpoenaed and failed to attend, under the provisions for contempts already provided for in this charter. Subp[oelig]nas. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, that the authorities of said city shall have power and authority to condemn and appropriate as hereinafter provided, private property, for public use; to lay off and open new streets, alleys, lanes or other ways for the convenience of the public or any citizen of said city; to vacate, alter, widen, curb, pave and keep in good order and repair, all streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, side-walks or other ways, drains, sewers and gutters for public or private use; to improve and light the streets, public parks and grounds; to furnish water and lights for private

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use, electric current for private use, and to charge for furnishing such water, lights or electric current; to keep all public grounds, streets, sidewalks, avenues, alleys, lanes or other ways free from obstruction of any kind; to regulate the width of cross walks and sidewalks on the streets; to grade and change the grade of any and all streets, sidewalks, cross walks, avenues, alleys, lanes or other ways without any liability for damage therefor; to require adjacent land owners to curb, pave and improve sidewalks at their own expense, under direction of the authorities of said city, and upon a failure of the land owners to do so, the authorities of said city may have such work done and collect the costs thereof from said adjacent land owners by execution as other taxes are collected. Condemnation of property. Powers as to streets, sewers, water, lights, etc. Sidewalks. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, that whenever it is desired by the authorities of said city to appropriate private property to public use, and said authorities can not secure the same from the owner or owners thereof by purchase, the title to such property may be acquired upon paying or tenddering to the owner or owners thereof, or to his, her, its or their legally authorized representatives, just and legal compensation for the property desired, which compensation, when not otherwise agreed upon, shall be assessed and determined in the following manner, to-wit: As is now provided by the general laws of the State on this subject. Appropriation of private property. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city shall have power and authority to regulate by ordinance the keeping of markets in said city, and to condemn in the manner prescribed by ordinance, all meats, vegetables, or other articles of food whatever, which after inspection are found to be unfit for food, and shall have the authority to seize and destroy all such articles of food as may be condemned, and may punish any person who offers for sale any such articles of food in the city. The inspector or other officers of the city shall have the right, without warrant, to enter any place of business in said city where there is reason to suspect that such articles of food are offered for sale, and

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to seize and destroy, or otherwise dispose of same as may seem best to said officers. Markets. Condemnation of unfit food. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, that the authorities of said city shall have power and authority to establish fire limits for said city, and to change the same from time to time, and to regulate the material and manner of building houses therein, to establish a system of building inspection, and to condemn all buildings and structures that are dangerous to the safety of any citizen, and to have the same made safe or removed at the expense of the owner; and upon a failure of the owner to make them safe or remove them, the authorities of said city may have the same done, and collect the expense of same from the owners thereof by execution. The authorities of said city shall also have power and authority to prevent injury or annoyance to the public or individuals from anything dangerous or offensive; to prevent dogs, hogs, cattle, sheep, horses, mules, goats, asses and all other kinds of animals and fowls from going at large in said city or any prescribed territory therein; to protect places of divine worship, to abate anything which in the opinion of the authorities is a nuisance; to regulate the keeping and selling of dynamite, gunpowder, gasoline and all other hazardous articles of merchandise; to regulate or prohibit the operation of blacksmith shops or other businesses that endanger the property of others in said city, to regulate the running of steam engines, whether for factories, mills or any other kind of machinery propelled by steam engines; to regulate the running of any and all sorts of vehicles, however drawn or propelled, that may be used on the streets of said city, to establish quarantine and regulate the same, and to regulate the burial of the dead in said city. Regulatory powers. Fire limits. Buildings. Nuisances. Animals. Explosives. Engines. Vehicles. Quarantine. Burials. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city, under and in accordance with the limitations provided in the Constitution of this State, and the general laws of the State applicable to municipalities, shall have the right to issue bonds of said city, and with the funds arising from the sale of any bonds thus issued, may refund any existing

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debt, establish and maintain a system of water works, a system of lights, erect public buildings or any other improvements for the use of the citizens of said city, and to issue bonds for any other purpose allowed in this charter. Bond issues. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city shall have power and authority to grant franchises to street railways, telephone companies, or any other companies for the erection of any other improvements in said city, and to charge therefor or grant them free of charge, as they may deem best. Grant of franchises. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city shall have the authority to provide by ordinance the manner and method by which property owners of said city shall make return of their property for taxation and to provide a penalty for a failure to return same as provided; to appoint three citizens of said city, who are freeholders thereof, as tax assessors of said city, whose duty it shall be to place a just, fair and equitable valuation on the property within the corporate limits of said city, or that is subject to be taxed by said city regardless of its location whether returned for taxation by the owner thereof or not; to equalize and adjust the taxes of all owners of property in said city; the said board of assessors to give any citizen or property owner an opportunity to appear before them and make objections to the valuation placed by them upon any piece of property, and if in the judgment of said assessors, the valuation first fixed be too high, they may change the same, but in all cases the decision of the assessors after the property owner has appeared before them, or has had notice to appear before them, shall be final. Publication in any newspaper published in said city ten days before the day fixed for hearing complaints shall be deemed sufficient and legal notice under this section. Tax returns. Assessors. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city shall have full power and authority to levy a special tax not exceeding ten mills on each dollar, as street tax, and expend the same in opening and improving streets, sidewalks,

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alleys, lanes, public parks and grounds; also to levy and collect a tax upon all and every species of property in said city subject to State and county tax; upon banking and insurance capital employed in said city; upon brokers and factors; upon each and every business, calling, trade or profession carried on in said city; upon insurance, telephone, telegraph and express agencies in said city; to tax all theatrical performances, shows or exhibitions for gain or profit in said city; to tax all itinerant traders and peddlers, all venders of patent medicines, drugs, books, nostrums or devices of any kind; to tax all solicitors or canvassers selling wares or merchandise by sample at retail to consumers. All of said taxes, except the tax on real or personal property, which shall be advalorem and not exceeding the statutory or Constitutional limitation, shall be in the nature of a license tax, which must be paid in advance of doing business or carrying on the trade or occupation; and the council shall provide by ordinance for the punishment of all parties who are required to take out license who do, or attempt to do, any business before taking out such license and complying fully with all the requirements of said council made in reference thereto. Taxes. Licenses. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city shall have power and authority to provide by ordinance when the taxes of said city shall become due, and the mayor, or person acting in his stead, shall have power and authority to issue tax executions for all taxes that have not been paid on or by the day fixed when they shall be paid, which execution shall be directed to the chief of police, and all and singular the marshals of Adel; and when issued shall be placed in the hands of the chief of police, or some marshal of said city, whose duty it shall be to levy the same upon any property, real or personal, within the corporate limits of said city. If the execution be for a sum less than a hundred dollars, and the property levied upon be personal property, the same may be advertised as constables' sales are now advertised, by posting an advertisement in three or more places in said city, one of which shall be at the court house door where the mayor holds his courts:

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if the execution be for a sum greater than a hundred dollars, or the levy be upon real estate, the same shall be advertised by the levying officer under the same terms and under the same regulations and in the same paper that the sheriff's advertisements for the County of Cook are made. The deed of the chief of police or marshal making the sale under execution by the city authorities shall pass the title of the property sold to the purchaser as completely and absolutely as the deed of the defaulting tax payer would have done; provided, however, that any person whose property has been sold for taxes shall be allowed to redeem the same by paying the purchaser, at any time within one year from the date of the sale, the full amount of his bid with ten per cent premium thereon; that the officer making the levy under executions issued by the authority of said city, shall have full power and authority to take bond for the forthcoming of personal property levied upon by them, payable to themselves, which bond may be sued upon by such officer for the use of the city in any court having jurisdiction of the person and the subject-matter of such bond, and the levying officer of such executions shall receive costs for their services as follows: If the execution is less than one hundred dollars, the costs allowed constables shall be received by them; if the execution be greater than one hundred dollars, the costs allowed sheriffs shall be received by them. Tax executions. Levy. Advertising. Deeds. Redemption. Forthcoming bond. Costs. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted, that should an affidavit of illegality be filed to an execution issued by the authorities of said city (which may be done under same rules which prevail in State courts), or any property levied upon be claimed by a person not a party to the execution, said claim shall be interposed under the same rules, restrictions and regulations that govern claim cases in the courts of the State, and such claims and illegalities shall be returned for trial to the justice court or notary public court that is held in the City of Adel, or the Court of Cook County having jurisdiction as the case may be. Affidavit of illegality. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted, that the police officers

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of said City of Adel shall have power and authority to enter without warrant and to inspect any place of business or other place in said city where there is reason to suspect spirituous liquors are being kept therein for unlawful purposes, and to seize and hold such articles and things as may be found therein, to be used as evidence for a violation of any ordinances of said city or laws of the State. Search for liquor; seizure. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted, that the council of said city shall have power and authority to require all persons within the corporate limits of said city, subject to road duty under the laws of this State, to work on the streets of said city, or they may fix a commutation tax, which may be paid instead. Street work or tax. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, that there shall be a Board of Education for said city under the corporate name of the Adel Board of Education, with rights to sue and be sued in its corporate name, and whose duty it shall be to manage, control, maintain and establish, as hereinafter provided, a public school for and in the City of Adel. Said Board of Education to consist of five members, to be elected by the mayor and council of said City of Adel, at the earliest practicable time after this Act goes into effect; at the first election two members shall be elected for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and two for a term of one year; thereafter elections for members of said Board of Education shall be held annually at such time as the council of said city shall have fixed, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and the members of the Board of Education elected after said first election shall be for a term of three years. All vacancies in said board shall be filled by special election by said city council and shall be for the unexpired term only, and the members of said board shall hold their office until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, they shall each take and subscribe an oath to faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge the duties of their office. No person shall be eligible to membership in said board except such person as would be eligible to election as councilman of said

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city, and no person shall be eligible to election to such membership, who, at the time of his election is mayor or a councilman of said city, that said Board of Education are authorized, empowered and required to make such by-laws, rules and regulations for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect, and for their government and control as to them may seem right and proper, which are not in conflict with the laws of this State. Board of Education. Corporate name, powers, duties, etc. Eligibility. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted, that the officers of the Board of Education shall be a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, all of which officers shall be elected upon said board and they may elect such other officers as they may deem advisable. The secretary and treasurer, who shall be one person, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond for such sum as may be fixed by the Board of Education, to faithfully account for all moneys coming into his hands as such officer, which bond shall be made payable to said Board of Education, and the said Board of Education is hereby empowered to bring suit and maintain the same upon such bonds in any court of this State, for any breach of such bond by the secretary and treasurer, and the proceeds of said suit shall be applied to the public schools of said town. Said secretary and treasurer shall pay out no money except by the written order of the board. His term of office shall be for one year and until his successor is elected and qualified. Officers of board. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted, that said Board of Education shall have power, and it is hereby made the duty of said board, to devise, design and adopt and establish under this Act a system of public schools, to modify the same from time to time, to establish such schools as they may see fit for the white children and also for the colored children of said city, and which for the races shall be entirely separate and distinct from each other, and not more than one school for each race, unless said Board of Education shall, at a regular meeting, order more than one, and in

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this have the concurrence of the mayor and council of the City of Adel. Schools. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted, that said Board of Education shall keep full and accurate minutes of proceedings of said board; the said board shall meet at least once a month in regular session, and which said minutes and other books shall be subject to inspection by the mayor and council, or any other interested citizen of said city. Said board shall supervise, regulate and make efficient said school system, shall prescribe the curriculum and the books to be used in said schools; shall elect and employ teachers for said schools, and if they see fit, a superintendent for said schools; they shall have the right to remove or suspend such teachers and superintendent whenever in the discretion of the members of said board they may deem such action to be for the best interest of said schools, and their action in so doing shall be conclusive in all cases, and not subject to review by any body or court; they shall fix the compensation of teachers and pay the same; they shall make such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of said board and for the control of said teachers and schools as may be deemed fit and proper. They may provide grades in said school and provide suitable apparatus, furniture and appliances of every kind for the use of said schools, and do any and all other acts that they may deem best to promote the best educational interests of said city not in conflict with State laws. Additional powers and duties. Sec. 28. Be it further enacted, that said Board of Education is authorized and empowered to receive, hold, apply, sell or expend any donation, gift or bequest of property of any kind, real or personal, made to said board for the benefit of said city. Gifts to board. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted, that said board shall, out of any funds going into their hands, provide school houses by renting, leasing, purchasing or building suitable buildings, and shall properly furnish the same for school purposes. The title of all such property shall be in the city of Adel. School houses.

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Sec. 30. Be it further enacted, that said Board of Education shall keep an accurate account of all money or property received by them for the use of said public schools and of all expenditures made by them. These accounts shall at all times be open to inspection of the mayor and council of the City of Adel, or any citizen of said city. The members of said board shall be personally liable to the corporation of the City of Adel for all moneys paid to said board for the use of said public schools, and by them appropriated and paid out for any other purposes. Accounts. Personal liability. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted, that said board shall annually at the regular session of the mayor and council of said city, in July of each year, make a report to the said mayor and council, in writing, of the condition of said schools, and shall accompany said report with a full itemized statement of all the moneys received and expended by said board, and present the vouchers therefor. This report shall contain an estimate of the amount of funds required for the proper conduct of said schools for the ensuing year, and like reports shall be furnished at any time by said board to said mayor and council when requested. Reports to mayor, etc. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted, that the terms of the officers of said board shall be fixed for one year, and they shall provide by-laws and regulations adopted by said board for the election of their officers, and no officer shall have any compensation except such as may be fixed by the mayor and council of said city to exceed twenty-five dollars per annum, except the secretary and treasurer, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Board of Education prior to his election and qualification, not to exceed, however, one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; provided, however, that said board, by unanimous vote, can pay reasonable compensation for special services which they may find necessary to secure in order to properly and legally put this system of public schools into operation and to keep it in legal and proper condition. Terms of officers of board. Pay. Sec. 33. Be it further enacted, that the public schools herein provided for shall run for a period of not more than

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ten scholastic months nor less than five scholastic months in each year. School term. Sec. 34. Be it further enacted, that all taxes to be raised by levy under this Act shall be used not only for the purposes herein mentioned, but also for establishing and maintaining said schools, and providing furniture, apparatus, grounds and buildings for said schools; provided further, that it shall be lawful, in the sound discretion and best judgment for the said Board of Education to charge and require a small incidental or matriculation fee for each pupil admitted into said schools, which amount shall in no event exceed the rate of one dollar and a half per month. School fund, use of. Matriculation fee. Sec. 35. Be it further enacted, that all school children, between the ages of six and eighteen years, who are bona fide residents of said city, with their parents or guardians, shall be entitled to the benefit of said schools and no such child or children shall be required to pay tuition for such course of study as may be prescribed by the Board of Education, except in the incidental or matriculation fee above mentioned, but the Board of Education, in their discretion, may require children living beyond the limits of said city to pay tuition for and during the school term provided. All such tuition shall become a part of the fund for the maintenance of said public school system, and must be used and accounted for as likewise any other fee. Ages of pupils. Free tuition. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted, that said Board of Education shall determine as early as practicable in each year what amount of money will be necessary to be raised by taxation to defray the expenses of said public schools for the ensuing year, and shall submit such finding in writing to the mayor and council at their regular meeting in July, and the mayor and council are hereby authorized and required to levy a special ad valorem tax, not to exceed one-half of one per centum on all the property in said city subject to taxation, and when the taxes for such purpose are levied and collected, the collecting officer of said city shall pay over the same to the secretary and treasurer of said Board of Education; said taxes shall be collected as other

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taxes of said city, and shall not later than the first day of February be paid to the secretary and treasurer of the Board of Education, and said taxes shall not be paid out by the secretary and treasurer of said board, except upon written order of said Board of Education under such regulations and requirements as they shall provide. Tax for schools. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted, that the Board of Education of Cook County, or such body as may have charge of the public schools of said county, shall not establish or open any schools within the corporate limits of said City of Adel, nor have any authority or voice in the management of the school therein established, under the provisions of this Act, by the Board of Education of the City of Adel. County board without power in city. Sec. 38. Be it further enacted, that the State School Commissioner of Georgia is hereby required to pay over to the Board of Education of the City of Adel the pro rata of the State and county school fund to which said city is entitled, according to the number of children of school age residing within the corporate limits of the City of Adel, as shown by the last school census. The amount thus to be paid shall be paid at such time as the teachers of the County of Cook are paid, and when paid, shall be expended by said board for the support and maintenance of said public schools of the City of Adel; it shall be the duty of the Board of Education of the City of Adel to have, prepare and furnish the State School Commissioner at such times as the school census for the County of Cook may be taken, a list or census of all children of school age residing within the limits of said City of Adel. The Board of Education of the City of Adel shall have authority to admit the children of non-residents upon such terms as may seem to them reasonable and just; also to admit children of public school age who reside in Cook County but without the corporate limits of the City of Adel, and to make contracts with the Board of Education of the County of Cook for such pro rata amount as may be due by the County of Cook of the State and county public school funds for such children. State school fund.

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Sec. 39. Be it further enacted, that all assessments of taxes and all funds arising from, or collected under this Act, shall be by the corporate authorities of the City of Adel, kept separate and distinct from all other collections and assessments of said city, and are not to be used for any purpose except as hereinbefore directed; and the mayor and council shall keep a separate, full and distinct itemized account, showing all moneys raised, when, how and from what, and the disposition of the same, to whom, when and for what purpose paid out. Separation of funds. Sec. 40. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of the City of Adel shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to designate such specific taxes as they may think best in supplementing the school fund of said city, not in conflict with this charter and the laws of this State. Taxes to supplement school fund. Sec. 41. Be it further enacted, that all rents for water and lights which may become due to said city shall be in the nature of a tax against the property to which or upon which same is furnished, whether the same is occupied by the owner or a tenant, and that after a lapse in the payment of said rent or rents for a period of sixty days, the authorities of said city shall have the power and authority to issue a fi. fa. against said property and the owner thereof for said sum, which shall thereafter take the same procedure as is now provided for fi. fas. for taxes in said city; provided, however, that this law shall not apply should the said city, its agents or employees, cut in water or lights on any property other than upon the written request of the owner thereof. Collection of rents for water and lights; execution. Sec. 42. Be it further enacted, that it shall be unlawful to operate in said city, any pool, billiard or bagatelle table, five pin, ten pin or bowling alley, or any like devices, where the public is allowed to play, or any charge is made therefor, either directly or indirectly. Unlawful operation of pool tables, etc. Sec. 43. Be it further enacted, that the Act of the General Assembly approved August 18, 1917, creating a bond

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commission for the town of Adel, as will be found on pages 447, 448 and 449 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Georgia for 1917, be and the same is hereby incorporated and made a part of this Act, and the same rights and powers therein delegated to said commissioners as of the town of Adel, shall enure to them as commissioners of the City of Adel; and the duties imposed upon them as bond commissioners for the town of Adel is hereby imposed upon them as Bond Commissioners for the City of Adel. Bond Commission. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted, that the enumeration of powers contained in this Act shall not be considered restrictive, but the City of Adel and its authorities may exercise all powers, rights and jurisdictions as they might have if such enumerations were not made in this Act as above designated, and the mayor and council of said city may provide laws and ordinances, rules and regulations they may deem needful and proper for the general welfare of said city, and where under said Act rights are conferred or powers granted, but the manner of exercising them is not prescribed, the mayor and council may prescribe, by ordinance, the method of exercising them, or they may prescribe additional regulations and modes of procedure not repugnant to the intents and purposes of this Act, nor the laws of this State. Enumeration of powers not restrictive. Sec. 45. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. AMERICUS TAXATION AD VALOREM; AUTHORITY TO EXECUTE AND SELL NOTES. No. 79. An Act to amend the city charter of the City of Americus, so as to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Americus to levy an ad valorem tax for the years of 1919 to

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1923 inclusive, of one-half of one per centum in addition to the tax already authorized, and to provide that the amounts raised by the said levy be kept separate and distinct from the other funds of the city, and to be applied only to the payment of the present outstanding floating indebtedness of the City of Americus, and to supplement the present school fund of the Board of Public Education for the City of Americus to pay operating expenses not to exceed two mills of such one-half of one per centum, to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Americus to execute notes and sell the same in anticipation of this tax levy, and other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, An Act to amend, revise and consolidate the several Acts granting corporate authority to the City of Americus, approved November 11, 1889, be, and the same is hereby amended, and the Mayor and City Council of Americus, in addition to the power and authority they now have, shall after the passage of this Act, have full power and authority to provide by ordinance for the assessment, levy and collection of an ad valorem tax on real and personal property within the corporate limits of the City of Americus, of one-half of one per centum for the years 1919 to 1923 inclusive; for the purpose of paying the present outstanding floating indebtedness of said city, and to supplement the school fund of the Board of Public Education for the City of Americus; provided that a sum not to exceed the amount raised by a levy of two mills shall be turned over to said school board annually, during such period for the operating expenses of said school. Act of 1889 amended. Ad valorem tax for 1919-23. How applied. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all moneys collected from the tax levy provided for in this bill, shall be kept separate and distinct from all other funds of said city, and shall be applied to the payment of the present outstanding floating indebtedness of said city; provided, however, that the said Mayor and City Council of Americus

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shall have authority to pay the Board of Education for the City of Americus a portion of such money as may be collected by virtue of this Act to supplement the present school fund for operating expenses, but the portion of said fund so paid to them shall not exceed the amount raised by the levy of two mills. Separation of funds. Portion for schools. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That should there remain any money in the treasurer of said city, from the tax levy provided for in this Act, after the present outstanding floating indebtedness of said city and operating expenses of the public schools shall have been paid, then and in that event said remaining money shall be paid into the sinking fund and be applied to the bonded indebtedness of said city. Residue. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council of Americus are hereby authorized to execute notes and sell the same in anticipation of the tax levy herein provided for, and apply the proceeds to the liquidation of the present outstanding floating indebtedness of the said City of Americus. Authority to make and sell notes. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. ARLINGTON: ADDITIONAL ALDERMAN; ELECTIONS AND TERMS OF MAYOR, ETC.; TAX RETURNS; TAX EQUALIZERS. No. 360. An Act to amend an Act providing a new charter for the town of Arlington, approved October 9, 1891, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, so that the municipal government of said town shall consist of a Mayor and six Aldermen instead of a Mayor and five Aldermen, so that said Aldermen shall hold office for two

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years instead of one year, the Mayor and three of said Aldermen to be elected each year, so as to change the time for holding the election for Mayor and Aldermen from the first Tuesday in January each year to the first Tuesday in November of each year; to provide when said Mayor and Aldermen shall qualify and assume the duties of their respective offices after said election; to provide who shall be candidates for said offices at said election and eligible to have their names appear on the official ballot to be used in said election; to provide for the publication of the names of the candidates prior to said election; to provide for an official ballot to be used in said election, how and by whom prepared and furnished to the superintendents of said election; to repeal Section 30 of said Act approved October 9, 1891, and to provide in lieu thereof for the return of property for taxation by the owners of taxable property within said town; to provide for the appointment of tax equalizers and define their duties, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Act providing a new charter for the town of Arlington, approved October 9, 1891, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby amended, so that from and after the passage of this Act, the municipal government of said town of Arlington shall consist of a Mayor and six Aldermen instead of a Mayor and five Aldermen, and so that said Aldermen shall hold their offices for two years instead of for one year; provided, however, that at the first election hereunder three of said Aldermen elected thereat shall be elected for only one year and shall hold office for but one year so that three Aldermen shall be elected each year thereafter for a term of two years. Acts amended. Increase of aldermen. Terms of office. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until the first election for Mayor and Aldermen under this Act and the qualification of the officers elected thereunder, B. M. Garrett, as Mayor, and Y. W. Fudge,

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B. H. Askew, L. O. Cunningham, C. P. Gleaten and R. A. Rogers, Jr., as Aldermen, the present incumbents, shall constitute the governing authorities of said town and continue to act as Mayor and Aldermen thereof, and that the first election under the provisions of this Act for their successors shall be held on the first Tuesday in November, 1919. Mayor, etc., designated. Successors. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the time for holding the election for Mayor and Aldermen of said town be, and the same is hereby changed from the first Tuesday in January of each year to the first Tuesday in November of each year. Time of election. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen when so elected shall qualify and assume the duties of their respective offices on the first Tuesday in January immediately following their election or within ten days thereafter, as and in the manner now provided by law. Time of qualifying. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at least twelve days prior to said election the name of each person who shall be a candidate for the office of Mayor at said election, and the name of each person who shall be a candidate for Alderman thereat, shall be given to the clerk of said town in writing, signed by said candidate, in form substantially as follows: I shall be a candidate for Mayor (or Alderman, as the case may be) at the approaching election. Please publish my name as such, and enter the same on the official ballot for said election. This.....day of....., and shall at the same time pay to said clerk, if a candidate for Mayor, the sum of $5.00, and if a candidate for Alderman, the sum of $1.00. No person shall be eligible as a candidate for either of said offices, nor eligible to have his name appear on the official ballot for said election as a candidate, nor eligible to election of said offices at said election, unless his name shall have been so given to said clerk at least twelve days prior to said election, and shall have paid to said clerk the sum so required. Notice of candidacy. Entrance fee.

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Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the money so paid to said clerk by said candidates shall be by him paid into the treasury of said town, to be used by said town towards defraying the expenses of holding said election, including the cost of printing the official ballots for said election, and publishing the [Illegible Text] of said candidates, and the clerk of said town, and his bondsmen, shall be personally liable to said town for the aforesaid sum required of each candidate whose name is published by him as such, and whose name appears on the official ballot for said election. Use of fees. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk of said town shall at least ten days prior to said election publish in a newspaper published in said town the names of the candidates which have been so given to him for said respective offices, provided that if there be no newspaper published in said town, then he shall post said names in three public places in said town. Publication of list of candidates. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That immediately after the expiration of the time within which the names of the candidates may be given to the clerk of said town, said clerk shall prepare and have printed a sufficient number of ballots to be used at said election, the form thereof to be substantially as follows: Each ballot shall have printed thereon, as a caption in capital letters, the words, Official Ballot, followed thereunder by the words, For election for Mayor and Aldermen for the town of Arlington, followed by the date of said election; under this shall be printed the words, For Mayor (vote for one), followed thereunder by the names of all the candidates for Mayor; under this, the words, For Aldermen (vote for three), followed thereunder by the names of all the candidates for Aldermen, provided, however, that at the first election to be held hereunder on the first Tuesday in November, 1919, said ballots shall have instead of For Aldermen (vote for three), the words, For Aldermen for One Year (vote for three), followed thereunder by the names of all candidates for Aldermen for one

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year. And then the words, For Aldermen for two years (vote for three), followed thereunder by the names of the candidates for Aldermen for two years. Said ballots shall be furnished the superintendents of said election by said clerk to be by them furnished to the voters of said election, and no ballot shall be used at said election [Illegible Text] received thereat nor counted by the superintendents thereof except said official ballots. Form of ballot. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Section 30 of the aforesaid Act providing a new charter for the said town of Arlington, approved October 9, 1891, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is hereby enacted: It shall be the duty of all owners of taxable property within said town, either by themselves or their agent, to make annual returns to the clerk of said town of all of their taxable property in said town. Said returns shall be made under oath and shall be made at such times and upon such forms and according to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and said property shall be returned at its actual market value. Each year immediately after the election and qualification of the Mayor of said town, said Mayor shall appoint three intelligent, discreet and upright citizens of said town, each of whom shall be the owner in his own right and name of taxable property in said town, and shall be well acquainted with property values in said town, to be known as Tax Equalizers for said town, to serve as such for one year or until their successors are appointed and qualified. The Mayor of said town shall be authorized to fill any vacancy occurring from any cause at any time, and may at any time remove any of said Tax Equalizers from office for good cause and appoint a successor. No person holding any official position, elective or appointive, of said town shall be eligible to appointment as a Tax Equalizer of said town. Immediately after the time limit for making tax returns, as fixed by the Mayor and Aldermen, has expired, it shall be the duty of the clerk of said town to turn over to said Tax

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Equalizers all of the tax returns made to him by the owners of taxable property in said town, together with a list of the owners of taxable property who have failed to make returns thereof, and as far as it is possible for him to do so, also a list of the property in said town not returned for taxation, and it shall be the duty of said Tax Equalizers to thoroughly and carefully examine each and every tax return, and increase the valuation of any property returned thereon to its true market value when in their judgment the value placed thereon by the person returning the same for taxation is not its true market value, and add to said return any property omitted therefrom by said person which is subject to taxation and fix the value thereof according to their judgment. They shall not be confined to the list furnished them by the clerk of said town of persons who have failed to make returns nor by the list of property in said town not returned for taxation furnished to them by said clerk, but shall make independent investigation to ascertain whether or not there are other owners of taxable property who have failed to make returns, and other taxable property which has not been returned. They shall cite all persons who have failed to make any returns for taxes, and all owners of taxable property which they find has not been returned, to appear before them at a time and place designated by them, and make out a proper return of their taxable property, and shall examine and revise such returns in the same manner as the returns made to the clerk and by him filed with them. Notice to such persons may be given by mail. In the event any of the persons so cited to appear by them shall not appear either in person or by their agent, and make returns as directed, said Tax Equalizers shall themselves proceed to make returns for such persons, and shall double the total valuation of the property so returned by said Tax Equalizers for such persons who fail to appear and make returns as directed, so that said taxpayers shall be required to pay taxes on double the value of their property subject to taxation and omitted to be returned by them; provided, however, that in case any owner of taxable property failing to make returns is not a resident of said town

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and does not have a resident agent, said Tax Equalizers shall mail said owner, if his residence be known, at least ten days prior to the time fixed by them for said property owners to appear and make returns, a blank form for making his returns, with said citation to appear, and said owner may make out and return to said Tax Equalizers his tax returns in lieu of appearing in person or by agent and making his returns or he may authorize said Tax Equalizers to make out his returns for him, in which event they shall not double the value of his returns because of his failure to appear and make returns, said taxes to be doubled only as to those who negligently fail or wilfully refuse to appear before said Tax Equalizers and make returns when cited to do so. After having revised said tax returns, said Tax Equalizers shall turn back to said clerk all of said tax returns, including all returns made out by them for persons who failed to make returns with the result of their findings clearly and plainly indicated thereon. They shall not state generally that the returns of a person is increased, but shall indicate what property returned thereon is increased in value by them, and what property is added thereto by them (if any omitted property is added by them) with its value as found to be by them. After receiving said revised returns from said Tax Equalizers, the clerk of said town shall immediately notify the Mayor of said town, who shall fix a time when objections, if there are any, to the findings of the Tax Equalizers will be heard at the council chamber of said town in an open session of the town council by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and said clerk shall immediately give written notice by mail to each person whose returns have been increased by said Tax Equalizers of the time and place fixed by said Mayor for hearing objections, at least ten days before said time of hearing. At said time and place said Mayor and Aldermen shall hear and determine all objections. All testimony shall be under oath, and the Tax Equalizers shall be given notice of said hearing and may appear and testify and submit evidence otherwise to sustain their findings. The Mayor and Aldermen are not authorized to change, modify or

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reduce the findings of the Tax Equalizers in any case unless the evidence produced to them by the aggrieved party shows clearly and beyond question that the finding of the Tax Equalizers was erroneous, and in each case, where the finding of the Tax Equalizers is changed, modified or reduced by the Mayor and Aldermen, the decision of the Mayor and Aldermen shall be entered on the minutes of the town council, with their reasons for making such changes, modification, or reduction. All decisions of the Mayor and Aldermen, whether favorable or adverse to the persons appealing to them, shall be final. Substitute for Sec. 30. Tax returns. Tax equalizers. Eligibility. Duties. Notice to property owner. Double tax. Objections to findings. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, said Tax Equalizers shall take and subscribe before the Mayor of said town the following oath: We do solemnly swear that we will carefully examine all tax returns turned over to us by the clerk of the town of Arlington for revision, and all evidence as to persons failing to make returns and property not returned for taxation; that we will revise said returns according to our best judgment and knowledge of property values in said town, and will fix the valuation of all property returned and not returned at its actual market value, and will faithfully perform all other duties required of us as Tax Equalizers of said town, all without favor or affection to any one, so help us God. Said oath shall be filed with the clerk of said town and by him entered on the minutes of the town council. Said Tax Equalizers shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, to be not less than $5.00 each per day for each day's work actually done by them in examining and revising said tax returns. Oath of tax equalizers. Compensation. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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ATLANTA CHARTER AMENDMENTS. No. 318. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Atlanta, approved February 28, 1874, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Atlanta, approved February 28, 1874, and the several Acts amendatory thereof be and the same are hereby amended as follows: Acts amended. Section 1. That the following provisions granting power and authority and providing regulations and establishing provisions governing the improvement of streets and the pavement thereof and the assessments therefor and the other matters hereinafter set forth are hereby incorporated into and made a part of said charter. Street improvements. (a) That the Mayor and General Council of the City of Atlanta are hereby authorized and empowered to improve their streets, avenues, public alleys, or other public places in said city by paving, re-paving, curbing, guttering and draining the same, including the installation of manholes, catch basins, and the necessary draining pipes, whenever in their discretion the public necessities may require it, with such form of improvements as to them may seem proper, and assess the cost thereof upon abutting property owners thereof; provided, that any street railway company having tracks on any street or public place, or portion thereof [Illegible Text] re-paved or otherwise improved, under this amendment, shall be required to pay the whole cost of paving, [Illegible Text] or otherwise improving the street, avenue, public [Illegible Text] part of street or public place so improved, for the full width of sixteen (16) feet of such pavement where they have two tracks thereon and eleven feet where they have one track thereon, and for the full distance that its track or

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tracks extend on the street or other portion of street or public place so paved, re-paved or otherwise improved. Paving, etc. Assessments. (b) No resolution or ordinance seeking to pave, re-pave or improve a street or public place as herein authorized shall be passed unless petitioned in writing, by the owner of more than fifty per cent of the property abutting on the street or portion of street proposed to be paved or re-paved, and such resolution or ordinance shall describe the general character of improvement to be made, the material to be used and such other matters as shall be necessary to [Illegible Text] the preparation of the proper plans and specifications for the improvements proposed to be made, and pending the consideration of such resolution or ordinance an advertisement shall be inserted at least one time in one of the daily papers of the city ten days before the final passage of such resolution or ordinance, such advertisement giving notice of the introduction of such resolution or ordinance, the street, public place or portion thereof proposed to be paved, re-paved or improved, the estimated cost per front foot; and it shall set forth that the property owners or others interested are notified to appear at the meeting of the General Council to be held at a time stated in said advertisement and make any and all objections they may desire to urge to the passage of such resolution or ordinance. At the time named in said advertisement, if any property owner or other person desires to make objections to the passage of such resolution or ordinance, full opportunity shall be given at said meeting. At said meeting and after hearing objections, if any are made to the passage of such resolution or ordinance, the General Council shall have the full right and power in their discretion to order such pavement, re-pavement or other improvement to be made or reject said resolution or ordinance. And after the passage of said resolution or ordinance, all property owners to be assessed for the cost of the improvement who do not within fifteen days thereafter commence legal proceedings to prevent said assessment being made shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the terms of said resolution or ordinance, and shall have agreed that the assessment hereinafter

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provided for may be made. Thereupon it shall be the duty of the Mayor and General Council to forthwith cause said improvement to be made in accordance with the plans and specifications as prepared. When completed an ordinance shall be passed, assessing the cost of said improvement against the property owners on each side of the street or portion of the street so paved, re-paved or improved, except that where a street car company has tracks on said street or portion of street so improved, the company owning or operating same under lease or contract shall be assessed for the costs of paving, re-paving or improving said street or portion of street for the full distance that such tracks extend along said street or public place of such pavement, re-pavement or improvement, and for the full width of sixteen feet where they have two tracks thereon and eleven feet where they have one track thereon, and after deducting the amount of this assessment against said company, then the abutting property owners shall pay the total assessment against the abutting property on each side of the street or portion of street so paved, re-paved or improved. Petition of property owners; what required, before paving, etc. Advertisement, hearing, etc. Objections. Estoppel of property owner. Assessment. (c) The assessing ordinance shall thereupon assert a lien effective when, after completion, a record thereof is entered in a book to be kept in the office of Comptroller, as provided in Section 2 of this Act and declare the same at the time said ordinance is passed. Lien of assessment. (d) If the street railway company shall afterwards construct a track or tracks in any portion of street paved, re-paved or otherwise improved under this amendment, it shall pay into the Treasury of the city a like amount as if originally assessed. Where in the judgment of the Mayor and General Council it is deemed advisable to pave, repave or improve the intersection of cross streets, the cost thereof shall be included and assessed against the property owners thereof and street car company where it has tracks on the street so being paved, such assessment to be levied and collected as herein provided. Generally the provisions as to assessments [Illegible Text] forth in the present charter as

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published in Section 359 of the City Code of 1910, shall be followed where not inconsistent with the provisions of this amendment. Street-railway companies, payments required from. (e) Upon the completion of the work and the levying of the assessment as above set out, the entire amount of the assessment shall be at once due and payable by the property owners and street car company where any such company has a track or tracks, but if so desired the property owners and street car company shall have the right to pay the assessment so levied against them for the cost of such improvement in not more than ten instalments, which shall be paid for as follows: One equal part cash upon the completion of the work, and passage of ordinance levying assessment for cost, and acceptance thereof by the city, and the remaining equal parts in annual instalments, maturing respectively one to not more than nine years after the date of the approval of the ordinance assessing cost. Such deferred payments to bear interest from date until paid at the rate of not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable annually. The benefit of the payment by instalments may be taken advantage of by any such property owner or street car company, by giving [Illegible Text] for the deferred payments as herein provided at the time of making the cash payment. Payment in installments. In the event any property owner or street car company shall desire to pay the balance due under such assessment after exercising option to pay instalments as hereinbefore provided at any time before the maturity of such instalments, such party so wishing and offering to pay shall pay the principal and interest due up to date of payment. (f) The work done under the provisions of this charter amendment shall be guaranteed by the contractor or other party doing the work for five years from the date of the completion thereof. Contractor's guaranty. (g) The City of Atlanta shall appropriate from funds available a sum equal to one-tenth of the total, actual or estimated cost of the improvement of any street as provided for herein, which said sum so appropriated shall be set

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apart in the Street Improvement Fund hereinafter provided for, as maintenance fund, and shall be disposed of in the following manner: [Illegible Text] fund. The same shall be used for the payment at the date of maturity of any instalment due on the assessment for paving or re-paving, provided for herein at any date when same may mature, when there has not been collected thereon a sufficiency to make up the amount due on such instalments up to that time by the holder of such assessments, liens, bills for paving, property owners' notes, etc., provided that when parties against whom such assessments have been levied, and who are in default have paid the same, that such sums shall be replaced in the said Street Improvement Fund provided for herein, and shall be held and paid out in the same way until the assessments against the property for the improvement of any particular street shall have been pain in full, or the amount of said fund so originally provided by the city and replaced from time to time as herein provided for shall have been completely exhausted. In the event any property owner against whose property an assessment shall have been levied as herein provided, shall fail to pay any instalment, either in the first instance or at any subsequent date when same matures, and execution issue therefor, and the property is sold, then in such event the amount of such assessment shall be considered satisfactory so far as any claim against the Street Improvement Fund is considered. At the expiration of the five year guarantee provided for in Section (f) of this Act, the said fund of ten per cent provided by the city shall be used from time to time as needed, for the purpose of maintaining and providing and repairing, and keeping in repair, the pavement on the street against which such assessment was levied, and for which said sum was provided as a maintenance fund, as hereinbefore provided. (h) The City of Atlanta may receive bids for the work to be done under the provisions of this charter amendment, and it may provide that the contractors, bidding to

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do said work, the cost of which the City of Atlanta will levy against the abutting property or any street car company liable to be assessed under the provisions of the present charter and of this amendment, shall receive such assessment, liens, bills, etc., to be divided into instalments of not more than ten, one equal part of which shall be paid in cash and the remaining equal parts to mature annually thereafter. The property owners may, when they elect to pay for said work in instalments rather than in cash, be required to give notes for the remaining unpaid amount due on such paving, which said notes shall be given in equal amounts, but in no event to exceed nine, same to mature annually and with the provision for same being paid on or before as set out in this amendment. The City of Atlanta reserves the right to itself, however, if it should see fit, to ask for bids for doing such improvement work by such contractors for cash; and ask at the same time such local institutions or such persons as may desire to purchase the assessments, liens, bills, notes of property owners, etc., to submit bids for the purchase thereof, and should the city so desire it may transfer such assessments, liens, bills, notes, etc., to such party offering to buy the same with the proviso, however, that the city obligates itself no further than it would were the said assessments, liens, bills, property owners' notes, etc., transferred to the contractor himself. Bids for work, etc. Condition of contract. Notes of property owners. Bids for purchase of notes, etc. Transfer of claim. (i) In the event the work is done under contract, and the contractor accepts the assessments, liens, property owners' notes, etc., and this is understood when the contract is let, the ten per cent maintenance fund hereinbefore provided may be used for the purpose of paying to the contractor upon the completion of the work, and the acceptance thereof, and the passing of the ordinance levying the assessments, the ten per cent due upon the completion of the work, and in that event the property owners' first instalment shall be placed in the street improvement fund herein provided for in lieu of the amount originally provided by the city, and kept out as herein provided. It is expressly provided that no obligation rests on the city to at any time appropriate any additional sum than the original

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ten per cent of the ascertained or estimated cost of the improvement provided for in this amendment. Use of maintenance fund. Authority (j) Authority is hereby conferred upon the city to issue paving certificates, certifying to the facts of the passing of such ordinance for paving, re-paving or otherwise improving said street, the letting of the contract for such work, the completion of the work under such contract, and the levying of the assessment herein provided for to cover the cost thereof; and the fact that the City of Atlanta has appropriated out of its general revenues a sum equal to ten per cent of the total estimated cost of such improvement as a maintenance fund to be used as herein provided, and that the city guarantees the validity of the assessments, in the manner provided by this amendment to the charter of the city, and the ordinances made in pursuance thereof. Such certificates may be issued showing assessments in sums not exceeding the total assessments against property owners and the street car company for the work done under this contract covered by such certificate, together with interest on deferred instalments, or in any portion thereof, which shows a completed block or section. to issue paving certificates. (k) In the event any property, against which an assessment under the provisions of this amendment may have been levied, shall be transferred, it may be permissible for the purchaser of said property to assume the payment of the balance due on such assessment made as herein provided; and that such transfer of title shall not have the effect of cancelling the validity of the lien against the property, but the claim may be released as against the person so selling and attached against the person purchasing. Assumption of liability on purchase of property; release of vendor. (l) The property owners against whom assessments are levied as herein provided upon the payment of the first instalment, if the holder desires, may execute notes payable to the holder or such party as he or it may direct as trustee for the holder of such assessments, liens, bills, etc., for the remaining instalment; and the giving of such notes by such property owners, or the signing of a contract to pay in instalments, shall be conclusive evidence against the

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property owners that he is satisfied with the contract so made and the assessment so levied, and he shall be precluded from denying the validity of said ordinance for the letting of such contract, the doing of such work, the completion of same in accordance with the contract and the levying of said assessments for said improvements. Said notes may in the discretion of the holder of the assessments, liens, bills, etc., provide for the acceleration of the notes or series not yet due, upon default in the payment of any one thereof. Notes for amount due. (n) Any street car company against which assessments for paving, re-paving or improving said street are levied under the provisions of this amendment, shall have the same right and option to pay the said assessment in instalments by a compliance with the requirements made of property owners taking advantage of such right to pay in instalments; provided that the lien for such work shall in no wise be waived by the city or the holder of the certificates, bills, assessments, etc., accepting such instalment payments. Payments by street-car companies. (o) The city shall hold the ten per cent maintenance fund as a special maintenance fund or deposit for the payment of such assessments, liens, bills, etc., as they mature in so far as said deposit or fund will permit the payment of the same. There shall thereupon be created by the city treasurer, a fund to be known as Street Improvement Fund into which shall be paid the proceeds of the appropriations of ten per cent and such sums as property owners as hereinbefore provided pay into the Street Improvement Fund on the assessment for street improvements made under the contract as authorized by this amendment, and such part of said fund as may be required may be paid over to such contractor or holder of such assessments, liens, bills, etc., for the street improvements as provided for in this Act, and the interest thereon. Street improvement fund. (p) It is hereby made the duty of the parties against whom such assessments are levied, or the parties who are legally bound to pay the same, to make payments of such

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instalments as the same fall due, or before they fall due, as hereinbefore provided, to pay the same to the holder of the assessments, liens, bills, etc., or to the city in cases where bill is deposited with it, which in that event shall hold and dispose of such moneys as a part of the Street Improvement Fund as hereinbefore referred to, by turning same over to such holder on or before the date same is due. The city shall allow the use of its machinery of government for the collection of all said assessments for the purpose of paying same as hereinbefore set forth as provided by law at present. Duty to pay holders of claims. Enforcement of lien. (q) It is expressly intended by this amendment to confer upon the City of Atlanta, acting through its Mayor and General Council or such legislative and administrative body as may succeed the Mayor and General Council, power to order the paving, re-paving or improvement of any streets, public alleys or public places in said city as above provided, on petition as hereinbefore set out whenever in its judgment and discretion the same may be necessary, and whenever it shall provide the sum of ten per cent of the total cost of such work as hereinbefore provided as a maintenance fund, and to assess the entire cost of the improvement in accordance with the provisions hereof against any street car company and abutting property. Discretion of city as to paving, re-paving, etc. (r) It is further provided that in the event the property owners owning more than fifty per cent of the frontage on any street or portion of street shall desire to have the same paved or to have such street re-paved, they may so indicate by petition to be filed with the Mayor and General Council, and so signify their willingness to pay the entire cost of such improvement (less the amount assessed against the street car company if one has tracks on the street) as hereinbefore provided, and also to pay ten per cent of the cost of construction as the maintenance fund as provided herein, and upon such petition being so filed it shall be the duty of the Mayor and General Council in their discretion, to proceed to pass an ordinance to provide for such paving, or re-paving with the kind of pavements specified in such

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petition, and for the assessment of the cost thereof against the property owners, and against the street car company (if there be one) as hereinbefore provided, and for the issuance of assessments and certificates therefor as hereinbefore provided, just as though the ten per cent had been provided by the city. Petition for paving, with agreement to pay 10 per cent for maintenance. (s) It is further provided that nothing in this amendment shall in any way be construed as taking away from the City of Atlanta the right to receive bids for the doing of such paving, re-paving and other work with different kinds of pavement, but the right is hereby expressly continued in the City of Atlanta to call for bids on different kinds of pavement at the same time, for the doing of the work with as many different kinds of pavement as specifications have been adopted therefor, and in the event the petition asking for the paving does not ask for a particular kind of pavement, the General Council shall award the contract to the lowest and best responsible bidder for the kind of pavement with which they decide the street shall be improved, with the right reserved to reject any or all bids, and the City of Atlanta shall have the right to do such work through its own construction department. Bids on different kinds of pavement. Award of contract. (t) The property owners owning a majority of the frontage of any street, exclusive of property owned by the United States, State of Georgia, County of Fulton, or City of Atlanta, if specifications for a certain kind of pavement have not been adopted and bids called therefor, may petition the Mayor and General Council for the improvement of said street with any particular kind of paving, either with or without the ten per cent payment by the city under the provisions of this amendment, and the said city, if it deem such particular kind of paving or material so petitioned for a monopoly, may order such street so paved, provided the owner of said pavement or material so monopolized shall file with the city authorities before receiving bids therefor an offer to furnish the particular kind of pavement or material petitioned for at a fixed price satisfactory

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to the city authorities. The Mayor and General Council shall have the right to reject any and all bids. Petition for certain kind of paving. (u) The passage of the ordinance for paving, re-paving or otherwise improving a street, or part of street, public alley, or other place in said city, together with the ordinance assessing the cost of the same, and assessing liens against property abutting thereon shall, when properly entered on the minutes of the council, be notice of such lien from the date of the completion and entry of same, as provided in Section 2 of this Act as full and complete as if the same were in the shape of an execution and entered on the docket of the Clerk of the Superior Court under the General Registration Law. Notice of [Illegible Text]. (v) This Act is intended to provide a complete method for improving streets in the City of Atlanta, when the total cost thereof is assessed against abutting property and street railway companies; and all and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this amendment are hereby repealed except that this is a cumulative right, and all Acts and parts of Acts now in force in said City of Atlanta shall continue in full force and effect, and this Act shall be considered as additional and supplementary thereto. This Act intended to provide complete method where total cost is assessed. (w) The Mayor and General Council shall have authority to pass such ordinances, and do such other acts as may be necessary to give full force and effective operation to the provisions of this amendment. Ordinances. Sec. 2. That the lien of all assessments made by the City of Atlanta in its favor, for all improvements levied against abutting property or abutting property owners such as for paving, guttering, curbing, sidewalks, sewers, water and sewer connections, including re-paving, repairs and reconstruction of any or all of the items just named, and any and all other like assessments made by the City of Atlanta in its favor, shall attach and become fixed on the date of the entry of the completion of such work in a book prepared therefor by the City Comptroller and kept in his office

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and all the provisions of said charter providing a lien from the date of the beginning of the work or to the introduction of the ordinance or resolution therefor or in any way conflicting with this section be and the same are hereby repealed and this section is hereby established in lieu of same. The provisions of the charter of the city published in the City Code of 1910, Section 302 and Section 355 and the provisions of ordinance in said code, Section 2407, are hereby specifically repealed and the provisions of this section established in lieu thereof. Date of lien. Repeal of conflicting provisions. Sec. 3. That the provisions of said charter set out in City Code of 1910, Section 296, providing an assessment of seventy cents per lineal foot upon abutting property for the construction of sewers in adjacent street be amended by striking therefrom the words seventy cents per lineal foot and insert in lieu thereof the words one dollar and forty-five cents per lineal foot, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Sewer assessments; change of amount per foot. Sec. 296. In all cases where a sewer shall be laid by or under the authority of said city in any street, the sum of one dollar and forty-five cents per lineal foot shall be assessed upon the property and estates respectively abutting on said sewer, on each side of said street in which said sewer is laid or constructed, and in consideration of the payment of said assessment the owners of said estate shall have the right to connect their drains from said abutting property for the discharge of sewage into said sewer. The remaining cost of all sewers not thus assessed shall be paid by said city out of the sewer appropriations for the year. [Illegible Text] Code, 206, as amended. Sec. 4. That the provisions of said charter as published in the City Code of 1910, Section 168, be amended by striking therefrom the words to confer upon the Tax Collector of said city and insert in lieu thereof the words to confer upon any city officer or city official of said city, so that section when so amended shall read as follows: Collection of executions.

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Sec. 168. In the event of its abolishment the said Mayor and General Council are also empowered to confer upon any city officer or city official of said city the powers and duties of such marshal with reference to the collection of executions, whether for license tax, or assessments for street, sidewalk, sewer or other public improvements. Furthermore, that the provisions of said charter as published in the City Code of 1910, Section 116, be likewise amended by striking therefrom the words to consolidate the office of Marshal and Tax Collector, and insert in lieu thereof the words to consolidate the office of Marshal with any other city officer or city official. City Code, 168, as amended. Amendment of 166. Consolidation of offices. Sec. 5. That the chief of the fire department be and the same is hereby made what is known as a charter office and the present provisions of the ordinances of said city fixing the term thereof be and the same are hereby repealed and [Illegible Text] and at the meeting of the General Council held on the first Monday in September, 1919, a chief of the fire department shall be elected and the person so elected shall serve during good behavior and efficient service without a fixed term of office, provided that such good behavior and efficient service shall be judged of by the board of firemasters or whatever board may hereafter be put in charge of the fire department and, if discharged by the judgment of said board, such discharge shall be without liability against the city on account thereof. Said board or any board or body succeeding the present board, placed in charge of the fire department, shall establish rules and regulations on the civil service plan for the government of said chief, but said chief, when so elected, shall be subject to all ordinances governing his office and the management of the department of fire that the Mayor and General Council of the City of Atlanta may see fit hereafter to pass. Chief of Fire Dept.; charter office; election for service during good behavior. Discharge of chief to be without liability against city. Civil service rules. Sec. 6. That Section 3 of an amendment to the charter, approved August 14, 1909, be amended by striking therefrom the words into wards not exceeding ten and inserting in lieu thereof the words into wards not [Illegible Text]

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eleven, so that the Mayor and General Council shall be and they are hereby authorized to create a new and additional ward to be known as the Eleventh Ward. Said additional ward to be known as the Eleventh Ward shall be cut off of the present Ninth Ward by taking all of the area of said Ninth Ward south of the right of way of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, to which area there shall be added an area from the present Third Ward which area so taken from the Third Ward shall be bounded by Pearl street on the west, Killian street on the south, the A. W.P. Belt Line on the east, and the right of way of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company on the north. Act of 1909 amended. Eleventh Ward created. Sec. 7. That the Mayor and General Council of said city be, and they are hereby authorized to abandon a narrow twenty-foot street known as Hollins street, being a street which runs from Wells street to Morris Alley a total length of about three hundred and twenty-seven (327) feet, said Hollins street never having been worked and improved by the City of Atlanta, provided the owners of the property abutting thereon consent thereto and furthermore said General Council are authorized to accept any compensation for this abandonment which may be agreed upon by said General Council and the owners of the abutting property. Authority to abandon Hollins street. Sec. 8. That the Mayor and General Council of the City of Atlanta are hereby authorized and empowered to vacate and abandon any street or portion of street which in their judgment is no longer useful or necessary for the public use and convenience, provided that before such action is taken, a notice shall be inserted in the newspaper in which the city's advertisements are published, of the proposed abandonment, at least one time ten days before the date of the meeting of the General Council at which the action is taken vacating and abandoning said street or portion of street and this notice shall state that the question of vacating and abandoning the street or portion of street will then be passed upon by the General Council and setting out the name of the street proposed to be vacated and

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abandoned and, in case a portion thereof only is to be vacated or abandoned, describing such portion so that the public may be informed of the proposal and of the time and place when same will be passed upon. At this meeting any person or persons opposed to such vacation or abandonment shall be given the privilege of the floor and allowed a reasonable time within which to present his view in opposition thereof and provided, further, that the action of the General Council in this behalf shall be conclusive, and if said General Council decides to vacate or abandon such street, same shall thereafter cease to be a street for any purpose whatever and the city shall not be bound to maintain same as a street or be liable for damages for any defects that may thereafter occur or be maintained therein or for any obstructions that may be built therein following such action. The city is authorized in such cases to accept a consideration for the vacation of a street. Abandonment of streets, how effected. Sec. 9. That the charter of said city as amended by the Act approved August 19, 1912, be amended by adding to Section 11 thereof the following: Provided, further, that in order to effectuate the power herein granted, the right of eminent domain is hereby vested in the Mayor and General Council of the City of Atlanta whereby it may condemn private property or any interest therein for the purpose of providing means of ingress and egress to the railroad crossing and property underneath said bridge, as a substitute for the openings now existing in said bridge and which this amendment seeks to close. Said condemnation proceedings shall be had according to the general law governing such proceedings and may extend to right of way through buildings and real estate or underneath buildings or real estate or to the fee in real estate necessary to be deemed proper for the purposes hereinbefore set out which are hereby declared to be public. Provided, further, that the right of eminent domain or power of condemnation herein conferred shall never be used, held or construed to apply, relate or affect in any manner any property right or interest of the State of Georgia or the

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use or enjoyment thereof by the State or by any one holding under the State as tenant, lessee or otherwise, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Sec. 11. That the Mayor and General Council of the City of Atlanta are hereby vested with power and authority to abandon, vacate and close the portion of Forsyth street now forming a passage between the approaches to Forsyth street bridge on both the north and south ends thereof, and furthermore to vacate, abandon and close Forsyth street or so much thereof as is underneath the approaches to and the bridge known as Forsyth street bridge. Following the exercise of the authority herein granted said Mayor and General Council are authorized to close the openings to said bridge and to cover same by a pavement and form a continuous street from Marietta to Alabama street; provided, that said underpass shall not be closed nor said portion of said street vacated until other adequate and reasonable means of ingress and egress from the roads and yards of the Western and Atlantic Railroad shall be provided by the City of Atlanta, and before said underpass shall be closed, plans and specifications of the proposed new means of entering said tracks and yards shall be prepared and submitted to the Railroad Commission of Georgia and approved by them, then said plans and specifications shall be submitted to the Governor and if approved by him then after said new means of ingress and egress from said tracks and yards have been constructed and opened in accordance with said plans and specifications, then said Railroad Commission, if satisfied that said new means of ingress and egress conform to said plans and specifications shall issue their order permitting said underpass to be closed and said portions of said street vacated. Provided, further, that in order to effectuate the power herein granted, the right of eminent domain is hereby vested in the Mayor and General Council of the City of Atlanta whereby it may condemn private property or any interest therein for the purpose of providing means of ingress and egress to the railroad crossing and property underneath said bridge, as a substitute for the

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openings now existing in said bridge and which this amendment seeks to close. Said condemnation proceedings shall be had according to the general law governing such proceedings and may extend to right of way through buildings and real estate or underneath buildings and real estate or to the fee in real estate necessary to be deemed proper for the purposes hereinbefore set out which are hereby declared to be public. Provided, further, that the right of eminent domain or power of condemnation herein conferred shall never be used, held or construed to apply, relate to or affect in any manner, any property, right or interest of the State of Georgia, or the use or enjoyment thereof by the State or by any one holding under the State as tenant, lessee or otherwise. Act of 1912 amended. Sec. 11 as amended. Forsyth street under bridge; authority to close. Authority to condemn property. Sec. 10. To close the end of James street, between the intersection with West Cain street and the west line of Williams street, if this west line were extended so as to cross James street and to convey said portion of said street, closed as herein authorized, to the executors of the estate of D. Greenfield or what is known as the D. Greenfield Estate, and, in return and exchange therefor, to receive the conveyance of a strip of land extending from West Cain street to James street forty-five feet in width and being a sufficient strip to extend Williams street south of Cain street, forty-five feet in width to James street, and to take such other action as may be necessary to carry this power and authority into effect. Authority to close part of James street. Sec. 11. To close a portion of Biggers street as shown on the map of said city, extending east of Fort street for a distance of approximately two hundred and six feet as shown on plot prepared therefor now on file with the Clerk of Council of said city, to take such other action as may be necessary to carry this power and authority into effect. Authority to close part of Biggers street. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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BALL GROUND, TAX LEVY FOR TOWN OF. No. 107. An Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the town of Ball Ground in Cherokee County, approved August 21, 1911, to repeal Section 21 and Section 65 of said Act, and to provide for a school tax of fifty cents on the hundred dollars, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the passage of this Act Sections 21 and 65 of the Act approved August 21, 1911, be and the same are hereby repealed. Ga. L. 1911, pp. 687, 690. Secs. 21 and 65 repealed. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the following section be added in lieu of Section 21, that is, repealed by the former section of this Act, to-wit: Be it further enacted that for the purpose of raising revenue for the support and maintenance of the town of Ball Ground, the mayor and council of said town shall have full power and authority to assess, levy and collect an ad valorem tax on all the real estate and personal property, including money, notes, bonds and other evidences of debt, money used in banking and every other species of property in said town or held therein subject to taxation. Said tax not to exceed fifty cents on the hundred dollars for school purposes, and not to exceed fifty cents on the hundred dollars for all other purposes. The ad valorem tax above authorized for public schools, and for general purposes shall be levied under separate ordinances, each specifying the purpose for which it was levied, and all proceedings for collecting said taxes shall show the amount due on each of said tax levies. The said mayor and council shall have power and authority to provide by ordinances for the return and assessment of all taxable property in said town and to provide penalties for neglect or refusal to comply with same as otherwise provided in this Act. Substitute for Sec. 21. Ad valorem tax.

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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Section 53 of said Act be amended by inserting between the word plant and the words water works in line five of said section, the words school houses. Sec. 53 amended Bonds for school-houses. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. BAXLEY, INCREASE OF AD VALOREM TAX. No. 148. An Act to amend an Act as follows: An Act to create and establish a new charter for the City of Baxley; to declare the rights, powers, and privileges of said corporation; to provide for a mayor and council and for other officers for same, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that Section 29 of said Act be amended by striking out in the 13th line of said Section 29 the following words and figures: one and 25-100 dollars, and inserting in lieu thereof one and 75-100 dollars, so that said section of said Act when so amended will read as follows: Sec Ga. L. 1911, p. 700. Sec. 29. That the city council shall have the right and authority to levy and collect upon all property within said city, real or personal, and upon all moneys, notes, accounts, stocks, bonds and all other species of personal property owned by residents of said city, whether the moneys shall be deposited within or without said city, whether the notes and accounts shall be due by persons living within or without said city, and whether the stocks and bonds shall be in corporations located within or without the corporate limits of said city, and whether said corporations shall be required to be returned for the purposes

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of State taxation by the president thereof or not, an ad valorem tax for each year not exceeding one and 75-100 dollars on the one hundred dollars of property; provided, said tax rate may be increased for any one year by two-thirds of the residents votes of said city at an election to be held for that purpose, voting for said increase, said taxes to be levied and collected for such purposes as said city shall undertake to raise revenue. Sec. 29 as amended. Ad valorem tax. Future increase by vote. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. BEVERLY, REPEAL OF CHARTER OF TOWN OF. No. 91. An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Beverly, in the County of Elbert, State of Georgia, to define the limits thereof; to provide for a mayor and council and other officers; to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide a municipal government for said town; to provide for the enactment of all necessary ordinances; to provide for penalties for violation of the same; to provide a system of revenue by taxation or otherwise; to provide for streets and sidewalks and the working of the same; to declare and define the police powers of said town; to provide for the condemnation of property for the use of said town; to provide for the granting of licenses for all kinds of business and trades and for other purposes, approved August 22, 1907. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this Act that the Act approved August 22, 1907, incorporating the town of Beverly, in the County of Elbert, and State of Georgia, be and the same is hereby repealed. Repeal of charter: Act of 1907.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. BLAKELY; SALARIES OF MAYOR, ETC.; PERMANENT REGISTRATION OF VOTERS; SCHOOL TAX ELECTION. No. 17. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend and Act to create and incorporate the City of Blakely, approved August 16, 1915, so as to provide a system of permanent registration of voters, to fix the salary of mayor and council and supplement public school funds by taxation, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, that all of said Act amending the city charter of Blakely, approved August 16, 1915, following Section 4 of said Act, be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following section be substituted: Ga. L. 1915, p. 506; amendment. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the salary of each member of the council shall be $25.00 per annum and the salary of the mayor elected under the provisions of this Act shall be $100.00. Salaries. Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that from and after the passage of this Act, the Act entitled an Act to allow all persons who are now properly registered or who shall hereafter register, to vote in all elections to be held in and for the City of Blakely, to remain registered for all future elections to be held [Illegible Text] and for said city without again registering in said city; to fix the qualification of voters in City of Blakely and for other purposes, approved August 17, 1918, be and [Illegible Text] is hereby repealed. Act of 1918 repealed.

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Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of clerk of council to keep a book to be known as the permanent registration book of the electors of said city, and the electors of said city shall sign, said book upon taking an oath contained therein which shall be substantially as follows: I do solemnly swear that I am a legally registered voter of Early County upon the permanent qualification book of the county, and I do further swear that I have resided within the limits of the City of Blakely for the six months last past, and that I have paid all taxes legally imposed upon and required of me by the authorities of the City of Blakely, so help me God. Permanent registration of voters. Sec. 5. The city clerk shall keep said permanent registration book open daily during such reasonable hours as may be prescribed by the mayor and council, to enable the electors of said city to register therein, and no person registering therein shall be required to again register as a qualified voter of said city, so long as he remains a resident of said city and does not disqualify himself by non-payment of taxes or otherwise; it being the purpose of this Act to provide a permanent system of registration for said city provided that all qualified electors whose name now appears upon the voter's book of said city need not again register. Sec. 6. Whenever any general or special election is to be held in said city, it shall be the duty of the clerk to close said registration book ten days before said election and turn same over to the mayor, who shall with the advice and consent of the council appoint a board of three registrars whose duty it shall be to make from said book a list of voters for such election, and in making said list the registrars shall exclude the names of all persons on the registration list who registered less than ten days before said election, as well as those who have died, removed from the city limits or who have disqualified themselves in any way as legal voters. The list of voters so made up by the registrars shall be furnished to the managers of the election, and no person whose name does not appear on said

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list shall be allowed to vote in said election, unless he produces a certificate signed by the registrars that his name was omitted therefrom by accident or mistake. The council shall provide reasonable compensation for the work done by the registrars. Board of Registrars. Compensation. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted that the City of Blakely shall hereinafter have full authority to raise the ad valorem tax rate for the city public schools to five-tenths of one per cent on all taxable property in the City of Blakely. Ad valorem tax. Sec Sec. 9. Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the mayor and council to call an election upon the approval of this Act, submitting to the qualified voters of said city the question whether or not there shall be levied additional ad valorem taxes to supplement the State public school fund. Said election shall be advertised thirty days in the official gazette of Early County, Georgia, immediately prior to said election. Those voting for the additional levy of taxes shall have written or printed on their ballots For School Tax; these voting against such tax shall have written or printed on their ballots Against School Tax. Said election shall otherwise be conducted under the same regulations governing the election of the mayor of said city, except that two-thirds of those voting are necessary to carry said election in favor of said tax. Election as to school tax. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted that Section 7 above will not go into operation or repeal any law inconsistent therewith until said additional tax is voted by the requisite two-thirds majority, and thereupon it shall be illegal to charge any tuition in the said Blakely Public School to resident pupils. Sec. 7 not operative without vote. Free tuition. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved August 1, 1919.

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BOGART, TOWN OF; CORPORATE LIMITS EXTENDED. No. 248. An Act to amend An Act to amend `An Act to incorporate the town of Bogart, in Oconee County, approved August 24, 1905, in order to establish a system of public schools in and for said town; to provide for the maintenance and support of the same; to provide for the issuance of bonds for the said town of Bogart; for the purpose of building a school house and equipping the same; to authorize the mayor and council to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds by levying therefor a tax, and to provide an election to ratify the provisions of this Act, and to amend Section 2, by striking out the word `one-half' and substituting in lieu thereof, the words `three-fourths' so as to extend the limits of said town three-fourths of a mile, and also to amend said Act by striking out the words `one-half of' as contained in Section 19, line 3, so as to limit the tax rato of said town to eighty-five cents, and for other purposes, by amending Section 14 of said Act, so as to increase incorporate limits of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that Section 14 of the Acts of 1911, beginning page 788, the same being an Act entitled an Act to amend the charter of the town of Bogart, in the County of Oconeo, approved August 21, 1911, be amended by adding after the word point, in the eleventh line, the following: From and after the passage of this Act all of that territory lying and being east of the present corporate limits of the town of Bogart, within the following boundary lines, towit: Beginning at the point north of the public road leading from Bogart to Athens, where the present incorporate line now crosses said [Illegible Text], and running east along said

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road to a point opposite and parallel with the eastern boundary line of Sinai Church lot, thence to the corner of said church lot and along the said eastern boundary line of said church lot to a point within and parallel to the southern boundary line of the present corporate limits of the town of Bogart, thence to the corner of the present incorporation, thence along the line of the present incorporate limits to the beginning corner; also by striking from Section 14, after the word point, in line eleven, all of the remainder of said Section 14. Ga. L. 1911, p. 788; amendment. Boundaries. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. BOSTON SCHOOL TAX, AUTHORITY TO INCREASE. No. 89. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Boston, Thomas County, Georgia, and to provide for the maintenance and support of the same by local taxation and otherwise; to provide for the government of the same; to provide for a Board of Education for said public schools said town; to authorize and require the County School Commissioner of Thomas County to pay over to the treasurer of the Board of Education for the use of said public school such part of the State school funds as may be just pro rata share of the said town of Boston, and for other purposes, approved December 13, 1900, so as to authorize and give power to the mayor and council of the City of Boston annually to raise by taxation an amount sufficient to conduct the public schools of said city; provided, the same shall not exceed one-half () of one per cent on the taxable property of said city.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that the Act of the General Assembly approved December 13, 1900, creating a system of public schools for the town of Boston in the County of Thomas, and State of Georgia, be and the same is hereby amended by striking the words and figures one-fourth () in lines 17 and 18 of Section 11 of said Act and inserting in lieu of said words and figures, the words and figures one-half () so that the sentence of said Act containing said lines, as so amended shall read as follows: Then it shall be the duty of the mayor of the said town of Boston, annually, to raise by taxation a sufficient sum to carry out the purpose of this Act, provided, the same shall not exceed one-half () of one per cent on the taxable property of said town, and in the manner hereinafter provided. Act of 1900 amended. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. BOSTON TAX AD VALOREM. No. 71. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Boston, in the County of Thomas, in this State, approved October 24, 1870, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize and empower the mayor and aldermen of the City of Boston to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding one and one-half (1) per centum (fifteen (15) mills) on the taxable property of said city. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the Act of the General Assembly approved October 24, 1870, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

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For the purpose of raising money for the support and maintenance of the city government, the mayor and aldermen of the City of Boston shall have the power and authority to levy and collect an ad valorem tax on all property in said City of Boston subject to taxation under the laws of Georgia, not to exceed one and one half (1) per centum (fifteen (15) mills on the dollar) of the value of the same, provided, five (5) mills on the dollar of the tax so levied and collected to be paid over to the treasurer of the Board of Education of the City of Boston for the support and maintenance of the public schools of said city. Act of 1870 amended. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. BUFORD CHARTER AMENDMENT AS TO BONDS. No. 302. An Act to amend an Act approved August 15, 1910, amending an Act approved July 27, 1904, entitled An Act to amend the present charter amendment of the City of Buford, Gwinnett County, approved August 8, 1903; to provide for the reduction of the present city corporate limits; to change the time for holding the elections for mayor and council, and for other purposes; by authorizing the mayor and council of said City of Buford to issue bonds up to the constitutional limit provided by law for the purpose mentioned in Section 3 of the original Act approved August 8, 1903, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this Act, Section 4 of said amendment of August 15, 1910, be amended by striking the words not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of forty thousand dollars, in the fourth and fifth lines of said

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Section 4, and inserting in lieu thereof the words up to the constitutional limit provided by law, and by striking the word fifty in the sixth line of said Section 4 and inserting in lieu thereof the word thirty, and by striking the words a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters of said city, in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth lines of said Section 4, and inserting in lieu thereof the words two-thirds of the qualified voters thereof voting at an election for that purpose to be held as prescribed by law, provided said two-thirds so voting shall be a majority of the registered voters of said city, so that said Section 4, when so amended, shall read as follows: Act of 1910 amended. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that said mayor and council shall have power and authority to issue bonds for said city for any of the purposes mentioned in the preceding section up to the constitutional limit provided by law, of such denomination or denominations, payable at such time or such times not more than thirty years from the date of the issue thereof, as such mayor and council may determine, and with such rate of interest, not exceeding six per cent, and have such convenants and conditions as the mayor and council may deem best. Said bonds to be issued and sold for the purpose or purposes of establishing, maintaining and operating or contracting with any other person or corporation for the establishing, maintaining and operating a system of waterworks and electric light or other light plant, or gas plants, school houses, public buildings, sewers, paving, grading, laying out and improving streets in and for said city. Said bonds to be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk under the corporate seal of said city and shall be negotiated in such manner as said mayor and council shall determine, for the best interest of said city, provided, however, that said bonds for any purpose shall not be issued until the question of issuing same shall have been submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of said city, and approved by two-thirds of the qualified voters thereof voting at an election for that purpose to be held as prescribed by law, provided said two-thirds

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so voting shall be a majority of the registered voters of said city, as hereinbefore provided for. Sec. 4 as amended. Bond issue. Purposes of bonds. Election to authorize. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. BUTLER, CHARTER FOR CITY OF. No. 262. An Act to amend, revise and consolidate the Act granting corporate authority to the town of Butler, and all Acts amendatory thereof; to confer additional powers upon the mayor and city council of Butler; to have the same incorporated as a city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the City of Butler in the County of Taylor is hereby incorporated and the limits of the incorporation shall extend one mile in every direction from the court house in said city. New charter. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. That the municipal government of said city shall consist of a mayor and five aldermen who are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of the mayor and council of the city of Butler, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, be capable to sue and be sued in any court of law or equity in this State, plead and be impleaded, and to do all other acts relating to their corporate capacity, and shall have power to purchase, acquire, hold, receive, enjoy and possess, and to retain to them and their successors, for the use and benefit of said city in perpetuity or any term of years, any estate, real or personal, lands, tenements, hereditaments of what kind of nature soever, either by gift, grant, demise, purchase or otherwise, and may sell, alien, convey or exchange the same or any part thereof in any way whatsoever. Corporate name. General powers of mayor and council.

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Sec. 3. That the corporate powers of said city shall be vested in a mayor and five aldermen, who shall be elected on the second Saturday in January, every two years; that said mayor and five aldermen shall hold their office for two years, or until their successors are elected and qualified, and all citizens residing in the corporate limits of said city thirty days previous to said election who shall be entitled to vote for the members of the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote for said mayor and aldermen. Election and terms of mayor and aldermen. Sec. 4. The election for said mayor and aldermen shall be held at the court house in said city; said election shall be held by the clerk of the superior court of said county, and any two freeholders residing in said city, who shall take the same oath that managers of election for members of the General Assembly are required to take; and said election shall be conducted in the same manner that election for members of the General Assembly are provided for in the Code of Georgia. Conduct of election. Sec. 5. That the managers of said election shall seal up one list of voters, who voted for mayor and aldermen, and one tally sheet, which shall be delivered to the Ordinary of said county the day after said election, by any one of the said managers, and the Ordinary shall, within three days, open the same and declare the persons having the highest number of votes duly elected mayor of the city of Butler, and commission him accordingly, unless the election is contested, in which event the person desiring to contest said election shall give his opponent notice in writing of the same and the grounds of contest, within two days after said election, and also give the ordinary notice to withhold commission from the person who claims to be elected. Ordinary to declare result and issue commission. Contest of mayor's election. Sec. 6. That the managers of said election shall also seal up one list of voters who voted for aldermen, together with one tally sheet, which any one of said managers shall deliver to the Ordinary of said county the day after the election, and the Ordinary shall, within three days, open

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the same, and declare the five persons having the highest number of votes duly elected aldermen of the city of Butler, and commission them accordingly, unless said election is contested; in that event, the same proceedings shall be had as in case of contested election of mayor of the city of Butler. Contest of alderman's election. Sec. 7. That the Ordinary of Taylor County shall decide all contested elections for mayor or aldermen of the city of Butler; the same shall be heard and passed upon within twenty days after the election, under such rules as the Ordinary may prescribe for taking of evidence, etc.; both parties shall have five days notice of the time when said contested election shall be decided, and the decision of the Ordinary shall be final and the Ordinary, after deciding who was elected shall commission the person accordingly. Hearing of contest. Sec. 8. That illegal voting at any election held for mayor or aldermen of said city shall be punished in the same manner as illegal voting at an election held for members of the General Assembly. Illegal voting. Sec. 9. That no person shall be eligible to the office of mayor or aldermen of the city of Butler who does not reside within the corporate limits of said city, and who is not eligible to a seat in the Lower House of the General Assembly. Eligibility. Sec. 10. That at all meetings of mayor and aldermen, the mayor shall preside if present, if not, the mayor pro tem, and in his absence any one of said aldermen that may be selected for that purpose, and the mayor and three aldermen, or the mayor pro tem and three aldermen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, and the mayor or mayor pro tem, shall in no event vote unless there is a tie, then he shall have the casting vote; a majority of votes shall determine all questions at an election, and the mayor, and in his absence the mayor pro tem, shall be ex-officio justice of the peace, with criminal jurisdiction, for offenses committed within the corporate limits

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of said city, for purposes of commitment and lease, as justices of the peace now have under the laws of this State. Council meetings. Vote of mayor. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 11. That the mayor and aldermen of said city shall have full power and authority to enact and promulgate all laws and ordinances, as to them may seem proper, for the government of said city; to remove pests and nuisances; to condemn and remove all houses and structures that may be deemed injurious or dangerous to the public and to perform all other acts necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this Act, and all contracts in their corporate capacity, which they may deem necessary for the welfare of said city; provided, none of said laws or ordinances conflict with the Constitution of the State of Georgia or of the United States. Additional powers. Sec. 12. That the mayor, and in his absence the mayor pro tem, and in his absence any two aldermen of said city, shall have full power and authority to hold court for the trial of offenders against any or all of the laws or ordinances of said city, and to punish for each and every violation thereof within the corporate limits of said city by a fine, not to exceed $200.00, or by imprisonment in the jail of said county, if the city has no guard house or barracks, but if said city has a guard house or barracks imprisonment therein, not exceeding thirty days, or by working on the public streets of said city thirty days, and any one or more of the punishments may be ordered, in the discretion of the mayor or aldermen trying a case. Mayor's court. Penalties. Sec. 13. That said mayor and aldermen, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, shall go before the Ordinary of said county, or some other officer authorized to administer an oath, take and subscribe the following oath, I do solemnly swear that I will to the utmost of my ability, faithfully discharge the duties of mayor or alderman of the city of Butler, during my continuance in office, so help me God. Oath of mayor, etc. Sec. 14. That the mayor and aldermen shall, as soon as convenient after being qualified, proceed to elect by ballot

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a city marshal, and if deemed necessary, a deputy marshal, clerk of council and treasurer, and any other officer they may deem necessary for the government of said city, each of whom, unless removed, shall remain in office two years, or until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall take and subscribe before entering upon the duties of their respective offices such oath as the mayor and aldermen may prescribe; and execute such bond as the mayor and aldermen may require, payable to the mayor and aldermen of said city, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices. That said mayor and aldermen shall have full power over said officers to remove from office, or to punish by fine not exceeding $200.00 for any neglect, malpractice in or abuse of office. Marshal, clerk, and other officers. Term. Bond. Removal or fine. Sec. 15. That in case the mayor, or any alderman, while in office shall be guilty of any wilful neglect or abuse of said offices, he or they, shall be liable to indictment before the superior court of said county, and on conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not exceeding $500.00 for each and every offense, or imprisonment in the jail of said county not exceeding six months and shall be removed from office by the court at which he or they are tried and convicted, and all such fines shall be collected and paid over to the treasurer of said city. Indictment of mayor or alderman; punishment. Sec. 16. That if the office of mayor shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, the aldermen of said city shall fill such vacancy by election of one of said aldermen for mayor to fill the unexpired term, who shall, before entering upon the duties of said office, take and subscribe the oath herein above prescribed for mayor. Vacancies. Sec. 17. That if the office of any one of the aldermen of said city shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, the mayor shall appoint someone to fill the unexpired term, who, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed for aldermen in the preceding section of this Act. Sec. 18. That all elections for mayor and aldermen shall

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be held under the same rules and regulations that are prescribed in Sections three and four of this Act, and the next election thereunder shall be held on the second Saturday in January, 1921. Elections. Sec. 19. That in case there should be, at any time, a failure to elect a mayor and aldermen of said city, as provided in this Act, the Ordinary of said county shall order an election, giving ten days notice of the same, which election shall be held in the same manner and for the regular election of mayor and aldermen of said city as pointed out by this Act. Sec. 20. That all warrants issued by the mayor of said city against any person charged with a crime against the laws of this State, shall be directed to the marshal of said city, and to any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable of said State. Warrants. Sec. 21. That all fines imposed on any offenders against the laws and ordinances of said city shall be collected by imprisonment of the offender in the guard house or barracks of said city, and if such prisons are not established or in sanitary condition, then in the jail of said county, or by execution against said offender, which execution shall be issued by the clerk of the court trying the offender and in favor of the city of Butler and shall be attested in the name of the mayor and shall be directed to the marshal of said city and all and singular the sheriff of said State, and all executions issued under the provisions of this Act shall be of the same dignity and rank as executions from any of the courts of this State. The mayor shall have authority to amend any mere irregularity in the form of execution of any writ issued by him or by the clerk of said city. Enforcement of fines. Sec. 22. That the mayor and aldermen shall have power to fix and regulate the salaries of any officer they may elect, which salary shall not be increased or diminished during the term to which said officer may be elected. Salaries. Sec. 23. That the expenditures of the mayor and the

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aldermen and the compensation of the city officers shall be paid out of the city funds by an order drawn by clerk of council upon the treasurer and countersigned by the mayor or the mayor pro tem. Orders on [Illegible Text] Sec. 24. That said mayor and council of the city of Butler shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax upon all the taxable property, both real and personal, within the corporate limits of said city, annually as they shall deem necessary, for the support and maintenance of said city government, three-fourths of one per centum; for educational purposes and to maintain a system of public schools in said city, three-fourths of one per centum, which taxes shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner, but shall be applied pro rata, to the purposes for which the same were levied and collected. Said mayor and council shall have power and authority to levy and collect an additional tax for extraordinary purposes, but if such additional tax is required the question of additional tax shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of said city as provided by the general law of force at the time governing such matters. Taxes. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of all taxpayers and owners of taxable property within said city, and they and each of them, either by themselves, or by an agent, are hereby required to make annual returns under oath to the clerk of said mayor and council, or to such other officers as said authorities may appoint for such purpose. And in case any person, firm, or corporation shall refuse or fail to make such returns or shall make any return deemed incorrect, said mayor and aldermen may assess the property of such person or persons and fix such value as they may deem correct and just, and all taxes and fines imposed and levied by said authorities shall be collected in the following manner: An execution for the sum due and all cost shall be issued by the clerk of council, bearing test in the name of the mayor, against the estate, both real and personal, of such defaulter and

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directed to the marshal and shall be levied by the marshal or deputy marshal, in the manner hereinafter directed. Tax returns. Defaulters. Sec. 26. That all sales made by said marshal or deputy, of any real or personal property under any execution issued by said clerk of council for any taxes or by the clerk of the mayor's or aldermen's court for any fines or forfeitures of bonds shall be made in the same manner in said city that sheriff's sales are made, and the deed of the marshal, a deputy, or their successors in office, made in accordance with such sales shall be as effectual to pass title to any property sold under such process as the deed of the defendant in execution. Sales for taxes, etc. Sec. 27. That upon failure to appear of any principal in any bond given by a person charged with any offense against the laws and ordinances of said city, or by any prosecutor to prosecute, or by witness to appear and testify at any court held by the mayor or aldermen of said city, such bond shall be forfeited before said mayor or aldermen at any term of court in the same manner as provided for in like cases in the Code of Georgia, and the clerk of said mayor's court shall issue executions in accordance with the judgment of said court, which executions shall bear test in the name of the mayor of said city and in favor of the city of Butler; such executions shall be of the same dignity as executions from any court of this State. Bond forfeiture. Sec. 28. That the mayor or aldermen, upon the trial or examination of any offender against the laws or ordinances of said city, shall have power to issue all processes, writs and subpoenas to carry out any of the provisions of this Act or to execute any of the powers therein granted, and which processes, writs and subpoenas shall be signed by the clerk and bear test in the name of the mayor, or other officers acting pro tem, and be served by the marshal or deputy marshal. Writs, subp[oelig]nas, etc. Sec. 29. That the costs for issuing, serving and executing all warrants, processes, writs and subpoenas authorized by this Act, for violation of any of the laws of this

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State, and laws or ordinances of said city, shall be the same as upon similar warrants, processes, writs and subpoenas by the laws of this State, and shall be paid by the offender or offenders, in case he or they be found guilty of the alleged viclation. Costs of warrants, etc. Sec. 30. That the marshal or deputy marshal shall have full power and authority to call to his aid any and all of the male citizens of said city capable of bearing arms for the arrest or apprehension of any offender against the laws of this State or the laws or ordinances of said city; and in case any citizen shall refuse to render such aid, he shall be liable to such fine as the mayor and aldermen may impose not exceeding $25.00 or imprisonment for ten days, either or both. Arrests; citizen's duty to aid. Penalty for refusal. Sec. 31. That it shall be the duty of the jailer of said County of Taylor to receive, confine and safely keep, within the jail of said county, all prisoners committed under the authority of this Act, under like penalties and subject to the same action as in case of prisoners committed under authority of this State. That the City of Butler shall be liable for jail fees committed by the mayor and aldermen of said city except the jail fees of such prisoners as are permitted to await trials at the Superior Court of said county. Jailer's duties. Jail fees. Sec. 32. That the mayor of said city shall receive for his services such sum, per annum, as may be fixed by the aldermen of said city, not exceeding the sum of $300, which shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office. Said aldermen shall receive not exceeding one dollar for each attendance upon the meetings of mayor and council; provided, such amounts shall be paid only for attendance upon monthly meetings. Pay of mayor and aldermen. Sec. 33. That hereafter when any fi. fa. issued by the corporate authority of said city for fines, forfeitures, taxes or any other debt or demand due said corporation, shall be levied on any property, and claimed by any other person not a party to said fi. fa., that said claim shall be

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interposed under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed for claim cases in the State courts, and said claim shall be returned and tried in the first court having jurisdiction thereof. Levy and claim. Sec. 34. That all laws and ordinances now of force within the corporate territory known as the town of Butler, not in conflict with this Act shall hereinto, continue and remain of force in the corporate territory included by this Act in the City of Butler. Ordinances continued in force. Sec. 35. That said mayor and aldermen shall have power and authority to have built and constructed a suitable guard house or barracks, on some convenient lot in said city, according to such plans as said authorities may prescribe, the contract of which shall be let to the lowest bidder, the expense of which shall be paid out of funds of said city not otherwise appropriated. The title to which prison house shall vest in the mayor and council of the City of Butler, and it shall be the duty of the authorities of said corporation to keep and maintain the same for the purposes hereinafter enumerated. Prison. Sec. 36. Every offender against the laws and ordinances of said city, immediately after arrest, unless good and sufficient bond be executed by the offender, conditioned for his appearance for trial, shall be placed in said guard house or barracks until the date of trial of said offender, all fines and sentences imposed on any offender against the laws and ordinances of said city may be collected by imprisonment of the offender in said guard house, barracks, or jail if available and practicable, if otherwise then in the jail of said county as hereinbefore set out, or by execution against said offender or by working said offender on the streets of said city as set forth in this Act. Imprisonment. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted that said mayor and council shall have power to license, regulate and control all taverns, hotels, cafes, restaurants, boarding houses, livery stables, drays, automobiles, and other vehicles, auctioneers, itinerant traders, theatrical performances, shows, circuses

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and exhibitions of all kinds, lightning rod dealers, immigrant agents, clock and stove peddlers, peddlers of all kinds, itinerant dealers in jewelry and all other venders of articles, goods, wares and merchandise of all kinds whatsoever, every keeper of a billiard table, pool or other tables kept for public use, every keeper of a shooting gallery, ten pin alley, upon the keeper of any other stand or place for any game or play where charges are made, upon the keeper of flying horses, skating rinks, insurance agents, life or fire insurance companies, brokers and dealers in futures, agents for any other business or calling whatever, keeper of slaughter houses, beef markets, green groceries, dealers in fish, oysters, vegetables, fruits and other articles of food, upon every junk shop, pawn broker, and upon all other establishments, businesses, callings or avocations not heretofore mentioned, and which under the laws of the State of Georgia, are subject to license and corporate tax. Licenses. Sec. 38. That said authorities shall have power to levy and collect as a street tax, in addition to other taxes, a tax not exceeding five dollars upon each and every male person between the ages of twenty-one and fitfy years, residing within said corporate limits, except licensed ministers of the gospel in the regular discharge of ministerial duty and in active charge of one or more churches, and all persons who have lost a leg or an arm or who have by reason of deformity or affliction lost the use of their arms or legs; provided that any person so taxed shall have the opportunity to work streets of said city, and may relieve themselves of said tax by working on the streets not exceeding 15 days of each year, and if any person fails or refuses to pay said tax or do work on said streets as required in lieu thereof said persons shall be punished by the mayor or for other contempts for failure to comply with the order of the mayor in such matters. Street tax. Work in lieu of tax. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted that said mayor and city council of Butler shall have full and complete control of the streets, alleys, sidewalks and squares in said city, and to regulate the grading and draining of said city. Whenever

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said mayor and city council of Butler shall exercise the power herein delegated and shall fail to agree with the owner or owners of the property used or damaged as to the amount of damages said mayor and city council of Butler shall choose one appraiser and the owner of the land to be used or damaged shall choose another appraiser and the two thus chosen, if they fail to agree shall select a third appraiser, and these three appraisers, after being sworn to do justice to the parties shall assess the damages to the owner of the property caused by the opening or changing of such street, alley or square, and if the property owner after five days notice shall fail to name an appraiser the clerk and treasurer shall appoint one for him, and in every case where the two appraisers chosen shall for the period of five days fail to agree upon the third appraiser, the said clerk and treasurer shall appoint such appraisers, said appraisers shall reside in said city. The award of the appraisers shall be in writing and filed within five days in the office of clerk of the Superior Court of said county and shall thereupon operate as a judgment and execution any issue thereon by the clerk of said court. Either party within ten days from the filing of the award can enter an appeal to the Superior Court of said county. All costs including the fees of the appraisers, shall be paid by the city, and at any stage of the proceedings before or after the final award said mayor and council may by paying to the property owner all expenses incurred by him, withdraw the proceedings and decline to take the property or to make the change in such street, sidewalk, alley or square. Streets; grading, craining, etc. Damage to property; assessment of. Sec. 40. That said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to call an election, as now provided by law, to determine the question of whether or not the requisite number of qualified voters in said city favor the issuance of bonds for the maintenance of a system of waterworks, sanitary sewerage, electric lighting system or bonds for public schools for said city. That said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to maintain a system of waterworks, sanitary sewerage, electric lights or any other public utilities for said city. Said mayor

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and council shall have power to pass such ordinances and enforce compliance therewith by suitable penalties, that may be necessary for the protection of the city waterworks, sewerage system, and electric light plant and to make rules and regulations, respecting the introduction of water, lights, sewerage or telephone connection anywhere within said corporate limits. Said council shall have the power and authority to assess the real and personal property of the owners of said public utilities and all franchises used by the same when in the hands of owners other than the city, and shall have authority to pass such ordinances as are necessary to regulate and control said public utilities. Bond election. Water, sewers, lights, etc. Control of public utilities; assessment of owners. Sec. 41. That said mayor and city council shall have power to fix and establish fire limits and from time to time to enlarge, restrict or change the same; to provide a fire department and system of fire alarms. It shall be unlawful for any one to build or cause to be built houses or structures of any kind other than fireproof buildings, except by special permission of said mayor and city council, and in case of any offense against ordinances passed on this subject said mayor and council, after five days' notice given, shall cause said non-fireproof building to be removed at the expense of the owners or builders thereof, to be collected by execution as by other executions issued by the city, and the said mayor and city council shall have the right to determine what are and what are not fireproof buildings. Fire protection. Removal of buildings. Sec. 42. That said mayor and city council shall have power and authority to enforce by execution the collection of any amount due or to become due it for taxes, water, rent, telephone dues, electric light dues, license fees and assessments of any kind for fines or forfeitures and for any other debt due the city, such execution to be issued by the clerk and treasurer against the person, corporation or firm by whom any such debt may be due, which execution may be levied by the marshal against any property of the owner against whom said execution shall issue and the same

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shall be sold as provided for marshal sales as provided for in this Act. Execution for taxes, water, rent, etc. Sec. 43. That said mayor and city council shall have power to establish such quarantine regulations against persons who have been exposed to contagious or infectious diseases as it may deem proper, and establish a pest house within said city and to cause to be removed to said pest house all persons afflicted with contagious or infectious diseases, except such persons as shall at their own expense provide suitable and sufficient guards to successfully quarantine the premises where said case of contagious or infectious disease may be located. To have control over all cemeteries or burial grounds within said corporate limits and to regulate the burial of the dead in such cemeteries or burial grounds within said corporate limits. Said mayor and council of said city shall have power and authority to pass such ordinances with suitable penalties for violation of same and to fully enforce same. Health regulations. Burials. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted that said mayor and council of the City of Butler shall have power and authority to establish and regulate markets; to prescribe the time of holding same open; to prevent injury or annoyances to the public or individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome; to prevent hogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, dogs and other animals from going at large in said city; to regulate the keeping of gunpowder, dynamite and other combustibles, or inflammable material; to enforce law, peace and order in said city, and for this purpose to appoint, when necessary, a police force sufficient to assist the city marshal; to fix their terms of service and compensation, to require bonds from them when deemed necessary conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, to establish and maintain pounds for the purpose of impounding any animal taken up when running at large on the streets of said city and to charge the owner whatever cost or expense there may be for taking up and impounding such animals, to impose such penalties as may be prescribed against any person for breaking said pound,

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or for taking away any animal taken up and placed anywhere by the marshal or his deputies, or from the possession of said marshal, or other police officer, after such animal has been taken up for running at large, to pass suitable ordinances for the enforcement of this section. Markets. Animals. Explosives. Police. Pound. Sec. 45. Be it further enacted, that the present mayor and aldermen, marshal and clerk, and treasurer of the town of Butler shall become automatically the mayor and aldermen, marshal and clerk and treasurer of the City of Butler, with the passage of this Act, and shall hold and exercise the duties of their respective offices for the terms for which they were elected and the first election for mayor and aldermen of the City of Butler shall be held on the second Saturday in January, 1921. Officers continued in office until 1921 election. Sec. 46. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. CALHOUN; CORPORATE LIMITS; STREET IMPROVEMENTS; ASSESSMENTS. No. 293. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Calhoun, in the County of Gordon, State of Georgia, approved August 20, 1918, to define and establish the territorial limits of said City of Calhoun, and to authorize the mayor and aldermen of said city in their discretion to establish, to lay out, widen, narrow, raise, lower or otherwise alter the streets, lanes and alleys in said city, to improve, macadamize or pave the streets thereof with any material they may select and to construct all necessary drains and sewers in connection therewith and to provide for payment therefor, and to further provide for the assessment of one-third of the cost thereof against abutting property owners, and to provide for the collection of such assessment and to establish the lieu therefor and

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to provide a manner of contesting the amount of validity of any assessment so made, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act, entitled an Act to create a new charter for the City of Calhoun, in Gordon County and State of Georgia, approved August 20, 1918, be and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom all of Section 2 thereof and inserting in lieu thereof, the following, to-wit: Corporate limits defined. Be it further enacted: The corporate limits of said City of Calhoun shall extend as follows: beginning at the west side of Wall street, one mile south of the Gordon County court house at a point near Peters Woods on the line between the Campbell estate and the Peters property, thence running south 89 degrees 30 minutes west a distance of 1344.25 feet, to a point marked by iron bolt, driven in the center of the W. and A. Railroad, thence north 4 degrees.26 minutes west along center line of said railroad 1201.15 feet, thence north 62 degrees 19 minutes west 3109.1 feet, thence north 59 minutes west along center line of McConnell street a distance of 2618.4 to a point, thence north 87 degrees 42 minutes east a distance of 683.1 feet to a point, thence north 48 degrees 22 minutes east a distance of 3868.3 feet, thence south 85 degrees 58 minutes east a distance of 443.3 feet, thence north 17 degrees 39 minutes east a distance of 294.4 feet, thence south 75 degrees 41 minutes east a distance of 1260.2 feet, thence south 1 degree 14 minutes east a distance of 1777.8 feet, thence south 31 degrees 5 minutes east a distance of 1017.2 feet, thence south 4 degrees 54 minutes east a distance of 582.8 feet, thence south 20 degrees 6 minutes west a distance of 852.5 feet, thence south 55 degrees 31 minutes west 1047.5 feet, thence south 55 degrees 31 minutes west 1047.5 feet, thence south 34 degrees 2 minutes west 452.7 feet, thence south 2 degrees 24 minutes east 2792 feet, thence south 89 degrees 30 minutes west 354 feet to the beginning point. Act of 1918 amended. Substitute for Sec. 2. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That section eighty (80)

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of said Act be and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom all of said section after the word thereon in the twenty-eighth line of the Act as published and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 80 amended. (a) Whenever the mayor and aldermen shall deem it proper to pave or otherwise improve any of the streets, lanes or alleys of said city, they shall have a survey made and plans and specifications and estimates of the cost of the improvements contemplated and shall establish the grades of the streets to be improved and locate the sewers and water mains therein. Street Improvements. Plans, estimates, grades, etc. (b) That upon the completion of the paving of one or more streets, or upon the completion of one or more section of pavement between streets, the mayor and aldermen shall ascertain the proportionate cost of such pavement including street intersections, headers, curbing and intakes, with or without including sidewalks, and with or without including such sewers as they may construct in connection with said paving, chargeable to abutting property owners, public service corporations or other persons using or occupying said streets, and shall cause its clerk to give written notice of the result thereof to such abutting owners or public service immediately due and payable, a copy of said notice shall be served on the owner or occupant thereof by any officer of the city and return thereof made upon the original, which original shall be kept in the clerk's office and recorded upon the minutes together with the entry of service thereon, and the city shall proceed immediately to collect the amount and pay the money over to the city treasurer to be paid out to contractors or transferees for material or work on pavement account. Collection of cost of improvement. Notice to property owners, etc. (c) A special lien is hereby created on and against the land of abutting owners, and on and against the land of public service corporations and other persons for assessments so made against them and on failure to pay the full amount of such assessment in cash within thirty days after the service of such notice, the mayor and aldermen shall by the clerk cause execution to be issued against such

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abutting owners, public service corporations or others for the amount of such assessment or assessments, bearing seven per cent interest from the date of such notice. Lien of assessment. (d) All executions to be issued under this Act shall be levied and collected as other tax executions in favor of said city are now levied and collected. Execution. (e) Should any abutting property owner, public service corporation or other person desire to contest the amount of their assessment or the legality of any proceeding growing out of or connected with the pavement of the street of the city, they may do so by filing with the levying officer an affidavit of illegality, and stating therein the cause of such illegality and the amount which admits to be due, which amount shall be paid to the levying officer before the affidavit shall be received and the affidavit shall be returned to the Superior Court of Gordon County and there tried and the issues determined as in cases of illegality subject to the penalties provided as in cases of illegality filed for delay, and it shall be the duty of the judge of the Superior Court to give preference to these cases over all other cases pending in said court. Affidavit of illegality. (f) The clerk of the City of Calhoun may transfer and assign, without recourse on the city any execution or executions issued under this Act and in that event the owners of such execution shall be entitled to any and all of the remedies herein provided for the levy and collection of such execution by and through the officers of the city as if no transfer has been made. Transfer of execution. (g) Nothing in this Act shall be held to invalidate any ordinance or ordinances heretofore passed by the mayor and aldermen for the paving of any street in said city. But all ordinances, resolutions, agreements and contracts hereto passed, agreed to or executed by said city for pavement of Railroad, Court and Wall streets are hereby ratified and declared to be valid, binding and of full force and effect, and especially the contract made and entered into between said city and Smith Construction Company,

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executed on the 24th day of June, 1919, is ratified and declared of full force and effect. Former ordinances and contracts ratified. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. CAMILLA; STREET IMPROVEMENTS; ASSESSMENTS; TERMS OF ALDERMEN; WARDS. No. 375. An Act to amend an Act to create a new charter for the City of Camilla and for other purposes, approved August 19, 1907, so as to amend said charter of the City of Camilla, so as to [Illegible Text] power and authority on the City of Camilla to grade, macadamize, pave or otherwise improve, for travel or drainage the streets, alleys or ways of the City of Camilla and to assess two-thirds of the cost of such grading, macadamizing or paving against the owners of abutting property, according to frontage; to grade, pave, macadamize or otherwise improve the width of the tracks and two feet on each side of the track or street railway companies and steam railway companies, running there or across the streets, alleys or ways of said city, and to assess the entire cost of such improvements against such street railway companies or steam railway companies, and to provide for the collection of such assessments; and to provide that at the next ensuing election of mayor and aldermen that the three of those running for aldermen who receive the highest number of votes shall hold office for the term of two (2) years, and the other three that receive the next highest number of votes shall hold office for one (1) year, and in the event of a tie lots may be cast for the long and short term, so that three of the aldermen of the City of Camilla shall be elected every year instead of the whole board

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and to provide a system of registration of the qualified voters within the limits of the City of Camilla, and to provide all necessary means for putting said system into effect, and to provide for holding of elections in the City of Camilla, and a division of the city into wards, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the above referred to Act be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections and conferring upon the mayor and aldermen of said City of Camilla the following additional powers, as hereinafter more fully set out. Act of 1907 amended. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Camilla shall have full power, in their discretion to grade, pave, macadamize and otherwise improve for travel or drainage the streets, alleys and public parks of said city and to carry into effect the authority herein granted; the mayor and aldermen shall have full power and authority to assess the cost of paving and otherwise improving the streets against the owners of the real estates abutting on said streets as well as against the real estate abutting on such streets, provided, that the amount so assessed against abutting property owners for paving or otherwise improving the streets shall in no instance be more than two-thirds of such cost; and said city shall have power and authority to grade, pave, macadamize and otherwise improve as they shall deem proper the width and two feet on each side of any street railway company or steam railway company that may run, now or hereafter, through or across the streets, alleys or ways of said city, and to assess the entire cost of such improvements against such street railway companies or steam railway companies and the same shall be enforced and collected by execution as is provided hereinafter in this Act. Said mayor and aldermen shall have full power and authority to adopt by ordinance such a system of equalizing assessments or real estate for the purposes

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above stated as may be just and proper, assessing the total cost of each improvement made, and pro-rating the cost thereof on real estate according to its frontage on the street or portion of streets so improved, or according to the area or value of said real estate, either or all, as may be determined by ordinance. The amount of the assessment on each piece of real estate shall become due and payable at such time as may be by the mayor and aldermen of said city by ordinance provided, and shall be a lien on such real estate from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the work and making of the assessment. The lien for assessment on abutting property and street railway companies and steam railway companies for paving, curbing, grading and macadamizing for travel or drainage shall have rank and priority in payment next in point of dignity to taxes, such liens to date from passage of ordinance authorizing the execution of the work in each case. Said mayor and aldermen shall have the power and authority to prescribe by ordinance such rules as they may, in their discretion, think necessary to pave, grade, macadamize or curb said streets, sidewalks and alleys of said city; to enforce by execution the cost thereof against the adjacent property owners. Street improvements, etc. Assessment of property owners. Railway companies. Lien of assessment. Sec. 3. Said City of Camilla is hereby empowered to enforce the payment of the assessments provided for in this Act by execution against the abutting property owners and the abutting property, which said execution shall be issued and levied like the execution for taxes under the existing powers of the City of Camilla, or such as may be hereafter made applicable to the subject and said property shall be sold in the same manner and shall be subject to all the incidents of purchase by the city and redemption by the owner as is provided by Section 879 et seq. of the Code of Georgia of 1910 and the amendments thereto; provided, however, that the owner of said real estate shall have the right to file his affidavit denying the whole or any part of the amount for which the execution was issued, and stating the amount he admits due, which amount admitted to be due, with all costs, shall be paid before the

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affidavit is received and the affidavit shall be returned to the Superior Court of Mitchell County, Georgia, and there tried and the issue determined as in the case of illegality subject to the payment of damages if the illegality was interposed merely for the purpose of delay. Execution. Levy and sale. Affidavit of illegality. Sec. 4. The mayor and aldermen of the City of Camilla shall have the power and authority, within their discretion, by proper ordinance, when the cost of said paving is so determined, as above specified, to issue executions for the same against the owner as well as the abutting property for the amount of the costs of said improvements as above determined and to divide the amount thereof into equal payments not exceeding a period of five (5) years, which execution shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum. The authority to divide the cost of such improvements into installments for a period of years is not mandatory but is discretionary with the mayor and aldermen of the City of Camilla and in the event such privilege is extended, and default in the prompt payment of any installment or any portion thereof by the payee thereof, shall make the full amount of the cost of such improvement become due and payable and it shall then and in that event be mandatory upon the mayor and aldermen to proceed to collect the whole amount thereof and the whole amount thereof shall be in that event due and payable; and in the event the provisions of this section are, or should be, held to be invalid for any reason, it shall not effect the remainder of this Act. Payment in installments. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, When any property of Mitchell County abuts upon any sidewalk of the City of Camilla, the City of Camilla shall have power and authority to pave, curb, remove or repair the same and assess the whole cost of the same against the county in the same manner and form as specified in this Act for other adjacent property owners, and when such property abuts upon any street, alley or way that is, or is to be, graded, paved or otherwise improved by the City of Camilla, said city shall have power and authority to assess

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against said Mitchell County its proportionate part of two-thirds of the cost of such granding, paving or other improvements, according to frontage and the other methods hereinabove in Section 2 of this Act specified for other property holders, and the means of collection, in case of refusal, shall be by suit against the County of Mitchell in any court of competent jurisdiction. Assessment of county property in city. Suit against county. Sec. 6. Whenever any execution for any of the paving or other improvements shall have been issued as executions for city taxes are issued in the City of Camilla, shall have been levied by the chief of police of the City of Camilla, or other police officer of said city authorized to enforce tax executions of said city, on the real estate, and after advertising and other proceedings as in the case of tax sale, the same shall be sold at public outery to the highest bidder, said sale shall vest title in the purchaser, as in the sale of property for taxes, and the chief of police, or other police officer of said city authorized to enforce tax executions of said city, shall execute a deed to the purchaser, and after the expiration of right of redemption the chief of police or other police officer of said city authorized to enforce tax executions of said city, shall have authority to eject the occupants and put the purchaser in possession. Sale to pay assessment. Deed. Sec. 7. One publication of the ordinance or ordinances providing for the improvements mentioned in this Act, in the newspaper in Camilla in which the sheriff's advertisements are published, shall be sufficient notice and service to abutting property owners or street railway companies or steam railway companies having tracks on the streets, alleys or ways to be improved, of the contents and provisions of such ordinances and of the fact that such improvements are to be made and no other or further notice shall be required whatsoever before said improvements are made or before said execution for the cost thereof as hereinbefore provided are issuable or enforceable. In the event that there is no paper published within the City of Camilla in which the advertisements of the sheriff of Mitchell County are published, then and in that event a

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written or printed notice of said ordinance in [Illegible Text] before the city hall of the City of Camilla for at least one week shall be sufficient notice and all the notice thereof required. Notice of ordinance. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the next ensuing election for mayor and aldermen that the six candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast in said election shall be declared duly elected and that the three of those so declared having received the highest number of votes shall hold office for the term of two (2) years, and those three receiving the next highest vote shall hold office for one (1) year, so that three (3) of the aldermen of the City of Camilla shall be elected every year. Election and terms of aldermen. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the City of Camilla to keep open at his office a book for the registration of voters, alphabetically arranged, in which book all qualified voters of said city may register at any time up to the closing of said book ten (10) days prior to each election, whether the same be a primary election or special or general election. Said book shall be closed ten (10) days immediately proceding each such election after which time no one shall be allowed to register for such election and not until after said election, when said book shall be reopened. At all other times said book shall be open for registration of voters. Any one shall be entitled to register who is qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State and who has paid all taxes required by the laws of said State, both State and county taxes, and the ordinances of said city. No one shall vote in any election unless he has registered in said registration book, and when once registered and is otherwise qualified, said voter shall be entitled to vote in any city election without re-registration. Registration of voters. Before registering his name as aforesaid, he must take the following oath, which may be written or printed at the beginning of said registration book or at the top of the

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page on which said registration is made: I.....do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am twenty-one (21) years of age (or will be on the.....day of.....next), have resided within this State one (1) year (or will have resided within this State one (1) year on the.....day of.....next) and in this county six (6) months (or will have resided within this county six (6) months on the.....day of.....next) and am a citizen of the City of Camilla and intend to make said city my residence. I have paid all taxes due the State of Georgia, Mitchell County and the City of Camilla, which have been required of me, and which I have had an opportunity to pay, so help me God. The registrar shall date the time of each name so registered. The clerk of said city shall make or cause to be made and delivered to the managers of each election, an accurate alphabetical list of all the registered qualified voters for that election. The managers shall have the right to require a voter to take the above oath before allowing him to vote, even though his name appears on the list of registered voters furnished them by the clerk as above set forth. Oath of voter. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all elections held within and for the City of Camilla in which any subject or question is submitted to the qualified voters of said City of Camilla, the said election shall be superintended and managed by a justice of the peace and two freeholders who are citizens of said city and own real estate therein, or by three freeholders, all of whom shall be citizens of said city and own real estate therein, and each of said managers, before entering on his duty, shall take and subscribe before some qualified officer to administer oaths, or before each other, the following oath: We, and each of us, do solemnly swear that we will faithfully and impartially conduct this election and prevent all illegal voting to the best of our skill and power and to make true and correct returns of the result thereof, so help us God. Said managers shall keep or cause to be kept two (2) lists of voters and two (2) tally sheets.

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All elections shall be held at the council chamber or some other place previously provided by the mayor and aldermen, and the voting shall be by ballot. The polls shall open at half-past seven A. M. and close at five P. M.. standard time. Managers of election. Place and hours of election. The persons receiving the highest number of votes for the respective offices shall be declared elected. The managers of all elections held under the provisions shall be appointed by the mayor and aldermen. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said managers shall certify two (2) lists of the qualified voters and two (2) tally sheets and shall place one (1) list of said voters and one (1) of said tally sheets in the ballot box together with the ballots cast at said elections, seal the same, and shall forthwith deliver the same to the Ordinary of Mitchell County. The other list of voters and tally sheet, together with certificates showing results of said election signed by said managers shall be placed in a package and sealed and forthwith delivered to the clerk of said City of Camilla, who shall safely keep the same and at the first regular meeting of the mayor and aldermen occurring three (3) days after said election deliver said package to said mayor and aldermen, who shall open the same and declare the result, if no notice of contest has been given. If notice of contest has been given then all other proceedings shall be postponed until the contest has been decided. If the result of any election held in said city is contested, notice of such contest shall be filed with the Ordinary of Mitchell County within three (3) days after said election, setting forth all the grounds of contest, and upon the payment of a fee of twenty ($20.00) dollars, in advance, to said Ordinary, and the Ordinary shall, within two (2) days after he receives the same, [Illegible Text] a copy of said notice to be served by the sheriff of said county, or his deputies, on the contestee, if said contest is for an office, and if the result of any election in which any question is submitted is contested, then said Ordinary shall cause notice to be served on the mayor of the city

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and published one time in the official organ of said city, or if there be no official organ, then the notice to be published one time in a newspaper published in said city, and if no newspaper then by written or printed notice before the court house door in Camilla, Georgia, for a period of seven (7) days, including Sundays. Said Ordinary shall fix the time of hearing the contest, which shall be not later than ten (10) days after service has been perfected, after which time both parties shall have five (5) days' notice before the hearing. The contestor shall pay the sheriff or his deputies three ($3.00) dollars in advance for serving each notice to each person of the contest. All contests shall be heard at the court house in Mitchell County, Georgia, and the Ordinary of Mitchell County is authorized to hear and determine the contest and the losing party shall pay all costs, for which said Ordinary is authorized to give judgment and issue execution. Election returns. Declaration of result. Contest. Hearing of contest. Sec. 12. That said City of Camilla be and the same is hereby divided into wards to be known as Wards Nos. One (1), Two (2), Three (3) and Four (4), and to correspond to and be the same as the five wards of said City of Camilla as now provided by existing ordinances and rules in the City of Camilla. Four wards. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the next ensuing election for aldermen of the City of Camilla there shall be elected from each of said wards one (1) councilman, so that the board of aldermen of the City of Camilla shall be composed of one (1) alderman from Ward No. One (1), one alderman from Ward No. Two (2), one alderman from Ward No. Three (3) and one alderman from Ward No. Four (4), and two aldermen from the City of Camilla at large. The ballots used in the election for aldermen shall have written or printed on them the names of the candidates running from the several wards as well as the names of the candidates who seek the office at large and no candidate shall be elected to office to represent a certain ward or either one of said wards unless he be a resident of the ward which he seeks to be

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elected to represent as alderman, and it is further provided that no two (2) aldermen shall be elected as aldermen at large from one and the same ward, but in the event two (2) candidates from the same ward offer for alderman from the city at large the one receiving a majority of the votes cast in the election shall be declared elected and the candidate in some other ward receiving the next highest number of votes cast shall be declared elected as the other alderman from the city at large. Alderman for each ward; two at large. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. CANTON; INCREASE OF TAXES, TERMS OF COUNCILMEN, AND SALARIES. No. 13. An Act to amend an Act amending the Act authorizing the establishment of a system of public schools in the town of Canton in Cherokee County, approved August 11, 1913, to provide for an increase in the school tax from four-tenths of one per cent to five-tenths of one per cent, also to amend an Act amending an Act incorporating the town of Canton, approved August 24, 1905, to provide an increase in tax rates for the town of Canton from fifty cents per one hundred dollars to sixty-five cents per one hundred dollars, to increase the salaries of the mayor and councilmen and the term of office of councilmen, to increase the rates of business tax. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act by the General Assembly, that an Act approved August 11, 1913, the same being an Act amending an Act, approved August 13, 1904, the same being an Act amending an Act approved December

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18, 1893, authorizing the establishment of public schools in the town of Canton, etc., be and the same is, hereby amended as follows: By striking from the eighth section and sixth line of said Act the words four-tenths and inserting in lieu thereof five-tenths so that the clause in which said words appear will read when amended, as follows: An amount not to exceed five-tenths of one per cent. Act of 1918 [Illegible Text] School-tax limit [Illegible Text] Be it further enacted, That the act approved August the 24th, 1905, amending an Act incorporating the town of Canton, approved December the 12th, 1882, be, and the same is, hereby amended as follows: Act of 1905 amended. Sec. 2. That section one of said Act be amended by striking from the eleventh line the words `three-tenths' and inserting in lieu thereof the words `five-tenths' and from the twelfth line the words `one-half of one per cent' and inserting in lieu thereof the words `sixty-five cents on the hundred dollars.' Sec. 1 amended. Increase of tax rates. Sec. 3. That section two of said Act be amended by striking the word ten in the second line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words twenty-five, and by striking the words itinerant trader and peddler in line four of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words renting automobiles, by striking the words less than two dollars in lines five and six of said section, and by adding at the end of said section after the words merry-go-round the words itinerant trader and peddler, so that said section when amended will read as follows: Be it further enacted that said corporation shall have authority to license, regulate and tax, not exceeding twenty-five dollars annually, any hotel, restaurant, boarding-house, livery stable, public hack or dray, auctioneer, renting automobiles and business houses, and may regulate, control and tax not more than one hundred dollars any show, theatre shooting gallery, ten pin alley, skating rink, billiard table, pool table, flying horse or merry-go-round, itinerant trader or peddler. Sec. 2 amended. Business taxes. Sec. 4. That section thirteen of said Act be repealed and that the following section, which will be known as section

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thirteen be inserted in lieu thereof; That the government of said municipal corporation shall be vested in a mayor and six councilmen, the mayor and three councilmen to be elected annually on the second Saturday in December between eight o'clock A. M. and five o'clock P. M. by the qualified voters of the said town of Canton, and the mayor to hold his office for a term of one year and the councilmen to hold their office for a term of two years or until their successors shall be elected and qualified, provided that at the next election held after the passage of this Act that three councilmen shall be elected for a term of one year and three councilmen shall be elected for a term of two years. This body while sitting shall be known as the mayor and council. Substitute for Sec. 13. Terms of mayor and councilmen; time of election. Sec. 5. By amending section eighteen of said Act by striking the word one in line five of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word two, and by striking the word twelve in line six of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words twenty-five. Sec. 18. Salary limit: mayor $200, councilmen [Illegible Text] Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of law in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. CARROLLTON SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS; VACANCIES IN BOARD; HOW FILLED. No. 12. An Act to amend an Act approved August 7, 1912, and entitled An Act to amend the Act of November 26, 1886, establishing a system of public schools for the City of Carrollton, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, to provide for the election of the School Commissioners thereof by the people, etc., so as to provide how vacancies on said Board of School Commissioners shall be filled, and for other purposes.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, Section 1 of the Act approved August 7, 1912, amending the Act of November 26, 1886, establishing a system of public schools for the City of Carrollton, in the County of Carroll, as amended by the Act of November 5, 1889, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the word expire, in line twelve (12) of said Section 1 of the printed Act of 1912, and before the word no in the same line, the following, to-wit: In case of a vacancy occurring on said Board of School Commissioners caused by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Board of School Commissioners to fill said vacancy by appointment at a regular meeting of said board, and the person thus appointed shall serve until the next annual election for mayor and city council of said city, at which election there shall be elected a member or members, as the case may be, whose term of office as school commissioner shall be for the unexpired term only, so that said section when thus amended will read as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That from and after the passage of this Act, Section 5 of the Act of November 26, 1886, establishing a system of public schools for the City of Carrollton in the County of Carroll, as amended by the Act of November 5, 1889, be and the same is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following inserted: That an election shall be held in said city every two years at the same time, in the same manner and by the same persons as elections for mayor and councilmen of said city are held, to fill the office of those members of said board whose terms then expire. In case of a vacancy occurring on said Board of School Commissioners, caused by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Board of School Commissioners to fill said vacancy by appointment at a regular meeting of said board, and the person thus appointed shall serve

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until the next annual election for mayor and city council of said city, at which election there shall be elected a member or members, as the case may be, whose term of office as school commissioner shall be for the unexpired term only. No one shall be eligible to the office of school commissioner who is not a qualified voter of said city. Act of 1912 amended. Substitute for Sec. 1. Vacancies in board, how filled. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 21, 1919. CARROLLTON STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS. No. 161. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create a charter for the City of Carrollton, in the County of Carroll, to consolidate and declare the rights and powers of said corporation and for other purposes, approved September 9, 1891, and Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize the mayor and council of said city to improve the sidewalks along the public square, streets, avenues, public alleys, or other public places, or any portion thereof, in said city, by paving, re-paving or improving the same with such form of improvement as to them may seem proper, and assess the total cost thereof against the abutting owners upon the petition of a majority of said owners for such improvements; and to improve the public square, or any portion thereof, the streets, avenues, public alleys, and other public places thereof in said city, by paving, re-paving, and improving the same with such forms of improvements as to them may seem proper, and assess two-thirds of the costs thereof against the abutting owners upon the petition of a majority of said owners for such improvements; to declare liens and authorize the issuance of executions against abutting properties and owners thereof for the

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cost of such improvement; to provide for notice by advertisement pending the consideration of any ordinance for any of such improvements, allowing all parties at interest a hearing before said mayor and council upon any objection offered against the passage of such ordinance; to require any party subject to such assessment to begin legal proceedings to prevent the same within fifteen days from the passage of an ordinance for such improvement; to provide for furnishing a statement to the abutting owners of such sidewalk, street or public square, of the cost of such improvement; to provide a method for such owners to contest the amount of such cost by affidavit of illegality to the execution issued therefor, and to provide said affidavit as a remedy to such owners to contest the cost of any improvement that may be done by said mayor and council upon the public square, any street or sidewalk for the improvement of which such owner shall be liable for assessment; to provide when such assessments shall become due with the options to persons or corporations liable therefor to pay the same in cash or one-fifth in cash and the balance in four equal annual payments bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from date of ordinance authorizing such improvement, by giving notes for such deferred payments payable to said mayor and council; to provide for the transfer of any execution issued for an assessment by the marshal of said city, and for the redemption of property sold under said execution; to provide that said Act shall not become effective until ratified by a majority of the voters of said city at an election held for said purpose, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the charter of the City of Carrollton, which was approved on the 9th day of September, 1891, and the Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby amended so as to authorize the mayor and council of said city to improve the public square, any street, avenue, public alley, other public

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place, or any portion thereof in said city upon petition therefor as hereinafter provided, by paving, re-paving, curbing, guttering and draining the same with such form of improvements as to them may seem proper, and assess the costs thereof upon abutting owners thereof in the manner hereinafter provided. Acts amended. Street improvements; assessment for. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the total costs for paving, re-paving or improving a sidewalk or any portion thereof, including sidewalks on the public square, shall be assessed against the property owners abutting said public square, sidewalk or portion thereof paved, re-paved or improved. Sidewalks. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That two-thirds of the costs of paving, re-paving, or improving any street, avenue, public alley or other public place or portion thereof, except as provided in Section 2 of this Act shall be assessed against the abutting property owners of each side of the street, avenue, public alley or other public place or any portion thereof, so paved, re-paved, improved or re-improved, the remaining one-third costs shall be paid by the mayor and council of said city. Streets, etc. Sec. 3 (a). Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That two-thirds of the costs of paving, re-paving, or improving the public square, except as provided in Section 2 of this Act, shall be assessed against the owners of property abutting said public square; said assessment shall be pro rata and determined by the amount of frontage on said public square. The remaining one-third costs shall be paid by the mayor and council of said city. Public square. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the assessment against each abutting owner under the provisions of this Act shall be pro rata, and determined by the amount of frontage upon the public square, sidewalk, street, avenue, public alley, public place, or portion thereof, paved, re-paved, improved or re-improved. Frontage assessment. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That no sidewalk, street, alley, the public square in said city, or other place shall be paved, re-paved or improved until the passage of an ordinance authorizing the same, and no such ordinance shall be passed unless said mayor and council shall have first been petitioned in writing to have paved, re-paved or otherwise improved the same by a majority of the persons, companies or corporations, or the owners or owner of a majority of the front footage of abutting property, subject to assessment for the cost of paving, re-paving or otherwise improving the sidewalk, public square, street, avenue, public alley, public place or portion thereof proposed to be paved, re-paved or improved; provided that the public square, any sidewalk, or any portion thereof on either side of the public square, any street, avenue, public alley or other public place, may be paved or re-paved, improved or re-improved upon the petition of a majority of the persons, companies or corporations, or the owner or owners of a majority of the front footage of abutting property, who would be subject to assessment for the improvement of said public square, street, avenue, alley or other public place; or upon the petition of a majority of all the abutting property holders, or the owner or owners of a majority of the front footage of abutting property, on both sides of the public square, any street or other public place for the improvement as provided in this Act, of the public square, sidewalk or section thereof on either side of said public square, street or public place, the cost of which shall be assessed against the abutting owners of the public square, sidewalk or section thereof so improved. Ordinance to authorize. Petition for improvement. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in determining the number of petitioners for any of the improvements under this Act, each company or corporation shall be counted as one person and a majority in interest of owner's undivided interests shall be counted as one person, provided that in any case where the improvement is petitioned for by the owner or owners of a majority of the frontage of abutting property, such owner or owners shall be counted as a majority of the persons,

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companies or corporations subject to assessment for the improvement petitioned for. Majority of petitioners, how determined. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the ordinance authorizing the paving, re-paving, improving or re-improving of the public square, any sidewalk, street, avenue, alley or other public place under the provisions of this Act shall describe the general character of improvement to be made, the material to be used and such other matters as shall be necessary to enable the preparation of the proper plans and specifications for the improvement proposed to be made, and pending the consideration of such ordinance an advertisement shall be inserted at least one time in a newspaper published in said city in which the advertisement of sheriff's sales are published before the final passage of such ordinance, such advertisement giving notice of the introduction of such ordinance, the sidewalk, street, avenues, public alley, public place or portion thereof to be paved, re-paved or improved, the estimate cost per front foot; and it shall set forth that the property owners or others interested are notified to appear at a meeting of said mayor and council to be held at a time stated in said advertisement and make any objection that they may desire to urge against the passage of such ordinance, and a copy of said advertisement shall be mailed to each person, company or corporation whose post office address is known, fifteen days prior to said meeting for hearing objections. At the time named in said advertisement if any property owner or other person desires to make objection to the passage of such ordinance, full opportunity shall be given at said meeting, and after hearing objections, if any are made to the passage of such ordinance, said mayor and council shall have the right and power in their discretion to order such pavement, re-pavement or other improvement to be made, or they may decline to pass said ordinance. After the passage of such ordinance any person, company or corporation subject to assessment for the cost of such improvement who does not within fifteen days thereafter begin legal preceedings to prevent said

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assessment being made, shall be conclusively presumed to have accepted the terms of said ordinance and shall have agreed that the assessment hereinafter provided for may be made. Thereupon it shall be the duty of the mayor and council to forthwith cause said improvement to be made in accordance with the plans and specifications as prepared. When completed an ordinance shall be passed assessing the cost of the improvement as provided in this Act. The assessing ordinance shall thereupon assert a lien upon each portion of the property abutting upon such paving, re-paving or improvement for the amount of the assessment, against the owner thereof, to date back to the approval of the original ordinance and declare the same at the time said ordinance is passed. Contents of ordinance authorizing. Notice of ordinance, etc. Hearing objections. Limit of time for legal proceedings. Assessment ordinance. Lien. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the adoption of the ordinances provided for in Section 7 of this Act, a written statement shall be furnished by the clerk of the mayor and council of said city to each abutting owner, person, company or corporation subject to the assessment, herein provided for, showing his, her or its pro rata part of such assessment, and it shall be the duty of such person, company or corporation, so notified, to pay said clerk within thirty days after the receipt of said statement, the entire amount of the assessment against such person, firm or corporation, provided that any person, firm or corporation so notified shall have the right to pay the assessment so levied in five installments, to be paid as follows: 20 per cent within thirty days after the receipt of said notice and the remaining 80 per cent in four annual installments of 20 per cent each, such deferred payments to be evidenced by promissory notes bearing interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum from date, payable annually, to said mayor and council on order. The benefit of the payment by installment may be taken advantage of by any such property owner, company or corporation by giving notes for the deferred payments as herein provided, at the time of making the cash payment. In the event any property owner, company, corporation shall

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desire to pay the balance due under such assessment after exercising the opportunity to pay such installments, such party so wishing and offering to pay shall pay principal and interest due up to date of payment. The notice of assessment herein provided for shall be served personally upon each of said property owners and each agent of such company or corporation residing within the limits of said city, and where such owner or agent is a non-resident of said city it will be sufficient service that said notice or statement be mailed to said property owner or agent at the last post office address of said owner or agent known to said clerk. In the event said owner or agent is not known, it will be sufficient to serve said notice upon any person in possession of the property by reason of which such assessment is made. Collection of assessment. Notice of amount. Payment in installments. Service of notice. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons, company or corporation shall fail or refuse to pay the clerk of the mayor and council of said city his, her or its assessment as required in this act, at the expiration of thirty days after the service of the statement, as provided in the preceding section, or in lieu thereof comply fully with the provisions of said section relating to the payment of such assessment, said clerk will be authorized to issue execution bearing interest in the name of the mayor of said city, and specifying the improvement for which it is issued, against the owner and also the property of such owner abutting upon the sidewalk, street, avenue, alley or other public place or portion thereof so improved, which execution will be a lien against such property from the date of the ordinance authorizing said improvement and bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum from the date on which it is issued; said execution, when issued, shall be delivered to the marshal of said city, who shall execute the same by levying and selling the property described therein for the amount due together with all costs accrued thereon. The law applicable to sales under other executions issued by said city shall apply as to the levy, notice, advertisement and sale made under

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said execution, and said marshal shall have the authority to execute deeds when the property is sold, and deliver the immediate possession thereof to the purchaser. Execution. Levy and sale. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the passage of the ordinance for paving, re-paving, or otherwise improving the public square, any street or part of street, public alley, or other public place in said city, together with the ordinance assessing the cost of the same, and asserting liens against property abutting thereon, shall, when properly entered on the minutes of the mayor and council, be notice of such lien from the date of the approval of such ordinances for such paving improvement as full and complete as if the same were in the form of an execution and entered on the docket of the clerk of the Superior Court under the general registration law. Notice of lien. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the marshal of said city shall be authorized to transfer and assign any execution under the provisions of this Act and thereby vest the purchaser or transferee with the same rights as in cases of sales or transfers under the executions issued by said city. Transfer of execution. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any defendant in such execution or owner of abutting property against whom the same is issned shall have the right to file an affidavit of illegality, upon the ground that the same has been issued or its proceedings are illegal as provided by statute in cases of other executions, stating what amount, if any, is admitted to be due (which amount so admitted to be paid before said affidavit shall be received, and said affidavit shall be received for the balance), provided that any such defendant, who has not within fifteen days after the passage of the ordinance authorizing such improvements begun legal proceedings to prevent the assessment for the cost thereof, shall be presumed to have accepted the terms of said ordinance and agreed that the assessment be made; otherwise the law relating to illegalities

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shall apply as in other cases. When the marshal shall receive said affidavit of illegality as herein provided for, he shall return the same to the clerk of the Superior Court where it shall be tried at the first term of the court under the laws of said State applicable to the trial of illegalities, and subject to the penalties provided by statute where affidavits of illegalities are filed for delay. Either party to such affidavit of illegality shall have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court as in cases of illegality originating from executions issued by the Superior Court of this State. Affidavit of illegality. Sec. 13. The mayor and council of the City of Carrollton shall have the authority to pass such ordinances and do such other acts as may be necessary to give full force and effective operation to the provisions of this amendment. Power as to ordinances. Sec. 14. This Act shall not become operative until it shall have been submitted to a vote of the people of said city at a special election called for the purpose by the mayor and council, of which at least twenty days notice shall have been given, and if at said election a majority of the qualified voters of said city shall declare for the ratification of this Act, then upon a proclamation of the mayor and council this Act shall at once become law. Said mayor and council shall prescribe and prepare the ballots to be used at such election, by which the voters shall declare for or against the ratification of this Act. This Act referred to vote of people. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. CHIPLEY WATERWORKS, SEWERAGE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, BONDS, ETC. No. 316. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the town of Chipley in the County of Harris. State of Georgia, approved December

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12, 1882, so as to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the said town to construct, purchase or otherwise acquire a system of waterworks, a system of sewerage and a system of electric lights for the use and benefit of said town; to provide for the acquisition of property, both real and personal, inside and outside of the corporate limits of said town, that may be necessary for said purposes, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise; to authorize the issue of bonds for said purposes, when same shall have been properly voted on by the citizens of the town of Chipley; to provide for the method of their issue and for taxation of their repayment. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the mayor and council of the town of Chipley, in the County of Harris, and the State of Georgia, in addition to the powers and authority already granted under the present charter of said town, shall have full power and authority to construct, equip, maintain a system of electric lights or lighting plant, a system of waterworks, and a system of sewerage for said town, and to that end shall have full power and authority to acquire by purchase gift or condemnation proceedings all necessary lands, casements, water supplies and franchises. Authority to construct waterworks, sewerage, and electric-light systems. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event the said town of Chipley cannot procure by purchase the necessary lands, rights of ways for water ways for the construction of the system of lights, waterworks and sewerage, then the mayor and council of said town shall have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and to condemn such lands, casements, rights of way of water ways and franchises in manner and form as provided in Civil Code of 1910 of the State of Georgia, and the amendments thereto. Authority to acquire land, etc. Condemnation. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council of the town of Chipley

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shall have full power and authority to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation in the manner aforesaid, all lands, casements and franchises necessary for water basin and water shed from which the public supply may be obtained. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the town of Chipley shall have the right of laying the necessary mains, pipes, conduits and drains for water works and sewer purposes, and the right to erect posts, poles and wires for the purpose of conveying electricity and lighting said town, said rights to apply to the public highways of the County of Harris or such other counties of the State of Georgia as may be necessary, and over and across and under the land of persons and corporations upon payment of just compensation that may be agreed upon or assessed as provided in said Civil Code of 1910 of this State, and the amendments thereto. Rights of way. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town of Chipley are hereby authorized and empowered to order and have held elections by the qualified voters of said town at such times as said mayor and council may designate, to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by the said town of Chipley in a sum not to exceed the Constitutional limitations to be sold for the purpose of establishing, constructing, equipping and maintaining a lighting plant, a system of water works, and a system of sewerage for said town of Chipley. Said election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Sections 440-443, inclusive, of the Code of Georgia of 1910 and at said election the ballots used shall be For bonds for lights and Against bonds for lights, For bonds for water works and Against bonds for water works, For bonds for sewerage, Against bonds for sewerage. Bond issue, election to authorize. Said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to order an election for either lights, water works or sewerage bonds, or for either two or all of said purposes.

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Said mayor and council shall be required to advertise said election in a newspaper published in said town for a term of thirty days prior to said election, which notice shall specify in detail the amount of bonds to be voted on and the purpose of same. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if said election herein provided for be in favor of bonds for all of said purposes or for either of said purposes, then the mayor and council of said town of Chipley shall be and are hereby authorized to issue the amount of bonds, in the town of Chipley, so voted on, in a sum equal to the amount fixed by the mayor and council for said purpose or purposes, which total sum shall not exceed the limit provided for in the Constitution of this State. Said bonds shall be designated lighting, water works and sewerage bonds for the town of Chipley, as should result from the election so held and carried. Said bonds shall be issued in such denominations as may be fixed by the mayor and council of said town for a term not to exceed thirty years; the rate of interest on said bonds shall be fixed by the mayor and council in such a way as may seem most advantageous for said town after being advertised according to law. Issuance of bonds; amounts, term, interest. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town of Chipley shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to annually assess, levy and collect a tax on all the property, both real and personal corporate and franchise, in the corporate limits of said town in such sums as may be right, proper and necessary for the specific purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, and also to create a sinking fund sufficient to redeem and pay off such bonds at the maturity thereof, and the tax assessed, levied and collected shall be kept separate and distinct from all other taxes and moneys of said town and shall be used solely for the payment of the interest on said bonds as it may accrue, and for the creation

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and accumulation of a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the same. Tax to pay bonds. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the election herein provided for shall be against the issue of said bonds, that the mayor and council of said town may, at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of said first election, order another election under the provisions of this Act for either or all of said purposes. Second election. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the town of Chipley be and they are hereby empowered and authorized to condemn private and corporate property for the purpose of opening, laying out and establishing new streets in said town, and for the purpose of widening or changing any street already established in said town in so far as same may be necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of the public utilities herein set forth, said right of eminent domain to be exercised under the laws of this State as provided in the Civil Code of 1910 of this State. Condemnation of property for new streets, widening, etc. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. CHIPLEY WATERWORKS, SEWERAGE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, BONDS, ETC. (This Act is identical with the Act preceding thisNo. 316.) No. 250. An Act to amend an Act incorporating the town of Chipley in the County of Harris, State of Georgia, approved December 12, 1882, so as to authorize and empower the mayor and council of the said town to construct, purchase or otherwise acquire a system of waterworks, a system of

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sewerage and a system of electric lights for the use and benefit of said town; to provide for the acquisition of property, both real and personal, inside and outside of the corporate limits of said town, that may be necessary for said purposes, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise; to authorize the issue of bonds for said purposes, when same shall have been properly voted on by the citizens of the town of Chipley; to provide for the method of their issue and for taxation of their repayment. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the mayor and council of the town of Chipley, in the County of Harris, and the State of Georgia, in addition to the powers and authority already granted under the present charter of said town, shall have full power and authority to construct, equip, maintain a system of electric lights or lighting plant, a system of waterworks, and a system of sewerage for said town, and to that end shall have full power and authority to acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation proceedings all necessary lands, easements, water supplies and franchises. Authority to construct waterworks, electric-light system, etc. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event the said town of Chipley cannot procure by purchase the necessary lands, rights of ways of water ways for the construction of the system of lights, waterworks and sewerage, then the mayor and council of said town shall have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and to condemn such lands, [Illegible Text], rights of way of water ways and franchises in manner and form as provided in Civil Code of 1910 of the State of Georgia, and the amendments thereto. Authority to acquire land, etc. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council of the town of Chipley shall have full power and authority to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation in the manner aforesaid, all lands, easements and franchises necessary for water basin and

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water shed from which the public water supply may be obtained. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the town of Chipley shall have the right of laying the necessary mains, pipes, conduits and drains for water works and sewer purposes, and the right to erect posts, poles and wires for the purpose of conveying electricity and lighting said town, said rights to apply to the public highways of the County of Harris or such other counties of the State of Georgia as may be necessary, and over and across and under the land of persons and corporations upon payment of just compensation that may be agreed upon or assessed as provided in said Civil Code of 1910 of this State, and the amendments thereto. Right of way. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town of Chipley are hereby authorized and empowered to order and have held elections by the qualified voters of said town at such times as said mayor and council may designate, to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by the said town of Chipley in a sum not to exceed the Constitutional limitations to be sold for the purpose of establishing, constructing, equipping and maintaining a lighting plant, a system of water works, and a system of sewerage for said town of Chipley. Said election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Sections 440-443, inclusive, of the Code of Georgia of 1910 and at said election the ballots used shall be For bonds for lights and Against bonds for lights, For bonds for water works and Against bonds for water works, For bonds for sewerage, Against bonds for sewerage. Election to authorize bonds. Said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to order an election for either lights, water works or sewerage bonds, or for either two or all of said purposes. Said mayor and council shall be required to advertise said election in a newspaper published in said town for a term

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of thirty days prior to said election, which notice shall specify in detail the amount of bonds to be voted on and the purpose of same. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if said election herein provided for be in favor of bonds for all of said purposes or for either of said purposes, then the mayor and council of said town of Chipley shall be and are hereby authorized to issue the amount of bonds, in the town of Chipley, so voted on, in a sum equal to the amount fixed by the mayor and council for said purpose or purposes, which total sum shall not exceed the limit provided for in the Constitution of this State. Said bonds shall be designated lighting, water works and sewerage bonds for the town of Chipley, as should result from the election so held and carried. Said bonds shall be issued in such denominations as may be fixed by the mayor and council of said town for a term not to exceed thirty years; the rate of interest on said bonds shall be fixed by the mayor and council in such a way as may seem most advantageous for said town after being advertised according to law. Bond issue. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town of Chipley shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to annually assess, levy and collect a tax on all the property, both real and personal corporate and franchise, in the corporate limits of said town in such sums as may be right, proper and necessary for the specific purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, and also to create a sinking fund sufficient to redeem and pay off such bonds at the maturity thereof, and the tax assessed, levied and collected shall be kept separate and distinct from all other taxes and moneys of said town and shall be used solely for the payment of the interest on said bonds as it may accrue, and for the creation and accumulation of a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the same. Tax to pay bonds. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That if the election herein provided for shall be against the issue of said bonds, that the mayor and council of said town may, at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of said first election, order another election under the provisions of this Act for either or all of said purposes. Second election. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the town of Chipley be and they are hereby empowered and authorized to condemn private and corporate property for the purpose of opening, laying out and establishing new streets in said town, and for the purpose of widening or changing any street already established in said town as same may be necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of the public utilities herein set forth, said right of eminent domain to be exercised under the laws of this State as provided in the Civil Code of 1910 of this State. Opening or widening streets; condemnation. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. CLERMONT OCCUPATION TAX. No. 226. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Clermont in the County of Hall and State of Georgia (Acts 1913, pages 674, 675, 676 and 677), approved August 11, 1913, said amendments to provide additional powers of taxation, especially on occupations, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the charter of Clermont shall be and is hereby amended as follows, to-wit: Act of 1913 amended.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That after the words, on every hundred dollars in the last line of Section 9 of the original charter, the following words shall be added, to-wit: Said mayor and councilmen of the town of Clermont shall also have power to require, levy and collect a specific occupation tax upon business done, and business conducted in said town of Clermont either by individuals, firms or corporations, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Be it further enacted, That said mayor and councilmen shall have the power to levy and collect taxes not exceeding one dollar on every hundred dollars upon all the property, both real and personal, within the corporate limits of said town. They shall also have power to compel all persons within said corporate limits, who are subject to road duties under the laws of this State, to work on the streets of said town, or to prescribe a commutation tax, which may be paid in lieu of work upon the streets, provided that the corporate limits shall extend only as prescribed in Section 2 of this Act, for the purpose of raising the said tax of one dollar on every hundred dollars. Said mayor and councilmen of the town of Clermont shall also have power to require, levy and collect a specific occupation tax upon business done, and business conducted in said town of Clermont either by individuals, firms or corporations. Sec. 9 as amended. Business tax. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. COBBTOWN, CITY OF, INCORPORATED. No. 359. An Act to incorporate the City of Cobbtown, in the County of Tattnall, State of Georgia; to provide for a mayor and council, and to prescribe their qualifications, terms of office

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and manner of election; to confer on said mayor and council certain duties, powers and privileges to provide for all elections necessary for the purposes herein; to locate voting places and methods of holding elections and to designate the qualifications of voters; to provide for the government of said city, and to regulate the police and officers thereof, their terms of office, salaries and duties; fix the salaries of all other officers; to make all contracts of the town of Cobbtown valid and binding for and against the City of Cobbtown, and to vest in the City of Cobbtown the title to all property owned by the town of Cobbtown; to define the corporate limits of said city and its location; to provide for public improvement of said city; to provide for the laying out and opening of streets, sidewalks, alleys, driveways and other public grounds and for the maintenance of the same; to authorize the condemnation of private property, according to law, for the purpose of such streets, sidewalks, driveways and alleys, or for other public purposes; to provide for the issuing of bonds for public improvements, and especially for school purposes, and to provide how, when and under what conditions, in what way and for what amount said bonds may be issued; to provide for the payment of said bonds and for the levy of taxes for that purpose; to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes for several purposes upon all kinds of property and business therein; to provide for the enacting of all necessary ordinances and the enforcement thereof; to provide the manner of collecting taxes of all kinds, including street taxes, and for the appointment of tax assessors, prescribing their duties and powers, and for other purposes incidental to the government of said City of Cobbtown. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the inhabitants of the territory now embraced in the corporate limits of the town of Cobbtown, located in the County of Tatnall, and State of Georgia, be, and they are

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hereby incorporated under the name and style of the City of Cobbtown, and by that name shall be, and are, hereby vested with all the rights, powers and privileges incidental to municipal corporations in this State, and all the rights, powers, privileges, titles, property, easements and hereditaments heretofore belonging to the town of Cobbtown, or the mayor and council thereof are hereby vested in the City of Cobbtown, created by this Act. And the said City of Cobbtown may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common or corporate seal, make and enact through and by the mayor and council such ordinances, rules, regulations and resolutions for the transaction of its business and the welfare and proper government of said city as to such city council and mayor may seem best, and which shall be consistent with the laws of the State of Georgia and of the United States. And the said City of Cobbtown shall be able by law, and is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, rent, lease, receive by donation or otherwise, sell, exchange, enjoy, possess and retain temporarily or perpetually, for any period of time, any property, real or personal, any estate, lands or tenements and hereditaments of any kind whatsoever, whether within or without the corporate limits of said city, for corporate purposes. Said City of Cobbtown, created by this Act, is hereby made responsible as a body corporate for all legal debts, liabilities and undertakings of the former town of Cobbtown. New charter. Corporate name. General powers. Liabilities of former corporation. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said City of Cobbtown shall be embraced in a circle, whose diameter shall be 6-8 mile, and whose center shall be the railroad crossing nearest depot in said City of Cobbtown. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the government of said City of Cobbtown shall be vested in a mayor and five councilmen, who shall compose the city council, whose qualifications and manner of election is hereinafter prescribed. Mayor and council. Sec. 4. Any male resident of said city, who shall be

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twenty-one years of age, white, a freeholder of real estate within said city, who shall have been a resident of the State of Georgia for a period of twelve months and of the City of Cobbtown for six months, and who shall have paid all State, county and municipal taxes, shall be eligible to the office of mayor or councilmen of said city, such residence referring to the period immediately preceding the appointment or election of such person to either of the offices named. Eligibility. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That on the first Tuesday in December, 1919, and biennially thereafter on the same day, an election shall be held in said city, in manner and place hereinafter provided, for the purpose of electing a mayor and council for said city, whose term of office shall be two years or until their successors are elected and qualified. Their term of office shall begin on January 1st, following their election. In case no election is held at the regular time provided by this Act, a special election may be called by the mayor and council to be held on some other day, first giving twenty days' notice of such election by posting notices thereof at the court house door in said city and at the post office. Election and terms of office. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That all elections under the provisions of this charter, whether regular or special, and whether for the election of officers or for the submission to the people of said city the question of issuing bonds of said city, or for any of the purposes for which an election may be held in and for said city, shall be superintended and managed by some judicial officer and two freeholders, or by three freeholders, who are bona fide residents of said city, and who shall be appointed by the mayor for that purpose. In case no appointment is made, then any three citizens having the qualifications prescribed may act. Each of said managers, before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, or before one of their number, the following oath: We, and each of us, do swear that we will faithfully and impartially conduct this election, and prevent all illegal voting, to the best of our skill and power, so help us

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God. Said managers shall keep or cause to be kept two lists of voters and two tally sheets. All elections shall be held at the county court house in said city, and shall be held between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 3 o'clock P. M., and shall be written by ballot. Those receiving the majority of the votes cast for the respective offices shall be declared elected. Said managers shall certify two lists of voters and two tally sheets, place one of each in the ballot box and securely seal the same, and shall forthwith deliver the same to the clerk of the city, who shall keep the same with the seal unbroken for thirty days, and if no contest is then instituted, shall destroy the same without himself inspecting or permitting any one else to inspect said ballots. The other tally sheet and list of voters, together with a certificate showing the result of the election and signed by the managers, shall be placed in a sealed package and forthwith delivered to the mayor, who shall keep the same until the first meeting of the city council, held not less than four days after the date of such election, at which time and in the presence of said council, he shall open the same and declare the result. If any person desires to contest any election held horeunder said contest shall be had under the general laws of the State governing municipal contests. Managers of elections. Oath. Time and place of election. Returns. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That every male citizen of the City of Cobbtown, as incorporated under this Act, who is twenty-one years of age, and who shall have resided [Illegible Text] the State of Georgia for twelve months and in the City of Cobbtown for six months preceding the election, and who [Illegible Text] legally registered as a voter, and who shall have paid all taxes that may have been legally required of him except for the year of election, and who has paid all fines, license, business taxes and registration fees, and who has not been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude, [Illegible Text] pardoned, shall be qualified to vote in any city election held in the City of Cobbtown for any purpose whatever. Voter's qualifications. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the city clerk, or if [Illegible Text] mayor and council so desire it, them some other [Illegible Text] them appointed, shall open at some accessible place as

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may be designated by said mayor and council, on the first Monday in November in each election year a list for the registration of voters for said city, which lists shall be kept open every day except Sunday and legal holidays, between the hours of nine and twelve in the morning and three and five in the afternoon, from the day opened until the tenth day before the regular election day on the first Tuesday in December, when said list shall be finally closed. The regular registration for said December elections shall be good and valid for any election that may be held for any purpose during the year following, but for any election held during such election years previous to the first Tuesday in December, then and in that event the mayor and council shall cause a list to be opened thirty days before any such election. Said registration list to be opened and managed in like manner as the list for the regular election in December, as above provided; provided, that any registration for any special election at any time during said election year shall be sufficient for the regular election in December. It shall be the duty of the clerk, or other person in charge of such list, upon application of any person entitled to vote, which application shall be personal and not by proxy to register the name of such person together with his age and occupation by having such person subscribe his name to the following oath: I do swear that I am twenty-one years of age or will be by the next election; that I am a citizen of the United States; that I have resided in this State for a period of twelve months last past, and in the City of Cobbtown for the last six months; that I have paid all legal taxes and assessments required of me by law, and I have never been convicted of crime involving moral turpitude and not pardoned, so help me God. Said clerk or person in charge of said list is hereby authorized and qualified to administer such oath. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the mayor and council by unanimous vote from declaring that the registration list for any regular election shall be used at any special election held within two years provided, any legal voter, who has not registered,

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may do so at any time up to ten days before such special election. Registration of voters. Oath of voter. Use of former registration. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That at such time as the mayor and council may deem proper before the date of any election held in said city, not exceeding thirty days before any such election, the said mayor and council shall elect three citizens of said city, who shall constitute and be known as a Board of Registrars for said city. No person who is a candidate for any office to be filled at such election is eligible to serve as a member of said board of registrars. Such registrars shall qualify by taking the following oath before any person authorized by law to administer oaths, to-wit: I do swear that I will diligently and impartially examine and revise the registration list of the City of Cobbtown, according to the laws governing the same, to the best of my ability, so help me God. This oath shall be recorded by the city clerk on his book of minutes. As soon as possible after the registration list shall be closed the person in charge of the same shall deliver said list to said board of registrars, whose duty it shall be to diligently and thoroughly examine the same for the purpose of ascertaining if any person has registered illegally, and to this end may summon all persons as to whose right to register they may entertain any doubt, either from examination of the tax books of the city, the State or the county, the criminal record, or for any other cause, to appear before them and show cause why their names should not be stricken from the said registration list. Said summons shall be served by the marshal of said city, or in case he cannot serve them, then by any person elected by said board for the purpose. Said summons shall be served upon the person named therein not later than the day preceding the day upon which he is summoned to appear. Should said examination show to the satisfaction of a majority of said board that the person summoned is not entitled to registration under existing laws, his name shall be stricken from said list, and should the person so summoned fail to appear, the board shall proceed as though he were present. Any person living in said

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city who claims the right to register, but whose name has not been entered upon the registration list, may appear before said board of registrars and if he shall convince a majority of said board that he is a qualified voter of said city, that he has been unlawfully denied the right to register, or that he has some good and satisfactory reason for not registering, while said registration list was open to the public for the purpose of registering voters, then said board shall enter his name upon said list as if he had registered before said list was closed. After a thorough examination and revision, said board shall prepare two lists, alphabetically arranged, of all names left upon said registration list, after the same has been examined and revised, and shall certify the same as a correct list of qualified voters of said city. Said registrars shall then deliver said lists to the managers of the election on the day of such election. No person shall be allowed to vote at said election whose name does not appear upon said list. Said registrars, as well as said election managers, shall be paid out of the city treasury such amount as may be fixed by the mayor and council, not to exceed two dollars per day for each person for each day required in the performance of these duties. Registrars. Eligibility. Oath. Duties. Notice and hearing to registrant. Pay of registrars. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the persons elected as mayor and councilmen, and each of them, shall take and subscribe before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I will well and truly perform the duties of mayor (or councilman, as the case may be) of the City of Cobbtown, to the best of my skill and ability, and as shall seem to me for the best interest and welfare of said city without fear, favor or affection, so help me God. Oath of mayor and councilmen. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That at any regular or special meeting of the mayor and council after their election and qualification, said mayor and council shall elect a city clerk, who shall be clerk of the council and ex-officio clerk of the mayor's court, a marshal or marshals, a city attorney and other officer or officers as the mayor and

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council may deem necessary. The mayor and council may prescribe the duties of all such officers, their compensation, and their oaths of office, together with such bonds for the faithful carrying out of the same as they may see fit. All said officers shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the mayor and council. Clerk, marshal, attorney, etc. Duties, bond, pay, etc. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That the mayor (or mayor pro tem, who shall be elected by the council from their number) and three members of council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business before the council, and a majority of the votes cast shall determine all questions and elections before the council, the mayor or mayor pro tem, if the latter be presiding, not being entitled to vote, except in case of a tie. Said mayor and council shall hold their meeting within the limits of said city, at such time and place as they may deem proper. They may fix a time and place for regular meeting, but at any special or called meeting of the body, whether at the regular time and place or otherwise, the mayor and council shall have just and ample power as at any regular meeting, and may do and perform any of the things, duties and powers that they could do and perform at any regular meeting. Meetings of council. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That during the sickness, absence or disqualification of the mayor, the mayor protem shall be clothed with all the rights and privileges of the mayor, and perform the mayor's duties. In the case of death, removal or resignation of the mayor, or in any other event making the office of mayor vacant, the mayor pro tem shall immediately become mayor, and shall serve until the end of the regular term for which his predecessor is elected. Should said mayor pro tem refuse to act, or be disqualified or unable to assume the duties of mayor, the council shall elect some other citizen of said city as mayor thereof, provided he is qualified by law to fill said office. If at any time the office of councilman shall become vacant by death, removal, resignation or otherwise, the remaining members of the council shall elect some citizen of said

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city, who is qualified by law, to fill said vacancy and such person shall serve until the next regular election. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That the mayor shall receive a salary to be fixed by the council, not to exceed two hundred dollars per annum. He shall be the chief executive officer of said city, and see that the ordinances, by-laws, rules and orders of the council are faithfully executed. He shall have control of the marshal and police force of said city, and may appoint special officers whenever he may deem it necessary for the protection of persons or property, and for the preservation of the peace and good order of said city. He shall preside at all meetings of the city council and shall have the veto power and may veto any ordinances, orders or resolutions of the council, in which event the same shall not become a law unless subsequently passed over his veto by the vote of at least four councilmen on a yea and nay vote duly recorded in the minutes of said council; provided, however, the mayor shall not exercise his power of veto, unless he shall reduce the same to writing and file with the city clerk within four days after the passage of the measure vetoed. He shall preside over the mayor's court hereinafter provided for, and shall have the power to punish for contempt both before the city council and before said mayor's court by any fine not exceeding $25.00, or imprisonment in the city prison for not exceeding ten days, either or both, in the discretion of the mayor. It shall be the duty of the mayor to preserve the peace, and he shall be ex-officio justice of the peace so far as to enable him to issue and try warrants for criminal offenses committed within the jurisdiction of the City of Cobbtown. All city employees under the jurisdiction of the mayor and council shall be directly and immediately subject to the mayor. He shall have general supervision of the affairs of said city, and shall have authority to convene the council in extra session whenever he deems it proper so to do. He shall have vested in him all the power and duties as are vested by general laws in mayors in this State. Mayor's salary, duties, and powers. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That there shall be a

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mayor's court in the said city for the trial of all offenders against the laws and ordinances of said city, to be held by the mayor as often as necessary at the office of said mayor, or in his discretion in the county court house in said city. In the absence or disqualification of the mayor, the mayor pro tem shall preside and hold said court, and the absence or disqualification of the mayor pro tem, any member of council elected for that purpose by the council shall hold said court. Said court shall have the power to preserve order and punish for contempt as hereinbefore provided. Said court is hereby empowered to compel the attendance of witnesses unto that end made by rule for contempt, punish witnesses for failure to obey, for failure to obey the mandates and subpoenas of the court, said court shall be authorized and empowered to punish for violation of the laws or ordinances of said city by imprisonment in the city prison for a period of not exceeding sixty days; by compelling the defendant or offender to labor upon the streets of said city for a period not longer than sixty days, by a fine not exceeding $100.00 and the costs of the court, which fine may be collected by execution, and by any one or more of these punishments, in the discretion of the court. Either one of the said punishments may be imposed as an alternative punishment to some other mode imposed. The city clerk and marshal of said city are hereby made officers of said court, and shall be entitled to such fees and costs from the losing party as the city council may prescribe. Mayor's court. Penalties. Costs. Sec. 16. Said court shall be conducted in like manner to the Superior or City Courts of this State, so far as the same is practicable, as to rules of evidence, motions, continuances, and other matters pertaining to courts for the trial of offenders against the criminal law. When any person or persons are brought before said court charged with a violation of any of the ordinances, regulations or rules of said city, and the hearing thereof, for good cause shown by either side, shall be continued to some other time as the court may name, the accused shall be required to give bond and security for his appearance at the time appointed for trial,

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or be imprisoned to wait trial. If such bond be given and the accused fail to appear at the time fixed for the trial, the bond may be forfeited by the court, and upon calling in open court for the securities to produce their principal, which not being done, the bond shall be summarily forfeited and execution issued thereon and levied as any other execution from any of the courts of this State. The clerk of the court shall keep a record of all business transacted by the court, shall issue all executions authorized to be issued by said court, which executions shall bear test in the name of the presiding officer before whom the bond was forfeited. The duties of the clerk and marshal of said court shall be similar, so far as practicable, to the duties of the clerk and sheriff of the Superior or City Court of this State. The fees of the city attorney, clerk and marshal of said court shall be such as the mayor and council shall prescribe, in cases tried in said court, or otherwise disposed of. Procedure in mayor's court. Bond for appearance: forfeiture. Fees of officers. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That all offenders against the laws and ordinances of said City of Cobbtown shall be tried in the mayor's court upon a written or printed accusation against the accused, in manner and form substantially as follows: State of Georgia, City of Cobbtown, I..... marshal (or citizens, as the case may be), in the name and behalf of the City of Cobbtown, charge and accuse.....with the offense of..... (stating the offense charged), contrary to the laws and ordinances of said city, the good order, peace and dignity thereof. This.....day of..... 19..... This accusation shall be signed by the marshal or citizen making the same in the presence of the mayor or acting mayor, who shall attest the same. The mayor or acting mayor, may then issue a warrant for the arrest of the accused, which warrant shall be directed to the marshal of said city, his lawful deputies, or any arresting officer of Tatnall County, and it is hereby made the duty of any such arresting officer, in whose hands said warrant may be placed, to arrest the accused and bring him before said mayor's court; provided, that

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nothing herein contained shall prevent the marshal or any officer of said city from arresting without warrant or accusation any person guilty of violating the ordinances or laws of said city, or any one reasonably suspected of so doing; provided further, that no person so arrested shall be held longer than twenty-four hours unless accusation is made and the accused brought before said mayor's court within that time. Accusation, warrant, etc. Arrest without warrant. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, That any person convicted before the mayor or other presiding officer of said court may enter an appeal from the judgment of said court to the city council; provided the appeal be entered within four days after the judgment complained of is announced, and provided further that the defendant pays all cost accrued in the case and gives bond to abide the final judgment, which bond shall be approved by the clerk or marshal. The city council shall, as early thereafter as practicable, hear and determine said case so appealed and shall investigate the case do yoyo. If they find the defendant guilty the sentence or judgment of the mayor or presiding officer shall then stand and be enforced. Any person convicted by the mayor's court, or by the council on appeal, may have the right to certiorari to the Superior Court of Tattnall County; provided, all costs are first paid and bond and security given in double the amount of the fine imposed, if a fine is imposed, to answer the final judgment rendered in the case; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall prevent a defendant who desires to appeal his case to the council or to make application for certiorari from filing the usual pauper affidavit in lieu of either the giving of bond or payment of costs, or both. All such certioraries shall be governed by the same rules of law that govern all other certioraries. For any fine imposed by said mayor's court the clerk may issue execution against the defendant, to be levied on any of his goods, chattels, lands and tenements, or upon failure to pay the same, the court may sentence such defendant to jail in the city prison, or both may be done. Appeal. Certiorari. Fine, failure to pay. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council

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shall establish a city prison in such way and in such place as they may deem expedient; and to this end may buy, build, lease, rent or otherwise secure a proper house or compartment for the safe imprisonment of all its prisoners. It shall be lawful for said mayor and council to use the common jail of Tattnall County, or any compartment of the same, for a city prison, should they deem it desirable so to do, provided the county authorities shall permit the same to be done. Prison. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, That the mayor of said city shall have the authority in his court, to bind over or commit to jail offenders against the criminal law of Georgia whenever, in the course of investigation before him, a proper case therefor shall be made out by evidence. Commitment. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted, That in addition to the other powers specially delegated to the city council by this charter, they shall have power to prevent injury or annoyance to the public or individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome; to protect places of divine worship in said city; to exact licenses and license fees from persons, firms and corporations as a condition to their engaging in business or occupation or profession within the limits of said city, and to provide for the punishment of those who engage in business within said city without paying such license or fee and otherwise complying with the laws of said city; to pass all necessary ordinances and bylaws respecting public buildings and grounds, carriages, wagons, drays, bicycles and wells, and for the prevention and punishment of disorderly conduct and conduct liable to destroy the peace and tranquility of a citizen or citizens thereof, and every other by-law, ordinance and resolution that may seem necessary and proper for the security of the peace, health, order and good government of said city; and to do generally all other acts and things which, in the judgment of said council will improve the morals, health, comfort, safety and convenience and general welfare of its citizens; provided, that the same are not inconsistent with the laws of this State or the United States. Additional powers of council.

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Sec. 22. Be it further enacted, That before any ordinance shall be adopted by the council, it shall be read at two separate meetings of the council; provided, that an ordinance may be adopted at its first reading by unanimous consent of those of the council present if there be a quorum. That before an ordinance that has been adopted shall become operative and of full force and effect, it shall be spread upon the minutes and posted at two public places in said city, or advertised one time in any newspaper published in said city. No regular form of ordinances shall be required, but such ordinances shall plainly and distinctly set forth the measure intended. Ordinances, adoption of. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted, That the city council of Cobbtown shall have full power and control over the streets, sidewalks, alleys and parks of said city, and shall have full power and authority to condemn property for the purpose of opening, laying out or widening of streets, alleys, or parks or for the erection thereon of any public building necessary for said city or any of its departments, or for the changing of any street, sidewalk, alley or drive-way, or for any other public purpose; and whenever the city council shall desire to exercise the power granted in the section, it may be done as provided in Section 4637 to 4686, both inclusive, of Volume 2 of the Code of Georgia of 1895, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and the same may be done whether the land sought to be condemned is in the hands of the owner, or a trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, or other agent or representative, or otherwise as provided by said section of the code. Said council shall have full power and authority to remove, or cause to be removed, any building, steps, fences, gates, posts, or other obstructions or nuisances in the public streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, driveways or other public places in said city, and to enforce all the provisions of this section, as well as any other section of this charter, by appropriate legislation. Streets, sidewalks, etc., power as to. Condemnation of property. Obstructions. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, That the city council shall have power to require every male inhabitant in said city who, by the laws of Georgia is subjected to be worked on the

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public road, to work such length of time on the public streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, driveways or other public property of said city as the council may direct, in no case to exceed ten days for any one year. Said person so subject to be worked on the streets of said city shall have the right to relieve himself of said work by paying a commutation or street tax, the amount of which shall be fixed by the council, and which shall in no event exceed the sum of five dollars for any one year. Said work to be done and said commutation or street tax to be paid at such time and in such portions as may be prescribed by the mayor and council. Any person subject to work on the streets who shall fail to work or to pay said commutation tax, after having been duly notified, may be punished in the mayor's court as any other offender against any of the laws or ordinances of said city. Work on streets; commutation tax. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted, That said city council shall have full power and authority to grant franchises, easements and rights of way over, in, under and on the public streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, driveways, or other property of said city, on such terms and conditions as said mayor and council may prescribe. Franchises and [Illegible Text] grant of. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted, That all writs, processes, subpoenas, summons, rules of all kinds, and all executions for any and all kinds of taxes, licenses, fines, assessments, forfeitures or demands assessed by the proper authorities of said city, against any person, firm or corporation, or company whatsoever, shall be issued and signed by the city clerk and bear test in the name of the mayor of said city unless otherwise provided and shall be directed to the marshal of said city and his deputies, and to all and singular the sheriffs and constables of this State and each and all of said directors are hereby authorized and required to serve and execute the same. Writs, subpoenas, etc. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted, That all personal property levied upon by virtue of any of the executions or other processes of said city, which shall be within the County of

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Tatnall at the time of such levy, shall be sold at the door of the county court house in said City of Cobbtown, after advertising such sale for ten days by written notice posted at two public places in said city, which notice shall designate the day and place of sale, a reasonable description of the property to be sold, and the process under which the same has been levied. When real estate in the City of Cobbtown or in the County of Tattnall is levied upon by virtue of any of the processes aforesaid, the same shall be sold at the door of the court house of said Tattnall County and the sale may be made and deeds to the property executed by the marshal of said city, or by the sheriff of said Tattnall County, after having advertised the same in the manner provided for sheriff's sales of land under ordinary executions in this State. In all sales of personal property, the marshal of Cobbtown, or his deputy, shall conduct said sale in manner as near as practicable, similar to the sales of personal property by the constable of this State. All sales made under the authority of this charter shall be between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M., and to the highest and best bidder for [Illegible Text] If a claim shall be filed to any personal property so advertised to be sold, the marshal shall return the execution, together with the claim, bond and affidavit, to the justice of the peace of the 41st District, G. M., of said county, in which district said city is located, where such claim case shall be tried as other claim cases in justice courts of this State; provided that if the amounts of the execution levied, exclusive of costs and interest, shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, then said marshal shall deliver said execution and said claim papers to the clerk of Superior Court of Tattnall County, in which the same shall stand for trial and be tried as other claim cases in the Superior Court of this State. In all matters of levy and claim, the general rules of law as to forthcoming and claim bonds, and other things incident to the same, shall provail. All claims filed to levies upon real estate shall be returned to and tried in the Superior Court of the county where such realty is located. Marshal's sales. Claim.

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Sec. 28. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of raising revenue for the support and maintenance of the government of the City of Cobbtown, the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to assess, levy and collect an ad valorem tax on all real and personal property within the corporate limits of said city, not exceeding during any one year one per cent of the value of said property, which tax shall not include taxes for school purposes, nor does the same include any tax that may be necessary in the judgment of the mayor and council, for the purpose of meeting the interest due on any bonds that may be issued by said city, or for providing a sinking fund for the final payment of any such bonds. Ad valorem tax. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council are hereby authorized and empowered, where authorized as hereinafter provided, to levy and collect a tax annually, in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, upon the taxable property of said city, not to exceed three-fourths of one per cent of the value of said property, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining public schools in said city; provided, the sum so raised for this purpose shall be used for no other purpose whatever. School tax. Sec. 30. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council shall have power to assess and collect such special tax, as they may deem proper, upon each and every or any business, trade, calling, profession, occupation or establishment carried on within the corporate limits of said city; also upon each itinerant trader, stock dealer or peddler who may do business in said city; also upon any railroad, telephone or telegraph company, fire, life or accident insurance companies, or their agents; express and banking companies or corporations; also upon medicine vendors and persons giving theatrical, spectacular or other like performances, exhibitions and circuses. Business taxes. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have power and authority to provide by ordinance when the taxes due said city shall fall

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due; in what length of time said taxes shall be paid; when tax execution shall issue against defaulters, and to fix a penalty for the non-payment of taxes when due; to provide for the receiving of returns of property for taxation, for the appointment of assessors and any and all other officers they may deem necessary for the purpose of collecting any of the taxes herein allowed; to prescribe the duties of such assessors and other officers; and otherwise to make full and ample provisions, not inconsistent with the laws of Georgia or the United States, for the enforcement and collection of any and all taxes that may become due to said city. All such provisions shall be as legal and binding upon the citizens of said city as if the same were incorporated as a part of this charter. Tax ordinances. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted, That the City of Cobbtown may, and it is hereby authorized to issue its bonds, either for the payment of its debts, for the erection of school buildings or other public buildings, or for any other public improvement or the maintenance thereof, only under the provisions of Sections 377 to 381, inclusive, of Volume 1 of the Code of Georgia of 1895. Bond issues Sec. 33. Be it further enacted, That any election held under the provisions of the preceding section of this charter and in accordance with the general laws of the State now in force, shall be conducted in the same manner and under the same rules as are provided in this charter for the elections to be held for mayor and councilmen. The ballots cast at such election shall contain the words For Bonds or Against Bonds. All persons entitled to vote for mayor and councilmen of said city shall be entitled to vote on the question of issuing bonds. Such election shall be called at any time the mayor and council of said city may deem wise, after first giving the notice required by law in such cases made and provided. Said bonds shall mature at such time, not later than thirty years from date of issue, or at different times within said period; shall bear such rate of interest, not exceeding six per cent; and shall be in such denominations as the mayor and council may prescribe; and said

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bonds shall provide that the interest thereon shall be paid annually or semi-annually, as may be deemed most advantageous to the city in the judgment of the city council and mayor. If the requisite majority of votes be cast in favor of the issuance of bonds, the mayor and council shall proceed to issue the same in manner and form usual to municipal bonds; the principal bonds to be signed by the mayor and clerk, and the interest coupons to be signed by the clerk only; provided, that the signature of said clerk may be engraved or stamped upon said coupons, facsimile. Said bonds shall be exempt from taxation by the City of Cobbtown and shall constitute an inviolable contract between said city and the holders of said bonds. All other matters and particulars concerning said bonds, the issuance and contents thereof, shall be determined by the mayor and council, in conformity with the law and this charter. The mayor and council shall have the authority to provide for the sale and disposition of such bonds at private or public sale, as to them may seem best, and to make all arrangements concerning the manner of sale of such as to them may seem best. The funds derived from the sale of such bonds shall be paid to the city treasurer, and the same shall be used only for the purpose for which said bonds were issued. All bonds issued by said city shall have, attached to them, the corporate seal of said city. Election as to bonds. How issued. Tax exemption. Sale of bonds. Sec. 34. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of Cobbtown are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a system of public schools, in and for said city, which, when established, shall be under the management of a city board of education, to be composed of five citizens of said city, whose qualifications shall be the same as for mayor and councilmen, and who shall be elected by said mayor and council, and who shall serve for a term of three years, or until their successors are elected. The mayor shall be ex-officio a member of said board of education of the city of Cobbtown. Any vacancy in said board shall be filled by the city council at any meeting held after such vacancy occurs. After the establishment of said public

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school system of the City of Cobbtown, the County School Commissioner or the Board of Education of Tattnall County shall not establish or maintain any school within the corporate limits of the City of Cobbtown, but it shall be the duty of the city council to prepare and furnish to the State School Commissioner, immediately upon the establishment of public schools in said city and annually thereafter by the first day of December, a list or census of all school children in said city entitled to the State school fund, and the said State School Commissioner shall pay over to the treasurer of the City of Cobbtown direct such proportion of said educational fund as said children are entitled to by law; and the school authorities of Tattnall county shall have no authority or control over said funds or over said schools. It shall be the duty of the Board of Education of the City of Cobbtown to elect and employ all teachers for said public schools, and fix their salaries; to make such rules and regulations for the operation and government of said schools as they may deem necessary; to charge a reasonable incidental fee and such matriculation fees for each child admitted to said schools as they may order; together with such tuition as may be lawful, and by said Board of Education deemed advisable; to provide for the enforcement and collection of any such incidental, matriculation or tuition fees, and to make the payment of the same a condition precedent to the admission to said schools, if they shall so desire; to provide for the admission of children of non-residents to the benefits of said schools upon such terms as they may deem reasonable; and to provide all necessary rules and regulations as may be necessary to fully carry out the provisions of this Act, and for the determination of any matters pertaining to said schools. The mayor and council shall have the right to remove at their pleasure any member of the Board of Education herein provided, either for failure to perform his duty or for misconduct in office, or for any other reason satisfactory to said mayor and council. They shall also have this same power of removal with reference to any other officer of said public schools or said public school system. Schools. Board of education. Payment of State funds. Duties and powers. Tuition. Removal from office.

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Sec. 35. Be it further enacted, That for all children admitted to said city schools, who are residents of Tattnall County outside of the corporate limits of said city, the school authorities of said county shall pay to the treasurer of said city, who is hereby made the treasurer of the Board of Education of said city, the pro rata part of such children in the school fund awarded to Tattnall County. Non-resident pupils. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted, That schools established under this Act shall be kept separate as between the white and colored children of said city; provided, that it shall not be necessary for the mayor and council to establish any school for the colored children of said city, unless they deem it necessary; provided, such portion of any school funds collected in said city as shall be paid by the [Illegible Text] property owners thereof, shall be paid to any colored school or schools which the colored people may establish and maintain in said city in the discretion of the mayor and council. Colored children. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted, That before any public school system shall be established in said city, and before any tax for the support and maintenance thereof shall be levied, the mayor and council shall call an election, to be held in accordance with the laws of said city and the provisions of Section 6 of this Act, and such other sections hereof pertaining to elections as may be applicable or practicable to elections of this kind. Notice of such election shall be given as provided by law for notices for bond elections, and at such election the ballots cast shall read: For public school system or Against public school system. If two-thirds of the qualified voters of said city, voting at said election, shall vote For public school system, then said mayor and council shall establish said system as soon as practicable and levy the tax for the support or maintenance of the same, as authorized by this charter. The manner of holding such election and the qualifications of voters therein shall be as prescribed for other elections held under this charter. Election as to school system. Sec. 38. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city are hereby fully authorized and empowered

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to pess all such ordinances, orders, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the health and comfort of the citizens of said city. They may provide such health officers as they may deem proper, prescribe their duties and powers, and what remuneration they shall receive. And such health officer, or officers, shall have and exercise all such powers and privileges as may be vested in him by said mayor and council by ordinance. Health regulations. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council are hereby authorized to adopt all such ordinances, not in conflict with the laws of this State or the United States, as may be necessary to enforce any of the provisions of this charter, or any other rights and privileges as are usually vested in municipal corporations in this State; provided, that should any provision, or provisions, of this charter be in conflict with or in violation of any general law in this State, the latter shall prevail, and such provision, or provisions, shall be of no effect. Ordinances. Sec. 40. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of Cobbtown are hereby authorized to enforce the collection of any tax that may have been assessed against any person or property by the town of Cobbtown, where the same has not been paid, and to that end, as soon as this Act shall go into effect, may cause, by motion, the city clerk to issue execution for the same, as hereinbefore provided; and they may punish as hereinbefore prescribed, any person who shall have failed to pay to the town of Cobbtown any street tax or to do such street work as may have been assessed against him. Tax executions. Punishment for failure to pay street tax. Sec. 41. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and councilmen of the former town of Cobbtown, to-wit: W. H. Cowart, mayor; R. G. Wilkes, Clem Mercer, P. R. Collins, F. H. Mulling and G. G. Cewart, councilmen, be and they are hereby made the mayor and councilmen of the City of Cobbtown, and they shall continue in office until their successors are elected, qualified and installed, as hereinafter provided and they and their successors and associates shall

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have and exercise all the rights, powers and duties conferred by law upon the mayor and council of said City of Cobbtown. Mayor and councilmen designated. Sec. 42. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said City of Cobbtown are hereby authorized and empowered to use and expend any part or parcel of the moneys collected by the taxation provided in Section 28 of this Act, for the erection of any building, artesian or other well, or for any other public improvement or purpose. Expenditures authorized. Sec. 43. Be it further enacted, That all ordinances and laws of the town of Cobbtown in force at the time the charter of said town of Cobbtown was abolished shall be and remain in full force and effect until the city council of Cobbtown shall abolish or repeal the same; provided, the same shall not be in conflict with any provisions of this Act. Ordinances continued in force. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws that would conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. COBBTOWN, REPEAL OF CHARTER OF TOWN OF. No. 193. An Act to repeal an Act approved August 23, 1905, incorporating the town of Cobbtown, and the Act amendatery thereof, which constitutes the present charter of the town of Cobbtown, in Tattnall County, Georgia, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Act approved August 23, 1905, incorporating the town of Cobbtown, in Tattnall County, Geergia, and the Act amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby repealed. Repeal of charter.

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Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall become operative when a bill entitled An Act to incorporate the City of Cobbtown shall have been approved by the Governor of the State of Georgia. See preceding Act. Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all other laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. COCHRAN, STREET IMPROVEMENTS; BONDS. No. 255. An Act to amend an Act to provide and create a new charter for the town of Cochran, approved August 15, 1904, so as to authorize the City of Cochran to pave, grade, macadamize or otherwise improve the streets of said city; to provide for the assessment and collection of two-thirds of the costs of such pavement or improvement against the real estate abutting on said streets; to empower the City of Cochran to issue bonds for the part of the costs of such paving or improvement due by said City of Cochran, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That from and after the passage of this Act, the charter of the City of Cochran, which was approved August 15, 1904, be and the same is hereby amended so as to authorize and empower the City of Cochran to pave, grade, macadamize or otherwise improve, or cause to be paved, graded, macadamized or otherwise improved, any or all of the streets and alleys within the limits of the City of Cochran. Act of 1904 amended. Street Improvements. authorized. Sec. 2. That the city council of Cochran shall be the legislative and governing authority of said city. Powers of city council.

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Sec. 3. That the city council of Cochran shall have full power to provide by ordinance and require the paving of any street, lane or alley of said city and prescribe the material to be used for that purpose, and for the grading of such streets, lanes or alleys, and the manner in which the paving shall be paid, and to provide for the payment thereof. In order to carry into effect the authority above delegated, the city council shall have power and authority to assess not more than one-third of the cost of such paving against each abutting land owner and that the City of Cochran shall pay one-third; provided that where there are intersections and there is no abutting property the City of Cochran shall pay the expenses of same; and provided, further, that if there is an intersection on one side and an abutting property owner on the other side, then such abutting property owner on one side shall pay one-third of the expense and the City of Cochran shall pay the remaining two-thirds. That the assessment above provided to be made for grading and paving streets, alleys, streets and intersections shall be made against all property abutting thereon owned by individuals, corporations, churches or the County of Bleckley. That the amount of assessment on each piece of realty shall be a lien thereon from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the work and making the assessment. The city council shall have full power and authority to enforce the collection for the amount of the assessment as aforesaid by execution issued by the city clerk against the owner of said realty at the time of such ordinance making such assessment, which execution may be levied by the marshal of the City of Cochran, or his deputy, on such real estate, and after advertising and other proceedings, as in case of tax sales, the same shall be sold to the highest bidder. Such sale shall vest absolute title in the purchaser. Said city marshall shall have authority to eject the occupant and put the purchaser in possession; provided the owner shall have notice in writing of the amount due, before the issuance of such execution, which notice shall be provided by the city council of Cochran under such terms as to time and manner of service they deem best; provided

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that when the execution shall be levied as aforesaid, the owner of said real estate shall have the right to file his affidavit denying the whole or any part of the amount for which execution is issued, stating the amount which he admits to be due, which amount admitted to be due, with all costs, shall be paid before affidavit shall be received, and like affidavits shall be returned to the Superior Court of Bleckley County, and there tried and the issue determined, as in cases of illegality, subject to the penalties provided when the illegality is filed for delay. The city council shall have authority to pave and contract to pave the whole surface of the streets without giving any railroad company, or other property holders abutting thereon, or occupant on the street, the option of having the space to be paved by them, paved by themselves, or by a contract at his or her instance, the object being to prevent delay and to [Illegible Text] uniformity. The lien for assessments on abutting property as herein provided, shall have rank and priority of payment next in point of dignity to liens for taxes, such liens to date from the date of the passage of the ordinance authorizing the [Illegible Text] of the work done in each case. Said city council [Illegible Text] have power and authority to prescribe by [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] such other rules and regulations as they may, in their [Illegible Text], think necessary, to grade, pave, drain [Illegible Text] or otherwise improve the streets of said City of [Illegible Text] and for carrying the provisions of this amendment. Paving and grading. Assessments. Lien of assessment. Enforcement Notice. Affidavit of [Illegible Text]. Rank of lien. Sec. 4. That the City of Cochran shall be authorized and [Illegible Text] to issue bonds for the part of the paving, [Illegible Text] or otherwise improving the streets, lanes, alleys of said [Illegible Text], that shall be due by said City of Cochran. That said [Illegible Text] shall be issued in the same manner (and the election [Illegible Text] to determine whether same shall be issued in the same [Illegible Text]) as provided for issuance of other bonds by said city [Illegible Text] the Act approved August 15, 1904, and subject to the [Illegible Text], restrictions and provisions of said Act and the [Illegible Text] and Laws of the State of Georgia, and when [Illegible Text] thereunder shall be known as Paving and Street [Illegible Text] Bonds of the City of [Illegible Text]. Bonds for paving, etc.

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Sec. 5. That the provisions of this Act shall be effective immediately upon the passage thereof. Sec. 6. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. COLUMBUS, CORPORATE LIMITS; ELECTION TO EXTEND. No. 337. An Act to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, in the County of Muscogee; to provide for an election to be held in the territory proposed to be annexed and in said city; to provide for [Illegible Text] the result thereof; to provide for the qualified voters therein; to provide penalties for illegal voting, and for other purposes. Whereas, It is desired by the City of Columbus to extend the corporate limits [Illegible Text] as to include the territory adjoining said city to the north thereof, lying within the following described boundaries, to-wit: Preamble. Beginning at the eastern boundary of Bibb City in said county, on the south side of Thirty-first street and running thence east along the south side of Thirty-first street to the east side of Second avenue, thence north along the east side of Second avenue to the south side of Thirty-second street, thence east along the south side of Thirty-second street to the River road, thence north along the River road to the south side of Thirty-eighth street, thence in an easterly direction along the south side of Thirty-eighth street to the west side of Twelfth avenue; thence south along Twelfth avenue to the present city limits; thence in a westerly direction along the line of the present city limits to the Chattahoochee river, thence northerly along the said river to the south line of the town of Bibb City, the aforesaid territory to be hereinafter called the northern extension. Boundaries.

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Also so as to include the territory adjoining said city on the east lying within the following described boundaries, towit: Beginning at a point on Fifteenth street where said street intersects Thirteenth avenue and running thence south along the west side of Thirteenth avenue to [Illegible Text] branch; thence in a southwesterly direction along said branch to the east line of the present city limits on Tenth avenue, thence north along Tenth avenue to Fifteenth street, thence in an easterly direction along Fifteenth street to the beginning point, which said territory will be hereinafter called the eastern extension. Therefore, Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the mayor and council of the City of Columbus be and they are hereby authorized to submit to the qualified voters of said city, at an election to be held as hereinafter provided upon a day named by the said mayor and council, the question of the extension of the limits of said city so as to include and embrace the aforesaid territory. Election to extend corporate limits. Sec. 2. The said election shall be held under the same [Illegible Text] and regulations governing general and special [Illegible Text] and at the same place as elections for officers of said [Illegible Text] are held. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Ordinary of [Illegible Text] County shall submit to the qualified voters residing [Illegible Text] the territory [Illegible Text] described, the propriety of such extension by ordering an election to be held on the same day as said city election and providing for two voting [Illegible Text] where the voters of said territory to be affected may [Illegible Text], one being at some central place designated by him [Illegible Text] said proposed northern extension and also another [Illegible Text] and central place designated by him in said [Illegible Text] eastern extension. He shall also appoint three [Illegible Text] residing in each proposed extension who shall manage

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the election to be held therein, which managers shall be sworn by the Ordinary to manage said election. Ordinary to order election. Managers. Sec. 4. At said election only qualified voters of said county who have continuously resided in the territory proposed to be annexed for at least three months next preceding the day of said election shall be permitted to vote and the voters residing in the northern extension shall vote at the place designated for voting therein, and the voters residing in the eastern extension shall vote at the place designated for voting therein. Eligibility to vote. Sec. 5. No person shall be deemed a qualified voter whose name does not appear upon the list of registered voters of said county, prepared, purged and supplemented in the manner now provided by the law of this State governing general and special elections. Registration. Sec. 6. The managers of said election shall before any person be permitted to deposit his ballot, enter the name of said voter and his street address upon a list of voters together with the number of his ballot, which number shall also be entered upon the ballot. In other respects the list of voters, ballots and tally sheets shall be kept as in other elections. List of voters. Sec. 7. In cases of challenge of any voter or upon their own motion the said managers or either of them may require any voter to swear that he has resided within the territory where he offers to vote continuously for three months next preceding the date of said election and for this purpose said managers are hereby empowered to administer oaths. Oath. Sec. 8. The managers of said election shall count the ballots cast thereat and they shall at noon of the day following said election certify the result thereof to the Ordinary and shall deliver over to the Ordinary the ballot boxes, ballots, tally sheets and list of voters. Returns. Sec. 9. The elections herein provided to be held shall be held within not less than forty and not more than sixty days from the passage of this Act and 30 days previous notice

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of said elections shall be published in a daily newspaper in said City of Columbus and in said notice the day of the election and the polling places in the proposed extension shall be mentioned and designated. Time of election; notice. Sec. 10. At said elections those who favor annexing the territory hereinbefore described shall have plainly marked or printed on their tickets For annexation, and those who oppose said annexation shall have plainly marked or printed on their tickets Against annexation. Ballots. Sec. 11. The managers of the election held in the City of Columbus shall at noon of the day following said election certify to the mayor and council the result of said election in the city and the mayor and Ordinary shall thereupon consolidate the total vote cast in said elections both inside the city and in the northern and eastern extension as hereinbefore provided, and if it shall appear that two-thirds of the total number of votes cast in said election (adding all votes cast inside and all votes cast outside the city together) favor annexation, then the Ordinary and mayor shall make a joint proclamation of such results and thereupon the corporate limits of the City of Columbus shall be extended so as to include the territory within the boundaries hereinbefore described and said territory shall thenceforth become a part of said City of Columbus and subject to all the laws and ordinances governing the same. Consolidation of vote. Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the mayor and council of the City of Columbus, if such annexation shall become effective as herein provided, to as soon as practicable [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] define one or more city wards within said extension, or [Illegible Text] designate by ordinance what ward or wards such [Illegible Text] shall be incorporated into and provide for [Illegible Text] of said territory in the council of said city as other [Illegible Text] of said city are represented. And the qualified [Illegible Text] of said territory shall be entitled to vote at the first city [Illegible Text] held after such extension shall become effective. Wards. Sec. 13. It shall further [Illegible Text] the duty of the mayor and [Illegible Text] of the City of Columbus, if said extension of the

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limits of said city shall be accomplished, to cause to be kept a separate account of all assessments arising from taxation or otherwise in said territory for a period of five years. Said mayor and council of the City of Columbus shall be required to expend in the maintenance and improvement of said annexed territory and in the protection of the same, and in the establishment of public schools therein, at least 55 per cent of such sums as may arise from taxation or otherwise in said annexed territory. 55 per cent of taxes from new territory to be expended therein. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That the entire expense of the election herein provided to be called and held inside the city, as well as in the territory proposed to be annexed shall be borne and paid by the City of Columbus. Expense of election. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That should any person vote in said election who is not registered and qualified to vote or (in case of those voting in the proposed extensions) who has not continuously resided in the territory where he votes for at least three months next preceding the day of the election, shall be deemed guilty of illegal voting and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the penal code. Illegal voting. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. CORDELE; PERMANENT REGISTRATION OF VOTERS; INCREASE OF SCHOOL TAX. No. 333. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Cordele by providing for permanent registration of the voters of said city, and to further amend said charter of said City of Cordele by providing for an increase of the rate from one-half to one per cent, in the tax to be levied for the purpose

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of establishing and maintaining a system of public schools in said city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act creating a new charter for the City of Cordele, approved August 21, 1911, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By adding to Section 21 of said Act the following: Provided, that all persons who shall register under the provisions of this Act and this section shall be permanently registered, and his name shall not be removed from said registration list, except for cause, such as death, removal or non-payment of taxes, after said permanent registration list is once made up, which it shall be the duty of the authorities charged by law with the making up of registration lists to do after the books shall have closed on the first Monday in November, 1919, so that said section, when so amended, shall read as follows: Act of 1911 amended. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the city clerk on the first Monday in September of each year, to open a registration book, to be kept at the council chamber for the proper registration of the qualified voters of the City of Cordele, said book to be kept open from eight o'clock A. M. until 12 o'clock M., and from two o'clock P. M. to five o'clock P. M. each and every day (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) until the first Monday in November following, when it shall be finally and absolutely closed; provided, that all persons who shall register under the [Illegible Text] of this Act and this section shall be permanently registered, and his name shall not be removed from said registration list, except for cause, such as death, removal, or non-payment of taxes, after said permanent registration list is once made up, which it shall be the duty of the authorities charged by law with the making up of registration lists to do after the books shall have closed on the first Monday in November, 1919. Sec. 21 as amended. Permanent registration. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, Section 109

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of the Act approved August 21, 1911, creating a new charter for the City of Cordele, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By striking the words one-half of, occurring in the fourth line of said Section 109, so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Sec. 109. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Cordele are hereby authorized to levy a tax annually in addition to that now authorized by law, not to exceed one per cent on the real and personal property in the City of Cordele, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of public schools in said city, provided the money so raised shall be used for school purposes as hereinafter set forth. Sec. 109 as amended. School tax. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. DARIEN POLICE COURT SENTENCES. No. 236. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Darien, so that persons convicted in the police court may be sentenced to work upon the streets or public works of said city, or in the county chaingang for a time not exceeding sixty days, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That Section six (6) of the charter of the City of Darien be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word or in the seventh line of said section after the word streets, in the printed Acts of 1909, and inserting in lieu thereof a comma, and inserting after the word city in the eighth line, the words or in the county chaingang, and by striking out the word thirty, in said eighth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the word sixty, so that said

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section as amended shall read as follows: Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That a police court is hereby established for said city, for trial of all offenders against the ordinances of said city. Said court shall be presided over by the mayor or mayor pro tem, and the presiding officer may fine not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or sentence to work upon the streets, public works of said city or in the county chaingang not exceeding sixty days, any one or more of said penalties in the discretion of the mayor or mayor pro tem, the mayor pro tem having full power and authority of the mayor in the absence or disqualification of the mayor. Act of [Illegible Text] amended. Sec. 6 as amended. Punishment. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. DEARING; TIME OF ELECTIONS; INCREASE OF TAXES. No. 244. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Dearing, in McDeffie County, approved August 15, 1910, by amending Section 3 of said Act, so as to provide for holding elections on the first Wednesday in December; by amending Section 15 of said Act so as to provide for the collection of a commutation tax not to exceed three dollars per annum; by amending Section 17 of said Act so as to provide for the levy and collection of a tax not to exceed fifty cents on every one hundred dollars, on all real and personal property in said town; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby so enacted, That the Act incorporating the town of Dearing, approved August 16, 1910, be

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and the same is hereby amended in the following several particulars: Act of 1910 amended. Section 1. Section 3 of said Act is amended by striking the word September, in the fourth line of said Section 3 and substituting therefor the word December, so that hereafter all elections for mayor and council for said town of Dearing shall be held on the first Wednesdays in December, instead of September, as heretofore. Time of elections. Sec. 2. It is further enacted that Section 15 of said Act be and it is hereby amended by striking the words two dollars, in line ten of said Section 15 and substituting therefor the words three dollars, so that hereafter the commutation tax provided for in said section shall be three dollars, instead of two dollars as originally provided. Commutation tax. Sec. 3. It is further enacted that Section 17 of said Act be and it is hereby amended by striking the words fifteen cents in line three of said section and substituting therefor the words fifty cents, so that hereafter the mayor and council of said town of Dearing may levy and collect a tax of not to exceed fifty cents on every one hundred dollars, on all real and personal property in said town subject to be taxed under the laws of this State. Tax rate. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted and it is hereby so enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. DECATUR SCHOOL TAX, INCREASE OF. No. 22. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter and municipal government for the town of Decatur, in the County of [Illegible Text] approved August 17, 1909, by striking from the 14th line of Section 46 of said Act the word

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one-half and inserting in lieu thereof the word three-fourths, so as to authorize a tax levy of seventy-five cents on the hundred dollars for the maintenance of the public schools of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act establishing a new charter and municipal government for the town of Decatur, in the County of DeKalb, approved August 17, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended, by striking from the 14th line of Section 46 of said Act the word one-half and inserting in lieu thereof the word three-fourths, so as to authorize a tax levy of seventy-five cents on the hundred dollars for the maintenance of the public schools of said town, and when thus amended Section 46 of said Act shall read as follows: Act of 1909 amended. Be it further enacted, That the revenues received by the town of Decatur, as its pro rata share of the State's common school fund, shall be appropriated and exclusively used in the support and maintenance of said public school system. Sec. 46 as amended. The mayor and council shall levy and collect such ad valorem tax upon all the property in said town subject to taxation as will be sufficient, when added to the sum received from the State common school fund, and any other educational funds as may come into the hands of the Board of Education, to support and maintain said public schools for at least nine [Illegible Text] months in each year; provided, that said special school tax shall not exceed three-fourths of one per centum per annum upon said taxable property. Tax rate. The mayor and council may provide for the payment of said special school tax in installments as in the case of collection of the general tax levied in said town, but said school tax shall be paid over to the Board of Education as collected, at the close of each month during which received. No part of said school fund shall be used for any other purposes [Illegible Text] in the support and maintenance of said

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schools and school system, or in providing furniture and other necessary equipment therefor or in the repairs and upkeep of the buildings and grounds of said school. No new buildings shall be contracted for or erected by the Board of Education, except after express approval of the mayor and council, and provision made by said mayor and council for funds necessary therefor. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of town of Decatur shall, within ninety days after the approval of this Act, order and hold an election for the qualified voters of said town to determine whether said Act shall become operative; the election to be called and held, and the result declared, under the provisions of the charter of said town for special elections. At this election, the qualified voters of said town shall cast ballots having written or printed thereon the words For increase of school tax or Against increase of school tax. If two-thirds of the qualified voters of said town, voting at said election, vote For increase of school tax, then this Act shall become effective and operative; otherwise not. This Act referred to vote of people. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. DECATUR STREET, IMPROVEMENTS; ASSESSMENTS AGAINST RAILROAD COMPANIES. No. 190. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter and municipal government for the town of Decatur, in the County of DeKalb, approved August 17, 1909, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize and empower the mayor and council of said town, in their discretion, whenever any street, square, public alley or lane

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of said town has been graded, paved, maeadamized, repaired, rebuilt, repaved, regraded, scarified, oiled, topdressed with a road binder, or otherwise improved, under the provisions of said charter and its several amendments, and any street railroad company or other railroad company has a track or tracks running along or across any such streets, squares, public alleys or lanes, to assess and collect from such railroad company the actual cost of such improvement made between its tracks and for two feet on each side thereof, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act establishing a new charter and municipal government for the town of Decatur, in the County of DeKalb, approved August 17, 1909, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, are hereby amended, and the mayor and council of town of Decatur, in the County of DeKalb, are hereby authorized and empowered, and they shall have full power and authority, in their discretion, whenever any street, square, public alley or lane of said town has been graded, paved, macadamized, repaired, rebuilt, repaved, regraded, scarified, oiled, top-dressed with a road binder, or otherwise improved under the provisions of said charter and its several amendments, and any street railroad company or other railroad company has a track or tracks running along or across any such street, square, public alley or lane, to assess such street or other railroad company the actual cost of the improvement made between the tracks of such railroad company, and for two feet on each side thereof. Acts amended. Authority to assess railroads for street improvements. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the amount of the assessment for such improvement shall be a lien against said street or other railroad company, and against the property thereof, from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the work and making the assessment. Lien of assessment. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town, when the amount

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of the cost of such improvement between the tracks of such street or other railroad company, and for two feet on each side thereof, has been determined shall be authorized and empowered, and they shall have full power and authority, to levy and assess the same against said street or other railroad company, and against the property thereof, and shall have full power and authority to enforce the collection of the amount of any such assessment so made for such improvement by execution to be issued by the clerk of council of said town against said railroad company, which execution may be levied by the marshal of said town on the property of such street or other railroad company, and after advertisement and other proceedings, as in cases for sale of real estate for town taxes, the same may be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder and such sale shall vest an absolute title in the purchaser; provided, however, that the defendant railroad company shall have the right to file an affidavit denying that the whole or any part of the amount for which the execution is issued is due, and stating what amount, if any, it admits to be due, which amount so admitted to be due shall be paid before the affidavit shall be received; which affidavit, when received, shall be returned by the marshal of said town to the Superior Court of DeKalb County, and there tried and the issue determined as in the cases of illegality, subject to all the pains and penalties provided in cases of illegality for delay. Collection. Levy and sale. Affidavit of illegality. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. DEXTER; INCREASE OF TAXES. No. 195. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to create [Illegible Text] new charter for the town of Dexter, in the County of Laurens, State of Georgia; to grant certain privileges to said town;

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to provide the corporate limits of the same; to consolidate and declare the rights and powers of said town; to repeal all Acts and laws in conflict with this Act; to provide for election of officers; to provide their rights, powers and duties; to prescribe the qualifications of electors; to provide for the government of said corporation; to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain in and by said town; to provide a system of public schools for said town, and for the maintenance of the same, and for other purposes, passed by the General Assembly of Georgia, and recorded in Georgia Laws 1910, page 600, by striking out the words one and one-half per cent in line twenty-six of Section 14 of said original Act, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words two per cent; and to amend Section 19 of said Act by striking out the words one and one-half per cent in the first and second liens of said Section 19 and by inserting in lieu thereof the words two per cent; and by further amending said Section 19 by striking out the words one-half of one per cent in the fourth line of said Section 19, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words two-thirds of all taxes so levied and collected, and by further amending said Section 19 by adding at the end of said section the following words: Provided, however, that said mayor and council shall levy a tax each year which shall net to the public school system of said town at least ten mills, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That from and after the passage of this Act, that the Act creating a new charter for the town of Dexter, in the County of [Illegible Text] State of Georgia, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out of line 26 of Section 14 the words one and one-half per cent and by inserting in lieu thereof the words two per cent, so that when amended said Section 14 shall read as follows: Act of 1910 amended. Sec. 14. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have power within said town

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to lay off, establish, vacate, alter, improve and keep in good order and repair, the streets, roads, alleys and sidewalks for the use of the public and citizens of said town; to improve and lay out such new streets in said town as the public interest may require, and for this purpose may condemn and take private property when the same is necessary under the same rules and regulations that the counties of this State condemn and take private property for public use; to establish and regulate markets; to prevent injury and annoyance to the public or individuals, from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome; to prevent hogs, horses, goats or other animals from going at large in said town; to define and abate nuisances within the limits of said town, and to prescribe penalties for violations of any order made by the mayor and council for the abatement of any nuisance; to regulate the keeping of gunpowder or other combustibles; to have charge of the cemeteries of said town for the purpose of keeping them in good order and preservation; to protect the property of persons and citizens of said town from injury; to preserve peace and good order, and for this purpose to appoint, when necessary, a police force to assist the marshal in the discharge of his duties; to provide revenue for the said town by levying a tax on the property situated in said town, which tax shall not in any one year exceed two per cent of the value of said property; all said taxes levied shall be in accordance with the Constitution and laws of this State, and to ascertain the value of said property in said town for the purpose of taxation, said mayor and council shall have power to appoint three assessors, bona fide residents of said town, to serve one year, whose duties shall be as defined by mayor and council, and in accordance with the powers conferred by this Act; provided, expenditures of money and labor shall be for the general benefit and public improvements of said town, and said mayor and council shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax upon any and all persons doing or carrying on within the limits of said town any business, trade, calling or vocation whatsoever. Sec. 14 as amonded. Tax rate.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Section 19 of said original Act be and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the words one and one-half per cent in the first and second lines of said Section 19, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words two per cent, and by striking out the words one-half of one per cent in fourth line of said Section 19 and by inserting in lieu thereof the words two-thirds of all taxes so levied and collected, and by further amending said Section 19 by adding at the end of said section the following words, Provided, however, that said mayor and council shall levy a tax each year which shall net to the public school system of said town at least ten mills, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, That the tax of two per cent, which the mayor and council of said town have power to levy upon all property in the limits of said town, two-thirds of all taxes so levied and collected shall be for the support of the common public school system which they are hereby authorized to establish and maintain upon such plan and under such regulations as they may deem best: provided, however, that said mayor and council shall levy a tax each year which shall net to the public school system of said town at least ten mills. Sec. 19 as amended. Taxes for schools. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act [Illegible Text] and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. DUBLIN CHARTER AMENDMENTS. No. 297. An Act to amend an Act approved August 16, 1910, creating a new charter for the city of Dublin, and Act amendatory thereof.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act that the Act approved on August 15, 1910, appearing on pages 618 to 659, both inclusive, published Acts of Georgia, creating a new charter for the City of Dublin, Georgia, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: Act of 1910 amended. Sec. 2. Section 3 of said charter shall be amended by striking therefrom that portion of said paragraph prescribing the limits of Ward One in said city and substituting therefor the following: That the first ward shall consist of all that part of the territory of said city lying south of East Jackson street; south of West Jackson street to Monroe street; east of Monroe street to Telfair street; south and east of Telfair street to the city limits. Sec. 3. First ward. Sec. 3. Section 18 of said charter shall be amended by striking therefrom the word two in the fifth line of said section and substituting therefor the word five, so that the sentence of said section shall read as follows: No person shall be eligible to hold the office of mayor unless he be twenty-one years of age, a qualified elector of the City of Dublin, and shall have resided in the City of Dublin five years immediately preceding his election. Sec. 18. [Illegible Text] eligibility. Sec. 4. Section 47 of said charter shall be amended by striking therefrom the word two in the fifth line of said section and substituting therefor the word five so that the first sentence of said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Be it further enacted that the mayor and board of aldermen may elect a city recorder, who shall be at least twenty-five years of age, and shall have resided for five years next preceding his election in the City of Dublin, and who shall be a qualified voter therein, etc. Sec. 47. Recorder; eligibility. Sec. 5. Section 48 of said charter shall be amended by striking therefrom the first sentence, lines one to eight, both inclusive, regulating the punishment imposed for violation of any law or ordinance of said city by the recorder, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: The recorder,

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mayor or mayor pro tem, of said city shall have power to impose fines for the violation of any law or [Illegible Text] of the City of Dublin in any amount not to exceed two hundred ($200.00) dollars, to imprison offenders in the city barracks for a period' of not more than thirty days, to labor on the public works or streets in the city chaingang for not more than ninety days; any one or more of these punishments, in the discretion of said recorder. Sec. 48. Punishment. Sec. 6. Section 8 of the city charter is hereby amended by adding after the words registration book in line ten of said section, the following: Said registration book to be re-opened on the day following each election, and any person registered shall remain so registered unless he be subsequently disqualified. The registrar of said city shall purge said registration book thirty days before each election of all voters so registered who are disqualified by reason of removal from the city, death, failure to pay taxes, or other [Illegible Text]. Provided in case the name of any voter be stricken from said registration book because of non-payment of taxes, that upon payment of all arrears of taxation, he be allowed to re-register. Sec. 8. Registration. Sec. 7. That the fiscal year close on December thirty-first of each year, instead of June 30th, as at present. Fiscal year. Sec. 8. That Section 6 of the charter be repealed and substituting therefor the following: On the first Monday in December, 1920, and every two years thereafter, there shall be held an election for three aldermen from the city at large, and on the first Monday in December, 1921, and every two years thereafter, there shall be held an election for mayor and four aldermen, one of whom shall be elected from and to represent each of four wards; said aldermen of the ward for which they are respectively elected. That the mayor and aldermen so elected shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. The present mayor-elect, Hen. L. Q. Stubbs, and the four aldermen-elect from said wards, to-wit: U. T. Joiner from the first; J. B. Jones of the second; J. L. Reid from the third, and F. N. Watkins from the fourth ward, shall hold office and discharge

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the duties thereof until the first day of January, 1922, and that the aldermen from the city at large, to-wit: H. T Hodges, W. A. Knight and W. W. Breedlove, shall hold of fice and discharge the duties thereof until January 1st, 1921 That all minor officers now elected shall hold offices and discharge the duties thereof until the time said mayor elect and four aldermen expires, to-wit: January 1, 1922 Thereafter all minor officers shall be elected at the time that the mayor and four aldermen are sworn in and to [Illegible Text] said offices and discharge the duties thereof for two years, unless sooner removed by said mayor and aldermen for cause. Substitute for Sec. 6. Mayor and aldermen; election and terms. Other officers. Sec. 9. That Section 19 of said charter be amended by striking the word six in the fifth line of said section and substituting the word twelve, so that said section, when amended, shall read He shall receive a salary not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum. Also by striking the last sentence of said section and substituting therefor the following: He shall devote as much time as necessary to the business of the city, and shall [Illegible Text] be absent from the State more than thirty days together nor from the city more than sixty consecutive days, except with the consent of the board of aldermen. Sec. 19; amendments. Mayor's salary: $1,200 limit. Absence from city limited. Sec. 10. Section 30 of the charter is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: Sec. 30. Water and Light Commission. The mayor and board of aldermen are hereby empowered to establish by ordinance at any time they may see proper a board of commissioners for its water and light plant to be known as the `Water and Light Commission.' Said board when established shall consist of one member, known as the chairman, whose duties shall be prescribed and salary fixed by ordinance, and two additional members who shall be the chairman of the finance committee of the council, and the chairman of the light and water committee of the council, which two latter members shall serve without additional compensation to that received as aldermen. Substitute for Sec. 30. Water and light commission. Said board may be, when established, with full power and authority to maintain, extend, improve, modify and operate

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the system of the light and water plant now owned by said city, and any additional light and water plants hereafter established, to establish, equip, maintain, modify and operate a system of sewers and drains in said city, to appoint, to superintend and remove all employees of said water and light system, to purchase, rent and lease real estate, apparatus and machinery and all other things necessary to properly and safely conduct said light and water systems, and to hold title for same for the City of Dublin; to collect, receive and disburse all moneys arising from the sale of bonds for the extension of said plant, all water and light rents and all other revenues derived from said system; to make such laws, rules and regulations for their own government and the government of employees and the management of said water and light systems as they may deem necessary, not to conflict with this board Act. Powers. Said board shall be required to make to the said mayor and board of alderman, as often as the mayor and board of aldermen may so require, by ordinance or otherwise, reports showing the amounts of money received and from what source and the amount disbursed and to whom and for what purpose, together with vouchers for the same and shall furnish as nearly as possible an estimate of the amount required for the ensuing year. Said board may elect a clerk and fix his compensation and prescribe his duties, said election to be ratified by the mayor and board of aldermen. The mayor and board of aldermen are hereby vested with power to fix such other ordinances, rules and regulations as the said body may deem necessary for the proper and successful management of the affairs of said commission. Should any vacancy occur at any time in said board by death or otherwise, the mayor and board of aldermen shall at their first meeting, elect a successor to said member for his unexpired term. Duties. Clerk of Board. Vacancies. Sec. 11. Be it enacted further, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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EATONTON; ASSESSMENTS FOR SIDEWALKS. No. 357. An Act to amend Section 27 of an Act approved August 5, 1908, entitled An Act to create a new charter for the City of Eatonton, to declare the rights, powers and privileges of said corporation, and for other purposes, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by adding a new paragraph to said section, after paragraph one to be numbered paragraph two, and providing that said city shall have the right, power and authority to pave or remove or repair the pavements of any or all of the sidewalks of said city not fronting the business houses, and assess not exceeding one-half of the cost thereof upon the owners of the property abutting upon the sidewalks so improved, according to frontage; and by renumbering paragraphs two and three of said Sections 3 and 4, respectively, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, Section 27 of an Act approved August 5, 1908, entitled an Act to create a new charter for the City of Eatonton, to declare the rights, powers and privileges of said corporation, and for other purposes, and all Acts amendatory thereof, be and is hereby amended, by adding a new paragraph to said section, after paragraph one, to be numbered paragraph two, as follows; Act of 1908 amended. (2) Said City shall have the right, power and authority to pave, remove or repair the pavements of any or all of the sidewalks of said city not fronting the business houses, and to assess not exceeding one-half of the cost thereof upon the owners of the property abutting on said sidewalks so improved, according to frontage owned by them thereon. Sec. 27; par. 2; amendments. Assessments for paving, etc. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Section 27 of said Act be further amended by

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renumbering paragraphs two and three of said Sections 3 and 4, respectively. Sections re-numbered. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. EATONTON; INCREASE OF TAXES. No. 96. An Act to amend Section 28 of an Act approved August 5, 1908, entitled An Act to create a new charter for the City of Eatonton, to declare the rights, powers and privileges of said corporation, and for other purposes, and all Acts amendatory thereof by striking from the fourth line of said section the word one and inserting in lieu thereof the words one and one-fifth, and by striking from the sixth line of said section the figures 189.. and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures December 12, 1892; also by striking from the sixth line of paragraph three (3) of said section the word three and inserting in lieu thereof the word five, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same. That Section twenty-eight (28) of an Act approved August 5, 1908, entitled An Act to create a new charter for the City of Eatonton, to declare the rights, powers and privileges of said corporation, and for other purposes, and all Acts amendatory thereof be, and the said Section twenty-eight (28) of the said Act approved August 5, 1908, is hereby amended by striking from the fourth line of said section the word one and inserting in lieu thereof the words one and one-fifth, and by striking from the sixth line of said section the figures 189.. and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures December 12, 1892:

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also by striking from the sixth line of paragraph three (3) of said section the word three and inserting in lieu thereof the word five, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Act of 1908 amended. Sec. 28. Said City of Eatonton shall have the right, power and authority to assess, levy and collect a tax upon all property, both real and personal, within the limits of the city, not to exceed one and one-fifth per centum ad valorem except the amount authorized by the law establishing schools for the city approved December 12, 1892; to levy and collect a specific or occupation tax upon all business occupations, professions, callings or trades, public or private, exercised within the city, as may be deemed just and proper, and upon franchises; to fix and collect a license upon theatrical exhibitions, circuses and shows of all kinds, on the sale of spirituous or malt liquors (if the sale thereof is not prohibited by law), and on drays and hacks, hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, fish stands, billiard, pool and other kind of tables, ten-pin alleys and similar devices, butcher shops, livery stables, auctioneers, and upon all other classes or kinds of business, legitimately coming within the police power of the city, as may be just and reasonable; and to fix and collect a specific or occupation tax upon the agency of any railroad, express, telegraph, telephone, or electric light company, or other similar corporation. The taxing power of the city, except as limited by law, shall be as general, complete and full as that of the State itself. Sec. 28 as amended. Tax rate. (1) Said city shall provide, by ordinance, for the return of all real and personal property for taxation, and may double-tax defaulters. The board of council shall prescribe the time and manner of making such returns, and shall have the power and authority to enforce the collection of taxes, both ad valorem and specific, by execution issued by the city clerk, and bearing test in the name of the mayor, which execution shall be issued at the time and in the manner to be prescribed by ordinances, and the sales under such execution shall be conducted as prescribed by the laws of the State in such cases. The marshal of said city is hereby

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authorized and empowered to levy and collect any such tax executions or other execution, or they may be levied and collected by the sheriff of Putnam County. They shall be directed to such officers in the alternative. (2) Said city may require the registration of any business subject to specific or occupation tax, and may prescribe a penalty for engaging in any such business without registering the same and paying the tax, or either. (3) Said City is empowered to require each male resident thereof, between the ages of sixteen (16) and fifty (50) years to work upon the [Illegible Text] of said city, as the board of council may direct, for as many as eight days in each year, or in lieu of such work, to pay a street or road tax of not more than five dollars annually, and further to provide the time and manner of collecting said tax, and to punish persons who may, after due notice, fail or refuse to perform the work required or pay the tax, as herein provided in case of violations of other ordinances. Street Tax. (4) Said city may [Illegible Text] for a board of tax assessors, who shall be elected by the people annually at the regular city election, and whose compensation shall not exceed five ($5.00) dollars per day when officially engaged; who shall assess for taxation the value of all property, real or personal, in said city, and shall have all the powers of a court to compel the attendance of parties and witnesses, and to enforce the same by attachments for contempt; such attachments to be returned to the police court, and the offenders, if convicted, to be punished as if in contempt of said court. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919.

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FARMINGTON, CHARTER OF. No. 340. An Act to incorporate the town of Farmington, in the County of Oconee and to provide for mayor and council for said town and to name a mayor and council to serve from the passage of this Act until the 1st day of January, 1920, and to confer certain powers and privileges upon the mayor and council thereof, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the town of Farmington, Georgia, in the County of [Illegible Text], be and the same is hereby incorporated under the name and style of the City of Farmington. The corporate powers of said city shall be vested in a mayor and four councilmen by the name of the mayor and council of Farmington, they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and exercise all the corporate powers that may be necessary in performing their duties. Corporate name. Mayor and council. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said City of Farmington shall extend one-half mile from an iron pin near W. C. Moor's store in every direction, north, east, south and west, so that the boundary lines shall embrace one square mile. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the corporate powers and municipal government of said city shall vest in and consist of a mayor and four councilmen, who are hereby constituted a body corporate and political under the name and style of the mayor and council of the City of Farmington, and by that name shall have all rights and liabilities of similar bodies corporated in this State; and that said municipal government shall have perpetual succession, and have power to make, ordain and establish from time to time such by-laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations as shall appear to them necessary and proper for good government,

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security and interest of said city and inhabitants thereof, and for the preserving of the health, morals, peace and good order of the same not in conflict with the [Illegible Text] and laws of this State or of the United States, and shall have power and authority in and by said corporate name to borrow money for town improvement and repairs, and to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued; plead and to be impleaded in any of the courts of this State; and to have and use a common seal; to hold all property, real and personal, in the said city to the use of said city for the purposes and interests for which the same are or may be granted, acquired or dedicated; to acquire by gift or purchase, or otherwise and to retain to them and their successors for the use of said City of Farmington any other real or personal property within or without the territorial limits and jurisdiction of the said city as may by them be deemed necessary or proper for the corporate purposes, and to use, manage, improve, sell, convey, rent or lease any or all of said property as may be deemed advisable for corporate interests. General powers. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate powers and the municipal government of said city shall vest in and consist of a mayor and four councilmen, and that on the first Saturday in December, 1919, and then on the first Saturday in December in each and every year thereafter an election shall be held at the city hall in said city, or at such other place in said city as the mayor and council shall direct or designate, for mayor and four councilmen who shall hold their offices for one year from the 1st day of January or until their successors are elected and qualified; and should there fail from any cause to be an election held in said city at the time specified in this section, the mayor shall order an election held in said city for mayor and councilmen, within thirty days after the said first Saturday, and shall give public notice of the same at least ten days before the date of said election by posting notices in three public places in said city. At the first meeting of the mayor and council after their election, or as

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soon thereafter as practicable, one of said council shall be by mayor and council chosen mayor pro tem. Election and terms of mayor and councilmen. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That Henry T. Marrow, be, and is hereby designated as mayor of said city of Farmington to serve from the passage of this Act until January 1, 1920, and that V. D. Huff, G. R. Foster, B. F. Preston and H. T. Hinsely be, and are hereby designated as four councilmen to serve in the said city of Farmington from the passage of this Act until the 1st day of January, 1920. Names of mayor, etc., to serve until Jan. 1, 1920. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any vacancies occur in any of the offices mentioned in the foregoing sections of this Act by death, resignation or otherwise, the same shall be filled by an election held by the remaining members of said mayor and council, and the person so elected shall hold his office as long as his predecessor would have held the same. Vacancies. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any three citizens of said city may superintend the election for mayor and councilmen, and each of said managers before entering upon his duties shall take an oath before some officer duly qualified to administer an oath, or before the mayor of said town, and in the absence of such officer or mayor, then before his co-manager, that he will faithfully and impartially conduct said election and prevent all illegal voting to the best of his skill and power, and said managers shall cause to be kept two lists of voters and two tally sheets of said election. Said superintendents or managers shall give their certificates of election to the persons elected, which shall be conclusive evidence of that fact, and the persons having the highest number of votes shall be entitled to such certificates. Conduct of election. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the polls of each election for mayor and council, or for other elections held in said city shall be opened at eight o'clock A. M. and close at three o'clock P. M. [Illegible Text] of election.

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Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the votes in any election in said city shall have been counted by the managers, said managers shall certify two lists of voters and two tally sheets, and shall place one of the lists of voters and one of the tally sheets with all the ballots in one ballot box and shall seal said box and deposit the same with the clerk of the mayor and city council. The other list of voters and tally sheet shall be kept by the managers filed with the clerk. Returns. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Monday in January, 1920, and on the first Monday in January each year thereafter, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the persons elected shall appear at the council chamber of the said city of Farmington and before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices shall take an oath to well and truly discharge their duties, which oath they may administer to each other and shall be in the following words, to-wit: I do solemnly swear that I will well and truly perform the duties of mayor for councilmen as the case may be) of the city of Farmington to the best of my skill and ability without fear, favor or affection, so help me God. Provided, That the mayor and council designated in Section 5 of this Act shall organize at the call of the mayor and assume the foregoing oath for the period of their service as set forth in said Section 5. Oath of mayor, etc. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and who shall have paid all taxes legally demanded and shall have resided sixty days within the limits of said city immediately preceding the day of election, shall be qualified to vote for mayor and council and at all other elections in said city. Voter's qualifications. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That any person who shall vote or attempt to vote at any municipal election held in said city, who is not qualified to vote shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon

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conviction before any court having jurisdiction shall be punished as prescribed by the laws of this State. Illegal voting. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be eligible to the office of mayor or councilman unless he is twenty-one years of age and shall have resided in said city for a period of twelve months immediately preceding his election, and shall have paid all taxes demanded of him by the authorities of said city. Mayor, etc. eligibility. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of the city of Farmington shall receive for his services such compensation not to exceed fifty dollars as the councilmen or a majority of them at a meeting at a board of council held immediately before the expiration of the term of office, shall vote him, having a just regard for the labors performed by him. Each of the councilmen shall receive an amount not to exceed one dollar for each sitting of the council. Compensation. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor shall be the chief executive of the city of Farmington. He shall see that all laws, ordinances, resolutions and rules of the city are faithfully executed and enforced, and that all officers shall faithfully perform all of the duties required of them. He shall have a general jurisdiction of the affairs of the city. He shall preside at all meetings of the mayor and city council of the said city of Farmington. He shall have the right to vote in the elections of officers, and upon all other questions before said body except upon questions where he is disqualified by reason of interest, relationship or otherwise. Duties and powers of mayor. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the city of Farmington shall have full power and authority to appoint or elect a clerk, treasurer, marshals, or other officers as they may deem necessary or proper and shall have power to regulate the time, mode and manner of electing or appointing such officers and agents, to fix their fees and salaries, to take their bond, prescribe their oaths and duties, and may

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at their discretion, suspend, remove and discharge them at any time with or without cause, the term of office of such said subordinate officers shall be one year from the date of their appointment and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified. Clerk and other officers. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor or in his absence or disqualification, the mayor pro tem., or in his absence or disqualification, any member of council shall as often as may be necessary, hold a police court, to be known as the mayor's court, for trial of all offenders against the laws and ordinances of the city of Farmington. Said mayor's court shall have power and authority, upon conviction, to sentence such offenders to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or be put at labor upon the streets or other public works in the said city for a period not to exceed thirty days. Either or all of said penalties may be imposed, in the discretion of the court, said court shall have power to preserve order and compel the attendance of witnesses, to punish for contempt, said punishment not to exceed the punishment hereinbefore provided for offenders against the laws and ordinances. Mayor's court. Punishment. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who may be convicted before the mayor's court may be giving notice of his intention suspend a judgment and be released from custody at once upon giving bond with good security in the sum as may be fixed by the mayor for his appearance to stand to and abide by the final judgment, provided, that all certioraries from said court must be sued out within ten days from date of judgment complained of, Provided further, that no such certiorari shall issue until all costs shall have been paid or an affidavit shall have been made by the defendant showing his inability to pay cost. Certiorari; supersedeas. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and [Illegible Text] of the councilmen shall be ex-officio justices of the peace, so as to enable them to issue warrants for violations of criminal laws of the State,

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committed within the limits of said city, and shall have full power, on examination, to commit the offender to jail, or to bail them if the offense be bailable to appear before the court having jurisdiction to try them. Commitment. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to impose, assess, levy and collect such taxes not to exceed ten dollars per thousand upon all real and personal property and on all notes, claims, evidences of debts and other choses in action held, possessed, kept or owned within the corporate limits of said city as they may deem necessary for the support of the government of said city, or for other purposes in their judgment beneficial to the citizens thereof generally, and they may enforce the collection of such taxes and also fines imposed by them in such manner as they, by law or ordinances, may prescribe. Taxes. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of the city of Farmington shall have full power and authority to tax, license, regulate and control all taverns, hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, livery stables, hacks, drays and other vehicles, auctioneers, vending masters, shows, circuses and exhibitions of all kinds, itinerant lightning rod dealers, peddlers or itinerant venders of articles, wares and merchandise of whatsoever nature, every keeper of a billiard, pool or other table, kept for public use, every shooting gallery, every ten pin alley, or any game or play, loan agents, and agents for any other business or calling whatever, upon every junk shop, pawn broker and upon all other persons, firms or corporations following or carrying on any profession, trade, business, calling or vocation in said city not hereinbefore mentioned, and which are under the laws and constitution of the State of Georgia subject to tax or license, the said mayor and city council shall have the power to pass such by-laws or ordinances as they see proper to regulate the same, prescribe the manner of collecting special tax. And said mayor and council shall have the full power and authority to impose and inflict such

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penalities and forfeitures upon any one exercising the privileges or functions of any of the hereinbefore mentioned businesses, trades or callings within the limits of said city without having first paid the tax or procured the license as may be prescribed by ordinances in [Illegible Text] of this Section. Business tax. Penalties. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council shall have full power to require every male resident of said city not under twenty-one years of age and over fifty years of age to work not exceeding fifteen days annually on the roads, streets and alleys of said city, under the direction of such superintendent as may be appointed by the mayor and city council, any person subject to service may be released therefrom by paying to the treasurer or marshal or tax collector of said city a sum not exceeding five dollars annually, and if the work done and money so paid is not sufficient to put and keep the roads, streets and alleys of said city in good repair, the mayor and council may use for that purpose any fund in the treasury of said city not otherwise appropriated, or they may levy a tax on all subjects of taxation within the limits of said city for that purpose. Street work or tax. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and city council of Farmington shall have full power and authority to prescribe and regulate by ordinances or resolution, the time and manner for making returns for tax, and impose penalties in the way of increase or double tax for failure to return property for taxation as prescribed in such regulations. It shall be the duty of said mayor and council to carefully examine each return of property made by every taxpayer, and if in their judgment they shall find the property embraced in said return, or any part of it, returned below its true value, they shall, after giving the taxpayer five days' written notice of such fact, and the time and place of hearing, proceed to hear evidence as to the value of such property, if any evidence is offered, and shall assess the true value thereof and enter the same on the return. Said assessment, when so made, shall be final. Control of streets, etc. Tax returns. Assessment.

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Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and city council of Farmington shall have full power and complete control of the streets, alleys, sidewalks and squares of said city, and shall have the power and authority to open, lay out, widen, straighten or otherwise change all the streets, alleys and sidewalks and squares, which may be deemed to the best interest of said city, and for this purpose shall have the right to condemn any property, first paying just and adequate compensation for the property so condemned or used. Whenever said mayor and city council shall exercise the powers herein delegated and shall fail to agree with the owner or owners of the property so condemned, taken, used or damaged, as to the value thereof and the amount of damages, the said mayor and council shall choose one appraiser, the said owner of the property to be taken or damaged, shall choose another appraiser, and the two thus chosen, if they fail to agree, shall select a third appraiser and the appraisers chosen first being sworn in to do justice between the parties, shall fix the amount of damages to the owner of the property caused by the opening or changing of such street, alley or square, and if the property owners, after five days' written notice, shall fail to name an appraiser, the clerk of the mayor and council shall appoint one for him, and in every case where the two appraisers chosen shall, for the period of five days, fail to agree upon the third appraiser, said clerk shall appoint such an appraiser, providing always, that the said appraisers shall in every instance, be citizens and freeholders of said city. The findings of the appraisers shall be in writing, and within five days of its rendition, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Morgan County, and with the clerk of the mayor and city council of said city, and thereupon operate as a judgment, and execution may issue thereon. Street improvements. Condemnation. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and council shall have power to fix and establish fire limits in said city and from time to time to enlarge, restrict or change same; and they shall have full power and authority to compel owners and lessees of property within said fire limits, to [Illegible Text] curb, pave or otherwise improve and keep in good

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order the sidewalks in front and abutting any and all real estate owned or held by them in said fire limits. If any owner or lessee shall fail to comply with the requirements of the mayor and council in this regard, the work shall be done under and by directions of said mayor and councilmen and execution shall issue for cost and expenses thereof against said owner or lessee, and the same shall be a lien against the adjoining or abutting property of such owner or lessee, to be collected as other executions issued by the clerk of the mayor and city council. Fire protection. Sidewalks. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and city council of Farmington shall have power and authority to enforce by execution the collection of any amount due or to become due for taxes, license fees, assessments of every kind, or fines and forfeitures for paving sidewalks and for any and all other debts and demands of whatever nature due the city, such executions to be issued by the clerk of the mayor and council of the City of Farmington against the person, corporation or firm by whom any such debt may be due or become due, which execution may be levied by the marshal on the property of the owner against whom such execution shall issue, and the same sold [Illegible Text] provided by the Code of Georgia of 1895, for municipal sales for taxes. Collection of taxes, etc. Executions. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the marshal to levy all executions in favor of the city, and after advertising for thirty days, he shall the property levied upon before the door of the city hall in the city of Farmington, on the first Saturday in the month. He shall sell to the highest bidder and shall execute titles to the purchaser and shall have the same power as sheriffs of this State have to put the purchaser in possession. Levy and sale. Sec. 28. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and city council of Farmington shall have power to remove all obstruction upon the streets and sidewalks in said city. They shall have the power and authority to abate or cause to be abated anything which in their [Illegible Text] is a [Illegible Text] whether the same be in the [Illegible Text] or on the lots of individuals,

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firms, corporations or institutions in said city, and they shall have power and authority to pass all necessary laws and ordinances to enforce the provisions and provide for the mode and manner of abating such nuisances, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. They shall also have the power and authority to provide, own and furnish in and near the said City of Farmington, cemeteries for the burial of the dead, to regulate and control the interments in same; to exercise police control over and to care for said cemeteries, and to guarantee perpetual care for lots in said cemetery. Obstructions and nuisances. Burials. Perpetual care of graves. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and city council shall have full power and authority to pass, ordain and adopt all laws or ordinances and resolutions which they may deem necessary to carry out and enforce the various provisions of this Act. Ordinances. Sec. 30. Be it further enacted, That all ordinances, rules and regulations heretofore adopted in said city and now in force, shall continue in operation until the same are repealed or amended by said mayor and council; provided, the same are not in conflict with this Act. Existing ordinances continued. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. GLENWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. No. 323. An Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Glenwood, Georgia, to provide for the carrying on, management, control and support of the same; to provide for a Board of Education and other officers of said school system and prescribe their powers and duties, and for other purposes, to provide for bonds and voting in thereof for the purchase or lease of property in which to

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carry on said school system, after submitting the same to the qualified voters of the town of Glenwood and the same is ratified by a two-thirds vote thereof, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, there may be established in the town of Glenwood, in this State, a system of public schools, to be established, conducted maintained, supported and controlled in the manner provided in this Act. Public school system. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That at the election hereinafter provided for the adoption of this Act, the qualified voters voting at said election shall elect four members of the Board of Education of said public school system, who shall hold office until the next regular election of mayor and aldermen of said town. At said regular election of mayor and aldermen of said town, there shall be elected four members of said Board of Education, the two candidates receiving the higher number of votes at said election to hold office for a term of two years thereafter and until their successors are elected and qualified, and the two candidates receiving the next higher number of votes at said election to hold office for a term of one year thereafter and until their successors are elected and qualified, and in like manner annually thereafter two members of said Board of Education to fill vacancies occurring by the expiration of terms, as aforesaid. All vacancies otherwise occurring in said Board shall be filled immediately by the mayor and council of Glenwood, and such members shall hold office for the balance of the unexpired term. In addition to the four members of said board so elected, the mayor of Glenwood shall be ex-officio chairman of the Board of Education of Glenwood and he, together with the four members, so elected by the qualified voters of said town, shall constitute the Board of Education of Glenwood, with the right in them and their successors in office to take and hold in trust for the town of Glenwood any grant or devise of land or donation

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or bequest of money or other property made or sold to it for educational purposes, and with the right to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and with the right to purchase suitable lot or lots for school building or buildings by contract or otherwise, and to furnish and equip the same, and to do all things necessary to successfully maintain and carry on a modern public school system. The said Board of Education is further authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a high school; to conduct dormitories; to purchase property and erect buildings; to furnish and equip same; to acquire property in trust by purchase or gift; to make contracts, and to do any and every other thing that may be necessary or proper for the conduct and carrying on of said public and high school system in the town of Glenwood. The qualifications for members of the Board of Education shall be the same as prescribed in the charter of said town for mayor and aldermen of said town. Board of Education. Election and terms. Vacancies. Mayor ex-officio chairman. Powers. Eligibility. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That before entering upon the discharge of the duties of said office each member of said board shall take and subscribe the following oath: I (A. B.) do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties develving upon me as a member of the Board of Education of Glenwood to the best of my skill and ability and in accordance with what shall to me appear for the best interest of the community and to the cause of education, and without fear, favor, affection, reward or the hope thereof, so help me God. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Oath. Quorum. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the mayor of Glenwood, being ex-officio chairman of said board, shall at the first meeting after the election of new members as herein provided, cause said board to be organized for the ensuing year by electing a chairman pro tem. to act in the absence or disqualification of the chairman, and also by electing some one of their number as secretary and treasurer, each of said officers to be elected by ballot or acclamation of said board, as they see proper. The members of said Board

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of Education shall receive no compensation for their services as such, but shall be relieved of street tax. Chairman pro tem. Secretary and treasurer. No pay to members. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the secretary and treasurer of said board to keep in a well-bound book, a record of all the official acts and doings of said Board of Education, which record shall at all times be kept open to the inspection of any taxpayer of the town of Glenwood. He shall also give bond in sufficient amount with good security to be adjusted of by the board, payable to the Board of Education of Glenwood, for the faithful discharge of his duties and the safe keeping and proper disbursement of all money which may come into his care by reason of his said trust. He shall receive all public school money from the proper authorities, receive and receipt for all incidental fees, and all other moneys so received and paid out by him and take proper vouchers for all disbursements, but shall pay out no funds except by order of the board entered on the minutes. He shall receive such compensation for his services as may be fixed by said board, which said board is hereby authorized to contract for and pay out of the public school funds. Duties of secretary. Bond. Compensation. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Education shall elect a superintendent and teachers and other officers for the said public and high school of Glenwood, fix their salaries, contract with them as such and pay them out of the moneys coming into its hands, and shall have the right and authority to suspend or remove said superintendent or teachers whenever in its discretion it deems it best to do so, and shall suspend or expel any pupil from attendance on said schools whenever in the opinion of a majority of the board it shall be for the best interest of the school, and their action in so doing shall be final and conclusive. Said board shall also be empowered and it shall be its duty to borrow money for the support and maintenance of said schools, when necessary, and to repay the same with legal interest from the funds coming into its hands. Said board shall at all times, supervise, regulate and make efficient said school system, fixing the length of the terms and

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the time of opening and closing the same, prescribe the curriculum, the textbooks and books of reference to be used therein and shall do any and all other acts, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as may promote the system of education contemplated by this Act. Superintendent, teachers, etc. Expulsion of pupils. Power to borrow. Regulations. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Education shall annually on or before the first day of December make to the mayor and council of Glenwood a written report of all moneys received and disbursed by it and shall accompany said report with a full itemized statement, accompanied by vouchers for all money disbursed, and the same shall be published by the mayor and council of Glenwood and publication paid for out of the public school fund aforesaid. Annual reports. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Board of Education to establish such grammar schools and high schools as may be necessary for the education of the children attending said schools, and the tuition in the same shall be free to all children within school age residing within the town of Glenwood; provided, however, the board may in its discretion require each pupil entering any of said schools, to pay a reasonable matriculation fee, to be paid upon entrance or in such installments as the board may direct. Children of non-residents may be admitted to such schools upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board Schools. Free tuition. Matriculation fee. Non-residents. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the County Superintendent of Schools of Wheeler County [Illegible Text] other counties of the State to make contract with said Board of Education to teach pupils of school age residing in their respective counties and outside the corporate limits of the town of Glenwood, and to pay said board out of that portion of the common school fund of the State belonging to their respective counties, in like manner and under the same provisions as teachers in the common schools of their respective counties are paid; provided, however, that in the case the rate of tuition for non-resident children.

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as fixed by said board, is higher than the public school rate authorized to be paid by the County Superintendent of Schools, then said Board of Education shall have the right to charge, contract with and collect said differences from the parent or guardian of said non-resident pupils. Pay for non-resident pupils. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Education of Glenwood shall prepare and take a census annually in the month of July, after the passage and ratification of this Act, of all the children residing in the town of Glenwood, who are, under the law, entitled to participate in the public school fund of the State, and shall furnish a report of the result of said census to the State School Commissioner on or before the first day of September of each year. Census. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That upon receipt of said report of the result of said annual census, the State School Commissioner shall apportion to said town of Glenwood, its pro rata of the public school fund of the State, based upon the result of said annual census, and shall pay over such pro rata share of said fund to the secretary and treasurer of said Board of Education. Payments from State fund. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That said State School Fund shall be supplemented by an ad valorem tax, to be levied by the mayor and council of Glenwood, as follows: The Board of Education of Glenwood shall by the first day of September of each year make an estimate of the amount necessary to be raised that year for the additional support of public schools in said town and place this estimate before the mayor and council of Glenwood, and when the same is approved by said mayor and council of Glenwood it shall be their duty, when making the annual tax levy for the current expenses of said town to levy a school tax, along with the other town taxes, upon all taxable property within the corporate limits of said town, and said mayor and council are hereby authorized and required to levy said school tax and collect or have same collected by the town officers, the said school tax along with the other ad valorem taxes of said town, in the same manner as other town taxes are levied and collected; provided, however, that said mayor

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and council of Glenwood shall have no authority to levy and collect a tax of more than one-half of one per cent with in said town for school purposes. Taxes for schools. Tax rate. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That provisions shall be made by said Board of Education for the education of both white and colored children within said town, but that separate schools shall be provided for these races. Colored children. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That before this Act shall become operative, it shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the town of Glenwood for ratification, for which purpose the mayor and council of Glenwood shall order an election, to be held not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the passage of this Act, which said election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as are required for the election of mayor and aldermen of said town, and the qualifications for voters shall be the same. Those voting in said election in favor of public schools as contemplated by this Act, shall have written or printed on their ballot: For Public Schools, and those opposed shall have written or printed on their ballot: Against Public Schools. The managers of said election shall make returns thereof to the mayor and council of Glenwood, who shall open said returns and declare the result of said election at their first regular meeting thereafter. If a majority of those voting in said election shall vote For Public Schools, then this Act shall take effect immediately; otherwise, not. Should this Act fail of ratification, however, at said first or any other subsequent election hold for that purpose, the mayor and council of Glenwood may in their discretion submit the same to another election, under the same rules and regulations as are hereby prescribed for the first election, after the lapse of one year from any election when the same shall have been previously defeated; and if at any subsequent election the same should be ratified by said two-thirds vote, it shall then become effective. This Act referred to voters. Second election. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of Glenwood shall have power and authority to issue bonds of said town, not to exceed twelve thousand dollars

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or so much thereof as in their judgment may be necessary, for the purchase of a suitable lot for school buildings, and erecting thereon school buildings thoroughly equipped for school purposes. Said bonds may be issued of such denominations and with such rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum per annum, as said mayor and council may determine, and shall run for a term not exceeding thirty years, and said mayor and council may provide for the maturing of said bonds at any time during said thirty years and for the returning of said bonds, together with accurate interest, at stated periods during said time, and said mayor and council shall designate when the interest on said bonds shall become due and payable. Said bonds when issued shall be sold for not less than par and their proceeds turned over to said Board of Education to be used by said board for the school purposes aforesaid. Bonds for schools. Sale of bonds. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That before said bonds shall be issued, the same shall be recommended by said Board of Education, and the question of their issuance shall be submitted to the legally qualified voters of said town. For said purpose the mayor and council of Glenwood, upon recommendation of the Board of Education of Glenwood, shall order an election, at which at least thirty days notice shall be given by publication of such notice once a week for four consecutive weeks in any newspaper published in Wheeler County, and posted in at least three public places in said town. Said election shall be held and governed by the same rules and regulations as elections for mayor and aldermen of said town, and the qualifications of voters shall be the same. Each voter at said election shall have written or printed on his ballot either the words For School Bonds or the words Against School Bonds. If two-thirds of the qualified voters of said town as shown by the last registration list, shall vote For School Bonds it shall be the duty of said mayor and council to issue same. In the event the said bond election shall not result in favor of bonds, it shall be the duty of said mayor and council, upon recommendation of said Board of Education, to order

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another election; provided, however, said election shall not be held oftener than once a year. Election to authorize bonds. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That at or before the time of issuing any of said bonds, said mayor and council shall provide for the levy and collection of an annual tax, if necessary, in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, and of sufficient amount to pay promptly the principal and interest of said bonded debt; nor shall any part of said funds so raised be used for any other purposes whatever. Taxes to pay bonds. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. HAWKINSVILLE STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS. No. 37. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Hawkinsville, in Pulaski County, approved December 18, 1902, and Act amendatory thereof, so as to authorize the city council of said city to grade, pave, macadamize, or otherwise improve the streets, alleys and lanes of said city and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that the city council of said city shall have full power and authority in their discretion to grade, pave, macadamize, and otherwise improve the streets, alleys and lanes of said city, and to carry into effect the authority herein granted, said city council shall have full power and authority to assess the cost of paving and otherwise improving the streets, alleys and lanes against the real estate [Illegible Text] on each side of the streets, alleys and lanes so improved to an amount not exceeding two-thirds (2-3) of the total

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cost thereof; and any street railroad company or other railroad company having or which may hereafter have tracks running through or across the streets, alleys or ways of said city, shall be required to pave, macadamize or otherwise improve said streets, alleys or ways, as said council may direct, the width of their said tracks and two feet on each side thereof; and to require such company to repair or repave their aforesaid portions as said city council may direct. In the event any such company or companies fail or refuse to comply with such requirements said city council may have the same done and the cost thereof shall be assessed against the said company or companies and enforced and collected by execution as herein provided. Said city council shall have full power and authority to adopt by ordinance such a system of equalizing assessments on real estate for the purpose above stated as may be just and proper, estimating the total cost of each improvement made and prorating the cost thereof on real estate according to the [Illegible Text] on the streets or portions of streets so improved, or according to the area of value of said real estate, either or all as may be determined by ordinance. The amount of the assessment on each piece of real estate shall be a lien on such real estate from the date of the passage of the ordinances providing for the work and making the assessments. Said city council shall have full power and authority to enforce the collection of the assessment herein provided for by execution against the abutting property and against the owners of the same, which executions shall be issued and levied like executions for taxes under existing ordinances, or such as may be made applicable to the subject; provided, however, that to an execution issued under the provisions of this section, the defendant shall have the right to file an affidavit denying that the whole or any part of the amount for which execution issued is due, and the reason why same is not due by and from the defendant, and stating what amount is admitted to be due, which amount so admitted to be due shall be paid before said affidavity shall be received and said affidavit shall be received for the balance, and the affidavit so received shall be returned

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to the Superior Court of Pulaski County and there tried and the issue determined as in cases of illegality, subject to all the pains and penalties provided for in cases of illegality for the purposes of delay. Said city council shall have the right by ordinance to declare what portions of the streets, alleys, lanes or ways of said city shall be graded, paved, macadamized or otherwise improved, and shall have the right to contract to pave the whole surface of said streets, alleys or ways without giving any street or railroad company or other owner or occupant of such streets the option of paving such streets themselves. The lien for assessment on abutting property and the owner thereof and on street railroads, or other railroad company, for street paving, curbing, macadamizing, grading or draining, shall have rank and priority of payment next in dignity to liens for taxes, such liens to date from the passage of the ordinance authorizing the execution of the work in each case. Said city council shall have full power and authority to prescribe by ordinance such rules as they may, in their discretion think necessary to grade, pave, macadamize drain or curb the streets, alleys, lanes or ways of said city, to enforce by execution the cost thereof against the adjacent or abutting property owners and railroad companies and to provide how the agents or owners thereof shall be served with notice. Authority for street improvements and assessments. Lien of assessment. Execution. Affidavit of illegality. Rank of lien. Ordinances. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 1, 1919. HAWKINSVILLE TAX AD VALOREM. No. 98. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Hawkinsville, in Pulaski County, Georgia, approved December 18, 1902, and Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize the city council of said city to assess, levy and collect an additional

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ad valorem tax on all property real and personal, within the corporate limits of said city, not exceeding one half of one per centum upon the value of said property, under certain limitations and restrictions. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That for the purpose of supplementing the revenue for the support and maintenance of the government of said City of Hawkinsville, and to pay the ordinary current expenses of said city, the city council of said city shall have full power and authority and they shall provide by ordinance for the assessment, levy and collection of an additional ad valorem tax on all real and personal property within the corporate limits of said city, not exceeding one-half of one per centum upon the value of said property; provided, this additional tax of one half of one per centum shall be assessed, levied, and collected for one year only and when said additional tax shall have been assessed, levied, and collected for said year, then the power and authority conferred by this Act shall cease and determine. Additional tax. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. HAZLEHURST CHARTER AMENDMENTS. No. 117. An Act to amend by substitution an Act creating a new charter for the City of Hazlehurst, in the County of Jeff Davis, and to consolidate the Acts relating to the Acts and powers of said corporation; to [Illegible Text] amendments thereto, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

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9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the Act known as the Act amending the Act incorporating the town of Hazlechurst, in the counties of Appling and Coffee, approved August 22, 1907, Acts of 1907, page 713, and Section 1 of an Act amending the mayor's executive power, approved August 19, 1911, Acts of 1911, page 1284, be and the same are hereby repealed and the amendments hereinafter set out shall be substituted therefor. Acts amended. Sections repealed. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the municipal government of the City of Hazlehurst shall consist of the mayor and five aldermen, who are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of the City of Hazlehurst, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, shall have a common seal and be capable in law and equity to purchase, have and to hold, receive and enjoy, possess and retain any estate or estates, real and personal, of whatsoever kind or nature, within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Hazlehurst, and shall by the name be capable to sue and be sued in any court of law or equity in this State, and shall succeed to all the rights and powers, privileges and immunities and be subject to all the penalties, forfeitures and liabilities of the present municipal corporation known as the City of Hazlehurst. Every right, title, claim or interest in property, real or personal, legal or equitable, contingent or vested, present or future, and every note, bill, bend, chose in action or demand of any kind now held, claimed or owned by the mayor and aldermen of the City of Hazlehurst, shall and does hereby pass to the City of Hazlehurst, along with every right, power and privilege to enforce such right, title, claim or demand in its own name as was enjoyed by the City of Hazlehurst or by the mayor and aldermen of the City of Hazlehurst. Every right, title, claim or demand of any kind or character against the mayor and aldermen of the City of Hazlehurst or the City of Hazlehurst may be enforced, set up and established against the City of Hazlehurst to the same extent as such right, title, claim or demand could have been set up and established against the mayor and aldermen

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of the City of Hazlehurst or the City of Hazlehurst, and the City of Hazlehurst shall be liable on all such rights, claims and demands to the same extent, and no more, than would the City of Hazlehurst or the mayor and aldermen of the City of Hazlehurst had its charter not been amended as herein provided. All officers, agents and employees shall continue in their offices and the discharge of their duties under the City of Hazlehurst, with the same rights, powers, privileges and immunities and subject to the same liabilities and for the same terms and in the same manner and to the same effect that they would have been authorized, empowered and liable had not the charter been amended as aforesaid. Corporate name. General powers. Succession to liabilities, etc. Officers continued in office. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that the corporate limits of the City of Hazlchurst shall include and embrace all the territory one mile in all directions from the main line of Southern Railroad Company on Tallahassee Street crossing in said City of Hazlehurst, and all the lands therein shall be and shall constitute the corporate limits of the City of Hazlehurst. Corporate limits. Sec. 4. That the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have full power and authority by a two-thirds vote, to create wards in and for said City of Hazlehurst and to define the boundaries and limits of such wards; to name and number such wards as may be created, and to provide for the number of councilmen who shall be elected from each ward, but the creation of wards shall always be at the discretion of said mayor and council, and should wards be created in and for said City of Hazlehurst, they may be abolished at any time by a two-thirds vote of the council, the same as when created. Nothing in this Act, however, shall be construed to authorize more than four aldermen. In the event said city is divided into wards, each ward shall be entitled to an equal representation in the council. Wards. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted that the clerk, or, in case of his sickness or absence, any officer of the City of Hazlehurst duly appointed by the mayor and council for that purpose, shall open at the clerk's office (or at such place

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as may be designated by the mayor and council), notice of such change being given by newspaper publication, forty-five days prior to each election, a book to be known as Voters Book, which book shall be kept open from nine o'clock A. M. until one o'clock P. M., and from two o'clock P. M. until five o'clock P. M., standard time, each and every day, Sunday and legal holidays excepted, for a space of thirty days, when it shall be finally and absolutely closed at five o'clock p. m. on the thirtieth day; provided, that in all elections for the authorization of a bonded or other indebtedness said book shall be opened thirty-one days prior thereto instead of Forty-five days. Registration of voters. (a) Upon application of any person by such persons entitled to register who shall furnish the clerk or such other authorized person evidence of their qualification, the clerk, or other registering officer shall allow said person to enter upon the registration book their name, and shall require such person in addition to entering his name, to enter age, residence and occupation. Said names shall be alphabetically arranged in the register. (b) The registering officer shall be the judge of the qualification of those offering to register, with the right of appeal by the applicant for registration to the mayor and council, but the registrar may in his discretion administer to the applicant the following oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am twenty-one years of age, or will be on the day of election, and am qualified by citizenship, residence and payment of taxes to vote for members of the State Legislature in the County of Jeff Davis; that I have resided in the City of Hazlehurst three months at the time of the election, and have paid all taxes which have been required of me by the authorities agreeable to law, since the adoption of the present constitution, except for the year of the election; so help me God, and when applicants are sworn a minute of that fact shall be entered opposite their names on the book. Oath of registrant. (c) Any qualified voter, who, by reason of physical disability or prolonged absence from the City of Hazlehurst.

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is unable to apply in person for registration, may make an affidavit before some officer of this State or other State, authorized by law to administer oaths, stating his age, occupation, residence and the cause of disability, and when the clerk or other registering officer shall receive such affidavit, during the time in which is open, it shall be his duty to enter the name of the applicant upon the book, provided the applicant is otherwise qualified. Registration of absent or disabled person. Sec. 6. No person shall be allowed to vote at any election in said city for the election of mayor and aldermen for said city who has not registered according to the provisions herein set forth. Any person voting in any election-without having registered shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of this State. Illegal voting. Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to cause to be posted in conspicuous place at the council chamber by seven o'clock A. M. on the day of the election, the corrected list of the registered voters, and also to furnish each of the election managers a copy of such list before the polls are open on the day of the election. The book of registration shall be open to public inspection at all times, during the hours for registration, from the beginning of the registration to the day of the election. Posting registry list. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the government of said City of Hazlehurst shall be vested in said council composed of a mayor and five aldermen. The present mayor and the present aldermen shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which they are elected and until their successors are elected and qualified. They and their successors shall have and execute all the rights and duties herein conferred on the city council of the City of Hazlehurst created by this Act, and all ordinances, rules and regulations now of force in said city not repugnant to this charter are continued in full force and effect until the same may be repealed, anulled, amended, changed or modified by said council, all officers now in office, elected or appointed by the mayor or council or mayor

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or aldermen, shall continue to hold their office and discharge the duties until the expiration of the term for which they are elected or appointed, unless sooner suspended removed or discharged by said council. No member of the school board of the public schools of the City of Hazlehurst shall be eligible to the office of mayor or aldermen of the City of Hazlehurst. Mayor and council to serve until election. Ineligibility. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That the term of office of mayor and aldermen shall be one year and until their successors are elected and qualified, and the first election shall be held on the first Tuesday in April, 1920, and annually thereafter. Term of office. Sec. 10. The polls shall be open at seven o'clock A. M. and shall close at four o'clock P. M. on the day of the election at all city elections, special as well as regular, or annual elections. Hours of election. Sec. 11. The mayor shall appoint three freeholders in said city, who shall be registered voters therein, to manage said elections, said freeholders shall be a bona fide freeholder of the city in his own right at the time of the election. It shall be the duty of the managers to receive, count and verify the number of ballots polled, and said managers, before entering on their duties, shall take the following oath before some judge or justice of the peace: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially conduct the election for which I am appointed manager and prevent all illegal voting to the best of my ability and power, so help me God. Managers. Sec. 12. The mayor and council shall provide at the expense of the city the necessary material for carrying on elections, and shall designate the buildings or places where the polls for all elections shall be had and unless changed by resolution adopted in a regular meeting, all elections shall be held at the council chamber. Expense and place of election. Sec. 13. The mayor and council in conjunction with the police of the city shall take all necessary measures to preserve order, to prevent the carrying of deadly weapons

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contrary to law, and to secure to all electors the right to deposit their ballots at the polls on the day of the election. Police officers shall not intimidate nor persuade any elector at the polling places of said city at such elections. For every violation of this section the party so violating the same shall be subjected to indictment, and on conviction be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not less than ten days, nor more than three months. The grand jury of Jeff Davis County shall have power to inquire into this offense. Conduct of election. Intimidation or persuasion by police. Punishment. Action by grand jury. Sec. 14. If any person offering to vote at any election of said city is challenged he shall take the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I am twenty-one years of age, and am qualified by citizenship, residence and payment of taxes to vote for members of the State Legislature in the County of Jeff Davis, and that I am qualified under the charter to vote in the city election, by having paid all taxes required of me by the authorities of said city; by three months residence in said city and all other requirements necessary to vote, so help me God. Oath of challenged voter. Sec. 15. Any person voting illegally at any election herein provided for shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished as prescribed in Section 666 of the Penal Code of Georgia. Any person who shall falsely take the oath provided for in Section 14 shall be guilty of false swearing and be punished as prescribed in Section 262 of the Penal Code of Georgia, 1910. Illegal voting; punishment. Sec. 16. After the votes for mayor and aldermen, or for aldermen or mayor, as the case may be, at any election shall have been counted by the managers, they shall cause two copies of the tally sheets to be made out, one of which shall be handed over to the mayor for the time being and the other shall be retained by the managers, and as soon as the mayor aforesaid shall be informed of the result of said election he shall cause the persons elected to be notified of the same and shall file with the clerk the copy of the tally sheet of said election to be kept on file by said clerk in his office and duly recorded by the clerk on the

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book of minutes of the council aforesaid. The person who shall receive the highest number of votes for mayor shall be declared duly elected. The persons offering for aldermen who shall receive the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected. Returns. Declaration of result. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That if for any reason there is a failure to hold the regular election for mayor and aldermen at the regular time provided for in this charter, on the first Tuesday in April, it shall be the duty of the city council to order an election as soon as practicable thereafter by giving at least ten days notice of the same by publishing said notice once in a newspaper of said city and posting a written notice at one or more public places in said city, and such election shall be hold and managed and the results declared in the same manner as at a regular election. Failure to elect at regular time. Sec. 18. The mayor and council shall constitute the legislative department of the city government, and as such shall be vested with all powers and authority from time to time to make and establish such rules and regulations and ordinances respecting the streets, lanes, alleys, parks and open courts, the markets and marketing, railroads, public houses, warehouses, ginneries, factories, manufacturing plants, carriages, wagons, drays, automobiles, livery stables, pumps, blacksmith shops, street, business or residence lights, the water supply and all water used publicly and privately in said city, all closets and privies of whatever kind and character in said city, and all other matters affecting the good government of said city as they shall deem requisite and proper for preserving the peace, order and good government of the same. This general enumeration of powers, however, is not to be construed as to conflict with any special power or authority given to the mayor and council of said City of Hazlehurst by this Act, but rather in aid of such power. Additional powers. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, that the persons elected as mayor and aldermen, mayor or aldermen, as the case may be, shall attend on the first day of May, unless it be on

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Sunday, and in that case on the next following day, after their election, at the council chamber for the purpose of qualifying and taking the oath of office. The mayor and each member of the council so elected shall take and subscribe before some judge or justice of the peace, the following oath,: I do solemnly swear that I will well and truly perform the duties of mayor, or member of the council, as the case may be, by adopting such measures as in my judgment shall be best calculated to promote the general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Hazlehurst and the common interests thereof, so help me God. They shall immediately enter upon the duties of their respective offices. Mayor and council to qualify, when. Oath. Sec. 20. There shall be a chairman pro. tem. elected by the council at their first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, who shall preside over the council in the absence of the mayor, and who, on taking the oath of office shall be clothed with all powers, rights and duties of the mayor and shall serve during the absence from the city or disability of the latter officer. He shall have the casting vote in case of a tie, but shall not exercise the veto power vested in the mayor. In the absence from the city of the mayor or mayor pro tem., the council shall elect from their body one to act as mayor pro tem. The permanent or standing committees of the council shall be designated by the mayor at the first regular meeting after organization of the council of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Resignations of any member of council, either from standing committees or from the council itself, and all resignations of the members of any boards of the city shall be addressed to the mayor of the city and be disposed of by him. The resignation of the mayor shall be addressed to the council. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and three councilmen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business before the city council at any regular or call meeting, and a majority of votes shall determine all questions and elections before the city council. Said city council shall hold regular meetings twice a month and oftener if they think best, at stated times and at a stated

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place in said city, and shall hold such meetings as may be ordered by the mayor, or in his absence or sickness, by the mayor pro tem., for special purposes, or when requested to do so by a majority of the aldermen. All meetings of the city council shall be public, and the public shall be allowed at all times to witness their deliberations, except when the city council resolves itself into executive session, when the public shall be excluded. Mayor pro tem. Resignations Quorum. Meetings. Sec. 21. The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst at its first meeting after having qualified as such mayor and council, shall elect its officers for the ensuing year by private ballot. The clerk shall read all applications for office of said city and the mayor shall appoint two councilmen to assist the clerk as tellers who shall declare the ballot and the party receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected by the mayor. Elections of Officers. The mayor of said city shall have no right to vote at any time unless in case of a tie. Vote by mayor. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted, That before any ordinance or ordinances shall become a raw it shall be read at two separate meetings of the mayor and council before its passage; provided, that an ordinance may be passed at the first reading by unanimous consent of the mayor and council. Ordinances, how adopted. Sec. 23. That every ordinance and resolution passed by the council shall be subjected to veto of the mayor in this manner: The mayor at the second reading may write out his objection to such ordinance or resolution, and the council at the next regular meeting, at which a quorum shall be present, order said objections on the minutes and take a vote on the question as to whether said ordinance or resolution or other action shall become adopted over said veto. Should as many as three aldermen vote in the affirmative, said resolution or ordinance shall stand affirmed and become effective without the approval of the mayor; otherwise not. The ayes and nays shall in all cases be entered on the minutes. Veto.

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Sec. 24. The City of Hazlehurst is hereby authorized to issue bonds in such amounts as may be permitted under the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and at such time or times as the mayor and council of the city of Hazlehurst may prescribe for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of surface and sanitary sewers, for the purpose of acquiring, operating and maintaining a light plant and system, and a water plant and system for the purpose of furnishing lights and water to the citizens of said city; for the purpose of acquiring, operating and maintaining an ice and cold storage plant for its citizens; for the purpose of improving, repairing and improving its light plant and system or water plant and system; for the purpose of opening, repairing, grading and claying, paving and otherwise reclaiming and improving the streets and sidewalks of said city, as mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst may prescribe, and for other purposes, with full power and authority in the city of Hazlehurst to make all contracts in the erection, maintenance and operation of such plants and systems, and for carrying on such work, and with full power and authority in the mayor and council of the city to make, declare and enforce all such ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations concerning the use of said sewers, streets and side walks, light and water, ice plant and cold storage plant; and to provide by ordinance for compelling residents, citizens and property holders to make connections with such sewers at their own expense, and regulate and supervise such connections; and to prohibit connections with such sewers and the use of lights and water and the streets and sidewalks of said city, and to provide for the enforcement of such ordinances by fine and imprisonment as well as the issue and levy by execution for that purpose. Bonds, issue of for sewers, lights, water, ice and cold-storage plant; street improvements. Power to contract. Powers as to sewers, streets, etc. Sec. 25. The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst are hereby authorized and empowered to call by ordinance an election by the qualified voters of said city, for the purpose of obtaining the assents of two-thirds of said qualified voters to an issue of bonds in such amounts or amount as may be permitted under the constitution and

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laws of the State of Georgia, and at such time or times as the mayor and council may, in their discretion, prescribe for any or all of the following purposes, to-wit: Sewers, drainage, light and water plants, for working, grading, claying, paving, macadamizing, draining or otherwise improving for travel or use the public streets, alleys and lanes of said city and for other purposes; for establishing and maintaining a system of surface or storm and sanitary sewers within the City of Hazlehurst; for the acquisition by purchase or for construction of an ice factory or plant and cold storage plant, and for the extension and improvement of the same, and for the maintaining and operation of such plants or plant; for the maintenance and improvement of the lighting plant, and for the extension and improvement of the water plant of said city. Election to authorize bonds. Sec. 26. In election for the purpose of authorizing the issue of bonds by the City of Hazlehurst for any purposes whatsoever, a special registration shall be had, and such registration book prepared as herein provided, except the city clerk or deputy registrar appointed for such special election during the period of his service for a period of thirty days prior to such special election, shall keep the registration book open for signatures at the office of the city clerk in said City of Hazlehurst, from 9 A. M. to 12 o'clock P. M. and from 2 o'clock P. M. to 5 o'clock P. M. of each day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted. All of the provisions for the closing of this book and the provisions of this Act with reference to registering illegally for general elections shall apply to registrations for special bond elections. No bond election shall hereafter be held in the City of Hazlehurst without such registration. Registration of voters. Sec. 27. No person shall be eligible as mayor unless he be of the age of twenty-three years at least, and qualified to be an elector of the city. Mayor; eligibility. (a) No person shall be eligible as an alderman of said city unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and shall at the time of his election be qualified to be an elector of said city, and must, in the event he is

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elected from any particular ward, reside in the ward for which he is elected, and shall not remove therefrom during his term of office on pain of forfeiture of his said office. Aldermen; eligibility. Sec. 28. The mayor, until otherwise provided by ordinance shall receive a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. The mayor and council may fix by ordinance the salary of the mayor, provided, however, that the mayor shall not be paid more than three hundred dollars. He shall hold office for a term of one year, and until his successor shall be chosen and qualified. He shall be the chief executive officer of the city and shall have general supervision over all of its affairs, sign deeds and contracts approve all bills and vouchers for the payment of money, and shall be clothed with the veto power as hereinbefore set forth. It shall be his duty to see that the laws of the State and ordinances of the city are faithfully executed within the territory over which the city government extends. He shall keep the council advised from time to time of the general conditions of the city, and shall recommend such measures as he may deem necessary or expedient for the welfare thereof. He shall call the council together at any time when deemed necessary by him, and he shall preside over the police court of said city, and shall exercise and be empowered with the duties of judge of the police court for the trial of violations of the ordinances of said city as hereinafter provided. Salary of mayor. Term of office. Powers and [Illegible Text] Sec. 29. The compensation of each alderman of the City of Hazlehurst shall be the sum of thirty six dollars per annum, which said sum shall be in full of all compensation that any alderman shall be entitled to receive out of the treasury of the City of Hazlehurst. The mayor and council shall have the power to change the salary or compensation of aldermen by ordinance, however, their salary or compensation shall not be more than seventy-five dollars per annum, and shall not be changed during their term of office. Pay of aldermen. Change of compensation. Sec. 30. That it shall be unlawful for any alderman or aldermen composing any committee of council to expend

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more money for the use of any department of the city government than has been duly appropriated for such department by the mayor and council of the city of Hazlehurst. That any alderman or aldermen violating this provision shall be personally liable to the City of Hazlehurst or to any other person damaged thereby, in the amount of the unauthorized excess expended over and above the amount set aside and appropriated by the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst. Unlawful to spend more than appropriated. Liability for excess. Sec. 31. That in case of any vacancy among the members of council, either by death, resignation, failure to elect, removal from office, or removal from the city, or from the ward for which elected, should there be wards, the mayor shall advertise an election to fill the vacancy, and in case of the death of the mayor, his resignation, removal from office or from the city, the council shall order an election for filling the vacancy. In each case fifteen days notice shall be given in the public gazette of the city and by posting written notice in two public places of said city, unless such vacancy should occur within three months of the regular election in said city at which mayor or aldermen for said city are elected. In which latter event the council shall elect a mayor or alderman, as the case may be, to fill said vacancy until said regular election, and be it further provided, that should no qualified person offer for said unexpired term after notice has been given as herein provided, that the council shall elect to fill said unexpired term. Vacancies. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the first regular meeting of the mayor and council each year they shall elect a city clerk who shall also be treasurer, chief of police, a board of health, building inspector, chief of fire department and city attorney, and such other officers and employees as the mayor and council may deem necessary for the government of said city. Each of said officers shall be elected for the term of one year, unless sooner suspended, removed or discharged by said council, and shall take and subscribe an oath for the faithful performance of their duties; that they are qualified

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to hold office; and shall give such bond as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. Said bond shall be made payable to the City of Hazlehurst, and shall be approved by the mayor and council, and recorded in the book kept for that purpose. Election of officers and employees. Oath and bond. Sec. 33. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city attorney shall be the legal advisor for the mayor and council. He shall give written opinions whenever called upon, upon any subject or matter with respect to the law; shall attend the sessions of the police court when called upon by the mayor or councilman acting as such: He shall attend the meetings of the mayor and council when requested by the mayor and council; shall look after all legal matters and litigation wherein the City of Hazlehurst is involved, and shall discharge such other duties as may be required of him by the mayor and council connected with his office of city attorney. Said city attorney shall receive a salary of one hundred twenty-five dollars per annum, and such fees in actual litigated cases as may be agreed upon by the council. He shall hold his office until his successor is elected and qualified. City attorney. Salary and fees. Sec. 34. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the clerk to collect and keep, subject to the direction of the city council, all money due and belonging to the city, except as hereinafter provided; to be custodian of the books and records of the city and to preserve a minute of all the acts and doings of each meeting of the city council; to be ex-officio clerk of the police court of said city, and to perform all such other duties as are required of him from time to time by the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city council. Clerk's duties. Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office he shall take before some officer authorized to administer oaths in this State an oath to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of his office, and shall execute such bond in such sum as shall be required of him by the city council, with good and sufficient security, to be approved

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by the mayor and council. He shall keep a separate and correct list of all the separate and distinct funds received and disbursed, so at all times to show the true condition of such funds. He shall also make general and special reports in the manner and at the times when called upon by the city council to do so. Sec. 35. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the treasurer, who may also be the clerk, to keep a set of books in which he shall make entries of all sums of money received and all sums paid out by him, when and to whom, and for what purpose, and shall give receipts for all sums of money received by him, and shall take receipts for all sums of money paid out by him, which books and receipts shall at all times be open to the inspection of any citizen of said city, and all sums of money paid into the hands of the treasurer by the provisions of this Act shall be, and the same are hereby directed to be a fund for the exclusive use of the said City of Hazlehurst. The duties of the treasurer are such as are usual and which may be required of him by the ordinances of said city and by this section. Before entering upon his duties he shall take an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of his office, and shall execute such bond and in such terms as shall be required of him by the mayor and council. He shall make general and special reports in the manner and at times when called upon by the mayor and council to do so. Treasurer. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the city marshal to levy and collect all executions for taxes or other money due the city; to advertise and conduct all sales of property under execution, or other process, execute all deeds and other conveyances usual in such cases, and perform such other services as the mayor and council may by ordinance require of him. Said marshal shall be chief of police of said city, and as such shall perform such duties, and shall perform all other duties as required of him by the ordinances of said

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city. He shall give bond in the sum of two thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties and shall take the same oath of office, in the presence of the council, as that prescribed for the treasurer. Marshal. Bond. $2,000. Sec. 37. The building inspector who must be elected at the first meeting of the council as provided for in Section 32 of this Act may be some city officer who shall, in addition to his other duties, perform all the other duties and have the authority of the building inspector. Said building inspector shall be a practical workman at one of the building trades, and shall keep a full record of the buildings erected in the City of Hazlehurst; shall issue permits for the building of the same, or for repairs of any building, and shall inspect all buildings, fences or walks in the city, and shall make monthly reports to the mayor and council. Building inspector. Record and permits. (a) Whenever the building inspector, after examination, shall determine that any buildings, walls, or fences constructed or in the course of construction, are dangerous, he shall have the authority to compel such structure to be torn down or removed, and the defects remedied, and the owner shall cause the orders of the building inspector to be immediately carried out in the event of the failure of the owner or his agent to carry out the orders of the inspector, the inspector shall have the authority to do the work necessary with whatever force provided by the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst at the expense of the owner of the property. The expense thereof shall be collected by execution, to be issued by the treasurer of the city, and shall be a lien upon the property of the owner, and shall be collected in the same manner as a tax execution. Removal of buildings, etc. Execution against owner. (b) The mayor and council shall have full power and authority to pass all necessary ordinances regulating buildings, fences and works, and prescribing the duties and compensation of the building inspector. Regulations: pay of inspector. Sec. 38. The mayor and council, upon the recommendation of the Board of Health of said city may designase

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and appoint some fit and proper person as milk inspector and food inspector of said City of Hazlehurst, whose duties shall be to enforce all ordinances, rules and regulations of the mayor and council and the Board of Health of said city touching the inspection and sale of milk and cream, and all meats, vegetables and groceries of all kinds and character in said City of Hazlehurst, and to enforce all rules and regulations of the mayor and council and the Board of Health with reference to all restaurants, hotels or other eating places in said City of Hazlehurst. Such inspector shall have power as an officer of the Board of Health to examine all cows, stables or dairies, whether in the City of Hazlehurst or not and condemn the milk sold from same and said inspector shall have full power to examine all meats, vegetables and all groceries offered for sale in said city, and to inspect all restaurants, hotels and all other eating places, and to enter upon any premises, store or other place for said purpose, and any person offering for sale any milk or cream, vegetables or other groceries or keeping or maintaining any eating place in said city contrary to or in a condition contrary to an ordinance or regulation of said city, or of the mayor and council, or Board of Health of said City of Hazlehurst, shall be arraigned before the mayor and be punished as prescribed by the ordinances of said city defining the punishment for disorderly conduct in said city. It shall be the duty of the inspector to make an examination and report of every hotel, restaurant or other eating place in said city at least once a month and report to the mayor and council. Any milk, cream, meats, vegetables or other groceries, or any food offered for sale or consumption in said city that may be condemned by the inspector shall be destroyed at once. The mayor and council shall have full power to charge such fee for the sale of such articles as will pay the salary of such inspector and the expense of inspection. The salary of the inspector shall be prescribed by the mayor and council, and his term of office one year. Milk and food inspector; powers and duties. Salary. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all dealers in ice, coal and wood shall pay to

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the city a license tax in such sums as may be fixed by ordinance, and shall before commencing to do business in this city, obtain from the clerk a license, and upon complaint that any one of such dealers is selling ice, coal or wood under short weight or measure less than the State's standard measures, a case shall be made against such dealer, and upon such conviction in the police court in said city, his license shall be revoked, and he shall be bound over for his appearance in the State courts to answer for the violation of the State laws, and it shall be the duty of the chief of police and policemen whenever complaint is made to make an immediate investigation of the same, and to do this they may at any time stop any of the wagons of ice, coal or wood dealers and have the articles weighed or measured, and see if it is that weight or measure, but farmers residing without the city limits bringing wood into the city shall not be required to procure license, but shall be otherwise amenable to the provisions of the ordinance. Ice, coal and wood dealers, license and regulation of. Short weight. Sec. 40. That the mayor and council shall have power to appoint inspectors of weights and measures in use in said city and to pass rules and regulations with respect to same, and fix fees for such inspection, to be paid by the parties using said weights and measures. Inspectors of weights and measures. Sec. 41. Be it further enacted that there shall be, and is a police court established for the City of Hazlehurst, which shall have jurisdiction to try the offences against the laws and ordinances of the municipal government and to punish for the violation of the same. Said court shall have power to enforce its judgments by the inflections of such penalties as may be provided by law; to punish witnesses for non-attendance, and also any person who shall counsel or encourage or persuade another whose testimony is desired or material in any proceeding before said court to go or remove beyond the process of the same. Said court shall be presided over by the mayor of said City of Hazlehurst, and in his absence or disability, by the mayor pro tem. Said court shall be held at such times and places in said city as the mayor or the city council may designate, and as may be necessary for the trial of cases. Police court.

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Sec. 42. The mayor of said City of Hazlehurst, as judge of said police court, shall have power to impose fines for the violation of any law or ordinance of said city passed in accordance with its charter, by fine to the amount not to exceed five hundred dollars; to imprison offenders in the guard house of said city or the common jail of Jeff Davis County, not exceeding one hundred and eighty days, or at labor on the public works and the streets of the City of Hazlehurst for not more than one hundred and eighty days, and said mayor shall have the power and authority to impose any one or more of these punishments when in his opinion the facts of the case justify it. Said mayor shall not have the authority to inflict a greater punishment for contempts committed in the presence of the court than to impose a fine of twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment for a space not exceeding ten days. Said mayor shall be to all intents and purposes a justice of peace, so as to enable him to issue warrants for offenses committed within the corporate limits of said city, which warrants may be executed by any member of the police force of the City of Hazlehurst, and to commit the offenders to the guard house of the city or the common jail of Jeff Davis County, or admit them to bail in bailable cases for their appearance at the next term of a court of competent jurisdiction to be held in and for said county. If, in the examination or trial of any municipal ordinances, there is reason to suspect the commission of a crime against the laws of the State on his part, the mayor shall have authority to bind or commit said accused to a court of competent jurisdiction for said penal offenses. The mayor pro tem in the absence or disability of the mayor shall be vested with all the power of the mayor. Fenalties. Commitments. Sec. 43. The right of certiorari from the decisions and judgments of the mayor shall exist in all criminal cases, and such certiorari shall be obtained under the sanction of the judge of the Superior Court of Jeff Davis County upon a petition, in writing, to said judge, to be presented within ten days after the rendition of the decision or judgment complained of, and not thereafter. Such petition shall state the grounds of complaint and shall be duly [Illegible Text] to. If, upon

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examination, the judge shall consider the petition entitled to writ of certiorari, it shall be his duty to cause writ of certiorari to be issued and served on the mayor, as in other cases under laws of this State requiring him to certify and send up to the Superior Court a complete and accurate history of the case as his answer thereto, which answer shall be subject to correction and traverse, as provided in the Code of this State. The judge at chambers or in term time may hear and determine such traverse, as well as the certiorari upon which it is based, after ten days notice to each party and may then affirm or reverse the decision of the mayor; provided, however, that no writ shall be granted until the accused shall pay all costs and file with his petition an affidavit setting forth that he has been wrongfully and illegally convicted, and give bond with good and sufficient security, payable to the City of Hazlehurst, conditioned to answer the judgment of the court, or in lieu thereof shall make affidavit of his inability from poverty to pay the costs and give bond aforesaid. If the writ of certiorari is granted, the judgment of the mayor's court shall be suspended until the judge of the Superior Court shall finally pass on the case. Certiorari. Sec. 44. The clerk of the city shall be and act as clerk of the police court, and shall attend all sessions and act as clerk thereof in addition to his other duties. He shall sign and issue all processes, summons, and all attachments, etc., issued out of said court, all of which shall bear attest in the name of the mayor. He shall keep all records of said court, receive all fines, imposed by said court, and account for the same, as may be prescribed by the mayor and council. The ministerial officers of said court shall be the marshal and patrolmen of the police force of said city, any of whom may execute the mandates of said court, and to whom, in the alternative, all mesne and final processes thereof shall be directed. The chief of police of other member of the police force, shall attend all sessions of said court for the purpose of executing the necessary orders thereof. Clerk's duties in police court. Marshal and policemen. Sec. 45. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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that the said mayor and council shall provide for said city a safe and suitable prison for the keeping and detention of city prisoners and convicts; and they may establish and provide a chaingang, in which to work persons who have been convicted of violating any of the city ordinances. Such chaingang shall be established and maintained in a manner to be provided by ordinance passed by the mayor and aldermen of said City of Hazlehurst. Prison. Chain-gang. Sec. 46. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council shall have full power to suppress lewd houses, lewdness and all immoral conduct, and they shall have power and authority to provide by ordinance a penalty for the use of vulgar and obsene language, and to punish lewd or disorderly conduct within the limits of the City of Hazlehurst, and to pass such further and other ordinances as may be necessary or expedient for the preservation of good order, decency, morality, peace, health, welfare, convenience and good government of and for said City of Hazlehurst. Power to suppress lewd houses, and punish for disorderly conduct, etc. Welfare clause. Sec. 47. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council shall have power to pass ordinance and regulations for the prevention of idleness and loitering within the city limits, and to prescribe penalties for violation thereof, and the mayor and council shall have power and authority to pass all laws and ordinances that they may consider necessary for comfort and security of said city and the inhabitants thereof and that may be necessary to foster virtue and good morals in said city, and to enforce such laws and ordinances by such penalties as are authorized by this charter. Said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to adopt and enforce any and all ordinances that they may consider necessary or advisable to carry out the powers granted to said city, and to make and enforce such ordinances, rules and regulations for the government of their body, all the officers of said city, and to do all things and exercise all powers conferred upon them by this Act, or that may be done under the laws of this state conferring powers upon municipal corporations; provided,

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such laws, ordinances, rules and regulations are consistent with the laws of the State and the United States. Idleness and loitering General powers. Sec. 48. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have power and authority to license, regulate and control all markets in said city, opera houses, hacks and drays used for hauling of any kind, and vehicles used for hire, [Illegible Text] itinerant lightning rod dealers, emigrant agents, all fire insurance companies doing business in said city, trades and professions of every kind not exempt under the State law; itinerant dealers in jewelry and medicines, all articles of merchandise, except such as are exempted by the laws of this State; also any person running a flying jenny, merry-go-round, skating rink, all circuses, side shows and other shows and performances exhibited in said city, and all persons selling goods, wares, or merchandise by sample or otherwise, and all other business calling or vocations, which under the Constitution and laws of this State are not exempt from license, shall be subject to license under the ordinances of the city passed in conformity with the provisions of this Act. They shall also have full power to regulate and control all livery stables, restaurants, places of amusement, telegraph and telephone and electric companies; all gas, water and railroad companies doing business or seeking to do business within said city. They shall also have power to remove any forge or smith shop when in their opinion, it shall be necessary to insure safety against fire. They shall have power to cause any stove pipe or stove or other thing which shall endanger the city by exposure to fire to be removed or remedied as their prudence shall dictate. License and regulation of business. Fire protection. Sec. 49. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said city shall have full power and authority to prevent horses, mules, cattle, hogs, dogs, goats and all other animals or fowls from running at large over the city and to prevent and to prohibit the keeping of hogs within the city limits, and to regulate the manner in which they must be kept if allowed to remain, and to impound such animals when found upon the streets of the

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city and to charge such fees for the same as they may prescribe, and in addition thereto charge for the keeping of any animal or animals so impounded and when the owners shall fail or refuse to pay the impounding fee and costs of keeping said animals, the same may be sold at public outcry and the proceeds applied to the payment of said fee, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by ordinance. All moneys due by the owners of impounded animals, as well as all moneys due by the purchaser of such animals, shall be paid over by such owner or purchaser as the case may be, to the treasurer of the City of Hazlehurst, who shall keep a record, separate from his other records, of all receipts and disbursements by him of such moneys. Animals. (a) Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to impose and collect a tax on all dogs within the city in such manner as they may deem best, and provide the manner in which they shall be registered and tagged. Tax on dogs. Sec. 50. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council shall have power, whenever they deem it necessary, and to the best interests of the city, to establish a bureau for the commercial and business interests of the city, to be known as the Hazlehurst Chamber of Commerce, and the said mayor and council may prescribe the scope of its work, the duties devolving upon its membership, its officers and appropriate such sums for its maintenance and operation as they may deem necessary and proper. Chamber of Commerce; power to maintain. Sec. 51. Be it further enacted, That there shall be a Board of Health of the City of Hazlehurst to consist of three members. The mayor, by virtue of his office, shall be a member of said board, and the mayor shall appoint one alderman as a member of said board, and the council shall elect a reputable practicing physician of said city as a member of said board. The members of said board shall hold their office for one year, and the compensation of the members of said board shall be fixed and appropriated by the mayor and council annually. No member of said board shall receive more than five dollars per month. The board

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shall meet at such times and at such places as it may fix, and shall be subject to call at any time the mayor may see fit. Said board shall have power to execute all sanitary measures necessary to the preservation of the public health, and for the prevention of the generation and introduction of infectious and contagious disease. They shall likewise exercise absolute power over the quarantine, personal or otherwise; penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by said board shall be fixed by the mayor and council. Said Board of Health shall recommend to the mayor and council that acts and things shall be deemed nuisances, who shall provide by ordinance within what time the same shall be abated, and said board shall declare whatever may be deemed necessary by said Board of Health for the public health and for the prevention of infectious or contagious diseases to be unlawful and a nuisance. The ordinances and regulations now in force in said city with reference to the health thereof shall have the force and effect of law until the same shall be amended or repealed by ordinance. The mayor and council shall by proper ordinance provide for the offenders against the ordinances affecting the health of the city, and the regulations of said Board of Health, and the mayor's court or police court shall have jurisdiction to try all persons charged with a violation of such ordinances or the regulations of the Board of Health, and the fines arising therefrom shall be paid into the treasury of said city. Said Board of Health shall have power to make rules and regulations for quarantine and governing the conduct of all persons with reference thereto, and such rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of an ordinance of said city, and the mayor and council shall by ordinance provide punishment upon conviction for a violation of such rules and regulations. Board of health. Pay of members. Duties and powers. Quarantine. Nuisances. Violation of regulations. Sec. 52. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council shall have full power and authority [Illegible Text] enact any ordinance and by-laws to them deemed desirable with reference to the erection or maintenance of any sink, water-closet, privy, or other place of like character, together with the

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drainage and sewers of said city, and to provide that no sink, water-closet or privy shall be put in or located in said city except by permit from the Board of Health, and to provide that no water-closet or privy shall be located, or maintained separate from a dwelling or business house of said city, and no water-closet or privy shall be located or erected or maintained for the public by any person in said city, but that the city alone shall have power to erect and maintain for the use of the public water-closets and privies in said city. The Board of Health in said city shall have supervision of all sinks, water-closets, privies, etc., together with the drainage and sewers of said city, and shall be authorized to enter any premises for the purpose of inspecting and examining the same. The Board of Health shall also have charge and management of any and all hospitals, temperary or otherwise, for contagious or infectious diseases. Said Board of Health shall also examine all public institutions within said city, and shall compel such sanitary rules and regulations as they may deem necessary, enforced. The expenses of the Board of Health shall form a legitimate item in the administration of the city government, to be met as in the case of other expenditures, by such appropriations of money as the city council in the exercise of sound economy may deem proper. Said Board of Health shall make recommendations from time to the city council touching public welfare as said board in its judgment may see fit and proper. Such recommendations shall always be made when called for by the council. Two members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A record of the proceedings of this board, open to the public, shall be carefully kept and filed among the archives of the city government; the clerk of the city shall be ex-officio clerk of the board and shall perform duties as the board may prescribe. His compensation for such duties shall be fixed by the mayor and council. The said Board of Health shall have power to declare what are infected parts or places, and who are infected persons. On information satisfactory to them, public notice of which shall be sufficient to give legal effect to all their subsequent

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acts, they may establish such quarantine regulations as are not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State. Water-closets, drainage, etc. Hospitals, etc. Expenses of board. Recommendations. (a) That should the Board of Health of said city neglect or decline to attend to the duties imposed by this Act, the mayor and council shall act as such Board of Health, and exercise all the powers and discharge all the duties relating to the Board of Health prescribed in this Act. (b) All vacancies in said board shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointments as made in the first instance. Sec. 53. The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall, upon the report of the Board of Health, cause any nuisance liable to endanger the health of the city, or of any neighborhood, to be abated in a summary manner, and where the nuisance is caused by the act or negligence of any individual, the expense of such abatement may be charged against the party causing such nuisance, or the owner of the premises, as council may elect. Nuisances. Sec. 54. The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst, on the recommendation of the Board of Health, shall cause the owner or owners of lots improved or unimproved, within the City of Hazlehurst, to drain the same or to fill the same to the level of the streets or alleys on which said lots are fronting; to compel the owner or owners of cellars holding water to cause the same to be emptied of the water or filled up as they deem it best; to compel the owner or owners of water-closets and privies disconnected from dwellings or business houses of such owner or owners, or water-closets or privies owned by private individuals and used by the public to remove the same from the place that such water-closets or privies may be located, and in case the owner of such lot or lots or such water-closet or privies shall fail to comply with the requirements of the mayor and council, after due notice being given him or his agents, by filling up the lot or cellars, or draining the same or by removing such water-closets or privies, it shall be lawful for the mayor and council to employ some person to do the same, and for the amount so expended the city treasurer

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shall forthwith issue an execution against the owner of said property, to be collected from said lot or any other property belonging to him, and a sale under said execution by the marshall shall pass the title of the property as completely as a sale by the sheriff under a judgment and execution. Drainage, water-closets, etc. Execution for expense. Sec. 55. The mayor and council shall have power and authority to establish a system of quarantine, when recommended by the Board of Health, or as in their judgment may be necessary to prevent the introduction or spreading of any contagious or infectious disease within said city; and that in order to more fully exercise this authority said mayor and council are hereby given quarantine jurisdiction over all the area embraced within the jurisdictional limits of the County of Jeff Davis, in this State, and anywhere within the limits of said city or county they may establish, erect and change at leisure either permanent or temporary quarantine grounds or pest houses, and may condemn and change at pleasure, either permanent or temporary quarantine grounds or pest houses, and may condemn and take lands and buildings and personal property in said limits for quarantine grounds and quarantine purposes, either permanent or temporary. Condemnation proceedings shall be had and taken in the same manner and by the same rules as are provided by Section 77 of this Act for condemning lands for sewers, etc., and all the provisions of that section for that purpose shall apply and be the provisions for this purpose; and they may by ordinance or resolution put any part or the whole of said area under quarantine, and may arrest, detain and if need be, confine persons from or suspected to be from any place or places suspected of being infected, and detain and confine such persons from day to day as they may by ordinance see fit to declare and prescribe. They shall be authorized and have full power and authority to stop, delay, board and search any and all trains, cars and vehicles or conveyances of every sort, public or private, entering the limits, whenever in their judgment it may seem best and necessary, and may absolutely prohibit any such train or vehicle from entering said limits, or persons

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coming within same. But such rigid quarantine shall not be held and established except upon the recommendation of the Board of Health by the mayor and council. No State board that now is or that may be established shall have power to molest, lessen or in anywise interfere with said authorities in the matter of quarantine in said limits, save only to see to it that they maintain in such area a quarantine not less strict than such State Board of health may think best. And said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to punish any violation of the quarantine rules and regulations of said city that may be prescribed by the mayor and council or by the Board of Health committed in any place within said area, and said mayor and council may, by resolution, adopt any rule or regulation recommended by the Board of Health, and upon the same being posted one time in such manner as they may prescribe, and within twelve hours after posting or publication, become a binding ordinance upon all persons within said City of Hazlehurst and within said area when it shall be so recited. Health regulations. [Illegible Text] of property. Sec. 56. The mayor and council shall have full power and authority to compel the removal of any person or persons with smallpox, typhoid fever or any other contagious or infections diseases, in or near city, to the hospital or other house provided for that purpose, and who do not provide their premises with sufficient disinfectants, treatments and guards to completely regulate and control the quarantine; but even when said premises on which said sick person or persons may be sufficiently guarded, it shall be in the judgment and discretion of the mayor and council to assign all sick persons to the hospital or house above declared. The mayor and council shall have full power and authority by ordinance or resolution to provide that vaccinations shall be compulsory upon all persons residing in said City of Hazlehurst, and within one mile of the incorporate limits of said City of Hazlehurst, and for this purpose the said city authorities are hereby given police jurisdiction over all the territory and over all residents within the said prescribed area, and upon all persons who may be working or [Illegible Text] in said city, whether they be [Illegible Text] residents or not

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of said City of Hazlehurst. And said mayor and council shall provide in said ordinances and regulations from the time which all persons as above referred to shall be vaccinated, and any person failing or refusing to be vaccinated, within the time required in such ordinance, rules and regulations shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than two hundred and fifty dollars and costs or imprisonment in the common jail of said county or the guard house of the city or such other place of confinement, as the mayor and council may direct. Removal of persons with contagious diseases. Vaccination. Penalty. Sec. 57. The mayor and council shall have full power and authority to adopt any such ordinances, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary to secure the removal of all garbage, rubbish, fifth, dead animals, weeds in growth and all other offensive matter and material from the streets and alleys, parks and lanes, and from any and all unoccupied and occupied lots and places within said city limits, and when the same is on private property to be at the expense of the owner removed and destroyed. Such ordinances shall be enforced by the board of health and by the mayor and council. And if such offensive matter or material be located on private property and the owner of such property shall fail or refuse, after written notice from the board of health, to comply with the terms of the ordinance and rules and regulations, he shall be subject to such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance and upon notice being given the mayor and council, they may cause the removal of such offensive matter and execution issued for the costs thereof, as they may by ordinance direct against the property of such ordinance for the amount of such expense and costs. The person returning such lot or property for city taxes shall be taken and deemed to be the owner, and said execution shall proceed in the same manner and be liable to the same defense as is prescribed in this Act where executions are issued by the city for construction, paving or otherwise improving the streets, sidewalks, etc., of the City of Hazlehurst. Said board of health shall have full power and authority, and it shall be the duty of said board, to condemn all

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outhouses, water closets and privies in said city that may be disconnected from a dwelling or business house, or that, by the nature of their use, either by the owners or the public generally, shall cause flies and other insects to collect, or create an offensive odor, and upon the board of health reporting any such place or building to the mayor and council, and the failure of the owner thereof to remove the same, it shall be the duty of the mayor and council to cause the same to be removed as hereinbefore provided. Removal of garbage, etc. Execution for cost. Condemnation of outhouses. Sec. 58. The City of Hazlehurst is authorized to own and operate a system of waterworks and a system of lights and power plant for the purpose of supplying water, lights and power for all the purposes to any and all persons for hire resident in said city. The mayor and council shall have power and authority to make all rules and regulations for the management and operation of works and plants, and to fix from time to time the rates charged for water, with the right to classify said rate. The mayor and council shall have power and authority to fix by ordinance the purpose for which lights and power and water shall be furnished, and to make rules and regulations governing the refusal, for reasons deemed sufficient by the mayor and council; to furnish water, lights and power to any person applying therefor, and to discontinue to furnish water, lights and power to any person now receiving and enjoying the same, upon information given the mayor and council by the board of health it shall be the duty of the mayor and council to refuse water or to discontinue to furnish water to any person to be used in any sink, water closet, privy or place contrary to the ordinances of said City of Hazlehurst, or the rules and regulations of the board of health, or when the water is to be used in any place as the board of health shall declare unsanitary. Waterworks, lights, power plant. Sec. 59. Income arising from the operation of said waterworks and light and power plants, and all the revenues derived therefrom, shall be first applied to the payment of the necessary operating expenses, extensions and repairs, that may be deemed necessary; the payment of the interest and

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the retirement of the principal of any indebtedness for the purchase or erection of said plant, and any future indebtedness that may be created for the purpose of improving or extending the same, and any balance, if any, shall be paid over to the general fund of the city to be applied to the general expenses and purposes of said city government. A separate account from the balance of the city affairs shall be kept of the business of the light and water plant, which said account shall show the expenses for operating, maintaining, improving and extending, and of the income and revenue of said light and water plant. Income from water, etc. how applied. (a) The mayor and council shall have full power and authority to employ all necessary labor for the operation and management of said light, power and water plants, and they shall have the authority to discharge any and all persons employed by them at any time in the same manner, and to the same extent that any private employer has over his employee. Employment of labor. (b) The mayor and council shall have full power and authority to make rules and regulations for shutting off the water and cutting out the lights and power and shutting off electricity from premises when supplied for non-payment of water or light or power rent, and providing that the same shall not be turned on again until such delinquent consumer at such location or elsewhere pays all back water, light or power rent, as the case may be, due by said delinquent consumer for water, light or power furnished or consumed, to the City of Hazlehurst, including any and all charge for turning off and on the water, light or power, as the case may be, that may be made, and said mayor and council shall have power and authority to provide for such charge as in their judgment may be reasonable for cutting out or on the water, lights or power as herein provided. Power as to regulations. (c) That the mayor and council shall have full power and authority in their discretion, to install water, light and power meters on any premises, and when a meter has been installed to provide for the collection of the cost of installing

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such meter from the person owning the premises upon which such meter was installed, and should such person fail or refuse to pay therefor, to provide for the cutting off or shutting off the water, light or power from such premises, and not to turn the same on at such premises until the charges for such meter installation has been fully paid. Said mayor and council may provide for the installation of such meters and fix a monthly rental charge for the same, which rent may be enforced by shutting off such water, lights or power in the manner aforesaid. Said mayor and council may provide for the installation of meters upon the premises occupied by any tenant upon the application of such tenant, and his paying the cost and charges for such installation. Said mayor and council shall have power to classify the consumers of water, lights and power furnished by the city into classes according to the quantity of water or power consumed, and may in their discretion place any and all consumers on a flat rate. Meters. (d) That the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to provide for such lights and water for public uses, including street lights and lights in public buildings, water hydrants and fire hydrants, and including water for streets and all public buildings in said City of Hazlehurst as they may deem necessary or to the best interest of said city and the convenience of its citizens, and the mayor and council shall provide for the keeping and repair of the water tank, mains and pipes so as to prevent waste and leakage, and shall cause mains and pipes and the water tank to be flushed and cleaned out at such intervals as will make them sanitary. The board of health of said city shall every three months inquire into the condition of said tank, water mains, pipes, etc., and shall make a written report to the council of its condition, which said report shall be filed in the archives of the city and at all times be subject to public inspection, and shall be published in one issue of the newspaper of the city where other city notices appear, at least twice a year. The board of health shall have full power and authority to require the superintendent of the light plant,

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or any one operating the same, to flush and clean the same whenever in their judgment, it is to the best interest of the health of the citizens of the city, and essential to the purity of the water furnished. Lights and water for public use. (e) The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst are hereby authorized to make all necessary ordinances for the purpose of protecting the city in the ownership and employment of said light, water and power plants, and for the purpose of protecting the city against loss, misuse and waste of water, light and power; and preventing connections with and appropriating of the water, lights and power of said city without the knowledge or consent of the mayor and council; and for the punishment of offenders against such ordinances. Ordinances. Sec. 60. The mayor and council shall provide by ordinance for a fire department, volunteer or for hire, as they may see fit, and to make all rules and regulations necessary for the fighting of fire in said City of Hazlehurst. And they shall have full power and authority to contract with and employ persons to fight fire; contract for and purchase material, hose, fire engines, fire wagons, ladders, etc., to be used in fighting fire, fix salaries and compensation of its employees for such purposes and to pay the expense thereof from the funds of said city raised by taxation. Fire protection. (a) Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council may enact any and all ordinances, rules and regulations necessary to lay out a fire district in the City of Hazlehurst, and to enlarge, change or modify its limits from time to time, to prescribe when, how and of what material buildings in said city may be erected or covered; how thick the walls may be, the manner in which chimneys, stoves, pipes and flues shall be constructed; to change all things they deem necessary to protect said city, so far as possible, from danger of fire, and to prevent conflagrations. They shall also have power and authority to order any changes in the construction or arrangement of chimneys, stove pipes or flues, or the removal thereof, when in their judgment the same is dangerous, or

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likely to be so; and to make the owner or occupant of the premises pay the expense of the change, as they may elect, which may be collected by executions; and if any person, firm or corporation shall not remove said building, after notice to do so, then said mayor and council shall have power and authority to remove the same at the expense of the owner, which expense may be collected by execution as hereinbefore provided. Sec. 61. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the police force of the City of Hazlehurst shall, consist of a chief of police, who may be the marshal of said city, should the mayor and council so provide, and such other officers and men as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe, and such chief, officer and men shall be subject to removal by a majority vote of the council in regular or called meeting for any cause deemed sufficient by said mayor and council, and it shall be a part of all contracts of the city for the services of a chief of police or other officers or men of its police force, whether written in contract made with such chief, officers or men or not, that the mayor and council shall have power and authority by a majority vote, to suspend or remove such chief, officers or men from office or the employment of the city without written notice or hearing, and for cause deemed sufficient by said mayor and council. The compensation of all the police force shall be prescribed by ordinance of the mayor and council. Police force. Sec. 62. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each police officer shall be furnished with blank summonses, requiring the person summoned to appear before the public court. If they believe the defendant will leave the city and not obey summons, then they shall apply to the mayor or the mayor pro tem, for a warrant, which shall be executed by them, and a bond taken to require the offender to appear before the public court for trial or commitment; provided, that all persons desiring to give bail for their appearance before such court in bailable cases shall be allowed to do so. Said police force shall have full power

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and authority to arrest all persons in said city guilty of disorderly conduct or public indecency, when they see the crime committed, without a warrant, if they deem it necessary, and take the person so charged before the mayor or mayor pro tem for a warrant. Summons, warrant, bond for appearance. Arrests. (a) It shall be the duty of the chief of police to prosecute in the police court all offenders against the ordinances of said city and the laws of the State for crime committed within the limits of the City of Hazlehurst. Prosecutions. Sec. 63. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to regulate, lay out, direct and control the streets and alleys of the City of Hazlehurst, and the working, claying, grading and improving of the same; to open up new streets, alleys and assess a tax for the payment of the damage caused by the same, when the property of any person may be injured thereby, or taken therefor, or to assess a tax for the payment of the cost and expense of working, claying, grading, paving and improving the streets of the city, and said City of Hazlehurst shall have full power and authority to condemn private property for streets and for alleys and avenues in and for said city. Such condemnation proceedings as provided by Section 77 of this Act, and in conformity with the laws of this State. For all private property taken by said city for street purposes, except by donation or gift, just compensation shall be made therefor, as provided by the laws of this State. Streets. Tax to pay for damage or improvements. Condemnation. (a) The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have power and authority to remove or cause to be removed, any buildings, posts, steps, fences or other obstructions or nuisances, in the public streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks or public squares of the city. Obstructions. (b) That all streets, sidewalks, alleys, pavements, and street crossings shall be under the control, power and direction of the mayor and council, and they shall have full and complete power and right to direct the mode, manner and style in which all street crossings, sidewalks and pavements shall be constructed, paved or re-paved, and in case of a failure

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or refusal of any property owner, after notice in reference to the construction, paving or repairs of the sidewalks, pavements, streets or street crossings, said mayor and council are hereby authorized and empowered to prescribe that said owners may be [Illegible Text] in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to collect the same by execution. They may also direct their officers or persons in their employment to carry out and execute the provisions of said ordinances in reference to sidewalks, pavements, streets and street crossings at the expense of the owner so refusing to comply with said ordinance; and the said mayor and council are hereby empowered to issue execution for said bill of expense against the said owner, levy and collect same, as in case of execution for taxes; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section or any part of this charter shall be construed to confer any ministerial power on said mayor and council over the streets, crossings, sidewalks, pavements, public buildings or public works of said City of Hazlehurst, but the said mayor and council shall have the right to legislate concerning the same and prescribe by ordinance or resolution the work to be done, the method of doing the same, and shall have charge of the public property, street improvements, street forces and the performance of all other public work done or performed within the limits of said city of the character referred to in this Act and the preceding sections. Pavements, etc. Fine for refusal to pave, etc. Execution for cost of paving, etc. (c) Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have full power and authority in their discretion to work, clay, grade, pave, macadamize and otherwise improve for travel and drainage the streets and public lanes and alleys of said city, to put down curbing, cross drains, crossing and otherwise improve the same. Street improvements. (d) That in order to fully carry into effect the authority above delegated, the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have full power and authority to assess the cost or working, claying, grading, paving and otherwise improving the sidewalks, including two-thirds of the necessary

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curbing for the same, on the real estate abutting on the street, and on the side of the street, on which the sidewalk is so improved. Assessments. (e) Be it further eancted, that the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to assess one-third of the cost of working, claying, grading paving, macadamizing, constructing side drains, crossings and otherwise improving the roadway or street proper on the real estate abutting on each side of the street improved, and upon the property of any railroad company. The real estate abutting on each side shall be assessed, and shall pay two-thirds of the entire cost, and any railroad company having track running through, across or into any street so improved, shall be assessed and shall pay all cost of working, claying, grading, paving or improving such streets for the space between their rails and for one foot on each side thereof, when there is a single track; but whenever any railroad company shall have and maintain a switch-track or other than one track, on any street or part of street worked, clayed, graded or improved, then such railroad company shall be assessed and shall pay the entire cost of improvement of the entire space between these two or more tracks and between the rails of each track and one foot on each side of the outside rail of the outside track; and the treasurer of the City of Hazlehurst shall issue executions for the amount assessed against any railroad company, at the same time and in the same manner as executions shall be issued on the real estate abutting on the street so improved, which said executions shall be enforced, levied and collected by the marshal in the same manner as is now or may hereinafter be provided by law for the enforcement of collections of executions against abutting real estate; provided, that the law authorizing the assessment against abutting property holders the whole cost of working or improving sidewalks including two-thirds of the cost of curbing is in no way affected thereby. Execution for assessment. (f) The mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have full authority and power to adopt by ordinance such system of equalizing assessments on real estate for the above

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purpose and for the amounts above set forth as may be just and proper, estimating the total cost of such work on each improvement made and pro-rating the cost thereof on the real estate according to its frontage on the street or portion of the street so improved. It shall be discretionary with the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst whether said work or improvement shall be done or not. Equalization of assessments. (g) The amount of the assessment on each piece of real estate shall be a lien on said real estate from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the work and making the assessment. Lien of assessment. (h) The City of Hazlehurst shall have full power and authority to enforce the collection of the amount of any assessment so made for work, either upon the streets or sidewalks, by execution to be issued by the city treasurer against the real estate so assessed, and against the owner thereof, at the date of the ordinance making the assessment, which execution may be levied by the marshal of the city upon such real estate, and after advertisement and other proceedings, as in cases of sale of taxes, the same may be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder, and such sale vest absolute title in the purchaser and the marshal of the City of Hazlehurst shall have full authority to eject the occupants of said property and place the purchaser thereof in possession; provided, that the defendants shall have the right to file an affidavit denying that the whole or any part of the amount for which execution issued is due, and stating what amount he admits to be due, which amount so admitted to be due, with all cost, shall be paid and collected before the affidavit is received and the affidavit shall be received for the balance, and the affidavit so received shall be returned to the Superior Court of Jeff Davis County, and there tried, and the issue determined as in case of illegality subject to all laws of illegalities in the State. Levy and sale. Affidavit of illegality. (i) The City of Hazlehurst shall have full power and authority to work, clay, grade, repair or contract for the same, the whole surface of the street, without giving any railroad

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company, or other property owner, holder or occupant of the street the option of having the space to be worked or improved by it, worked or improved by itself, or by contractor, at its instance, the object of this section being to prevent any delay in progress of the work and to secure a uniform quality of workmanship. Improvement of street by property owner. (j) That the lien to the City of Hazlehurst for assessments upon abutting property, and also on the property of the railroad companies for street or sidewalk paving, curbing, grading or draining shall have the rank and priority of payment next in point of dignity to the lien in favor of the City of Hazlehurst for taxes due said city, such liens or priority of payment to exist from the date of the passage of the ordinance authorizing the execution of the work in each case. Bank of lien. (k) The mayor and council shall have full authority to prescribe by ordinance such other rules as may, in their discretion, be necessary to work, grade, pave, macadamize, drain or curb any of the streets of the city, to enforce by execution the payment of the cost thereof against adjacent property owners and railroad companies; to prescribe how owners or agents thereof shall be served with notice by personal service or publication. Enforcement of execution. Notice. (l) The City of Hazlehurst shall have authority to issue executions against the real estate abutting on the streets improved and the property of railroad companies having tracks on the streets worked, graded, clayed, paved or improved, in the payment of cost of doing the work and improving; and the City of Hazlehurst shall have authority to transfer any and all of the executions for paving and improving the streets to any person or corporation, which said transfer shall be made in obedience to an ordinance, or resolution or contract of the City of Hazlehurst, and shall be in writing on said execution, signed by the mayor and the treasurer of the City of Hazlehurst; said executions, when issued and transferred as herein provided, shall convey to the owner thereof all right, title and interest in and to said

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executions and to the assessment of the liens upon the respective lots, parcels of ground and property of the railroad companies, as provided, with full power to enforce collection thereof by levy and sale of the property. Transfer of execution. (m) Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to re-work, re-pave, reclay, and otherwise repair or improve any sidewalk, street or alley, and such after proceedings as to levy and collection of assessment therefor as in cases of original work provided for under this Act, whenever, in the judgment of said mayor and council, the work originally done on such streets, sidewalks, or any portion of the same, or alley, is worn to that extent that it is no longer good pavement, sidewalk or street. Repaving, assessment for. Sec. 64. Be it further enacted, that whenever the City of Hazlehurst shall transfer any execution for claying, grading, working, paving and improving the streets, lanes and alleys of the City of Hazlehurst, or for working or claying sidewalks within said city, as herein provided by the charter, the marshal of the city shall have full power and authority to enforce the collection of such transferred executions for the use or benefit of such [Illegible Text], by levy and sale of the respective lots, parcels of ground or property which said executions are liens. Enforcement of transferred execution. Sec. 65. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to compel all male persons (except such as are exempt under the State law) within the corporate limits of the City of [Illegible Text], between the age of sixteen and fifty years, to work on the public streets, lanes and alleys of said city not more than twelve days each year. Said mayor and council shall have power and authority to levy and collect a direct tax for each year, without giving the person subject to road duty the right to work on the streets, and to provide the time and amounts, when and how to be paid, or they may in their [Illegible Text] permit the person subject to road duty to work on the streets the number of days required of them; and may commute the services required of them by the payment to the [Illegible Text] of

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said city authority to receive and receipt for same such commutation tax as may be fixed by the mayor and council; provided, however, that in no event, whether the mayor and council shall declare for a direct street tax, or for a commutation tax in lieu of working the street, either one or both shall the amount of commutation tax exceed the sum of ten dollars per year. Street work or tax. Sec. 66. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to grant encroachments on the streets, sidewalks, lanes, alleys and lands of the city, upon such terms and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance. Encroachment, permission for. Sec. 67. That the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst shall have power and authority to order the construction, improvements and maintenance of all public works, including sewerage, the care and improvement of all public parks, the public buildings, the streets and bridges, and to employ all agents and servants necessary for carrying on the work of the department. They shall have full power and authority to remove or discharge all such agents or employees and make all rules and regulations for the government of the same; also to buy all materials and make and let out contracts for work. Before any new work is undertaken it shall be approved at a regular meeting of the mayor and council, and all bills for expenditures shall be passed and approved by the mayor and council before they are paid by the treasurer. Power as to improvements. Approval of work. Sec. 68. Whenever the owner of any land or any property is damaged by reason of the construction of any system of drainage or sewerage, or outlet or outlets to the same, [Illegible Text] by the mayor and council, as aforesaid, such damage shall be ascertained and assessed in the following manner: The owner of the premises shall appoint one appraiser and the mayor and council shall appoint another, and these two shall select a third, whose award, or that of a [Illegible Text] of them, certified in writing, under their hands and seals in duplicate, one for each of the parties at interest,

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and shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of Superior Court of Jeff Davis County. The appraisers appointed shall be free holders in said city, and in all cases in making up their award consider the benefit from the construction of said system or systems of drainage or sewerage, or the outlets thereto, accruing to the owner or owners of such land or other property, and set off such benefits against such damages, but in no event giving an award against such owner for the excess of benefits over damages. In case either party shall be dissatisfied with said award, he, she or they may, within five days after the recording of the same, enter an appeal to the Superior Court of Jeff Davis County, as in other cases of appeal, when the question of damages shall be determined by a jury; but the award of the appraisers, if not appealed from, shall operate, have the effect of a judgment upon which the clerk of the Superior Court shall issue execution. Damage to property, [Illegible Text]. Appeal. Sec. 69. The construction of said system or systems of drainage or sewerage and the outlets thereto by the City of Hazlehurst shall not be interfered with by any court pending the action of said appraisers or the appeal from their award. Court not to interfere, when. Sec. 70. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of the City of Hazlehurst is hereby authorized to make, keep and maintain parks and other public grounds within said city, or outside of the incorporated limits of said city, and to receive, hold and own the fee simple title to such real estate and personal property as may be necessary for such parks and public grounds, and to make and enforce all such rules and regulations as may, in the discretion of the mayor and council, be necessary to [Illegible Text] good order, peace and dignity therein. Parks and public grounds. Sec. 71. Be it further enacted, that the City of Hazlehurst shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax upon all property, real and personal, within the limits of the city upon banking, insurance and all other capital employed therein; on [Illegible Text] or corporations, and on choses in action, upon salaries and incomes derived from property

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within the city or from the pursuit of any profession, trade, business or calling, and upon gross sales within said city; provided, that no tax upon real or personal estate or property shall exceed one and three-fourths per cent upon the value thereof. Taxation. Limit of tax. (a) The said city shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax upon factors, brokers and vendors of lottery tickets, upon agents or managers of gift enterprises, and upon any and all persons exercising within the city any profession, trade or calling or business of any nature whatever. The said city shall have full power and authority to tax all theatrical performances, exhibitions, exercises or shows of any kind within the corporate limits of said city. Business taxes and licenses. (b) The said city shall have full power and authority to levy and collect a license tax on all drummers and itinerant traders doing business in said City of Hazlehurst, upon all venders and sellers of any articles, goods or merchandise therein who have no permanent place of business therein, and upon all persons exercising any profession, trade or calling in said city, when not prohibited from so doing by the Constitution and laws of the State to compel the payment of the same, and to make all suitable laws and regulations necessary and proper to carry out the powers herein conferred and to prescribe suitable penalties for the violation thereof. (c) The said city shall have further power and authority to license, regulate and control all the ten-pin alleys within the city, and to remove the same when they become nuisances to the neighborhood. They shall also have power to license [Illegible Text] and vendue masters for the city, charging therefor such sum as they deem proper, and to levy a tax on the sale of goods on commission or at auction within the limits of the city. They shall also have power to license all vehicles within said city, and to limit the rates of freight and passage on the same; also to license all hotels, boarding houses and restaurants, barber shops and billiard tables, as well as all other establishments not herein provided for and not otherwise taxed. It shall also have power

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to license the sale of fresh meats and other articles usually sold on the markets in said city, and if they deem proper to grade said license according to the amount of sales. (d) It shall not be lawful for the City of Hazlehurst to levy any license or business tax upon vehicles used by manufacturers, merchants and other businesses in said city in the conduct of their business, where no charge is made by persons for drayage, but where said wagons are used exclusively by them in the delivery of goods, wares and merchandise sold by them. Sec. 72. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation, owning real or personal property in the City of Hazlehurst subject to taxation, to make returns thereof to the city clerk of Hazlehurst on or before the first day of June in each year. All property in said city shall be returned as of date to be fixed by ordinance, and the owner of such property on said date in each year shall return the same for taxation. All such property shall be returned at its fair market value on a form prescribed by the board of tax assessors of said city, and sworn to by the owner, his agent or person making such return. Each of the members of the board of tax assessors and the city clerk are hereby empowered and authorized to administer a legal oath to persons making such tax returns. Any person, firm or corporation failing to make returns of their property on or before the first day of June of each year shall be subject to the penalty of ten per cent of the market value of such property. Tax returns. Sec. 73. Be it further enacted, that from and after the passage of this Act there shall be a board of tax assessors and equalizers in said city charged with the duty of assessing and equalizing tax returns on all property, real and personal, in said city subject to taxation. Said board shall consist of three members, two of whom shall be elected by the mayor and council, as other city officials are selected, and the building inspector for said city shall be ex-officio member of said board. Said board shall meet as prescribed by ordinance, and at such other times as they may be called in

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session by the permanent tax assessors, as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of assessing the valuation of property subject to taxation and equalizing the tax returns made to said City of Hazlehurst. Said board is hereby vested with full power and authority to so assess for taxation the value of all property, real and personal, in said city, that all property in said city subject to taxation shall stand upon the tax books at its fair market value, according to the best of their skill and knowledge. From the action of said board in fixing an assessment an appeal shall lie to the mayor and council, whose decision thereon shall be final. Property owned and returned by said assessors shall be assessed by the mayor and council. Tax assessors. Appeal from assessment. Sec. 74. That the City of Hazlehurst is hereby vested with power and authority to prescribe by ordinance, rules and regulations necessary to carry into effect the intent and purpose of this Act with reference to assessing and equalizing tax returns; to prescribe the punishment of any person who shall be convicted of wilfully and maliciously secreting and concealing property in said city to avoid paying taxes thereon; the number of days each of the members thereof. The mayor and council shall provide by ordinance for notice to the taxpayers in case the valuation of his property shall be raised by the tax assessors, and for giving an opportunity to such taxpayer to be heard by said board of tax assessors, and should taxpayer be dissatisfied with the assessment after being heard by the board of tax assessors, to provide, the detail for an appeal by such taxpayer from the assessment of said board to the mayor and council, and for a hearing of such taxpayer before the mayor and council. Concealing property to avoid tax; penalty. Notice of increased valuation. Appeal. Sec. 75. Be it further enacted, that the taxes levied annually by the City of Hazlehurst shall be due and payable on the first day of October in each year, and should said taxes not be paid by the first day of November the [Illegible Text] books shall be closed and execution issued against all delinquent tax payers in said city. From said date of November the first all taxes not paid shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum. Time for paying taxes.

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Sec. 76. Be it further enacted, that all taxes levied by the City of Hazlehurst shall be collected as follows: An execution issued by the treasurer of the city, directed to the marshal thereof, against the real and personal property of the defaulter, and the marshal shall proceed to levy the same, and after advertising the same for sale for four weeks in such newspaper of general circulation in said city as may be designated by formal resolution adopted by the mayor and council, and shall sell the property levied on before the court house door of Jeff Davis County between the legal hours of sale on a regular sheriff's sale day. It shall be the duty of the marshal to put up the property and affer the same for sale in parcels until he gets a bid sufficient to pay the taxes due, and shall knock the property off to the purchaser, make him a deed and put him in possession, as in ordinary sheriff's sales. Such a sale shall be as effectual to pass the title as the deed of the person against whom said execution was issued, but the right of redemption shall exist, as in sales for State and County taxes; provided in all cases where property has been bought in by said city for taxes and the title thereof vested in said city, it shall be lawful for the mayor, with the consent of the city council, to authorize a re-conveyance of said property to the former owner thereof upon the payment by such owner of all taxes, premiums, penalties and costs due under the process by which the same was sold. Tax executions. Levy and sale. Redemption. Sec. 77. Be it further enacted, that the City of Hazlehurst is hereby granted the power of eminent domain, and the mayor and council are hereby authorized and empowered to condemn lands within or without its corporate limits for the erection of public buildings for said city, for public parks, water supply, sewerage, for the erection and operation and for extending, improving and operating system of waterworks, light and power plant, new streets or necessary roads, and all other public purposes and improvements, as provided by the Act of the General Assembly providing a uniform method of exercising the right of condemning, taking or damaging private property, approved December 18,

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1894, as found in Sections 5206 to 5235, inclusive, of Volume 1 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, and any Acts of the Legislature amendatory thereof; and they are also authorized similarly to take and condemn personal property in the same manner when needed for public purposes of the city. Condemnation of property. Sec. 78. Be it further enacted, that all of the Acts of the General Assembly creating and amending the charter of the City of Hazlehurst now of force, and not in conflict with this Act, shall be and remain of full force and effect, and shall be held and construed as a part of the charter of the City of Hazlehurst until modified or repealed. Laws continued in force. (a) Be it further enacted, that this Act shall not abolish any of the ordinances of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Hazlehurst now in force, except where they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act, but all such ordinances shall remain of force in the City of Hazlehurst in the same manner and to the same effect as the same were of force before the passage of this Act, and until they are changed, modified or repealed, by the authority of the City of Hazlehurst. Sec. 79. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council shall have power and authority to establish a fee bill for the officers of said City of Hazlehurst not higher than those allowed the court officers, nor lower than allowed the justice of the peace and constables of this State. Said mayor and council shall have power and authority in their discretion to allow said fees to the officers of said city, or to place the same in the treasury of said city, and pay the officers a straight salary for their services. Fees of officers. Sec. 80. Be it further enacted, that whenever a person is arrested under the provisions or authority of this Act, or under the ordinances passed by authority of the same, it shall be lawful for him or her to enter into good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the arresting officer, conditioned for the faithful appearance of such person to answer such charge when the same shall be heard, which bond shall be forfeited on the non-appearance of the defendant in the same manner in the police court as penal bonds are forfeited in the

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Superior Courts of this State and said mayor is hereby empowered to issue scire facias, returnable before him in not less than ten nor more than thirty days, when any defendant shall fail to appear in terms of his bond upon the return thereof, judgment against the defendant and his securities shall be entered as in State courts, and sales of all property levied shall be conducted, advertised and made as sales of property under executions issued by said city, and such judgment and execution shall be a lien on all property of the principal and his securities equal in dignity to the judgment and executions of the several courts of this State of the same dates and superior in dignity to all judgments in this State rendered after the date of such forfeiture. Appearance bonds. [Illegible Text] Sec. 81. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money and sign the name of the City of Hazlehurst to notes therefor, thereby binding the city, and said loans are never to exceed the income from the taxes during the year in which said indebtedness is incurred, and to be repaid out of the taxes or other income of the city for the year in which said indebtedness is incurred. Authority to borrow and make notes. Sec. 82. Be it enacted further, that the mayor and council shall have authority to employ an expert accountant on accounts, to inspect the books of any officer or employee at any time they may see fit to do so; and to pay for the services of such accountant so employed such amount as they see proper. Audit of accounts. Sec. 83. Be it enacted further, that when suit is filed against the City of Hazlehurst on account of injuries resulting from the use of the streets or sidewalks of said city by any person, firm or corporation, for any purpose whatever, or where such suit is filed on account of the defective condition of the streets or sidewalks of said city where by law or ordinance the duty of keeping the same in repair is imposed upon any person, firm or corporation, or where such suit is filed on account of the defective conditions of the street or sidewalks of said city, where by law or ordinance the duty

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of repairing the street or sidewalk, or laying or re-laying the payement of said street or sidewalk may be imposed upon any person, firm or corporation; or where such suit is filed on account of damage done to person or property resulting from defective walls, chimneys, roofs, awnings, buildings, signs or other structures, objects or things in said city, where by law or ordinance the duty of removing, repairing or making the same safe to the public may be imposed upon any person, firm or corporation, and notice to do so has been served upon such person, firm or corporation prior to said injury or damage, and said person, firm or [Illegible Text] has failed to comply therewith, in all cases the City of Hazlehurst, by resolution passed by said mayor and council, shall have the right and power to vouch such person, firm or corporation into court, to defend the said suit so brought, and the said person, firm or corporation shall be bound by the result thereof; the manner of vouching and the liability in case thereof to be the same as provided by the laws of Georgia where a warrantee of title to realty is vouched into court. Suit in case of liability over for injury from condition of street, etc. Vouching party into court. Sec. 84. Be it further enacted, that the annual expense of said city shall be so restricted as not to exceed the annual income of the city after the interest on the bonds and providing a sinking fund for the final payment of the principal of said bonds. Expense limit. Sec. 85. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall be the duty of the mayor and council to set aside annually a sum sufficient as a sinking fund to retire the bonded indebtedness of said city as the same become due. Sinking fund. Sec. 86. Be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful for the mayor or any member of the city council to be interested, either directly, in any contract with the City of Hazlehurst, or any subordinate agency thereof, having for its object the public improvement of the city, or any part thereof, or the expenditure of its money. Any violator of this section, on conviction thereof by the police court, upon such conviction becoming final, shall be fined not less than fifty

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dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the city chaingang or guard house not exceeding ninety days, and all the profits growing out of said contract shall be refunded to the city and the city attorney is required to institute suit to recover the same and push the same vigorously to a conclusion, or if said contract has not been executed, the same may be enjoined at the instance of citizens of the city. Unlawful interest of officer in contract. Penalty. Sec. 87. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repcaled. Approved August 18, 1919. HOGANSVILLE, CITY OF; CHARTER AMENDMENTS. No. 68. An Act to amend the charter of the Mayor and Council of Hogansville, approved December 17, 1901, and the amendment thereto, approved August 14, 1908, so as to change the corporate name of The Mayor and Council of Hogansville, in the town of Hogansville to the City of Hogansville; to provide for the election of the mayor and council by the qualified voters of said city; to provide for the election of a chief of police of said city, and additional police; to provide for appointment of assessors for the assessment of all property of said city; to provide for the giving bond by the clerk of said city; to provide for the making of monthly reports by officers who handle any of the funds of said city; to provide for the paving of the sidewalks of said city, and the assessment of abutting property for said purpose; to provide for the election of a board of health of said city, and to provide rules and regulations for the same; to provide for the approval and payment of accounts of said city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby [Illegible Text] by authority of the

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same, That from and after the passage of this Act, that the Act to establish a new charter for the town of Hogansville, in the County of Troup and State of Georgia, approved December 17, 1901, Acts 1901. Page 436, and amendment approved August 3, 1910, Acts 1910, Page 767, to said Act is amended as follows: By striking and repealing all the language beginning with the word who in line nine of Section 1 of said Act approved, August 3, 1910, and ending with the word corporate in line ten of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof and said town is hereby incorporated and all the language beginning with the word the in line eleven of Section 1 of said amended Act and ending with the word Hogansville in line eleven of said amended Act is repealed and stricken and inserted in lieu thereof the following language: The City of Hogansville, so that said section of said amended Act approved August 3, 1910, Acts 1910, Page 768, as amended shall read as follows: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this Act that the Act to establish a new charter for the town of Hogansville, in the County of Troup, State of Georgia, approved December 17, 1901, is hereby amended so that when amended the municipal government of the town of Hogansville in the County of Troup, State of Georgia, shall be vested in mayor and five councilmen and said town is hereby incorporated under the name and style of the City of Hogansville, and by that name shall succeed to all the rights, powers, liabilities and duties of said municipal corporation as provided by said amended Act, and by the laws governing municipal corporations in said State. Acts amended. Act of 1910; Sec. 1 amended. Corporate name changed. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all the language in Section 4 of the charter of the town of Hogansville, approved December 17, 1901, Acts of 1901, Page 437, beginning with the word six in line four of said section and ending with the word council in line five of said section is repealed and stricken and inserted in lieu thereof the words a mayor and five members as city councilmen, and further by striking the language in Section 9 of said Act, approved

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December 17, 1901, beginning with the word the in the first line thereof and ending with the word who in the second line thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words the mayor. Sec. 4 amended. Mayor and council. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the amendment to the charter of the town of Hogansville approved August 14, 1908, Acts of 1908, Page 746, is amended by adding to paragraph 1 of said Act after the word council in line 26 and before the word they the words and that by virtue of his office he shall be chief of police of the City of Hogansville and the mayor and council of said city shall elect as many additional police as they may deem necessary at any time. Act of 1908 Sec. 1 amended. Police. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all the language in Section 16 of said city charter approved December 17, 1901, beginning with the word two in line twelve of said section is hereby stricken and by adding in lieu thereof the mayor and council of said city shall appoint three assessors for the assessment of all property in said city, said assessors to be selected from freeholders residing in said city, and they shall have all the authority conferred by Sections 862 and 863 of the Code of 1910 and of the county board of equalizers with such compensation as the council may fix, not to exceed $5.00 per day. Act of 1901; Sec. 16 amended. Assessors. Pay. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the clerk of said city council shall be required to give a bond in the sum of $2,000.00, approved by the mayor, payable to said city. Clerk's bond. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That all officers of said city who shall handle any funds of the city are required to make monthly reports to the city council. Reports of officers. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have authority to pave the sidewalks of any street or portion of streets of said city upon the petition of a majority of the property owners owning property abutting the portion to be payed and assess the abutting property owners one-half the cost of said [Illegible Text]. The one-half

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due the city by the abutting property owners to be collected by execution if not paid promptly after the work is completed. Paving sidewalks, assessments for. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the said City of Hogansville shall have power and authority through its mayor and council to provide by city ordinance for the election of a board of health for said city and to provide rules and regulations for the same. Board of health. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That all accounts due by the City of Hogansville shall be filed with the clerk and by him submitted to the council at the first meeting in each month for approval and for articles purchased after being O.K.'d by the party purchasing the articles. When so approved by the council, they shall be marked approved and signed by the mayor or in his absence by the mayor pro tem and vouchers shall be signed by the mayor and clerk. Approval of accounts. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the City of Hogansville shall succeed to all the rights and privileges granted to the mayor and council of Hogansville under said Act approved December 17, 1901, and all amendments thereto. All rights and privileges granted to said town under its new charter approved December 17, 1901, and all amendments thereto are transferred to said town under its new name of the City of Hogansville, except so far as changed by this Act. Succession to powers under former Acts. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 12, 1919. HOGANSVILLE SCHOOL BONDS; ELECTION FOR. No. 5. An Act to provide for the issuance of public school bonds of The Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hegansville, Ga.), not to exceed $30,000 in amount for the

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Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.), for the purpose of purchasing public school property, building school houses, equipping the same, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that The Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.) shall have power and authority to issue Public School Bonds not to exceed $30,000 in amount for such length of time or times, none longer than thirty years, as the mayor and council of Hogansville think advisable, and to bear interest at a rate not to exceed seven per cent, payable semi-annually with interest coupons attached, and to sell the same, the proceeds to be turned over to the treasurer of the Board of School Commissioners of said Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville Ga.), to be applied to purchasing of property to be used for public school purposes, building school houses and equipping the same. The said bonds above provided for are to be issued by the mayor and council of Hogansville upon their complying with the provisions of the Code of 1910, Section 440 et seq. and an amendment to the Constitution of Georgia found in the Act of Legislature of Georgia, approved August 20, 1918, Acts 1918, Page 99, which was subsequently ratified by the people. Bonds for schools. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.) shall provide each year by taxation a sufficient amount to pay the interest on such bonds and also to provide a sinking fund with which to pay off said bonds as they mature. Said bonds shall be exempt from taxation by said town. Taxation to pay bonds. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of Hogansville shall, by city ordinance, of said mayor and council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.) call and provide for the election for said bonds by the qualified voters of said mayor and council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.) as is required by Section 440 et seq. of

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the Code of 1910 and an amendment to the Constitution as found in the Act of the Legislature of Georgia approved August 20, 1918, Acts of 1918, Page 99, which was subsequently ratified by the people and as provided in the charter of said Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.), December 17, 1901, Acts 1901, Page 436. All persons voting at said election shall have written or printed upon their tickets the words For Bonds or the words Against Bonds, and if it shall appear to the mayor and council of Hogansville that two-thirds of the qualified voters thereof at said election for that purpose voted for bonds and provided further that said two-thirds so voting shall be a majority of the registered voters of said town, then the same shall be issued as herein provided for and shall be signed by the mayor of said mayor and council of Hogansville and countersigned by the clerk. Should the result of said election be against bonds then another election may be held under the same regulations at any time after the expiration of six months. Election to ratify this Act. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and they are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. HOGANSVILLE SCHOOL SYSTEM; AMENDMENT. No. 7. An Act to amend the school laws of the town of Hogansville, approved December 16, 1901; to provide for the election of six school commissioners at the same time that the town council are elected; to provide the length of time they shall hold office, and to provide for limiting their expenditures; to provide that the secretary and treasurer of the board shall make written reports to the town council and board of commissioners; to require the school board to adopt and use all school books adopted by the State; to

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provide for the election of a secretary and treasurer of said board and fix his salary; to provide for the matriculation fees of local and non-resident pupils; to provide for the county superintendent of education paying over to the school board of said town, the amount due for pupils who reside out of the corporate limits of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Section 1 of the Act approved December 16, 1901, amending the Act of December 5, 1895, authorizing public schools in the town of Hogansville, in the County of Troup, is hereby amended as follows: By striking all the words beginning with the word that in the 22nd line of said section and ending with the word school in the 32nd line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: The board of school commissioners of The Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, Ga.) shall be composed of six commissioners. Three to be elected at the time of electing the mayor and council of said town on the first Wednesday in January, 1921, and three commissioners each year thereafter. Said commissioners to hold office for two years and the present board of commissioners shall determine which three of the present board shall go out on the election and qualification of the new board of commissioners in January, 1921. The board in case of death or resignation of any member thereof shall have the power to fill the vacancy until the next annual election when there shall be an election to fill said unexpired term, and by striking the language beginning with the word secretary in line thirty-seven of Section 1 of said amended Act and ending with the word cause in line forty and by adding in lieu thereof the following: And a secretary and treasurer who shall receive a salary not exceeding sixty dollars per year. Said section when amended shall read as follows: The board of school commissioners of the Mayor and Council of Hogansville (the town of Hogansville, [Illegible Text]). shall be [Illegible Text] of six commissioners. Three to be elected at the time of electing the mayor and

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council of said town on the first Wednesday in January, 1921, and three commissioners each year thereafter. Said commissioners to hold office for two years and the present board of commissioners shall determine which three of the present board shall go out on the election and qualification of the new board of commissioners in January, 1921. The board in case of death or resignation of any member thereof shall have the power to fill the vacancy until the next annual election when there shall be an election to fill said unexpired term. Said election to be held and conducted in like manner as election for members of the town council of Hogansville and no person shall be allowed to vote in said election who is not entitled to vote for members of said town council; and said school commissioners, and their successors in office, shall elect from their own body a chairman, and a secretary and treasurer, who shall receive a salary not exceeding sixty dollars per year. The treasurer shall be required to give bond for such sum as said commissioners may determine, payable to said board of commissioners for the faithful discharge of duty as prescribed by the rules and by-laws of said commissioners. Said commissioners shall establish two schools in said town, one for the white and one for the colored children, and shall elect principals and such other teachers as may be necessary for said public schools; prescribe salaries and the course of study; determine the length of the scholastic term, and the time of beginning and closing of said schools, and to adopt such rules and by-laws for their own government, and that of the schools, as they may deem necessary for the purpose of carrying out this Act, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State. They shall have the power to build, purchase, lease or rent such school houses, or property, as may be necessary to carry on and make efficient said schools, and the title to all school property shall be vested in said board of commissioners, and their successors in office, for school purposes. Act of 1901 amended. Sec. 1 as [Illegible Text]. Board of School [Illegible Text]; election. Secretary and treasurer. Schools. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Section 2 of said amended Act, approved December 16, 1901, is hereby amended as follows:

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By striking all the language beginning with the word not in line nine of said Section 2, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: The minimum fee for primary grades shall not be less than two dollars, and the maximum fee not more than four dollars; and the minimum fee in the grammar grades shall not be less than four dollars and the maximum fee not more than six dollars; and the minimum fee in the high school grades shall not be less than ten dollars and the maximum fee more than twenty dollars. Non-resident scholars to be admitted at higher rates than residents on such terms as the board may prescribe. So that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Be it further enacted, that said board of commissioners may, in their discretion, prescribe an incidental fee for children who attend said schools. The minimum fee for primary grades shall not be less than two dollars and the maximum fee not more than four dollars; and the minimum fee for the grammar grades shall not be less than four dollars and the maximum fee more than six dollars; and the minimum fee in the high school grades shall not be less than ten dollars and the maximum fee more than twenty dollars per scholastic year. Non-resident scholars to be admitted at higher rates than resident on such terms as the board may prescribe. Said commissioners shall have power to prescribe how and when the same shall be paid, and with the exception of such fee as is provided for, said school shall be opened free to all children between six and eighteen years old whose parents, guardians and natural protectors reside in the corporate limits of said town, for not less than nine scholastic months in each year; provided, said fee shall apply to children of legal school age, so as to prevent them from attending the schools for the five scholastic months provided for by the State. Sec. 2 as amended. Tuition. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the expenditures by the said board of commissioners for all purposes including repairs and improvements shall be limited to the ad valorem tax collected for that purpose and the funds received from the State and County for each year. Limit of expenditure. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the secretary and

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treasurer shall be required to make written quarterly reports of all receipts and disbursements to the mayor and city council and said board of school commissioners in joint meetings held for that purpose. Reports by Secretary, etc. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the board of school commissioners are required to adopt and use all school books adopted by the State as far as practicable and when adopted, shall make no changes in the same for five years unless required by State regulations. School-books. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That if from any cause the mayor and city council shall fail to hold election for members of school board at the proper time, the said school board shall call one by giving the same notice as is required for special elections for mayor and council. Election of board. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the County Superintendent of Education of Troup County, Georgia is hereby required to pay over to the board of school commissioners the same amount for every non-resident pupil attending said school system as is allowed the other schools in said county outside of the corporate towns having a public school system. Non-resident pupils. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. HOSCHTON, CITY OF, INCORPORATED. No. 377. An Act to incorporate the City of Hoschton, in the County of Jackson, and prescribe its limits; to provide for a mayor and councilmen, and other officials of said city, and prescribe their powers and duties, and the manner of their election; to declare and define the police powers of said city, and provide for all matters of municipal concern and

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cognizance; to provide that all valid legal contracts heretofore entered into by the corporate authorities of the town of Hoschton shall be good and valid for and against the City of Hoschton, and that all property now held and owned by the town of Hoschton shall be and become the property of the City of Hoschton, and for other purposes; to authorize the establishment and maintenance of a system of waterworks; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a system of electric lights; to issue bonds; to authorize mayor and council to grant franchises to individuals or corporations. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the inhabitants of the territory embraced within the limits of three-quarters of one mile in every direction from the center of the railroad depot where it now stands, except the northern limit (which shall only extend to an established radius line known as the southern boundary line of Brazelton, Georgia, running S. 67 W.) be incorporated under the name and style of the City of Hoschton, in the County of Jackson, and said City of Hoschton is hereby incorporated and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession; may have and use a common seal; may sue and be sued; may plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this State; shall be capable in law or equity to purchase, have and hold, receive and enjoy, possess and retain, for corporate purposes any estate or estates, real or personal, of whatever kind or nature within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Hoschton, and may sell or otherwise dispose of, the same for the benefit of said city, as to the city council may seem fit and proper; the mayor of said city, by direction of the city council, making deed to any property sold or disposed of by the said city. Corporate limits. Name. General powers. Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the municipal government of the City of Hoschton shall be invested in a mayor and six councilmen, who shall be elected in the manner hereinafter set out, and who shall compose the city council of Hoschton. Mayor and council. Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an

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election shall be held at a place designated by the mayor and council council in the City of Hoschton, on the second Tuesday in December annually. On the second Tuesday in December, 1919, a mayor and six councilmen shall be elected and each year thereafter. The mayor and councilmen so elected and qualified shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. Election of mayor, etc. Sec. 4. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all elections shall be superintended and managed by a justice of the peace or some other judicial officer and two freeholders residents of said city, and before entering on their duties as managers of said elections, they shall subscribe to the following oath: All and each of us do swear that we will faithfully superintend this day's election; that we are justices of the peace, or other judicial officers, or freeholders (as the case may be) residing in the City of Hoschton; that we will make a just and true return thereof, and we will not knowingly permit any one to vote in this election unless we believe that he is entitled to vote according to the law of said city, nor will we knowingly prohibit any one from voting who is by law entitled to vote; said oath to be signed by each manager in the capacity in which he acts; said oath may be administered by any person in the County of Jackson qualified to administer oath; if no such person can be had, said superintendents or managers may swear each other; said managers shall keep two lists of voters and two tally sheets of said election. Managers of election. Sec. 5. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the polls at all elections held in and for said city shall be open from 8 o'clock A. M. till 5 o'clock P. M,. when they shall be closed, and the managers of said election shall proceed to count the ballots and consolidate the returns of said election and certify the same; they shall keep two lists of voters and two tally sheets, and shall make certificate of the results on each tally sheet and shall place one of the said lists of voters and one of said tally sheets, together with the ballots in an envelope or box, and seal the same and deposit with the clerk of the Superior Court of Jackson County. The other

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list of votes and tally sheet shall be filed by the managers with the clerk of the city council for delivery to and inspection by said city council, who shall meet within five days after said election is held and declare the result of the same. The clerk of the Superior Court and the clerk of the city council, after the expiration of sixty days from the time of said election, shall destroy said ballots and lists of voters, without inspection, provided no notice on contest be filed or pending. Conduct of election. Returns. Sec. 6. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons who shall have paid all taxes legally imposed and demanded by the city authorities, except taxes for the year in which the election is held, who have been bona fide residents of said city for sixty days previous to the time when the election is held, who have registered as qualified voters of the city as hereinafter provided for, and who are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of Georgia, except registration in the registration books kept by the county tax collector or registrar, shall not be considered a necessary qualification, shall be considered electors, and be entitled to vote in said city elections, and no other shall be qualified to vote. Voters; qualifications. Sec. 7. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk or treasurer or such other person as may be designated by the city council, shall open a list or book for the registration of voters, ample notice of which shall be given by publication in the newspaper in which sheriff's advertisements for the County of Jackson are published or by posting at three or more public places in said city, for at least fifteen days prior to any election, which list or book shall be finally and absolutely closed for registration five days before the election, after which time no person shall be allowed to register. Each and every person applying to be registered shall make oath before the registrar in whose possession is the list or book of registration, who is hereby authorized to administer the same, which oath shall be written or printed on said list or book of registration as follows: I do swear that I am twenty-one years of age, or will be by the time of the

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election now next to be held in the City of Hoschton. By the next municipal election in the City of Hoschton I will have resided in the State of Georgia twelve months, in the County of Jackson six months, and in the City of Hoschton sixty days. I have paid all taxes, State, County and municipal, required of me, except for the present year, and I am not otherwise disqualified to vote in said election. Registration of voters. Oath. Sec. 8. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the registrar shall furnish the list or book or registration to the managers of the election, together with an alphabetical list of the names of the registered voters at the opening of the polls, and the managers shall be judges of the qualification of all registered voters. Registry lists. Sec. 9. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall register on the list or book kept by the registrar, as aforesaid, who is not entitled to register under the laws of said city, or if any person votes in any election in said city who is not legally entitled to vote under the laws of said city, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of Parker's Annotated Code of 1914, Penal, of the State of Georgia, upon conviction after indictment on presentment by the grand jury of the County of Jackson. Illegal registration; penalty. Sec. 10. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons who have registered as qualified voters in the City of Hoschton during the year 1919 under the laws now governing the registration of voters in said city, and who are otherwise qualified to vote in municipal elections in said City of Hoschton, under the laws of said city now in force, shall be qualified to vote for mayor and councilmen of the City of Hoschton to be elected on the second Tuesday in December, 1919, under the provisions of this Act. Qualified voters. Sec. 11. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said city elected on the second Tuesday in December, 1919, shall on the first Monday in January, 1920, be installed in office by taking and subscribing to the following oath, which may be administered by any

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officer authorized by law to administer oaths: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge the duties devolved upon me as mayor (or councilman, as the case may be) of the City of Hoschton, that I will faithfully execute and enforce the laws of said city, to the best of my ability, skill and knowledge, and that I will do all in my power to promote the general welfare of the inhabitants of said city, and the common interest thereof, so help me God. And on the first Monday of January of each year thereafter the mayor and councilmen-elect shall be installed in office by taking and subscribing said oath. Installation of mayor, etc. Oath. Sec. 12. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the present officers of the City of Hoschton, to-wit: B. F. Clark, mayor; J. A. McDaniel, A. D. Spealman, L. C. Allen, H. P. De La Perriere, Loyd Lott, Cleveland Forrester, councilmen; T. J. Lott, treasurer, be and they are hereby declared lawful officers of the City of Hoschton, under this charter, until the first day of January, 1920, and until their successors are elected and duly qualified as provided in this charter. Officers named continued in office. Sec. 13. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of a vacancy in the office of mayor or councilmen, caused by the death, resignation, failure to elect, removal from the city, or otherwise, said vacancy shall be filled by an election ordered by the city council, to take place not less than thirty days from the time such vacancy occurs, under the rules and regulations that govern the regular elections of mayor and councilmen of the city. Notice of the said election will be given by the clerk of the city council, by posting copies of the order calling the election at three or more public places in said city for two weeks before said election is to take place, or by publishing the same for two weeks before the election is to take place, in the newspaper in the County of Jackson in which the sheriff's advertisements are published. Vacancies. Sec. 14. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the chief executive officer of the City of Hoschton shall be

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the mayor, who shall be a citizen of the United States, a qualified elector, a resident of the City of Hoschton, and shall hold his office for one year, and until his successor is elected and qualified. All the councilmen of said city shall be citizens of the United States and qualified electors residing in the City of Hoschton. Should the mayor or any councilman during the term of his ofifce, remove from the limits of the City of Hoschton, his office shall thereby become vacant. Mayor and councilmen; eligibility. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor shall preside at the meeting of the city council, but shall not be allowed to vote except in the election by the council of the officers of said city. The mayor shall have the right and power to veto any ordinance or resolution passed by the city council, and the right and power to veto any ordinance or resolution passed by the council appropriating money. All ordinances or resolutions passed by the city council shall be transmitted by the clerk of council to the mayor of the city, and the same shall not become operative as an ordinance or resolution of the city council unless the same is approved by the mayor and returned to the city council by its next regular meeting, or unless the mayor fails by the next regular meeting of said city council to approve or disapprove such ordinance or resolution. In case said mayor shall fail to approve or disapprove such ordinance or resolution, or in case he disapproves the same, such ordinance or resolution shall be reconsidered by the city council, and in case it receives five votes of the whole council (as it stands at present under this charter), it shall become a law. Mayor's powers. Ordinances. Sec. 16. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of said city shall see that all laws, ordinances and resolutions of the city are faithfully discharged, executed and enforced, and that all officers of the city shall faithfully discharge the duties required of them; he shall have general jurisdiction of the affairs of the city; he shall exercise within the limits of the city the powers conferred upon sheriffs and constables to suppress disorder and keep the peace;

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he shall have the power when necessary to call upon every male inhabitant of the city over eighteen years of age, to aid in suppressing riot or disorderly assemblages of any kind, or to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances of the city; he shall have power to inspect the books, records and papers of any agent, employee, or officer of the city; he shall from time to time, and at the end of each official year, give the city council-information relative to the affairs of the city, and shall recommend for the consideration of the city council such measures as he may deem expedient. Duties of mayor. Sec. 17. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall, at the first meeting of the same after election and qualification, elect the police officers of the city, a clerk and treasurer, who shall hold their office for one year unless convicted before the mayor and council of failure to discharge their several duties, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The city council shall also at said first meeting, after their election and qualification, elect one of their members as mayor pro tem, who shall, in the absence of the mayor, be the presiding officer of the city council, and shall be allowed to vote on all questions, and who shall, in the absence or disqualification of the mayor, exercise all the functions of the office of mayor; and all the duties, powers, rights and privileges conferred by this charter upon the mayor, may, and shall be exercised by the mayor pro tem., in the absence or disqualification of the mayor, or when the mayor from sickness or from other reason, is unable to act. Election of officers by council. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 18. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the said first meeting of the city council, they shall fix the salaries of the police officers of the city, and of the clerk and treasurer of the council, and the salaries of the mayor and the mayor pro tem., and the councilmen, the salaries to remain fixed and unchanged for the year, and shall require of each of the subordinate officers of the council an oath provided by ordinance for the faithful performance of their several duties, and a bond and security in such sum as may be fixed by ordinance for the [Illegible Text] and faithful performance of the duties of their several offices. The aggregate amount

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of the salaries of the mayor, mayor pro tem., and councilmen, and clerk and treasurer of the city council shall not exceed one-tenth of one per cent of the taxable property of the city as shown by the valuation of the preceding year. Salaries. Oath and bond. Sec. 19. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall by the first regular meeting in February of each year appoint or elect a tax assessor or assessors to assess the taxable value of the real estate in said City of Hoschton and to go over the tax returns as filed by the taxpayers with the tax receiver of said city, and to raise or lower said tax returns, should they be convinced that the property set out in said return should be too high or too low and to perform such other services as may be required of them by ordinance in connection with such office, and it shall be the duty of said assessor or assessors to place a just, fair and equitable valuation on all the property within the corporate limits of said city. Assessors. Sec. 20. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk and treasurer of the City of Hoschton shall be and he is hereby made the tax receiver and tax collector of said city and his duties in the respective capacities shall be to receive returns of personal and real property for taxation in said city and to collect the general taxes levied by said city and such other duties as shall be more specifically set out in this Act. Tax-receiver and collector. Sec. 21. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons, firms, corporations and companies (except those required to make returns to the Comptroller-General) subject to tax in said City of Hoschton, shall make their returns of personal and real property to the clerk and treasurer of said city, who shall hereinafter be designated tax receiver, when acting in this capacity and such returns shall be made at the office of such tax receiver between March 1st and June 1st of each year hereafter. Tax returns. Sec. 22. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on or before the 15th day of June of each year hereinafter, the tax assessors of said city shall take the returns of real

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property of said city and value said property for taxation and file their assessments or valuation with the tax receiver by said date; and the tax receiver shall, on or before July 1st of each year, prepare and have in his office a complete digest of the taxpayers and property of said city. Assessors. Tax-receiver. Sec. 23. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should it come to the attention of said tax receiver or tax assessors that any property in said city, subject to taxation for city purposes, has not been returned within the time hereinbefore required, it shall be the duty of such tax receiver to make a return of such property, assess the same and enter as a supplement to the tax digest, and a double tax on said property shall be collected from such defaulter; provided, such defaulter shall have the right to appeal to the mayor and council in the event he is dissatisfied with the valuation made upon his property, and he shall proceed as now provided by law, and said city council may relieve such defaulter from said double tax. Failure to make return; double tax. Appeal. Sec. 24. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all ad valorem taxes shall be due and payable to the tax collector of said City of Hoschton at his office August 1st of each year and the books of such officer shall close December 15th, at which time execution shall issue for all due and unpaid taxes. Time for paying taxes. Sec. 25. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should any property owner be dissatisfied with the assessment of his or her property, he or she shall have the right to appeal from said assessment to the city council; provided, that such an appeal be made within thirty days from the time fixed for the return of the assessor or assessors of the tax digest to the city council, which return shall be made by the fifteenth day of June of each year, the return of the property owners being made between March 1st and June the 1st of each year. Appeal from assessment. Sec. 26. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, or, in his absence or disqualification, the mayor pro tem, or in the absence or disqualification of both the

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mayor and mayor pro tem, any member of the city council may hold the mayor's court for the trial of all offenders against the laws and ordinances of said city as often as necessary. Said court shall have power to preserve order, compel the attendance of witnesses, and punish for contempt. The punishment for any violation of a city law, ordinance or rule, or for contempt, shall be a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the guard house or county jail, by permission of the county authorities, not exceeding ninety days' work on the street, chaingang or other public works of the city, not exceeding ninety days under the supervision of the chief of police or the marshals of the city, one or more or all of these at the discretion of the trial court, and in addition thereto such costs of the proceedings as may be incurred. Any person convicted before the mayor, mayor pro tem, or any member of the city council, sitting as a court for any violation of the laws or ordinances of the city, may enter an appeal from the judgment of said court to the mayor and councilmen of the city sitting in council, provided the appeal be entered instanter, and provided all costs are first paid and bond given to abide the decision of said council; and any person convicted on such appeal by the mayor and-councilmen sitting in council may have the right of certiorari to the Superior Court of Jackson County; provided that all costs are first paid and bond given in double the amount of the fine imposed, which bond shall be approved by the mayor for the appearance of the defendant to answer the final judgment or decree of the court; provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent the applicant for certiorari from filing the proper paupers affidavit in lieu of the payment of cost or giving the bond now required by law. Mayor's court. Punishment. Appeal. Certiorari. Sec. 27. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of said city is hereby authorized to issue warrants for the arrest of all persons charged upon affidavits before him made, with having committed within the limits of the City of Hoschton, offenses against any penal laws of this State, and to take the examination of such persons and

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the same to discharge or commit to prison or let to bail according to law, to answer such charge before the proper court having jurisdiction in the same manner as justices of the peace of the several counties of the State, now or hereafter may have by law. All of which warrants shall be addressed to the chief of police of Hoschton, or any marshal or deputy marshal thereof and to all and singular the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables of this State; and any one of the said officers shall have the same authority to execute said warrants as the sheriffs of the State have to execute criminal warrants. Warrants. Commitment. Sec. 28. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if on the trial of any person, before the mayor, mayor pro tem or mayor and councilmen, sitting in council, for a violation of any ordinance or law of the city, it shall appear that such person is probably guilty of an offense against the penal laws of the State, it shall be the duty of the court trying such person, to commit such person to prison or let to bail to answer before the court having jurisdiction of the same, for the offense committed. Sec. 29. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the chief of police of the city, the marshal or any special policeman, lawfully appointed, to arrest without warrant any and all persons, within the corporate limits of said city, who are, at the time of said arrest, or who, before that time, have been guilty, within said limits, of disorderly conduct, public indecency, quarreling, fighting or a violation of any of the laws or ordinances of said city, and to hold said person so arrested until a hearing of the matter before the proper officer can be had; and to this end said arresting officers are authorized to imprison and confine any person arrested by them in the city guardhouse, or the common jail of Jackson County for a reasonable length of time. Said chief of police, marshal or any special policeman may have power and authority to call to his assistance to arrest and detain such offenders, the sheriff of Jackson County, or his deputy, or any constables of said county, or any bystander and such person, when so summoned, shall be bound

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to aid and assist said officer, and should the yfail to do so, they or either of them, shall be liable to be prosecuted in the mayor's court, and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 26 of this Act. Arrests. Failure to assist arresting officer. Sec. 30. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the chief of police, marshal or special policeman, shall have the light, power and privilege (though they shall not be compelled) to release any person arrested within the corporate limits of the city, upon said person giving a bond, to be approved by the chief of police or the mayor of said city, payable to the City of Hoschton, conditioned to pay the obligees in said bond, an amount fixed by the chief of police or mayor of said city, in the event said person arrested does not appear before the corporate authority of the city at the time and place specified in the bond, and from time to time till the said person arrested is tried for the offense for which he or she was arrested. Bond for appearance. Sec. 31. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person who has been arrested, charged with a violation of any law or ordinance of the City of Hoschton, and given bond for his or her appearance, before the proper corporate authorities, to answer such charge, fails to appear at the time and place fixed and recited in the bond, said bond shall be forfeited, and a rule nisi directed to the principal and securities shall issue, directing and requiring them to show cause, before the mayor's court, at a sitting of said court, to be held not less than thirty days from the time of the forfeiture nisi, why the bond shall not be absolutely forfeited, copies of which rule nisi shall be served upon the principal and securities on the bond, at least ten days before the sitting of the court to which it is made returnable, either personally or by leaving same at the most notorious place of abode of the person upon whom service is perfected, or by publishing the same once a week for four weeks prior to the sitting of the court to which the same is made returnable, in the newspaper in which the sheriff's advertisements are published for the County of Jackson, or by posting the same

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at three or more public places in said City of Hoschton; if at such return term no sufficient cause be shown to the contrary, the forfeiture shall be made final and absolute, and execution shall issue against the principal and securities upon such bond, on such of them as have been served, for the full amount thereof, and all costs; which execution shall be signed by the clerk of council and the mayor of said city and shall have the same lien and binding effect upon the property of the defendants therein as executions issued upon judgments in justice or Superior Court; said executions shall be directed to the chief of police of the City of Hoschton, or any marshal or deputy marshal thereof, and to all and singular the sheriffs, the deputy sheriffs or constables of this State, by any one of whom the same may be executed. Forfeiture of bond. Sec. 32. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and councilmen of said city are authorized to purchase real estate in the City of Hoschton and erect thereon a building in which the said corporate authorities and the officers of said city may transact the public business of said city and in which to keep the records, archives and property of said city, and a building for city prison or guard house, and such other buildings as may be necessary or convenient for carrying on the government of said city; that said mayor and councilmen are authorized to levy and collect a tax upon all the property, real and personal, within the limits of said city, not to exceed two-tenths of one per centum per annum, with which to pay for said land and said buildings out of said taxes so levied and collected; provided, however, that the city council shall not have the right or power to levy and collect said tax until the same is submitted to and approved by a majority of the qualified voters of the City of Hoschton, and which election shall be held under the same rules and regulations, and with the same notice required by the charter in case of an election to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor or councilmen; these favoring the levying of said tax shall vote in such election for levying tax, and those opposed to same against levying tax, and

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if a majority of the qualified voters in such election are in favor of the levying said tax, the mayor and council of said city shall be authorized to levy and collect the same. City buildings; election to authorize tax for. Sec. 33. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all male persons over the age of sixteen years and under the age of fifty years, who have resided within the incorporated limits ten days, shall be subject to work on the streets, alleys and sidewalks within said limits, each and every year not exceeding ten days each year, or pay a commutation tax each year in lieu of working said streets and alleys and sidewalks, not exceeding five dollars each year, and said mayor and councilmen shall have the right and power to compel said persons to work said streets, alleys and sidewalks not exceeding ten days each year, or to pay a commutation tax therefor not exceeding five dollars each year; and in the event any such person fails to do such work or to pay such commutation tax, as may be fixed by the ordinances of said city, after being notified, by the chief of police or marshal, or any policeman of said city, in writing, one day before-hand, to do said work or pay said tax, such person, for such refusal or failure, shall be subject to be arrested by the chief of police, marshal or any officer of said city, and punished, or such charge being preferred against him in the mayor's court, by being compelled to work on the streets, alleys and sidewalks of said city not exceeding thirty days, and to pay a fine not exceeding fifteen dollars, and to be imprisoned in the city prison or guard house not exceeding thirty days, or being compelled to do either one or more, or all of these things, for each and every day he so fails and refuses. Street work or tax. Sec. 34. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have power to control the finances and property of the city, to appropriate money, and to provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the corporation. Control of finances. Sec. 35. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have power to levy and collect for general and special purposes upon all real and personal

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property within said city; and that the same shall not exceed two dollars on the one hundred dollars; to provide for the levying and collection of a business or occupation tax upon any trade, business, profession or occupation, except such as are exempt by law, carried on within the city limits, and upon the inhabitants of said city who engage in, offer or attempt to engage in, any profession, business or occupation in said city, or on such persons as live without the limits of city but who engage in or attempt to engage in any profession, business or occupation not exempt by law, within the limits of said city, as said mayor and councilmen may deem expedient for the safety, benefit, convenience and advantage of said city. This tax shall be in the nature of a license, which must be paid in advance of practicing or engaging in such profession, trade, business or occupation, and the mayor and councilmen shall provide by ordinance for the punishment of all persons required by ordinance to pay such occupation tax or take out license for same, who engage in, or offer, or attempt to engage in such business, profession or occupation before paying such tax or taking out such license and comply in full with all the requirements of the city council made in reference thereto. Taxes. Licenses. Sec. 35 (a). Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have power to require a license to be paid by all theatrical performances, shows, circuses, menageries and exhibitions of any kind for gain, and upon all itinerant traders or peddlers, all venders of patent or proprietary medicines, drugs, books, nostrums or devices of any kind; of all solicitors or canvassers selling goods, wares or merchandise or other things by retail to customers; of all agents of fire, accident or life insurance companies doing business in said city; and to provide by ordinance for the punishment of any person or persons who may engage in or attempt to offer to engage in such business or calling without first having taken out the license required by law, or for the collection of the license by issuing execution therefor as executions are collected for ad valorem taxes.

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Sec. 36. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk of the city council shall issue executions, which executions shall be countersigned by the mayor or mayor protem, for any and all taxes or fines, or license fees, or assessment, or forfeitures, or demands due said city or its corporate authorities, against any person owing the same or any property subject thereto, directed to the chief of police of the city, to any marshal thereoff, and to all and singular the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables of this State, commanding them that of any property belonging to the persons against whom said execution issues, or of certain property described in the execution, to make by levy and sale thereof the amount due upon said execution and costs. Said executions shall have the same force and binding effects as other executions for taxes; in case it is for ad valorem taxes due the city, and in case it is for other license, for forfeitures, fines or demands due the city, shall have the same force and binding effect as executions issued from the Superior Courts and justices courts of this State, and may be levied by any officer to whom it is directed upon any property in said State subject to said execution. The same rights and privileges shall belong to the person against whom said executions issue to file an illegality to said execution, and to any person not a party to said execution to file a claim to the property levied on and give bonds, as if said execution issued from a justice or Superior Court of this State and if the amount claimed on said execution is less than one hundred dollars, all the papers connected with said claim of illegality case shall be returned to the justice court of the district in which the City of Hoschton is situated for trial, and said claim of illegality cases shall be there tried as claim of illegality cases are tried by law in said court. If the amount claimed on said execution is more than one hundred dollars, or the property levied on and claimed is real estate, then all the papers in said case shall be returned to the Superior Court of Jackson County, or in case of the real estate levied on and claimed lies in some other county, then to the Superior Court of the county in which the real estate levied on

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and claimed is situated, in which court said case shall be tried and determined as such cases are by law tried and determined in said courts. The officers making sale under said executions shall execute title to property sold and put the purchaser in possession of the same. Executions for taxes, etc. Affidavit of illegality. Sec. 37. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council of said city shall have the right to condemn and appropriate, as hereinafter provided, private property for public use; to lay off and open new streets, alleys, lanes or other ways for the convenience of the public, or any citizen of said city; to vacate, close, alter, widen, curb, pave and keep in good order and repair, all streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, sidewalks, and to construct and keep in repair drains, sewers and gutters; to improve and light the streets, side-walks, cross-walks, alleys, lanes or other ways free from obstructions of any kind; to regulate the width of sidewalks and cross-walks, avenues, alleys, lanes or other ways; to require adjacent land owners or lessees to curb, pave or improve sidewalks at their own expense, under direction of the authorities of said city, and upon failure of the land owners or lessees to do so, the authorities of said city may have such work done and collect the cost thereof from the adjacent land owners or lessees by execution as other taxes are collected. Condemnation of property. Streets, etc. Sec. 38. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases where the authorities of said city see proper to open any new street, or to widen any street, lane, alley, or in any way to change the same, it shall be lawful for them to have said street, lane or alley, or the proposed change in same, surveyed and marked; and before proceeding to open the same they shall give notice in writing to the owner of the land through which said street, lane or alley is to be opened, widened or changed, twenty days, during which it shall be lawful for such owner, his agent or attorney in case he cannot agree with said authorities as to the amount of damages, to file objections to the opening of said new street, lane or alley, or to widening or changing the old street, lane or alley, and make claim for damages which may result to such

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owner. In case no objection and claim for damages is filed within said twenty days, it shall be lawful for the city council to proceed at once to open said street, lane, or alley, or to make such change in any old one agreeable to the survey made before the commencement of the proceedings, and the owner of the land through which said new street runs, and such change is proposed to be made, shall be estopped from thereafter claiming any damages by reason of the opening of said new street, or changing or widening any old one. In case objections are filed and damages claimed, it shall be the duty of the mayor of said city to select one disinterested freeholder, resident of said city, and the owner or his agent shall select another, and they two a third (and in case the said owner shall refuse to select an assessor, the Ordinary of Jackson County shall appoint one for him, on application to him reciting said fact by the mayor of said city), and the three assessors so chosen, after having such evidence as may be offered by either party, shall proceed to assess the damages resulting therefrom; provided, either party being dissatisfied with said award, shall have the right to appeal from the same to a jury in the Superior Court of Jackson County, under the same law governing appeals in other cases. Opening or changing streets. Damages. Sec. 39. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have the right and power to regulate the use of all sidewalks, cross-walks and structures over or under the same; to require the owners or occupant of any premises to keep the sidewalks in front of or along the same, free from all obstructions; to regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage, or any offensive matter, into any street, avenue, alley or public place within the city, or into any stream of water within the city, and to prevent any injury of any kind to any street, alley or public grounds of the city. Sidewalks. Garbage. Sec. 40. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have the right to provide for and regulate, curbs and gutters that flow into the streets or on the sidewalks of the city; to regulate or prohibit the use of

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street and public grounds for signs, sign-posts, awning, telegraph and telephone poles, horse troughs, racks and posting handbills and advertisements; to regulate or prohibit the carrying of banners, placards and handbills in the streets or public places in the city. Use of streets. Sec. 41. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have the right and power to regulate trade and traffic upon the streets and public places in the city; to regulate the speed of horses or other animals, vehicles, bicycles, automobiles, motorcycles, or other means of locomotion, cars and locomotives within the city limits; to suppress bawdy or other disorderly houses, houses of ill fame, or assignation, within the limits of the city; to suppress gaming or gambling houses, lotteries, and all fraudulent devices and practices for the purpose of gambling or obtaining money or property; and to prohibit the sale or exhibition of obscene or immoral publications, prints, pictures or illustrations. Speed and traffic regulations. Disorderly houses, etc. Sec. 42. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have the right and power to prescribe the limits within which wooden buildings or structures of any kind shall not be erected, placed or repaired without permission of said city council; to provide that any and all buildings within said limits, which shall be known as the fire limit, which shall have been damaged by fire or decay or otherwise to the extent of fifty per cent of the value shall be torn down or removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining such damages and the damages sustained by the owner by reason of being thus compelled to tear down or remove such building. In case of an offense against such fire regulations the city council, after having given five days' notice, shall cause any building not fireproof, so crected in violation of the ordinances of said city, to be removed at the expense of the owner or building thereof, to be collected by execution as in cases of other executions issued by said city, and said city council shall have the right and power to determine what are and what are not fireproof buildings within the meaning of said ordinances; said city council

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shall have the right and power to prohibit and prevent the dangerous construction of chimneys, fireplaces, hearths, stoves. stove pipes, ovens, boilers and apparatus used about any building or manufactory and to cause the same to be removed or placed in safe condition at the expense of the owner, when, in the opinion of the city council, it is necessary to do so, in order to insure safety against fire. Fire and building regulations. Sec. 43. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have the right and power to provide for the inspection of steam boilers, to regulate or prevent the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, rosin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, naptha, petroleum, nitroglycerine, dynamite and any other combustible or explosive substances or material, and the use of lights in stables, shops or other places; and the building of bonfires; also to regulate or prevent the use of firecrackers, sky rockets, Roman candles and other pyrotechnic displays. Inspection of boilers. Explosives. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have the right and power to declare what shall be a nuisance and to abate the same, and to provide for the punishment of persons who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist, to appoint a board of health for the City of Hoschton, and prescribe their powers and duties; to establish and maintain a quarantine against contagious or infectious diseases, to do all acts, and make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of the morals health or temperance of the residents of said city, or for the suppression of diseases; to establish and regulate cemeteries within or without the corporation, and to acquire lands therefor by gift, inheritance or otherwise; to prevent the establishment of any unwholesome or offensive business or establishment within the limits of the corporation; to compel the owner or user of any cellar or stable, pig sty, privy, sewer or any other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to clean, abate, or remove the same, and to regulate the location thereof. Nuisances. Health board, and regulations. Sec. 45. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all processes, writs and subpoenas issued in behalf of said

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city shall be directed to the chief of police of said city and signed in the same manner as executions. All sales under execution by the chief of police or marshal of said city, of personal property, shall be advertised by posting the advertisement of such sales at three or more public places in said city for ten (10) days before the sale and if the sale is real property, the chief of police or marshal shall advertise the same once a week for four weeks in the newspaper in which sheriff's advertisements are published, and shall sell such real estate in front of the court house door of the County of Jackson, within the legal hours of sheriff's sale only on the first Tuesday in any month. In case the property sold is personal property, the sale shall take place in the City of Hoschton after advertisement as aforesaid in the same manner as constable's sales are now governed by law. Writs and subpoenas. Sales under execution. Sec. 46. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council of said city shall have power and authority to contract debts and issue bonds of said city under and in accordance with the limitations provided in the Constitution of the State and the general laws of the State applicable to municipalities, and with funds arising from the sale thus issued may refund existing debts, establish and maintain a system of waterworks, a system of lights, erect public buildings or any other improvement, convenience or necessity for the use of the citizens of said city, and to create a debt and issue bonds of said city for any other lawful purpose under the limitations herein stated. Bond issues. Sec. 47. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That to carry into effect the powers conferred upon said city council by this Act or any future Acts of the Legislature of this State and for the preservation of peace, good order, temperance and morality in said city, the city council shall have the power and authority to make and pass all needful by-laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this State. Ordinances. General welfare powers. Sec. 48. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all legal contracts heretofore entered into by the town of Hoschton, or the corporate authorities thereof, shall be good

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and valid for or against the City of Hoschton to the same extent that they would have been good and valid for or against the town of Hoschton had this Act not been passed, and all rights and liabilities of the town of Hoschton shall accrue and survive to and against the City of Hoschton. All property and the rights thereof now held and owned by the town of Hoschton shall be end become the right and property of the City of Hoschton. Succession to rights, etc. of town. Sec. 49. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said city shall have power to take up and impond any horse or mules, cattle, hogs or other animals running at large within the limits of said corporation, and to pass such ordinances as may be deemed by them necessary for the proper regulation of stock within said city. Animals at large. Sec. 50. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the chief of police of said city, marshal or other police officer, or either of them, to prosecute all offenders against the laws of the State for crimes committed within the limits of said city where said offenders are not within the jurisdiction of the mayor's court. Prosecutions. Sec. 51. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council may elect an attorney-at-law to represent the town in any and all matters where in their judgment legal aid is required and pay said attorney such an amount for his services as in their judgment may be proper; provided, however, that they may use their discretion about such employment. City attorney. Sec. 52. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, that the mayor and councilmen of said City of Hoschton may, at their discretion, establish, erect, equip and maintain a system of waterworks in and for said city, with or without a sewerage system, and do such work and lay such pipes and mains over the lands of others in or outside of said city, as is necessary, and to buy, or condemn, and to assess the damage therefor, as is now provided by law, either in or outside of said city, such lands as is found necessary for the purpose of erecting and

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maintaining such system. That said mayor and council shall have authority to create by ordinance such offices, and elect such officers necessary in [Illegible Text] and maintaining such systems of waterworks; to fix the terms of such officers and their compensation for services; provided, such officers shall not be eligible to hold such offices more than four years in succession. That said mayor and council shall have authority from time to time, at their discretion, to call elections and submit the matters of issuing bonds to raise money to erect such system of waterworks to the voters of said city, as provided by law in the matter of municipal bonds; and if said election is carried to issue such bonds, and sell such amount as is required to raise the necessary funds, that they may have authority to contract to supply water to private persons or corporations, to provide for the maintenance of said system of waterworks, and to do all other acts not in conflict with the provisions of this charter, or the Constitution and laws of said State, necessary to carry out the purpose of this section. Waterworks. Bonds for waterworks. Sec. 53. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have the power, at their discretion, to establish, [Illegible Text] and maintain a system of electric lights in and for said city, and to buy, or condemn any lands, and assess the damages therefor, in or outside of said city, necessary for the erection and maintenance of the same. They shall have the authority to create by ordinance such offices and elect such officers as is necessary to carry out the same; to fix the terms of office of such officers and their compensation for services; provided, that such officers shall not be eligible to hold said offices more than four years in succession. The said mayor and council shall have authority, from time to time, at their discretion, to call elections and submit the matter of issuing bonds to raise money to erect such system of electric lights to the voters of said city, as provided by law in the mater of issuing municipal bonds; and if such election is carried for bonds, to issue such bonds and [Illegible Text] such amount as is required to raise the necessary funds. They shall have authority to contract to supply

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lights to private persons or corporations to provide for the maintenance of said system of electric lights and to do all other acts not in conflict with other provisions of the charter of said city, or the Constitution and laws of the State, necessary to carry out the purpose of this section. Electric lights. Bonds for lights. Sec. 54. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have authority to grant franchises for the erection of systems of waterworks, electric lights, and for other purposes of public benefit or convenience to private persons or corporations; to make contracts with private persons or corporations to furnish water, pump water, or supply water, or do all of same for said city, for a term or terms of years, and upon such terms and for such a consideration as may seem equitable and just between the parties to such contract. Such contracts or grants shall be approved by a resolution or ordinance entered on the minutes, and when so done the contract between the city and such party to whom franchise may be granted, and shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk of council in behalf of the city. Franchises for public utilities. Sec. 55. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton may, for the purpose of enforcing compliance with regulations, for the water and sewerage systems of said city, enter upon private property and make an estimate of the expense of building, constructing and installing private closets or toilets and connecting them with the city water and sewerage systems, and the said mayor and council is hereby authorized to enter upon private property and build, construct and install and furnish material, labor and fixtures for building and constructing closets or toilets and connecting them with the water and sewerage systems of said city at the expense of the property owner, wherever the property owner fails or refuses to connect his premises to the water and sewerage systems. The clerk of the mayor and council for the City of Hoschton shall make up an itemized statement of the expense for making such connections and demand payment of the same, and upon refusal of the payment of same, the clerk of the

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mayor and council for the City of Hoschton is authorized to issue an execution against the property improved, for the full amount of the improvement and turn the same over to the chief of police of the City of Hoschton for the purpose of levy and sale of the property improved to pay the amount expended by the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton in connecting premises with the water and sewerage systems. Provided, first, that the property owner have the right and privilege to build, construct and install said closets or toilets after they have been served with notice by the water board of the City of Hoschton, to connect their premises within such time as may be fixed by the water board. Installation of waterclosets, etc.; execution for cost. Privilege of property owner. Sec. 56. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the City of Hoschton, through its mayor and council, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant a franchise or franchises or right of way to an individual or individuals, firm or a corporation or corporations, to build, construct, own, maintain and operate through and over the streets of said city an electric or steam street or interurban railway. Franchise for railway. Sec. 57. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton are hereby authorized and empowered to establish in said city a system of public schools, to be established, conducted, maintained and supported and controlled as hereinafter set out. Schools. Sec. 58. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the ratification of the system of public schools by the qualified voters of the City of Hoschton, as hereinafter provided, the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton shall elect four members of the board of education of said public school system, who shall hold office until the regular election of the police and other city officers by said mayor and council in the succeeding calendar year. After said first regular meeting for the election of the police and other officers of said city as elected by the mayor and council at the time as now or may hereafter be fixed by the charter of said City of Hoschton, the said mayor and council shall elect two

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members of said board whose terms of office shall be for one year, and two members of said board whose terms of office shall be for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and in like manner the said mayor and council shall annually thereafter elect two members of said board to fill the vacancies occurring by the expiration of terms. In addition to the four members of said board so elected, the mayor of the City of Hoschton shall be ex-officio chairman of the board of education and he, with the other four members elected by the mayor and council, shall constitute the board of education of the City of Hoschton, with the right in them and their successors to take and hold in trust for the City of Hoschton any grant or devise of land or donation or bequest of money or other property made to it for educational purposes with the right to sue and be sued; that they have the right to purchase suitable lot or lots for school building and to erect thereon a school building or buildings and that they have the further right and power to rent, lease or take over for a term of years, with the privilege of renewal, building or buildings, from any person or corporation. The said board of education shall have the right and power to make contracts and to do any and every other thing that may be necessary or proper for the conduct and carrying on of said public or high school system in the City of Hoschton. The qualification for members of the board of education shall be the same as prescribed in the charter for mayor and councilmen of said city. Board of Education. Sec. 59. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before entering upon the discharge of the duties of said office, each member of said board shall take and subscribe the following oath: I (A. B.) do solemnly swear that. I will faithfully discharge the duties devolving upon me as a member of the board of education of the City of Hoschton, to the best of my skill and ability and in accordance with what shall to me appear for the best interest of the community and the cause of education, and without fear, favor, affection, reward or the hope thereof, so help me

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God. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Oath of board members. Sec. 60. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, being ex-officio chairman of said board, shall at the first meeting after the election of new members, as herein provided, cause said board to be organized for the ensuing year by electing a chairman pro tempore, to act in the absence or disqualification of the chairman, and also by electing some competent person as secretary, each of said officers to be elected by ballot or acclamation of said board, as they see proper, the former to be an officer of said board; and the secretary and treasurer may be some citizen of said town, who is an earnest advocate of public schools and in the opinion of the board otherwise qualified to perform the duties of the office. The members of said board of education shall receive no compensation for their services as such. Organization of board. Secretary and treasurer. Sec. 61. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the secretary and treasurer to keep a record of all the official acts and doings of the board of education, which record shall at all times be kept open to inspection of any taxpayer of the said City of Hoschton. He shall also give bond in sufficient amount with good security to be adjudged of by the board payable to the Board of Education of the City of Hoschton, for the faithful discharge of his duties and the safe keeping and proper disbursement of all money which may come into his care by reason of his said trust. He shall receive all public school money from the proper authorities, receive and receipt for all incidentals, fees, and all money he may be entitled to receive, and keep a record of all moneys so received and paid out by him and take proper vouchers for all disbursements, but shall pay out no funds except by order of the board entered upon the minutes. He shall receive such compensation for his services as may be fixed by said board which said board is hereby authorized to contract for and pay out of the public school funds. Duties of secretary and treasurer. Bond. Pay. Sec. 62. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That said board of education shall elect a superintendent and teachers and other officers for the public school of Hoschton, for their salaries, contract with them as such and pay the same out of the moneys coming into their hands; and shall have the right and authority to suspend or remove said superintendent or teachers whenever in their discretion they deem it best to do so, and shall suspend or expel any pupil from attendance, when in the opinion of a majority of the board it shall be for the interest of the school, and their action in so doing shall be final and conclusive. Said board shall also be empowered and it shall be their duty to borrow money for the support and maintenance of said school, when necessary, and repay the same with legal interest from the funds coming into their hands, and they shall at all times supervise, regulate and make efficient said school system, fixing the length of the term and the time opening and closing the same, prescribe the curriculum, the text books and books of reference to be used therein and shall do any and all such other acts not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as may promote the system of education. Superintendent and teachers. Expulsion of pupils. Power to borrow, etc. Sec. 63. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education shall annually make to the mayor and council of said city a written report of all moneys received and disbursed by them and shall accompany said report with a full itemized statement, accompanied with vouchers for all money disbursed, and the same shall be published by the mayor and council and paid out of the city treasury. Annual reports. Sec. 64. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the board of education to establish such grammar schools and high schools as may be necessary for the education of the children attending said schools, and the tuition in same shall be free to all children within school age, residing within the City of Hoschton; provided, the board may in its discretion, require each pupil entering any of said schools to pay a reasonable matriculation fee to be paid upon entrance or in such installments as the board may direct. This fee is not applicable to a child entering said

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school solely on the common school fund. Children of non-residents may be admitted to such school upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board. Schools. Free tuition; matriculation fee. Non-residents. Sec. 65. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the County School Commissioner of Jackson County or other counties of the State to make contract with the said board of education of said city to teach pupils of school age residing in their respective counties and outside the corporate limits of the City of Hoschton, and to pay said board out of that portion of the common school fund of the State belonging to their respective counties, in like manner and under the same provisions as teachers in the common schools of their respective counties are paid; provided, however, that in case the rate of tuition for non-resident children, as fixed by said board, is higher than the public school rates, authorized to be paid by the County School Commissioner, than said board of education shall have the right to change, contract with and collect said difference from the parent or guardian of said non-resident pupils. Pay for non-resident pupils. Sec. 66. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the superintendent of school for the County of Jackson shall pay over to the board of education of the City of Hoschton such pro rata share of the State school fund as the City of Hoschton may be entitled to. State funds. Sec. 67. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State school fund shall be supplemented by an ad valorem tax levied by the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton as follows: The board of education shall by the first of September of each year make an estimate of the amount necessary to be raised that year for the additional support of public schools in said city and place this estimate before the mayor and council of said city, and when the same is approved by said mayor and council it shall be their duty, when making the annual tax levy for the current expenses of said city to [Illegible Text] a school tax along with other city taxes upon all taxable property within the corporate limits of the

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City of Hoschton and the said mayor and council are hereby authorized and required to levy said school tax and collect, and have the same collected by the city officers, along with the other ad valorem taxes of said city in the same manner as other city taxes are levied and collected; provided, however, that said mayor and council shall have no authority to levy and collect more than three-fourths of one per cent of the value of all the taxable property within said city for school purpeses. School tax. Sec. 68. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That provisions shall be made by the board of education for the education of both white and colored children within said city, but that separate schools shall be provided for separate races. Colored children. Sec. 69. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before the system of public schools shall become operative, it shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Hoschton, for which purpose the mayor and council thereof shall order an election, of which thirty days' notice shall be given in any paper published in said city or in Jackson County, which said election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as are required for mayor and council of said city and the qualifications for voters shall be the same. Those voting in said election in favor of public schools shall have written or printed on their ballots For Public Schools, and those opposed shall have written or printed on their ballots Against Public Schools. The managers of said election shall make return to the mayor and council of said city, who shall open said returns and declare the result of said election at the first regular meeting thereafter and if a two-thirds of those voting in said election shall vote for public schools, then said public school system shall take effect immediately, otherwise not. Should the same fail of adoption, however, at said first or any other subsequent elections held for this purpose, the mayor and council may, in their discretion, submit the same to another election under the same rules and regulations as are herein prescribed for the first election, after the lapse of one year from

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any election when the same shall have been previously defeated, and if at any subsequent election the same should be adopted by the two-thirds vote it shall become effective. Election to authorize school system. Sec. 70. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said city shall have power and authority to issue bonds of said city not to exceed twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be in their judgment, necessary, for the purchase of suitable lot for school buildings and erecting thereon a school building thoroughly equipped for school purposes or may issue or float bonds to erect school building or buildings in connection with any other town or city, schould the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton deem it wise. Said bonds may be issued of such denominations, and with such rate of interest, not exceeding six per cent per annum, as the mayor and council may determine upon. That they shall run for a term not to exceed thirty years, and said mayor and council may provide for the maturity of said bonds at any time during said thirty years and the said mayor and council shall designate when the interest on said bonds shall become due and payable. Said bonds, when issued shall be sold for not less than par and their proceeds turned over to the board of education of said city, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned. Bonds for schools. Sec. 71. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before said bonds shall be issued it shall be recommended by said city board of education, and the question of their issuance shall be submitted to the legally qualified voters of said city. For this purpose the mayor and council, upon the recommendation of the city board of education, shall order an election of which at least thirty days' notice shall be given by publication of such notice in any newspaper published in said city or in the County of Jackson, and posted in at least three places in said city. Said election shall be held and governed by the same rules and regulations as elections for mayor and councilmen, and the qualifications of voters shall be the same. Each voter shall have written or printed on his [Illegible Text] the words For bonds or Against bonds, and if two-thirds of the qualified voters

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of said city shall vote for bonds, it shall be the duty of the mayor and council to issue same, and in the event the said bond election does not earry, it shall be the duty of the mayor and council upon the recommendation of said city board of education to order another election; provided, said election shall not be held oftener than twelve months. Election to authorize bonds. Sec. 72. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Hoschton shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds for purposes as herein named and shall annually assess and collect, on all property, both real and personal, a tax as may be determined necessary for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds when issued and to create a sinking fund to pay off said bonds when due and said tax, when so assessed, shall be kept separate from all other money and shall be used solely for the purpose of paying interest on said bonds as accrued and paying off said bonds when due. Tax to pay bonds. Sec. 73. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council shall have the power and authority to impose a tax on all dogs in the city, and shall provide by ordinance for the collection of said tax, authorizing the city policemen to kill any dog or dogs running at large in said city whose owner fails to comply with said ordinance. Dog tax. Sec. 74. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council shall have power to pass ordinances and regulations for the prevention of idleness and loitering within the city limits and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof. Penalty for idling, etc. Sec. 75. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said City of Hoschton is hereby divided into three wards and numbered one, two and three. Ward number one shall be known and designated as follows: All the town southeast of Main street, on the west side of First avenue, or Railroad street. Ward number two shall be known and designated as follows: All the town northwest of Main street on the west side of First avenue or Railroad street and Beel avenue

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street. The third ward shall be all that part of the City of Hoschton lying east of First avenue or Railroad street, and Beel avenue street. Words. Sec. 76. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts of the General Assembly heretofore passed incorporating the town or City of Hoschton be and are hereby consolidated and superceded by this Act, and that all Acts of the General Assembly inconsistent or at variance with this Act are hereby expressly repealed, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed; that all ordinances passed by the mayor and council of the town or City of Hoschton under a former charter, or any amendment thereof, which are now in force and which are inconsistent with and at variance with this Act be and are expressly repealed, but all ordinances now in force which are not inconsistent with this Act are continued as ordinances of the said City of Hoschton, in full force and effect until the same have been repealed by ordinance or resolution of the mayor and council, as provided for in this Act. Former legisiation, as affected by this Act. Approved August 19, 1919. HOSCHTON, REPEAL OF CHARTER OF TOWN OF. No. 199. An Act to repeal an Act to incorporate the town of Hoschton, in the County of Jackson, State of Georgia, and to provide for the election of mayor and councilmen for the same, and for other purposes, approved September 19, 1891. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Hoschton, in the County of Jackson, and to provide for the election of mayor and councilmen for the same, and for other purposes, approved September 19, [Illegible Text], and all Acts amendatery or explanatory thereof relating to

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the municipal government of said town, and the powers conferred upon the same, be, and the same are, hereby repealed, so as to repeal the charter of said town. Repeal of charter. See new charter, [Illegible Text] Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. JEFFERSON; INCREASE OF TAX AD VALOREM. No. 243. An Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Jefferson, Jackson County, Georgia, approved December 12, 1899, also to amend the Act amendatory thereof approved August 19, 1918, so as to provide for making all property, both real and personal, returnable for taxation, to limit the tax in said city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this Act the ad valorem tax on all property in the City of Jefferson shall not exceed seventeen and one-half (17) mills on each dollar of the value of the property taxable in said city. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act Section 1, 2 and 3, of the Act amending the charter of said City of Jefferson, approved August 19, 1918, limiting said tax levy on all property in the City of Jefferson, be and the same is hereby repealed. Sections of Act of 1918 repealed. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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JEFFERSONVILLE SCHOOLS, REPEAL OF CHARTER PROVISIONS AS TO. No. 182. An Act to amend an Act approved August 16, 1909, entitled an Act to establish a new charter for the City of Jeffersonville, in the County of Twiggs, and for other purposes, by repealing Section 35 of said Act, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by authority of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act approved August 16, 1909, entitled an Act to establish a new charter for the City of Jeffersonville, in the County of Twiggs, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from said Act Section 35 of the said Act, as found in the Acts of the General Assembly of Georgia for the year 1909, page 999, and said section of said Act is hereby repealed. Ga. L. 1909, p. 999; Sec. 35 repealed. Schools. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 9, 1919. JESUP; ELECTIONS OF OFFICERS; COUNCIL MEETINGS; PENALTIES FOR OFFENSES. No. 144. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Jesup, in the County of Wayne, and State of Georgia (Acts of General Assembly of Georgia, 1915, pages 640 to 666 inclusive), approved August 16, 1915, so as to vest the right of electing the clerk of council, city treasurer, marshal, and city attorney, and the election of such policemen as may be needed from time to time, in the mayor and council of the City of Jesup, to repeal the right of electing said above referred to officers by the qualified voters of the City of Jesup, and to amend Section 20 of said Act by striking the

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word once in every month from said section and inserting in lieu thereof twice in every month, so that said section when properly amended will read: It is further enacted that the mayor and council shall meet twice in every month for the transaction of business, etc., and to amend Section 24 in the fifth line of said section by striking the word one and inserting in lieu thereof the word two, and repealing Section 52 of said Act. Section 1. Be and it is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that the charter of the City of Jesup, as enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, Acts, 1915, pages 640 to 666 inclusive, approved August 16, 1915, vesting the right to elect the clerk of council, treasurer, city marshal and city attorney, by the popular vote of the qualified voters of the City of Jesup, as is set forth in Section 9 of said Act, and as set forth in Section 20 of said Act, which authorizes the council to meet once in every month for the transaction of business, etc., and in Section 24, making the punishment not exceeding two hundred ($200.00) dollars, and repealing Section 52 of said Act. Be it and the said Act is hereby amended and the provisions hereinafter set out in this amendment shall become a part of the charter of the City of Jesup. Acts of 1915 amended. Sec. 2. That from and after the passage of this amending Act that Section 9 of said Act shall read as follows: Sec. 9. Be it further enacted that the clerk of council, treasurer, city marshal, and city attorney shall be elected by the mayor and council of the City of Jesup, and the mayor and council shall at their first meeting in each year elect a clerk of council, a treasurer, a city marshal, and city attorney, [Illegible Text] that the present clerk of council, treasurer, city marshal and city attorney shall hold their respective offices until their present terms expire, which is at the first meeting of the council in January, 1921, or until their successors are elected and qualified, and said mayor and council shall have the right to elect a policeman or policemen, any number they may deem necessary to protect the interest of said city, and in case of vacancy in the office of

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the clerk of council, treasurer, city attorney or city marshal, by death, resignation or otherwise, the mayor and council shall have the right to meet and elect some one to fill such vacancy. The compensation paid the clerk of council, treasurer, city marshal and city attorney and policemen is to be fixed by the mayor and council. All the remainder of Section 9 is hereby repealed. Sec. 9 as amended. Officers to be elected by mayor and council. Policemen. Sec. 3. That Section 20 of said Act shall read as follows: Be it further enacted that the mayor and council shall meet twice in every month for the transaction of business and not oftener unless in the discretion of the mayor or mayor pro tem., it becomes necessary to have an extra meeting and in that event the mayor or mayor pro tem may call the council together at once. The mayor and council may adjourn their meetings to some definite time in the interim of regular monthly meetings. Sec. 20 as amended. Meetings of council. Sec. 4. That Section 24 of said Act be amended so as to read as follows: Be it further enacted that said mayor and council shall have power and authority to prescribe by ordinances adequate penalties for all offenses against the ordinances of said city, and to punish the offenders by fines not to exceed two hundred ($200.00) dollars or labor on the street or chain-gang in said city or public works of said city, or confinement in the calaboose or in the guard-house not to exceed ninety days, said fines to be collected by execution issued by the clerk of council against the estate of the offenders, both real and personal if any be found. Sec. 24. Penalties. Sec. 5. That Section 52 of said Act be, and the same is, hereby stricken from said Act and is hereby repealed. Sec. 52 repealed. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act shall be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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JESUP SCHOOL SYSTEM, ELECTION TO ABOLISH. No. 192. An Act to repeal an Act entitled An Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Jesup, to provide for the maintenance and support of the same, and for other purposes, approved December 12th, 1893, and all acts amendatory thereof, to provide for the submitting of said amendment to the qualified voters of the City of Jesup, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this Act, the above-entitled Act, an Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Jesup, to provide for the maintenance and support of the same, and for other purposes, approved December 12, 1893, and all Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby repealed. Repeal of Act establishing school system. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that before this Act shall become operative it shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the City of Jesup, and the mayor and council of said city shall, within twelve months after the approval of this Act, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, order an election to be held in said city for the ratification of this Act under the same rules and regulations that govern elections in and for said city of Jesup, and after first publishing notice of said election once a week for four weeks in any newspaper having a general circulation in said city prior to said election; all persons qualified to vote under the rules and regulations governing elections in and for said city for mayor and councilmen, shall be entitled to vote in the election herein provided for, and those voting and desiring to vote for the repeal of the Act above specified, shall have written or printed on their ballot For Repeal of School Act, and those desiring to vote against the amendment shall have written on their ballot Against Repeal of School Act, and if two-thirds of

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the voters so qualified to vote shall vote for repeal of school Act, then this Act, upon the result being declared by the mayor and council and spread upon the minutes, shall immediately become operative and of full force and effect. If the repeal of said Act shall fail to be ratified, the same question may be re-submitted to said qualified voters herein provided, as often as every six months after date of the preceding election, upon application therefor in writing by twenty-five freeholders of said city, made to the mayor and council and spread upon the minutes. This Act referred to voters. Election. Second election. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if this Act is ratified by the qualified voters of the City of Jesup as aforesaid, it shall in no way affect the 1919 and 1920 sessions of the Jesup High School, and the provisions of the same shall not go into effect until after the close of said 1919 and 1920 session of said Jesup High School. Not effective until close of 1919-20 session of High school. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted that all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. JONESBORO, CITY OF; NEW CHARTER. No. 348. An Act to amend, consolidate and supersede the several Acts incorporating the City of Jonesboro, in the County of Clayton, State of Georgia; to create a new charter and municipal government for said corporation; to declare the rights and powers of the same, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the City of Jonesboro, heretofore incorporated under the laws of Georgia, shall from and after the

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passage of this Act, have and be known by the corporate name of City of Jonesboro, and by that name be, and is hereby invested with all the rights, powers and privileges incident to municipal corporations in this State; and the said City of Jonesboro created by this Act may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common or corporate seal, make and enact through its mayor and council, such ordinances, rules and regulations, and resolutions for the transaction of the business and the welfare and proper government of said city as to the said city council may seem best, and which shall be consistent with the laws of the State of Georgia and of the United States, and said City of Jonesboro shall be able by law and is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, hold, rent, lease, sell, exchange, possess and retain in perpetuity, or for any number of years, any estate or estates, real or personal, lands, tenements and heriditaments of all kinds whatsoever, within or without the limits of said city, for corporate purposes. They shall have special power in its corporate capacity to make all contracts which they may deem necessary for the welfare of the city or its citizens; to assess values of property, levy and collect taxes thereon; to declare what is a nuisance and remove same. They shall have full control and power over streets, lanes and alleys of the city, and remove obstructions therefrom as is generally exercised by and granted to municipal corporations under the laws of this State, which are necessary and proper in order to regulate, make and maintain and preserve a proper and legal government of said city, and to declare what act or thing shall be unlawful. New charter. Corporate name. General powers. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of the City of Jonesboro, as enacted by this Act, shall be as follows: The corporate limits of said city shall extend for the distance of two miles north and south and one mile east and west, with the center in the center of the intersection of Main and Mill streets, forming a rectangle. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That the government of the City of Jonesboro shall be vested in the city council composed of a mayor and six councilmen. The present mayor and councilmen of the City of Jonesboro shall continue of office until the expiration of the term for which they were elected, and until their successors and associates are elected and qualified, and shall have and execute all rights, powers and duties hereby conferred on the city council of the City of Jonesboro created by this Act; and all ordinances, rules and regulations of the old corporation of the City of Jonesboro not repugnant to this charter are continued in full force and effect until the same are repealed, annulled, amended, changed or modified by the city council of Jonesboro; and all officers elected or appointed by the mayor and council of the old corporation of the City of Jonesboro shall continue to hold their offices and discharge the duties thereof until the expiration of the terms for which they were elected or appointed, and until their successors are elected, unless sooner suspended, removed or discharged by the City of Jonesboro. Mayor and council. Powers. Ordinances continued in force. Officers continued. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the second Wednesday in December, 1919, an election shall be held at such place as the mayor and council shall designate, for three councilmen, whose term expired with the municipal year 1919, and said three councilmen so elected shall serve for a term of two years each, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and whose term of office shall begin on the first Monday in January, 1920; and that on the second Wednesday in December, 1920, an election shall be held as aforesaid for the election of a mayor and three councilmen who shall serve for a term of two years each from the first Monday in January, 1921, and until their successors are elected and qualified. A regular election shall be held in and for said City of Jonesboro as herein provided on the second Wednesday in December of each year for the election of mayor and councilmen or councilmen as the case may be, to fill vacancies occurring on the first Monday in January following; the term of mayor and councilmen shall be two years each, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Election.

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Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be eligible to the office of mayor or councilman unless he be a citizen of said city, twenty-one years of ageo, a freeholder and taxpayer in said city and who shall have resided in the State for one year, and in the city for six months immediately preceding his eleciton, and who is a qualified voter in municipal elections for the officers of said city, and entitled to register under the registration laws in force in this State, and are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of Georgia. Eligibility. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That during the sickness, absence or disqualification of the mayor, the mayor pro tem shall act as mayor, or in case of sickness, absence or disqualification of the mayor pro tem, any one of the council chosen by the city council shall be clothed with all the rights and privileges of the mayor, and shall perform the mayor's duties for the time being. That the mayor, or mayor pro tem, while acting as mayor, shall have the right to vote upon any question before the council, and the case of a tie shall cast the deciding vote, unless his vote created the tie. Mayor pro tem.. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and three councilmen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business before the city council at any meeting and a majority of the votes of the entire council shall be necessary to determine all questions and elections before the city council. Said city council shall hold regular meetings twice in every month and oftener if they think best, at stated times and stated place in said city, and shall hold such meetings as may be ordered by the mayor, or in his absence or sickness, by the mayor pro tem, for special purposes, or when requested to do so by three members of the council. All meetings of the city council shall be public and the public shall be allowed at all times to witness their deliberations, except when the city council resolves itself into executive session, when the public shall be excluded. Meetings of council. Quorum. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That the mayor, mayor pro tem, and each councilman, before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties, shall take and subscribe before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths in this State, an oath to faithfully and uprightly discharge the duties of their respective offices, and as in their judgment shall best promote the general welfare of the inhabitants of said city and the common interest thereof, which oath shall be entered of record upon the minutes of the council. Oath of office. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every male citizen of the City of Jonesboro, incorporated under this Act, twenty-one years of age, and duly qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of Georgia, who shall have resided in this State one year next preceding the election and six months in the corporate limits of the City of Jonesboro, next preceding the election, and who is a legal registered voter under the laws of said city, and who shall have paid all taxes which may have been required of him by said city, and which he may have had an opportunity to pay agreeable to law, and the payments of all licenses and business taxes, shall be qualified to vote at an election held in the City of Jonesboro for any purpose whatsoever. Voters. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the elections held under the provisions of this charter, and all elections in which any subject, if submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Jonesboro, shall be superintended and managed by some judicial officer and two freeholders or by three freeholders, all of whom reside in the City of Jonesboro, and each of said managers, before [Illegible Text] upon his duties shall take and subscribe before some competent officer, or before one of their number, the following oath: We, and each of us, do swear that we will faithfully and [Illegible Text] conduct this election, and allow no one to vote who is not justly entitled so to do under the law, nor knowingly prohibit any one from voting who is so [Illegible Text] to the best of our skill and power, so help us God. Said managers shall keep, or cause to be kept, two lists of

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voters and two tally sheets. All elections shall be held at the city hall or council chamber in said city, and shall be by ballot. The polls shall open at nine o'clock a. m., and close at three o'clock p. m. Persons receiving the highest number of votes cast for the respective offices shall be declared elected. The managers of all elections held under the provisions of this charter shall be chosen by the city council, who shall provide for the pay of managers and their clerks; provided, however, that if the managers as chosen fail to act, then the mayor or mayor pro tem, shall appoint other managers. Conduct of election. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall provide, by ordinance, for the registration of all voters in said city, for the punishment for illegal registration, when said books shall be opened, by whom kept and when closed. Registration of voters. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case the managers of any election shall have any reasonable doubt as to the qualification of any voter, or shall any voter be challenged, they shall administer to said voter the following oath: You do swear that you are a citizen of the State of Georgia; that you have attained the age of twenty-one years; that you have resided one year in this State, and for the last six months within the corporate limits of the City of Jonesboro, and have paid all taxes and licenses legally required of you by said City of Jonesboro; so help you God. Oath of challenged voter. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person voting illegally at any election herein provided for, or at any primary election held in said city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Code of Georgia. Illegal voting. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city clerk, or if the clerk of the city council of Jonesboro shall be sick or absent, then some person appointed by the city council shall open at the clerk's office or at the council chamber, or at such other place as may be designated

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by the city council for that purpose on the first day of November in each year, a list for the registration of voters for said city, which list shall be kept open every day, except Sundays, during business hours from that day until and including the last day of November, when said list shall be finally closed; and it shall be the duty of the clerk, or other person in charge, upon application of any person entitled to vote, which application shall be made in person, and not by proxy, to register the name of such person, and such person before registering his name, shall in each case subscribe before the clerk, or such other person in charge of said registration list, the following oath, said clerk or other person being hereby authorized to administer said oath, to-wit: You do swear (or affirm) that you are twenty-one years of age, or will be before the next city election; that you are a citizen of the United States; that you will have resided in this State for twelve months, last past, and in this city for the past six months, and that you have paid all legal taxes and assessments required of you by the authorities of said city and duly qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of Georgia, so help you God. And the said city clerk, or other person in charge, shall furnish the managers of said election with a copy of said list, made out in alphabetical order as soon as the polls are open, and failure to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be punished as the council may prescribe. Registry list. Oath of registrant. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and councilmen shall have full power and authority to provide by ordinance, or ordinances, for the mode and manner of contesting elections for mayor and councilmen of said city, how and by whom heard, and by what means and practice said contest shall be moved from one court to another, and may provide any and all necessary rules and ordinances for a fair investigation of any contest which are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State. Contest of election. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That the mayor and councilmen of said city are hereby authorized and empowered to elect by ballot for said city annually, and for the term of one year, unless sooner discharged, a clerk, treasurer, chief of police and as many policemen as they may think necessary, an electrician a board of health, sanitary inspector, building inspector, chief of fire department, city physician, recorder, city attorney, and tax assessor, and so many of said officers and such other officers, including cemetery keeper, as they may deem necessary and proper, fixing their salaries, require them to give bond, prescribe their duties and oaths, and suspend or remove them from office, or impose upon them fines, at their discretion, and all officers elected or appointed by said mayor and city council shall accept such offices subject to be suspended, removed or dismissed therefrom at the will of the mayor and city council at any time they see fit to make such suspension, removal or dismissal, and no officer so dismissed or removed, no matter whether the time for which he has been appointed or elected had expired or not shall have or hold any claim against said city. The mayor and councilmen, at their discretion, may elect or appoint the same person to discharge and perform the duties of more than one office; all such officers shall be elected at the first regular meeting held after the election and qualification of said mayor and council, or so soon thereafter as possible. The mayor shall have the right to vote in the election of officers. Election of officers by council. Salaries and bond. Removal from office. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the clerk to collect all money due and belonging to the city and pay same to the treasurer of said city, taking his receipt therefor, except as hereinafter otherwise provided; to be the custodian of the books and records of the city; to attend and preserve a minute of all the acts and doings of each meeting of the city council; to be ex-officio clerk of the police court of said city, and to perform all the duties usually required of a clerk of a court of like character; to be ex-officio clerk of the board of tax [Illegible Text], and ex-officio clerk of the board

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of health of the city, and to perform such other duties as are required of him by this Act, and which may be required of him from time to time by the city council. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the city clerk shall execute such bond, with good security, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties, in such sum as may be required of him by the City Council. He shall make quarterly reports, or oftener if so desired by the city council to the city council of all receipts and disbursements in detail, and each of said reports shall be published in a newspaper in said city. He shall also make to the council an annual report. He shall cause to be published in some newspaper published in said city, a full report of all council meetings. Clerk's duties. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep a set of books in which he shall make entries of all sums of money received, and of all the sums of money paid out, when, to whom, and for what purpose, and shall give receipt for all sums of money received by him, and shall pay out no money except on proper voucher signed by the clerk and countersigned by the mayor, and all sums of money paid into the hands of the treasurer by the provisions of this Act shall be and the same are hereby directed to be a fund for the exclusive use of said city. The duties of the treasurer are such as are usual or which may be required of him by the ordinances of said city and this section. Before entering upon his duties, he shall take an oath before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of his office, and shall execute such bond and in such sum as may be required of him by the city council, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the mayor and council. He shall also make general and special reports in the manner and at the time when called upon by the city council to do so. The office of city clerk and city treasurer may be consolidated, in the discretion of the city council. Treasurer's duties. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers elected or appointed by the city council

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shall take such oaths and give such bonds as they may be required so to do, and also perform such duties as they may be required to do by the ordinances, rules and regulations of the city council, and to otherwise conform to all requirements made by city council governing such offices. Duties of officers. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council shall have the right and power to levy and collect ad valorem taxes as authorized by Sections 864, 865 and 867 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, and Acts amendatory thereto. Taxes. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council of the City of Jonesboro shall have the power and authority to assess and collect a new business tax on all persons, firms, and corporations before beginning business, and shall have the power and authority to assess and collect annual license fees on all persons, firms and corporations operating any kind of business, agency or calling whatsoever, where such be operated for pecuniary gain. Business taxes. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council at the first meeting of each year, or as soon thereafter as practical shall elect three freeholders of said city as tax assessors, whose duty it shall be to assess all real estate for taxation and make return thereof to the mayor and council under such rules and ordinances as they may provide for same, and at such time as they may designate. Said assessors, before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully and fearlessly perform the duties of their office. Tax assessors. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to widen, extend or straighten any street or alley in said city and to open, lay out and establish any new street, alley or walk, same being done in accordance with resolutions or ordinances passed by said city council. After ten days notice to the party at interest, said mayor and city

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council may cause all encroachments or obstructions of a permanent or temporary nature or which in the judgment of said mayor and council ought not to be allowed along or upon any street, alley or walk in said city to be removed. Opening or widening streets, etc. Obstructions. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and city council shall have power and authority, in their discretion, to grade, macadamize, drain or otherwise improve the sidewalks of said city. In order to carry into effect the authority above delegated, the city council shall have power and authority to assess not more than three-fourths of the cost of paving and otherwise improving the sidewalks on the real estate abutting on the side of the sidewalk so improved, and on any railroad having tracks running in and over along and across the streets and walks of said city shall have to pave, macadamize or otherwise improve said streets, alleys or walks of said city, also their road beds and right-of-way and in proportion as the city council may prescribe. Said city council shall have full power and authority to adopt by ordinance such a system of equalizing assessments on real estate for the above purpose for the amount above set forth as may be just and proper, estimating the total cost by each improvement made and prorating the cost thereof on real estate according to its frontage on the sidewalk, streets, walks and parks, either or all so improved or according to the area of value of said property as may be determined by said ordinance. That the amount of assessment on each piece of realty shall be a lien thereon from the date of the passage of the ordinance providing for the work and making the assessment. The city council shall have full power and authority to enforce collection for the amount of any assessment so made for work upon the sidewalks, streets and parks by execution issued by the city clerk against the owner at the date of the ordinance making such assessment, which execution may be levied by the chief of police, marshal, other collecting officers or their deputies, on such real estate, after advertising as provided now for sheriff's sales in this State, the same shall be sold to the highest bidder. Such sale shall

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vest absolute title in the purchaser. Said chief of police, marshal or other collecting officer shall have authority to eject occupant and put purchaser in possession; provided, the owner of said real estate shall have the right to file affidavit denying the whole or any part of the amount for which execution is issued and stating the amount which he admits to be due which amount admitted to be due, together with all costs, shall be paid before the affidavit shall be received, the affidavit shall be returned to the Superior Court of Clayton County, and there tried and issue determined, as in cases of illegality, subject to the penalty where the illegality is filed for delay, the city shall have authority to pave and contract to pave the whole surface of the sidewalks and streets, without giving any railroad company, street railway company, or other property holder abutting thereon, or occupant on the streets and alleys, the option of having the space to be paved by themselves, or by contract at his or its own instance, the object being to prevent delay and secure uniformity. The lien for assessments on abutting property and on railway or street railway company, sidewalk paving, street paving, curbing, macadamizing, grading or draining, shall have rank and priority of payment next in point of dignity to lien for taxes. Sidewalks. Assessments for paving, etc. Lien of assessment. Execution. Sale. Affidavit of illegality. Rank of lien. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have power and authority to grant franchises, casements, and rights-of-way over, in, under, and on the public streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, parks and other property of said city on such terms and conditions as such city council may fix. Grant of franchises and rights of way. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city council shall have authority to employ an expert accountant on accounts, to inspect the books of any officer or employee of the city at any time they may see fit to do so, and pay for the services of such accountant so employed, such amount as to them may seem proper. Audit of accounts. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all writs, processes, [Illegible Text] summons, rules of all

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kinds, warrants, all executions for any and all kinds of taxes, license, fines and assessments, and forfeitures, or demands made by the city or its corporate authorities against any person, firm, company or corporation whatsoever, shall be issued and signed by the city clerk, and bear test in the name of the mayor thereof, except as otherwise specially provided for in this charter, and shall be directed to the policemen, marshals, and other deputies of said city and to all and singular the sheriffs and constables of this State, and each and all of said officers are hereby authorized to serve and execute the same. Writs, subpoenas, etc. Sec. 28. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and city council are hereby vested with power to establish fire limits in said city and to prohibit the erection of any wooden buildings or structures as will, in the opinlon of said mayor and city council, increase the fire risks in such part or parts of the city of Jonesboro as they may designate as fire limits, and may change and enlarge said fire limits when deemed necessary, and may exercise and use such supervision and control over the construction of the houses and material used therein and the erection of awnings and sheds, stove pipes, chimney-flues, and other means of building, as may be necessary and proper to guard against confiagrations, and may require building or structure permits, which permits shall specify material and plans to be used, and the manner of its use in such erections or repairs of said buildings or structures. Said city council shall have supervision and control of all warehouses, cotton-presses, cotton-gins, cotton and lumber yards and other places in said city where materials of any inflammable nature are stored, and they may also prohibit smoking on or near, or the careless using of fire about cotton-compresses, cotton-gins, cotton-warehouses, cotton-yards, garages and filling stations, or other places where materials of an inflammable nature are stored or kept or may be placed. Said mayor and city council shall have power within the city whenever, in their discretion, it shall be necessary for protection against fire, to cause any stove-pipe, or

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other thing or matter that will endanger the city to fire, to be removed or remedied as their prudence shall dictate; and they may summarily declare such to be dangerous without notice to any one, and to remove the same instanter at cost to owner, and whenever it shall appear to them that any decayed, unsound, or unsafe house, building or structure of any sort is dangerous to pedestrians or persons passing, or is endangering the health of aforesaid city, or any portion of the inhabitants thereof, or any locality therein, or is likely to produce disease, they may summarily condemn it by resolution or ordinance, and may cause it to be torn down by the policemen or marshals of said city; and whenever in their opinion it is necessary to burn any property, clothing or whatever else to prevent the introduction or spread of infectious disease, they may, with the advice and help of the health officer, and the board of health, if there be such officers, and if not, then without such advice and counsel, do instanter, and the policeman or marshal, or such other officer directed, shall obey such orders and in all such cases they shall not be liable to answer therefor in any court having jurisdiction, except of gross neglect and extreme want of care, coupled with malice, and without any probable cause to suspect such actions were not for the public good, and every presumption shall be in favor of such act having been lawful when done; provided, that whenever any property shall have been destroyed under the provisions of this section, the City of Jonesboro in its corporate capacity, shall be liable to the owner thereof for the actual cash value thereof, but shall not be liable for any prospective profits or speculative damages in connection therewith. Fire protection. Buildings. Destruction of dangerous property. Liability to owner. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and city council shall have full power and authority to care for and make any and all necessary repairs to the cemetery of said city, to increase or enlarge the same, and to buy and purchase and improve new cemeteries as they may, in their discretion, see fit and proper. They shall have power to regulate and provide for the burial of the dead therein, and may sell and grant by deeds to persons

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who wish to purchase any vacant or unoccupied lot or lots in said cemetery, for burial purposes. This provision shall apply to the old as well as any new cemetery or cemeteries that council shall have charge of or that they may establish. They shall have full power and authority to employ a manager, sexton and any other employee for the same, and for whatever else they may deem best to preserve, protect and beautify said burial places. Cemeteries. Sec. 30. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to establish a system of quarantine and to make such sanitary regulations within the limits of said city as in their judgment may be necessary to prevent the introduction or spreading of contagious and infectious diseases within said city, and that in order to more fully exercise this authority, said mayor and city council are hereby given quarantine jurisdiction over all the area embraced within the jurisdictional limits, either in said county of Clayton in this State, and anywhere within these limits either in said city or county, may establish, locate and change at pleasure either permanent or temporary quarantine grounds, or pest houses and may condemn and take lands and buildings and personal property in said limits for quarantine purposes or quarantine grounds, either permanent or temporary, and such condemnation proceedings shall be had and done in the same manner and by the same rules as provided in Sections 5206 to 5235 of the Code of Georgia and all Acts amendatory thereto for condemning lands for streets, etc., and all provisions of that section for that purpose shall apply and be a provision for this purpose, from the selection of arbiters to the trial of appeals, and they may, by ordinance or resolution, put any part or the whole of said area under quarantine and may arrest, detain, quarantine and if need be confine, any person from, or suspected to be from, any place or places suspected to be infected, and detain and [Illegible Text] any such person or persons from day to day as they by ordinance shall see fit to declare and prescribe. They shall have authority to stop, delay, board and search all

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trains, cars and vehicles or conveyances of every sort, public or private, entering said limits whenever, in their judgment, it may seem best and necessary, and may absolutely prohibit such train or vehicle from entering said limits or persons coming within same or any such from leaving any of the same, but rigid quarantine shall not be laid and established except by the consent of the mayor and city council. And the board of health of said city, if there be such a board, but if there be no such board, then the city council shall have full power to establish such quarantine by and with the advice of the health officer of said city. No State Board of Health that now is or that hereafter may be established shall ever have power to molest, lessen or otherwise interfere with said authority in the matter of quarantine in said limits, saying only to see to it that they maintain in said area a quarantine not less strict than such State Board of Health may think best, and said city council shall have full authority to punish any violations of the quarantine rules and regulations of said city committed anywhere within said area, and said mayor and city council may, by resolution adopt any regulations recommended by the city physician, health officer, board of health, and upon the same being ordained shall become a binding ordinance upon all persons within said city and within said area. Health regulations. Quarantine. Condemnation of property. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that said mayor and city council shall have full power to adopt and enforce such ordinances, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary to secure the removal of all garbage, rubbish, filth, dead animals, weeds, undergrowth, and all other offensive matter and material from any and all occupied or unoccupied lots and places within said city limits at the expense of the owner or owners of said lots and places, who, if they shall refuse or fail after written notice from the authority aforesaid, to comply with the terms of the ordinances, rules and regulations, shall be subject to such penalties as may be lawfully prescribed for the same, and such authorities, upon the failure or refusal of such owner to do such work, may cause the same to be done

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and issue execution as they may by ordinance direct and prescribe, against the property of such owner for the amount of such expense and cost, and the person returning such lot for city taxes shall be taken and deemed to be the owner, and said execution shall proceed in the same manner and shall be liable to the same defenses as is prescribed in this Act, where executions are issued by the city for constructing, paving or otherwise improving the streets and sidewalks in said city. Garbage. Execution for cost of removing garbage, etc. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and city council shall have full power and authority to remove the inmates or occupants of lewd or disorderly houses in the City of Jonesboro, and that they shall have power and authority to provide by ordinance a penalty for the use of vulgar and obscene language and to punish lewd and disorderly conduct within the limits of said city, and to pass such further or other ordinances as may be necessary or expedient for the preservation of good order, decency, morality, peace, health, welfare, convenience and good government of and for said city. Lewd or disorderly conduct or houses. General welfare powers. Sec. 33. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of said city shall have power and authority to hold court at such time and place in said city as he or the city council may appoint for the trial of offenses committed against the by-laws, rules and regulations and ordinances of said city, and for such violations to punish by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, imprisonment in the guard house in said city, or the common jail of Clayton County, not to exceed thirty days, work on the chaingang or public works, streets, alleys, etc., of said city (or if said city has no chaingang, then on any chaingang under control of the authorities of Clayton County) not to exceed sixty days, and any one or more of these punishments may be ordered, in the discretion of the mayor. The mayor of said city shall be ex-officio justice of the peace so far as to enable him to issue warrants for offenses committed within the limits of said city. Said warrants may be served by the police or marshal of said city, or by any other officer authorized by

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law to make arrest, and acting under said warrants said officers may arrest either within or without the limits of said city. Offenders so arrested may be carried before the mayor and if there is a probable cause to suspect that any of the penal laws of this State have been violated by the person so charged, it shall be the duty of the mayor to commit said accused to the common jail of Clayton County to answer to the charge in any court of competent jurisdiction; provided, that if said offense is one that is bailable by justice of the peace, said mayor shall admit said accused to bail, if, in the examination or trial of any one accused under a charge of a violation of any of the municipal ordinances there is reason to suspect a commission of a crime on his part, the mayor shall have authority to bind him over or commit said accused for said penal offense. Mayor's court. Punishment. Arrests. Commitment. Sec. 34. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and city council of Jonesboro shall have power and authority to organize one or more gangs, and to confine at labor therein persons who shall have been sentenced by the police court of said city to work upon the streets, or who have not paid their street tax, and they shall have the power to make all rules and regulations that may be suitable, usual or necessary for the government and control of such work gangs, and to enforce the same through its proper officers. Work gangs. Sec. 35. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person convicted before the police court may enter an appeal from the judgment of said court to the city council; provided, the appeal be entered within four days after the judgment complained of is pronounced; and provided further, the defendant pays all accrued cost in the case and gives bond to abide the final judgment of the case in a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars, said bond to be assessed by the officer passing the judgment, which bond must be approved by the clerk or chief of police. The city council shall hear and determine said case so appealed at the next regular meeting thereafter, and shall investigate the case de novo; provided, that if the defendant is unable

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to give the bond required, then in that event the mayor may call a special meeting of council to dispose of such case. The city council shall have power, if they find the defendant guilty to decrease or increase the penalty imposed by the mayor or other presiding officer of the police court. The right of certiorari from the judgment of the mayor's court or the judgment of council on appeal shall be had in the Superior Court of Clayton County, and shall be governed and controlled by the laws of this State governing all certioraries to higher courts. The person before whom the case was originally tried may conduct the examination of the witnesses, when appealed to council, unless counsel be employed, but he shall be disqualified from sitting as a member of the court of appeals. Appeal from police court. Certiorari. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the police court shall have power and authority to prescribe order during the sessions of its courts, compel the attendance of witnesses, and to punish for contempt by imprisonment not to exceed five days in the common jail or other place of confinement in said city, or by a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars, and it is further provided that the city council shall have the same rights to punish for contempt when in regular or called sessions as the police court, provided the punishment for such contempt shall not exceed that of said police court, and fines may be collected by execution issued by the clerk and levied by the collecting officers of said city, collected as other executions of said city are levied and collected. Contempt of court. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should the mayor or any member of the city council be guilty of malpractice in office, wilful neglect of duty, gross and wilful abuse of the powers entrusted to him, or for any reason become incompetent or unfit to fill such office in the judgment of any four members of council, then, and in that event, they are authorized to ask for his resignation, and upon his failure to resign at once, or within five days, it shall be the duty of the four members of council jointly to bring a rule against such offending officer, setting up the

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charges against him before the judge of the Superior Court of Clayton County, who shall issue rule nisi thereupon requiring the said offending officer therein to appear and show cause before him at such time and place as he may therein designate, and require the same to be served upon the said officer by handing him a copy of the petition and rule nisi in person or by leaving a copy at his most notorious place of abode at least three days before the hearing, and the said judge of the Superior Court is hereby granted power and authority to hear testimony and pass upon the said rule, and may in his discretion remove the officer therein charged, and declare the office vacant, and his judgment shall be final. Removal from office. Sec. 38. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and city council shall have power and authority to prevent cattle, horses, mules, goats, hogs, dogs or other animals from going at large in said city, and to take up and impound any such animals running at large in said city, and to pass and enforce all rules, regulations and ordinances which they may deem necessary and proper for the regulation and control and prevention of all such animals in said city running at large, and they shall have authority to have any dog running at large without a badge, killed. Animals at large. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all executions issued by the clerk of council of Jonesboro shall be directed to the policeman and marshal of said city, and to all and singular the sheriffs and constables of this State, and shall state for what issued, and be made returnable to the clerk aforesaid ninety days after the issuing of the same, and it shall be the duty of the police, marshal or other collecting officer to advertise the sale of such real estate or personal property as may have been levied on by him to satisfy said execution in the same manner respectively as sheriff's sales of real property or constable's sales of personal property are required by law to be made, all of said sales to be made at the place and within the usual hours of sale of sheriffs and constables, and to be

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made under the same rules and regulations as govern sheriff's and constable's sales of similar property, that the time, place and manner of sale of property, both real and personal, for taxes due shall be the same as provided by laws for sales under executions for State and county taxes. Whenever any land is sold, the owner thereof shall have the privilege of redeeming it within one year by paying the purchaser the amount paid therefor with ten per cent premium thereon. Whenever at any such sales for taxes due, no one present shall bid for the property put up for sale as much as the amount of such execution for taxes and all costs, and after such property shall have been cried a reasonable time, then any duly appointed or authorized agent of the City of Jonesboro may bid off such property for the city, and the marshal or other officer making the sale shall make the City of Jonesboro a deed to the property so sold, and deliver the same, and the titles thus acquired by the city shall be perfect and valid after the period provided for the redemption by the owner shall have expired, and the marshal or other officer making the sale shall put the city in possession, and the mayor and city council shall have no right to divert or alienate the titles of the city to any property so purchased, except by a public sale to the highest bidder in such manner as may be prescribed by the ordinances of the city. The clerk shall inter on his execution docket all executions, giving the date, amount of each and to whom delivered, and all proceedings thereunder. Said executions shall also be returned to the office of the clerk after being satisfied. When affidavits of illegality or claims interposed then all the papers shall be by the clerk transmitted to the clerk of the Superior Court and then disposed of, as illegalities and claims are now tried in the Superior Court. Executions. Sale under execution. Redemption. Affidavit of illegality or claim. Sec. 40. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever a person is arrested under the provisions or authority of this Act under the ordinances passed by the authority of the same, it shall be lawful for him or her to enter into a good and sufficient bon dto be approved by the arresting

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officer, conditioned for the safe appearance of such person to answer such charge when the same shall be heard, and shall be payable to the mayor and city council, which bond shall be forfeited on the non-appearance of the defendant in the same manner in the mayor's court as penal bonds are forfeited in the Superior Courts of this State; and said mayor is hereby empowered to issue scire facias returnable before him in not less than seven days nor more than thirty days. When any defendant shall fail to appear in terms of his bond upon the return thereof, judgment and execution against the defendant and his surety shall be entered up as in State courts, and the sales of all property levied shall be conducted, advertised and made as sale of property under other executions issued by said city, and such judgments and executions shall be a lien on all property of principal and securities equal in dignity to the judgments and executions of the several courts of this State of the same date, and superior in dignity to all judgments in this State rendered after the sale of said judgment or forfeiture. Bond for appearance. Forfeiture. Sec. 41. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Jonesboro, may, in the manner prescribed by law, provide, by ordinance, for the issuing of bonds for the buying, building, enlarging or extending the public utilities for the city, including waterworks, sewers, electric lights, public schools and other improvements for said city, in such an amount as is not in excess of the amount allowed by law to municipal corporations. Bond issues. Sec. 42. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Sections 855(n), 855(o), 855(p), 855(q), 855(r), 855(s), 855(t), 855(w), 855(y), 855(z), 855(aa), 857, 858, 859, 860, 861, 862, 863, 867, 868(a), 869, 872, 873, 874, 875, 876, 877, 878, 880, 881, 882, 883, 887, 888, 889, 890, 892, 893, 896, 898, 900, 901, 904, 906, 907, 908, and 910 of the first volume of the Code of Georgia of 1910 shall be of force and effect as laws in relation to the City of Jonesboro and included

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in this charter as if set out in detail herein, except in so far as they conflict with what is herein otherwise enacted. General laws applicable. Sec. 43. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. LA GRANGE; AUTHORITY AS TO STREETS; MODE OF PAYING TAXES. No. 15. An Act to amend the charter of the City of La Grange; to provide for the control by said city over the streets and highways therein; to provide for the method of paying taxes. and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted, by authority of the same, That the charter of the City of La Grange is amended so that from and after the passage of this Act the City of La Grange, through its mayor and council, shall have authority to open, widen, change, improve, abandon, vacate and otherwise control the streets, highways and alleys in the said city. Powers as to streets. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the said city, through its mayor and council, shall have authority to provide by ordinance for the payment of taxes due to the said city in installments, or in one lump sum, and to provide when and how and upon what terms such taxes shall be due and payable; and to authorize the payment of taxes prior to the time when due and to allow discounts upon such anticipated payments, and in general to fix the terms and methods of payment and collection of city taxes, in such manner as the mayor and council may determine. Taxes; mode of paying. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. LAWRENCEVILLE; CORPORATE LIMITS EXTENDED; COMPENSATION OF CLERK AND ATTORNEY. No. 118. An Act to amend an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved August 19, 1912, creating a new charter for the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia, by striking the words three-fourths of in the second line of Section 3 of said Act, and also by striking the words, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, in the seventeenth line of Section 21 of said Act, and substituting in lieu thereof the words, such compensation as the mayor and council shall fix, and also by striking the words or figures of $100.00 per annum, payable annually, and substituting in lieu thereof the words in such amount as the mayor and council may fix, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this Act that Section 3 of an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved August 19, 1912, creating a new charter for the City of Lawrenceville, Georgia, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from the second line of said section, the words, three-fourths of so that when so amended said section shall read as follows: Act of 1912 amended. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said City of Lawrenceville shall extend a mile in an air line in every direction from the center of the court house, as now situated in the public square in said city. Sec. 3 as amended. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That Section 21 of said Act be amended by striking the

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words, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, in the 17th line of said section, and by substituting in lieu thereof, the words such compensation as the mayor and council shall fix, so that said section so amended, with reference to the compensation of the clerk, shall read as follows: Sec. 21 as amended. The clerk shall receive for his services such compensation as the mayor and council shall fix. Clerk's pay. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Section 22 of said Act be and the same is hereby amended by striking the words and figures, of $100.00 per annum, payable annually, in the 15th line of said section, and substituting in lieu thereof the following words, in such amount as the mayor and council may fix, so that said part of said section relative to the compensation of the city attorney shall read as follows: Said city attorney shall receive a salary in such amount as the mayor and council may fix. Sec. 22 amended. City attorney's salary. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. LITHONIA; EMERGENCY TAX TO REPLACE BURNED SCHOOL BUILDINGS. No. 24. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the City of Lithonia, approved August 4, 1913, wherein an emergency tax amounting to 1% (per cent) shall be authorized to be levied upon the taxable property of said city for and during the years 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, to cover emergency demands arising on account of the destruction of its public school building by fire, on the 3rd day of April, 1919, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of

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Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Act establishing a new charter for the City of Lithonia, approved August 4, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: Act of 1913 amended. Section 1. That the mayor and council of said city be and they are hereby authorized to provide by ordinance for the assessment, levy and collection of an emergency ad valorem tax on all real and personal property within the corporate limits of said city, amounting to 1% thereon, for the purpose of enabling said city to raise funds to meet the extraordinary demands caused by the destruction of its public school buildings by fire, on the 3rd day of April, 1919, the present Legislature declaring an emergency exists in said municipallty which authorizes said additional tax, provided that not exceeding $30,000.00, exclusive of any interest that may be paid on money borrowed to build said school buildings, of the said fund so raised shall be expended on account of expense necessary to meet the demands for building and equipping public school buildings, and no amount of said fund shall be expended for any other purpose than building and equipping school buildings, and paying the interest on said sum so borrowed for said purpose in said city; this levy to be made over and above the regular tax levied for the general expense maintenance of the public school system of said city, and a fund sufficient to pay the interest and maintain the sinking funds of the bonded indebtedness of said city, but this authority shall exist only during the years 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 and said emergency tax shall be levied and assessed upon the property now on the tax books of the said city at the value thereon placed for and during the year 1919 and years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, and shall be payable on or before the 20th day of December of each year, and all the usual machinery of the said city shall be applied assessing this emergency tax and to collect the same and following said date as before said, if payments are not paid by said time, the existing provision as to interest, defaults, costs, executions, sales for failure to pay taxes shall attach

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and be enforced. This emergency tax to be extra and additional to the regular annual tax levy authorized by existing charter provisions. Emergency tax 1% ad valorem. Limit of expenditure for school buildings, etc. Sec. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 1, 1919. MACON CHARTER AMENDMENTS. No. 187. An Act to amend an Act approved on the 17th day of August, 1914, creating a new charter for the City of Macon and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, an Act of the General Assembly, approved August 17, 1914, creating a new charter for the City of Macon, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: That the City of Macon be and is hereby authorized and empowered to close, grant, bargain, sell and convey to such person or persons, and upon such terms, at public or private sale, as said municipal corporation may deem best, all that portion of Poplar Street and Seventh Street, lying and being in the City of Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point four hundred and eighty-two feet north of the center line of Eighth Street and Poplar Street, and thirty-two and one-half (32) feet east of the present curb line of Poplar Street, and from such starting point running fifty-nine (59) and one half () feet east of the line of square Thirty-five (35) according to the plan of the City of Macon, known as the old cemetery; thence at right angles in a north-westerly direction along the line of said square Thirty-five (35) four hundred and two (402) feet; thence at right angles in a south-westerly direction fifty-nine and one half (59) feet

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into Poplar Street to a point thirty-two and one half (32) feet from the present curb line of said Poplar Street; thence at right angles in a south-easterly direction and on a line parallel with the said line of square Thirty-five (35), four hundred and two (402) feet to said starting point. Act of 1914 amended. Authority to close part of Poplar and Seventh streets. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the City of Macon is hereby authorized and empowered to sell, grant, and convey encroachments only upon that side of a street in such blocks only in which encroachments have been previously sold, granted, and conveyed, and upon which permanent improvements have been erected; provided, that no encroachments shall be sold, granted or conveyed under this section, unless the previously granted encroachments aggregate and amount to one-fourth of the total street frontage of that side of the street in said block upon which encroachment is sought, or, unless the property, which is sought to be added to by encroachment, lies and is situated between encroachments already sold, granted, and conveyed and upon which permanent improvements have been erected; and, provided further, that in order to maintain a uniform building line, no encroachment granted hereunder shall extend beyond adjacent or previously granted encroachments on said street, in said block; and, provided further, that no encroachment whatever shall be sold, granted, or conveyed, and the City of Macon shall take no action relating thereto, until and unless the applicant therefor shall have first caused to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks, in the newspaper selected for advertisements of property for sale under tax fi fas, of said city, a notice to the public that (1) the applicant intends to apply to the City of Macon for an encroachment, which notice shall also contain (2) a complete description of the property owned by the applicant contiguous or adjacent to the proposed encroachment, and (3) a statement of the fair present market value of such property so owned without any improvements, and (4) the total number of square feet in such property so owned, and (5) a complete description of the proposed encroachment

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with the number of square feet therein and (6) the amount which the applicant is willing to pay and offers for such proposed encroachment if granted; and provided further, that any encroachment granted without the foregoing notice having been complied with, shall all be void. Encroachments on streets, sale of. Notice of application for encroachment. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and board of aldermen of the City of Macon shall have full power and authority to declare and define by ordinance, what acts or things shall be deemed nuisances, injurious to health, how and within what time the same shall be abated, after notice, and likewise to declare, by ordinance, the punishment for failing or refusing, after notice, to abate any nuisance, and to likewise declare by ordinance whatever may be by the said mayor and board of aldermen deemed necessary for the preservation of the public health, and for the prevention of the generation and introduction of infectious or contagious diseases, and to pass ordinances that they may deem necessary for the enforcement of the same. Abatement of nuisances. Health regulations. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and board of aldermen of the City of Macon shall have full power and authority to cause the owner or owners of lots, within the City of Macon, to drain the same, and to compel the owner or owners of cellars holding water to cause the same to be emptied of the water, or fill up if necessary, and to pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the full enforcement of the provisions of this section. Drainage of lots and cellars. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That Section 5 of the Act approved July 30, 1915, entitled An Act to amend an Act, approved August 17, 1914, creating a new charter for the City of Macon, and for other purposes, be amended by striking from the end of said section the following words, The clerk of council shall act as secretary, and the treasurer of the City of Macon shall act as treasurer of said Board of Commissioners, so that section, when amended, shall read as follows: Act of 1915 amended.

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Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all money received by said Board of Commissioners, from whatever source derived shall be deposited with some solvent bank or banks selected by them and shall not be drawn therefrom, except upon vouchers duly drawn and countersigned under the rules of said commission. Sec. 5 as amended. Deposits of money. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted that all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved August 14, 1919. MADISON; BONDS FOR PAVING, ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE. No. 26. An Act to authorize the mayor and city council of Madison, in the County of Morgan, State of Georgia, to issue and sell bonds to the amount of forty-five thousand ($45,000.00) dollars for the purpose of grading and paving the streets and sidewalks in said City of Madison; to levy and collect an ad valorem tax on all the property in said city for the purpose of paying interest that may become due on said bonds, and for the purpose of redeeming and retiring said bonds as they may become due; to provide for submitting the question of issuing said bonds to the qualified voters of said city; and to do all other things necessary for the issuance of said bonds and the grading and paving of the streets and sidewalks in the City of Madison. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and city council of Madison be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to grade and pave the streets and sidewalks in the City of Madison, and to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of paying for said grading and paving, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of forty-five thousand ($45,000.00) dollars, of such denominations

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as the said mayor and city council of Madison may determine, the same to be due and payable any time within thirty years after they issue, as they, the said mayor and council, may determine. The said bonds when so issued, shall bear interest at not exceeding five per centum (5%) per annum, payable semi-annually, January 1st and July 1st, each year, in Madison, Georgia, or at any bank in New York City, as the holders may designate. Bonds for grading and paving; limit $45,000; 5%. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said mayor and city council of the City of Madison, and they are hereby empowered to assess and collect an ad valorem tax on all the taxable property in the said City of Madison sufficient to pay said bonds, principal and interest, as they become due, within thirty years, as is provided for in Section 1 of this Act. Said bonds, or so much of them as may be necessary for the purpose for which they may be issued, shall be signed by the mayor and the clerk of the city council of Madison, and they shall be sold in such manner as said mayor and city council may determine to be for the best interest of said city; provided, said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value. Taxation to pay bonds. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That after said bonds shall have been issued and sold as herein provided, it shall be the duty of said mayor and city council to apply the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to the grading and paving of the streets and sidewalks of the City of Madison, with such material and in such manner and to such extent as the mayor and city council of Madison may deem best and advisable for the best interest of said city. Use of proceeds. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that after the passage of this Act the mayor and city council of Madison shall submit the question of issuing said bonds to an election, to be voted upon by the qualified voters of said city, on a day to be fixed by said mayor and city council. Notice of said election shall be given by advertising the same thirty days before the election in the paper in which the legal advertisements of Morgan County are published; said election to

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be held in the same manner and under the same rules prescribed by law for holding elections for mayor and councilmen of said city. Should the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters of said City of Madison voting at such election, provided said two-thirds so voting shall be a majority of the registered voters of said city, cast their ballots in favor of said bonds at said election, the provisions shall obtain and be of full force and said bonds shall be issued in pursuance thereof. Election to authorize bonds. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, that those who favor the issuance and sale of said bonds as set out in this Act, shall have written or printed on their ballots For Bonds, and those who are opposed to the issuance and sale of said bonds as set forth in this Act, shall have written or printed on their ballots Against Bonds. Ballots. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. MADISON SCHOOL BONDS, ELECTION TO AUTHORIZE. No. 39. An Act to authorize the mayor and city council of Madison, in the County of Morgan, State of Georgia, to issue and sell bonds to be known as school bonds, to the amount of thirty thousand ($30,000.00) dollars for the purpose of building a new school building in the said town of Madison; to authorize said mayor and city council to levy, assess and collect a sufficient tax upon all the taxable property in said city to pay the principal and interest of said bonds as they shall become due; to make provisions for an election to be held so as to submit the question of issuing said bonds to the qualified voters of said city.

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and to do all other things necessary in order to build a school building in said city. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and city council of Madison be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell bonds for the purpose of building and erecting a new school building for the public school of said town to be known as the High School Building in the City of Madison, said bonds to be so issued not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000.00) dollars, of such denominations as the said mayor and city council of Madison may determine, the same to be due and payable any time within thirty years after they issue, as they, the said mayor and city council may determine. The said bonds, when so issued, shall bear interest at not exceeding the rate of five (5%) per centum per annum, payable semi-annually on January 1st and July 1st, each year, in Madison, Georgia, or at any bank in New York City, as the holders may designate. Bonds for schools: limit $30,000; 5%. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said mayor and city council of Madison, and they are hereby empowered to assess and collect and ad valorem tax upon all of the taxable property in the City of Madison sufficient to pay off said bonds, principal and interest, within thirty years, as they may become due as provided in Section 1 of this Act. Said bonds, or so much of them as may be necessary for the purpose for which they may be issued, shall be signed by the mayor and clerk of the council of the City of Madison, and shall be sold in such manner as the mayor and city council may determine to be for the best interest of said city; provided, said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value. Taxation to pay bonds. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That after said bonds shall have been issued and sold as hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty of said mayor and city council of Madison to apply the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to

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the building and erecting of a new school building for the public schools of the City of Madison, said new building to be known as the High School Building in the City of Madison, and said mayor and city council are hereby clothed and empowered with full authority to have plans and specifications for said building drawn, employ an architect and let the contract for said contract, for said building as they may deem proper and advisable. Use of proceeds. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That after the passage of this Act the mayor and city council of Madison shall submit the question of issuing said bonds to an election, to be voted upon by the qualified voters of said city, on a day to be fixed by said mayor and council. Notice of said election shall be given by advertising the same thirty (30) days before the election in the newspaper in which the sheriff's advertisements of Morgan County, Georgia, are published; said election to be held in the same manner and under the same rules prescribed by law for holding elections for mayor and councilmen of said city. Should the assent of two-thirds of the qualified voters of said city voting at such election, provided said two-thirds so yoting shall be a majority of the registered voters of said city, cast their ballots in favor of said bonds at said election, the provisions shall obtain and be of full force and said bonds shall be issued in pursuance thereof. Election to authorize bonds. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That those who favor the issuance and sale of said bonds as set out in this Act, shall have written or printed on their ballots, For Bonds, and those who are opposed to the issuance and sale of said bonds as set forth in this Act, shall have written or printed on their ballots, Against Bonds. Ballots. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919.

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MADISON STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS. No. 23. An Act to amend the charter for the City of Madison, Georgia, as set out in Volume 2, Georgia Laws 1890-1891, pp. 827-836, and the Act amendatory thereof as set out in Georgia Laws 1900, pp. 343-344 and all other amendatory Acts of same, so as to empower and authorize the mayor and city council of Madison to construct, grade and pave the streets and sidewalks in the City of Madison and to apportion the costs of constructing, grading and paving said streets and sidewalks so that said City of Madison shall pay one third of said costs and two thirds of said costs to be borne and paid by the property or landowners on both sides of the streets and sidewalks; to authorize and empower the said mayor and council to construct, grade and pave such streets and sidewalks in said city as in their judgment they deem advisable; to authorize said mayor and council to force said property and land owners to pay for two thirds of the costs of said grading and paving, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, that from and after passage of this Act the mayor and city council of Madison shall have full power and authority by a majority vote of the same, the mayor being entitled to one vote, to adopt an ordinance or ordinances requiring grading and paving or otherwise improving for travel or drainage any of the streets, public alleys and sidewalks of said city, and to assess two thirds of the costs of such grading, paving or otherwise improving the streets, alleys and sidewalks, on the real estate abutting on each side of the street, alley and sidewalk improved, and the other one third of the costs of such grading and paving and improvements shall be paid for out of the treasury of said city. Authority for street improvements and assessments.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and city council of Madison shall have full power and authority to grade, pave, widen and otherwise improve all the streets and sidewalks in the City of Madison as in their judgment they deem advisable, and the costs of such grading, paving and improving shall be apportioned between the said city and the abutting land owners so that said city shall pay for one third of said costs from the treasury of said city and the other two-thirds shall be paid for by the abutting land owners; that is, the land owner on one side of the street that may be graded, paved or improved shall pay for one third and the land owner abutting on the opposite side shall pay for one third of same and the other third shall be paid from the treasury of the City of Madison. Apportionment of cost. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, that no land owner shall have the right to grade, pave and improve the street or sidewalk in front of his property or anywhere else in said city, but such grading, paving and improving shall be done and conducted by the mayor and city council of Madison and the cost of same shall be raised by assessments as heretofore provided. Property owners not to pave, etc. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That after the mayor and city council shall adopt an ordinance authorizing the grading, paving or improving of any street and sidewalk in the City of Madison, the assessment on the abutting land owner or land owners as hereinbefore provided for, shall be a lien on said real estate abutting such street or sidewalk from the date of the passage of the ordinance, providing for the work and making the assessment. The mayor and city council shall have authority and power to enforce the collection of any assessment made for the purpose aforesaid by execution issued by the clerk of the mayor and city council against the real estate so improved or against the real estate abutting the street and sidewalk graded, paved or improved for the amount assessed against the owner at the date of the ordinance making such assessment or assessments, which execution may be levied by the marshal or any

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police of said city on such real estate, and after advertising the same and having other proceedings as usual and necessary in the case of tax sales, said real estate shall be sold at public outery to the highest bidder. Such sale shall vest absolute title in the purchaser. The city marshal or policeman of said city shall have authority to eject occupants of such real estate and place purchasers in possession; provided the owner of such real estate shall have the right to file his affidavit denying the whole or any part of the amount for which execution has issued, and stating the amount which he admits to be due, which amount admitted to be due, together with all costs, shall be paid before the affidavit shall be received, and the execution and levy and affidavit shall be returned to the Superior Court of Morgan County, Georgia, and there tried and the issue thus raised determined as in the case of illegality. The lien for assessments thus created shall have rank and priority above all other liens except liens for taxes, such lien dating from the passage of the ordinance providing for such grading, paving or improving in each instance. Said mayor and city council shall have full power and authority to prescribe by ordinance such other rules and regulations as they in their discretion think necessary in order to grade, pave and otherwise improve any of the streets and sidewalks of said city and to collect two-thirds of the costs thereof from the adjacent or abutting land owners as hereinbefore provided. Lien of assessment. Execution; levy and sale. Affidavit of illegality. Rank of lien. Ordinances. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. MANSFIELD; TIME OF ELECTIONS. No. 34. An Act to amend an Act approved August 21, 1906, entitled An Act to establish a new charter for the town of Mansfield, located in Newton County, Georgia, and for

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other purposes, by changing the date of the election of mayor and councilmen of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act approved August 21, 1906, entitled An Act to establish a new charter for the town of Mansfield, located in Newton County, Georgia, and for other purposes, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from the second line of Section 5 of said Act the words January, 1907 and inserting in lieu thereof the words December, 1919, so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Act of 1906 amended. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That on the second Monday in December, 1919, and annually thereafter on the same day, an election shall be held in said town, at such place therein as may be fixed by the mayor and five councilmen thereof. Should there, for any cause, fail to be an election at any time specified, or should any vacancy occur from death, removal or other cause, the mayor and council, or the council, if the vacancy aforesaid be as to the mayor's office, shall order an election to be held, and shall post a notice of the time of such election at two places in said town for at least ten days previous thereto. At all such elections the polls shall be opened not earlier than eight o'clock a. m., and shall close at 3 o'clock p. m. All elections under this Act shall be held by a justice of the peace, assisted by two freeholders, who are citizens of said town, and own real estate therein, or by three freeholders all of whom shall be citizens of said town and own real estate therein. Each of said managers shall take and subscribe before an officer qualified to administer an oath, or before each other, the following oath: `We, and each of us, do swear that we will faithfully and impartially conduct this election, and prevent all illegal voting to the best of our skill and power, so help us God.' Such elections shall be conducted under the rules and regulations governing elections for members of the General Assembly of this State,

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except that only two lists of voters and two tally sheets shall be kept. After the polls are closed the managers shall count the votes, declare the result, and certify the same to the mayor and council, who shall cause the same to be entered on their book of minutes. The managers shall deposit with the mayor all papers pertaining to said election, who shall preserve them unopened for ten days, and then destroy them unless notice of a contest be filed with the mayor. All contests shall be conducted as may be prescribed by law. Sec. 5. as amended. Time of election for mayor and council. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act the annual elections for mayor and councilmen of the said town of Mansfield shall be held on the second Monday in December of each year, beginning with the second Monday in December, 1919. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. MARIETTA; BONDS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS, ELECTIONS TO AUTHORIZE. No. 362. An Act to be entitled an Act to authorize the mayor and council of the City of Marietta, in the County of Cobb, to order and have held elections by the qualified voters of said city to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued in sums the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed $75,000.00, by said city, to be sold to pay for engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, catch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes, and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable against the abutter or street car company, upon any street, avenue, alley or other public place in said city,

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and for paving, re-paving or improving any street intersection in said city whenever in the discretion of said mayor and council the public necessity may require; to authorize the issue of said bonds and the assessing, levying and collecting of a tax on all property, both real and personal, in said city, for the purpose of paying interest on said bonds as well as the principal thereof; to provide for the holding of elections from time to time for the issue of such portion of said aggregate amount of said bonds as shall equal the estimated cost to make the improvments that shall have been petitioned for and granted; to provide that the first election under said Act shall not be held until petitions shall have been granted for the paving of the principal streets, or some portion thereof, which intersects with the Public Square in said city. Thereafter, such election may be held when a petition, or petitions, shall have been granted for the improvement of not less than five thousand square yards of any street, avenue or alley or other public place in said city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the mayor and council of the City of Marietta, in Cobb County, Georgia, are authorized and empowered to hold elections by the qualified voters of said city at such times as said mayor and council may designate, to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said city in sums, the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed $75,000.00, to be sold for the purpose of paying for engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, catch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable against the abutter or street car company, upon any street, avenue, alley or other public place, in said city, and for the purpose of paving, re-paving or improving any street intersection in said city, whenever in the direction of said mayor and council the public necessity may require. No election shall be held under this Act,

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until petitions shall have been granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the elapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made for paving the principal streets or some portion of each principal street which intersects with the public square in said city. After petitions have been granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the elapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made for the paving of each of the public streets which intersects the public square in said city or for paving some portion of each of said streets, then the first election under this Act shall be held at such time as the mayor and council may designate to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said city for such portion of said aggregate amount of said $75,000.00 as shall equal the estimated cost for engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, catch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes, paving, re-paving or improving any street intersection and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable against the abutter or street-car company, required to make the improvements that shall have been petitioned for and granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the elapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made. Thereafter such election may be held when a petition or petitions shall have been granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the elapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made for the improvement of not less than five thousand square yards of any street, avenue, alley or other public place, in said city. Each of said elections shall be held at such times as said mayor and

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council may designate to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued for such portions of said aggregate amount of $75,000.00 as shall equal the estimated cost for engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, catch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes, paving or re-paving or improving any street intersection and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable against the abutter or street-car company, required to make the improvements for which petitions shall have been made and granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the clapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made. At each of said elections the ballots used shall be For Street Improvement Bonds and Against Street Improvement Bonds. Bonds for street improvements; limit. Election to authorize bonds. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the first election herein provided for be in favor of bonds for said purposes then the mayor and council of said City of Marietta shall be and are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said City of Marietta in the sum not to exceed the estimated cost for engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, catch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes, paving, re-paving or improving any street intersection and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable against the abutter or street-car company required to make the improvement for which petitions have been made and granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the clapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made for paving said principal streets or some portion of each principal street which intersects with said public square. Thereafter, until the issue of said bonds as provided by this Act shall equal said aggregate sum of $75,000.00, an election may be held at any time designated by said mayor and council, to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said city

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not exceeding the estimated cost for engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, catch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes, paving, re-paving or improving any street intersection and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable against the abutter or streetcar company, required to make the improvement, or improvements, for which petitions have been made and granted by the adoption of an ordinance authorizing the improvement petitioned for and the elapse of fifteen days thereafter in which no legal proceedings have been begun, or if begun are no longer pending, to prevent the assessment therefor being made for paving not less than five thousand square yards of any street, avenue, alley or other public place in said city. Said bonds shall be designated Street Improvement Bonds of the City of Marietta and shall be in the sum of $1,000.00 each, numbered from one to seventy-five, consecutively and draw interest at the rate of 5% per annum, payable semi-annually, on such dates as the mayor and council may fix, and be for the term of thirty years. Said bonds when so issued shall be sold by the mayor and council in such way as may seem most advantageous for said city for not less than par and the proceeds thereof shall be used for the purpose of engineering, surveying, grading, installation of manholes, eatch-basins, culverts, bridges, draining pipes and any other cost incident to street improvement not chargeable to the abutter or street-car company upon any street, avenue, alley or other public place, in said city, and for the purpose of paving, re-paving or improving any street interesection in said city and for no other purpose. Election as to bond issue. Denomination of bonds; interest 5%. Sale of bonds. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said City of Marietta shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to annually assess, levy and collect a tax on all the property, both real and personal, in the corporate limits of said city in such sum as they may deem right and proper, necessary for the specific purpose of paying the interest on said bonds and also to create a sinking fund sufficient to redeem and pay

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off said bonds at maturity thereof; and the tax so assessed, levied and collected shall be kept separate and distinct from all other taxes and moneys belonging to said city and shall be used solely for the payment of the interest on said bonds as it may accrue and for the creation and accumulation of a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the same. Taxation to pay bonds. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the first election under this Act herein provided for shall be against the issuance of said bonds, then the mayor and council of said city may, at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of said first election, order another election under the provisions of this Act and may so continue until the issuance of said bonds is authorized by the legal voters of said city in the manner provided by law. In the event that the first election under this Act shall be in favor of said bonds, then should any subsequent election be against the issue of said bonds said mayor and council may, at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of any subsequent election which resulted against the issue of said bonds, order another election under the provisions of this Act and may so continue until the issuance of said bonds is authorized by the legal voters of said city in the manner provided by law. Second election. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. MARIETTA; MAYOR'S ELIGIBILITY FOR RE-ELECTION; REFERENDUM AS TO. No. 21. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to amend the 20th section of an Act entitled an Act to create a new charter for the City of Marietta, in the County of Cobb, and to

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consolidate and declare the rights and powers of said corporation, and for other purposes, approved August 15, 1904, by inserting in the 20th section of said Act, between the words election and for (the same being the first two words on the first line of page 526 of the Acts of 1904), the words after the expiration of a second term, and for other purposes, approved August 22, 1907, by striking from the first section of said Act the words eligible to re-election after the expiration of a second term for the next ensuing term, the same being the words occurring between the word be, the ninth word on the second line from the bottom of page 791, and the word or, the second word of the first line on page 792, of the Acts of 1907, and inserting in lieu thereof the words ineligible to re-election by reason of previous service as such official, for any number of terms, to provide a referendum on said Act, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act that Section 1 of an Act entitled An Act to amend the 20th section of an Act entitled an Act to create a new charter for the City of Marietta, in the County of Cobb, and to consolidate the rights and powers of said corporation, and for other purposes, approved August 15, 1904, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting in the 20th section of said Act, between the words election and for (the same being the first two words on the first line of page 526 of the Acts of 1904), the words After the expiration of a second term, and for other purposes, approved August 22, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between be, the ninth word in the second line from the bottom of page 791, and the word or, being the second word of the first line on page 792 of the Acts of 1907, the words ineligible to re-election by reason of previous service as such official for any number of terms, so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Act of 1907 amended. Be it further enacted, That the mayor shall be the chief executive officer of said city, and shall have general supervision

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over all its affairs. He shall sign all deeds and contracts, preside at all meetings of the council, and cast the deciding vote in case of a tie. It shall be his duty to see that the laws of the State and the ordinances of the city are faithfully executed within the corporate limits; to see that each officer of said city discharges his duty, and to cause any officer to be prosecuted for neglect or violation of duty, or immoral conduct. He shall keep the council advised from time to time of the general condition of the city, and shall recommend such measures as he may deem necessary or expedient for the welfare thereof. He shall call the council together when so requested, in writing, by a majority of the members thereof, or when it seems to him to be important to the welfare of the city. He shall receive a salary of not more than five hundred dollars per annum, to be fixed at the first meeting of the new mayor and council. He shall not be ineligible to re-election, by reason of previous service as such official, for any number of terms, or any part thereof. At the first regular meeting after his qualification he shall appoint standing committees, to whom shall be referred such business as the council may deem proper. He shall preside over the mayor's court for the trial of offenders against the ordinances of said city and violations of the laws of said State within the corporate limits of said city. He shall have full power and authority to impose such fines not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs, for the violation of any ordinance of said city, as shall seem to him reasonable and just, or he may require such violator to work on the streets or public works of said city, or be confined in the calaboose of said city, for such time as will be a just punishment for the offense, but not in any single instance to exceed fifty days. The fines imposed under this section may be enforced in the same manner as is provided for the collection of taxes, or by labor on the streets or confinement in the calaboose, as herein provided. The mayor and each member of the council shall have all the powers of a justice of peace to issue warrants, try and commit to the Superior Court of said county for trial all violators of the laws of said State for offenses committed within the corporate limits

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of said city. The mayor shall perform such other duties as the ordinances of said city shall require or that the council may refer to him from time to time. Section as amended. Mayor's ellgibility for re-election. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before the provisions of this amending Act shall become operative, it shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of the City of Marietta, and the mayor and council of said city shall, within ten days after the approval of this Act, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable, order an election to be held in said city for the ratification of this Act, under the same rules and regulations that govern elections in and for said city, and after first publishing notice of said election once a week for four weeks in any newspaper having a general circulation in said city prior to said election. All persons qualified to vote under the rules and regulations governing elections in and for said city, shall be entitled to vote in the election herein provided for, and those voting and desiring to vote for the amendment in this Act provided for shall have written or printed on their ballots, For amendment to charter, and those desiring to vote against the amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots, Against amendment to charter. If a majority of those voting at said election shall cast their ballots For amendment to charter, then this Act, upon the result being, by resolution of the mayor and council of said city, spread upon the minutes, so declared, shall become immediately operative and of force and effect, but if a majority of said voters should not vote for said amendment then the same shall be void. This Act to be referred to voters. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919.

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MARIETTA; STREET IMPROVEMENT CERTIFICATES. No. 201. An Act to authorize the mayor and council of the City of Marietta to issue paving certificates certifying to all the facts necessary to the validity and guarantee of payment of promissory notes given for street improvements and executions issued on account thereof, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the mayor and council of the City of Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to execute paving certificates which shall be known as Street Improvement Certificates of the City of Marietta, Georgia, certifying to all the facts necessary to the validity and guarantee of payment of promissory notes given for street improvements and executions issued on account thereof. Street improvement certificates; authority to issue. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city is hereby authorized to provide by ordinance for the issuing of a certificate, or certificates, by its mayor and council showing the authority of said city for making any street improvement and the compliance with statutory authority by abutting property owners, and every other person interested in said improvements, in making the same, to-wit: Ordinance providing for certificates; requisites. Filing of the required petition for such improvements by the required majority; Introduction of the ordinance authorizing the improvement; Advertisement required by statute pending the consideration of the ordinance; Adoption of the ordinance; Agreement (conclusively presumed) of all persons interested

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in the passage of the ordinances, authorizing the improvement and the assessments therefor; Contract for said improvement; Completion of said improvement; Adoption of the assessing ordinance; Statement by city clerk showing pro rata assessments; Promissory notes given for deferred payments; Executions issued against abutters and properties; Registration of executions; Marshal's authority to transfer executions issued against abutters and properties for said assessments: Illegality as in other cases, provided that any such defendant, who has not within fifteen days after the passage of the ordinance authorizing such improvement, begun legal proceedings to prevent the assessment for the cost thereof shall be presumed to have accepted the terms of said ordinance and agreed that the assessment be made; All and every other authority and fact necessary or required to show the validity of any promissory note made or execution issued, on account of any street improvement, and every authority and fact showing the power and authority of said city to contract for said improvement. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city is hereby authorized and empowered to issue paving certificates during the progress of street improvement work at such time and in such sums as the mayor and council may deem proper, the aggregate of which shall not exceed 80% of the cost of improvements that have been made at the time of the issuance of the same, which certificates shall draw interest at the rate of not exceeding 7% per annum and be payable at such time or times as the mayor and council may fix during the year of the issuance of the same. Paving certificates; limit of amount. Interest 7%. Authority is also hereby conferred upon said city to issue paving certificates. After the completion of any street improvement contract, bearing interest at not exceeding 7% per annum and payable at such time, or times, as the mayor and council may

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fix during the year of the issuance of the same, and in such sums as the mayor and council may deem proper the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed 80% of the amount payable to said city upon such assessments, less the aggregate amount of certificates outstanding, previously issued for said improvements under the provisions of this Act. The city is authorized to sell any of such certificates or borrow money thereon by pledging any of them as collateral security, for the payment of the cost of said improvements, and in either event of sale or collateral pledge of such certificates, or any of them, to pledge the faith and credit of said city for the payment thereof and to guarantee the payment of the same for and in the name of said city. Sale or pledge of certificates. All money received from the sale or pledge of said certificates, or any of them, shall be kept in a fund separate from all others, and shall be applied to the payment of the cost of making the improvements on account of which said certificates were issued, and for no other purpose. Separation and use of fund. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. MIDVILLE; AUTHORITY TO SELL REAL ESTATE; INCREASE OF COMMUTATION TAX. No. 135. An Act to amend Section two (2) of an Act approved August 16, 1915, and published in the Georgia Laws, 1915, pages 704 to 715 inclusive, known as the charter of the City of Midville, so as to authorize the mayor and council of the city of Midville to sell real estate owned by the City of Midville. Also to amend further by amending Section seventeen (17) of said Act so as to authorize the said mayor and council to increase the street commutation

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tax from three dollars to four dollars, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Section 2 of the Act of the Legislature approved August 16, 1915, known as the charter of the City of Midville, be and the same is hereby amended by adding the word sell after the word purchase, in the eighth line of said section. Act of 1915 amended. Sale of property. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that Section seventeen of said Act be amended by striking the words and figures three dollars ($3.00), in line eight, and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures four ($4.00) dollars. Commutation tax. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. MONROE SCHOOL TAX, INCREASE OF. No. 156. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Monroe in the County of Walton, approved December 3, 1896 (Act of 1896, pages 212 to 225 inclusive), and the Acts amendatory thereof, and especially the amendment approved August 7, 1916 (Acts of 1916, pages 834 and 835); to authorize an increase of the tax rate for school purposes and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, Section 8 as amended by the Act of 1916, approved August 7, 1916, be amended by striking the words one-half in the ninth line of said Section 8 and between the words exceed

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and of and inserting in lieu thereof the word seventenths, so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on or before the first day of July of each year, if practicable, said Board of Education shall submit to the mayor and council an estimate of the funds necessary to the operation of said schools for the next scholastic year, taking into consideration the State and county fund; whereupon it shall be the duty of said mayor and council to proceed to raise such funds by the assessment and levy of an annual ad valorem tax upon the taxable property of said city not to exceed seven-tenths of one per cent upon the assessed value thereof, and from the funds that may be in said city treasury not otherwise appropriated, provided the amount meets with the approvel of the mayor and council. The treasurer of said city shall pay over to the treasurer of said Board of Education all funds so raised or appropriated, who shall pay out the same only upon the order of said Board of Education. Act of 1916 amended. Section 8 as amended. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. MOUNT VERNON, TOWN OF; NEW CHARTER. No. 268. A bill to create a new charter for the town of Mt. Vernon, Ga., in the County of Montgomery, and to re-incorporate said town and declare and consolidate the rights and powers of said corporation; to define the corporate limits of said town of Mt. Vernon; to provide for a mayor and board of aldermen, and other officers for said town, and to prescribe the powers, rights and duties and liabilities of all officers of said town, and the manner of their election or appointment, and their removal from office: to

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provide for the retention of the present officers of said town of Mt. Vernon until the election of officers for said town under this charter and their qualifying; to provide that all the ordinances, rules and regulations of the corporation of the town of Mt. Vernon not in conflict with this Act shall remain valid and in force as ordinances, rules and regulations of the town of Mt. Vernon, incorporated by this Act until the same are repealed or amended by the mayor and aldermen of said town; to provide for streets and sidewalks and the working, opening, repairing, and maintaining the same, and the establishment and maintaining of parks and cemeteries; to authorize and empower the mayor and aldermen of said town to purchase or build, establish, maintain and operate a system of public schools, water works, electric lights and sewerage for the town of Mt. Vernon, to hold an election or elections on a day specified as now provided by law to determine the question of creating a debt against said town by the issuance of bonds; to provide for the assessment, levying and collection of an ad valorem tax upon all property both personal and real for general purposes and for the purpose of paying the principal and interest on said bonds; to authorize and provide for granting license to and taxing all kinds of business, trades, professions, shows, exhibitions and entertainments; to provide for all matters of municipal concern, needs and requirements and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same. That the town of Mt. Vernon, heretofore incorporated under the laws of Georgia shall from and after the passage of this Act, have and be known by corporate name of The Town of Mt. Vernon, and by and in that name be and is hereby vested with all the rights, privileges and powers incident to municipal corporations in the State, and the said town of Mt. Vernon created by this Act may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common or corporate seal, make

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and enact through its board of aldermen, who shall compose the town council, such ordinances, rules and regulations and for the transaction of its business, and the welfare and proper government of said town as said town council may deem best and which shall be consistent with the laws of the State of Georgia and of the United States, and the said town of Mt. Vernon shall be able by law and is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, hold or lease, sell, exchange, possess and retain for any number of years, any estate or estates real or personal, lands, tenements of all kinds whatsoever, either within or without the limits of said town, for corporate purposes. Said town shall have special powers in its corporative capacity that said mayor and aldermen may deem necessary for the welfare of the town or its citizens; to assess values of property, to levy and collect taxes thereon, and remove nuisances. They shall have full power and control over streets, lanes and alleys of the town, and to remove obstructions therefrom, as is generally exercised by and granted to municipalities, and shall in general have all the powers, incident to municipal corporations under the laws of this State, which is necessary and proper in order to regulate, make, maintain and preserve a proper and legal government of said town and to declare what act or thing shall be unlawful. New charter. Corporate name. Ceneral powers. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town of Mt. Vernon as enacted by this Act shall be as follows, to-wit: The north line, the west line and the south line to be straight lines, the distance from the court house in said town to the nearest point on the northern line to be one and one-quarter miles, and the distance from said court house to the nearest point on the south line and west line to be one-half mile each, said northern line and western line and the southern line being the same as shown, in the Act creating the corporation of the town of Mt. Vernon, approved October 6, 1891, the eastern line beginning at the southeast corner of the old incorporate limits, and running from thence a straight line to the nearest point of the corporate limits of the town of

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Ailey, thence in a northwesterly course along the corporate limits of the town of Ailey until it strikes and intersects the corporate limits of Mt. Vernon, thence along the old corporate limits of Mt. Vernon in a northern direction until the same reaches the northeast corner of said town as the same was originally laid out. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the government of said town shall be vested in a town council composed of a mayor and six aldermen. The present mayor and councilmen of the corporation of said town of Mt. Vernon shall continue in office until the expiration of their term of office for which they were elected and until their successors are elected and qualified, and they and their associates and successors shall have and execute all rights, powers and duties hereby conferred on the town council of the town of Mt. Vernon, created by this Act, and all the ordinances, rules and regulations of the old corporation of the town of Mt. Vernon, not repugnant to this charter shall continue in full force and effect until the same are repealed, amended, changed or modified by the town council of the town of Mt. Vernon, and all transactions or business or any matter or thing, or any right, title or interest that may have been vested in said town of Mt. Vernon under prior Act, or business transaction, or transactions, shall be vested in the town of Mt. Vernon in its new capacity under this charter, and this condition shall prevail with reference to all rights and under whatever name said corporation may have held said right. Mayor and council. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the term of the mayor and each councilman shall be one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and the first election for said mayor and council under this charter shall be the second Wednesday in January, 1920, and there shall be an election for mayor and council each year thereafter on the second Wednesday in January. At the first regular meeting of the mayor and council after any election they shall qualify as such mayor and council and elect from their board of aldermen a mayor pro tem, whose

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term of office shall be one year. In the event a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor and aldermen or either the mayor or any member of the aldermen by reason of a failure of any one or more refusing to qualify and act, when elected, or by resignation, removal from town, death or otherwise the vacancy may be filled by remaining members of said board, provided there is still remaining on said board a sufficient number to form a quorum and provided further that should a majority of the qualified voters of said town desire that any vacancy or vacancies that may occur on said board be filled they may petition said board of aldermen to order an election to fill the vacancy or vacancies, and in that event it shall be mandatory upon said town council to order an election to fill said vacancy or vacancies, which election shall be held not less than ten days after said petition for same is filed with said board by a majority or showing a majority of the qualified voters calling for the same, and shall be held as soon as practical after the ten days has expired, notice of said election shall be given by posting the same at three or more public places in said town and the election shall be held and managed, returns made, results declared, in the same manner as regular elections, as hereinafter provided, and should the office of mayor pro tem become vacant for any cause after the mayor pro tem has been selected, and before his term has expired, then said board of aldermen shall elect another mayor pro tem from among their number, in the same manner as regular appointments of mayor pro tem. Election of mayor and council. Vacancies. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if for any reason there should be a failure to have the regular election for mayor and aldermen at the regular time provided for the same by this charter, it shall be the duty of said town council in power to order an election for mayor and council as early as practicable thereafter by giving at least ten days' notice of the same by publishing said notice in the county newspaper and by posting notices of the same in two or more public places in said town, and such elections shall be held and managed and results declared in the same manner as a regular election, as provided for hereafter. Failure to elect at regular time.

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Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be eligible to the office of mayor or alderman who is not a citizen of said town, and who shall not have resided in the State two years, in the town twelve months immediately preceding his election or appointment, and who is under twenty-one years of age, and a qualified voter under the laws of the State of Georgia. Eligibility. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor of said town shall be its chief executive officer. He shall see that all laws, ordinances, rules and regulations of said town are executed, and that all officers of said town faithfully execute the duties required of them. He shall have general supervision of the affairs of said town, shall preside at meetings of the town council and at police courts, and he shall have authority to convene the council in extra session whenever he deems it proper to do so. Said mayor shall have the right to vote upon any question before the town council only in case of tie. Mayor's powers and duties. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of absence or disqualification of mayor, the mayor pro tem shall have the right to act in the place of said mayor and perform any and all functions that the mayor has the authority to perform, and provided further that should the mayor and mayor pro tem be disqualified or absent at any time, the town council shall have the right to appoint one of its number to act as mayor in such absence or disqualification, who shall have the same powers and rights and liabilities as said mayor. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and four councilmen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business before the town council and that a majority of the votes shall determine all questions and elections before the town council. Said town council shall hold regular meetings at least once in every [Illegible Text] and more frequently if the occasion should demand, at stated times and stated places in said town, and shall hold such meetings as may be ordered by the mayor, or in

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his absence by the mayor pro tem, for special purposes, or upon the request of the majority of the council. The public shall be allowed at all times to witness the deliberations of said town council, except when the town council resolves itself into executive session, then the public may be excluded. Council meetings. Quorum. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, the mayor pro tem and each alderman, before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties, shall take and subscribe before some officer authorized by the law of said State to administer oaths, an oath to faithfully and uprightly discharge the duties of their respective offices, and as in their judgment shall best promote the general welfare of the inhabitants of said town, and the common interest thereof, which oath shall be entered of record upon the minutes of the council. Oath of office. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every male citizen of said town of Mt. Vernon, incorporated under this Act, who is twenty-one years old and has lived in said State one year and in said town of Mt. Vernon six months next preceding any election, and who is a legally qualified voter under the laws of said State, shall be qualified to vote at any election [Illegible Text] in the town of Mt. Vernon for any purpose whatever. Voters. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the election for mayor and council for said town shall be held on the 2d Wednesday in January in each year; that all elections for mayor and aldermen and elections on any questions submitted to the voters of said town, shall be held at the court house. The mayor and aldermen shall have full power and authority to call any special election for any purposes, whenever they deem it expedient for the interest of said town. All elections to be held by at least two persons who shall be qualified to hold and superintend elections for members of the General Assembly of this State, and said election will be held in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as elections for members of the General Assembly, except as above provided, and that said election

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may be opened at ten o'clock A. M. and closed at four o'clock P. M. Elections, time and place of. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and aldermen of said town are hereby authorized and empowered to elect a clerk and treasurer and chief of police, and as many policemen as they deem necessary, a board of health, sanitary inspector, building inspector, chief of fire department, town physician, town attorney and tax assessors or so many of said officers, and such other officers as they deem necessary and proper at such times and for such periods of time and for such purposes as they may deem right and proper, and to fix their compensation, and require such bonds as they may deem proper, prescribe their duties and oaths, and may suspend or remove them from office at their discretion, and all officers or appointees elected or appointed by said mayor and town council, shall accept such offices subject to be suspended, removed or dismissed therefrom. The mayor and aldermen at their discretion may elect or appoint the same person to discharge and perform the duties of more than one office; and may at their discretion appoint such officers or appointees at any time during their term of office. Officers. Dual offices. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any newly-elected mayor and council so elected shall meet together and qualify and enter upon their duties as early as practicable after their election. First meeting of council. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the office of clerk and treasurer of said town shall be combined, one person holding both positions at the option of said mayor and council, and it shall be his duty as such clerk and treasurer to collect and keep subject to the direction of said town council, all money due and belonging to said town, to be the custodian of the books and records of said town, to attend and preserve a minute of all the acts and doings of each meeting of the town council, to be ex-officio clerk of the police court of said town and to perform all and such other duties as are required of him under this

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Act and which may be required of him from time to time by the ordinances, rules and regulations of said town council. He shall keep a set of books upon which he shall make entries of all sums of money received and all moneys paid out, when and to whom, and for what purposes; shall give receipts for all moneys received by him and take receipts for all money paid out by him, which books and receipts shall at all times be subject to inspection by any citizen of said town, and any and all sums of money paid into the hands of said clerk and treasurer under the provisions of this Act shall be a fund for the exclusive use of said town, Before entering upon his duties as such clerk and treasurer, he shall take and subscribe an oath to faithfully perform the duties of his office, and shall execute such bond as may be required of him by the mayor and council of said town, said bond to be approved by the mayor. Clerk and treasurer. Duties. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all other officers elected or appointed by the town council shall take such oaths and give such bonds as may be required of them and shall perform such duties as they may be required to perform under the ordinances, rules and regulations of said town and to otherwise conform to all requirements made by the town council governing such offices. Duties of other officers. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the compensation for salaries of mayor and aldermen and all other officers, servants and employees of said town shall be such sums as the town council may fix, provided that the salary of the mayor shall not exceed one hundred dollars per year, and the salary of the aldermen shall not exceed twenty-five dollars per year. Pay of mayor, aldermen, etc. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town shall have the right and power in order to raise necessary revenue to properly carry on the government of said town, to build sewers, to procure water supplies, to make, open, grade, repair and keep in order the streets and bridges of said town, to light the same, to properly police the same, to pay salaries, costs

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and expenses of the town officers and employees, and to furnish, maintain and regulate all things needful and appertaining to the protection of the interest of said town and the welfare of the citizens therein, for the suppression of crime, maintenance of law and order, payments of the debts of the town, for educational purposes, for cemetery purposes, for caring for prisoners, and providing means and places for their detention and punishment; and for all such other purposes as would tend to add to the comfort, safety, convenience, benefit, health and advantage of said town and the citizens thereof, and for the natural improvement of said town, as may in their best judgment be necessary, and for all other purposes in order to properly carry on the town government as herein indicated, to levy and collect a street tax or capitulation tax on all male inhabitants of the town subject under the law to pay such tax, also to levy an ad valorem tax not to exceed one and one-half per cent on all the property within the corporate limits of said town which is subject to State tax under the constitution and laws of said State, and also to impose and collect such tax as they, the town council, may deem necessary and proper upon all trades, business, cailings, professions, sales, shows, carnivals, etc., which are the legal subject of taxation, and may enforce payment of the same by license or direct tax in such manner as they may determine to be best and most advantageous. They may also impose, assess, levy and collect taxes on capital investments in such town on stocks of corporations and shall have the right and authority to levy and impose a tax on all and every kind of property, and on incomes from any source and commissions derived from any pursuits, trades or professions, banks express companies, insurance and other corporations, and all sources of profits as are not expressly prohibited or exempt by the Constitution or laws of said State. But all taxation on property shall be uniform on the same class of subjects. Powers of mayor and council. Taxes. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons subject to taxation who shall refuse or

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neglect to render in his, her or their property or pay the tax on the same when required by the ordinance of said mayor and town council, may be proceeded against by having their property double taxed, and by execution in the same manner and according to such rules and ordinances as may be adopted by said mayor and town council to enforce the collection of said taxes. Double tax after default. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have power and authority to lay out, change in any manner, open up, lay out, repair any of the highways, streets, sidewalks, bridges, alleys and fully have the power to maintain, protect, build, all courses of travel by the public, establish, maintain and keep in proper condition any and all streets, alleys, laneway, walk or square, bridge, crossway of whatever nature or kind, the same being done in accordance with the rules, regulations and ordinances of said town provided that in the case of constructing of any new route or course of travel, they shall be required to give the owner or owners of the land over or through which the same is to go ten days notice before constructing or establishing the same. Said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to cause all encroachments, obstructions or hindrances that may be placed upon any of the ways of travel or travels either of a permanent or temporary nature to be removed, if in their opinion the same should not be permitted to remain on said streets, sidewalks, alleys or any other course of travel; said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to widen, change or extend any and all of said ways of travel; provided that when the said mayor and council shall exercise the power of eminent domain they shall be liable to the owner or owners of any property they acquire or appropriate or damage, in the actual damage of said property; provided that should the owner or owners of any such property cannot agree on the damage sustained, such owner shall select an arbitrator and said town shall select one and the two so selected shall select a third arbitrator to pass on and decide the same, who shall pass their award or

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judgment from which judgment or award either party shall have the right to appeal to the Superior Court of said county, in case he is dissatisfied with the award, and upon an appeal in such cases the same shall be tried in said Superior Court as other appeal cases are tried. The entering such appeal in no case shall hinder, or stop said town from proceeding with the work in question. If there should be an award or judgment rendered against the said town of Mt. Vernon in such cases, said town shall have the right to abandon such work, and such award or judgment in that event shall be of no force, but should said town proceed with said work and fail to pay said award or appeal said case within ten days, then the party in whose favor said award was rendered shall have the right to apply to the clerk of the Superior Court of said county, who shall have the right and authority and duty to issue an execution in favor of said party for the amount of said award which execution shall have the same force and dignity as other executions issued from the Superior Court. Streets, bridges, etc., power as to. Obstructions. Damages to property owners. Arbitration. Execution. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the town council shall have full power, in their discretion, to grade, pave, macadamize, drain or otherwise improve the sidewalks and streets of said town, and in order to carry out and make effective this authority, said mayor shall have authority to levy and assess not more than one-half the cost of paving, or otherwise improving the sidewalks or streets, the real estate abutting on the sidewalks or streets so improved; said town having the full authority to provide by ordinance such a system of equalizing and assessing the values of real estate for the above purposes for the amounts above set forth as may seem just and proper. That the amount assessed against each piece of property under this provision shall be a lien against such property from the time the same is assessed. The town council shall have power and authority to enforce collection for the amount of any assessment so made for such work and improvement against the [Illegible Text] at the date of said assessment by execution issued by the [Illegible Text] of said town council

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against the owner of said real estate, which execution may be levied by the chief of police, marshal or other collecting officer of said town or their deputies on such real estate, and the advertisement, and all proceedings after said levy shall be the same and in the same manner as proceedings for the sale of property under executions for State and county taxes, and the owner of said property shall have the right to file his illegality or counter affidavit to such fi fa, should he have a legal defense to the same and in that event said proceedings to be returned to the Superior Court of said county for trial as other cases of illegalities. Paving, grading, etc. Assessments. Lien of assessment. Execution. Levy and sale. Affidavit of illegality. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said town council shall have the power and authority to establish a fee bill for the services of the officers of said town, in which they shall have the authority to prescribe such fees as they deem right and proper, provided the same shall not exceed fees charged for such services by officers of the Superior Court, nor less than fees charged for such services by officers of the justice courts. Fees of officers. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all writs, processes, subpoenas, summons, rules of all kinds, warrants, all executions for any and all kinds of taxes, license, fines, assessments, and forfeitures, or demands made by the town or its corporate authorities against any person, firm, or corporation whatsoever, shall be issued and signed by the town clerk, and bear test in the name of the mayor thereof, except as otherwise directed and authorized in this charter, and shall be directed to the policemen, marshals and their deputies of said town, and to all and singular the sheriffs and constables of said State and each of said officers are hereby authorized to execute said processes; provided, however, that it shall not be necessary or required that a warrant shall be issued against any party for petty offenses committed against the ordinances of said town, but such officers may arrest parties charged with violation of said town ordinances either with or without a warrant and may arrest under warrant anywhere. Writs, subpoenas, etc. Arrest without warrant. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That said mayor and council are hereby vested with power to establish fire limits in said town and to prohibit the [Illegible Text] of any wooden buildings or structures, annexes, awnings, etc., as will, in the opinion of said mayor and council, increase the fire risk in such part or parts of said town designated as fire limits, and may change or enlarge said fire limits when they deem it necessary and expendient for the welfare of said town. Said mayor and council shall have the power to prohibit the erection, or the operating of any gin, blacksmith shop, compress, lumber yards, or other things where things of an inflammable nature are stored or manufactured, in parts of said town in which they deem it against the interest of the general public for the same to be erected or run and said mayor and council may pass all ordinances and rules they deem necessary to safeguard said town against fire and infectious diseases; and may remove and abate nuisances. That said mayor and councilmen shall have the right and authority to safeguard the life, health and safety of the citizens of said town and their welfare in general, and to that end may as their prudence may dictate in a summary way, condemn, by resolution or ordinance any matter or thing they believe to be endangering the life, health or property of the citizens of said town, and have the same removed or abated, and should the danger be immediate and of a sufficiently serious nature, said council shall have the power to order the same removed without notice to the owner, if for any reason they cannot give said owner immediate notice; said order of abating or removal to be given to the chief of police, town marshal or their deputies or any special employees of said town for said purpose; said town council under this provision shall have the authority to destroy property if in their opinion the same is absolutely necessary for the protection of the health and safety of the citizens of said town. Said officers charged with the duty of executing said orders shall obey the same, and in all such cases the said town, or said council shall not be liable to answer therefor in any court of law, unless it should appear that they abused their discretion or used gross neglect or extreme want of care, and

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without any probable cause that it was necessary to take such action for the protection of the public or for the public good, the presumption shall be that the act was a necessity. When any property has been destroyed under the authority delegated by this section the town of Mt. Vernon shall only be liable to the owner thereof for the actual damage sustained, and not be liable for any remote, consequential or prospective damages, or speculative damages in connection therewith. Said town council under the authority vested in them under this section shall have the authority to establish a quarantine system and make such sanitary regulations within the incorporate limits of said town as they may deem expedient and proper to prevent the origin, introduction, or spread of disease or the prevention of disease either among its citizens or among all kinds of stock, may establish a pest house, maintain the same, remove and place and confine people or stock infected with any contagious discase at the expense of the person so affected or their family, or the expense of the owner of such affected stock; said town may prevent, stop or delay any person or persons, or stock from coming into town by any method whatever should they have sufficient reasons to suspect that their presence would introduce, bring in or spread infectious discase among the citizens or stock of said town. Said town may prevent any vehicle, train or carrier of any and all devices of travel from entering said town, bearing any person or stock reasonably suspected of being infected with contagious disease. Fire protection. Building regulations. Health regulations. Abatement of nuisances. Liability for damages. Quarantine. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town shall have full power and authority to own maintain, repair, enlarge, buy, control and manage a cemetery for said town as they may in their discretion deem right and proper. Cemetery. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said town shall have authority and power to elect and employ a health officer, town physician, sanitary inspector, and pay such officer or officers such compensation for services as they may deem right and proper, the duties

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of said officer or officers shall be prescribed by said mayor and council, and the term of office of said officers shall be such periods as prescribed by said mayor and councilmen; said mayor and council shall have authority to elect a board of health for said town, consisting of three members, at such salary and on such conditions as they may deem right and proper; the duties of said health officers, or board of health, sanitary inspector and town physician shall be as prescribed by said council, said officer and appointees shall have authority and power to perform such duties as are delegated to them under said appointment in connection with the health and safety of the citizens and the stock of said town, and to prevent and abate disease of all kinds and especially infectious maladies. Health officers. Board of health. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council shall have power and authority to prevent and remove any and all disorderly houses, and remove the inmates or occupants of lewd or any and all disorderly houses in said town of Mt. Vernon, and shall have power and authority to punish the inmates or occupants of any disorderly house, or any persons for using any disorderly or obscene or indecent or profane language or any indecent conduct in any manner, and shall have full authority to pass ordinances covering and providing the methods of such cases and for the conviction of and punishment for the same; and to pass all such ordinances as may be necessary and expedient for the preservation of order, decency, morality, peace, health, welfare, convenience and good government and conditions in and for said town. Said town shall have the authority to punish and pass ordinances providing for the punishment of any person or persons who may be guilty of selling, or bartering, or offering for sale, or keeping, having on hand, using or drinking any intoxicating liquors, or beverages of all kinds and characters and shall have full power and authority to control and regulate, prohibit and abate any and all kinds of business, when they have sufficient reasons to believe that the same is obnoxious to the general welfare, peace, good

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order and conditions of said town, and shall have special authority to pass ordinances controlling and providing for the punishment of all gambling, all persons participating in any game of chance, gambling, betting, wagering on anything whatever, of any and all devices. Disorderly houses or conduct. Ordinances. General welfare powers. Liquors. Sec. 28. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have full power to administer the government of said town, said mayor shall have authority to hold court in said town, at such times and places as he may designate or appoint for the trial of persons charged with offenses against the rules, regulations and ordinances and by-laws of said town, and for such violations to punish by fines not to exceed one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail or guard-house or calaboose of said town for a term not to exceed fifty days, or work on the chaingang, on the public works, streets, highways and alleys of said town not to exceed sixty days and any one or more of said punishments may be ordered and imposed in the discretion of said mayor. Said mayor shall be ex-officio justice of the peace so far as to enable him and authorize him to issue warrants for offenses committed within the limits of said town. Warrants issued under this provision may be executed by any arresting officer of said town or any officer authorized to execute warrants under the laws of said State, either within the limits of said town, or outside of said limits. Said mayor shall have the power and authority to act as a committing court, investigate charges of violations against the laws of said State and bind over persons upon investigations if in his judgment there is reason to suspect that the laws of said State have been violated for such penal offense. Mayor's court. Penalties. Warrants. Commitment. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and town council of Mt. Vernon shall have power and authority to organize a chaingang system for said town of Mt. Vernon and to confine at labor therein persons who shall have been sentenced by the police courts of said town, to work upon the streets, highways and courses of travel, or who have not paid their street taxes, and they

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shall have power to make all rules and regulations that may be suitable, usual or necessary for the government and control of such work gang or chaingang, and to enforce the same through its proper officers. Chaingang. Non-payment of street tax. Sec. 30. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person cenvicted before said police court may enter an appeal from the judgment of said police court to the town council of said town, provided the same is done within two days after conviction by said police court, provided such appealce shall pay all the accrued cost in said case and shall give a good and sufficient bond to be approved by said police officer to abide the final judgment in said case; on the trial of any such appeal case the council shall have a right to review the same and pass on the same as a denove investigation, and find such judgment as they deem proper without regard for the judgment of said police court; should the defendant or town desire to certiorari any case from the judgment of said council it shall be lawful so to do, provided the cost is paid and good and sufficient bond shall be given, and said certiorari is presented to the judge of the Superior Court for his sanction within ten days after the trial and judgment of said council. Appeal from police court. Certiorari. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the police court shall have the power and authority to preserve order during the sessions of his court, compel the attendance of witnesses, punish for contempt by imprisonment not to exceed five days in the common jail or town calaboose of said town, or by a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars; the town council shall also have the same right to impose fines and imprison offenders for contempt as are granted to the said police court. The right of certiorari shall be had from any and all decisions and judgments rendered by said police court, or council court in any case by complying with the law with reference to such certiorari. Contempts. Certiorari. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should the mayor or any councilman of said town, be guilty of [Illegible Text] in office, or be grossly guilty

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of wilful and grossly abusing the powers and discretion vested in him by this charter, or shall for any reason become unfit and incompetent to hold the respective office to which he has been elected or appointed, then and in that event a majority of said board of council may request his resignation, and upon such parties failure or refusal to resign within five days after said request, it shall be the duty of a majority of the members of said board to bring a rule against such officer in which the charges shall be fully stated to the judge of the Superior Court of said county, who shall issue a rule nisi against such offending officer, calling upon him to appear before said judge at such time and place said judge may designate, to show cause why he should not be removed from such office. The offending officer shall be served with a copy of said charges and said order at least ten days before the time set for such hearing, and said judge is hereby granted authority and power to pass upon said rule and may either remove said officer and declare said office vacant, or he may refuse to grant said order. Removal from office. Sec. 34. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and town council shall have power and authority to prevent cattle, horses, mules, goats, hogs, dogs or other animals from going at large in said town, or may regulate the same as they deem right and proper; and shall have the power to take up and impound any such animals running at large in said town, and to pass and inforce all rules, regulations and ordinances which they may deem necessary and proper for the regulation and control and prevention of all such animals in said town running at large, and they shall have the power to pass such rules and ordinances as they may deem proper for the disposition, the sale of, etc., under the rules herein granted for such impounding of such animals. Animals at large. Sec. 35. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all executions issued by the clerk of the council of said town shall be directed to the policemen and marshals of said town, and to all and singular the sheriffs and deputies

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and constables of said State and shall state for what said execution is issued, and be returnable to the clerk aforesaid sixty days after the issuing of the same, and it shall be the duty of the police, marshal, or other levying officer to advertise the sale of such real estate, or personal property as may have been levied upon by him to satisfy said execution in the same manner respectively of sheriff's sales of real property or constable's sale of personal property are required to be made under execution from the Superior Courts and justice courts. All of such sales to be made within the legal hours for sale, and at the place where sheriff's sales are made for said county, and where constable's sales are made for said district, and in the same manner, however the law with reference to sales for State and county taxes shall apply to sales under executions issued in favor of said town by said clerk, the person, party, firm or corporation against whom said execution is issued and levied may avail himself of any defense, remedy or law which is applicable under tax sales for State and county purposes, and may redeem his said land when sold under any fi fa in favor of said town within one year after said sale by paying the amount for which said land sold, together with interest on same at the rate of 20 per cent per annum and all cost of said proceedings; it shall be lawful for any officer of said town to purchase any such lands sold under such execution or personal property for said town, or in his individual right, provided the same has been duly and legally advertised for such sale. It shall be the duty of the marshal or other levying officer who makes any such sale, to deliver any personal property so sold to the purchaser upon his paying the purchase price for the same, and the duty of such officer to make and deliver a deed to any such land so sold to the party purchasing the same at any such sale upon such party paying the purchase price for the same, and title shall be vested in the purchaser, subject to the right of the owner to redeem the same within one year as above set forth, and the marshal or other levying officer shall, upon the failure of said owner to redeem said land within the time allowed by law, shall forthwith put

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the purchaser in possession. The clerk of said council shall provide and keep an execution docket in which docket said clerk shall enter all of said executions in favor of the town, giving the date, amount of each, the party whom against, and to whom delivered, and shall note the disposition of said execution, and upon the settlement or satisfaction of said execution, the same shall be returned to said clerk, unless a sale is made thereunder and the execution attached to said deed. The defendant in any such case shall have the right to file his illegality to said sale, and claims may be interposed and in either of such events the papers in such case shall be returned and transmitted to the Superior Court of said county for trial when the same appertains to real estate and to the justice courts of the 1343rd G. M. District of said county when the same pertains to personal property, and the proceeding in such appeal or illegality shall be in the same manner and form as are legal and usual in appeals and cases of illegalities in cases originating in the Superior and justice courts of said State. Executions. Levy and sale. Redemption of property. Affidavit of illegality or claim. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, When any person is arrested under the authority of this Act, or under the ordinances or rules passed by the authority of the same, it shall be lawful for such person so arrested to give a good and sufficient bond to be approved by said arresting officer conditioned for his appearance to answer such charge when the same is to be heard, and said bond shall be payable to said mayor and town council, which bond shall be forfeited upon the non-appearance of such party in the same manner and under the same rules that appearance bonds are forfeited in the Superior Courts of said State, and said mayor is hereby empowered to issue scire ficias returnable before him in not less than five, nor more than twenty days, when any defendant shall fail to appear in terms of his bond, and upon the return thereof, judgment and execution shall be issued against said defendant and his securities, unless good and sufficient excuse shall be rendered by said plaintiff and such judgment shall have the same dignity and force as judgments and executions which

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issue from the Superior Courts of said State, and may proceed to levy and sell property of said defendant or his securities in the same manner and under the same rules as are properties levied on and sold under executions from the Superior Courts of said State, subject to the same rights and privileges to the plaintiff and defendants. Bond for appearance. Forfeiture of bond. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, the mayor and council of Mt. Vernon are hereby authorized and empowered to submit to the qualified voters of said town, under the provisions of the Code of Georgia of 1910, Sections 440 to 444 inclusive, and other sections of said Code, and all Acts, amendatory thereto relating to the question of issuing bonds not to exceed forty thousand ($40,000.00) dollars and to be held for the purpose of establishing, building, maintaining, operating and fostering a system of waterworks, electric lights, public school system and buildings, sewerage system or either or all of them for said town of Mt. Vernon, an election may be called and had to determine the question of either, any or all of said questions, and for said election the ballots to be used in the same shall be printed for electric lights and bonds or against electric lights and bonds, for water works and bonds or against water works and bonds, for water works, sewerage and bonds or against water works, sewerage and bonds, as the case may be, according to whether the case is submitted as to bonds for electric lights, public school system and buildings, water works or water works and sewerage, or as may be deemed most advisable by the mayor and town council of said town. Bonds for waterworks, lights, schools, sewerage; election to authorize. Should said election herein provided for result in favor of electric lights, public school system and buildings, water works or water works and sewerage, or all as the case may be, then the mayor and town council of said town shall be and they are hereby authorized to issue bonds for said purpose or purposes for which said election prevailed in the amount proper in their discretion, not to exceed forty thousand dollars in the aggregate, each of said bonds to be

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issued in such sums as mayor and council may determine, said bonds to be payable in twenty years, but the interest on said bonds to be paid annually. Limit of bond issue. Said bonds shall be officially signed by the mayor and clerk of the town of Mt. Vernon, under the corporate seal, and shall be sold, hypothecated or disposed of to the very best advantage of said town, as may be determined by said mayor and council and the proceeds thereof used for the exclusive purpose for which they were voted, that is, any money derived from the issuing and sale of any bonds under this provision shall not be used for any purpose other than the purpose for which the vote was taken which resulted in favor of bonds. Sale or pledge of bonds. Said mayor and town council shall have full power and authority to make any and all rules and regulations and ordinances relative to said electric lights, public school system and buildings, water works or water works and sewerage and the use of the same by the citizens of said town that they may deem right and proper, not in conflict with the laws of said State. Regulation of lights, water, sewerage, school system, etc. Said mayor and council are hereby empowered to charge the citizens of said town such sums as they, the said mayor and council, may deem just and proper for the use of said lights, water and sewerage. The mayor and town council are hereby empowered and authorized to annually assess, levy and collect a tax on all the property both real and personal, within the corporate limits of said town, in such sum as they may deem necessary, right and proper for the specific purpose of paying the interest on said bonds and accumulating a sinking fund for the payment of the principal on said bonds on their maturity, said tax so levied and assessed and collected to be kept separate and distinct from all other taxes and shall be used solely for the purpose of paying the interest and principal on said bonds, as aforesaid. Taxation to pay bonds. The principal of said bonds, when they shall become due, and the coupons or interest warrants on the same shall be receivable by the town in payment of dues to said town and

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said bonds shall not be taxable directly or indirectly by the town of Mt. Vernon. Bonds nontaxable by town. In the event an election shall be held for either any or all of the purposes above named, and the same shall fail to carry, for all or either of said objects, or should be incomplete or illegal for any reason, or should there be a failure to legally validate said bonds under the laws, then said mayor and councilmen shall be authorized, in their discretion, to call another election for bonds for either, any or all of said objects, or upon the petition of fifteen freeholders of said town, said mayor and councilmen shall be required to call another election for such purpose after the expiration of six months, in which either or any of said objects may be submitted to the qualified voters. Second election for bonds. Sec. 38. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and town council of said town are hereby empowered and authorized to establish, support, and control a system of public schools which shall be provided for by local taxation and otherwise in the manner hereinafter provided for in this Act, for the town of Mt. Vernon, provided, however, that before the local tax can be levied and collected as herein provided for, for public schools, the mayor and town council, upon their own initiation or upon petition of fifteen freeholders requesting an election on such matter, in writing, shall call and advertise an election in a newspaper published in said town once each week for four consecutive weeks, said election to be held at the same place as other elections are held in said town, at which election all persons who are qualified to vote for mayor and councilmen in said town shall have a right to vote; said election to be held under the same rules, regulations and in such manner as other elections are held under the provisions of this charter and the laws of the State of Georgia. The ballots to be used at said election shall have written on them For tax for public schools, or against tax for public schools, and in the event that the necessary majority be in favor of local taxation for public schools, then the provisions hereinafter provided for public schools shall immediately

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go into effect and be of full force; and provided further that if at such election the vote shall be against taxation for public schools, then the mayor and town council are authorized and empowered to call another election after the expiration of six months and it shall be their duty to call such an election that may have gone against taxation for such school upon the written request or petition of fifteen freeholders of said town for such purpose, and an election may be had for such purpose at any time after the matter has been submitted to the voters and failed to carry, provided six months has expired since said election. Schools. Election to authorize school tax. Second election. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event said public school system shall be put in force as above provided, there shall be a board of education for said town, with rights to sue and be sued in the name of the board of education of the town of Mt. Vernon in which name it shall be incorporated and is incorporated under the Act, and whose duty it shall be to establish, manage, control and maintain said public school; said board shall consist of three members who shall be elected by the mayor and town council of said town, within the earliest time practicable after said school system shall go into effect. The term of office of said members of said board of education shall be for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified, and it shall be the duty of said mayor and council each and every year to elect said board of education, provided further that the first board that may be elected shall hold their office from the time elected until the next time for general elections for said board and until their successors are elected and qualified. Should there be a vacancy in the membership of said board of education at any time, for any reason, said mayor and councilmen shall have the right to make an appointment of member or members to fill the unexpired term or terms so left vacant for any reason. No person shall be qualified to be a member of said board of education who is not qualified to hold the office of mayor or councilman in said town, and no person shall be eligible to [Illegible Text] office of mayor or councilman who is not a qualified

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voter in said town as heretofore set forth. Upon the election of any member or members of said board of education, each member so elected shall, before entering upon his duties as such member of said board of education, take and subscribe an oath to faithfully, honestly and correctly perform the duties of said office. Said board of education shall be empowered and have the authority to make all rules, regulations and by-laws necessary and expedient for carrying the provisions of this Act pertaining to this question into effect, and for their government and control as to them may seem right and proper, which are not in conflict with the laws of said State of Georgia. Said board of education shall have the authority to select a chairman, vice-chairman, clerk and treasurer and all such officers as they may deem it necessary to have, and shall prescribe such pay for said officers so selected as they deem right and proper. Said board of education may fix the salary of each member of the same, which fees or salaries shall be paid out of the funds from said local school tax, provided that said board shall before paying the same or any sums to any such officers or members of such board, be required to have the same, the amount so fixed, approved by the mayor and council of said town. Board of education. Election of board. Vacancies. Eligibility. Oath. Powers. Officers. Salaries. Sec. 40. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education shall have the power and authority, and it shall be their duty, should said provisions become in operation under this law, to immediately upon their election and qualification for such office, plan, devise and adopt a system of public schools, to modify the same from time to time, or change the same from time to time, as they may see fit, and shall have power to fully control, manage and operate such system as they see fit, provided their acts in connection to the same shall not be repugnant to the laws of said State. School system. The mayor and council of said town shall have supervision of said board of education and may, upon sufficient cause, remove anyone or all of said members of said board of education. Removal from office.

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Be it further enacted that said board of education shall keep full and accurate minutes of its actings and doings, shall meet at least once each month. The minutes and proceedings of said board shall be open to the inspection of any citizen of said town or an authorized agent or attorney of such citizen, said board of education shall have authority to employ teachers, fix their salaries, prescribe the curriculum, prescribe the books to be used, and may in their discretion employ a superintendent for such public school or schools; may remove or suspend any teacher for proper cause, if it should appear from the circumstances that it is to the interest of the school system so to do. They shall have full power and authority to provide each and every thing or matter necessary, of whatever nature, for the equipment, running and operating of such school system, and the conduct and management of said school and school system and do any and all acts necessary to promote and make efficient said schools and system in their discretion, not to conflict with the general laws of said State. Minutes. Powers. Said board of education shall have authority to receive, hold, apply, sell and manage and control and protect all school property, and may receive, apply, use and appropriate for such school purposes any gift or donation of any real estate, personal or mixed, and the title to such property shall be in the corporate name of the board of education of the town of Mt. Vernon. Sec. 41. Said board of education shall receive all moneys or property belonging or owing to said board of education, shall keep an accurate account of the same and an accurate account of all expenditures made in connection with said system, which account shall be open for inspection to any citizen of said town, and shall be personally liable to the town of Mt. Vernon and amenable and liable under the general law for any moneys or property they may use or appropriate other than for the purpose intended by this Act. That said board shall make itemized reports of the receipts and expenditures at such times as they may be called on to do so by the mayor and council of said town, or when so requested

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by written petition by fifteen freeholders of said town. Accounts. Reports. Said board of education shall have authority to fix the term of said public school, designate the time to start and the time to close, and may in their discretion for sufficient cause, suspend said school from time to time as the interest of said school and public may require. Suspension of school. Sec. 42. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the election so provided for in said charter shall prevail in favor of local taxation for public schools, then the mayor and town council of said town shall be authorized and required to levy, assess, and collect annually a tax, not to exceed one-fifth of one per cent per annum, that is to say two dollars on every thousand dollars worth of property on all the taxable property of every kind in said town, and all moneys raised under this provision for school tax shall be used exclusively for building, equipping, running, operating and maintenance of said public school, provided further that should said mayor and council and said board of education deem it necessary they shall have the right to use said system for the purpose of supplementing or aiding in any way the public schools now in existence in said town, which shall be in oxistence when said system may come into force, provided the prior public school system will not have been abolished or supplanted by said system herein provided for. Tax for schools; rate. Supplementary system. Said board of.education may, if they deem proper, acting with the consent of said mayor and council, charge a small incidental or matriculation fee and require its payment which amount shall in no case exceed 50 cents per month for each pupil. Matriculation fee. Sec. 43. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all children between the ages of six and sixteen years, who are bona fide residents of said town, with their parents or guardians or otherwise, shall be entitled to the benefits of said school and shall not be required to pay any tuition except the incidental or matriculation fee above mentioned, but the board of education may in their discretion

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require payment of tuition for children attending said school who live outside said town, and in that case all such tuition shall become a part of the funds for said town, and in that case all such tuition shall become part of the funds for the maintenance and operation of said school. Free tuition. Payment for non-residents. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should the public school system be established under the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the State School Commissioner to turn over to the board of education of said town, to which said town is entitled according to the number of children within said town limits within school age, increased by the number of children within school age residing within the limits of Montgomery County who attend the public schools of Mt. Vernon, the board of education of said town of Mt. Vernon is entitled to receive for each year the amount apportioned for the State school fund for each such child, said funds held and applied as state school funds are applied, and said board of education shall be subject to the same rules and regulations pertaining to the same as county boards of education and shall make full and complete report to said State School Commissioner the way and manner in which said funds are expended, and shall make proper and definite reports as to the number of children of school age attending said school. Said board of education may admit non-resident children in attendance to said school upon such terms and conditions as they may deem right and proper. State fund, payments from. Sec. 45. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education shall determine as early as practicable in each year what amount of money will be necessary to raise by taxation to defray the expenses of said public school of the ensuing year, and submit such finding to the mayor and council in writing, for their approval, which report shall be approved by said mayor and council if reasonable, in their judgment, and if not, said mayor and council shall so report to said board of education and designate to them the amount to be levied, which shall fix the amount so to be raised by taxation under this system for

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the specified year; and when such tax shall have been levied and collected by the collecting officer of said town, the same shall be turned over to the clerk and treasurer of said board of education, and shall be held by him as school funds for said town, said taxes shall be collected as other taxes of said town are collected. Annual report as to amount necessary for schools. Tax for schools. Sec. 46. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all assessments of taxes and all funds arising from or collected under the authority of this Act shall be by the corporate authorities of the town of Mt. Vernon, used for the particular purpose for which they were assessed and collected, and the officer in charge of the keeping of such funds shall keep the several sums separate and keep his books and accounts in a manner to show the receipts and expenditures for each particular purpose and so the same will show for what purpose and to what object any funds so paid were paid and expended. Separation of funds; accounts. Sec. 47. Be it further enacted and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the town of Mt. Vernon, through its officers and corporate authority, as aforesaid, may do any act or thing of whatever kind or nature delegated to or permitted by the laws of the State of Georgia as fully and as completely as if hereby particularly specified and the authority is hereby especially delegated to said corporation of the town of Mt. Vernon to pass any rules, regulations and ordinances and by-laws necessary and appropriate to put into force and carry out the scheme and intention of this Act, having reference to the powers especially, delegated to said town under this charter and the authority vested in said town under the general laws of said State pertaining to municipal corporations. Authority as to ordinances. Sec. 48. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all provisions of former Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia pertaining to the incorporation of the town of Mt. [Illegible Text] in and under whatever name the same may have been done in whatever way or manner said town may have been incorporated which may now be in

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effect and at variance or in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are repealed when this Act, if duly enacted and becomes operative; and be it further enacted by said authority, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Former acts repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. MYSTIC, TOWN OF; CORPORATE LIMITS EXTENDED. No. 160. An Act to amend an Act approved August 18, 1903, incorporating the town of Mystic, in the County of Irwin, enlarging and extending the corporate limits of said town, by [Illegible Text] Sec. 2 of said Act, and enacting in lieu thereof, the following as the corporate limits of said town, to-wit: Said corporate limits to include all of the territory covered by and lands included in the survey and plot of said town, made by T. L. Wolfe, civil engnieer, and published by him in the month of Dec., 1906, known and referred to as the Wolfe survey, and which is of record in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court, Irwin County. Georgia, except that certain portion of the said Wolfe survey situated on the east side of the A. B. A. Railroad, lying south of the original land line, dividing lot of land Number 2 in the sixth land district, and lot Number 6 in the third land district of said county, also said incorporate limits of said town to include all of the territory and lands now included in the incorporate limits of said town situated, lying and being on the west side of the A. B. A. Railroad, and which now extends over and beyond the territory covered by, and included in, said Wolfe survey, extending in a westerly direction from the right-of-way of the said A. B. A. Railroad, said incorporate limits to include all of the territory lying west of the said A. B. A. Railroad, now included in the present incorporate

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limits of said town, in addition to the territory covered by said Wolfe survey. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this act, an Act incorporating the town of Mystic, in the County of Irwin, approved August 18, 1903, be and the same is hereby amended by repealing Section 2 of said Act, and enacting in lieu thereof, the following, as the incorporate limits of said town, to-wit: Said incorporate limits to include all of the territory covered by, and lands included in the survey and plot of said town, made by T. L. Wolfe, civil engineer, and published by him in the month of December, 1906, known and referred to as the Wolfe survey, and which is of record in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court, Irwin County, Georgia, except that certain portion of the said Wolfe survey, situated on the east side of the A. B. A. Railroad, lying south of the original land line dividing lot of land Number 2 in the sixth land district, and lot Number 6 in the third land district of said county, also said incorporate limits of said town to include all of the territory and lands now included in the incorporate limits of said town, situated, lying and being on the west side of the A. B. A. Railroad, and which now extends over and beyond the territory covered by and included in said Wolfe survey, extending in a westerly direction from the right-of-way of the said A. B. A. Railroad. Said incorporate limits to include all of the territory lying west of the said A. B. A. Railroad now included in the present incorporate limits of said town, in addition to the territory covered by the said Wolfe survey. Act of 1903 amended. Substitute for Sec. 2. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 15, 1919.

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NASHVILLE SCHOOL TAX. No. 127. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend the Act incorporating the City of Nashville, in Berrien County, providing for the creation of a system of municipal schools in and for said city, approved August 16, 1915, such amending Act to provide for the levying of a tax for the maintenance of such schools in a sum not exceeding three-fourths of one per centum of the property within the limits of said city, such tax not to be part of any other levy made by the tax levying authorities of said City of Nashville, nor shall the meneys raised by such tax levied for school purposes under the Act so amended be used for any other purpose than for the support and maintenance of the public schools of said city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the Acts of the Legislature incorporating the City of Nashville, in Berrien County, and the Acts amendatory thereof, and, especially the Act amending the charter of said city, approved August 16, 1915, be and the same are hereby amended by striking from Section LVIII the word one-half in line elevon of said section, between the word exceed and the word of, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words three-fourths, so that when thus amended that part of said section giving the right and power to the mayor and council of said city the right to levy a tax for school purposes, shall read as follows: And the mayor and council are hereby authorized and required after the passage of this Act to levy a special ad valorem tax not to exceed threefourths of one per cent on all the property in said city for taxation, and when the taxes for such purposes are levied and collected, the collecting officer of said city shall pay over the same to the seeretary and treasurer of said Board of Education. Act of 1915 amended. Tax rate.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. NEWBORN, TOWN OF; REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. No. 212. An Act to amend an Act approved August 16, 1913, to create a new charter for the town of Newborn, to revise, consolidate and amend the several Acts pertaining thereto, so as to provide for the registration of voters in said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Act entitled an Act to create a new charter for the town of Newborn, to revise, consolidate and amend the several Acts pertaining thereto, approved August 16, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By adding immediately after Section 30 of said Act, eight sections, to be known as Sections 7(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h), respectively, as follows: Act of 1913 amended. New sections. Sec. 7(a). Be it further enacted that it shall be the duty of the clerk of said town, upon the first Monday in September of each year to open a registration book to be kept at the office of said clerk for the proper registration of the qualified voters of said town. Said books to be kept open during office hours until the first Monday in November following, when it shall be finally closed. Books for registration of voters; open when. Sec. 7(b). Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk, upon application in person, and not by proxy, of any male person who is qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, who has paid all taxes of whatever character legally imposed or demanded by the authority of said town, and who, upon the day of election.

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if then a resident, will have resided in said town for three months prior thereto, to register the name of such person, recording on said list besides the applicant's name, his age, occupation or business, and the locality in said town where he resides. Said clerk shall not knowingly permit any one to register who is not lawfully entitled to do so. Nor refuse anyone who is entitled to register, and shall administer to him the following oath: Registration. Sec. 7(c). You do solemnly swear that you are a citizen of the United States, that you have resided in Georgia for twelve months, in this county for six months, and in this town for three months next preceding this registration, or that by the vote of the next town election, if still a resident of this town, you will have fulfilled these conditions; that it is your intention to remain a resident of this town until the day of election; that you are twenty-one years old; that you have paid all taxes due said town, and that you have made all returns required of you by the ordinances of said town, so help us God. Oath of registrant. Sec. 7(d). Be it further enacted, That there may be an appeal from the decision of the clerk as to the right of a person to register, to a committee of freeholders previously appointed by the mayor and council for that purpose, whose decision shall be final. All appeals shall be made, heard and determined within five days from the time the appeal is filed. After all appeals are decided, it shall be the duty of the clerk to make a correct list of the registered voters and furnish the managers of election a certified copy of same. The registration book shall be open to the inspection of the public at all times during office hours. The said committee shall have the authority to purge said registration list of all illegal voters upon five days' written notice to the person or persons who have registered illegally. Appeal. Sec. 7(e). It shall be the duty of the clerk to furnish the managers of elections, at or before opening of the polls on the day of election, with a complete list of the registered voters, arranged in alphabetical order, certified under the hand of the clerk and the corporate seal of the town. Registration lists.

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Sec. 7(f). Said list shall be kept by the managers before them for their inspection during said election and they shall not permit any one to vote whose name does not appear on said list. Sec. 7(g). Any person voting at any town election who is not qualified to vote according to the provisions of this charter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be punished as prescribed for misdemeanor punishment by the Penal Code of the State of Georgia. Illegal voting; punishment. Sec. 7(h). Be it further enacted, That all elections held at any other time than the regular elections as above provided for, such as the issuing of bonds by the mayor and council, and in all special elections for any purpose whatever, a special registration book shall be had for such elections, and said registration book shall be opened by said clerk for proper registration of all those who may be entitled to register, thirty days before said special election, but they must be closed finally ten days before the day of election; and the list made up as above provided for relative to the general election. Special elections, registration for. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. OFFERMAN, INCORPORATION OF TOWN OF; ELECTION AS TO. No. 370. An Act to incorporate the town of Offerman, in the County of Pierce; to grant certain powers and privileges to the same, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the

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town of Offerman, in the County of Pierce, be and the same is hereby incorporated under the name of the Town of Offerman. That the corporate powers of said town shall be vested in a mayor and five councilmen, who are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name and style of the town of Offerman, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, and shall have a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and be capable in law and equity to purchase and have, hold, receive and retain, for use of the town of Offerman, any estate, real or personal of whatever kind or nature, and to sell or dispose of such property in any lawful manner or way whatever, and to exercise any and all other corporate powers that may be necessary in performing their duties under this charter. Act of incorporation. Corporate name. General powers. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of the town of Offerman shall extend a distance of one-half mile in every direction from the crossing of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroads in said town of Offerman. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That J. L. Cason be and he is hereby appointed mayor of said town, and C. H. Aspinwall. E. Davis, A. L. Thomas, J. W. Chancey and S. Russ be and are hereby appointed councilmen of said town, to hold their offices until January 1, 1920, and until their successors are elected and qualified; their term of office to begin at once upon the passage of this Act. Mayor and councilmen designated. Sec. 3(a). Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the first election for mayor and councilman under this charter shall be hold on the second Wednesday in December, 1919, at which time a mayor and five councilmen shall be elected, whose term of office shall begin on the first day of January, 1920, whose term of office shall be for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified, and there shall be held annually thereafter on the second Wednesday in December of each year, an election for a

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mayor and five councilmen, who shall hold their office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. All persons residing within the corporate limits of said town thirty days next preceding the election, and who are duly qualified electors of said State and county, shall be deemed electors of said town, and qualified to vote at such elections. Said elections shall be held and conducted in the same manner as elections for county officers in this State, and a certificate of the managers shall be sufficient authority to the person elected to enter on the discharge of their duties as such mayor and councilmen. Election of successors. Voters. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That should said election not be held at the prescribed time in any year, the mayor, and if he be absent from any cause, the mayor pro tem, shall call an election by giving ten days' notice thereof, by posting notices at three public places in said town, and said notices shall state the officer or officers to be elected, the date of the election and where to be held. All vacancies of mayor and councilmen caused by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by elections called and conducted in the same manner. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That any white male citizen of said town of Offerman, shall be eligible to election as mayor and councilman who, in addition to being qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, is a freeholder in said town and a bona fide resident of said town for one year next preceding the election. Eligibility for office. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the mayor, councilmen and all subordinate officers shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take and subscribe to the following oath, to be written or printed, and to be administered by any officer authorized to administer oaths in said State: I, do [Illegible Text] swear, or affirm, that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties devolved upon me as mayor, councilman or other officer, as the case may be, of the town of Offerman, protect and promote its interest and prosperity, and every citizen thereof, without

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fear, favor or affection, according to the best of my skill and power, so help me God. Said oath shall be filed, and recorded on the minutes of the council. Oath of office. Sec. 6(a). Be it further enacted, That the mayor and councilmen; to be known as the town council, shall have general powers within the town of Offerman over the following matters: To assess, levy and collect taxes in amount sufficient to create, regulate and maintain a proper and legal government for said town; to define and abate nuisances; to establish a fire district, and prescribe the materials to be used therein for the erection or repair of all buildings; to condemn and remove, under proper legal proceedings, all unsafe, unsanitary or dangerous structures; to regulate the use, possession or storage of fire arms, fireworks or other dangerous explosives; to have general supervision of the roads, streets, alleys and sidewalks, and to condemn, lay out, straighten, widen and open up any new road, street or sidewalk, and to discontinue and close up any unfit, dangerous or unnecessary road, sidewalk or alley of said town, whenever it is deemed to be to the best interest of the town and its general welfare, and to work and keep all of said roads, sidewalks and alleys in good repair; to provide protection for all lawful assemblages and the premises where held, to provide means for the maintenance of sanitation and ways for the protection and preservation of the public health, and to enforce all necessary and proper rules and regulations governing quarantine against any and all kinds of diseases; to provide protection for persons and property within the corporate limits, to preserve good order, good morals, peace and tranquility within the town limits, to make, execute and perform all contracts necessary for the general welfare of the town and its citizens, to have power to grant franchises to any individual, company, or corporation desiring to construct, [Illegible Text], operate and maintain within the town limits any public utility or manufacturing enterprise, and to regulate the exercise thereof, to vacate and close up any house, room, building or other structure within the corporate limits occupied and used for the purpose of practicing, promoting,

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or encouraging lewdness, vagrancy, gambling or other illegal or immoral conduct. Said town council shall have full power and authority to enact and enforce ordinances, by-laws, orders, rules and regulations, not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of Georgia, or the United States, prescribing the manner and providing the means for enforcing and carrying into effect these general and special powers. Additional powers of mayor and council. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That said town council, in the exercise of the power of taxation, may assess, levy and collect an ad valorem tax, not to exceed three-fourths ([frac34]) of one per cent, on all the property, real and personal, within said town of Offerman, and shall have authority to supervise and revise all tax payers returns, and to double tax all persons failing or refusing to make returns of their property, to assess, levy and collect a specific or license tax on all trades, businesses, callings, agencies, sales, labor and all other pursuits which are the legal subjects of taxation, to collect, assess, and levy on all persons residing within the corporate limits of the town of Offerman, subject to road duty under existing State laws, a capitation street tax not to exceed three (3) dollars per annum, payable semi-annually or annually, but they shall first have the opportunity in lieu thereof to work four (4) days of eight (8) hours each under the supervision of the proper town authority, on the roads, streets, sidewalks or alleys of said town. Thirty days continuous residence in the town shall be sufficient to constitute one a citizen so as to render him liable to the payment of said tax or to perform said work. Said town council shall prescribe the time, manner and place, in which all such property, occupations, etc., shall be returned for taxation, and the officer to whom to be returned, and the time and manner of the payment of all such taxes. Tax rate. Street tax. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That there shall exist a Men on all property, real and personal, within the corporate limits of said town for the town taxes assessed thereon, and for all fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed upon

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the owners thereof by the town's authority from the time the same are assessed or imposed, which liens shall have priority over all other liens, except liens for taxes due the State and county, and said town council shall by ordinances, provide the manner in and the by which said lieus may be enforced and said taxes collected. Lien for taxes, etc. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That said town council shall organize a police court for the trial of offenders against said town, and its ordinances, and fix the time and place of holding the same, provide when necessary a town guard-house or prison for the safe keeping of offenders awaiting trial or convicts engaged in working out sentences imposed, and for the punishment of offenders; and to organize, if found necessary a work-gang for the alternative punishment of persons convicted in the said police court. Said town council may, if found to the best interest of said town, enforcing its ordinances and punishing offenders, use the county jail of Pierce County, in lieu of a guard-house, provided satisfactory arrangements can be made with the proper county authorities. Police court. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the mayor shall be chief executive of said town of Offerman, and shall see that the ordinances, by-laws, orders, rules and regulations of said town council are faithfully kept and enforced; he shall have control of the police force, acting by and with the advice of town council, and the authority to appoint special police whenever he shall deem it necessary; he shall preside at the police court for the trial of offenders against the town ordinances and this charter, and when there is a conviction, to pronounce judgment and sentence, fines not to exceed fifty dollars, confinement not to exceed thirty days, labor on the streets not to exceed thirty days, one or all in the discretion of the presiding officer, the punishment may be in the alternative. Said mayor shall have power and authority to issue executions for all fines, penalties, forfeitures and costs imposed by him and to enforce same. Said mayor shall have the power and authority of a justice of the peace and is clothed with all the authority of a justice

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of the peace in issuing warrants for offenses against the State laws committed within the jurisdiction of the town of Offerman, and may hold committal courts, compel the attendance of witnesses, and commit the offenders to the Superior or City Court, as the same may be a felony or misdemeanor. Duties of mayor. Penalties. Warrants. Commitment. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and councilman, or subordinate officer of said town, may be removed from officer by a majority vote of the town council, upon conviction before said town council for persistent neglect of duty, malpractice in office, or any conduct involving moral turpitude and calculated to bring the town government into reproach, they shall further be liable to the same punishment as other offenders against the laws of said town. Removal from office. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act, and its approval by the Governor of the State, the appointees herein named and appointed, shall immediately upon qualification, enter upon the discharge of their duties, and organize the town council, by electing a mayor pro tem, who shall be from one of their members, and who shall have all of the powers and authority of the mayor in his absence or disqualification, and shall be elected by a majority vote of the town council and shall serve for the current term for which the mayor was appointed, also they shall elect a clerk and treasurer, who may be one man serving in both capacities, and also a marshal, and they shall have power and authority to employ or engage any other person or persons whose services may be necessary in organizing and assisting them in perfecting the organization of the town council, all of whose term of office or appointment shall be until the election and qualification of the mayor and councilmen to be elected at the first election to be held for such officers on the second Wednesday in December, 1919, as herein provided, and annually thereafter, at the first meeting in January, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, in the year 1920 and in each year thereafter, the town council shall by a majority vote elect such mayor protem,

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clerk and treasurer, and marshal, who shall serve for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless sooner removed from office as herein provided. Organization of council. Mayor pro tem. Other officers. Election of mayor and council. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That the clerk and treasurer shall keep the minutes of the town council in well-bound books, and shall preserve them and all other papers and records entrusted to him; he shall receive tax returns, collect all municipal taxes, the collection of which is not otherwise provided for, issue all execution for and against defaulters for taxes and fines, said executions being directed to the marshal of said town and his deputies, issue all licenses and collect all license fees and other money due the town, including street taxes, and shall be the custodian of all the funds of said town, and shall do and perform all such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the town council, and shall attend and keep the dockets and records of the police court. Clerk and treasurer; duties. Such clerk and treasurer shall receive such salary, or fees and costs, or both, as the town council may see fit and proper to fix as compensation for his services. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties as such clerk and treasurer, he shall enter into a bond in the sum of three hundred dollars, or a larger amount if the council shall so order, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the mayor, and payable to the town council and their successors in office, conditional to faithfully discharge all the duties devolved upon him as such officer and to collect and pay over and account for all moneys and other incomes of said town from whatsoever source derived. Said bond to be filed and recorded on the minutes of the town council. Compensation. Bond. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted. That the marshal of said town, and his deputies, shall arrest any person or persons violating the provisions of this charter, and any of the ordinances, by-laws, rules or regulations of said town, and place such persons in the guardhouse or jail, subject to trial by the mayor, or he may bond the offenders in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars, for their appearance before

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the police court, such bail bond being made payable to the town council and their successors in office, and also shall have the power and authority to arrest persons for a violation of the State laws and shall place such person in the guard house or under bond for their appearance before the mayor or any committing court of said State. Said marshal shall execute and enforce all judgments, sentences, and orders of the police court, or the town council and all ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations of said town as he may be directed therein; they shall levy and execute all processes and summons from the police court, and all executions for taxes, fines, forfeitures and other debts, and shall levy upon and advertise for sale all such property levied on and sell the same under the rules of law of said State governing constable's sales. Said marshal shall have charge of the working of the streets and of road hands and work gangs. Said marshal shall make arrests as herein stated, and is not required to have a warrant for violations of the town laws, but may make same upon information and belief, and bring them before the police court, and shall collect all fines, or forfeitures imposed by the police court, execute all sentences imposed, and perform all other duties imposed upon him by the town council, and faithfully and correctly keep an account for all and any such moneys as come into his hands, and pay the same over to the clerk and treasurer of said town. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, he shall enter into a good and sufficient bond in the sum of two hundred dollars, payable to the town council, and their successors in office, to be approved by the mayor, conditioned for a faithful performance of all of the duties devolved upon him as such marshal, and a true and correct accounting of all of the moneys received by him. Said marshal shall receive such salary, fees or costs, or both, as the town council may name and fix as compensation for his services. The bond of the marshal shall be filed and recorded on the minutes of town council. Marshal and deputies; arrests; bond for appearance. Duties. Bond. Compensation. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That the mayor, and in his absence, the mayor pro tem, shall preside over all regular

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and called meetings of the town council, that the town council shall fix the time and place for their regular meetings, and shall meet at least once a month, and oftener if necessary. That minutes of all their meetings shall be kept, and all ordinances, rules and regulations, judgments, sentences, and resolutions shall be faithfully kept and recorded on said minutes. That the mayor and three councilmen, or the mayor pro tem and three councilmen shall constitute a quorum to transact all business that may be brought before council, and that all questions to be voted upon shall be decided by a majority of those present and voting, and that the mayor shall not be entitled to vote on any question without there is a tie vote of council, in which event he is qualified to vote and break the tie. Council meetings. Quorum. Vote of mayor. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That the mayor shall receive such salary for his services as the town council may name and fix, but in no event to be more than fifty dollars per annum, and the members of the town council are to serve without compensation, except however, that they are relieved of any and all street taxes assessed during the term of their office. Salary of mayor. No pay for councilmen; exemptions. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons tried for a violation of any town ordinance or regulation in the police court, and convicted and sentenced therein, may, upon giving bond in an amount to be assessed by the mayor trying said case, and paying all costs of the trial, appeal his case for a hearing before the town council, and the town council shall upon such appeal being entered, costs paid, or a pauper affidavit filed, and bail bond given, hear and determine said case, at its regular monthly meeting held thereafter, and pass such judgment as it thinks proper under the law, and will have all the powers of the mayor, in enforcing order, compelling attendance of witnesses, and forfeiting any bail bond given in such cases and its judgment and sentence will be enforced in the same manner and form as the judgment and sentence of the police court. Appeal from police court. Sec. 18. That before this Act shall become effective it

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shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the territory which it is proposed to incorporate as the Town of Offerman, for which purpose an election shall be held at Offerman, Georgia, at the public school house in Offerman, on the 6th day of September, 1919, which election shall be held by three managers, one of whom shall be selected by those in favor of the ratification of the Act, one shall be selected by those opposed to the ratification of the Act, and the third shall be a justice of the peace, or, in the event of failure to secure a justice of the peace, the other two managers selected as aforesaid shall select the third manager. At said election those voting in favor of the adoption of this Act shall do so by casting ballots having written or printed upon them the words For adoption of Act incorporating the Town of Offerman, Georgia, and those voting against its adoption shall do so by casting ballots having written or printed upon them the words Against adoption of Act incorporating the Town of Offerman, Georgia. The polls shall be opened for said election at eight o'clock A. M., and closed at three o'clock P. M. To entitle one to vote in said election he must be an actual resident of the particular territory which it is proposed to incorporate as the Town of Offerman, Georgia, and have resided therein for thirty days prior to said election and his name must appear upon the latest list of voters for the 1181st District, G. M., of the County of Pierce, as prepared by the registrars of Pierce County prior to said election. The managers shall certify the result of said election and file said certificate with the clerk of the Superior Court of Pierce County, Georgia, and the said certificate shall be recorded on the minutes of said court. If a majority of the votes cast in said election shall be in favor of the adoption of this Act, then the same shall become effective upon the recording of the aforesaid certificate by the clerk of the Superior Court, except that if a contest is filed as to said election by those opposed to the adoption of the Act, then the Act shall not become effective until and unless the final determination of the case is against the contest. If the certificate shows a majority of the votes against the adoption of the Act, and a contest is

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filed by those in favor of the adoption of the Act, and the final determination is in their favor, then the Act shall become effective upon the final determination of the issue. The election shall be conducted in the same manner as elections for county officers, except as otherwise provided herein. The list of voters, tally sheet and ballots shall be filed with the clerk of the Superior Court of Pierce County, and kept by him for ninety days if no contest is filed, and then destroyed. If a contest is filed, they shall be kept until the final determination under provisions of Section 125 of the Code of Georgia of 1910 in so far as they can be applied, except that in addition to the giving of notices provided by the Code, if said election is contested, notice of the contest must be filed with the Ordinary of Pierce County within ten days from said election, and the losing party shall have the right to certiorari from the decision of the Ordinary to the Superior Court of Pierce County under the same regulations as provided in Section 5183 et seq. of the Code of Georgia of 1910, and without filing any exceptions to the rulings or decision of the Ordinary with the Ordinary or in the Court of Ordinary. This Act referred to voters. Election. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, That all-laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. OSIERFIELD, INCORPORATION OF; ELECTION AS TO. No. 254. An Act to incorporate the town of Osierfield, in the County of Irwin, and to grant certain powers and privileges to said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the town of Osierfield, in Irwin County,

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be and is hereby incorporated, and said town shall have the right to sue and be sued in any of the courts of this State, to plead and be impleaded, to receive, purchase or hold any real or personal property within the corporate limits of said town, for corporate purposes, and to have and use a corporate seal. Act to incorporate. General powers. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of the town of Osierfield shall be all that territory in the limits of a half mile in every direction from a point directly in front of the home of Mrs. Martin Ford, said point being on the A. B. A. Railroad in the town of Osierfield, Irwin County, Georgia, which territory is hereby incorporated in the said town of Osierfield. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That J. J. Harper be and is hereby appointed mayor, and W. D. Lewis, Thos Burke, W. L. Taylor, J. A. Wilson, and A. F. McClain be and they are hereby appointed council men of said town of Osierfield, to hold their offices from the date of the approval of this bill until the first annual election as herein provided. Mayor and councilmen designated. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in December, 1919, and annually thereafter on the same day, an election shall be held in such place in said town as shall be designated by the council of said town, for mayor and five councilmen, who shall hold their offices for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified; but no person shall vote for or be eligible for the office of mayor or councilman of said town who is not a resident of said town, and who has not been a resident of the State of Georgia twelve months, of the County of Irwin six months, and of the town of Osierfield three months. Said election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as elections for county officers of this State, and the certificate of the managers shall be sufficient authority to the persons elected to enter on the discharge of the duties of the offices to which they have been elected. Election of mayor and council. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That before entering on the

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discharge of their duties, the mayor and each councilman shall subscribe the following oath, which may be administered by any person authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge all duties devolving upon me as mayor or councilman, as the case may be, of the town of Osierfield, according to the best of my ability and understanding; so help me God. Oath of office. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and councilman shall have power and authority to elect or employ such marshal, clerks and other subordinate officers as may be necessary for executing the powers herein conferred upon them, to prescribe the fees and duties of such subordinate officers, and require such bond for the faithful performance of their duties as they may deem necessary and proper. Other officers. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the mayor shall be exofficio a justice of the peace, and shall have full authority to issue warrants for any offense committed within the corporate limits of said town, and shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, to examine, under oath, or to admit any offender to bail or to commit him to jail for violation of the laws of the State, and to admit to bail or to commit to the guardhouse for the violation of the ordinances of said town. Commitments. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and councilmen shall have full power and authority to pass all ordinances and by-laws that may be necessary for the government of said town, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States. Ordinances. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and councilmen shall have the power to levy and collect a tax not exceeding twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars upon all the property, both real and personal, within the corporate limits of said town. They shall also have power to require all persons within said corporate limits, who are subject to road duty under the laws of this State, to work on the

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streets of said town, or they may prescribe a commutation tax, which may be paid in lieu of work on the streets; provided, that the corporate limits shall extend only as prescribed in Section 2 of this Act for the purpose of raising the said tax of twenty-five cents on every hundred dollars. Taxes. Work on streets, or tax. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and councilmen shall have power to remove and abate any nuisance in any part of said town, whether on the streets or elsewhere, under such rules and in such manner as they may prescribe by ordinance. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the municipal government shall be styled the mayor and council of the town of Osierfield, and by that name are made a body corporate; as such, they shall have perpetual succession; shall have a common seal. Corporate name; seal. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council shall have power to fix and collect a special tax or license upon all kinds of business, calling, profession, or occupation carried on within the corporate limits of said town. They shall have power to tax, license, control and regulate all livery stables, garages, shows, circuses, auctioneers, peddlers and itinerant traders, save such as are excepted by the laws of this State, every keeper of a shooting gallery, or ten-pin alley or the keeper of any table, place or stand for the performance of any game or play, whether played with sticks, balls, rings or other contrivance, or skating rinks, for gain; they shall have power to fix penalties against any and all persons carrying on any of said occupations, or exercising any such privileges without having first obtained such license and paid tax therefor. Licenses. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That in case where any taxes, fines or commutation taxes or fines are not paid when due, the mayor of said town shall issue an execution against said delinquents, which execution shall be directed to the marshal of said town and his deputies, and it is hereby made the right and duty of said marshal and his deputies

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to proceed to levy, and collect fi fas, as in case of fi fas issued for State and for county taxes. Execution for tax or fine. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council are vested with power to lay out and open new streets and alleys or sidewalks, to widen or straighten any of those streets, alleys or sidewalks of said town, and to assess any damage that property holders may thereby incur in the manner now prescribed by law, which damage shall be paid out of the town treasury. They may prohibit or move all obstructions or encroachments on the streets or sidewalks as they shall have power to regulate and control a location of cemeteries and burial of the dead within the corporate limits of the said town. Power as to streets, etc. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That the mayor of said town, and in his absence, the mayor pro tem, who shall be elected by the councilmen from their own body, shall be the chief executive officer of said town. He shall have control of the police of said town, and may appoint special police when he and the council shall deem it necessary, and it shall be his duty especially to see to it that the peace and good order of the town is preserved, and that person and property therein are protected, and to this end he may cause the arrest and detention of all violators and disorderly persons in said town. He shall see that the ordinances, bylaws, rules and orders of the council are faithfully executed. He shall have power to issue executions for all fines, penalties and costs imposed by him, or he may require the immediate payment thereof, and in default of immediate payment thereof, he may imprison the offender in the guardhouse of said town not exceeding thirty days, or he may order the offender to work not exceeding thirty days on the streets of said town under the direction of the marshal. Provided, that no fine shall exceed fifty dollars for any one offense, but the mayor is hereby invested with full power and authority to inflict for any such offense either one or more, or all of said penalties in the discretion of the mayor. Mayor pro tem. Powers and duties of mayor. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That if at any time the

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office of mayor or councilman shall become vacant the remaining members of the council may fill such vacancy by appointment from among the citizens of said town eligible to such office under the provisions of this charter. The mayor may vote only in cases of a tie vote. Vacancies. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not become effective until this Act shall have been ratified by a majority of the qualified white voters residing within the proposed territory to be incorporated as the town of Osierfield, who are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly. This Act referred to voters. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of Irwin County to order an election to be held in the town of Osierfield on the first Wednesday in October, 1919, for the purpose of submitting the question of the ratification of this Act to the qualified voters of said territory proposed to be incorporated as the town of Osierfield, notice of which election shall be posted at three different public places in said town at least two weeks prior to said election, and to provide tickets for said election, which tickets shall be in the following form: For ratification of Act incorporating town of Orierfield, Against ratification of Act incorporating town of Osierfield. Said election to be held under same rules as election for county officers, the returns of said election to be made to the Ordinary and he shall declare the result. Election as to ratification. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if a majority of qualified voters in said election shall vote for ratification of this Act, incorporating town of Osierfield, then this act shall go into effect and said town be incorporated, and if a majority of voters voting in said election shall vote against [Illegible Text] of this Act incorporating said town of Osierfield, then this Act shall not go into [Illegible Text] and said town of Osierfield shall not be incorporated.

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Sec. 20. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are, hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. PELHAM CHAIN-GANG. No. 76. An Act to amend the charter of the town of Pelham, so as to provide for the establishment of a chain-gang in said town, and to provide for the working on said chain-gang of any person convicted in the mayor's court of violating the laws and ordinances of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the mayor and council of the town of Pelham, in Mitchell County, shall have full power and authority to establish and maintain a chain-gang in and for said town, and to compel any person convicted in the mayor's court of said town to work upon said chain-gang, and said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to adopt and pass all necessary and appropriate laws, ordinances and regulations for the management and control of said chain-gang, and for the punishment and control of any person sentenced to work thereon, not inconsistent with the laws of the State. Authority to maintain chaingang. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919.

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PEMBROKE, ELECTION AND TERMS OF MAYOR, COUNCIL, CLERK, ETC. No. 285. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the City of Pembroke, etc., according to the Acts of 1905, pages 1040 et seq. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the mayor and councilmen of the City of Pembroke shall be elected on the second Tuesday in March, 1920, and that at such election the mayor shall run for a term of two (2) years and two councilmen shall run for a term of two years, one of said councilmen to run for and be elected as city clerk and receiver of tax returns. That three councilmen shall run for a term of one year and one of this number shall be elected, having run for the same, as city treasurer and collector of taxes for the said City of Pembroke. Act of 1905 amended. Election and terms of mayor, councilmen, clerk, etc. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that thereafter on every odd year beginning with 1921, three councilmen, one of whom shall run for and be elected as city treasurer and collector of taxes, shall be elected and hold their offices for a term of two years or until their successors are elected and qualified; and thereafter on every even year a mayor and two councilmen, one of said councilmen to run for and be elected as city clerk and receiver of tax returns, shall be elected to and hold their offices for a period of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Treasurer and tax collector. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that the city clerk and receiver of tax returns shall furnish a bond payable to the mayor and councilmen and their successors in office in the full sum of two thousand dollars, and that the city treasurer and tax collector shall furnish a bond payable to the mayor and councilmen in the full sum of twenty-five hundred dollars. Bond.

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Sec. 4. Be it further enacted that no city treasurer and collector of tax and no city clerk and receiver of tax returns shall succeed himself, but after the intervention of one term they may and can succeed themselves if properly elected. Succession. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted that the city clerk and receiver of tax returns and the city treasurer and collector of taxes shall receive a commission of 5 per cent upon all taxes received and paid in, up to $1,000.00, and that all sums in addition to $1,000 they shall receive 2 per cent commissions. Commission on taxes paid. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. PINEVIEW TAX AD VALOREM. No. 35. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Pineview in the County of Wilcox, State of Georgia, to define the corporate limits thereof, to provide a municipal government for said town, to confer certain powers and privileges on the same, and for other purposes, approved December 10, 1902, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by authorizing and empowering the mayor and council of the town of Pineview to assess, levy and collect an ad valorem tax of one half of one per cent for the purpose of paying principal and interest on said bonded indebtedness of said town. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Pineview in the County of Wilcox, State of Georgia, to define the corporate limits thereof, to provide a municipal

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government for said town, to confer certain powers and privileges on the same, and for other purposes, approved December 10, 1902, and all Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: Acts amended. The mayor and council of the town of Pineview are authorized and empowered to assess, levy and collect a tax of one half of one per cent per annum ad valorem upon the taxable property in the town of Pineview for the purpose of payment of the principal and interest on the bonded indebtedness of said town now existing or which may hereafter be created. The said tax shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as other ad valorem taxes are assessed, levied and collected by the said mayor and council of the town of Pineview, under the charter of said town. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 30, 1919. QUITMAN SCHOOL TAX. No. 9. An Act to authorize, empower, direct and require the mayor and council of the City of Quitman to provide an ad valorem tax on all real and personal property within the corporate limits of said city of five mills for the year 1919 only, in addition to all other taxes now provided by law, for the erection of a school building and for school purposes in said city. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and council of the City of Quitman be and they are hereby authorized, empowered, directed and required to provide an ad valorem tax on all real and personal property within the corporate limits of said city of five mills for the year of 1919

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only, in addition to all taxes now provided by law, for the purpose of erecting a school building and for school purposes in said city. Tax for schools; rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all other laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 24, 1919. ROME; NEW CHARTER; ELECTION AS TO RATIFICATION. No. 63. To be entitled an Act to create a new charter and municipal government for the City of Rome; to define the rights and powers of the municipality; to define the corporate limits thereof, and to repeal all former charters and all laws in conflict therewith, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the inhabitants of the territory hereinafter described, all of which is located in Floyd County, State of Georgia, be and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the City of Rome, a body politic and corporate, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and is hereby vested with all the rights, powers and privileges incident to municipal corporations in the State of Georgia, and all rights, powers, titles, property, easements and hereditaments, within or without its corporate limits, now belonging to said City of Rome, shall be and are hereby vested in the said City of Rome as created by this Act, and the said City of Rome, as created by this Act, may by its corporate name, use and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal, make and enact through its commissioners such ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations and

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resolutions for the transaction of its business and the welfare and proper government of said city as said commissioners may deem proper, not in conflict with this charter, nor in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, nor in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States of America. And the said City of Rome shall have the right and power to purchase, hold, rent, lease, sell, exchange, enjoy, possess and retain in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any property, estate, real or personal, lands, tenements and hereditaments of whatsoever kind, within or without the limits of said city for corporate purposes, and said City of Rome shall have the right to rent, lease or operate any and all public buildings for any purpose whatsoever; and said city shall have the right and power to receive gifts, donations, bequests and public trusts and agree to conditions and terms accompanying the same, and the commission of said city is herein empowered to bind said city to carry out the same. Said City of Rome, as created by this Act, shall succeed to all the rights and remedies of and is hereby made responsible as a body corporate for all the legal debts, liabilities and undertakings of the present City of Rome, and its former governing authorities or the former board of public works of said city as a body corporate, as heretofore incorporated. New Charter. Corporate name. General powers. Succession to rights and liabilities. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of the City of Rome are hereby declared to be as follows: Beginning near the northwest corner of land lot No. 238, in the twenty-third district and third section of Floyd County, Georgia, at the point of intersection of the north boundary line of the Central of Georgia Railroad Company's right of way with the north boundary line of the Southern Railway's right of way in said land lot No. 238, thence extending easterly along the north boundary line of the right of way of said Southern Railway Company to and across the Oostanaula river and continuing along the north boundary line of said railway company to a point north of the east line and in line with

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the east line with the city pumping station property; thence south across said right of way and thence along the east side of said city's pumping station property to the southeast corner thereof; thence west along the south side of said pumping station property to the low water mark on the east bank of the Oostanaula river; thence down said river along low water mark to the east and west land line between land lots Nos. 236 and 245, in said twenty-third district and third section; thence east along said land line to the southwest corner of said lot No. 236; thence north along the land line between lots Nos. 236 and 235 to a point due east of the south line of the city reservoir property; thence west along the south side of said reservoir property to the east line of the property formerly known as the C. I. Graves old homestead; thence northerly along the east line of said Graves homestead property to the east and west land line between land lots Nos. 205 and 236 in said district and section; thence along said land line between said lots Nos. 205 and 236 and between land lots Nos. 206 and 235 to Spring street; thence northeasterly along the said side of Spring street to and across the right of way of the Southern Railway Company; thence due north from said right of way to the north side of Park avenue; thence southeasterly across land lot 207 in said district and section and along the northeasterly side of Park avenue and the continuation thereof to and across the Calhoun public road, and continuing up the Calhoun road to the north and south land line between land lots Nos. 207 and 208 in said district and section; thence south along said land line and along land lines between lots Nos. 233 and 234 to the north side of Cothran street, where the same intersects with said land line; thence west along the north line of Cothran street to a point due north of the east side of the city colored public school lot; thence south along the east side of said public school lot to and across the [Illegible Text] river to low water mark on the south side of said river; thence westerly and southerly along low water mark down said river to the north side of the extension of Holmes street

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to said river; thence easterly along the north side of Holmes street to the east side of Gordon street; thence south along the east side of Gordon street to the north side of Division street; thence east along the north side of Division street to a point opposite the line between Cooper and Hughes property; thence easterly along said line between Cooper and Hughes property to the land line on the east side of land lot No. 286; thence south along said land line to the south side of East Twelfth street, designated on the Deitz's map of Rome and East Rome as Silver street; thence west along the south side of East Twelfth street to and across Second avenue, formerly Howard avenue, to the east side of Dean street; thence southerly along the east side of Dean street to the south side of Union street, Fourteenth street formerly; thence westerly along the south side of said Fourteenth street to the west side of Maple street; thence up the west side of Maple street to the south side of Silver Creek street, designated on Deitz's map of Rome and East Rome as Silver street; thence west along the south side of said street and continuing along and between Anchor Duck Mills and Hank's Foundry; thence along the southeasterly side of said street in a westerly direction to the west side of the Rome and Cave Spring road; thence southerly along the west side of the Rome and Cave Spring road to the land line running east and west between land lots Nos. 284 and 317; thence west along the north boundary line of land lots Nos. 317 and 318 to the northwest corner of lot No. 318; thence northerly with the land line between Nos. 282 and 283 to the south boundary line of the Nixon estate; thence due east along said southern boundary line of the Nixon estate to the western boundary line of the Shadyside addition; thence due north along said western line of the Shadyside addition and continuing due north across the Coosa river to low water mark on the northern bank of said river; thence easterly along said northern bank of the Coosa river at low water mark to the western line of land lot No. 244; thence north along said line to the intersection with the west side of the right of

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way of the Central of Georgia Railway Company; thence along said west side of said right of way to the southern side of Shorter avenue; thence along the southern line of said avenue to the west side of River street; thence north along said west side of River street across the Central of Georgia Railway Company's right of way to the north side of said right of way; thence northwesterly along said right of way to beginning point. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governing and legislative authority of said city shall be vested in a commission of seven members. The members of said commission shall have attained the age of twenty-one (21) years, and shall have been residents and citizens of said city for at least two years next preceding their election, and shall be qualified voters of the City of Rome. Each member of said commission shall receive a salary of two hundred ($200.00) dollars per annum. At their first meeting in April, 1923, and quadrennially thereafter, the members of said commission shall elect one of their number mayor, who shall receive an additional salary of not exceeding thirty-eight hundred ($3,800.00) dollars per annum. The mayor, or in his absence, the mayor pro tem, shall preside over the deliberations of the commission and shall have the right to vote on all questions; he shall preserve order and decorum at all meetings of the commission and shall enforce the rules of that body, and shall have power to punish all persons for contempt of such rules, and shall perform all other duties enumerated in this charter and which are incident to his office. Service of legal process directed to or against the city shall be served upon the mayor. One of said commissioners shall be elected from each ward of the city, but shall be elected by the consolidated vote of the entire city. Said commissioners shall be elected for a term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, subject, however, to recall, as is hereinafter provided. Governing authority in Commission of 7 members. Eligibility. Salary. Mayor elected from and by Commission. Duties. Commissioner from each ward. Term 4 years. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an election shall be held in said city on the first Tuesday in March, 1923, to elect said commissioners, who shall

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hold office for four years from the first Monday in April, 1923. Quadrennially, after the first Tuesday in March, 1923, an election shall be held for the purpose of electing said commissioners for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday in April thereafter. In all elections the candidate from each ward receiving the highest vote shall be declared elected. The present city commissioners shall remain in office until the first Monday in April, 1923. First election 1923. Quadrennial elections. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That only such persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia at the last preceding general election, or have since said time become qualified, shall be entitled to vote in any election held in said city, either for commissioners, or in any election for recall, or any election for the initiative or referendum, as herein provided, or any other election held in said city; provided, they have registered their names, occupations, ages and residences in the office of the secretary of said Rome city commission, as required by this Act, and shall have paid all taxes, fines, forfeitures or other indebtedness due said city. Voters. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of said Rome city commission shall open a list for the registration of voters sixty (60) days prior to any general election held in said city, which list shall be closed thirty (30) days prior to said election. In any election to fill any vacancy in any elective office, or for an election for recall, initiative or referendum, or any special election, the registration list of the last general election shall be used; provided, however, that said secretary shall, upon the calling of any election for initiative, referendum, recall or any special election, immediately open a list for persons who may have since become qualified and desire to register, which said list shall be closed five days prior to said election. It shall be the duty of said secretary, upon the application of any person qualified to vote as herein provided, within the time prescribed for lists to be kept open, to register the name, age, occupation, ward and place of residence of the applicant, but no person shall be entitled to register

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who has not paid all taxes, fines, forfeitures or other indebtedness required of him by the laws and ordinances of said city, or who has not been a bona fide citizen, with a continued residence within the corporate limits of said city for ninety (90) days immediately preceding the election. The said secretary is hereby empowered to administer an oath to the applicant touching his right to be registered, which said oath shall be of the same binding force and effect as oaths administered for registration by tax collectors in this State. Registration of voters. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of said commission shall furnish the managers of elections before opening the polls, a complete list of the names, age, occupation and residence of persons registered, which list shall be returned to the secretary when said elections are over. The presiding managers of said election shall be authorized, when challenged, to administer the following oath to any person attempting to vote: You do solemnly swear that you have resided in the corporate limits of the City of Rome, and have been a bona fide resident of said city for ninety (90) days immediately preceding this election; that you have been registered in the time prescribed by the charter of said city, and that you are qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of Georgia, and that you have paid all taxes, fines, forfeitures or other indebtedness due the city which have been required of you, so help you God. Any person voting at any such election who is not qualified to vote, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as is prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia. Oath of challenged voter. Illegal voting. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the persons authorized to hold elections under this charter are Ordinaries, justices of the peace and freeholders of the City of Rome. There must be three managers at each voting place, to be named by the commission. Persons who cannot read and write shall not be competent to serve as managers. Before proceeding with such election each manager shall take and subscribe to the following oath before some officer qualified under the laws of Georgia to administer

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oaths, if present, but if no such officer is present at the time, then said managers may swear in each other, in which event said oath shall be of the same binding force and effect as if taken before a qualified officer: All and each of us do solemnly swear that we will faithfully superintend this day's election; that we are Ordinaries, justices of the peace, or freeholders of the City of Rome (as the case may be), and that we will make a just and true return thereof and will not knowingly permit any one to vote unless we believe he is entitled to do so according to the provisions of the charter of the City of Rome and the laws of the State of Georgia, nor knowingly prohibit any one from voting who is entitled by law to vote, and will not divulge for whom any vote was cast unless called on under the law to do so, so help me God. Managers of election. Oath. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the place or places of holding all elections held under this charter shall be selected and fixed by the said commission, and advertised in the newspaper of said city in which the city printing is done, at least ten (10) days prior to the date of said election. The managers of said election shall be selected by the commission, and the time for keeping open the polls shall be from seven (7) o'clock A. M. to six (6) o'clock P. M. All votes shall be by ballot, and there shall be kept by the managers, or by three clerks, three lists of the names of voters, which shall be numbered in the order of their voting, and also three tally sheets at each voting place. As each ballot is received the number of the vote on the list shall be marked on the ballot before being deposited in the ballot box, and when any voter is challenged and swern, it shall be so written opposite his name on the list and also on his ballot. Place and time of election. Ballots. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the managers may begin to count the votes at any time in their discretion, but they shall not do so until the polls are closed if a candidate, in person or by written authority, objects. When the votes are all counted, there must be a certificate signed by all the managers, stating the number of votes each person voting for received, which certificate

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shall be placed in an envelope and sealed with the names of the managers across the seal thereof, and addressed to the Rome city commission, and delivered by one of said managers to said commission at a meeting to be held at the city hall at ten (10) o'clock in the morning after said election, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to declare the result of said election. Each list of voters and tally sheets must have placed thereon the signatures of the managers and returned with said certificates of the result of the election. The ballots shall not be examined by the managers or by-standers, but shall be carefully sealed in a strong envelope or box, with the names of the managers across the seals thereof, and delivered to the secretary of the commission at the same time they make return of the election, by whom they shall be kept unopened and unaltered, for sixty days, after which time, if there is not a contest begun about said election, the said ballots shall be destroyed by said secretary, without examining the same himself, or permitting others to do so. And if the said secretary shall violate this section he shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia. The same rules governing elections for officers shall be applicable in elections for initiative or referendum, or other elections held under this charter. Count of votes. Returns. Secrecy of ballots. Penalty for examination, etc. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of vacancy in office, elective under this charter, the mayor, or if he cannot act, the mayor pro tem, shall immediately call a special election, which shall be held as special elections are held, as hereinafter provided in the question of recall. Vacancy in office. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before entering upon the discharge of their duty each of said commissioners shall take and subscribe to the following oath before some judge or justice of the peace, which shall be entered upon the minutes of said commission: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially demean myself as a commissioner of the City of Rome during my continuance in office; that I will discharge the duties of the office to which I have been elected to the best of

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my ability; that in the enactment and revision of all legislation, I will have due regard for the charter of the City of Rome, the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and of the United States of America; I do further swear that I have not, in order to influence my election to the office of commissioner, either in the general election or in any party primary, in which I was a candidate, directly or indirectly expressed or implied any promise of support to any person for any office in the government of the City of Rome, nor have I influenced my election by the unlawful use of money or other things of value, or by the use of intoxicating liquors; I do further swear that I will not knowingly permit my vote in the election or appointment of any person to a position in the city government to be influenced by fear, favor or affection, reward or hope thereof, but in all things pertaining to my said office I will be governed by my conviction as to the public good, so help me God. Oath of Commissioners. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no candidate for commissioner shall, before his election or in any party primary election, directly or indirectly promise any person to appoint or [Illegible Text] for such persou, or any other person, to any office, agency or employment in the government of said city. For a violation of this provision, said candidate making said promise, and the person exacting the same, shall forfeit his office and either or both shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia, and upon the trial of any person for the violation of this section of this Act, both the candidate making the promise and the person exacting the same, shall be a competent witness, one against the other, and shall be compelled to give evidence, and nothing then said by said witness shall at any time be received or given in evidence against him in any prosecution except upon an indictment for perjury in any matter to which he may have testified. Promise of support for office; when unlawful. Penalty. Evidence. Sec. 14. Any or all of the commissioners provided for in this charter may be removed from office by the recall election. The procedure to effect such removal shall be as follows: The secretary of said commission shall prepare a

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book similar to the registration book of said city, for the purpose of receiving the signatures of the qualified voters of the city, to call a recall election. He shall in like manner prepare and keep a similar book for calling a referendum and initiative. Said book shall be opened at any time upon petition in writing, signed by one hundred (100) qualified voters of said city, which shall plainly and distinctly set forth the purposes, reasons and character of the election to be called, the name of the officer or officers sought to be recalled, with the specific reason therefor, or setting forth specifically the legislation proposed or opposed in due form. In case a petition for recall election shall be filed with said secretary as herein provided, upon it appearing that it contains the requisite number of names of qualified voters, and that same is in due form, he shall open the book for a recall election, and when one-fourth () of the qualified voters who were registered and qualified to vote in the last preceding general election of said city, and who are still residents of said city shall in person go to the office of said secretary and within thirty (30) days from the opening of said book personally sign the same calling such election, the same shall then be called by the secretary of said commission. The ballots at such recall election shall conform to the following requirements: With respect to each person whose removal is sought the question shall be submitted, Shall (name of person) be removed from the office of (name of office) by recall? Immediately following such question there shall be printed on the ballots the two propositions, in the order set forth: For the recall of (name of person). Against the recall of (name of person). The voters shall strike from the ballot one of these propositions, leaving thereon, unscratched, the proposition he votes for. If the majority of those voting in said election vote in favor of recalling any officer, his office shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of this charter, and any person recalled may be considered a candidate. In case a petition for initiative or referendum shall be filed with said secretary, as herein provided, upon it appearing that it contains the requisite number of names of qualified voters, and that same is in due form, said secretary shall

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open the books for the initiative and referendum election, and when one-fourth () of the qualified voters who were registered and qualified to vote in the last preceding general election of said city and who are still residents thereof, shall in person go to the office of said secretary and within thirty (30) days from the opening of said books, personally sign the same calling such election, the same shall be ordered by the mayor, and the legislation proposed or opposed shall be submitted to the voters of the city. The ballots used when voting upon any such proposed legislation shall state the ordinance in full, or the title thereof, to be voted on and below it the two propositions, For the ordinance and Against the ordinance. The voter shall strike from the ballot one of these propositions, leaving thereon, unseratched, the proposition he votes for. If a majority of the electors voting on any such proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, it shall thereupon become an ordinance of the city. Proposed ordinances for repealing any existing ordinance or ordinances, in whole or part, may be submitted as provided above for initiating ordinances. Removal from office by recall election. Book for signatures of voters. Book opened on petition of 100 voters. Contents of petition. Recall election. Form of ballot. Initiative or referendum election. Form of ballot. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any election provided for in the preceding section of this Act is ordered, the same shall be held not less than twenty (20) or more than thirty (30) days after a sufficient number of qualified voters have signed the book to call same; provided, however, that if any commissioner shall be recalled under this charter, the person or persons elected as successor shall only succeed to the unexpired term of such commissioner, subject to the recall, as herein provided. Time of election. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any party or political organization may hold a primary election for the nomination of candidates, or the expression of party policy, for any general or special election, provided such primary shall be held in accordance with the laws of the State and of this charter for general elections. Primary elections.

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Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall by offering money, or other thing of value, or by the use of intoxicating liquors, or by promise of office, employment or other reward, or by any other method now or hereafter declared criminal, when such method is used to influence voters in elections in this State, undertake to influence or procure any person to sign a petition for, or the book provided by the secretary of said commission calling for recall, initiative or referendum election, or any person signing such petition, or said book, who is not entitled under this charter to sign same, or who signs the name of, or who impersonates another; or any person voting in any special or primary election, held in accordance with this Act, who is not entitled to vote in a regular election as is herein provided, shall, upon conviction thereof be punished as is prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia. Unlawful inducements to voters. Signing as voter when not entitled to do so; illegal voting; Punishment. Mayor. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners to elect a mayor from their own body, who shall be the administrative head of the municipal government, and shall be responsible for the efficient administration of all departments. He shall give his entire time to the city and shall be paid a salary not exceeding four thousand ($4,000.00) dollars per annum. The powers and duties of said mayor shall be, in addition to those already enumerated: Responsibility. Salary. (a) To see that all laws and ordinances are enforced. Powers and duties. (b) To appoint, except as herein provided, subject to the approval of a majority of the commissioners, the heads of all departments of the municipal government, to-wit: Secretary of the commission, city attorney, city physician, recorder, superintendent of public works, chief of police, chief of fire department, or head of any other department which may be established. Officers appointed by mayor. (c) To remove any of his appointees or the appointees of the head of any department whose appointment requires his approval, at any time, when he deems such removal necessary or advisable for the public good. Removal of appointees.

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(d) To exercise control over all departments created herein or that may be hereafter created by the commission. Control of departments. (e) To preside over all meetings of the commission with the right to vote on all questions. Vote. (f) To recommend to the commissioners for adoption such measures as he may deem necessary or expedient. Recommendations, etc. (g) To keep the commission fully advised as to the financial condition and needs of the city. (h) To make the commission a budget each year, at the time of levying taxes, showing the estimated income and expenditures of the city for the ensuing year. Budget. (i) To perform such other duties as may be prescribed by this charter, or be required of him by ordinance or resolution of the commission. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of said city shall devote as much of their time to the duties of their office as may be necessary, and shall perform such duties as may be required of them by this charter and the laws, ordinances and resolutions adopted by said commission not repugnant to this Act. Commissioners; duties. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of said commissioners shall be to all intents and purposes a justice of the peace, so far as to enable them or any one of them to issue warrants for offenses committed within the jurisdiction of said city, or for a fugitive from justice found within said jurisdiction, which warrant shall be executed by any officer authorized under this charter, or the ordinances of said city, or the laws of the State of Georgia to make arrests, and said commissioners are empowered to commit such persons to the common jail of Floyd County, or admit to bail such offenders (provided the offense is bailable) for their appearance before the next Superior or City Courts thereafter for the County of Floyd, and it shall be the duty of the jailer of said county to receive all such persons

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so committed and safely keep the same until discharged by due course of law. Power of commissioner to issue warrants. Commitments. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That said commission shall have power to fix their regular meetings at such time as they may select by resolution; provided, that at least one regular meeting shall be held once each week; they may adopt such rules and regulations for their control and guidance as they may see fit, with a right to change same at any time by a majority vote at two separate meetings, or they may suspend such rules temporarily by unanimeus consent. They may meet as often in extra sessions as the mayor, or any two commissioners may designate or call, provided personal notice is given to each commissioner, unless such commissioner is absent from the city. They shall keep accurate minutes of their proceedings and shall have all their acts and doings recorded thereon, and all votes taken shall be aye or no. and shall be made to appear on said minutes. All meetings of said commission for the transaction of business shall be open to the public. Four commissioners shall constitute a quorum at any meeting for the transaction of any business; and it shall require the affirmative of four commissioners to adopt any measure, ordinance or resolution, except as in the case of initiative or referendum as herein provided. Meetings of commission. Rules. Minutes. Quorum. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners shall elect one of their members mayor pro tem, who may exercise all the duties of mayor in case of his absence or inability to act for any reason. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission may prescribe the duties and powers of and prescribe the salary of, except as may be specifically provided by this Act, a secretary, who shall be known as the Secretary of Rome City Commission; a superintendent of public works, a city attorney, a city recorder, a city physician, a city sexton, an auditor, a building inspector, three city tax assessors, a chief of police, necessary police officers, a chief of fire department, necessary

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firemen and such trustees, board members and other officials as the interests of the city may demand. Said commission is hereby further empowered, at any time that they may deem expedient to create any office, prescribe the duties thereof and fix a salary therefor, looking to the best interest of the city. All salaries for any of said officers shall be fixed by resolution of the commission prior to the election of any person thereto, and shall not be increased or diminished during their continuance in office. The present officers of said city (except the city manager, whose office shall cease when this charter becomes effective) shall continue to hold their respective offices, upon the same conditions as they now hold same, subject to the provisions of this Act. Before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties the said officers shall give such bond, payable to the City of Rome, in such sum as may be prescribed by ordinance or resolution, to be approved by the commission, and they shall each take and subscribe to an oath, in addition to any specific oath for that particular office, that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office. The said secretary may be required to perform the duties of tax collector, and for his services as such shall receive such compensation for all insolvent tax fi fas and costs as the commission shall establish by ordinance and resolution. The office of city marshal shall be consolidated with the office of chief of police, and in addition to any fixed salary the said chief of police shall receive such costs for levy of tax and other fi fas of the city, advertising and making sales, executing deeds, settling and satisfying executions, and for performing such other duties, incident to his office as is now allowed sheriffs of this State in performing similar duties. The office of chief of fire department and building inspector may be consolidated by resolution. The duties of sanitary inspector, except as otherwise provided in this charter, shall be performed by the police department or other officials or employees of said city as may be designated by the mayor. Secretary. Other officers. Salaries. Officers continued in office. Bond. Oath. Tax collection by secretary. Offices consolidated: marshal and chief of police. Pay of chief of police. Chief of fire department, building inspector. Sanitary officer. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall select, in lieu of a treasurer, some chartered bank as a city depository, in which shall be

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deposited all city funds as soon as collected. The bank so selected shall be the one offering to the city the highest rate of interest on the city deposits for the fiscal years for which it is selected, and shall be required to give a good and solvent bond, payable to the city, with a reputable bonding company authorized and qualified by law to do business in the State of Georgia, as security, such bond to be approved by the commission and for such amount, sufficiently ample to protect said city, as may be fixed by the commission, ten (10) days before the selection of said bank, the secretary of the commission shall send each bank doing business in the city a notice of the place and time of such selection and the amount of bond required, and ask from said bank sealed bids for the city's account, which said bids shall remain sealed until the time fixed for such selection, and then opened at the place named, in the presence of the commissioners and of the public. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to select the bank making the best and highest bid, provided it gives the bond above referred to, as the city depository for the ensuing fiscal year, and such selection shall not be changed except for its violation or disregard of its obligations under this charter, or when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the commissioners that it is not safe to continue the deposit of the city's funds in said bank. Bank [Illegible Text], in lieu of treasurer. Bond. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall select a city auditor whose duty it shall be to thoroughly examine and audit the books of all city officials,a and all institutions in which the said city has a financial interest, at least once each three (3) months, and oftener if it be necessary, and to make a written report of same, which shall be spread upon the minutes of the commission. Auditor. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission may require the mayor to come before them at any regular or special meeting and answer questions, either orally or in writing, and they may require from said mayor at any time written reports upon any matter involving the city that they may deem proper; and

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said mayor shall report weekly to said commission his general acts and doings, and shall regularly and at stated intervals, at least quarterly, file complete and full reports of the various departments of said city. Reports by mayor. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall be vested with full legislative power. They may pass ordinances, adopt resolutions, levy taxes and provide for their collection, fix licenses and provide for their payment, and perform all legislative rights and powers incident to the government of said city. All ordinances and resolutions shall first be reduced to writing, and shall be acted on by said commission, who shall have authority to approve, disapprove or amend the same. A resolution may be passed at the time it is offered, but in no case shall an ordinance be put upon its passage until it has been read at two different meetings on two seperate days. Four members of the commission must vote affirmatively to pass any ordinance. In case any proposed legislation is defeated or passed over the protest of the mayor he shall have authority within forty-eight hours thereafter to suspend the operation of the same, publish the said proposed ordinance in the official newspaper of said city for ten (10) days, and order an initiative or referendum election thereon, as herein provided. Legislative power of commission. Ordinances. Vote. Referendum on ordinance. Sec. 28. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall be vested with full power and authority from time to time to make and establish such rules, by-laws and ordinances, and to impose penalties for failure to comply with same respecting city property, streets, lanes, alleys, bridges, cemeteries, public buildings and grounds, public houses, wharves, water courses, markets, railroads, telegraph and telephone companies, electric light and power companies, gas companies, erection of buildings, construction of houses, plumbing, drainage, sewerage, fire engines, pumps, forges, blacksmith shops, foundries, fertilizer plants, tanneries, lumber years, warehouses, storage room, pawn shops, junk dealers, auctioneers, slaughter houses and all kinds of business places and enterprises operated in said city. They shall have power to regulate and

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prohibit the storage of all kinds of explosives and combustible material in said city; they shall have full power and authority to pass all laws and ordinances they may consider necessary for the peace, good order, health, prosperity, comfort and security of said city, and of the inhabitants thereof, and that may be necessary to foster virtue and good morals of said city; to suppress lewdness, gambling, disorderly conduct and to enforce such laws and ordinances by such penalties as are authorized by this charter. The said commission shall have full power to adopt and enforce any and all ordinances they may consider necessary or advisable to carry out the powers granted to said city and said commission by this charter, and to do any and all other acts and exercise all other powers conferred upon them by this Act, or that may be done or exercised under the laws of this State, conferring powers upon municipal corporations: provided, said laws, ordinances, rules and regulations are consistent with the laws of this State. For these purposes the city is given jurisdiction for two miles from the corporate limits thereof. Additional powers of commission. Jurisdiction two miles from corporate limits. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is hereby empowered to declare what shall constitute a nuisance and to pass such ordinances as may be necessary to prevent same; and by ordinance they may empower the recorder to abate same and authorize the removal of such nuisance by the proper officials; they may provide for the punishment for the person, persons, firm or corporation causing or suffering such nuisance to exist, and they may provide for the assessment of the expense of the removal of such nuisance against such person, persons, firm or corporation causing or continuing same, and provide for the collection of such expense by execution, said execution to have the same force and effect as city tax executions, and to be enforced in the same way. Nuisances. Sec. 30. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is hereby empowered to regulate by ordinance the selling, weighing, measuring of hay, wood, ice, coal, coke and all other articles sold by weight or measure; to require dealers to keep honest weights and

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measures and to provide for the inspection and regulation of such weights and measures, and to provide for the regulation and inspection of gas, electric and water meters, and to compel the correct reading of the same, and to fix penalties for any violation of this section. Weights and measures. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is empowered to license, regulate, restrain or prohibit the running at large within the corporate limits of said city, of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, geese, chickens, ducks or other fowls and animals, and to impound the same, and on notice being given to sell same for penalty imposed by or under any ordinance, and to assess the cost and expense of the proceeding against the owner; and said commission is further empowered to regulate and prohibit the running at large of dogs and to provide against injury or annoyance therefrom, and to authorize the disposition of same; they are further empowered to provide penalties for breaking any pound or releasing any animal or fowl impounded by authority of this charter. Animals at large. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have power and authority to prescribe by ordinance adequate penalties for all offences against the laws and ordinances of said city, and to punish offenders by fine not to exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars, imprisonment in the calaboose or city jail not to exceed ninety (90) days, or sentenced to work on the streets or public works of said city not to exceed six (6) months, any one or more or any [Illegible Text] of any one or more of said punishments, in the discretion of the recorder or any officer trying the offender. Penalties. Sec. 33. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said city commission shall have full power and authority to authorize a chaingang in said city, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by said commission, and to cause all offenders against the laws and ordinances of said city to work in said chaingang, on the street or other public works of said city as said commission may direct. Chain-gang.

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Sec. 34. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission may codify all ordinances and by-laws of said city, together with the charter of said city, into one book, to be known as the code of the City of Rome, and when same is adopted by said commission, said code shall be admitted in evidence of any of the courts of this State, upon the certificates of the secretary of the said commission certifying the same to be the code of ordinances and laws of said city. City Code. Sec. 35. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there is hereby established for and in said city a court to be known as recorder's court, to be presided over by the city recorder, who shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to approval by the commission, with jurisdiction to try all violations of the laws and ordinances of said city; said recorder shall have the power and authority to punish for contempt of court not to exceed a fine of fifty ($50.00) dollars, work in the city chaingang not to exceed ninety (90) days, or imprisonment in the city calaboose or jail not to exceed thirty (30) days, any part or all of said punishment may be inflicted, in the discretion of the court; he shall have full power and authority to compel attendance of parties and witnesses at said court, and for this purpose shall have full power and authority to require bail to secure such attendance, and to issue appropriate orders for the forfeiture of recognizance given in pursuance of this charter; all warrants, summens, subpoenas or other process issued, requiring appearance or attendance on said recorder's court, shall be issued by the secretary of the city commission, directed to the chief of police, any policeman or other arresting officer of said city, and bear test in the name of the recorder; said recorder's court shall be governed by the rules of the Superior Court of the State of Georgia in so far as they may be applicable to such and a sound construction of this charter and the laws of said city. The said commission, from time to time, shall pass such further rules and regulations regarding said court, not in conflict with this charter and the laws of the State of Georgia. Recorder's Court. Appointment of recorder. Powers; Penalties. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That it shall be the duty of the city recorder to preside over the recorder's court, with full power and authority to issue warrants for the violation of any municipal ordinance, and to hold such court at such times and places and under such rules and regulations as are prescribed by this charter, or by ordinance, for the trial of offenders against the ordinances of said city, and to impose such penalties for a violation thereof as may be prescribed by ordinance, and he shall have full power and authority incident to or belonging to the office of justice of the peace, except for the trial of civil cases. In all cases where the accused is committed to the county jail or ordered to give bond for appearance before the Superior or City Court of Floyd County for the violation of a State law, said recorder shall be entitled to receive such costs as are paid justices of the peace in criminal cases. Commitments; costs. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is empowered to provide such forms of accusations, warrants, summons and other papers necessary in trials for the violations of the laws and ordinances of said city. Accusations, etc. Sec. 38. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have power and authority to compel the attendance of parties and witnesses at the recorder's court, and upon meetings of the commission and shall have full power and authority to provide by ordinance for the taking and receiving from parties and witnesses of such bail as may be necessary to secure the attendance of parties and witnesses; and said commission is further empowered to provide by ordinance for the forfeiture and collection of such bail-bonds in the same manner as such bailbonds are now forfeited in the Superior Courts of this State. Power to require attendance. Bond forfaiture. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever from any cause, the recorder of said city cannot be in attendance to hold recorder's court, or if it should appear that he is disqualified in any case, it shall be the duty of the mayor, or in his absence the mayor pro tem, to appoint a member of said city commission to preside in

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said court in the place and stead of said recorder, and all the acts and doings of said appointee shall be as binding as if performed by the said recorder. Absence of recorder, etc. Sec. 40. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the right of certiorari from the decision and judgment of the recorder or the commissioner presiding in his place, shall exist in all criminal cases, and such certiorari shall be obtained under the sanction of the judge of the Superior Court of Floyd County upon a petition in writing to said judge, to be presented within thirty (30) days after the rendition of the decision or judgment complained of, and not thereafter. Such petition shall state the grounds of complaint and shall contain a brief of the evidence had in the trial, and shall be duly sworn to. If, upon examination, the judge shall consider the petitioner entitled to writ of certiorari, it shall be his duty to cause such writ to be issued and served on the recorder, as in other cases under the laws of this State requiring him to certify and send up to the Superior Court a complete and accurate history of the case as his answer thereto, which said answer shall be subject to correction and traverse, as provided by the laws of this State. The said judge at chambers or in term time, may hear and determine such certiorari or traverse thereto after ten days notice to each party, and may, after such hearing, modify, affirm or reverse the decision of the recorder; provided, however, that no writ of certiorari shall be granted until the accused shall have paid all costs and filed his petition and affidavit setting forth that he does not file same for delay only, but that he verily believes that he has been wrongfully and illegally convicted, and shall give a good and sufficient bond and security, to be approved by the secretary of the commission, payable to the City of Rome, in double the amount of the fine imposed, conditional to answer the judgment of the court, or in lieu thereof shall make affidavit of his inability from poverty to pay the costs, or give the bond as herein provided. In case said petitioner should fail to give bond he shall remain in custody until the determination of said case. If the writ of [Illegible Text] is granted the judgment of the recorder's court shall be suspended until

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the judge of the Superior Court shall finally pass on the case. Upon the hearing of such petition for certiorari the judge of the Superior Court shall consider both the law and the facts, and in his discretion, may mould his judgment so that truth and justice may appertain. The recorder shall be entitled to receive such costs in case of certiorari as are paid justices of the peace in similar cases. Certiorari. Sec. 41. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have full power and authority to provide by ordinance for appeal to their body from judgment rendered in the recorder's court; provided, defendants taking such appeal shall first pay all costs and shall give bond in double the amount of fine imposed, or in the event no fine has been imposed given an appearance bond in such an amount as the recorder may assess, and provided, further, that all appeals shall be made within four (4) days from the judgment complained of and shall be heard by said commission within fifteen (15) days from date of appeal, unless said hearing shall be postponed to a later date upon legal showing. Appeal from recorder to commission. Sec. 42. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of raising revenue for the support and maintenance of the government of said City of Rome, including the payment of bonds, interest on the bounded debts, and the creation of a sinking fund for the extinguishment of said bonded debts, and for paying and macadamizing streets, the said city commission shall have full power and authority for the assessment, levy and collection of an ad valorem tax on all real and personal property owned or held within the corporate limits of said city, which, under the laws of the State, is subject to taxation, not exceeding one and one-fourth (1) per cent of the assessed value of all such property; provided, that in addition thereto they shall have power and authority to levy and collect an ad valorem tax of not exceeding thirty-five one-hundredths (35-100) of one per cent on all such property, to be known as the public school tax; provided, that in no event shall the total tax rate exceed one and one-half (1) per cent. Ad valorem tax. Rate. School tax.

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Sec. 43. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have full power and authority to require any person, firm, company or corporation, whether resident or non-resident, of said city, who may engage in, prosecute, or carry on, or who is engaged in prosecuting or carrying on any trade, business, calling, vocation or profession in the corporate limits of said city by themselves, or their agents, to register their names, business, calling, vocation or profession annually, and to require said person, company or corporation to pay for said registration and for license to prosecute, engage in or carry on any business, calling or profession, such amount as the commission may provide by ordinance, not to exceed five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Said commission may provide by ordinance for the punishment of all persons, firms, companies or corporations required by ordinance to pay such taxes or to take out such licenses for the same, who shall engage in such business, profession or occupation, before paying such taxes, or taking out such license, who fail to comply in full with all requirements of such ordinances made in reference thereto. Provided, the terms of this section shall not apply to those professions who pay a special annual tax to the State of Georgia. Licenses. Registration of business. Exceptions. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have full power and authority to condemn, regulate, tax and license all automobiles, coaches, drays, hacks, jitney busses and all other vehicles using the streets in said city for hire. Vehicles used [Illegible Text] hire. Sec. 45. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission may by ordinance, license, tax, regulate or prohibit billiard rooms, ten-pin alleys or other such alleys, inns, taverns, hotels, restaurants, lunch stands, cafes, social clubs, theatres, moving picture shows, dance halls or other places kept for public entertainment. They are also empowered to license and regulate livery stables, garages, or other places of this kind for the use and benefit of the public. Hotels, livery stables, places of amusement, etc.; regulation and license.

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Sec. 46. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall require all persons liable to perform road duty by the laws of this State to perform such duty by work on the streets of said city under the direction of the proper officer of said city; provided, that the commission of said city shall have power to levy a street tax in lieu thereof, and provided, further, that all persons who shall refuse to pay said tax on or before such time as the said commission may prescribe by ordinance, shall be required, upon three (3) days notice, to do and perform street work as aforesaid, and upon failure thereof such defaulter shall be dealt with by the recorder as for violation of the ordinances of said city. Street work or tax. Sec. 47. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have power by ordinance to license, tax and regulate the keeping of dogs within the corporate limits of the city. Dogs. Sec. 48. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have the power and authority to alter and fix the time for making tax returns, and to provide for the collection of taxes quarterly, semi-annually or yearly, and to have assessment of property made in accordance therewith. Tax returns. Sec. 49. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall make, or cause to be made, an equitable annual assessment of all real estate in said city by the fifteenth day of March of each year, and all returns of personal property shall be made, under oath, by the first day of May in each year, and the same shall also be passed upon by the assessors. Upon the return of the assessors being handed in, as is herein provided, the commissioners shall, by the fifteenth day of May thereafter, cause an estimate to be made up and entered on the minutes, showing the gross amounts of the income of the city for the fiscal year, and shall apportion and set apart the same for the necessary expenditures for interest on bonds, redemption of bonds, streets and sewarage, public buildings and grounds, city lighting, [Illegible Text], waterworks, fire department, police

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department, cemetery, contingent expenses, publicity, encouragement of industry, relief of poor, hospitals, public schools, sanitation and health, parks, and for paving and macadamizing, and such other purposes as allowed by law, or prescribed by ordinance, which several sums, taken in the aggregate, shall not exceed the amount of income from all sources for the year in question. Assessment for taxation. Annual estimate of expenses. Sec. 50. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the annual expenses of said city shall be so restricted as not to exceed the annual income of the city after paying the interest on the bonds and providing a sinking fund for the final payment of the principal of said bonds. Limit of expenses. Sec. 51. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the commission to set aside annually a sum sufficient as a sinking fund to retire the bonded debt of said city as same becomes due. Sinking fund. Sec. 52. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the annual appropriations made by the commission may be varied as to the amounts apportioned for the different purposes, but these variations are not to retroact on time expired, or to enlarge in any manner the aggregate appropriations for the year, and no money shall be appropriated for any purpose except by resolution of the commission as herein provided, which shall be void unless it specifies upon its face upon which of said funds it is to be drawn, and each member of said commission shall be individually liable to the city for the refunding of any amount appropriated or expense incurred in excess of said limit, when present at the voting of the same, except such of them as escape said liability by voting in the negative, and the name entered on the minutes, the amount thereof to be recovered in an action brought in any of the courts in this State having jurisdiction thereof, in the name of the secretary of said commission for use of the city, and ten (10) per cent of the recovery shall be his compensation, and if he fails to bring said action within ten (10) days, the said sums may be recovered of him and his bondsmen at the suit of any citizen, and no action brought under this section shall be settled.

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without the consent of the judge before whom said suit is pending upon exhibit of all the facts, and such consent entered on the minutes; and in order that said commission may know at all times the true financial condition of the city, the said secretary shall prepare and read and enter upon the minutes at the opening of each regular meeting a balance sheet showing the gross revenue of the fiscal year and expenses voted by the commission up to that time, and also the amount of the said several sums estimated as aforesaid, and what part of the same has been, up to that time, appropriated and what part remains unappropriated. Appropriations. Excessive appropriation; liability of commissioner. Suit against commissioner. Penalty on secretary not [Illegible Text]. Settlement. Financial statements by secretary. Sec. 53. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commission of said city shall have power and authority to borrow money by making a temporary loan or loans to supply a casual deficiency of revenue, not to exceed one-fifth (1-5) of one (1) per centum of the assessed value in any one (1) year; and it is further enacted that the sum or sums so borrowed shall be repaid out of the income of the city for the fiscal year in which the loan or loans are made, and before the expiration of the fiscal year in which the same was or were made. Authority to borrow. Repayment. Sec. 54. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be created a board of bond trustees for said City of Rome, the same to consist of three upright and discreet business men who shall be residents, citizens and freeholders of said city, and shall serve without salary, whose duties shall be to keep a correct record of the bonded debt of said city, showing who holds the bonds, when the same are due, the rate of interest on same, and such other information as will tend to identify said bonds, and whenever any new bonds are issued for said city, to list the same in said book, giving the date of issue, date when due, rate of interest, number, denomination, and to whom sold. It shall be the duty of said trustees to pay in the manner hereinafter provided all lawful bonds of said city, and the interest upon the same, whenever due; and to invest any and all of the money placed to its credit as hereinafter provided, in bonds of said City of Rome, or, if the same cannot be obtained at a reasonable market price, then in valid

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State, county or municipal bonds, and it shall have the power to dispose of the same and reinvest the proceeds thereof in similar bonds. Whenever said trustees shall desire to purchase any of said bonds it shall authorize a draft to be drawn upon the city depository for the money, said draft to be signed by the clerk, and countersigned by the chairman of the board of bond trustees, specifying to whom paid and for what purpose. The said trustees shall keep minutes of their proceedings, acts and doings, which shall show a record of all warrants drawn, the dates thereof, and the amount, in whose favor and for what purpose. They must select a chairman from among their own number and in determining all questions coming before said trustees a majority vote shall be sufficient. Board of Bond Trustees. Duties. Purchase of bonds. Minutes. Chairman. Sec. 55. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That J. D. McCartney, J. Robert Cantrell and H. E. Kelly shall constitute the bond trustees of said city, and they shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected by said Rome City Commission at their first regular meeting of April, 1923, for a term of four (4) years, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Bond trustees named. Term Sec. 56. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of said city commission shall keep an account on his books with said bond trustees, and it shall be his duty to keep a separate account of all taxes levied and collected for the purpose of paying the bonded debt of said city when due, and the interest on the same, as well as such other sums as may be appropriated by the commission of said city from time to time for this purpose from other sources of revenue, and as soon as practicable after the collection or appropriation of such sums he shall pay the same into the city depository, taking a receipt therefor, which shall be the voucher of such secretary, and shall at the same time notify the chairman of said bond trustees in writing of the same. Accounts to be kept by secretary. Deposit of funds. Sec. 57. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of the commission must report at each regular meeting of said commission, and at such other

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times as he may be called upon to do so by said commission, the amount paid into the city depository for use of said board of trustees, and shall enter the same upon the minutes of the commission. The said secretary shall not use any of the money so collected or appropriated for the use of said bond trustees for any other purpose whatever, and should he fail to pay the same promptly into the city depository for said purpose, he shall be personally liable to the City of Rome on his bond, and said bond trustees are hereby authorized, and it shall be their duty, to institute suit upon said bond to recover same for the purpose for which it was collected or appropriated. Funds for use of Bond trustees. Sec. 58. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any funds shall be deposited with the city depository, as hereinbefore provided, for the bond trustees, the same shall be entered to the credit of said trustees upon a separate account opened on the books of said depository for that purpose, and it shall be the duty of said depository to pay out the same upon warrant of said bond trustees, as hereinbefore provided, the said warrant to be a voucher for said sum, and to be filed as such. In case the said depository should pay out any of such funds in any other manner than herein provided, said depository and the bondsmen therefor shall be liable to the bond trustees in the same manner and extent as the secretary of the commission, as hereinbefore provided. It shall also be the duty of said depository to transfer to said account whatever may be to the credit of the sinking fund and fund for interest on public debt at the time this Act becomes effective. Accounts. Payments on warrants. Sec. 59. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the said bond trustees take up any bonds or coupons of the City of Rome, they at once cancel the same and then turn them over to the secretary of the commission, taking his receipt therefor, specifying in said receipt the number of each bond and coupon, its date, date when due and such other general description as will fully identify the same. Bonds and coupons taken up. Sec. 60. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That it shall be the duty of said commission to provide said bond trustees with all necessary funds to defray the expenses of said trustees, and said trustees shall hold their meetings at the city hall in such office as may be designated by resolution of said commission. Said bond trustees may elect one of their number clerk, or the Rome City Commission may elect a clerk for them. It shall be the duty of said clerk to keep the minutes and all necessary books of said trustees, and perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by said trustees in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Expenses of bond trustees. Meetings. Clerk. Sec. 61. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said bond trusttes to make a full and complete report of all matters pertaining to said bonded indebtedness, and of their last actings and doings, to the said city commission at the last meeting of March in each year, and at such other time as said commission may call for same; that the books and papers of said bond trustees, and of the secretary of the commission, and of the city depository, in regard to the bonded debts of said city, shall at all times be open to the inspection of said commission, or such other persons as they may designate to inspect and audit same. Reports of bond trustees. Records. Sec. 62. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of said city commission to record all bonds given by city officials on the minutes of the commission, and shall then deposit the same with said bond trustees, whose duty it shall be to keep same safely and securely, subject, however, to inspection by said city commission, or such other persons as they may designate to inspect the same. Record and custody of bonds. Sec. 63. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no license or permits to do business required by the charter and ordinances of said city shall be valid unless the secretary of the commission has indorsed the same, that said person, firm or corporation taking out the same has registered in his office, in compliance with the terms provided by ordinance, and any person who does or attempts to do

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business of any character, for which a license or permit is required, without complying with this section, may be arrested for a violation of the same and punished in such manner as may be provided by the ordinances of said city. Licenses, requisites of. Sec. 64. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person, firm or corporation fail to return their property for taxation, or secure a license or permit to do business, or pay street tax, or pay taxes on dogs, at the same time prescribed by this charter and the ordinances of said city, it shall be the duty of such secretary of the commission to search out and require the same to be done, and double tax the same as a penalty for said default, as is provided in this charter. That said secretary shall keep a separate book in which all such delinquent returns, licenses, permits and persons subject to street tax shall be entered, and it shall be the duty of said secretary to collect same, including all costs accured thereon. Penalty for failure to make return or pay tax, etc. Sec. 65. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said secretary of the commission to make a full report to the commission of all taxes due and uncollected at such times as may be fixed by the commission, and he shall make a full report of all taxes remaining uncollected on the first day of March in each year, and on the third Monday in March of each year it shall be the duty of such secretary to make a final settlement for the fiscal year with said commission. It shall be the duty of said commission to pass upon all matters pertaining to said settlement and allow the said secretary such credits for errors as may be apparent, and such credit for insolvent taxes as he may show to their reasonable satisfaction cannot be collected; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed as in any way repealing any power on the part of said secretary to issue fi fas. for all accounts not paid in accordance with the charter and ordinances of said city, nor in any way to restrict the duty of the marshal or chief of police of said city to levy fi fas. and collect the money due thereon by the sale of property or otherwise, as provided in said charter and ordinances. Report of uncollected taxes. Annual settlement by secretary.

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Sec. 66. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is empowered and authorized to levy a tax upon all property, real and personal, within said city. Tax levy. Sec. 67. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city commission shall have full power and authority to elect three persons, freeholders, residents and citizens of said city, as city assessors, who shall hold their office for four (4) years, unless removed by the mayor, with or without cause. It shall be the duty of said assessors to assess the value of all real estate and personal property at a fair market valuation within the corporate limits of said city, they shall make a return to the city commission of the assessment of real estate by the fifteenth day of March in each and every year, and said commission shall place said assessment so returned in the hands of the secretary of the commission, who shall enter the same in his books with other taxes, and the same shall be collected as other taxes of said city; provided, that parties dissatisfied with the assessment of their property by the tax assessors may have the same reviewed by the assessors, by filing with the secretary an affidavit that the valuation fixed is excessive, and that the property is not worth the amount assessed, and upon said affidavit being filed the assessors can reconsider their assessment, and their report shall be final, unless the party, still being dissatisfied, should appeal to the commission, which said appeal shall be allowed and heard only in the manner prescribed as follows, to-wit: Any party dissatisfied with the review and report of the assessors as prescribed above may at once file with the secretary of the commission a statement of his objections, with request to be heard by the commission upon the matter complained of. Upon filing of said statement and request, which shall be addressed to the Rome city commission, it shall be the duty of the secretary to notify the mayor or in his absence or disqualification, the mayor pro tem, who shall call a meeting of the commission at the earliest time practicable, at which meeting of said commission shall be fixed a day and hour not later than the fifteenth day of April of each year, at

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which time all appeals from the assessors herein contemplated must be heard. It shall be the duty of said secretary to give prompt and timely notice of the day and hour fixed for hearing appeals to all parties who have filed their statement and request as aforesaid as well as to the board of assessors. All appeals from the assessors to the commission shall be heard on the day designated for hearing appeals, unless continued to another time, and the decision of the commission thereon shall be final. Said commission is authorized, however, in its discretion, to employ some person or persons experienced in its business, for the purpose of assisting the assessors in making a fair and impartial survey and assessment of all real estate on the front foot basis, and the improvements to be assessed separately, same to be made at a fair market valuation, and if such survey and assessment is made, the commission may provide that the same may stand for a term of years, subject to such physical changes as may take place, not extending, however, beyond the term for which commission is elected. Any person dissatisfied with the assessment so made may appeal to and have the same reviewed by the commission, upon the same terms and conditions as hereinbefore provided for a review when the assessment is made by city assessors. After the returns of personal property have been made, it shall be the duty of said assessors to examine same and reassess the property so returned, or assess any property not returned under such regulations as may be prescribed by the commission and the charter. Assessors; election, term, duties. Appeal from assessment. Assistants to assessors. Review of assessment by commission. Assessment of personal property. Sec. 68. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said assessors, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before the chairman of the commission to equitably, faithfully and truly assess all real estate within the corporate limits of said city at its fair market value, and to return such assessment to the commission. They shall receive for their services such salary and be allowed such an amount for actual expenses for personally visiting all property assessed

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and making assessment thereon, as the commission shall by resolution order. Oath of assessors. Compensation. Sec. 69. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the chief of police to levy and collect all fi fas. for taxes, assessments and fines due to the City of Rome, and all other fi fas. that may be issued under authority of this charter, to advertise and sell property so levied on and make title to the purchaser, and to put the purchaser in possession of property so sold, under the same rules and regulations that govern sheriffs or deputy sheriffs at sheriff's sales; he shall perform such other duties as the commission may by ordinance require of him; he shall give bond in such an amount as may be required by resolution of the commission. The office of city marshal may, in the discretion of the commission, be combined with the office of chief of police. Duties of chief of police. Enforcement of fi fas. for taxes, etc. Consolidation of marshal's office. Sec. 70. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any personal property has been levied on in the City of Rome, if such property is of a character to render its removal to the place of sale more than ordinary expense or inconvenience, the same may be sold at any place within the corporate limits at public outery within the hours now provided by law, and after having given notice required by law. Place of sale. Sec. 71. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all executions in favor of said city for the enforcement and collection of any fine, forfeiture, assessment, taxes or other claims, demand or debt, shall be issued by the secretary of the commission and bear test in the name of the chairman of the commission except when otherwise provided in this charter, and shall be directed to the chief of police, or deputy of said city, and shall state for what issued and made returnable to the Rome city commission ninety (90) days after issuing the same; and it shall be the duty of the chief of police, or collecting officer, to advertise the sale of such real estate or personal property as may have been levied upon by him to satisfy said execution, in

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the same manner, respectively, as sheriff's sales of real property or constables' sales of personal property are required by law to be made. All of said sales shall be made at the place and within the usual hours of sale that sheriff's and constable's sales are made, and under the same rules and regulations governing sheriff's sales and constable's sales of similar property. The time, place and manner of sale of property, both real and personal, for taxes due, shall be the same as provided by law for sales under execution for State and county tax. Whenever any land is sold for taxes, the owner thereof shall have the privilege of redeeming it within one (1) year by paying the purchaser the amount thereof with ten (10) per cent premium thereon. Executions to be issued by secretary. Form. Advertisement and sale. Redemption. (a). Whenever at such sales no one present shall bid for the property put up for sale as much as the amount of such execution and all costs, and after such property shall have been cried for a reasonable time, then any duly appointed or authorized agent of the city may bid off such property for said city, and the chief of police or such other officer making the sale shall make the City of Rome a deed to the property so sold and deliver the same, and the title thus accuired by said city shall be perfect and valid after the period provided for redemption by the owner shall have expired, and the chief of police or other officer making the sale shall put the city in possession. The secretary shall enter on his execution docket all executions, giving the date, amount of each and to whom delivered, and all proceedings thereunder. Said execution shall be returnable to the office of the secretary after being satisfied. All sales and conveyances made under execution as provided in this section shall have all the force and effect of sales and conveyances made by sheriffs of this State, and the officer making the sale shall have the power as the sheriff to put purchasers in possession of property sold by them. Purchase by city at tax sale. (b). For levy, advertising, sales and other duties of like kind, in the sale of property for city taxes, assessments, fines, forfeitures and other executions issued as provided

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in this charter, the chief of police shall be allowed the same costs and fees as are now allowed sheriffs in this State for performing similar duties. Cost of levy, etc. Sec. 72. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all deeds by the City of Rome or the chief of police, pursuant to tax sales or sales under execution issued for the collection of local assessments or other indebtedness to the City of Rome, shall be admissable in evidence on the same terms as deeds made pursuant to sale for taxes due to the State and county; provided, it shall be competent for parties denying the validity of such deed to put in evidence the proceedings preliminary to the execution of such deed. The purpose of this section being to give to such deed the same prima facie force and validity which is accorded to the tax deeds made by officers of the State and county. Tax deeds. as evidence. Sec. 73. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be elected, when other city officers are elected, a superintendent of public works who shall have general supervision of all streets, lanes, alleys and sidewalks in said city, the construction and upkeep of all public buildings and grounds in the city, the laying and construction of all sewers, drains and curbs in said city, the water works and all that is connected therewith, the electric lights and all that is connected therewith, and the performance of all other duties that may be required of him by ordinance or resolution. Superintendent of public works. Sec. 74. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said City of Rome, through said city commission, shall have full power and authority to make contracts concerning and having exclusive power over the streets, alleys, water courses, sewers, drains, bridges, public grounds and buildings and any other public property within said city, except as afterwards provided in this charter, and except such authority as has been heretofore delegated to the County of Floyd over certain bridges within the corporate limits of said city by special legislative enactment. Said city authorities may also drain and fill up wells, ponds, cellars or

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low ground, or compel the owners to do so, and may provide for the assessment of the cost of any such improvement upon the property thereby benefited, or for the payment of such costs by the city. Said commission may also cause buildings, structures, or other things in the way of any street, sewer or other public improvement to be taken down, removed or appropriated, upon payment of damages, as provided by law; and may enter upon, seize, appropriate and condemn for streets, alleys, sewers, drains, parks, cemeteries, or other public purposes, all lands, easements and right-of-way of any person, company or corporation owning, controlling or having an interest in any streams, steam railroad, electric or other street railway or any other property, whether used for private or public purposes, and whether such lands, easements and right-of-ways or other public or private property be occupied by any person, company or corporation or not, upon payment of damages for the purpose so taken. And in case the parties at interest cannot agree, then the city may proceed to assess the damage as provided by the laws of Georgia, as set out in Sections 5206 to 5235, inclusive, of the Civil Code of 1910. Power as to streets, etc. Drainage, wells, cellars. Assessment of cost. Removal of buildings, etc. Condemnation. Sec. 75. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers and agents employed by the city, except ordinary laborers and mechanics, shall take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully perform the duties of their office, and if required by resolution of the commission, shall give bond payable to the City of Rome, Georgia, in some reputable surety company authorized to do business in this State, for such an amount as the said commission may designate, to be approved by the mayor, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office. Oath and bond of employees. Sec. 76. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever said commission shall deem it proper to macadamize, pave or otherwise improve any of the streets, lanes or alleys, or to improve any sewerage or water works system of said city, they shall have a survey made of the streets, sewers and water works system, and plans, specifications, and estimates of the cost of the improvements

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contemplated, they shall establish and fix a grade of the streets to be improved, and shall determine the size and location of the sewers and the mains for the water system; thereupon said commission may proceed to make said improvement as hereinafter provided. Improvement of streets, sewerage, water works. Sec. 77. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Rome city commission shall have the right, power and authority to fix by ordinance and collect as other taxes are collected the amounts to be taxed against and paid by abutting property owners and street railway companies occupying the streets, for paving and macadamizing such streets so paved and macadamized, the basis of assessments to be as follows: Street railway companies shall be assessed so much of the cost of paving and macadamizing the street as is occupied by tracks, and two (2) feet on each side of the rails thereof, and in case there are two or more tracks on the same street, to require said street railway companies to pay the cost of paving and macadamizing for not more than four and one-half (4 1-2) feet between such tracks, except in cases where such street railway companies voluntarily locate their tracks wider apart than four and one-half (4 1-2) feet, in which event they shall pay for paving and macadamizing all space between said tracks, the balance of the cost of paving and macadamizing such streets, including street intersections, headers, curbing and intakes, shall be divided one-third (1-3) each to the respective abutting property owners, leaving one-third (1-3) to be paid by the city. In cases where the streets paved or macadamized are not occupied by street railways the respective abutting property owners shall each be assessed one-third (1-3) the cost, and the city shall pay the other third of such paving and macadamizing. Said paving shall include all expenses incurred in doing the work, except grading. When such assessment is made against such street railway company or property owners, the same shall become a lien on such property, subject to be enforced by execution issued as provided for collecting other city taxes; provided that such city commission shall not have the right

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to assess against owners the cost of grading streets, but this shall be paid out of other funds appropriated by the city for street purposes, surfacing the street, after the same has been brought to a grade preparatory to receiving paving or macadamizing shall be paid for by the street railway company, abutting property owners, the city and other public service corporations, as herein provided. All moneys so collected by the commission under this section shall be paid over to the city depository and shall be credited to the street improvement department, and used therefor only; the city shall make such appropriations and provision for street improvements and repairs as is consistent with the financial condition from year to year, and the same shall be turned over to the city depository to be used for street purposes only. Assessments for improvements. Street railways. [Illegible Text] of assessment. Use of funds. Sec. 78. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon the completion of one or more sections of pavement, between any one or more intersecting streets of said city, the city commission shall ascertain the proportionate cost of such pavement, including street intersections, headers, curbing and intakes, with or without including sidewalks, chargeable to abutting owners, street railways or other public service corporations, or other persons occupying or using said streets, and shall cause the secretary of said commission to give written notice of the result to such abutting owners or public service corporations, or other persons, and the amount so assessed shall be and become immediately due and payable, a copy of which notice shall be served on the owner or occupant thereof by any officer of the city, and return thereof made on the original, which original shall be kept in the secretary's office and recorded on the minutes, together with the entry of service thereon, and the city shall proceed immediately to collect the same and pay the same over to the city depository, to be paid out to contractors or [Illegible Text], or for material or work on pavement account as the said commission may direct. Notice of cost to property owner. Collection. (a). Such abutting owners, street railways or other public

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service corporations or such other persons may, at their election pay one-fourth (1-4) of the amount assessed against them in cash within ten (10) days from the date of notice served upon them, and the remaining three-fourths (3-4) in three (3) equal annual installments, with interest thereon at seven (7) per cent per annum, payable annually from the date of such notice; provided, that on default in the payment of any one of said installments the remaining installments shall become immediately due and payable, and may be immediately collected, as herein provided. Option to pay in installments. (b). A special lien is hereby created on and against the land of abutting owners and on and against the land and property of such street railway companies or public service corporations and others for assessments so made against them, and on failure to pay the full amount of such assessment in cash within thirty (30) days after the service of such notice the city commission shall, by its secretary, cause executions to be issued against such abutting owners, street railways, or other public service corporations or others for the amount of such assessment or assessments, bearing seven (7) per cent. interest from date of such notice; but if such abutting owners, street railways or public service corporations, or others, shall elect to pay their assessments on the installment plan, then and in that event the secretary shall issue executions for the unpaid installments, to be held in abeyance, subject to transfer to contractors or others, as part payment of the contract price, or to be held by the city, should the city on any account be entitled thereto, but not to be levied or collected unless and until default shall be made in the payment of any one or more of said installments. Lien of assessment. Execution. (c). All executions authorized to be issued under this Act or under any provision of the charter of the City of Rome relating to the subject matter herein referred to shall be levied and collected as other tax executions in favor of said city are now levied and collected. Enforcement of execution. (d). The secretary of the commission may, by direction

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of said commission, transfer said executions to contractors or others by suitable entry thereon, and they may then be docketed as State and county tax executions are docketed when transferred under the laws of this State, and the liens herein created, thereby preserved. On the payment of all installments of said executions they shall be entered satisfied by the holders thereof. Transfer of fi fa. to contractor or others. (e). Should any abutting owner, street railway company or public service corporation, or other person desire to contest the amount of their assessment, or the legality of any proceeding growing out of or connected with the pavement of the streets of the city, they may do so by filing with the levying officer an affidavit or illegality and stating therein the cause of such illegality, and the amount which he admits to be due, which amount so admitted to be due shall be paid to the levying officer before the affidavit shall be received, and the affidavit shall be returned to the Superior Court of Floyd County, Georgia, and there tried and the issue determined as in cases of illegality, subject to the penalties provided as in cases of illegality filed for delay, and it shall be the duties of the judges of the Superior Court to give preference to these cases over all other cases pending in said court. Affidavit of illegality. (f). The method herein provided for the collection of the proportionate parts of paving accounts, from any and all persons and corporations liable therefor in favor of contractors and other transferees of executions, is for their use and benefit, and shall not be held or taken in any event to make the city liable on account thereof, or for court costs in contested cases or in any claim. City not liable for costs to transferee of fi fa. (g). The secretary of the commission may transfer and assign without recourse on the city any execution or executions issued under this Act or the Act of 1909, creating a new charter for said City of Rome, and in that event the owners of such executions shall be entitled to any and all the remedies herein provided for the levy and collection of such executions by and through the officers of the city as

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though no transfer or transfers had been made, and all rights and remedies heretofore existing in favor of such owners prior to the passage of this Act, are herein expressly preserved. Transfer of executions; rights of transferee. (h). Whenever, in the judgment of said city commission, it shall be deemed necessary to construct curbing and guttering on any street of said city, which is not paved or macadamized, said commission may by resolution or ordinance, order such curbing and guttering to be constructed; provided, such resolution or ordinance shall not be passed unless two-thirds (2-3) of the abutting property owners to be affected shall agree, in writing, thereto. Said commission shall have the right and power to fix by ordinance and collect as other taxes are collected, the amount to be taxed against and paid by abutting property owners on the street where such curbing and guttering are constructed, the basis of assessment to be as follows: The respective abutting property owners to pay two-thirds (2-3) of the cost of such curbing and guttering, and the remaining one-third (1-3) to be paid by the City of Rome. When the cost of such curbing and guttering has been ascertained, and before the same shall be constructed on any street, the city commission shall, through the superintendent of public works, give ten (10) days' written notice to the abutting property owners of the amount that will be due by them for such curbing and guttering. The abutting property owners may, at their election, pay one-fourth (1-4) of the amount assessed against them in cash within ten (10) days from the completion of such curbing and guttering, of which written notice shall be served upon them, and the remaining three-fourths (3-4) in three equal annual installments, with interest thereon at the rate of seven (7) per cent. per annum, payable from the date of such notice; provided, that on default in the payment of any one of said installments the remaining installments shall become immediately due and payable, and may be immediately collected. When sidewalks are laid under requirements of the city, the adjacent property

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owners shall have the right to pay the same in installments as herein provided for payment of curbs and gutters. Curbing and guttering of unpaved street. Assessment. Payment in installments. Sidewalks. (i). The rights and remedies of abutting property owners and of the City of Rome as laid down and provided in sub-sections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of this section of this Act shall apply to and be in force in regard to the curbing and guttering provided for in sub-section (h) of this Act. Rights of property owners. Sec. 79. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the mayor, and he is given full power and authority to improve, keep in repair, light, sprinkle and clean, so far as the same is possible, within the appropriations made by the commission for such purposes, the streets, sidewalks, crossings, bridges, lanes, alleys, waterworks, public buildings and grounds, sewers, drains and other property of said city, except where otherwise provided in this charter, either by contract or by agents and employees of the city, and shall have authority to purchase all necessary materials and implements for any and all such work to be done, and shall also have complete control and authority over any new construction work of any kind which may be determined upon and ordered by the commission. Said city commission shall determine and pass ordinances providing for all new construction work upon the streets, sidewalks, crossings, bridges, lanes, alleys, sewers, drains, waterworks, public buildings and grounds, and other public property, and shall also provide the character and quality of materials to be used. Said work to be done under the supervision and control of the mayor. In the event any work is done by contract, under the provisions of this section, such contracts shall be made after due advertisements for proposals, with the right reserved to reject any and all proposals, and in the event of any contract being made, the contractors shall execute a bond, payable to the City of Rome, in an amount equal to the contract price, by a surety company authorized to do business in this State, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract. Street repairing, cleaning, lighting, etc. Contracts for work. Bond of contractor.

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Before beginning to pave or macadamize any street, the said commission shall fix and designate the location and position for telegraph, telephone, electric light and power and street railway poles and wires and gas pipes thereon, and shall have power and authority to require the owners or persons using the same to place the same as thus located. Location of poles, wires, and pipes in street. Sec. 80. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commission shall have full power and authority to lay out, establish, plot, open, widen, narrow, straighten, extend, grade, pave, or macadamize streets, lanes, alleys, public grounds, parks, public buildings, wharves, landings, docks, bridges, viaducts, markets and other places within the said city, and whenever the city commission shall exercise or desire to exercise power of establishing, plotting, opening, widening, narrowing, straightening, extending, or to do anything else which would involve the actual taking of private property, they shall proceed to do so as is now provided by the laws of the State of Georgia, in Sections 5206 to 5235, inclusive, of the Civil Code of Georgia of 1910, and the amendments thereto, or any amendment that may hereafter be made. Opening, changing, paving streets, etc. Sec. 81. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have full power and control of the waterworks system of the City of Rome, lying within and without the city limits; to make such extensions and betterments thereof as can be paid out of any surplus income therefrom, or out of any appropriations that may be made by said commission for that purpose; to regulate the distribution and use of water in all places and for all purposes, and from time to time to fix the price and payment for the use thereof; provided, that the price so fixed shall be, as nearly as the same can be arrived at, the cost of said water to the city, taking into consideration the entire expense thereof, including reasonable sums for maintenance and repairs of the system, and for the retirement of the bonds issued, or which may hereafter be issued, for the construction or extension of the plant. The secretary of the

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commission shall issue execution against tenants and landlords, jointly and severally, for water rents due by them, or either of them, to be levied and collected by the chief of police of the said city in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as now apply to constable's sales in this State, and the cost thereof shall be the same as now apply to such sales. Defendants in such executions who are not so indebted for water tax, may resist the payment thereof by illegality, returnable to either the justice courts held in the City of Rome, where the amount does not exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars, and to the city or Superior Courts of Floyd County, where the amount exceeds that sum. The mayor is authorized to require payment in advance, or at maturity, for water furnished by the city in or upon any building, place or premises, and in case payment shall not be made as required, to shut off the water from such buildings, place or premises and to keep the same, at his discretion, shut off until the arrears due for water, with interest thereon, shall be fully paid; and by himself, officers or agents, to enter any dwelling or other house where water is taken or used and where unnecessary waste is known or suspected, and to examine the cause thereof, and to prevent any such waste; and to make or require to be made any alteration in the pipes, stop cocks or other apparatus necessary for such purpose; to examine all surface pipes, stop cocks and other apparatus connected with said system, and to ascertain whether the same are of the character and dimensions fixed in the manner directed therefor and to shut off the supply of water until such examinations and repairs are made. Water works. Execution for water rents. Affidavit of illegality. Power to require advance payment, to shut off water, etc. Sec. 82. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission may provide for and collect an annual rental, not exceeding fifty (50) cents for each connection made to any sewer in said city from any residence, and not to exceed one ($1.00) dollar from any place of business in said city; and if any connections are made outside of the city limits, the terms, conditions and rental thereof shall be determined before any such connections are

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made, but shall in no case be less than fifty per cent. higher than the rental charged for connections made within the corporate limits of said city. Water rents; limit. Sec. 83. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there is hereby established in said City of Rome, a system of public schools, and the said commission is empowered to maintain and is authorized and empowered to provide by ordinance, in their discretion, for appropriate agencies to regulate, supervise and carry on said system of public schools and to render same efficient. Schools. Sec. 84. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a board of education, to consist of five (5) members, be and the same is hereby established. The members of said board at the time of and during their continuance in office, shall be bona fide residents and citizens of said City of Rome. They shall be upright and intelligent citizens of said city and shall hold office for a term of four (4) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The present board of education of said city shall continue in office until the first Monday in April, 1923, or until their successors are elected and qualified. That on the first Tuesday in March, 1923, when the Rome City Commission is elected, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of said city in said general election, five members of said board. Vacancy in said board of education caused by death, resignation, removal, disqualification or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining members of said board. Board of Education. Term. Election of board in 1923; quadrenially thereafter. Vacancies. Sec. 85. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said board of education immediately after their organization, or as soon thereafter as practicable, to organize by electing from their number a chairman and a secretary; said members shall serve without pay, except that the city commission may allow the secretary of said board compensation for his services, not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars per annum. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the members of

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said board of education shall take and subscribe, before the mayor, or in his absence, the mayor pro tem, to an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of their office. Officers of Board of Education. Pay of Secretary. Oath of members. Sec. 86. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education and the individual members thereof, shall be amenable to the said city commission, and may be removed from office upon trial and conviction for neglect of duty, malfeasance in office or for using their official position to advance their political or private interests. In the event of removal as provided in this section, the said city commission shall elect the successors of the member or members so removed, to fill the unexpired term, upon such conditions as herein provided for the selection of other officers of said city. Removal of members of board. Sec. 87. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education shall have supervision and control over said public schools in accordance with the provisions of this charter and the ordinances of said city, and they shall elect a superintendent and teachers in the month of June, each year. In the selection of such superintendent and teachers they shall endeavor at all times to secure the most efficient persons for those positions, keeping in view the moral character of each; and they shall give preference to the residents of the City of Rome, when their qualifications and fitness for the position are equal to those of non-residents of said city, and said board of education shall employ not more than three (3) competent persons to examine all applicants for such positions, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by said board, and said examiners shall make report of the result of said examination to the board of education. Election of superintendent and of teachers. Sec. 88. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That children of non-residents or whose parents are not bona fide residents of the City of Rome, may be entered in the public schools of said city only on condition that before entering such public schools each child shall pay to the

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superintendent of said schools, in advance, the following rates of tuition, to-wit: In the first, second and third grades, two ($2.00) dollars per month; in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, three ($3.00) dollars per month; in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades, four ($4.00) dollars per month; in the tenth and eleventh grades, five ($5.00) dollars per month. These rates may be increased, but not diminished, by the board of education. The principal, who shall permit any student to enter or continue in the public schools without paying the above rates, or such increased rates as may be fixed by the board of education, shall have an amount equal to the loss deducted from his or her salary by the board of education. Such money as may be collected from the tuition fees above referred to shall constitute a part of the school fund of the city, and be used by the board of education as other funds placed in their hands for school purposes. Non-resident pupils, tuition for. Penalty on principal not requiring payment. Sec. 89. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education shall pay over to the secretary of the commission all money received by them from any source whatever belonging to said school fund, and shall take the receipt of said secretary therefor, and file the same with their papers. School funds. Sec. 90. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the State School Commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to pay over to the secretary of the Rome city commission, for the use of said schools, under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, the proportion of the State school fund to which said city is entitled, to be expended in the maintenance of said public schools as authorized and directed by the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. Money from State school funds. Sec. 91. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the Rome city commission to pay over all moneys received by him from any source whatsoever for the benefit of said public schools to the city depository as soon as practicable,

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notifying said depository for what purpose said money is deposited. Said secretary in each instance shall take receipt of said depository therefor, showing date of deposit, the amount and purposes for which same is deposited, which said secretary shall file and safely keep as his voucher for said sum. Upon the deposit of said school fund, the city depository shall enter same to the credit of the school fund, and said fund shall be drawn out only on the warrant of the mayor, signed by him and attested by the secretary of said city commission, which said warrants shall show upon their face the date issued, the number thereof, the purpose for which issued, and the person to whom issued, which shall correspond with a record thereof by and in the office of the secretary of said commission; the said depository shall not honor any warrant unless it is drawn in accordance with the aforesaid requirements. It shall be the duty of said depository to file and safely keep all warrants paid as vouchers for the money so paid out. Deposit of funds. Sec. 92. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said board of education to make reports to said commission at such times as they may be called upon to do so, of all matters pertaining to said public schools, and the books, papers, bills and vouchers of said board of education shall, at all times, be open to inspection and examination by the commission or such other agency as they may employ for that purpose. Reports by Board of Education. Sec. 93. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be a board of visitors for said public schools to be composed of five (5) ladies of practical experience, who are citizens and residents of said city, who shall be nominated by the mayor at the last regular meeting of the commission in October, 1923, subject to the approval of the commission. Their term of office shall be four (4) years, and their successors shall be nominated and confirmed quadrennially in the same manner. The said board of visitors shall have the authority, and it shall be their duty to visit the different public schools of the city,

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familiarize themselves with the character and conduct of both teachers and pupils, the studies pursued, methods of teaching, sanitary conditions, and all other matters pertaining to the welfare of the schools, and at the close of each term and at such other times as they may see fit, to make a report to the city commission and board of education of their work, with such recommendations as they may deem proper, concerning the further management of the schools. The present board of visitors shall continue in office until the expiration of their present terms. Board of Visitors. Nomination in 1923. Term. Duties. Sec. 94. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city commission is authorized and empowered to pass such further ordinances and resolutions, not in conflict with this Act, as they may deem for the best interest of said public schools, and further define the duties of said board of education. Ordinances as to schools. Sec. 95. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be appointed, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this charter, seven (7) trustees from said city, who shall exercise and discharge the corporate powers of said city, in reference to the Carnegie Library, and such other public libraries as may hereafter be established, to be known as library trustees. Said trustees shall elect and appoint all persons in charge of said library or libraries, and fix their salaries. This provision being made in view of Sections 1566 to 1570, inclusive, of the Civil Code of the State of Georgia of 1910. Said board shall be appointed at the last meeting of the governing authorities in March, 1923, and every four (4) years thereafter, and serve for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The present board of trustees shall continue to serve as such trustees until the last meeting in March, 1923, and until their successors are elected and qualified. All vacancies in said board shall be filled as other board vacancies are filled, as provided in this charter, but any person appointed to fill any vacancy shall only be appointed for the unexpired term. Library trustees. Librarians.

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Sec. 96. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city commission shall have power and authority to establish by ordinance a board of health, to serve without compensation, to provide the funds necessary for its establishment and maintenance, and to specify its functions, powers and duties. Said board of health, if established, shall consist of five (5) members, to be appointed by the mayor, three (3) of whom shall be regularly licensed physicians, and the other two (2) to be qualified voters of said city. They shall serve for such terms as may be fixed by the commission. Said board of health, if established, or if none is established, then the mayor, shall require the police department to look after the matters hereinafter designated, and the commission shall have authority to pass ordinances for the following purposes, and to provide penalties for any violation thereof: Board of Health. Powers. (a). To prevent the deposit of any unwholesome substances either on public or private property, and to compel removal to any designated point any substances so deposited; to require slops, garbage, ashes and other waste, or unwholesome material, to be removed to designated point, or to require occupant of premises to place them convenient for removal. They may provide for the destruction of such substances or their use for some beneficial purpose. Removal of garbage, etc. (b). To control the occupants or owners of any premises, buildings or outhouses, when the same has become filthy or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the same, and to authorize such cleansing to be done by the proper public officer, and to assess the expenses thereof, and collect such expenses from said occupant or owner. Cleansing premises. Collection of expense. (c). To establish quarantine regulations and to authorize the removal to designated places or the confinement of persons having infectious or contagious diseases. For the purpose of this clause the city is given jurisdiction for two (2) miles from the corporate limits thereof. Quarantine. (d). To compel all persons living or coming within the

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city limits to be vaccinated, and to provide the means and manner thereof. Vaccination. (e). To regulate and require reports and records of births and deaths. To make such requirements as may be deemed necessary to prevent the spread of contagious or infectious diseases, and to make all regulations that may be deemed expedient for the promotion of health and the suppression of disease. Record of births and deaths. Contagion. (f). To require the inspection of gas and water pipes, plumbing, sewerage and drainage of private premises, or elsewhere and compel them to be repaired or made safe and secure by the owners or occupants of the premises or buildings with which they are connected, and on failure of such owner or occupant to do so, to authorize or require such connections to be cut off until such repairs are made. Plumbing, sewerage, drainage. (g). To provide for the inspection of food, milk, dairies, markets, and slaughter pens, and for the proper enforcement of this clause, said commission may provide for a food inspector of said City of Rome, to be appointed by the mayor, subject to approval of the commission, and to fix, by ordinance, his term of office, compensation and duties, or said mayor may select some other official of said city to perform these duties. The said inspector provided for in this clause, shall have authority to visit all dairies, butcher pens, or places where animals are slaughtered, within the county of Floyd, the products of which are offered for sale within the corporate limits of the City of Rome, and to condemn the same in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be provided by said commission by ordinance; and when such establishments have been so condemned it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, the products thereof within the corporate limits of the City of Rome, and the said commission is authorized and empowered to prescribe penalties for violation of this clause: said inspector shall also have authority to inspect all meats, vegetables, fruits, milk, and other food products offered for sale within the corporate limits of said

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city, and to condemn and have same destroyed in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be provided by said commission by ordinance. Said commission is also empowered to require all persons offering meats, milk, or other food products for sale within the corporate limits of said city, to obtain a permit to do so, before offering such meats, milk, or other food products for sale. Inspection of food, milk, slaughter pens. Permits to sell. (h). Said commission may establish, erect, maintain, and regulate a city hospital; they are empowered to rent, lease, or make other arrangements with private hospitals; they are empowered to open, construct, and keep in repair garbage and sewer disposal works, sewers, drains, and ditches; they are empowered to regulate all water closets and privies within said city. Hospitals. Sewers, water closets. (i). If said commission establishes a board of health, as herein provided, said board of health shall have authority to provide such rules, regulations and by-laws necessary for their government, and for the proper sanitation of said city, and for the protection of public health. Rules by Board. (j). Said commission is authorized to pass all necessary ordinances and fix penalties for the enforcement of this section and each sub-division thereof. Penalties. Sec. 97. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a police department is hereby created for said city, to consist of a chief of police, and such officers, patrolmen, roundsmen, and other arresting officers as may be determined by said city commission by resolution. Said chief of police shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to approval by the Rome city commission. The patrolmen shall be appointed by the chief, subject to the approval of the mayor. Police Department. Chief of police. Patrolmen. Sec. 98. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said chief of police and police officers to preserve the peace, protect life and property, prevent as far as possible, the violations of the ordinances of said city and the laws of said State: and arrest such offenders

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against such ordinances and laws, and to perform such other duties required of them, incident to their office. It shall be lawful for the chief of police, policeman or any other arresting officer of said city to arrest with or without warrant, subject to the general laws of the State, any person or persons within the corporate limits of said city, who, at the time of said arrest, or before that time, have been guilty of violating any of the ordinances of said city, the laws of the State of Georgia, or who are fugitives from justices found in said city, and hold such persons so arrested until a hearing of the matter before the proper officers having jurisdiction of said case can be had; and to this end said arresting officers are authorized to imprison and confine any person arrested by them in the city prison for a reasonable length of time. Said officers are authorized to the same extent as sheriff's to execute warrants placed in their hands charging any person or persons with violating the criminal laws of this State; and they are hereby vested with all the powers given to sheriffs of this State as to the pursuit, arrest and detention of persons charged with crime. The said officers are also authorized to arrest anywhere within the limits of the County of Floyd, any person charged with violating any of the ordinances of said city; provided, that when the arrest is not made within twenty-four hours after the offense is committed, they are authorized to arrest the offender outside the corporate limits of said city, except in obedience to written warrant signed by the recorder, or one of the commissioners of said city. The said chief of police, or other arresting officer of said city, may take bonds for the appearance of persons arrested by them, before the recorder's court for trial, and all such bonds may be forfeited as provided in this charter. Said arresting officer shall be entitled to receive the same fees as sheriffs for executing State warrants and for performing such other duties as arresting officers are required to perform in prosecution of offenses against the laws of the State of Georgia. Duties. Arrest without warrant. Bonds for appearance. Forfeiture. Fees in State cases. Sec. 99. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That all arresting officers of the City of Rome, as provided in this charter, shall have the power and authority to summons any or all by-standers to aid in the arrest of any person or persons violating any ordinances of said city, or any laws of this State, and the city commission shall provide punishment for any person or persons failing or refusing to obey such summons. Power to require aid in arrest. Sec. 100. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a fire department is hereby created for said city, to consist of a chief and such foreman or firemen as may be determined by said city commission by resolution. The chief of said department shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of the commission. The foreman and firemen shall be appointed by the chief of the department subject to the approval of the mayor. Fire Department. Sec. 101. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the chief of the fire department may also be designated as building inspector, and as such shall perform, either by himself or through subordinates, all necessary duties that may be provided by this charter, or the ordinances of said city incident to the duties of said office. Chief of Fire Department. Building inspection. Sec. 102. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city commission is hereby empowered to regulate the construction of chimneys, smoke stacks, hearths and ovens, the erection of stoves and stove-pipes, boilers and apparatus in buildings or other places, and cause the same to be removed or made secure when considered dangerous. They may authorize the chief of the fire department, any commissioner, and other designated officers or agents of said city, at all reasonable hours, to enter and examine all dwellings, outhouses, business houses, lots and yards in said city, and to inspect all places where fire is used or is liable to occur, and to take all necessary means to prevent danger therefrom; and to compel occupants and owners of houses and other buildings to make [Illegible Text] holes in the roofs thereof with stairs or ladder reaching the same, and to compel the erection of fire escapes; they are also empowered

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to require and regulate the use of smoke consumers. Regulation of chimneys, etc. Inspection of premises. Fire escapes, etc. Smoke consumers. Sec. 103. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is hereby empowered to provide for the inspection and regulation of all electric works and wiring, and the plan of operation of all moving pictures, or other machines or plants by machines of electricity on private property or elsewhere, and to compel such work, if defective, to be repaired or made secure by the owner or occupant of the place or building with which such wires or electric apparatus is connected, and on failure of any owner or occupant so to do, to require the electric current and other connections to be cut off until such repairs are made, or defects remedied, and said commission is authorized to compel compliance with such requirements, and the building inspector or other agent of said city may be empowered by said commission to compel the enforcement of this section of this charter. Inspection of electric works and wires. Sec. 104. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is empowered to define the fire limits of said city and to regulate the character of buildings and the erection thereof within such limits; to limit the heighth to which buildings may be erected in the city, to regulate the construction of buildings as to foundation, walls, roofs, doors, windows and floors, so as to secure safety in the structure and to prevent the spread of fire, to authorize, require and provide for the inspection of such buildings and structures, erected or to be erected, or in process of erection; to require the permit for the erection of any building and to authorize the revoking of such permit, and the condemnation of any building already erected in whole or in part and to provide penalties for violation of this section. Fire limits. Building regulations. Sec. 105. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is empowered to compel persons about to undertake any work which may be dangerous, or is likely to involve liability upon that city, to execute a bond

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with good and sufficient security, conditioned for the payment of any damage that may be sustained by any person for such work. Bond from person undertaking dangerous work. Sec. 106. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the City of Rome, through its commission, is hereby authorized and empowered to erect and operate an electric light and power plant, to be owned by said city, with authority to furnish lights and power for the streets and other public places in said city, and, in the discretion of said commission, to furnish lights and electric power to private persons within said city and its vicinity, and to charge and collect for such private lights and power. Electric light and power plant of city. Sec. 107. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of erecting an electric light plant in said city, said City of Rome shall have authority to issue bonds not to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars, to bear interest not exceeding the rate of five per cent per annum; said bonds and interest to be payable at such time and in such amounts as the commission of said city may by resolution determine; provided, however, that said bonds shall not be issued by said City of Rome until an election has been held to authorize such issue under the terms of the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia providing how municipal authorities may incur debt. Bond issue for electric light plant. Sec. 108. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said city commission is authorized to erect and operate an electric plant as herein provided out of any funds not specifically appropriated which may come into their hands by virtue of the present taxing powers of said city, or by virtue of the sale of the bonds hereinbefore provided for, or they may levy a special tax in addition to the tax now authorized by law, upon all the real and personal property in said city sufficient to raise an amount that may be necessary for the erection and operation of such plant, to be determined by said commission, and the special tax herein authorized may, in the discretion of the commission,

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be divided into such annual assessments as said commission may determine, not exceeding four, the said commission to have authority to make a contract with any person or persons who may erect said plant and pay for the same, in whole or in part in said bonds, the said bonds to be received by said person or persons at not less than par value, said special tax herein authorized to be levied shall in no event exceed one-half of one per cent upon the real and personal property of said city, and the same may be collected in quarterly, semi-annual or annual installments as the commission may determine. Taxes or sale of bonds to pay for electric plant. Sec. 109. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commission of the City of Rome is hereby anthorized to operate said electric light and power plant as one of the departments of said city, under the supervision of the mayor, or under any existing department of said city, or they may organize a separate department for the purpose of running said plant. In either event the operating body shall have such power and authority as the commission may by ordinance determine. Operation of electric plant. Sec. 110. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city of Rome shall have power and authority to erect, operate and maintain a gas plant, and for that purpose shall have authority to issue bonds not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars upon the same terms and conditions as hereinbefore specified for the erection and maintenance of an electric plant; and shall also have power and authority to erect and operate same by direct taxation under the same terms and conditions as hereinbefore specified for the erection and maintenance of an electric plant; and in either event all of the rights, powers and privileges conferred upon the city with respect to an electric plant are conferred upon said city with respect to said gas plant. Gas plant; taxes or bonds to pay for. Sec. 110(a). Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said City of Rome shall have power and authority to erect, operate and maintain an ice manufacturing

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plant, to manufacture ice and sell the same to the citizens of Rome and vicinity, and for that purpose shall have authority to issue bonds not exceeding one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars, upon the same terms and conditions as hereinbefore specified for the erection and maintenance of an electric light plant; and shall also have power and authority to erect and operate same by direct taxation, under the same terms and conditions as hereinbefore specified for the erection and maintenance of an electric light plant; and in either event all of the rights, powers and privileges conferred upon the city with reference to an electric light plant are conferred upon said city with respect to said ice manufacturing plant. Ice plant: taxes or bonds to pay for. Sec. 111. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any officer of said city who may be sued for any act done in his or their official capacity may justify under this charter. Non-liability of officers. Sec. 112. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission is hereby authorized and empowered to rearrange, increase or diminish the number of wards in said city, provided the same shall not exceed seven (7); fix the boundaries of the different wards in said city; and if found expedient, to establish as many voting precincts as they may deem proper. Wards. Sec. 113. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Rome city commission is hereby empowered and authorized to pass such ordinances as may be necessary to secure the safety of citizens and other persons in the running of trains or cars in or through said city, whether propelled by steam, electricity or other motive power; are authorized to require persons or corporations owning or operating railroads to fence their respective roads and to construct cattle guards and street crossings at the intersection of public roads or streets, and to keep the same in repair and safe condition for persons on foot, in vehicles or otherwise; to require such persons or corporations

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to construct and maintain gates and keep flagmen at railroad crossings and to provide protection against injury to persons or property from the operation of such railroads, trains or cars; to require any railroad company running a car, engine, or train of cars over any street in the night time to maintain a street light at such crossing; provided, that the city shall not have the right to require such railroad company to maintain any different kind of light at such crossing from that maintained by the city at other street crossings; to authorize and require railroads, interurban or street car companies to change the location, grade and crossing of their respective railroads; to compel them to lower or raise their tracks so as to conform to any grade that may be established by said city; to compel persons or corporations owning or operating railroads to construct and maintain viaducts, bridges, tunnels and approaches thereto across their respective railroads or right-of-ways at streets, alleys, crossings or other public places; to compel railroads, interurban and street car companies to so construct their tracks in the streets and at the crossings as not to interfere with the drainage of the streets and alleys and to keep the tracks on grade level with the street; to require railroads, interurban or street car corporations, or persons owning or operating such roads, to keep gutters and street crossings clean along their right-of-way; to prohibit the laying of railroad tracks across or upon any street, alley or public place without permission being first obtained from said commission therefor, and to provide for the taking up and removing of any track so laid without notice and charge the expense thereof against the offending person or corporation; to require railroads, interurban and street car companies now occupying, or that may hereafter occupy with their tracks, any of the streets, alleys or other public places of the city, to improve in such manner as the city commission may direct, so much of the streets, alleys or other public places as is occupied by such tracks and two (2) feet on each side thereof, and in case there are two or more to require such railroad, interurban or street car companies

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to improve also the place between such tracks and cause such improvements to be made and assess the cost thereof against such railroad, interurban or street car company, and make such assessments a lien on the property of such company and collect the same in the same manner as against other property in said city; to compel persons or corporations owning or controlling railroads, interurban or street cars to keep their depots, stations or other places where passengers get on and off the cars, lighted, heated, cleaned and in good, comfortable condition, and in default thereof to provide a punishment for their violation or ordinances adopted in relation thereto, and to compel interurban and street car companies, or persons operating or controlling same, to use all modern equipment for the safety, comfort and convenience of the public. Railroads; safety regulations. Power to compel change of location, grade, or crossing. Bridges, tunnels, etc. Removal of tracks. Street improvements by companies. Assessment of railroads. Station regulations. Sec. 114. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall have power and authority to grant franchises, permits, easements, and rights of way in or under and over the streets, alleys, lanes, sidewalks, parks and other property of the city upon such terms, reservations and conditions as the commission may fix; provided, however, that the same shall not be granted for a longer term than twenty (20) years, nor without compensation to the city. Franchises, rights-of-way. Sec. 115. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of said commission shall keep a book, to be known as the Record of Franchises, which shall be a public document and properly indexed, and that each and every franchise granted by the City of Rome shall be recorded in said book, together with the petition therefor, and all proceedings and references thereto and reference by page to the proceedings in other books; said record shall be made within thirty (30) days after said franchise is finally granted, or such franchise shall be null and void. Record of franchises. Sec. 116. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all [Illegible Text] heretofore granted by the City of Rome which were not recorded, as provided in Section 110

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of an Act approved August 17, 1909, providing for a new charter for said city, be and the same are hereby declared null and void. Franchises not recorded, void when. Sec. 117. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each and every applicant for a public franchise or renewal of franchise to go upon, along, through, over or under any of the streets of said city, shall only file application containing the terms and stipulations desired, in the opinion of the secretary of the commission, which said application shall be published at the expense of the applicant in at least one daily newspaper in said city immediately after filing. Thereupon said city commission shall, at a regular meeting, have power and authority to act upon such franchise or special privilege. Said application as finally adopted by said commission if it is adopted, containing the full terms and stipulations of such application and grant, shall at once be published, at the expense of the applicant, in a public daily newspaper published in said city, once a week for four (4) weeks; said grant shall not become operative for a period of thirty (30) days from the time of its adoption by the said commission, within which time, upon petition, signed as herein provided in case of initiative and referendum election, said applicant and grant shall be submitted to the duly qualified voters of said city, in the way and manner prescribed for the holding of an initiative and referendum election in which the question shall be submitted to said voters whether they approve or disapprove of said proposed grant. In the event a majority of the votes cast at said election shall approve said grant, then the same shall become operative and of force. In the event said voters shall disapprove said grant, it shall become null and void. The expenses of said election shall be borne by the applicant for franchise. Application for franchise. Election to ratify franchise. Sec. 118. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when, in accordance with the provisions of this charter, except as may otherwise be specifically provided herein, any change, alteration or work of any kind is ordered

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done by the commission of said city, or any of its duly authorized agents or agencies, and the person, firm or corporation ordered to do the same, fails or refuses to do within the time fixed, and upon such default, the city may make such changes, alterations or work that the commission or its duly authorized authority shall have the power and authority to assess the total cost thereof against the said person, firm or corporation in default, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to issue execution forthwith against such person, firm or corporation thereof, which execution may be enforced in the same manner as tax fi fas; said execution shall be a lien against the property of such person, firm or corporation next in dignity to taxes. Execution for cost of work. Sec. 119. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any member of said commission or any officer of said city to be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the City of Rome, or any subordinate agency thereof, having for its object the public improvement of the city, or any part thereof, or the expenditure of its money. Any violation of this section, on conviction thereof by the recorder, upon such conviction becoming final, shall be fined not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, or imprisoned in the city chaingang or calaboose not exceeding ninety (90) days, and all profits growing out of said contract shall be refunded to the city, and the city attorney is required to institute suit to recover the same and push said suit vigorously to a conclusion, or if said contract has not been executed, the same may be enjoined at the instance of citizens of the city. No commissioner or other officer of the city shall exercise any right to act or vote on any subject matter committed to him under this charter, when the result of such vote or action would promote his personal interest directly or indirectly; nor shall any commissioner or other officer under the city government, in the exercise of the power of appointment or election to any position, or the approval thereof, exercise said power in behalf of any person who is related to him, or in

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case of a member of the commission or of any city board, related to him or any other member of the commission or board of which he is a member, as near or nearer than the second degree of affinity, or consanguinity, or any person who is wholly dependent upon him or any other member of the commission or board of which he is a member for maintenance and support, and any election or appointment within the foregoing specific degree shall be ipso facto void. Unlawful interest in contract or expenditure. Penalty. Personal interest in vote. Relative's election or appointment void, when. Sec. 120. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all legal ordinances heretofore adopted by the legislative authority of the City of Rome, and which are now in force, and are not inconsistent with or repugnant to or have been repealed by this Act, shall remain in full force and effect; provided, That said Rome city commission may at any time alter, amend and repeal any of said ordinances as is herein provided, and they may adopt such new ordinances as they may deem best, not inconsistent with this charter, the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia and the constitution and laws of the United States of America. Former ordinances in force. Sec. 121. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers, heads of departments and subordinate employees shall be subject to removal or discharge by the person or persons appointing them, with or without cause, at any time, except as in this charter otherwise provided, and the mayor may likewise remove any employee of any department whose original appointment requires his approval under the provisions of this charter. Removal of officers, etc. Sec. 122. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commission shall have power and authority to provide by ordinance for the retirement of policemen, firemen, and school teachers, on account of physical disability after twenty-five (25) years continuous service, on a pension not exceeding fifty (50) per cent of the salary being received at the time of such retirement; provided, that in no case shall the pension so paid amount to more than fifty ($50.00) dollars per month. Retirement and pension of employee.

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Sec. 123. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no officer or employee of the city shall be an officer or member of any political party executive committee having control of primary elections for the election of city officers. Employee not to be on party committee, when. Sec. 124. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the violation of any of the provisions of this charter by any city official or employee, or by any private person, may be enjoined by any citizen of said city upon application to the judge of the Superior Court of said county upon proper showing made, in the discretion of said judge. Injunction against violation of charter. Sec. 125. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said city shall have power to acquire by condemnation or other lawful means, rights of way for streets, lanes and alleys, sewers and drains, through and upon lands outside of and beyond the corporate limits of said city, for the purpose of connecting the streets, lanes and alleys of said city with public highways outside of the city limits, and the sewers and drainage within the city with streams and water sheds beyond said corporate limits, whenever and wherever such connections are ordered by proper corporate action by the city authorities, with power and jurisdiction to build, construct, maintain, protect and police such extra urban streets, alleys, lanes, sewers and drains, as complete as if they were located within said city limits. Whenever it is necessary to condemn any property for the purpose above indicated, the same shall be done in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations provided in this charter for the condemnation of property within the city limits. Condemnation of right-of-way for street, etc. Sec. 126. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of the commission shall be required to keep the books and records of all departments of the city government, except where otherwise provided in this charter, including the minutes and records of the commission, and the expenses thereof shall be limited to approximately

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four thousand five hundred ($4,500.00) dollars per annum for the salary of the secretary and all assistants, including clerical help in the water works and other departments of said city. The secretary shall be appointed by the mayor. The secretary shall appoint and be responsible for the work of his assistant or assistants. Secretary: duties. Salary and clerical expenses. Sec. 127. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fire department of the city shall not go beyond the corporate limits of the city to extinguish any fire, except upon the call of the person, firm or corporation whose property is endangered or some duly authorized agent, and the agreement of such person, firm or corporation to pay a reasonable sum for the services rendered any damage resulting to the fire equipment of the city. Fires outside city; pay for service. Sec. 128. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the money realized from the sale of the hospital bonds, which has never been used for any purpose, but is in the city treasury, be used for hospital purposes, should the County of Floyd and the City of Rome decide to erect a hospital; but if this is not done within twelve months from the approval of this Act, then said money shall be used to retire hospital bonds, or, if this is not practical, then said money to be used for the retirement of any other outstanding bonds of the City of Rome, which can be secured on favorable terms. Proceeds of hospital bonds, use of. Sec. 129. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when suit is filed against the City of Rome on account of injuries resulting from the use of the streets or sidewalks of said city by any person, firm or corporation, for any purpose whatever, or where such a suit is filed on account of the defective condition of the streets or sidewalks of said city where, by law or ordinance, the duty of keeping the same in repair is imposed upon any person, firm or corporation, or where such a suit is filed on account of the defective condition of a street or sidewalk of said city, where, by law or ordinance, the duty of repairing the

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street or sidewalk, or laying or relaying the pavement of said street or sidewalk may be imposed upon any person, firm or corporation, or where such suit is filed on account of damage done to person or property resulting from defective walls, chimneys, roofs, awnings, buildings, signs, or other structures, objects or things in said city, where, by law or ordinance, the duty of removing, repairing or making the same safe to the public may be imposed upon any person, firm or corporation, and notice to do so has been served upon such person, firm or corporation prior to said injury or damage and said person, firm or corporation has failed to comply therewith, in all cases the City of Rome, by resolution passed by said city commission, shall have the right and power to vouch such person, firm or corporation into court, to defend the said suit so brought, and the said person, firm or corporation shall be bound by the result thereof; the manner of vouching and the liability in case thereof to be the same as provided by the laws of Georgia where a warrantee of title to realty is vouched into court. Suit against city in case of liability of third party: vouching party into court. Sec. 130. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the City of Rome is authorized to sell and dispose of the property owned by it on Fourth Avenue, in said city, and known as the old city hall property, and the property owned by it fronting on Broad Street, in said city, and known as the old fire hall property, as soon as a satisfactory price can be obtained, and that the proceeds derived from the sale of said properties shall be turned over to the bond trustees of said city to be used in purchasing and retiring so much of any issue of the outstanding bonds of said city as soon as same can be purchased therewith. Sale of old city hall and fire hall property authorized; use of proceeds. Sec. 131. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this charter shall become effective on the first Monday in April, 1920. On that date the present city commission shall meet and elect one of their number mayor, and shall also elect a mayor pro tem, who shall serve until the expiration of their terms as commissioners on the first Monday in April, 1928. Charter effective, when.

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Sec. 132. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and mayor pro tem provided for in this charter, shall be subject to the recall and to all the other provisions of this charter applicable to the other commissioners. Mayor pro tem subject to recall. Sec. 133. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That, within ninety (90) days after the approval of this Act, the chairman of the present board of city commissioners, shall call an election, which shall be held as other special elections are held, for the purpose of submitting the ratification or rejection of this charter to the qualified voters of said city. At said election, all who favor the adoption of this charter shall have written or printed on their ballots, the words For the new charter. All who oppose this charter, shall have written or printed on their ballots, the words Against the new charter. If a majority of the votes cast shall favor the new charter, then the same shall go into effect on the first Monday in April, 1920. If a majority of the votes so cast shall not favor the new charter, then this Act shall be void and of no effect. Election to ratify charter. Sec. 134. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 12, 1919. ROSWELL; BONDS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS, ELECTION FOR. No. 138. An Act to authorize the mayor and council of the town of Roswell, in the County of Cobb, State of Georgia, to order and have held an election by the qualified voters of said town, to determine whether or not bonds be issued by the town of Roswell to be sold for the purpose of grading, paving and improving the streets of said town of Roswell,

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and to authorize the issue of said bonds and the assessing, levying and collecting a tax on all property, both real and personal in said town of Roswell, for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds as well as the principal thereof, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the mayor and council of the town of Roswell, Cobb County, are authorized and empowered to have held an election by the qualified voters of said town at such time as said mayor and council may designate, to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said town of Roswell, in a sum not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, to be sold for the purpose of grading, paving and improving the streets of said town of Roswell. Said election shall be held in accordance with the constitution and laws of this State, and at such election the ballots used shall be For Bonds and Against Bonds. Election as to bond issue for paving, etc. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That if said election herein provided for be in favor of bonds for said purposes, then the mayor and council of said town of Roswell shall be and are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said town of Roswell, in a sum not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate. Said bonds shall be designated Street bonds of the town of Roswell, and shall be issued in whatever amount or amounts said mayor and council may deem to the best interest of said town of Roswell, numbered consecutively, to become due and payable at such time or times not exceeding twenty-five years from date of issue thereof, as said mayor and council shall determine, and bear interest not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually as the mayor and council shall determine. Said bonds so issued, shall be sold by the mayor and council in such way as may seem most advantageous to said town, for not less than par. The proceeds thereof shall be used by the mayor and council of

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said town of Roswell for the purpose of grading, paving and improving the streets of the said town of Roswell, Georgia, and for no other purpose. Limit $25,000, [Illegible Text] 25 years. Sale of bonds. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the town of Roswell shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to annually assess, levy and collect a tax on all the property, both real and personal, in the corporate limits of said town in such sums as they may deem right and proper and necessary for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds and to pay the principal of said bonds as they mature, and that tax, so assessed, levied and collected shall be kept separate from all other taxes and money belonging to said town of Roswell, and shall be used solely for the payment of the interest and principal of said bonds. Taxation to pay bonds. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That if the election herein provided for shall be against the issue of said bonds, the mayor and council of said town of Roswell, may at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of said first election, order another election under the provisions of this Act, and may so continue until the issuance of said bonds is authorized by the legal voters of said town in manner provided by law. Second election. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. SANDERSVILLE, CITY OF; NEW CHARTER. No. 116. An Act to amend, consolidate and supersede the several Acts incorporating the City of Sandersville, in the County of Washington; to create a new charter and a municipal government for said city, and for other purposes.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the municipal government of the City of Sandersville shall consist of mayor and five aldermen, who are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of the City of Sandersville, and by that name shall have perpetual succession; shall have a common seal and be capable in law and equity to pucrhase, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and rotain to them and their successors, for the use of the City of Sandersville, any real or personal estate of whatever kind or nature within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Sandersville, and shall by the same name be capable to sue and to be sued in any court of law or equity in this State, and shall succeed to all the rights and liabilities of the present corporation of the City of Sandersville, and the corporate limits of the City of Sandersville shall be one mile from the center of the Washington County court house in said city, in each and every direction; the said court house to be the center of the corporate limits of said city and said corporate limits to extend one mile therefrom in each and every direction. New charter. Corporate name. General powers. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that an election shall be held at the court house, in the city of Sandersville, on the last Wednesday in August next, and biennially thereafter, for a mayor and five aldermen, and a city treasurer, to serve two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The polls of said election shall be opened at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Standard time. Mayor and aldermen; treasurer; electon; term. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all male citizens qualified to vote for members of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly of Georgia, and who have paid all taxes imposed and demanded by the authorities of the city, and shall have resided six months within the jurisdictional [Illegible Text] of said city, and no other person shall be qualified to vote at said election. Voters. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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that the mayor and council shall cause the city clerk of the said City of Sandersville, to register the names of all voters who are qualified to vote under the charter of this city, and under the laws of this State, for municipal officers of the City of Sandersville. Registration of voters. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said city clerk shall provide a suitable book, alphabetically arranged, in which to register said qualified voters, and said clerk shall give notice in the city papers at least thirty days preceding the election, that his books are open for the registration of all voters who are qualified to vote for municipal officers. Such book shall be closed at least one week before the election. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of all persons in said city who desire to register, to apply to the city clerk in person, and to furnish said city clerk evidence of their qualifications for registration, and in case the city clerk is not satisfied as to the qualifications of the applicant, he may require the following oath or affirmation: I do swear (or affirm) that I am a qualified voter for members of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly of the State of Georgia from the County of Washington, and have paid all taxes legally imposed upon me by the City of Sandersville, so help me God. The city clerk of said city is hereby authorized to administer said eath, and shall keep a record of the same upon the registration book, and may refuse to register said persons as may decline to take the oath aforesaid. Oath of registrant. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that any person voting illegally in the municipal election of the City of Sandersville or falsely swearing (or affirm) in order to register, or otherwise violating any provision of this Act, shall, on conviction, be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Criminal Code of Georgia of 1910. Illegal voting. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, that said election shall be held under the superintendence of a justice of the peace and

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two freeholders, or three freeholders, who shall be appointed by the said mayor and council at least five days before the election and each of said election managers shall, before entering upon his duties, take an oath before some officer of this State, authorized by law to administer oaths, that he will faithfully and impartially conduct said election, and will prevent all illegal voting to the best of his skill and power; and in case the said managers of said election shall have any reasonable doubt as to the qualifications of any persons who desire to vote therein, they shall have the power to administer the following oath: You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you have attained the age of 21 years; that you are a citizen of the United States, and are qualified to vote for members of the House of Representatives in the General Assembly of Georgia from the County of Washington; that you have resided for the last six months within the City of Sandersville, and have paid all taxes legally imposed and demanded of you by said city, so help you God. And any person who shall take said oath and shall swear falsely shall be deemed guilty of perjury and be punished upon prosecution and conviction as prescribed by the laws of said State for the punishment of perjury. Managers of election. Oath of voter Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, that the person or persons who have received the highest number of votes at said election for mayor, aldermen and city treasurer, respectively, shall be declared duly elected. Election. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, that in case of any vacancy among members of ceuncil, or in the office of city treasurer, either by death, resignation, failure to elect, or removal from office, or removal from the city, or any other cause, the mayer shall order a new election to fill said vacancy, giving ten days' notice thereof by publication in a public gazette in said city, and the registration for the last preceding election shall be applicable thereto; in case of the death of the mayor, his resignation, removal from office or removal from the city, or a [Illegible Text] from any other cause in the office of the mayor, the city council shall in like manner order an election for filling said vacancy in each case, giving

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ten days' notice by publication in a public gazette of said city, and the registration of the last preceding election shall be applicable thereto; provided, that if any vacancy shall occur within three months next preceding the regular election, no special election shall be called to fill said vacancy; if the vacancy is in the office of the mayor, the mayor pro tem shall, upon taking the oath as mayor, serve out the unexpired term, and the said council shall elect a new mayor pro tem; if the vacancy is in the office of city treasurer, the mayor and council shall proceed to elect a new treasurer to fill out the unexpired time; if the vacancy is in the office of alderman, there shall be no election to fill out the same, unless the council is reduced by vacancy to less than a quorum, which is hereby declared to consist of three aldermen, besides the mayor or acting mayor. Vacancy. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, that after the votes for mayor, aldermen and city treasurer at each election therefor in said city, shall have been counted by the managers, and the result determined, they shall cause two certified copies of the tally sheets to be made out, one of each shall be handed to the mayor, and the other shall be retained by the managers; and as soon as the mayor of said city shall be informed of the results of the election, he shall cause the persons elected as aforesaid to be notified of the fact, and the persons so elected shall attend on the first Monday thereafter at the council chamber at the regular meeting of the mayor and council, and the newly elected mayor and each member of council shall take and subscribe before the clerk of some court of record of this State, or before any officer of said State authorized by law to administer oaths, the following oath: I swear that I will faithfully and impartially demean myself as mayor (or alderman, as the case may be) during my continuance in office. I have not, in order to influence my election to this office, directly or indirectly promised my vote or support to any person or office in the said government of the City of Sandersville, nor for any other office. I will not knowingly permit my vote in the election or appointment of any persons to a position in said government to be influenced by fear, favor or the hope of

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reward, but in all things pertaining to my said office I will be governed by what in my judgment is for the public good and for the best interest of said city, so help me God. The city treasurer shall take the oath of office hereinafter prescribed. Returns of election. Oath of office. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, that in case the mayor or any member of the council, while in office, shall be guilty of wilful neglect, malpractice, or abuse of power conferred to him, he shall be subject to indictment therefor in the Superior Court of Washington County, and on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars, which fine shall be paid to the city treasurer for the use of said city, and he shall, moreover, be removed from office, upon conviction. Neglect, malpractice, abuse of power; punishment. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, that no person shall be eligible as mayor or alderman or city treasurer of the City of Sandersville unless such person is a qualified voter of said city at the time of his election to such office. Eligibility. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, that the mayor of said city shall receive a salary of not less than three hundred and sixty dollars ($360.00) and not more than six hundred dollars ($600.00) per annum, payable monthly. Said salary shall be fixed by the council, for the full term of the mayor, at its first regular meeting after their election and qualification. The mayor shall be allowed to vote in the election of all municipal officers chosen by the mayor and council, but shall not vote on legislative questions and matters before that body except in case of a tie; he shall have the veto power and may veto any ordinance or resolution of the council, in which event the same shall not become a law unless subsequently passed over his veto by the vote of at least four aldermen on a yea and nay vote, duly recorded on the minutes of council, but unless he shall file in writing with the city clerk, his veto of any measure passed by that body with reasons which impel him to withhold his assent, within four days of its passage, the same shall become a law just as if approved and signed by the mayor. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of said city. He shall see that all

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laws, ordinances, resolutions and rules of said city are faithfully executed; he shall have the general jurisdiction of all of the affairs of the city, and to him all police officers and all city employees, under the jurisdiction of the mayor and council shall be directly and immediately subject. He shall have the power and authority to punish for contempt before the mayor and council by any fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by imprisonment in the city jail or guard house for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours, either or both, or in the alternative, the discretion of the mayor. It shall be the duty of the mayor to preserve the peace, and he may appoint special policemen, when in his judgment it may be necessary. The mayor and recorder of said city, in the event the office of recorder is created and established as is hereinafter provided for in this Act, shall be ex-officio justices of the peace so far as to enable and authorize them or either of them to issue and try warrants for criminal offenses committed within the jurisdiction of the City of Sandersville and commit offenders tried before them or either of them, as a court of inquiry or admit them to bail as in cases where a justice of the peace has power to commit or admit to bail. The mayor shall have power and authority to remit or reduce the fines imposed in the police court of said city upon persons convicted therein for violating any of the laws and ordinances of said city and he shall also have the authority to parole on good conduct persons convicted in the police court of violating the laws and ordinances of said city, under such rules and regulations as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. Salary of mayor. Vote by mayor. Veto. Powers and duties of mayor. Contempt. Recorder. Commitments. Power to remit fines. Parole. Sec. 15. At its first regular meeting upon organization, the board of aldermen shall elect one of their number mayor pro tem, and in the case of the resignation, death, removal, disability or disqualification of the mayor, the mayor pre tem so elected shall, upon taking the oath as mayor, serve as mayor with all the rights, powers and duties of the mayor in all respects. If the services of the mayor pro tem shall continue for as long as thirty days, he shall be compensated at the same rate, and in the same manner that the mayor is paid, and such compensation shall be deducted from

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the salary of the mayor unless said mayor's disqualification was from providential cause. Mayor pro tem. Pay. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, that the legislative body of the City of Sandersville shall consist of five aldermen who shall be elected at the same time, and for the same term as the mayor. The qualifications of the aldermen shall be the same as those of the mayor, and they shall each be paid a compensation for their services, the sum of two dollars for each stated regular meeting of the mayor and council actually attended by them and remaining during the session thereof, or, having attended such session, shall be excused from remaining throughout the entire session, by the mayor and council, for good and sufficient cause or reason to be adjudged by the said mayor and council; provided, that said aldermen shall not be paid for more than four stated regular meetings per month. Said aldermen shall not receive nor be paid any further or additional compensation either by way of salary exemption, or otherwise, except they, and all city officers, shall be exempt from street tax. Aldermen. Pay. Exempt from street tax. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, that at its first regular meeting after qualification, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the mayor and council of the City of Sandersville shall elect a city clerk. His qualifications and term of office shall be the same as those of the mayor; he shall take such oath of office and subscribe thereto, as the mayor and council may prescribe, and shall give bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) with good and sufficient security to be approved by the mayor and council by resolution, payable to the City of Sandersville, for the faithful performance of his duties and the making of a just and true account of all moneys and funds coming into his hands from all sources as an officer of said city. He shall be the clerical officer of the council and shall be the keeper of the seal of said city; he shall be ex-officio clerk of the police court of said city and attend its sessions; he shall be ex-officio tax collector of said city; he shall also be ex-officio clerk of the board of tax assessors, and the board of health of said city, and he

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shall be ex-officio clerk or secretary of any other board of said city created under the provisions of this Act, or that may be created and established under the laws and ordinances of the City of Sandersville. The duties of the said city clerk as clerk of the council, and as ex-officio clerk of the police court, as ex-officio tax collector, and as ex-officio clerk or secretary of any board or commission of said city, shall be such as prescribed in this Act and as shall be prescribed under and by the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. The said city clerk shall receive as compensation, a salary of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per annum, payable monthly out of the general city funds, and in addition thereto, such fees and commissions as may be prescribed and fixed by the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. Provided that the mayor and council of said city shall have the right, power and authority, by proper ordinance, to increase said salary to an amount not exceeding six hundred dollars ($600.00), besides such fees and commissions as may be prescribed and fixed by the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. The said city clerk shall also be ex-officio secretary of the water and light commission of the City of Sandersville until such office is separated from the office of city clerk as herein provided for in this Act, and he shall receive such salary, fees and commissions as such secretary as hereinafter prescribed in this Act, and as may be fixed and prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. Clerk. Oath and bond. Duties. Pay of clerk. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, that the city treasurer of the City of Sandersville shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner, and for the same term of office as the mayor and aldermen of said city. He shall be a qualified voter of said city at the time of his election. He shall take and subscribe such oath of office as the mayor and council may prescribe. He shall give bond, payable to the City of Sandersville, in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), with good and sufficient security to be approved by the mayor and council, by resolution, for the faithful performance of his duties and to make a just

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and true accounting for all moneys and funds coming into his hands from all sources as an officer of said city. It shall be the duty of the city treasurer to receive and safely keep all moneys and funds of the city that may come into his hands from every source; to keep separate accounts of same as may be provided or required under and by the laws and ordinances of said city; and he shall only pay out said funds in the way and manner as may be prescribed and provided for by and under the laws and ordinances of said city. The city treasurer shall also be ex-officio tax receiver of the City of Sandersville, and as such shall receive the returns of property for taxation in said city at such times and under such rules and regulations, laws and ordinances as the mayor and council shall prescribe and enact, and to perform any and all further duties as city treasurer and as city tax receiver as the mayor and council shall by ordinance prescribe. The city treasurer shall receive, as compensation, a salary of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per annum, payable monthly, and in addition thereto such fees and commissions as may be prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council, provided, the mayor and council of said city shall have the right, power and authority, by proper ordinance, to increase said salary to an amount not to exceed six hundred dollars ($600.00), besides such fees and commissions as may be prescribed and fixed by and under the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. Treasurer. Oath and bond. Duties. Ex-officio tax receiver. Pay. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, that at its first regular meeting, the mayor and council shall elect a city attorney whose term of office shall be two years; whose duties shall be such as are required by the ordinances and laws of the city and by the direction of the mayor and council. The said city attorney shall be paid a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) per annum, payable monthly, as a retainer only. He shall be the legal representative of the city and the legal adviser thereof. He shall represent the city in all matters in which the city is interested or involved and shall be paid for all legal services such compensation and fees as may be reasonable and just and as may be agreed

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upon between himself and the mayor and council. Whenever, in the judgment of the mayor and council, it shall be advisable to employ additional counsel to assist the said city attorney, authority to do so is hereby conferred upon the mayor and council. City attorney. Compensation. Additional counsel. Sec. 20. The mayor and council shall have authority to elect a city sexton to have the superintendence of and the care of the city cemeteries; his duties shall be such as shall be prescribed by the mayor and council and by the laws and ordinances of said city. He shall receive for each interment such fees as may be fixed, and shall receive such compensation as may be prescribed by the ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. Sexton. Pay. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council shall have authority to elect a city physician, whose duties shall be such as required by the ordinances of the said city, and by the direction of the mayor and council, and whose compensation shall be fixed by the laws and ordinances of the city and by the mayor and council. City physician. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted, that the said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to establish and put in operation a bond commision of said city. The duties, powers and compensation of said commission shall be such as may be fixed and prescribed by the ordinances and laws of said city. Said mayor and council shall have authority to enact all ordinances and rules and regulations and to prescribe penalties for violations of such ordinances, rules and regulations that may be necessary for the governing of such bond commission. Bond commission. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted, that at its first regular meeting, the mayor and council shall elect one marshal who shall be ex-officio chief of police, one assistant and as many additional policemen as in the judgment of the said mayor and council may seem proper and necessary. Such officer shall be elected for a term of one year; shall be paid such compensation as may be prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said city; provided, that the marshal or chief of

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police shall receive a salary of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum, and not more than fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00), and that the said assistant marshal and policemen of said city shall receive salaries of not less than nine hundred dollars ($900.00) per annum, and not more than fourteen hundred dollars ($1,400.00), as the mayor and council may deem necessary and proper; provided, further, that said above named officers shall in addition to such salaries as may be fixed and prescribed by the mayor and council, receive such fees and commissions as may be prescribed by the laws and ordinances of the said city, and by the mayor and council. All of such officers shall take and subscribe such oaths as the mayor and council may prescribe and shall give bond with good and sufficient security to be approved by the mayor of said city in such amount as may be determined upon by the mayor and council for the faithful performance of their duties and to account for all moneys that may come into their hands as such officers of said city. Said officers shall perform such duties as required and provided for in this Act and as may be prescribed and required of them by the laws and ordinances of said city and by the mayor and council. The mayor and council of said city shall have the right at any time, without trial, to suspend or remove any of said officers for breach of duty, or failure to perform duty, insubordination, incapacity or for conduct unbecoming an officer or a gentleman, or for other good and sufficient cause or reason to be adjudged by the mayor and council. The mayor may at any time during a recess of council, suspend any of the said officers for any of the above named reasons for a period not to exceed ten days, without pay, and appoint a substitute therefor. Marshal, ex-officio chief of police. Assistant and policemen. Pay. Oaths. Removal from office. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of said city shall be empowered to employ such additional police or detective force as a good government of said city may require. The compensation and duties of said force shall be fixed and determined by said mayor and council. Police force. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted, that there shall be and the same is hereby established in the City of Sandersville a court to be known and designated as the police court of the

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City of Sandersville. The jurisdiction of said court shall extend over all violations of the laws and ordinances of said city and all others of which municipalities are allowed jurisdiction under the laws of the State of Georgia, whenever said violations and offenses are committed within the corporate limits of the City of Sandersville. The sessions of said court shall be held and presided over by the mayor, or the mayor pro tem, or by the city recorder, in the event the mayor and council shall see fit to create such office as hereinafter provided, at the city hall building, in the City of Sandersville, or at such other place in said city as the mayor and council may direct, daily, or at such times as in the judgment of the presiding officer of said court may be necessary. Said mayor, or mayor pro tem, or the recorder, shall have the power and authority to try all offenses and violations against the laws and ordinances of said city, committed within the corporate limits thereof and upon conviction, to punish offenders by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, by imprisonment in the city jail or guardhouse, or the county jail of Washington County, for any term not exceeding ninety days, or by compulsory work, not exceeding ninety days, on the streets of the City of Sandersville, or on the chaingang of said city, or upon any of the public works of said city, as the presiding officer of said court may direct. Any or all of the above punishments may be inflicted in the discretion of the mayor, or the mayor pro tem, or the recorder, as the case may be, presiding in said court. And such presiding or trial officer shall have the authority to impose any of the above punishments in the alternative. Whenever any person is convicted and sentenced to pay a fine and to work upon the streets of said city or other public works thereof, and fails or refuses to pay said fine, the collection thereof shall be enforced by execution, levy and sale in the same way and manner as the collection of taxes is enforced in said city. Police court. Penalties. Execution for fine. Sec. 26. Be it further enacted, that all trials in the police court of said city shall be had without written pleadings of any kind unless the defendant shall, upon the calling of the case, file a written demand with the city clerk that an accusation,

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in writing, shall be preferred against him, in which event a written accusation, in form substantially as follows: Georgia, Washington county, City of SandersvilleIn the police court of the City of Sandersville: I,.....marshal (or policeman) of said city, in the name and behalf of the City of Sandersville, charge and accuse.....of the offense of..... contrary to the laws and ordinances of said city, the good order, peace and dignity thereof, shall be preferred against the defendant, signed by the officer making or prosecuting the case, and filed in said court, whereupon the defendant shall enter his plea thereon in writing and the issue being thus formed the case shall proceed to trial and disposition. Trials. Demand for accusation. Form of accusation. Sec. 27. Be it further enacted, that the said police court and the presiding officer thereof shall have the power to punish for contempt against its lawful authority whether in its presence or otherwise; to issue summonses and subpoenas for witnesses and compel their attendance whether residents of the city or not; to issue subpoenas duces tecum for witnesses and the production of books and papers whether in the city or not, and compel their production; to compel the presence of witnesses by imprisonment if necessary, and to take bonds to secure their attendance and to forfeit said bonds before said police court; to punish, as for contempt, failure to obey its legal summonses and orders; to grant continuances under rules of law; to take bonds and recognizances for persons charged with offenses against the laws and ordinances of said city for their appearance at its sessions from time to time, until the principal in said bond is tried for the offense charged, in such amount as may be deemed sufficient to compel their appearance; to forfeit all appearance bonds when the principal shall fail or refuse to appear at said court at the time and place specified therein, under such rules and regulations as the mayor and council of said city shall by ordinance prescribe, and the said police court shall have the power and authority to do, generally, all other acts and things necessary for the proper enforcement of its authority. Said court shall have the power and

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authority to punish for contempt by any fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the city jail or guardhouse not exceeding ten days, either or both, in the discretion of the presiding officer of said court, provided, that a continuous failure or refusal by any person to obey the lawful orders or summonses of said court, such continuous failure or refusal shall be deemed a continuous contempt, and the said court may imprison such person until its lawful orders are obeyed. Powers of police court. Contempt. Bond for appearance. Forfeiture. Penalty for contempt. Sec. 28. Be it further enacted, that the marshal or any policeman of said city shall release any person arrested for a violation of the laws and ordinances of said city, upon said person giving a bond with good and sufficient security to be approved by the marshal or other arresting officer, city clerk or recorder of said city, payable to the mayor of said City of Sandersville, an amount fixed by the said marshal or other arresting officer, the city clerk or the recorder of said city, for the personal appearance of such persons before the police court of said city at the time and place therein specified, to answer the charges against him, and from time to time until the principal in such bond is tried and the case disposed of, and not to depart from thence except by leave of the court. And in the event such principal fails to appear before said court as stipulated in said bond, said bond shall be forfeited in said court and the presiding officer thereof shall have the power and authority to order the principal in said bond re-arrested and placed in the city jail or guardhouse until such case shall be tried and disposed of, or to admit the defendant to bail, as he may deem proper. Release on bond. Forfeiture. Sec. 29. Be it further enacted, that any person convicted in the police court in the City of Sandersville for the violation of any of the laws and ordinances of said city shall have the right to certiorari to the Superior Court of Washington County; provided, all costs are first paid to the city clerk, who shall, upon payment thereof, certify in writing that the same has been paid and bond and security given in double the amount of the fine imposed, to personally appear, stand to and abide by the final judgment in said case, and if no fine

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is imposed and the defendant is sentenced to work on the street or other public works in said city, then a like bond shall be given, the amount of which to be fixed by the presiding officer of said court. All bonds given in certiorari cases to be approved by the presiding officer of said court. Provided, further, that nothing in this section shall prevent the defendant if he desires to certiorari his case, to file the usual affidavit in forma pauperis in lieu of giving bond and security and the payment of the cost, and upon such affidavit being made or the above stated bond given, the same shall act as a supercedeas of said judgment until the final judgment is rendered in said case. All certioraries shall be governed under the same rules and regulations, except as otherwise provided herein, as provided by law for the carrying of cases by certiorari from the Court of Ordinary to the Superior Court. Certiorari. Sec. 30. Be it further enacted, that in no case, except as hereinafter provided, shall the marshal or any policeman of said city make any arrest of any person charged with the violation of any of the laws and ordinances of said city without first having procured from the mayor, mayor pro tem, or the recorder of said city (each of them being hereby authorized and empowered to issue warrants for the apprehension and arrests of persons charged with violating any of the laws and ordinances of said city) a warrant for the arrest of such persons unless the offense or violation is committed in the presence of such arresting officer, or the offender is attempting to escape, in which event he may arrest and detain such persons until a proper warrant can be secured authorizing the offender's further detention. The marshal and policemen of said city and the detective force being fully authorized and empowered to arrest any person within the corporate limits of the City of Sandersville charged with an offense against its laws and ordinances and to imprison and confine such persons arrested by them in the city jail or guardhouse, or in the jail of Washington County until the trial, or admit them to bail as provided. The marshal and policemen of said city are authorized to the same extent as sheriffs of this State to execute warrants

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placed in their hands charging any person with a violation of any of the criminal laws of this State. The marshal and policemen are also authorized to arrest anywhere within the limits of this State any person charged with a violation of the laws and ordinances of said city upon a warrant from the proper officer of said city authorized to issue the same. Arrests. Warrants. Sec. 31. Be it further enacted, that each police officer upon information that an offense against the city's laws and ordinances has been committed, and said violation has not been committed in his presence, and said police officer is satisfied that the person charged with such offense is not likely to leave the city to escape arrest under a warrant, he shall give said person a written summons to appear before the police court at its next regular session to answer such charge. If such person refuses to obey such summons, he shall be deemed in contempt of said police court and be punished accordingly. If said officers, or either of them, have reason to believe that the accused person will leave the city and not obey said summons, said officers shall obtain a warrant from the proper officers of said city for the arrest of said person, and imprison said person until a trial is had before the police court, or to admit the accused to bail for his appearance before the police court at its next regular session to answer said charge. It shall also be the duty of the marshal and policemen of the city to arrest any person violating any of the laws of this State in their presence and to immediately carry such persons before a magistrate and see that a proper warrant is sworn out. It shall be the duty of all police officers in all cases where they know that the State laws are being violated in said city, to apply to the nearest magistrate for a warrant for such person and have the same executed. Summons. Contempt. Arrest. Sec. 32. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of the City of Sandersville may, whenever in their judgment they see fit, create the office of city recorder for said city and to elect some upright and intelligent person reasonably skilled in the law, resident of said city, to perform the duties of that office, and to fix at not more than $300.00 per

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annum his compensation therefor. Said recorder may be elected at any time that in the judgment of the mayor and council his services may be necessary or desirable, and he shall hold his office for a term of one year, or until the qualification of the mayor and council following the next city election, and until his sucessor is elected and qualified. He shall be a qualified voter of said city and shall take and subscribe to such oath as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. It shall be the duty of said recorder to preside in the police court of said city in all cases, except when providentially hindered or when absent from the city, or when he may be disqualified. In either case the mayor or the mayor pro tem shall preside as acting recorder with the same power and authority as vested in the city recorder. Recorder. Qualifications. [Illegible Text]. Term. Oath. Sec. 33. Be it further enacted, that the mayor, the mayor pro tem or the recorder of said city presiding in the police court of said city, shall have, in addition to the jurisdiction hereinbefore conferred, criminal jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, within the corporate limits of the City of Sandersville, and when it shall appear upon the trial of any case in the police court of said city, that an offense against the laws of the State has been committed within the limits of said city, it shall be the duty of the mayor, mayor pro tem or the recorder of said city, as the case may be, presiding in said court, to make a thorough investigation into the facts and to commit the offender or offenders to jail or to bail to answer to the court having jurisdiction of the offense if the offense is bailable. Commitment. Sec. 34. Be it further enacted, that the jailor of Washington County shall receive persons arrested by the officers of said City of Sandersville or bound over from the police court of said city into the jail of said County upon the same terms as other prisoners, and the said City of Sandersville shall be responsible to the said jailor for the expense of keeping the prisoners when they are confined therein as conviets of the police court or confined therein for the purpose of safekeeping. The City of Sandersville is hereby authorized to make such contracts with the proper authorities of Washington County for the hire of city convicts to work upon the

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public works of said County within the corporate limits of said city. Jail. Hire of convicts. Sec. 35. Be it further enacted that the mayor and council of the City of Sandersville shall have the power and authority to authorize by ordinance the marshal or any policeman of said city to summons any and all by-standers to aid in the arrest of any person or persons violating any ordinance of said city or any law of this State, and to provide a punishment for any person or persons failing or refusing to obey such summons. Power to require aid in arrest. Sec. 36. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council may, by ordinance, declare what shall be nuisance in said city, and by ordinance provide for the abatement of same. The police court of Sandersville shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the mayor and council of said city in respect to the trial and abatement of all nuisances in said city. Nuisances. Sec. 37. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the power and authority to prevent horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, goats, dogs, and all other animals from running at large in said city; to prevent and prohibit the keeping of hogs within the city limits, or to regulate the manner in which they must be kept, if allowed kept; to limit the number of hogs to be kept by persons in said city, if allowed kept therein, and shall have full power and authority to take up and impound any of such animals and punish all owners of any of such animals who shall fail or refuse to obey such ordinances as may be adopted by the mayor and council of said city to carry out and effectuate this authority. The mayor and council shall also have the authority to levy and collect such tax as they may deem proper upon dogs kept within the limits of said city; to provide for the registration thereof, and to prescribe such ordinances respecting the keeping of dogs as may be deemed proper, and to prescribe punishment for violation of said ordinances. Animals at large. Dogs.

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Sec. 38. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council shall have authority to establish a pound for the impounding of any of the above mentioned animals, and to change the same whenever they see proper; to fix a schedule of charges and penalties to be paid by the owners of such impounded animals before they are released from said pound; to regulate the mode or manner of sale or disposition of impounded animals where no owner appears, or when payment of the impounding fees charged, penalties, or costs is refused; to provide for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale of impounded animals, and to provide for the punishment of all persons, who, without authority, shall break or enter the pound. Pound. Sec. 39. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the power and authority to require every male inhabitant in said city, who by the laws of this State is subject to work on the public roads, to work such length of time on the streets of said city as the mayor and council may by ordinance direct, in no case to exceed fifteen days in any one year. Said persons so subject to street work, shall have the right to relieve themselves of said work by paying a commutation tax which said mayor and council shall fix by ordinance, and which tax shall in no event exceed three dollars per annum. Said street work to be done, and commutation tax paid at such times as the mayor and council may by ordinance direct. Any persons subject to work or pay said tax and failing to do so, after being properly notified as provided for under the laws and ordinances of said city, shall be punished in the police court of said city as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. Street tax or work. Sec. 40. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and council shall have the authority to establish and put in operation a board of health for said city. The duties, powers and compensation of said board, and the number of members that shall comprise the same shall be such as are fixed and prescribed by the ordinances and the laws of said city.

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Said mayor and council shall have authority to enact all ordinances and regulations prescribing penalties for the violation of such laws and ordinances that may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining such board of health. Board of health. Sec. 41. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to enact and enforce ordinances to prevent the spread of any infectious or contagious diseases; to compel the vaccination of all persons within the limits of said city, whether residents or sojourners; also, to isolate any person or persons in said city afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease by confining such person or persons within the limits of the premises provided by the mayor and council, either within or without the corporate limits of the city for such purposes; to isolate any person or persons who have been exposed to any infectious or contagious disease, during the usual period of incubation of such disease, by confining such person or persons during such period, within the premises provided for by the mayor and council, either within or without the corporate limits of said city. The mayor and council shall also have the power and authority to establish, declare and maintain quarantine regulations against all contagious or infectious diseases and to punish yiolators of any quarantine regulations of the city. They shall have power to build, establish and maintain pest-houses either within or without the corporate limits of the city, and for this purpose they are authorized to buy, hold or receive real estate, either within or without the city limits. They shall have the power to provide vaccination points and to employ physicians at the expense of the city to vaccinate all persons who are unable to procure vaccination, and may provide by ordinance punishment for persons failing or refusing to be vaccinated, and to prescribe punishment for all persons violating any ordinance, rules and regulations enacted by said mayor and council for the prevention of disease and for the promotion of the health of said city. Health regulations. Quarantine. Vaccination. Sec. 42. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and

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council may enact any and all ordinances, rules and regulations necessary to lay out and prescribe a fire district in said city, and to enlarge, change or modify its limits from time to time; to prescribe when, how and of what material buildings in said limits may be erected, repaired, or covered, how thick the walls must be, how the chimneys, stove pipes, and flues are to be constructed; to provide for fire escapes in said buildings, and generally to do all such things and to pass such laws and ordinances as the mayor and council may deem necessary in order to protect said city as far as possible from dangers from fire and to prevent the spread of fire from one building to another, and for the protection and safety of the people. They shall also have the authority to order any changes in the construction or arrangement of buildings, chimneys, stovepipes, or flues, and to order the removal thereof when in their judgment the same are dangerous or likely to become so, and to make the owner of the premises pay the expense of such change or removal, which expense may be collected as taxes are collected, and if any person, firm or corporation shall erect or maintain any building that is not in accordance with the laws and ordinances of said city, said mayor and council may order such buildings removed or altered, and if such person, firm or corporation shall not remove or alter such buildings after notice to do so is given as may be prescribed, then said mayor and council shall have authority to remove or alter the same at the expense of the owner, which expense may be collected as taxes are collected. Fire protection. Building regulations. Collection of expenses of changes in premises, etc. Sec. 43. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of said city shall have the absolute, full and complete control and supervision of the streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, parks and squares of said city, and shall have full power and authority to open, lay out, widen, straighten, grade, or otherwise change the streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, parks, and squares of said city, and shall have the power to lay off, grade, vacate, close up, open, curb and pave the roads, streets, bridges, alleys, sidewalks, cross-drains, cross-walks, drains and gutters, or any of them, for

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public use or the use of laying wires or lines, or sewer pipes, throughout the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, and parks of said city, upon such terms and conditions as the mayor and council may by ordinance provide. And the mayor and council of said city shall have full power and authority to condemn property for the purpose of laying out and opening new streets, sidewalks, alleys, squares, and parks in said city, and for the purpose of widening, straightening, grading or in any way changing the streets, lanes and sidewalks of said city. Whenever the said mayor and council shall desire to exercise the power and authority to condemn property as granted and conferred herein, said power and authority shall be exercised, whether the land sought to be condemned is in the hands of the owner or a trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, or agent, under the same terms and conditions as provided for in the general laws of this State with reference to the condemnation of private property for public use as contained in Article 1, Chapter 9 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, beginning with Section 5206 and embracing all sections following the same having reference to the condemnation of private property for public use, and as provided by Acts amendatory thereof. The mayor and council of said city shall have full power and authority to remove or cause to be removed any building, steps, fences, gates, posts, or other obstructions, or nuisances of any kind in the public streets, alleys, lanes, sidewalks, parks or squares of said city, and to enforce the provisions of the section by the enactment of appropriate ordinances. Streets, powers as to. Condemnation. Obstructions. Sec. 44. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have full power and authority to pass all laws and ordinances necessary for the draining and proper maintenance and care of the streets, alleys, sidewalks and other public places of said city; to provide for the paving, grading, macadamizing, curbing, or otherwise improving, for travel or drainage, the same or any part thereof; or to regrade, repave, recurb, remacadamize, or repair in any way the payement, curbing, grade, or drainage

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of the same, whenever in the judgment of the said mayor and council, the same becomes necessary or advisable, and the said mayor and council shall have the right and authority to provide, by ordinance, how said paving, grading, macadamizing, or repairing, maintenance and care of the same shall be paid, whether by the city or whether by the adjacent land owners or by both. Drainage, [Illegible Text], etc. Sec. 45. Be it further enacted, that the said mayor and council shall have the full power and authority to cnact all laws and ordinances to require any railroad, or street railroad company having or which may hereafter have, tracks running in, along, across or through the streets, alleys, or ways of said city, so improved, to macadamize or otherwise pave and improve as the mayor and council may direct, the width of their tracks, and two feet on each side thereof, and to require said companies to repair or repave their aforesaid portions as the mayor and council may direct, and the mayor and council shall have the power and authority to enforce the provisions of this section by proper ordinances. Railroads, street work by. Sec. 46. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have full power and authority by ordinance to regulate and to prescribe the speed of railroad trains running within the limits of the said city, to require all railroad companies to station watchmen at street crossings; to require all trains running across or in and along any street, to be proceeded by a flagman, to make it a penal offense for any railroad company, its agents or employees to block or obstruct any street crossing, with railroad trains, cars or engines, any longer than is necessary for said trains, cars, or engines to pass over said crossings; to prohibit more than one train from crossing or running parallel with another train at the same time across a street crossing: and to regulate in any other way the running or operation of railway trains within the city limits, as it may deem necessary to protect and safeguard the public, and to provide a penalty for the violation of any of the provisions of this section. Regulation of trains.

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Sec. 47. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the power and authority to maintain, equip, repair, extend, enlarge, and in any way improve the present system of water works, sewerage, electric lights in the City of Sandersville, for the purpose of supplying its inhabitants and the city and consumers generally, with water, sewerage and electric lights, or any of them, and the said mayor and council shall have the power to do any and all things necessary for such purpose; to contract with any person or persons, firms or corporations, for the purchase of land or premises to be used in connection therewith, whether within or without the city, and to contract for the purchase of easement over lands and premises to be used in connection therewith, whether the lands and premises over which easements are desired are within or without the limits of said city, and if necessary for any or all of such purposes to condemn the same as hereinafter provided for; said mayor and council in the name of the city, shall have full power and authority to make purchase of plants, machinery and any and all articles and things that may be necessary or advisable for the proper equipment of said plants or either of them, and for the purpose of properly repairing and maintaining the same, or for the purpose of extending, enlarging, or in any way improving said plants or either of them; to build and erect houses, bore wells, build, shape and to furnish the same with machinery, tools, and equipment that may be necessary or expedient in the care and maintenance of said plants, and to generally have the power and authority to do any and all things necessary or expedient to the up-keep, care, maintenance and improvement of said plants, or in the extension or enlargement thereof. The right to repair and keep up said plants, or either of them, and to purchase such articles and things for such purposes, may be exercised, in the discretion of the mayor and council, by the water and electric commission of said city as hereinafter provided for and established. Said mayor and council, in the name of the city shall have the right and authority to make contracts with the inhabitants of said

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city, and to consumers generally, whether residents of said city or residents without the limits thereof, for the furnishing of water, electric lights, electric power, sewerage or any of them, at such rates and under such rules and regulations as the mayor and council may provide. Provided, however, that the mayor and council may provide, by proper resolutions or ordinances, that said rates, rules, and regulations may be fixed and determined by the water and electric light commission of said city. Said mayor and council in the name of said city, shall have the right, power, and authority to contract with may other municipality in the county of Washington for the furnishing of electric lights to light the streets of such municipality or for the furnishing of electric power to said city upon such terms, conditions, stipulations, agreements, and limitations as the mayor and council may prescribe; and the said City of Sandersville shall have the power and authority to enforce such contracts in the courts of this State in the same manner that contracts against municipalities are enforced, under the laws of Georgia. Said mayor and council shall also have the right and authority to contract with persons, firms and corporations in other municipalities for the furnishing of electric lights and power under the same terms, rates, rules and regulations as the same is furnished to residents of the City of Sandersville, or at a higher rate as the said mayor and council of the City of Sandersville may provide. The mayor and council shall not make any contract with any other municipality for the furnishing electric lights to light the streets of said municipality, or to furnish electric power thereto, for a longer period than one year from the making thereof, but said contract may be renewed at the expiration thereof, from year to year, by resolutions of both municipalities, stipulating that said contracts are renewed, said resolutions to be spread upon the minutes of the mayor and council of each municipality. The mayor and council of the City of Sandersville shall have the full power and authority to establish and maintain a new system of waterworks, electric lights, sewerage, or any of them, whenever

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it may be necessary or advisable for the purpose of furnishing and supplying its inhabitants, and the city and consumers generally with water, sewerage, electric lights, electric power, or any of them and when such power and authority is exercised, the said mayor and council shall have the same rights, powers, privileges, etc., for the erection, equipment, care, maintenance, repairing and improvement thereof, and the making and enforcements of contracts for the furnishing of lights, water, sewerage, electric power, or any of them to the inhabitants of said city and non-residents thereof, and other municipalities and the inhabitants thereof, together with the right to acquire, own, possess and condemn lands and premises for such purposes, whether within or without the limits of said city, as herein conferred upon and granted said mayor and council as hereinabove set forth respecting the present system of waterworks, electric lights, and sewerage of said city. Waterworks, electric lights, sewerage. Power' to supply light, etc., in other towns. Sec. 48. Be it further enacted, that the said mayor and council shall also have full power and authority to grant franchises over its streets, and other public property to any persons, firms or corporations for the furnishing of water, electric lights, electric power, sewerage, or any of them, to the city and its inhabitants, and to make such contracts with such persons, firms or corporations for water, electric lights, electric power, sewerage or any of them, as the mayor and council may deem proper; provided, that the city shall not be bound by any such contract for a longer period than one year from the making thereof, unless said contract shall have first been approved by a majority vote of the qualified voters of said city at an election to be held for such purpose, of which at least four weeks' notice shall be given in a newspaper in said city, by the mayor and council, which notice shall contain a substantial statement of the proposed contract, as well as the time and place of the election, and said election shall be governed by the laws of said city, applicable to the regular election of the mayor and aldermen, and, provided, further that no such franchise shall be granted for a period longer than twenty years

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from the date of granting same. The mayor and council of the City of Sandersville are hereby authorized and empowered to enact all laws, ordinances, rules and regulations necessary to carry out and effectuate this section. Grant of franchises. Sec. 49. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council, in the name of the city, shall have full power and authority to contract for or to condemn any lands or premises, within or without the City of Sandersville, for the purposes of establishing and maintaining electric light plants, water works systems and sewerage systems, drainage systems or any of them for said city, or for the purpose of maintaining, extending, enlarging or improving the present electric light, water works and sewerage systems, or drainage systems of said city, or any of them; or for the purpose of enlarging or extending the Big Ditch, and other water ways and drainage ditches of said city, and for either or all of said purposes, provided, however, that whenever the right to condemn lands and premises herein granted be exercised, all proceedings in respect thereto shall be under the same terms and conditions as provided for in the general laws of this State, with reference to the condemnation of private property for public use, as contained in Article 1, Chapter 9 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, beginning with Section 5206 thereof and embracing all sections following, the same having reference to condemnation of private property for public use, and as provided by Acts amendatory thereof. Condemnation of property. Sec. 50. Be it further enacted, that the City of Sandersville may issue its bonds for the payments of its debts or for public improvements, but such bonds shall be issued only in accordance with and under the provisions of the laws of Georgia as found in Sections 440, etc., of the Political Code of Georgia. Bond issues. Sec. 51. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall be authorized and empowered to establish an electric light system, a sewerage system and a water works system, or any of them, as is hereinafter provided,

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in connection with and jointly with the City of Tennille in the County of Washington, under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the municipal authorities of the cities of Tennille and Sandersville, by ordinances duly passed by each of said cities; provided, that the power herein granted shall not become effective until a similar power has been conferred upon the City of Tennille by the Legislature of Georgia. Power to join City of Tennille in establishing systems of lights, etc. Sec. 52. Be it further enacted, that whenever the City of Sandersville, acting through its mayor and council, shall desire to create a debt for the purpose of carrying into effect any of the powers and provisions of this charter, it shall have the right and authority to do so when authorized by two-thirds of the qualified voters of said city at an election held for that purpose as provided by law. The mayor and council shall have the authority to enact such ordinances to carry out and effectuate the provisions of this section. Election to authorize debt. Sec. 53. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the full power and authority to tax and grant licenses to persons keeping markets in said city and to provide for the inspection of all meats, fruits, and vegetables sold or offered for sale in said city, as well as for the inspection and regulation of all butcher pens used by butchers in said city, whether said pens are located within the limits of said city or not, and all animals slaughtered or intended for slaughter by the owners of markets or persons conducting same, and all animals brought in said city for sale to markets or brought into the city after being sold, for the purpose of being butchered and dispensed to the people of said city. The said mayor and council of said city shall also have the right and authority to tax, license, regulate, and control by ordinances, all taverns, hotels, boarding houses, cafes, restaurants, soda-water founts, places for the sale of creams, ices, soda water, and soft drinks of any character, or dealers in same, livery stables, feed stables, sales stables or lots, and owners or keepers of

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same, hacks, drays, jitneys, or other vehicles and operators of same, auctioneers, vendue masters, itinerant traders, picture shows, theatres, shows and exhibitions and fairs of all kinds, theatrical performances, dummy or street railways, oil mills, ice works or factories, ginneries, grist mills, flour mills, planing mills, saw mills, and all other kinds of mills, machine shops, wood shops, blacksmith shops, garages, and shops of any other kind, circuses, and owners or managers of same, lightning rod dealers, itinerant or otherwise, bill posters, book agents, peddlers of stoves, machines, or any article of merchandise, itinerant traders, emigrant agents, itinerant vendors of any and all kinds of goods, wares, merchandise or other things, salesmen offering for sale stock in oil companies or any corporation; pool rooms, billiard rooms, pool tables, billiard tables, and any and all kinds of tables for public play, bowling alley, and every keeper of any thereof, and every keeper of any tables, devices, stand, or place for the performance of any game or play whether played with sticks, balls, rings or other things and contrivances; upon flying jennies, merry-go-rounds, and other like contrivances, skating rinks, dance halls, or the owner or operator or keeper of any of them; dealers in bicycles, velocipedes and other like vehicles, dealers in automobiles, insurance companies of any character, and agents representing any of such companies, debenture companies, bond companies, and agents thereof; loan companies and agents thereof and loan agents for any and all kinds of business; oil companies and agents thereof; brokers and commission merchants of all kinds; dealers in petroleum oils of any character; dealers in lubricating oils, paints or like articles; undertakers, undertaking establishments, newspapers, publishing companies, job printing establishments, dealers in coffins and caskets, and undertaking supplies; dealers in futures; guano factories, and dealers in guano or fertilizers of any kind, keepers of slaughter pons, dealers in fresh fish and oysters, dealers in vegetables, fruits, breads or other articles of food; dealers in coal, wood, ice or any and all of them; owners or keepers of bakeries, plumbers, banks, or bankers, telephone

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companies, telegraph companies, express companies, real estate companies or brokers; dealers in plumbers supplies, dealers in builders supplies, marble yards, brick yards, barber shops, junk shops, cotton warehouses and any and all other kinds of warehouses, bottling works, or the owners of any of such places, dealers in goods, wares or merchandise of any character on the installment plan; dealers in lime, brick, cement, lumber, shingles, junk, or any of such articles, and all and every other business, agency, calling, vocation, trade, or dealer, not heretofore mentioned, and which under the Constitution and laws of Georgia are subject to license and specific tax. The mayor and council shall also have the right to fix and prescribe the amount of said taxes and licenses; to provide where the same shall be paid; to provide for the revocation of any or all licenses issued under this section; to provide for the enforcement and effectuating the provisions of this section, and to provide penalties for the violation of any of the provisions thereof. Markets; inspection of butcher pens, food, etc. Business taxes and licenses. Sec. 54. Be it further enacted, that said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to require any person, firm or corporation, whether a resident or non-resident of the City of Sandersville, engaged in or carrying on or who may engage in or carry on any trade, business, vecation or profession within the corporate limits of said city, either by themselves or by their agent or agents, to register their names and business, calling, vocation or profession, annually, and to require such person, or firm, or corporation to pay for such registration and for license to prosecute, carry on or engage in such business, calling or profession such amount as the mayor and council may be ordinance require. Said mayor and council may by ordinance provide for the punishment of all persons, firms, or corporations, who are required by ordinance to pay the said special tax and register, who shall engage in, or offer, or attempt to engage in such business, calling or profession without first complying in all respects with the city ordinances in reference thereto. Registration of business. Sec. 55. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council

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of Sandersville shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax, annually, of not exceeding one and onehalf per cent. upon all and every species of property, both real and personal, within the limits of the City of Sandersville, including bonds, notes, debts, choses in action, money employed in banking and otherwise, and to enforce the collection of same by execution, levy and sale as the mayor and council shall provide. Tax rate. Sec. 56. Be it further enacted, that said mayor and council shall, at their first meeting in September of each year, elect three intelligent, discreet and upright persons, citizens and qualified voters of said city, and owners of real estate therein, as city tax assessors, whose terms of office shall be one year. Said city tax assessors shall at any time be removed from office by the mayor and council, for good and sufficient cause, to be judged by said mayor and council, and all vacancies occurring from any cause may be filled by the mayor and council at any time. It shall be the duty of said tax assessors to assess the value of real estate in said city for the purpose of taxation by said city, and it shall be their duty to examine the tax returns placed before them by the officers receiving the same, and increase the valuation of personal property thereof when in their judgment the value placed thereon is too small. The mayor and council shall have the authority to prescribe rules for the government of said city tax assessors. Said assessors shall make returns of the assessments made by them to the mayor and council each year at such time as the mayor and council may by ordinance direct. If any taxpayer is dissatisfied with the assessment made of his property, either real or personal by said assessors, such taxpayer shall, within ten days after the assessors have made their returns to the mayor and council, file written notice with the clerk of council of his dissatisfaction, and shall name in his said notice one arbitrator to represent him in fixing the value of his said property. Upon such notice being filed with the said clerk, it shall be his duty to notify the mayor of the fact, and it shall be the duty of the mayor to forthwith name an arbitrator to

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represent said city in fixing the value of the property in dispute, and the two arbitrators so elected shall be immediately notified by the city clerk and shall forthwith select an umpire and the board of arbitrators so constituted shall immediately proceed to give their awards as to the value of such property, which award shall be returned to the city clerk, and shall be final on both the city and the taxpayer. The city assessors shall take such oaths and receive such compensation as the mayor and council may prescribe; they shall have the power to require any taxpayer to furnish them a list of all notes, accounts, mortgages, stocks, bonds and other securities and investments whenever in their opinion the same is necessary for a correct assessment, and to punish for contempt as may be prescribed by ordinance for failure or refusal to do so. The mayor and council shall have the power and authority to pass such ordinances as are required to effectuate this section. Tax assessors. Contest of assessment. Pay of assessors. Power to compel information. Sec. 57. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have power and authority to provide by ordinance when the taxes of said city shall fall due, in what length of time said taxes shall be paid, when tax executions shall issue against defaulters, and to fix a penalty for the non-payment of taxes when due. Time to pay tax. Sec. 58. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That executions for any and all taxes or licenses or demands of any sort due the city or its corporate authorities by any person, firm or corporation, or against any property subject thereto, shall be issued by the clerk of said city, signed by him, bear test in the name of the mayor, and be directed to the marshal of said city and his deputies, and to all and singular the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables of this State, commanding them that of any property belonging to the defendant against whom said execution is issued, or of certain property described in the execution, they make by levy and sale the amount due on the execution with all costs. The mayor and council shall, by ordinance, provide for the time and place of and the method of conducting

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and all registrations, governing the marshal's sales under said executions. The sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables of this state shall proceed in the same manner to levy and collect executions issued from the respective courts of which they are an executive officer. Execution for tax, etc. Sec. 59. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of said city shall have the power and authority to control and regulate the running of bicycles, automobiles, motorcycles and any and all other kinds of high speed vehicles in said city, whether said vehicles are propelled by hand, foot, steam, electricity, or other motive power; to prescribe the rate of speed at which same may be run and the manner in which the same may be run; the qualifications of the drivers, chauffeurs or operators of said vehicles; to provide for the registration of said machines, and to do any, all and every act and thing necessary or incident to the safety of the same and of the public. The mayor and council of said city shall have the authority to effectuate the provisions of this section by ordinance and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. Regulation of vehicles, speed, crivers, etc. Sec. 60. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the right and authority, by ordinance, to prohibit idling, loitering and loafing on the streets, alleys, lanes, squares, and sidewalks of said city, or upon any of them, and to prohibit the idling, loitering and loafing in any of the public buildings in said city, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof. Idling or loitering in streets, etc. Sec. 61. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city, be and are hereby empowered and authorized to regulate by ordinance, the selling, weighing, measuring of hay, wood, ice, coal, coke and all other articles and commodities sold by weight or measure; to require dealers to keep honest weights and measures; to give full and honest weights and measures; to provide for the inspection and regulations of such weights and measures; to provide that the marshal and policemen of said city shall have the power

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and authority to stop wagons or drays loaded with any of such articles and commodities and have the same measured or weighed and see if the articles or commodities thereon are of full weight or measure; and to prescribe penalties for any violation of this section or ordinance adopted effectuating same. The provisions of this section shall also apply to persons who reside without the limits of the city bringing any of said articles or commodities in said city for sale. Weights and measures. Sec. 62. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have full power and authority to compel any resident or non-resident or property owner owning lands located upon any of the streets of said city over which the water and sewerage system now extends or may hereafter extend, upon which lands houses are erected, or may be erected and occupied, either by the owner or by tenants, to connect the same with the water and sewerage systems now laid or hereafter laid by said city, and to compel said property owners or others owning, controlling or using such buildings, to pay the expense of said connections when done by the city (which authority is hereby granted in the event such owner or other person fails or refuses to cause such connections to be made within such reasonable time as the mayor and council may direct), in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations that the collections of taxes are enforced. The mayor and council of said city shall have the authority to require all surface wells, drywells, or other places to be filled in at the expense of the owner, and should the owner fail or refuse to fill the same within a reasonable time as the mayor and council may direct, the same shall be done by the city, and the expense thereof shall be collected from the owner in the same manner as taxes are collected. The mayor and council are hereby authorized and empowered to enact such ordinances as may be necessary to fully effectuate the provisions of this section. Water connection with lot. Filling wells, etc. Sec. 63. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council

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of said city shall have full power and authority to regulate the buildings or the repairing of any buildings within the corporate limits of said city or the removal thereof; to require persons desiring to build, repair or remove buildings in said city to first obtain a permit from the mayor and council or from such officer as may be authorized to grant the same, before erecting, repairing or removing same; to refuse to allow buildings to be erected, repaired, or removed in said city when satisfied that said buildings or addition thereto, or repairing thereof, or the removal of same, will be manifestly against the best interests of the city or will endanger the safety or health of the citizens or likely to become a nuisance and offensive to the property owners, or residents of said city; to require applications for permits to be made and to prescribe how they shall be made, what they shall contain, and with whom filed; to provide for the removal, at the expense of the owners or builders of any houses erected, repaired or removed in violation of such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by said mayor and council for the building, repairing or removing houses in said city; and the mayor and council of said city are hereby authorized and empowered to enact all ordinances to carry out and effectuate the provisions of this section, and to provide a penalty for the violation of such ordinances. Building regulations; removal; permits. Sec. 64. Be it further enacted, that the said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to grant franchises, permits, easements, and rights-of-way in, on, under and over the streets, alleys, lanes, squares, sidewalks, parks and other property of said city, upon such terms, conditions, reservations, restrictions and limitations as the mayor and council may fix and prescribe; provided, however, that the same shall not be granted for a period longer than twenty years, nor without compensation to the city; and, provided further, that the same or any of them shall be subject to taxation by said city. The mayor and council shall also have the right and power to pass such ordinances as may be necessary to carry out and effectuate the provisions of

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this section and to prescribe penalties for the violation of said ordinances. Grant of franchise, right of way, etc. Sec. 65. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council shall have the power and authority by ordinance to prescribe the method of making application for any such franchise, easement, permit and rights-of-way; what said application shall contain; to provide for notice of such application to be published; to provide when such franchise, permit, easement or right-of-way, if granted, shall become operative, and generally, to prescribe such rules and regulations in respect to applications for same, the filing, publication of notice, and the granting of same as the mayor and council may deem necessary or advisable. Application for franchise, etc. Sec. 66. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and council shall have the full power and authority, by ordinance, to establish and maintain public parks in the streets of said city and at other places therein as they may deem proper. Parks. Sec. 67. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and council shall have full power and authority to provide for the working of the convicts from the police court upon the streets and other public places and works of said city; to establish, equip, and maintain a city chaingang and prescribe rules and regulations for the proper management of same; to maintain, establish, and equip a city jail or guardhouse in said city for the safe keeping of prisoners, convicts, and persons charged with violating the laws and ordinances of said city and to provide for the feeding of such prisoners; the mayor and council shall have the authority to enact such ordinances necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Prison. Chaingang. Sec. 68. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and council shall have the power and authority, by ordinance, to create and establish a fire department in said city; to provide for the pay and equipment thereof; to purchase any necessary apparatus and make any needful rules and regulations for its proper maintenance. Fire department.

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Sec. 69. Be it further enacted, That the marshal and policemen of said city shall have the right and authority to arrest without warrant, any person idling, loitering or loafing upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys, lanes, parks or squares of said city, or in any public building in said city, and to imprison such person or persons in the city jail or guard-house or to admit them to bail for appearance for trial for such offense before the police court; said marshal and policemen are also empowered and authorized to arrest without warrant and detain for a reasonable length of time, any person who may be acting suspiciously in said city, or whom said officers may suspect of having evil design against some person or property in said city or the laws and ordinances thereof; also to arrest and detain without warrant, any person who may be an escaped convict of the State or any municipality thereof; or who may have escaped arrest from the county or State authorities or from any municipality thereof, for any offense committed therein; and the said officers may arrest without warrant in all cases, where authority is given to arresting officers of this State by the laws of Georgia, for making arrests without a warrant. Arrests. Sec. 70. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the mayor and council of said city to set aside annually, a sufficient sum as a sinking fund to retire the bonded debt of said city, and to pay the interest thereon as said interest becomes due. Sinking fund. Sec. 71. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the power and authority to borrow money for the use of said city by making a temporary loan or loans to supply casual deficiency of revenue, not to exceed one-fifth (1-5) of one (1) per cent. of the assessed value of the taxable property therein in any one year; and it is further enacted that the sum or sums so borrowed shall be paid out of the income of the city for the fiscal year in which the loan or loans are made, and before the expiration of the fiscal year in which the same was or were made. Authority to borrow money. Sec. 72. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council

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of said city may codify all ordinances, resolutions and by-laws of said city, together with the charter of said city, and all special acts on the subject of the public school system of said city, into one book, to be known as the Code of the City of Sandersville and when the same is adopted by said mayor and council, said Code shall be admitted in evidence in any of the courts of this State, upon the certificate of the city clerk certifying the same to be the Code of laws and ordinances of said city. The mayor and council shall have the power and authority to revise said Code or re-codify the laws and ordinances of said city whenever they may deem it necessary. City cods. Sec. 73. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city may select some bank in said city as a city depository, and may require the treasurer of said city to deposit all funds of the city therein. Said depository may be selected upon such rules, regulations, conditions and requirements as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. Depository of funds. Sec. 74. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of said city shall have the full right and power, by ordinance, to regulate all vehicles of every kind and description used in the city for hire or profit in the transportation of passengers, freight, drayage, either or all of them, to provide for the inspection of same, and to fix the rates of fare and carriages thereon; and to fix and prescribe penalties for violation thereof. Regulation of vehicles used for hire. Sec. 75. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of said city shall have the right, power and authority, by ordinance, to regulate the keeping of gunpowder, dynamite, petroleum oils, turpentine, and any and all other kinds of explosives or combustible materials; to regulate the sale and use of fire crackers, torpedoes, sky rockets, and any other kind of fireworks; or to prohibit the firing or use of them or either of them within the limits of said city, and to prescribe penalties for violations of such ordinances. Explosives.

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Sec. 76. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all cemeteries belonging to said city. They may make such appropriations as may be necessary for the care and supervision of same. They may enact ordinances and provide penalties for the purpose of preventing trespass thereon. They may regulate the charges of grave-digging and interment, hearse fees, and any and everything pertaining to the proper care and operation of such cemeteries; to sell lots or right to bury therein. They may prescribe such fees for burials as they may deem proper, and may enforce the collection of such fees, as they may by ordinance provide. Cemeteries. Sec. 77. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of the City of Sandersville, shall have the power and authority, by ordinance, to prohibit within the limits of said city, the hazarding of money or other things of value at what is commonly known as matching to match for drinks, money or other articles of value; to prohibit any and all other games (other than games), for the hazarding of money or other things of value; to prohibit the owners, lessees, or occupants of buildings in said city from allowing or permitting persons to match for drinks, money or other things of value therein; or to use other schemes for the hazarding of money or other things of value, therein, to prohibit raffling in said city; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of any and all such ordinances. Games or schemes for hazarding money; penalties. Sec. 78. Be it further enacted, That the marshal and policemen of said city shall have the right and authority, upon proper warrant, to break and enter any house, or place in said city where they or either of them may have reason to suspect that any of the laws and ordinances of the city are being violated, and to arrest the persons therein and imprison or admit them to bail as hereinbefore provided for in cases of arrest. Search of premises; arrest. Sec. 79. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the right, power and authority to employ, at such times as they may deem necessary, an

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auditor to examine and audit the books of the city and each department thereof, and to pay a reasonable compensation therefor. Auditor. Sec. 80. Be it further enacted, that a board of water, electric light and sewerage commissioners to be known and styled The Water and Electric Light Commissioners of the City of Sandersville, is hereby established in and for said city. Said commission shall be composed of three members to be elected by the mayor and council in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and whose qualifications shall be the same as the qualifications of the mayor. The term of office of each member of said commission shall be three years, except as hereinafter provided, to-wit: At the first regular meeting of the mayor and council of said city, in September, 1919, the said mayor and council shall elect one member of said commission for a term of one year, one member for a term of two years, and one member for a term of three years; at the expiration of the term of office of each member thus elected, the successor of such member shall be elected by said mayor and council for the term of three years. Each member to hold office until his successor is elected and qualified. All vacancies in said commission, occurring from any cause whatever, the mayor and council shall proceed within not more than fifteen (15) days after said vacancy occurs to fill said vacancy by electing another member of said commission to fill out the unexpired term. Said commission shall govern, control and operate the water and electric and sewerage systems of this city in the manner hereinafter set out. Water and Electric Light Commissioners; election; terms of office. Vacancies. (1) The members of said commission shall, before entering upon their duties, take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties during their continuance in office, and shall keep a record in books to be kept for such purpose, of the act and doings of said commission, a full report of which shall be made quarterly to the mayor and council of said city, provided, however the mayor and council, by ordinance, may change the time for

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making said reports. The said commission shall keep a book showing a record of all moneys received by them from all sources, and of all moneys and funds paid out for any and all purposes, and shall make a written report thereof to the mayor and council monthly or at such times as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. All books, vouchers and papers of said commission shall at all times be open and subject to inspection by the mayor and council and such persons authorized by the mayor and council to inspect the same. Oath. Records. Reports. (2) That a majority of said commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all contracts and engagements, acts and doings of said commission within the scope of their authority shall be obligatory upon and considered as if done by the mayor and council. Upon organization the commission shall elect one of their number as chairman of said commission, who shall preside over the meetings or sessions of the commission and be governed by such rules and regulations as the said commission may prescribe, provided that no election of chairman shall be valid unless all three members of said commission are present and vote in said election. Quorum. Chairman. (3). That the said commission shall employ a competent and skilled electrician and machinist who has had actual experience in operating and managing electric plants and systems, waterworks systems and machinery operated by steam, as superintendent of the water, electric light and sewerage systems of the City of Sandersville, for such terms as the commission may deem proper, provided that no contract with any superintendent shall be made for more than one year; and provided, further, that the present superintendent shall continue as such until the expiration of his contract of employment. The compensation of the superintendent shall be fixed by the commission. The superintendent of the water, electric light and sewerage systems of said city shall, before entering upon his contract of employment, give a bond with good and sufficient security, payable

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to the City of Sandersville, for the faithful performance of his duties as such superintendent, and the prompt delivery of all money belonging to said city, coming into his hands during his employment. In addition, the said commission shall have the power and authority to employ such other persons as help, as may from time to time be necessary in the management, control and operation of said systems, but no such employment shall be for more than one year. The compensation of all employees shall be fixed by the commission. The said commission shall have the power to discharge the superintendent at any time for incompetency, insufficiency, or neglect of duty, or other good and sufficient reasons therefor, to be adjudged by the commission. All contracts made with any superintendent shall be made subject to this provision. Superintendent; qualifications. Pay. Bond. Other employees. Discharge. (4). That said commission shall have, under the direction of the mayor and council, the authority to fix and establish and put into effect a scale of water and electric light rates; make and enforce rules for the collection of same; adopt rules and regulations respecting the introduction of water and electricity and sewerage into or upon any premises, and from time to time, regulate the use of water and electricity and sewerage in such manner as shall seem to them necessary and proper; and shall have, under the authority of the mayor and council, further power to furnish at cost, place and compel the use of meters, and prescribe the kind and make, the use of the same on condition precedent to furnishing premises with water and electricity, and to prescribe how and where such meters shall be placed; and the members of said commission, the superintendent and all inspectors in their service, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter, at all reasonable hours, any dwelling or other place where said water, electricity or sewerage is taken or used, and where unnecessary waste thereof is known or suspected and examine and inquire into the cause thereof. They shall have full power to examine all surface pipes, stop cocks, and other apparatus connected with said water works and for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are of the

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character and dimensions and fixed in the same manner directed in the permits issued therefor; and if any person refuses to permit such examination or opposes or obstructs such officers or employees in the performances of such duties, such person so offending shall upon conviction in the police court of said city, be punished as the mayor and council shall by ordinance, prescribe. In addition the commission shall discontinue the supply of water until the required examination is made, and such alteration and repairs are completed as necessary. Rates for light and [Illegible Text]. Regulation of use. Interference with inspection; punishment. (5). The said commission shall not have the power or authority, except upon express authority from the mayor and council granted by resolution regularly adopted, to make any further extensions or additions to said system or either of them. The mayor and council shall have the exclusive right and authority to make all additions and extensions to said systems or either of them, provided, they may authorize the same to be done by the said commission, as hereinabove provided. Additions to water and light systems must be authorized by council. (6). The said commission, under the authority and direction of the mayor and council, shall have full power and authority to require the payment in advance for the use or rent of water and electricity furnished by them in or upon any building, place, or premises; when payment in advance is not required, for non-payment they may shut off the water or electricity, either or both, from said building, place or premises, and shall not be compelled to again supply said places or premises with electricity or water until the arrears with interest thereon are fully paid. In addition thereto, the collection thereof may be enforced by execution, levy and sale in the same manner as the collection for city taxes are enforced. Prepayment for water, etc. Power to cut off supply. (7). The said commission shall hear all complaints regarding irregularities in the rates and their decision shall be final. Complaints. (8). The members of said commission shall each receive

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as compensation for their services, the sum of two ($2.00) dollars for each regular or stated meeting or session thereof actually attended by them, under the same rules and conditions as provided in this act for the payment of compensation to aldermen of the city; provided, however, that the members of said commission shall not receive compensation for more than four (4) stated or regular meetings permonth; and, provided further, that said commission shall be required to convene in regular stated session at least twice a month, and failure of any member to comply with this requirement shall, except for providential cause or absence from the city, or other good and sufficient reason to be adjudged by the mayor and council, be ground for removal of such member by the mayor and council. Pay of commissioners. (9). That no funds or moneys shall be paid out by said commission except upon a check drawn by the secretary thereof on the city treasurer, to which check there shall be attached a voucher showing for what purpose said check is drawn. Said check shall be signed by the chairman of the commission, attested by the clerk and countersigned by the mayor before the city treasurer or any depository shall be authorized to pay the same. Disbursements by commission, how made. (10). Said commission shall visit and make personal inspection of the said water and light plants and systems at least twice a month and to report monthly, or oftener if necessary, the conditions of the same, and all lines, wires, poles, etc., of said systems and see that the same are kept and maintained in a proper and safe condition. The said commission shall perform all other duties that the mayor and council may, by ordinance, prescribe. Inspection and reports by commission. (11). The commission shall obey and carry out all orders and resolutions of the mayor and council, and upon failure of the commission, or any member thereof, to obey and carry out any such order or resolution, the mayor and council shall have the authority to summarily remove such member and [Illegible Text] another member to fill the vacancy caused by such removal. Removal from office for disobedience.

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Sec. 81. Be it further enacted, That the city clerk shall be ex-officio secretary of said commission, until such time as the mayor and council may see fit and proper to separate the office of secretary of said commission from the office of city clerk as hereinafter provided. The said city clerk as ex-officio secretary of the water and electric light commission of the City of Sandersville, shall receive a salary of nine hundred ($900.00) dollars per annum, payable monthly out of the funds of the said commission. The mayor and council may increase said salary to an amount not to exceed twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum, whenever they deem the same advisable or necessary. City clerk ex-officio secretary of commission. Salary. Sec. 82. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council, whenever they see fit, shall have the power and authority to separate the office of secretary of said commission from the office of city clerk, and elect another and separate person as secretary. The secretary so elected shall be a competent bookkeeper and his duties shall be such as prescribed in this Act, and such as may be prescribed in the laws and ordinances of said city and by the water and electric light commission of the City of Sandersville. The compensation of the said secretary so elected shall be the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum, payable monthly, out of the funds of said commission. The mayor and council may increase said salary to an amount not to exceed fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars whenever they deem it necessary, provided, that no salary shall be increased during the term of office of such officer. Council may separate offices of clerk and secretary. Secretary's duties; salary. Sec. 83. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the right, power, and authority to remove at any time the members of said commission, or any member thereof, for any wilful neglect of duty, malpractice, or abuse of power conferred upon him. Removal of commissioner. Sec. 84. Be it further enacted, That the said commission shall have the right and authority to adopt, from time to time, such rules and regulations for their governments as they may deem proper, not inconsistent with this Act, nor

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inconsistent with the laws and ordinances of the City of Sandersville. Rules of commission. Sec. 85. Be it further enacted, That whenever any real property is sold under any process of the City of Sandersville, the officer making the sale shall have the power and authority to convey the same by proper conveyance to the purchaser, but all such property that may be sold under execution for city taxes shall be subject to redemption within the period allowed by law of property sold under execution for State and county taxes. Redemption from tax sale. Sec. 86. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the full power and authority to make appropriations out of the general funds of the said city to support or improve the public schools of said city and full power and authority is hereby conferred upon said mayor and council to carry into effect any of the provisions of the laws respecting the public school system of said city. Schools. Sec. 87. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall affect the present officers of the City of Sandersville, or their fees or salaries, or the licenses and special taxes or the tax rate fixed by the ordinances of said city for the year 1919. Officers and taxes of 1919 not affected. Sec. 88. Be it further enacted, That the special legislation on the subject of the public school system of said city and the funds belonging to said public school system and the various matters therewith connected shall not be repealed or modified by this Act, but shall remain in full force and effect. Laws not repealed. Sec. 89. Be it further enacted, That authority to carry out and effectuate by ordinance each and every power granted to the City of Sandersville in this Act is hereby expressly conferred on the mayor and council of said city; and said mayor and council shall have generally the power and authority to make and pass such rules, by-laws and ordinances as shall appear to them necessary or requisite for

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preserving or promoting the peace, dignity, health, good order and welfare of said City of Sandersville. General powers of mayor and council. Sec. 90. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the right to elect such other municipal officers besides those herein specified, as to them seem necessary and proper therefor when necessary, by ordinance and in the same manner prescribing their duties and compensation and fixing their compensation. Power to elect officers not specified herein. Sec. 91. Be it further enacted, That the City of Sandersville as created by this Act, shall succeed to all the rights, privileges, and remedies of, and is hereby made responsible as a body corporate for all the legal debts, liabilities and undertakings of the present City of Sandersville and its former governing authorities as heretofore incorporated. Succession to rights and liabilities. Sec. 92. Be it further enacted, That the salaries of all city officers, when fixed and determined by the mayor and council in the manner prescribed in this Act, and in the manner prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said city, shall not be increased nor diminished during the terms of office for which such officers are elected. Salaries, change of. Sec. 93. Be it further enacted, That the officers of said city elected by the mayor and council thereof, shall not be disqualified from serving as members of the board of education of said city during their term of office, nor shall any of such officers vacate the office held by them by reason of such service. Officers eligible for Board of Education. Sec. 94. Be it further enacted, That all the Acts of the General Assembly of Georgia heretofore passed incorporating the City of Sandersville, and all Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby consolidated and superseded by this Act. Laws consolidated and superseded. Sec. 95. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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SAVANNAH; APPROPRIATIONS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES. No. 73. An Act to authorize the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah to appropriate and expend money for charities and charitable purposes, for donations to such ends; to authorize the said [Illegible Text] and aldermen to appropriate money for the several hospitals in the City of Savannah, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate and expend money from the treasury of the City of Savannah for charitable purposes, and to make donations of moneys to public charities; provided, however, that such appropriation, expenditure or donation be passed by a three-fourths vote of the aldermen of said city. Authority to donate for charity; three-fourths vote required. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any hospital in the City of Savannah, whether for white or colored, receives charity patients and makes no charge for treatment of the same, the said mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah is hereby empowered and authorized to annually appropriate money for such hospitals and pay the same to such hospitals for the treatment of such charity patients in such amount or amounts as may seem just and proper to said mayor and aldermen. Hospital appropriations. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919.

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SAVANNAH BOARD OF SANITARY COMMISSIONERS. No. 36. An Act to empower and authorize the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah to create a Board of Sanitary Commissioners and to define the duties and powers of such board; to provide that the appointment of such board shall be made by the mayor of the City of Savannah, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah be and is hereby authorized and empowered to create by ordinance a Board of Sanitary Commissioners, to be composed of such number of members and with such qualifications as said mayor and aldermen may determine. Authority to create Board of Sanitary Commissioners. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board shall have general supervision of all matters pertaining to the public health of the City of Savannah, and its jurisdiction shall extend for three miles beyond the corporate limits of said city. The duties of said board shall be those designated by the ordinances of the City of Savannah in force at the date of the passage of this Act, and said mayor and aldermen are authorized and empowered to provide for such other duties for said board as it may deem proper. Jurisdiction 3 miles beyond city. Duties. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Sanitary Commissioners may make rules and regulations in regard to the public health and all sanitary matters of the City of Savannah, and when approved by the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah shall have the force and effect of ordinances. Powers. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of such Board of Sanitary Commissioners shall be appointed by the mayor of Savannah for such terms as may be designated by ordinance, and said

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mayor is authorized to remove such members at any time with or without cause and to appoint their successors. Mayor appoints; may remove without cause. Terms. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and they are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. SAVANNAH CHARTER AMENDMENTS. No. 176. An Act to alter and amend the several Acts relating to and incorporating the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint, hire and employ for and in behalf of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah such officers, clerks and employees as he may deem necessary for the government of said city, to fix their salaries and to discharge them at any time with or without cause, provided that such officers, clerks and employees are not appointed to fill positions and offices made elective by council, and provided further, that council may at any time by ordinance provide that any position which is filled by appointment of the mayor shall be an elective office, and that the officer to hold such position or office shall thereafter be elected by the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah in council assembled. Power of mayor to employ, appoint, discharge without cause. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah shall have power and authority to require the owner or his duly authorized agent, of any lot, tract, parcel of land or premises in the City of Savannah to cut and remove from the same, at any time that the health officer of said city may deem necessary, any and all weeds or vegetable growth

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thereon which might endanger the public health. If, after fifteen days notice to such owner, or the owner's duly authorized agent, the weeds or vegetable growth are not cut and removed, the said mayor and aldermen may cut and remove the same and charge the expense of the same to the said owner. The said mayor and aldermen shall have authority to enforce the collection of the charges for cutting and removing said weeds or vegetable growth when such charges are due and remain unpaid for a period of thirty days, by execution to be issued by the city treasurer of said city against the owners of the premises from which the weeds or vegetable growth are cut and removed, and such other persons as may be liable therefor. The said execution shall be a lien upon the said premises, and when recorded in the general execution docket of Chatham County, Georgia, shall be a lien upon all of the property of the defendant in execution from the date of such record. Power to require lot owners to remove weeds, etc. Collection of cost of removal by city. (a) The said execution shall be levied and the property sold in the manner now provided for the levy and collection of executions issued by said City of Savannah for water rents, and the proceedings and provisions for the filing of an affidavit of illegality by the defendant in execution, as well as the proceedings for the filing of a claim to the property levied upon by a third person, shall in all respects be similar to the proceedings and provisions of the law applicable to the levy of executions for water rents and charges by the said mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah. Execution; affidavit of illegality, etc. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That hereafter the elections for mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be held on the second Tuesday in January of each second year, beginning with the year 1923; that is to say, the next municipal election shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, 1923; that the next municipal election thereafter shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, 1925, and so on each succeeding second year thereafter. The purpose of this enactment being to make the term of office of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah two years, commencing after the expiration of the term of office of the present incumbents. Time of election of mayor and aldermen. Term years.

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Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the elections for recorder of the police court of the City of Savannah shall be held on the second Tuesday in January of each fourth year, beginning with the year 1923; that is to say, the next election for said recorder shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, 1923; that the next election thereafter shall be held on the second Tuesday in January, 1927, and so on each succeeding fourth year thereafter, so that the recorder of the police court of the City of Savannah shall continue to hold office for a term of four years from the date of his election. Recorder's election. Term years. Sec. 5. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act whenever real estate situated in the City of Savannah, Georgia, shall be transferred by deed, will or other method of conveyance, and the taxes on personal property payable to the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah due by the grantor, testator or maker of such other instrument for the current year, shall have been paid, and the tax upon such real estate so transferred with the improvements thereon, to the end of the current quarter fixed by law or ordinance for the payment of such taxes to the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah, shall be tendered or paid, thereupon it shall be the duty of the city treasurer of the City of Savannah to transfer said conveyed property upon the real estate tax books of the City of Savannah, which said property so transferred shall thenceforth stand freed from all other claims for taxes due to the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah upon other real estate owned by the maker of such instrument for taxes on other property owned by such transfer. Transfers on tax books, as affecting claims for taxes. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That no provision of this Act shall in any wise prohibit the right of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah to demand and receive payment for all back taxes specifically due on the property sought to be transferred, but the lien of all other taxes

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against the transferer shall be divested from the specific property thus transferred. Back taxes not affected by transfer. Sec. 7. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized and empowered to close and abolish that certain portion of Flagler street in the City of Savannah lying between the western line of Harmon street and the eastern line of Paulsen street, and to vest such title as said mayor and aldermen may have to said portion of said Flagler street lane in any purchaser or other party on such terms and consideration as the said mayor and aldermen may deem best. Closing of part of Flagler street authorized. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That whereas the building at the southeast corner of Harris and West Bread street in the City of Savannah encroaches upon Harris street 7.55 feet in width and 80 feet in length, and, whereas, said encroachment has existed for many years, and it would be unjust to the owner of said property to cause an abandonment of said portion of said street; it is, therefore, enacted that the use of said portion of said street for building purposes, by the owner thereof, present or future, is hereby confirmed. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That the conveyance by the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah to Chatham Land and Hotel Company, dated December 8, 1915, and recorded in the records of Chatham County in Book 12-P, page 331, of that certain portion of Forty-eighth street lane in McKenna ward in said city, extending from Battey street on the east to a point fourteen (14) feet west of the property lines of lots Nos. 94 and 132, McKenna ward, on the west, in exchange for the conveyance by Chatham Land Hotel Company to the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah, dated November 26, 1915, and recorded in the records of Chatham County, Book 12-O's, page 159, of the western sixteen (16) feet of lot 93, McKenna ward and the western sixteen (16) feet of lot No. 131, McKenna ward, for a north and south street or lane connecting Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, be, and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed. The mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized to close the said sixteen (16) [Illegible Text] lane or street above described connecting Forty-eighth

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and Forty-ninth streets, and also to close that portion of Forty-eighth street lane which is bounded on the north by lots 91 and 92, McKenna ward, and on the south by lots Nos. 129 and 130, McKenna ward; and the said mayor and aldermen are further authorized to convey to the Board of Public Education for the City of Savannah and the County of Chatham the above described sixteen (16) [Illegible Text] street or lane connecting Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, and that portion of Forty-eighth street lane lying between lots 91 and 92, McKenna ward, on the north and lots 129 and 130, McKenna ward, on the south, in exchange for lots Nos. 90 and 128, McKenna ward, which last mentioned lots, together with the lane between them, shall be opened as a north and south street connecting Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. Ratification of deed to part of 48th street lane. Closing lane. Conveyance to Board of Education. New street. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and change the grade of any streets, avenues, alleys, lanes and other public places in the City of Savannah, and to improve the same by paving, macadamizing and draining the same whenever in its judgment the public convenience and welfare may require such improvements, subject only to the limitation prescribed in this Act. Paving draining, change of grade, etc. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any street or steam railroad now having or which may hereafter have tracks running through the streets, avenues, lanes or alleys of said city or other public places, shall be required by said mayor and aldermen to pave, macadamize and drain the width of its track and two feet on each side of every line of track now constructed or that may hereafter be constructed by such railroad company, under such rules, plans and specifications as said mayor and aldermen shall specify. And if such railroad company shall fail or refuse to comply with the order of said mayor and aldermen to make such improvements by paving, macadamizing and draining the same after receiving thirty days notice to do said work, such work may be done by said mayor and aldermen at the cost and expense of such railroad company

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and such cost and expense shall be charged against such railroad company, and the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah shall be entitled to a lien for the full amount of such cost and expense against the property of such railroad company, which may be enforced against such property as hereinafter provided for the enforcement of other liens for paving. As the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah have no charter power to require railroad companies to elevate their tracks so as to give use to streets under their tracks, it is enacted, ordained and declared that the ordinance adopted April 11, 1918, touching the elevation of railroad tracks within the limits of the City of Savannah and for other purposes, is ultra vires null and void, and to remedy this defect it is enacted that the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah may by agreement with railroad companies, or rail and street railroad companies as to a reasonable share of the cost to be divided between the city and such companies, require and cause such subways and elevations to be erected as may be necessary for the welfare and convenience of the inhabitants of the City of Savannah. Power to require street work by railroad companies. Ordinance as to elevation of tracks declared void. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the said mayor and aldermen shall deem it necessary to grade, pave, macadamize, drain or otherwise improve any street, avenue, alley, lane or any part thereof, within the limits of the City of Savannah, said mayor and aldermen shall by resolution declare such work or improvement necessary to be done and such resolution shall be published in six consecutive issues of a daily newspaper published and having a general circulation in the City of Savannah and if the owners of more than one-half in area of land liable to assessment to pay for such improvement of any such highway shall not within fifteen days after the last publication of such resolution file with the clerk of said city their protest in writing against such improvement, then said mayor and aldermen shall have power to cause said improvement to be made and to contract therefor, and to levy assessments as herein provided for. Any number of streets, avenues, alleys, lanes or other public places or parts

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thereof to be so improved may be included in one resolution, but any protest or objection shall be made as to each street or other highway separately; provided, however, that if the owners of more than one-half in area of the land liable to assessment for any such improvement shall petition the mayor and aldermen for such improvements of any street or part of street, alley, lane or avenue, or other public place, describing in such petition the character of the improvement desired, the width of the same, the materials preferred by the petitioners for such improvements, it shall thereupon be the duty of said mayor and aldermen to promptly cause the said improvement to be made in accordance with the prayer of said petition, and in such cases the resolution hereinbefore mentioned shall not be required; provided, however, that the kind of material to be used for the proposed paving shall be finally determined by said mayor and aldermen. Resolution as to street improvement; notice of. Time for objection. Petition for improvement. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the lots, pieces or parcels of land fronting and abutting upon both sides of said improvements shall be charged with cost thereof according to the just pro rata of the entire cost of said improvement for the said frontage, provided that the frontage of intersecting streets, avenues, lanes, or alleys shall be assessed as real estate abutting upon the street, lane, alley or avenue paved, or otherwise empowered and the said mayor and aldermen shall be for all the intents and purposes of this Act an owner or legal representatives of real estate abutting on any street, lane, alley or avenue, shall possess the same rights and privileges as all other owners of real estate abutting on any such street, lane or avenue, and shall pay from the city treasury the just pro rata of the entire cost of said work or improvement for the said frontage. Assessments on abutting property. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the petition provided for in section three of this Act is presented or when the said mayor and aldermen shall have determined to pave or improve any street, av-

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lane, alley or other public place and shall have passed the resolution provided for in said section three of this Act, the said mayor and aldermen shall then have the power to enact all ordinances and to establish all such rules and regulations as may be necessary to require the owners of all property subject to assessment to pay the cost of such improvement, and to cause to be put in and constructed all water, gas or sewer pipe connections to connect with any existing water, gas or sewer pipes in and underneath the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys and other public places where such public improvements are to be made and all cost and expenses for making such connections shall be taxed against such property and shall be included and made a part of the general assessment to cover the cost of such improvements. Assessment ordinances. Water, sewer and gas connections. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that after the expiration of the time for objection or protest on the part of the proper owners, if no sufficient protest be filed or on receipt of a petition for such improvement signed by the owners or more than one half in area of the lane to be assessed, if such petition shall be found to be in proper form and properly executed, the said mayor and aldermen shall adopt a resolution reciting that no such protest has been filed, or the filing of such petition as the case may be and expressing the determination of said mayor and aldermen to proceed with the said improvement, stating the material to be used, and the manner of construction, and defining the extent, character, and width of the improvement, and other such matters as may be necessary to instruct the chief engineer of said city in the performance of his duties in preparing for such improvement the necessary plans, plots, profits, specifications, and estimates. Said resolution shall set forth any such reasonable terms and conditions as said mayor and aldermen shall deem proper to impose with reference to the letting of the contract and the provisions thereof, and the said mayor and aldermen shall by said resolution provide that the contractor shall execute to the city a good and sufficient bond in an amount to be stated in such

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resolution, conditioned for the full and faithful performance of the work and the performance of the contract, and for the protection of the city and all property owners interested, against any loss or damage by reason of the negligence or improper execution of the work, and may require a bond in an amount to be stated in such resolution for the maintenance of good condition of such improvements for a period of not less than five years from the time of its completion, or both in the discretion of said mayor and aldermen. Said resolution shall also direct the chief engineer of said city to advertise for sealed proposals for furnishing the materials and performing the work necessary in making such improvements. The notice of such proposal shall state the street, streets, or other public places to be improved, the kind of improvements proposed, what, if any, bond or bonds will be required to be executed by the contractor aforesaid, and shall state the time when and the place where such sealed proposals shall be filed and when and where the same will be considered by the said mayor and aldermen. Said notice shall be published in ten consecutive issues of a daily newspaper of general circulation in the City of Savannah. At the time and place specified in such notice the mayor and aldermen shall examine all bids received and without unnecessary delay award the contract to the lowest and best bidder who will perform the work and furnish the materials which may be selected and perform all the conditions imposed by the said mayor and aldermen as prescribed in such resolution and notice for proposals, which contract shall in no case exceed the estimate of cost submitted by the chief engineer with the plans and specifications and the said mayor and aldermen shall have the right to reject any and all bids and re-advertise for other bids when any such bids are not in its judgment satisfactory. Contents of resolution providing for improvements. bids from contractors, etc. Publication in newspaper. Award of contract. Sec. 16. As soon as the said contract is let and the cost of such improvement, which shall also include all other expense incurred by the city incident to said improvement, in addition to the contract price for the work and materials, is

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ascertained, the said mayor and aldermen shall by resolution appoint a board of appraisers, consisting of the chief engineer of said city, the assistant engineer and the chairman of the board of tax assessors to appraise and apportion the cost and expense of the same to the several tracts of land abutting on said improvement. Within ten days from the date of the resolution appointing said board, the said board shall file a written report of the appraisal and assessment and apportionment of such expense and cost to the several lots and tracts of land abutting on said street, alley, lane or avenue, or other public place so improved, with the clerk of council of said city. When said report shall have been returned and filed, the said mayor and aldermen shall appoint a time for the holding of a session of council or shall designate a regular meeting of council for the hearing of any complaints or objections that may be made concerning the said appraisement, apportionment and assessment as to any such lots or tracts of land abutting on said improvement, and notice of such session for the said hearing shall be published by the said clerk of council in at least five consecutive issues of any daily newspaper of general circulation in the City of Savannah, and said notice shall provide for an inspection of such return by any property owner or other party interested in such return. The time fixed for said hearing shall not be less than five nor more than ten days from the last publication. The said mayor and aldermen at said session shall have power to review and correct said appraisement, apportionment and assessment and to hear objections to the same, and to confirm the same either as made by said board or as corrected by said mayor and aldermen. Assessments in conformity to said appraisement and apportionment as confirmed by council shall be payable in ten equal installments and shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum until paid, payable in each year at such time as the several installments of the assessments are made payable each year. The said mayor and aldermen shall by ordinance levy assessments in accordance with said appraisoment and apportionment as so

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confirmed against the several tracts of land liable therefor. Apportionment by [Illegible Text]. Hearing of objections; notice. Assessments payable in installments. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the first installments of said assessments together with interest to that date upon the whole shall be due and payable on the first day of September next succeeding the passage of said ordinance and one installment with the yearly interest upon the amounts remaining unpaid shall be payable on the first day of September in each succeeding year until all shall be paid, provided that if such assessing ordinance shall be passed after the first day of August in any year, the first installment of such assessment and interest shall be due and payable on September first of the following year. Said ordinance shall also provide that the owners of the property so assessed shall have the privilege of paying the amounts of their respective assessments within thirty days from the date of the passage of said ordinance. The owners of the property so assessed shall be allowed to make payment of their respective assessments without interest within said period of thirty days to the treasurer of the City of Savannah and relieve their property from the lien of said assessment, which money so paid to the said treasurer shall be disbursed pro rata between the contractor and the city in proportion to the respective interests. Installments due Sept. 1 annually. Proviso as to first installment. Privileges as to payment. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That such special assessment and each installment thereof, and the interest thereon are hereby declared to be a lien against the lots and tracts of land so assessed from the date of the ordinance levying the same co-equal with the lien of other taxes and prior to and superior to all other liens against such lots or tracts, and such lien shall continue until such assessment and interest thereon shall be fully paid, but unmatured installments shall not be deemed to be within the terms of any general covenant or warranty. Lien of assessment. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said mayor and aldermen, after the expiration of thirty days from the passage of said ordinance confirming

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and levying said assessment, shall by resolution provide for the issuance of bonds in the aggregated amount of such assessment remaining unpaid, bearing the date fifteen days after the passage of the ordinance levying the said assessments and of such denominations as the said mayor and aldermen shall determine, which bond or bonds shall in no event become a liability of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah issuing same. One tenth in amount of any such series of bonds with the interest upon the whole series to that date shall be payable on the fifteenth day of September next succeeding the maturity of the first installment of the assessments and interest, and one tenth thereof with the yearly interest upon the whole amount remaining unpaid shall be payable on the fifteenth day of September in each succeeding year until all shall be paid, such bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent per annum from their date until maturity, payable annually, and shall be designated as Street Improvement Bonds, and shall on the face thereof recite the street or streets, parts of street or streets or other public places for the improvement of which they have been issued, and that they are payable solely from assessments which have been levied upon the lots and tracts of land benefitted by said improvement under authority of this Act. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk of council and shall have the impression of the corporate seal of such city thereon and shall have interest coupons attached and all bonds issued by authority of this Act shall be payable at such place either within or without the State of Georgia as shall be designated by said mayor and aldermen. Said bonds shall be sold at not less than par, and the proceeds thereof applied to the payment of the contract price and other expenses, by the said mayor and aldermen or such bonds in the amount that shall be necessary for that purpose may be turned over and delivered to the contractor at par value in payment of the amount due him on his contract, and the portion thereof, which shall be necessary to pay other expenses incident to and incurred in providing for said improvements

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shall be sold or otherwise disposed of as the said mayor and aldermen shall direct. Said bonds shall be registered by the said clerk of council in a book to be provided for that purpose and certificates of registration by said clerk of council shall be endorsed upon each of said bonds, whenever the owner of any of said bonds shall sell or transfer the same, such sale with the name and address of the owner shall be entered on the registry book for such bonds at the office of the clerk of council, and it shall be the duty of the transferee of said bonds to carry or send such bonds to the clerk of council for such purpose. Street improvement bonds. Bonds not to become liability of mayor and aldermen. Tenth payable annually, Sept. 15. Interest 6%. Contents. Sale of bonds. Payment of contractor in bonds. Registration. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the assessments provided for and levied under the provisions of this Act shall be payable by the persons owning the said lots or tracts of land as the several installments become due, together with the interest thereon, to the treasurer of the City of Savannah, who shall give proper receipts for such payments. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep an accurate account of all such collections by him made, and such collections shall be kept in a special fund to be used and applied for the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon and for no other purpose. It shall be the duty of the said treasurer not less than thirty days and not more than fifty days before the maturity of any installment of such assessments to publish in two successive issues of a daily newspaper published in the City of Savannah and having a general circulation in said city, a notice advising the owner of the property affected by such assessment of the date when such installment and interest will be due and designating the street or streets or public places for the improvement of which such assessments have been levied, and that unless the same shall be promptly paid proceedings will be taken to collect said installment and interest. And it shall be the duty of said treasurer promptly after the date of the maturity of any such installment or assessment and interest and on or before the fifteenth day of September of each year in case of a default in payment of such installment or assessment, with interest, to issue an

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execution against the lot or tract of land assessed for such improvement or against the party or person owning the same for the amount of such assessment, with interest, and shall turn over the same to the marshal of the City of Savannah or his deputy who shall levy the same upon the real estate liable for such assessment and previously assessed for such improvements, and after advertisement and other proceedings as in case of sales for city taxes, the same shall be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder, and such sales shall vest an absolute title in the purchaser subject to the lien of the remaining unpaid installments with interest; provided that the defendant shall have the right to file an affidavit denying that the whole or any part of the amount for which said execution issued is due, and stating what amount he admits to be due, which amount so admitted to be due shall be paid or collected before the affidavit is received and the affidavit received for the balance. All affidavits (and the foregoing and following provisions shall apply to the street and steam railroads against whom execution shall be issued for the cost and expense of paving) shall set out in details the reasons why the affidavit claims the amount is not due, and when received by the city marshal shall be returned to the municipal court of Savannah if the amount of the execution is one hundred dollars or under, and to the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia, if the amount contested is over one hundred dollars, and there tried and the issue determined as in case of illegality, subject to all the pains and penalties provided for in cases of illegality for delay under the Code of Georgia. The failure of the said treasurer to publish said notice of the maturity of any installment of said assessment and interest shall in no wise affect the validity of the assessment and interest and the execution issued therefor. Assessments payable to treasurer. Account of collections. Notice of call for payment. (See also end of section.) Execution. Sale under execution. Affidavit of illegality. Omisson of notice as to installment. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no suit shall be sustained to set aside any such assessment or to enjoin the said mayor and aldermen from making any such assessment or levying or collecting any such assessments, or issuing such bonds or providing for their

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payment as herein authorized or contesting the validity thereof on any ground or for any reason, other than for the failure of the mayor and aldermen to adopt and publish the preliminary resolution provided for in Section 3 of this Act in cases requiring such resolution and its publication, and to give notice of the hearing of the return of the appraisers, as herein provided for, unless such suit shall be commenced within sixty (60) days after the passage of the ordinance making such final assessment, providing that in the event any special assessment shall be found to be invalid or insufficient in whole or in part for any reason whatsoever, the said mayor and aldermen may at any time in the manner provided for the levying an original assessment proceed to cause a new assessment to be made and levied which shall have like force and effect as an original assessment. Suit to [Illegible Text] or [Illegible Text] aside assessment. Grounds. 60-days limitation. New assessment after illegal one. Sec. 22. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases where said mayor and aldermen shall deem it necessary to repave, redrain, re-macadamize, or otherwise improve any street, alley, avenue, lane or other public place, which had been paved or improved prior to the passage of this law, or which shall have been heretofore paved, macadamized, or drained under the provisions of this Act, such pavement or improvement is hereby authorized to be done under and in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, and in such cases all provisions of this Act providing for making such improvements and levying assessments therefor and the issuance of bonds shall apply, provided that in the judgment of said mayor and aldermen of said city the pavement is worn out and no longer serviceable. Repaving, redraining, etc. Sec. 23. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the publication of all notices in a daily newspaper called for in this Act shall be the number of days therein specified exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays. Number of days of publication; exception. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the abutting land owners of any street, alley, avenue, or lane, of said city petition the said mayor and

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aldermen as herein set out, or said mayor and aldermen pass the resolution provided for in Section 3 of this Act, for the pavement of any such street, avenue, alley or lane or other public place, where the State or any of its political sub-divisions, is the owner of the property on said street, the frontage so owned is to be counted as if owned by an individual and shall be likewise treated for the purpose of assessment, and where the State is the owner of the property the Governor is authorized to sign any petition provided for in this Act for and in behalf of the State, and where the county is the owner the chairman of the board of county commissioners of Chatham County is authorized to sign in behalf of the county; and where the City of Savannah is the owner, the mayor of Savannah is authorized to sign in behalf of the city. Frontage rule, how applied. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal the existing laws now in force in the charter of the City of Savannah with regard to grading, paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving for travel or drainage any of the streets or lanes of said city, as embodied in the Acts of the General Assembly of Georgia, in Georgia Laws 1884-1885, pages 263 and following, in Georgia Laws 1887, page 537, in Georgia Laws 1910, page 1142; and the said mayor and aldermen of said city may proceed thereunder to pave, grade, macadamize or otherwise improve for travel or drainage any of the streets or lanes of said city whenever said mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah are unable to proceed under the provisions of this Act by reason of the owners of more than one-half in area of the land liable to assessment to pay for the improvement upon any stated highway filing their protest in writing against such improvement as provided in Section 3 of this Act. Laws not repealed. New improvements under former acts. Sec. 26. The recreation commission of the City of Savannah shall by the tenth of December each year submit to the mayor and aldermen a complete itemized statement of its expenditures for the preceding twelve months and shall

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at the same time present a budget, setting forth in detail the moneys required for the succeeding twelve months and the purposes for which it is to be expended, which budget shall be subject to revision by the mayor and aldermen, and the money appropriated shall be used only for the purposes detailed in said budget. Re-creation commission; annual statement of expenses; budget for next year. Sec. 27. The mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah shall pay the registration clerk in the tax collector's office of Chatham County $600.00 per annum in twelve equal installments as his compensation for work in connection with the registration of voters and preparation of voter's lists for municipal primaries and elections. Registration clerk's salary. Sec. 28. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. SAVANNAH HARBOR LINES EXTENDED. No. 28. An Act to amend the several Acts relating to and incorporating the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah, by providing for the extension of harbor lines in the Savannah River, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the several Acts relating to and incorporating the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah be and the same are hereby amended as follows: That the harbor line in the Savannah River from the cross-tides, above the City of Savannah, be and the same is hereby extended to the dividing line between Chatham County and Effingham County, Georgia, at and upon said river; so that, as amended, the harbor lines in said river shall be from said dividing line between Chatham County and Effingham County, at and on said river, to the sea, and said mayor and aldermen

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of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and control, by ordinance of its council, harbor lines in the Savannah River from said dividing line between Chatham and Effingham Counties to the sea, and within the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia, to provent piers, bulk-heads or other structures being built on either side of said river, beyond such lines as may be established by ordinance of its council, and to pass and enforce such ordinances as may seem to the said council proper for the purpose of preventing the shoaling of the said river between the dividing line aforesaid and the sea, within the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia. Extension of [Illegible Text] lines. Prevention of shoaling. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this law be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. SAVANNAH MUNICIPAL WHARF, AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH. No. 29. An Act to authorize and empower the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah to acquire property for the establishment of a municipal wharf; to authorize said mayor and aldermen to maintain and operate a municipal wharf on the Savannah River; to authorize said mayor and aldermen to pay for such property and to make rules, regulations and charges in regard to the use of such wharf, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, acquire, own and hold real estate either within the corporate limits of said city or without the said limits for the

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purpose of establishing a municipal [Illegible Text] of wharves, Said mayor and aldermen are further authorized and empowered after purchasing such property, to appropriate moneys from the treasury of said city in payment of the same. Municipal wharf, authority to buy property for. Sec. 2. After acquiring said property, said mayor and aldermen are hereby empowered and authorized to maintain and operate on the Savannah river and waters adjacent thereto a municipal wharf or wharves; and by ordinance to make rules and regulations for the government of the same, as well as to provide charges or fees for the use of the said wharf or wharves or any part thereof. Maintenance; fees for use. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. SAVANNAH PENSION BOARD, AUTHORITY TO CREATE, ETC. No. 30. An Act to authorize and empower the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah to create a pension board; to provide that the appointment of the members of such board shall be made by the mayor of the City of Savannah; to define the duties and powers of such board; to empower and authorize said mayor and aldermen to appropriate money for the payment of pensions to employees and former employees of said city under the direction and control of said pension board, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same. That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and create by ordinance a board to be known as the pension board of the City of Savannah, with such number of members

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and qualifications as said mayor and aldermen may deem proper. Authority to establish pension board. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said board to pass on all applications from employees and former employees of the City of Savannah, who may be injured, permanently disabled or incapacitated by old age or sickness, for pensions from the City of Savannah, to recommend such employees and former employees of said city to the mayor and aldermen for pensions as said board may deem worthy and entitled to same. After such pensions are granted the said parties to whom such pensions may be paid shall be under the supervision of said pension board who may recommend to the mayor and aldermen the discontinuance of such pensions at any time. Such board shall have such other duties and powers as may be conferred on it by the mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah by ordinance not inconsistent with the terms of this Act. Duty to pass on applications of disabled employees or former employees for pension; to recommend pension, or discontinuance. Other duties. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of such board shall be appointed by the mayor of Savannah for such terms as he may deem proper, and he may remove the members of such board with or without cause at any time and appoint their successors. Mayor to appoint; may remove without cause. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said mayor and aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby empowered and authorized to grant and pay pensions to such employees and former employees of said city on the recommendation of said board, and to appropriate moneys for such purpose and to pay the same, and to discontinue the payment of the same on the recommendation of such pension board. Power of mayor and aldermen as to pensions. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919.

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SMITHVILLE CORPORATE LIMITS EXTENDED. No. 114. An Act to amend an Act approved August 12, 1914, entitled An Act to amend Section 1 of the Act approved December 11, 1901, to amend the charter for the town of Smithville, in the County of Lee, and for other purposes, so as to more greatly define the corporate limits of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that Section 1 of an Act approved August 12, 1914, entitled An Act to amend Section 1 of an Act approved December 11, 1901, to amend the charter for the town of Smithville, in the County of Lee, so as to define the corporate limits and for other purposes, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting in the eighth line of said Section 1, the following words, to-wit: And inserting in lieu thereof the word one and further amended by striking from the tenth line of said section the words Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in...... met, and inserting in lieu thereof the words General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and also by inserting in the fourteenth line of said section the word to, and by striking all of said section from the word center, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Act of 1901 amended. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Section one (1) of the Act approved December 11, 1901, Georgia Laws, an Act to amend and revise and consolidate the several Acts granting corporate authority to the town of Smithville, in Lee County, be and the same is hereby amended by striking the words three-fourths of in fifth line of Section one (1), and inserting in lieu thereof

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the word one, so that said section when so amended will read as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the corporate limits of the city of Smithville, in the County of Lee, shall extend to and embrace a radius of one mile, except on east side; thence only to the run of Nuckaloochee Creek, making the passenger depot of the Central of Georgia Railway Company the center. See. 1 as amended. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. STATESBORO; INCREASE OF AD VALOREM TAX. No. 155. An Act to amend an Act approved August 17, 1912, creating a new charter for the City of Statesboro, so as to authorize the mayor and city council of Statesboro to levy and collect an ad valorem tax upon all property, both real and personal, in the corporate limits of said city, not to exceed one and four-tenths of one per cent., and to provide that the increased rate of four mills shall be for one year only, and that the taxes raised by said increased tax shall be used to add two rooms to the school building in said City of Statesboro, and the remainder, after paying for said two rooms if any, shall be used toward the payment of the debts of said city. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same that an Act approved August 17, 1912, entitled An Act to create a new charter for the City of Statesboro, be amended by inserting between the words one in the seventh

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line and the words per cent in the seventh and eighth lines of Section 38 of said Act, the words and fourtenths of one, and by adding at the end of said Section 38 the following: Provided that the funds raised by the increased rate of four mills shall be used by said city council of Statesboro to add two rooms to the public school building in said city and the balance of said funds, if any, shall be used toward paying the debts of said City of Statesboro. Provided further that the increased rate of four mills shall be for a period of one year only, so that said Section 38 of said Act when so amended shall read as follows: Act of 1912 amended. Section 38. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that for the purpose of raising revenues to defray the ordinary current expenses incident to the support and maintenance of the city government, the said city council shall have full power and authority to levy and collect an ad valorem tax upon all property, both real and personal, in the corporate limits of said city, not to exceed one and fourtenths of one per cent., but when that amount is deemed insufficient, said city council shall have the authority to levy an additional tax in the mode and manner provided by the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. Provided that the funds raised by the increased rate of four mills shall be used by said city council of Statesboro, to add two rooms to the public school building in said city, and the balance of said funds, if any, shall be used toward paying the debts of said City of Statesboro. Provided further, that the increased rate of four mills shall be for a period of one year only. Sec. 38 as amended. Tax rate. Increase to enlarge school and pay debts. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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SYLVESTER, CITY OF; NEW CHARTER. No. 330. An Act to create a new charter for the City of Sylvester, to declare the rights, powers and privileges of said corporation and to consolidate the Acts relating to the rights and powers of said corporation; to provide for bonding the city for the purposes of constructing sanitary sewers, paving street, constructing public buildings, building bridges, etc.; to enact amendments thereto and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the inhabitants of the territory in the county of Worth, hereinafter described, are hereby continued incorporated by the name of the City of Sylvester, a body corporate and politic, with power to govern themselves by such ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, and by-laws for municipal purposes as may be adopted and promulgated under the terms and provisions of this charter, not in conflict with the Constitution or laws of this State or the United States, with power in and by said corporate name to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts, and to have and use a common seal and to do all other things necessary to promote the municipal corporate purposes of said city; and shall be able in law to purchase, hold and receive, enjoy, possess, retain, manage and dispose of, for the use and benefit of said City of Sylvester, any interest in any real and personal property of whatsoever kind or descrintion within or without the corporate limits of said city, to hold all property and effects now belonging to said city either in its name or in the name of others, for its use, for the purpose and intent for which the same were granted or dedicated, in like manner to use, manage and impreve, sell and convey, [Illegible Text] or lease, and otherwise manage and dispose of all property hereafter acquired; and all transfers and conveyances of real or personal property

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heretofore made by said city are hereby confirmed, ratified and declared legal, and said City of Sylvestor shall succeed to all rights and liabilities of the old corporation. New charter. Corporate name. General powers. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of the City of Sylvester shall be and remain as fixed and established by the Acts of the Legislature approved August 13, 1904, and August 14, 1909, and July 29, 1914, and as modified and extended and more definitely described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point at the southwest corner of lot of land No. 333, in the seventh district of Worth County, Georgia, and running north along the original west line of said lot and the original west line of lot of land No. 358, 142 chains and 6 links to the northwest corner of lot No. 358; thence east along the north original line of lot No. 358, 62 chains and 75 links; thence north on lot of land No. 379, 6 chains and 73 links; thence east 6 chains and 84 links; thence south to the original east line of lot No. 358 and down said original line 34 chains and [Illegible Text] links; thence east on land lot No. 357, 15 chains and 50 links; thence south to Hawkinsville Florida Southern Railway and down right-of-way of H. F. S. Railway, 27 chains and 60 links to south side of Pope St., thence east 11 chains and 85 links; thence south 4 chains; thence in a southwest direction 16 chains and 50 links to the original east line of lot No. 333, the former having included parts of lots Nos. 357 and 334; thence south 16 chains and 18 links; thence east 9 chains and 40 links; thence south 5 chains and 32 links; thence west 9 chains and 40 links back to east line of lot No. 333, thence south along original east line 60 chains and 12 links to the southeast corner of lot No. 333; thence west 68 chains and 56 links to southwest corner of lot 333, point of beginning; provided however, that it shall rest within the sound discretion of the mayor and council to, at any time, call an election for the incorporation of contiguous territory whenever at least 6 residents therein shall petition the mayor and council therefor. Which election shall be held under the regulations for elections hereinafter set out, and only the qualified voters in the City of Sylvester shall be

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eligible to vote thereat, two-thirds of those voting being in favor of incorporation, said territory shall be by the mayor and council declared duly incorporated. Corporate limits. Election as to inclusion of suburbs; two-thirds vote required. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the municipal government of said city shall consist of a mayor and four members of council, elected from the city at large, and such other officers, servants and agents in addition to those hereinafter enumerated as said mayor and council may from time to time lawfully employ or elect. Mayor and council; other officers. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the mayor and council of said city shall be the supreme governing body, exercising all the powers herein conferred upon the corporation and not otherwise specifically delegated. (1). Election for the mayor and members of council shall be by a vote of the people and shall be held under the election regulations hereinafter prescribed on the first Wednesday in December. Their terms of office shall begin on the first Monday in January next ensuing and shall continue for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified; the mayors hereafter elected shall be eligible to succeed themselves for only one successive term. Election of mayor and council. Mayor limited to one successive term. (2). The first election held hereunder shall be on the first Wednesday in December, 1919, for mayor and two members of council, and at the next election thereafter, to-wit, on the first Wednesday in December, 1920, for two members of council, and so on in each year, thus securing a rotation in office, so that the full membership of said body may not be completely changed at one election; provided, that nothing herein contained shall operate to prevent the present mayor and council from continuing in their offices for their respective terms and until their successors are elected and qualified hereunder. (3). The mayor and council shall, on the first Monday in January in each year elect one of the members of council

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as Mayor pro tem, who shall, in case of the absence or disability of the mayor from any cause, or in case of a vacancy in said office, be clothed with all the powers and fulfil all the duties of the same and shall receive such compensation as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. In case of the absence or disqualification of both mayor and mayor pro tem, the remaining members of council shall choose one of their members to act for such time as may be necessary. Mayor pro tem. (4). In the event that the office of the mayor shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the mayor pro tem shall act as mayor during the balance of said term, and exercise all the rights and powers of the mayor during said term; provided, at the time of such vacancy, it is not exceeding six months before the expiration of said mayor's term of office. If, however, said unexpired term is longer than six months from the date of such vacancy, the council shall, within fifteen days, order a new election, and such election shall be held and managed in the same manner as hereinafter provided for city elections, at which special election a successor for the unexpired term caused by said vacancy shall be elected. Vacancy in office of mayor. (5). A vacancy occurring among the members of council shall be filled for the unexpired term at an election by the mayor and remaining members of council; provided, at the time of such vacancy it is not exceeding six months before the expiration of said councilman's term of office. If, however, said unexpired term is longer than six months from the date of such vacancy, the council shall, within fifteen days, order a new election, and such election shall be held and managed in the same manner as hereinafter provided for city elections, at which special election a successor for the unexpired term caused by said vacancy shall be elected. Vacancy in council. (6). The mayor shall be the presiding officer of council, shall be entitled to vote on any question before said body, but shall only exercise such privilege in case of a tie, except in the election provided for in Section (3), Section (4),

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paragraph three (3); Section five (5), paragraph one (1), and three (3), Section twelve (12), and Section thirteen (13) of this Act, and in case of impeachment as provided for in Section four (4), paragraph nine (9) of this Act. In addition the mayor shall be the supreme executive officer of the city government and see to it that all laws, ordinances and resolutions are properly executed, shall see to it that all officers of the city properly perform their duties, and shall in all things exercise a general supervision of the city's affairs, making such recommendations to the council from time to time as may to him seem proper for the public good. Vote of mayor. Mayor's powers. (7). The members of council, together with the mayor, shall constitute the legislative department of the government, and as such, no less than the mayor it shall be their duty to exercise a watchful care over all the city's interests, and more especially to initiate and propose such municipal legislation as may to them seem proper and needful. Legislative powers. (8). Said mayor and council shall have power to punish by execution and attachments for contempts, in a penalty not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) or confinement in the guard house thirty (30) days, either or both in their discretion, or to coerce the payment of fines for contempt by imprisonment, and in this connection to pass all ordinances deemed proper in the premises; shall have the power to establish parliamentary rules for the orderly conduct of business, and shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, each take and subscribe before some officer authorized by law to administer same, the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and uprightly demean myself as mayor (or member of council) of the City of Sylvester during my continuance in office; that I will to the utmost of my skill and ability promote the interest and prosperity of said city; that I will not wilfully and knowingly use or be the cause of using tyrannical means towards any citizen or portions of the citizens thereof, so help me God. Contempts. Oath of office.

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(9). That a mayor and council shall provide by ordinance for the impeachmnet and trial of any member of said body, who upon conviction of malpractice in office, of any wilful neglect or abuse of the powers and duties of same, shall, by a two-thirds vote of the whole body, the mayor voting, except in case of his own impeachment, be dismissed from office. Resonable notice and a fair hearing shall be given the accused. Impeachment. (10). The salary of the mayor shall be and is hereby fixed at $300.00 per annum to be paid $25.00 per month. Mayor's salary. (11). The compensation of the members of council may be prescribed by ordinance and shall not be increased or diminished during their term of office. At the regular election of other officers of the City of Sylvester, to be held on the first Wednesday in December, 1919, and shall be elected in the same manner as other officers of the City of Sylvester. Pay of councilmen. (12). A freeholder of the City of Sylvester who has resided therein at least two years prior to his election, he and the present tax assessors who have been duly elected and qualified shall constitute a board of tax assessors for the City of Sylvester, whose duty it shall be to go over and carefully consider the returns delivered to them by the tax receiver and it shall be their duty and they are hereby granted power to assess and fix a just and equitable valuation on all property and other things returnable for taxation as above provided, and to enter the valuation by them opposite the return on said blank; they shall also fill out the blanks and enter returns of all property subject to taxation within the limits of said city that have not been returned and that may come to their knowledge marking the same unreturned and fix a valuation thereupon, it being their special duty to be diligent in their efforts to see that all property subject to taxation has been returned, the value placed on property by this board shall be final and the same shall be taxed accordingly. There shall be one freeholder of said city elected on the first Wednesday in December, 1919.

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in the same manner as provided for election of other officers in said city for a term of three years beginning January 1st next after his election, at which time he shall enter upon the discharge of his duties and shall serve until his successor is elected and qualified. There shall be one freeholder in the City of Sylvester elected at each annual election in said city and as such tax assessor for a term of three years, whose term of office shall begin January first next after his election, at which time he shall enter upon the discharge of his duties and shall serve until his successor is elected and qualified. The election of said tax assessor shall be at the same time, arranged by the same authorities, in the same manner and the results shall be declared in the same way as that of the election of mayor and councilmen of the City of Sylvester, and shall be a part of said election, provided that such tax assessor shall be paid the sum of $15.00 per annum by the City of Sylvester for services rendered as such tax assessor. Tax assessors. Election of assessors. Pay of assessor. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following municipal officers of said city shall be elected by the mayor and council and shall hold their office for a term of two (2) years and until their successors are elected and qualified, to-wit: An attorney, a physician, a treasurer, and collector, and clerk of council, a sexton, a superintendent of the streets, a chief of the fire department, provided a member of council may be elected superintendent of streets, the first election hereunder for said officers shall be held on the first Monday in January, 1920, and every two years thereafter; each of the above named officers shall receive such compensation as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe, which amount shall not be increased or diminished during their term of office, and they shall, in addition to the duties herein prescribed, perform such other duties as may be provided by ordinance, provided, that such municipal officers shall at all times be subject to suspension for cause, by the mayor, in his discretion, but such suspension shall be reported within five days to the council for action on their part, under the provisions of

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this charter; provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall operate or prevent the officers above enumerated now holding office in said city from holding same until the expiration of their respective terms and until their successors are elected and qualified. Other officers, election, terms. Compensation. Suspension. (1). A vacancy occurring in any of the offices hereinbefore in this section enumerated, an election to fill the unexpired term shall be held by the mayor and council in not more than fifteen days thereafter. Election, unexpired term. (2). Any one who has attained the age of twenty-one (21) years and is a qualified voter in the City of Sylvester shall be eligible to any municipal office. Eligibility. (3). All officers elected by the mayor and council shall at all times be subject to the jurisdiction of the council and amenable to its discipline, and said mayor and council shall have the power to suspend, fine or remove any of said officers by a majority vote of the whole body (the mayor voting), for any cause that may seem just and proper, after a fair notice and opportunity to be heard. Suspension, fine, removal from office. (4). All officers and employees of said city shall be required to take such oath to properly perform their duties, and to give such bond, payable to the mayor and his successors in office, for the benefit of the city and for the use and benefit of the public, to secure and indemnify the city and the public for any loss or damage by reason of their default, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, or negligence, as the mayor and council may by ordinance prescribe. Oath and bond. (5). Neither the mayor nor any member of the council, or any city officer, shall be interested directly or indirectly, in any contract made with the city, or receive any profit or emolument for any purchase or sale of material or other articles paid out of the public revenue, or for which the city becomes responsible. Unlawful interest in contract, etc. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all elections, both general and special, for whatever

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purpose, [Illegible Text] in said city shall be conducted in accordance with the following regulations: (1). The mayor and council shall appoint prior to each election, a board of three managers, each of whom shall be a qualified voter in the city, and who shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, each take and subscribe before some officer authorized by law to administer the same, the following oath: All and each of us do swear that we will faithfully manage this day's election; that we are qualified voters in said city, that we will make a just and true return thereof, and not knowingly permit any one to vote unless we believe he is entitled to do so according to the laws of the city, nor knowingly prohibit any one from voting who is so entitled by law; and will not divulge how any vote was cast, unless called on under law to do so, so help us God. And said managers shall appoint three clerks, who shall also take the oath required of the managers in so far as it might affect said clerks. Election managers. Oath. Secrecy. (2). That all elections shall be held at the county court house and at such other places as may be prescribed by ordinance. Place of election. (3). That the vote shall be given by ballot and secretly, no one but the election managers being allowed to be present with the voter except in case of a challenge, the person challenging, who shall immediately withdraw, after the decision of the managers is made. Voter to be alone with managers. (4). In case a voter is unable by illiteracy or physical disability to prepare his ballot, one of the managers may, at the voter's request and in the presence of the other two, prepare his ballot for him. Aid in ballot. (5). The polls shall be open from ten (10) A. M. to three (3) P. M. standard time. Hours. (6). There shall be kept by three clerks appointed by the managers as hereinbefore prescribed, three lists of the

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names of the voters, which names shall be numbered in the order of their voting, and also three tally sheets. Lists of voters. (7). As each ballot is received the number of the voters on the list shall be marked on his ballot before said ballot is deposited in the box. Marking ballot. (8). When any voter is challenged, that fact shall be so written opposite his name on the lists and also on his ballot, and he shall be required to take the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States and of the State of Georgia; that I have attained the age of twenty-one (21) years, and resided in the State for one year, in the County of Worth six months, and in the City of Sylvester three months next preceding the election; that I have paid all the taxes which, since the adoption of the present constitution of this State, have been required of me, and which I have had opportunity to pay agreeable to law, except for the year in which this election is held, and that I have not voted before at this election, so help me God. Any voter who shall refuse to take the oath when challenged shall have his ballot rejected. Challenge. Oath. (9). To preserve peace and good order at the polls, so that every voter may have an unobstructed opportunity of casting his ballot, or so the secrecy of the same may be maintained, it shall be the duty of the proper municipal authorities to furnish a sufficient number of police to secure that end. Police to secure privacy, etc. (10). The managers shall not begin to count the votes until the polls are closed. Count of votes. (11). When the votes are all counted out, there must be a certificate signed by all the managers, stating the number of votes each person or question, as the case may be, voted for, or upon, received, and each list of voters and each tally sheet must likewise have written the signatures of the managers. Certificate. (12). The oath of the managers, together with their certificate

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and one tally sheet and list of voters, shall be securely sealed in an envelope until the names of the managers are enclosed therein, and delivered to the clerk of council, who shall keep same safely and have it at the next meeting of the mayor and council. Returns. (13). That one tally sheet, one list of voters and all of the ballots shall be sealed up in the ballot box, and the names of the managers written across the seal, which said box and its contents shall be delivered to the clerk of the city council and by him safely kept until called for by lawful authority; and the remaining sheet and list of voters shall be retained by the managers and by them likewise safely kept until called for by lawful authority; provided, that if the same is not called for by lawful authority within sixty days after the election, the clerk shall procure the tally sheet, and list of voters retained by the managers and shall destroy them, together with the tally sheet, list of voters and ballots returned to him in the ballot box, retaining only the papers returned under paragraph twelve (12) thereof, which shall be filed away and safely kept. Destruction of ballots, etc. (14). The mayor and council, or so many of them as are not disqualified by being a candidate for election, shall, at their first meeting after the election, receive said returns from the clerk of council, and declare the result of the election in accordance with the certificate of the managers, those receiving the highest number of votes being declared elected, or the question voted upon being declared carried or not carried, as the case may be, which certificate, together with the resolution of the council declaring the result of the election, shall be entered on the minutes of the council, provided, any two councilmen or one councilman and the mayor, shall have authority to declare the result of said election in the event a majority of said body should be disqualified. Declaration of result. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly in the County of Worth, who shall have paid

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all taxes legally imposed and demanded by the authorities of the city, including the street tax, except for the year in which the election occurs and who shall have resided three months within the jurisdictional limits of the City of Sylvester, and have registered as hereinafter provided, shall be qualified to vote at any city election. Voters. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk of council or in case of his sickness or absence, any officer of the city duly appointed by the mayor and council for that purpose, shall open at the clerk's office (or at such other place as may be designated by the mayor and council, notice of such change being given by newspaper publication), fifty days prior to each election, a list for the registration of voters, which list shall be kept open from nine o'clock A. M. until one o'clock P. M. each and every day, Sunday excepted, for a space of fifteen days, when it shall be finally and absolutely closed at one P. M. on the fifteenth day. Registration of voters. (1). Upon application in person by such persons entitled to register who shall furnish the clerk of council evidence of their qualification, the clerk or other registering officer shall allow said person to enter upon the registration list their names and shall require such person in addition to entering his name, to enter his age, residence and occupation; said name shall be alphabetically arranged in the register, the white and colored being kept separate. Mode of registration. (2). The registering officer shall be the judge of the qualification of those offering to register, with the right of appeal by the applicant for registration to the mayor and council, but the registrar may, in his discretion, administer to the applicant the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I am twenty-one years of age, or will be on the day of the election, and am qualified by citizenship, residence and payment of taxes, to vote for members of the State Legislature in the county of Worth, that I will have resided in the City of Sylvester for the last three months at the time of the election, and have paid all taxes which have been required

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of me by the authorities of said city and which I have had opportunity to pay, agreeable to law, since the adoption of the present constitution, except for the year of the election, so help me God. And when applicants are sworn a minute of that fact shall be entered opposite their names on the list. Registrar to judge as to qualification; appeal to mayor and council. Oath. (3). Any qualified voter, who by reason of physical disability or prolonged absence from the city, is unable to apply in person for registration, may make an affidavit before some officer of this State, authorized by law to administer same, stating the age, occupation, residence and cause of disability of applicant, and when the clerk or other registering officer shall receive such affidavit, during the time in which the lists are open, it shall be his duty to enter the name of the applicant upon the register. Registration of absent persons. (4). That in order to guide the registering officer in the discharge of his duties, he shall obtain from the proper authorities the list of disqualified voters for that year, as provided now or as may be hereafter provided for by the State law, and in addition thereto, the mayor and council is hereby empowered and directed, prior to the first election under this charter, to prepare a list of all those who are disqualified to vote by reason of the non-payment of city taxes since the adoption of the present constitution of the State, and shall also provide for a revision of said list from year to year. And the registering officer shall refuse to register any person whose name appears on either of these lists unless such person shall furnish satisfactory evidence that his disqualification has been removed. Revision of list; exclusion of disqualified persons. (5). The clerk or registering officer shall furnish the managers of the election, prior to the opening of the polls, a certified copy of said city registration list arranged alphabetically, with the ages, occupation and residences of the voters named therein, white and colored being arranged separately. This shall be the only official registration list and shall be returned to the clerk of council after the election and by him safely kept and preserved. Registration lists.

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(6). Any person voting illegally at any election herein provided for shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished as prescribed in Section 666. of the Penal Code of Georgia. Any person who shall falsely take the oath provided for in paragraph two of Section eight (8) shall be guilty of false swearing and shall be punished as prescribed in Section 262 of the Penal Code of Georgia of 1910. Illegal voting; punishment. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be a fire department maintained and operated by said City of Sylvester under such rules, regulations and ordinances as the mayor and council may prescribe, and such as already exist. In addition to a chief, the fire department shall consist of such a number of men, who shall receive such pay and be employed for such time, as may be provided by ordinance. The chief shall be the executive head of the department, shall be responsible for the good order and efficiency of the same, shall make such expenditures thereupon as may be previously authorized by the mayor and council and shall make such report to said mayor and council of the condition of the department as may be required; and said chief shall be and he is hereby made ex-officio a police officer of the city, empowered to make arrests as regular police. Fire department. Police powers of chief. Sec. 10. There shall be and there is hereby established in and for said City of Sylvester, to be conducted in such manner and at such time, except Sunday, at any place in the city as the mayor and council may prescribe, a recorder's court, in which court the recorder shall be the presiding officer. In case of the absence or disability of the recorder, for any cause, the mayor, or in his absence or disability, the mayor pro tem, shall preside. The procedure in said court with reference to the conduct and trial of cases therein, not in conflict with this section of the charter, shall be prescribed by the mayor and council or by rule or order of the presiding officer thereof not in conflict with this charter or city ordinances on the subject. And the mayor and council shall have power to provide by ordinance for the compulsory attendance

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of all persons violating any municipal ordinance, before said recorder's court, by summons, or copy of charges, to answer the offense charged, and when employed, such summons or copy of charges shall be issued as provided for subpoenas and shall contain a summary or simple statement of the offense charged; and disobedience of said summons or copy of charges shall be punished as provided for disobedience of subpoenas. Recorder's court. (1), Said recorder's court shall have jurisdictino to try all offenders against the laws and ordinances of the city committed within the corporate limits, and to punish persons convicted in said court of violating such laws and ordinances in a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the guard house, city prison, or other place provided, or by compulsory labor on the streets or other public works or city chain-gang, not to exceed sixty days, and either one or more of said punishments may be imposed, or the several punishments may be cumulative, or the fine may be imposed with an alternative of such imprisonment or compulsory labor, or coerced or enforced by said imprisonment or labor, provided that the punishments, within the limits prescribed shall only be imposed by said court in the amount and manner prescribed by the penal ordinances of said city, but in the event no penalty as provided for the doing of which is made unlawful by ordinances, the court shall have power to proceed to impose the punishment as herein enumerated. The jurisdiction of said recorder's court shall further extend to the investigation of any charge involving or amounting to a violation of the penal laws of Georgia, when such charge is entered upon the docket of said court and when the offense is alleged to have been committed within the corporate limits of the city, and provided such charges are made in writing and verified to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person making same. Jurisdiction of recorder's court. Punishments. (2). The recorder or other presiding officer of said court shall have the same power as judges of the Superior Court

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of this State to punish for contempt of said recorder's court by a fine not to exceed twenty-five ($25.00) dollars or imprisonment in the city guard house, city prison, or other place provided or in Worth County jail not to exceed ten days, and either or both of said punishments may be imposed in the discretion of the court, or the fine may be imposed with the alternative of such imprisonment, or coerced by such imprisonment. Said recorder or other presiding officer of said court shall be to all intents and purposes a justice of the peace in so far as to enable him to issue warrants for offenses committed within the City of Sylvester against the penal laws of this State, this either before or after a hearing or trial of the charge in said recorder's court, provided the affidavit required by law to obtain warrants is first made before said recorder or other presiding officer which warrant may be executed by any member of the police of the city. Said recorder or other presiding officer of said court, as such ex-officio justice of the peace, shall have the power and authority to commit to the jail of Worth County offenders against the laws of the State of Georgia, and to admit them to bail in bailable causes, for their appearance at the next term of a court of competent jurisdiction to be held in and for the County of Worth, after legal investigation, and shall, if the evidence in the trial of an offense against the ordinances of the city disclose the violation of any State laws, have the power to bind the defendant over as above set forth. Contempt [Illegible Text] court. Warrants for State offenses. Commitment. (3). The said mayor or other presiding officer of said court, shall have the right and power to suspend, vacate, reduce penalties of said court imposed by him, for legal grounds in his best judgment and discretion, and the same shall apply to penalties and sentences of said court, pronounced by the officer who presided in said recorder's stead, it being the intention hereof to give the officer who pronounced the sentence power to vacate, alter or modify the same when for good and legal reasons he may be convinced that such a cause is consistent with justice; provided no fines which have been imposed and collected shall be refunded

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in whole or in part, except by the city council upon written recommendation of the recorder, or other presiding officer, who may have imposed such fine. Power to suspend or vacate sentence. (4). There shall be kept in such court one or more dockets, upon which shall appear the names of each person arrested by the officers and members of the police force in the city for any offense against the municipal ordinances or State penal laws, and each person brought before said court by summons, warrant or other writ issued therefrom, to answer for the violation of any ordinance of the city, or any State penal law, together with the names of the witnesses against them, and a summary or simple statement of the offense with which they are charged, which statement shall be sufficient notice to or accusation of the accused; provided, the mayor and council may prescribe such additional notice or accusation as they may deem proper. Upon the trial of such persons the sentence imposed or the disposition of the case shall be entered in writing opposite the names and charges, by the recorder or other presiding officer of said court, which respective entries signed by the recorder or other presiding officer, shall constitute the judgment of the recorder's court in each respective case. Docket of recorder's court. (5). Said court shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses in all proceedings before said court by subpoena, which subpoena may be issued by the chief of police or any member of the police force, or clerk of council, and shall bear attest in the name of the mayor and shall contain a brief statement of the case, the time set for trial or hearing and the time at which the person subpoenaed shall appear. The recorder or other presiding officer of said court shall have the power to punish any person disobeying said subpoena for contempt of court, within the limits of punishment in this Act prescribed; such subpoena shall be served by any officer or member of the police force of the city. Any person who may be charged with contempt of court, as herein provided, may be arrested by an attachment or warrant in writing signed by the recorder or other

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presiding officer in said court, which said attachment or warrant may be executed by any member of the police force. Subpoenas. Contempt by witness. (6). The ministerial officers of said court shall be the chief or marshal and other members of the police force, any of whom may execute the mandates of the court, and to whom in the alternative, all mesne and final process thereof shall be directed. Officers of court. (7). The right of certiorari from the decision and judgment of said recorder's court shall exist in all cases and shall be exercised under the provisions of the laws of the State of Georgia in such cases made and provided. Certiorari. (8). In any case where any person has deposited a sum of money as a bond for the appearance in said recorder's court of a person charged with an offense which said court has jurisdiction to try, such sum of money shall be forfeited by the owner thereof, and be paid over by said recorder's court to the city treasurer as the property of the City of Sylvester, in the event the party does not appear at the time appointed, for whose appearance such sum of money was deposited as a bond. Deposit in lieu of bond for appearance. (9). When any bond is given by any person charged with an offense against the ordinances or arrested for such offense, for his or her appearance at any session of the recorder's court, and such person so giving bond shall fail to appear at the time appointed in said bond for his or her appearance, then the recorder, or other presiding officer in said court shall issue a scire facias against the principal and his or her security, calling on them to show cause in said court at the time specified in said scire facias, why said bond should not be forfeited, which said scire facias shall be served by any member of the police force of the city at least two days prior to the return day thereof upon the principal and sureties personally, or in the absence of either from the county or State, then by one newspaper publication of said scire facias two days before the return day thereof. If at the return time of said scire facias in said

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court no sufficient cause be shown to the contrary, judgment shall be entered upon said bond against said principal and his or her sureties. On the entering of said judgment the clerk of city council shall issue execution against the principal and surety, in conformity with such judgment, and in the form and manner prescribed for execution issued by the city for taxes, and which execution shall be placed in the hands of the city marshal who shall proceed to collect the same as tax executions are collected by the city. Forfeiture of bond. (10). Persons sentenced to labor by said recorder's court shall be turned over to the superintendent of streets or other officers in charge of streets and public works, to be put to work on said streets or public works in or around said city. Labor under sentence. (11). The mayor and council shall have the power to provide by ordinance for the charge and collection of all items of costs in cases brought into said recorder's court, as are incident and lawfully chargeable to the prosecution of said cases. Costs. (12). Upon the failure or refusal of any person to pay any fine or costs imposed by said recorder's court the same may, in addition to other methods, be enforced and collected by an execution issued and directed as is provided for the issuance and collection of tax executions by the city, and sales thereunder shall be conducted in the same manner. Execution for fine or costs. (13). Upon complaint being filed with the recorder, or in his absence or disability to act, the mayor, by affidavit or such other manner as he may require, that any person has violated any municipal ordinance or law, said recorder or mayor or mayor pro tem shall have the power to issue a warrant for the arrest of said offender, which warrant shall be directed to the chief of police, his deputy or any member of the police force of the city, and shall be signed by said recorder, mayor or mayor pro tem. Warrant for arrest. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the police force of the city shall consist of a marshal,

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who shall also be chief of police, and such other officers and men as the council shall prescribe, and shall be elected on the first Monday in January by the mayor and council in the same manner as provided for the election of other municipal officers. They shall take an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties imposed upon them by the laws and ordinances, and shall give such bond as may be required of them by the city ordinances. The chief shall hold his office for two years, and the remaining members of the force for one year, their respective terms beginning on Tuesday after the first Monday in January, and until their successors are elected and qualified; provided, however, that the term of office of the present force shall not expire until after the expiration of the full term for which they were elected. Police force. Oath and bond. Terms of office. (1). Their compensation shall be provided by ordinance and shall not be increased or diminished during their respective terms. No extra pay or allowance or cost shall be made to them or either of them. It shall be their duty to make arrests in the manner prescribed by law, of persons violating the penal laws of this State, or ordinances of the city council. It shall be the duty of the marshal or chief of police to prosecute offenders before the Superior Court of Worth County and the city court of Sylvester. For the failure to perform any duty required by law or the city ordinances they may be suspended or removed from office by the mayor and council. The mode of preferring the accusation against them and their trial shall be prescribed by city ordinance. The city council shall also prescribe the manner of suspending until trial, the marshal or chief of police, or any other police officer or policeman, where accusation is brought and in all cases the mayor and council may make appointment to the office or place of suspended person, such appointee to hold during the suspension. Said police shall have the power to arrest for any violation of the ordinances of the city, with or without a warrant and whether the offense was committed in his presence or not. Compensation. Duty to prosecute. Suspension or removal. Arrests.

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(2). That the mayor and council shall cause the entire police force of the city to be armed, and so uniformed as to be readily recognized by the public as police officers. The arms and uniforms to be furnished at the expense of the city, provided that such arms and uniforms shall always be and remain the property of the city. Arms and uniforms. (3). Recorder: Mayor and council shall at their first meeting after each annual election, or as soon thereafter as practicable, elect a fit and proper person to the office of recorder; it is hereby provided for him to serve from the time of his election for a term of one year, or until his successor is elected and qualified. Said recorder shall preside over the court hereinbefore provided for and is vested with all power and authority therein provided for. That the mayor and council shall on the first Monday in January elect one superintendent of waterworks and electric lights, whose term of office shall be for one year and until his successor is elected and qualified, provided, however, that he may be required to make stated report to the mayor and council and his compensation shall be fixed by the mayor and council. In addition said mayor and council shall have power to employ such number of persons as may from time to time be found needful in the management and operation of said electric lights and waterworks plant, but no such employment shall be for a running period of longer than one year; the compensation of such employees to be fixed by the mayor and council, said mayor and council shall have the power to inflict penalties by way of fine, suspension or discharge upon the said superintendent or other employees for any cause that may seem just and proper as a fair opportunity to be heard. Recorder's election and term. Superintendent of waterworks and electric lights; other employees. Compensation. (4). That said mayor and council shall have power to establish a scale of water, gas and electric light rates, make and enforce rules for the collection of same, adopt rules and regulations respecting the introduction of water, gas and electricity into or upon any premises, and from time to time to regulate the use of water, gas and electricity in such

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manner as shall seem to them necessary, and proper; and shall have the further power to furnish at cost, place, and compel the use of meters, and prescribe the kind, and make the use of same a condition precedent to furnishing premises with water, gas or electricity, and to prescribe how and where such meters shall be placed, and the members of said board, the superintendent, and all inspectors in their service, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter at all reasonable hours any dwelling or other place where said water, gas or electricity is taken or used, and where unnecessary waste thereof is known or suspected, and examine all surface pipes, stop cocks and other apparatus connected with said waterworks and gas works, and for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are of the character and dimensions and fixed in the same manner directed in the permits issued therefor, and if any person refuses to permit such examination or oppose, or obstruct such officers in the performance of such duties, such person so offending shall, upon conviction in the recorder's court, be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the guard house not exceeding fifty days, either or both, or by fine with an alternative of such imprisonment; in addition, the board may shut off the supply of water or gas until the required examination is made, and such alternation and repairs are completed as necessary. Regulation of rates and of use of water and lights. Inspection; penalty for interference with. (5). That the mayor and council shall regulate the distribution of said water, gas and electricity in all places and for all purposes where the same may be required, and from time to time shall fix the price for the use thereof, and the time of payment; and they shall erect such number of public hydrants and stock-founts, and in such places as they shall see fit, and elect in what manner and for what purpose the same shall be used, for all of which they may charge at their discretion; provided, that all hydrants, conduits and appliances required and furnished for the extinguishment of fires shall be erected and placed as the mayor and council may direct and be under their exclusive control and direction. Public hydrants and stock founts.

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(6). That the mayor and council shall have full power and authority to require the payment in advance for the use or rent of water, gas or electricity furnished by them in or upon any building, place or premises, and in case prompt payment shall not be made, they may shut off the water, gas or electricity from such building, place or premises, and shall not be compelled to again supply said places or premises with gas or electricity or water until the arrears, with interest thereon, shall be fully paid. And the mayor and council shall have the power at their option to keep on hand and furnish to consumers at not exceeding cost, gas stoves, gas heaters, electric heaters or other devices of like kind as not used in connection with gas and electricity, as said mayor and council may deem proper. Prepayment for water, etc. Power to sell gas stoves, etc. (7). That said mayor and council shall make no contract for the price of using water, gas or electricity for a longer time than one year. All complaints regarding inequalities in the rates shall be heard by said mayor and council, and their decision shall be final and conclusive. Contracts limited to year. Complaints. (8). That the mayor and council may require bond, with good and sufficient security, in a sum to be fixed by them, of the superintendent, and any or all of the employees appointed by said mayor and council, said bond or bonds conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties and the prompt delivery of all moneys belonging to said city, coming into their hands during their continuance in office, and said bond, or bonds, to be made payable to the City of Sylvester. Bonds of employees. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said City of Sylvester shall have power to establish a complete system of drainage for the health and comfort of its inhabitants and shall have entire and absolute control and jurisdiction of all soil pipes, private drains and sewers, water closets, privies, privy vaults and dry wells in said city, with full power to prescribe their location, structure, uses and preservation, and to make such regulations concerning them, in all particulars, as may seem best for

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the preservation of the health of the inhabitants of the city, and with power also to require changes in, or the total discontinuance of, any such contrivances or structures already in existence, or that may hereafter be allowed. Drainage, water closets, etc. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That the City of Sylvester shall have the power to regulate the width, location and grade of all streets, alleys, sidewalks and ways within the city, due regard being had for the original plan of said city, and shall have the further power to locate and lay off new streets, alleys, or ways within the city, to alter in any manner or close and vacate any of the same, and to prohibit any one from opening and laying off new streets or ways without the consent of the mayor and council. Powers as to streets. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the City of Sylvester is hereby authorized and empowered to condemn lands within or without the corporate or jurisdictional limits of said city, for sites for the erection of public buildings for said city, for parks, water supply, sewers, cemeteries, plants for hauling and disposing of sewage, for drainage or sewerage purposes, for the purpose of opening and laying off any new streets, alleys or ways, extending, widening or altering in any manner, any of the streets, alleys or ways of said city, and for other public purposes and to pay the owners of said property the damages incident to said condemnation. Said city shall proceed in condemning said property for the purposes mentioned, under the terms and provisions as are now, or may hereafter be, provided by the law of the State in such cases. The fact that the property needed by said city for said purpose may be owned by a railroad or other quasi public corporation, shall be no bar to the exercise of the right of condemnation hereby conferred. Condemnation of property. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the City of Sylvester shall have the power to grant encroachments upon the streets, sidewalks, alleys or ways of the city, on such terms and in such manner as may be by ordinance prescribed, and shall have the further power to

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grant privileges and franchises to any person, railroad, street railroad, or other corporation to use any part or parts of the streets, alleys or ways in the city, upon adequate compensation, to be determined by the mayor and council, being paid into the city treasury, upon such terms and conditions as the mayor and council may prescribe; provided, that notice of the application for such privilege or franchise shall be published at least twice in the newspaper in which the sheriff's notices in Worth County are published, ten days before the final action on such application. Grant of encroachments and franchises. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council shall not grant any public franchise to any person or incorporated companies without reserving in said grant the right to tax said franchise, and reserve in said grant the right by ordinance from time to time to pass and adopt such reasonable ordinances or resolutions regulating and governing the exercise of such franchise as may be deemed expedient or necessary. Reservation of right to tax franchise. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to adopt, maintain and declare of force a code of the ordinances, resolutions and rules of said city, which code may consist of and contain such ordinances, resolutions and rules now of force and effect as the council may deem proper to include therein, or a revision thereof, or of entirely new ordinances, resolutions and rules and may contain such of either as said mayor and council see fit to include therein. And said code shall be subject to amendment or repeal, in whole or in part, at any time; provided that in adopting a code it shall not be necessary to read the same twice, or record same, nor the ordinances, resolutions and rules therein, as in this charter in Section eighteen (18) provided, for the passage and adoption of ordinances and resolutions, which said section eighteen shall not apply to said code, provided, further, that only the ordinance adopting a code shall be passed in accordance with said section eighteen,

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provided, further, that nothing in this section contained shall render said section eighteen inoperative relative to ordinances and resolutions adopted to, or amending said code. City code. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said city shall have the power to pass any and all ordinances or resolutions that they may deem requisite and proper to the peace, security, welfare, health, good government and convenience of said city, and to prescribe punishment for the violation of the same, in a fine not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or imprisonment in the guard house, city prison or other place provided, or by compulsory labor on the streets or other public works or the city chaingang, not to exceed sixty days and either one or more of said punishments may be prescribed, or the several punishments made cumulative or the fine may be imposed with an alternative of said imprisonment or compulsory labor, and the fine imposed may be coerced by such imprisonment or labor. Said mayor and council shall have the power to erect and maintain suitable guard houses, city prisons or work houses for the confinement and detention of persons arrested and convicted for the violation of the city ordinances. General welfare powers. Penalties. Prisons. (1). All ordinances, before they shall pass, shall be read twice, and each reading had at separate meetings, regular or special, on separate days, and the first reading shall be at a regular meeting of the mayor and council; provided, that both readings of said ordinances may be had at the first meeting, upon unanimous consent of the mayor and council to that effect; provided further, that ordinances or resolutions appropriating or involving expenditure of money for purposes other than ordinary current expenses, shall be read twice as above provided, and the rule shall not be suspended. Ordinances, mode of adoption. (2). All ordinances and resolutions shall be signed by the mayor or the officer presiding at the time of their passage and countersigned by the clerk of council.

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(3). All ordinances and resolutions shall be in writing and have endorsed thereon the name of the councilman introducing same and the date of its readings. Such ordinances or resolutions shall be numbered and filed away and properly preserved. There shall be kept by the clerk of council a regular ordinance and resolution book, in which all ordinances and resolutions, after their passage and adoption, shall be fairly and accurately printed or engrossed, the record of which shall be signed by the mayor, acting mayor, or the officer presiding at the time of the passage of the same, and countersigned by the clerk of council under the seal of the city; provided, that nothing herein contained shall operate to prevent said mayor and council from adopting such rules and regulations governing the passage and adoption of ordinances and resolutions which do not conflict herewith; provided, further, that nothing contained in this and previous paragraphs shall affect in any manner any existing valid ordinances of said city. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that said city shall have the power and authority by ordinance to pave, repave, or repair the pavement of the sidewalks of the city, and to assess the cost of same against the owners of the property abutting on said sidewalks, according to frontage owned by them thereon; and said city shall have the power and authority by ordinance to grade, pave, macadamize, curb, or otherwise improve for travel or drainage, any of the streets, alleys, or ways of the city or to re-grade, re-pave, re-curb, re-macadamize or repair the pavement, curbing, grade or drainage of the same, and to assess one half of the total cost of same against the owners of the property abutting on each side of the streets, alleys or ways so improved, according to the frontage owned by each thereon; and to require any railroad or street railroad company having, or which may hereafter have, tracks running through the streets, alleys, or ways of said city, so improved, to macadamize or otherwise pave or improve as the mayor and council may direct, the width of their tracks and two feet on each side thereof, and to require said companies

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to repair or re-pave their aforesaid portions as the mayor and council may direct. In the event any such company or companies fail or refuse to comply with said requirement the city may have the same done and the expense thereof shall be assessed against said company or companies and enforced by execution, issued against said company or companies, as hereinafter provided in this section, and said city shall be and it is hereby empowered to enforce the payment of the assessments, provided for in this section, by execution against the abutting property and against the owners of the same, which execution shall be issued and enforced by levy and sale of said property like executions for taxes under existing ordinances, or such as may hereafter be made applicable to the subject, and said property shall be sold in the same manner and shall be subject to all the incidents of purchase by the city, and redemption by the owner, as provided for by Section (879) eight hundred and seventy-nine at seq. of Volume one (1) of the Code of Georgia of 1910, and amendments thereto; and all assessments heretofore made by said city for the purpose herein specified, but remaining unpaid, may be enforced as herein set out; provided, however, that to an execution issued under the provisions of this section the defendant shall have the right to file an affidavit denying that the whole or any part of the amount for which execution issued is due, and the reason why same is not due by and from defendant, and stating what amount is admitted to be due, which amount so admitted to be due shall be paid before said affidavit shall be received, and said affidavits shall be received for the balance, and said affidavit so received shall be returned to the Superior Court of Worth County, and there tried and the issue determined as in cases of illegality, subject to all the pains and penalties provided for in cases of illegality for delay. One publication of the ordinance or ordinances providing the improvements mentioned in this section, in the newspaper of Worth County in which the sheriff's advertisements are published shall be sufficient notice to abutting property owners or railroad or street

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railroad companies having tracks on the streets to be improved, of the contents and provisions of such ordinance, and of the fact that such improvements are to be made; provided that in case of non-residents, a copy of said ordinance shall be mailed to the address of all non-residents owning land abutting to that where the improvements are to be made if the address of such non-residents be known, but failure to send or receive such copy shall not invalidate the ordinance, the assessment or levy, nor any other proceedings thereunder. Paving, repaving; assessment for. Railroads, assessment of. Execution for assessment. Affidavit of illegality. Notice of ordinance as to street improvement. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in addition to the special school tax authorized by this Act of the General Assembly, approved December 18, 1900, said City of Sylvester shall have the right and power to assess, levy and collect a tax upon all property, both real and personal within the limits of the city, not to exceed one per cent ad valorem; to levy and collect a specific or occupation tax on all business, occupations, professions, callings or trades, public or private, exercising within the city, as may be deemed just and proper, and upon franchises and incomes; to fix a license on theatrical exhibitions, circuses and shows of all kinds, and on drays and hacks, hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, fish stands, biliard, pool and other kinds of tables, ten pin alleys, butcher shops, livery stables, auctioneers, and upon all other classes or kinds of business, legitimately coming within the police power of the city, as may be just and reasonable. The taxing power of said city, except as herein limited, shall be as general, complete and full as that of the State itself. Ad valorem tax. Business tax and license. (1). Said city shall have the power to provide by ordinance for the return of all real and personal property for taxation, to provide for compelling such return, and to provide penalties for failure to do so, to double tax defaulters, after due notice and hearing to be prescribed by the mayor and council, for the current or any previous years, not in conflict with any limitation prescribed by the laws of Georgia; to prescribe the time or times at which said returns are

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due, and shall have the power to enforce the collection of taxes by execution issued by the clerk of council, directed to the marshal or chief of police and bearing test in the name of the mayor, which execution shall be issued in the time and in the manner prescribed by city ordinances not in conflict with the State law, and such executions shall be enforced by the marshal or chief of police by levy on and sale of the property of the defendant, and the sales under same shall be conducted as is now, or may hereafter be, provided by State law and city ordinances, not in conflict with said State law; and where the owner of property in said city is unknown, such execution may be issued against said property and the levy on the sale thereof shall be had as herein provided, and said city's power to provide machinery or methods for the return, assessments and taxation of property within the city, shall be as full and complete as that of the State. Tax returns. Execution for taxes. (2). Said city shall have power to provide by ordinances for the registration of all business occupations that are subject to a specific occupation or license tax, the time or times at which same shall be due, and shall provide penalties within the limits of this charter prescribed, for engaging in same without first registering and paying the tax, and shall have the power, in addition thereto, to enforce the collection of same by execution, as in the previous paragraph provided. Registration of business. (3). Said city shall have the power to require each male resident living within the present or future corporate limits of the city, between the ages of sixteen (16) and fifty (50) years, to work upon the streets in said city, as the mayor and council may direct, for as many as six (6) days in each year, or in lieu of said work to pay a street or commutation tax not to exceed three dollars ($3.00) annually and further, to provide for the collection of said tax by an execution which may be issued and enforced as other executions for city taxes, and to provide for the punishment in the city recorder's court, of such residents who have failed

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or refused to pay the commutation tax when demanded by the person or officer appointed by the mayor and council to make such demand, and who shall, without a good excuse, fail or refuse to appear at the time and place appointed, to work, when summoned or notified by the person or officer whose duty it is to give said summons or notice by the regulations of the mayor and council, or who shall fail or refuse to do faithful work, as ordered by the person or officer in charge of the work, when such residents have appeared. Street tax or work. Punishment. Sec. 21. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city of Sylvester shall, in addition to the powers hereinbefore granted, have the following powers: Nuisances. (1). To try all nuisances within the city and abate the same; to define what shall constitute a nuisance; to cause any nuisance likely to endanger the health of the city of any neighborhood to be abated in a summary manner; to charge the expense for abating such nuisance against the person causing the same, or the owner of the premises, according as the one or the other is liable, and to enforce the collection of said expenses by execution issued as execution for city taxes. (2). To regulate butchor pens, butchor shops, tan yards, livery stables, fish stands, restaurants, or any other business in which decaying animal or vegetable matter is kept, or in which noxious odors may become dangerous and injurious to the health of the public or any part thereof; to license same only in such localities as may be least offensive to the public and to revoke the license for same when they prove dangerous and injurious to health aforesaid. Butcher shops, livery stables, restaurants, etc., regulation of. (3). In order to guard against danger or damage by fire, said city shall have the power to regulate and control blacksmith shops, forgos, stoves and chimneys, and to cause same to be moved or remedied as safety may dictate; to create fire limits and prescribe the material out of which buildings shall be constructed therein: to regulate the construction

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of doors, exits and steps in places of public gatherings and may require the erection of fire escapes in all buildings, not private residences, three or more stories in height. Fire protection. (4). To regulate and control all hotels and public houses within the city, and to revoke the license of same in case they should become disorderly. Hotels, etc. (5). To take up and impound dogs, horses, mules, cattle, hogs, chickens and geese, running at large, and to pass such ordinances as may be deemed necessary for the regulation of stock and other animals within the city. Animals and fowls at large. (6). To require owners of lots to drain same, fill up excavations or depressions, and upon failure to do so after reasonable notice, to have same done at owner's expense and enforce collection of same by execution against the property, which execution shall be issued and enforced in the same manner, and with the same privilege, as to contest, to the defendant as provided in case of sidewalk and street paying executions. Draining and filling lots. (7). To regulate all vehicles of every kind and character, used in the city for profit in the transportation of passengers, freight or both, to provide for the regular inspection of same, and to fix the rates and fares and carriage thereon. Vehicles used for hire. (8). To construct or extend sewers and water mains in any of the streets, alleys or ways of said city or contiguous territory that may hereafter be incorporated; to assess such part of the cost of the same on the real estate abutting in the street, way or alley in which the same may be extended, according to frontage as may seem just and reasonable, and to enforce the payment of same by execution against the abutting real estate and the owner thereof; provided, that to an execution issued under this paragraph the defendant shall have the right to file an affidavit, denying that the whole or any part of the amount for which execution issued is due, stating what amount he admits to

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be due; which shall be paid or collected before the affidavit is received, and the affidavit shall be received for the balance, and all such affidavits so received shall be returned to the Superior Court of Worth County and there tried and determined as in case of illegality, subject to all the pains and penalties provided for in cases of illegality for delay. Sewers and water mains. Assessments. Execution: affidavit of illegality. (9). To regulate all machinery including stationary and locomotive engines within the city, and to make all such needful rules and regulations for the same as will guard the citizens or any portion thereof against annoyance by unnecessary volumes of smoke and disagreeable, unnecessary noise. Regulation of machinery, smoke, noises. (10). To establish one or more markets and regulate the same, fix hours of sale therein; and pass all ordinances, rules and regulations necessary and proper to control marketing within the city. Markets. (11). To own, use and operate for municipal purposes and for profit, a system of water works and electric lights and gas works, to make rules and regulations regarding the use of the same by the public, and provide by ordinance for the punishment of those illegally using said water, electricity or gas, and who illegally divert same from their proper channels of transmission. Waterworks, gas, electric light. (12). To provide for the inspection of all buildings for the purpose of having same meet with all requirements relative to the material used and the safety and strength of the same, as the mayor and council may from time to time prescribe by ordinance to guard against loss by fire, injuries to the person or damage to property. Building inspection. (13). To organize one or more chaingangs or work gangs and to put compulsory labor thereon and to confine therein persons who have been sentenced by the recorder of the City of Sylvester or other duly authorized person acting as recorder of said City of Sylvester, to work upon the public works and streets of said City of Sylvester, and shall have full power and authority to make rules and

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regulations that may be suitable for the care and control of said chaingang, and to enforce the same through its proper officers. Chain-gang. Sec. 22. The City of Sylvester is hereby authorized to issue bonds in such amounts as may be permitted under the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and at such time, or times, as the mayor and the council of the City of Sylvester may prescribe for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of surface and sanitary sewers as the mayor and council of the City of Sylvester may prescribe, and for other purposes with full power and authority in the city of Sylvester to make all contracts necessary in the election and maintenance of such system of sewers, and with full power and authority in the mayor and council of the City of Sylvester to make, declare and enforce all such ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations concerning the use of said sewers; to provide ordinances for compelling residents, citizens and property holders to make connection with such sewers and such sewers that now exist in said City of Sylvester, at their own expense and to provide for the enforcement of such ordinances by fine and imprisonment as well as the issue and levy of execution for that purpose. Bond issue for sewers. Sec. 23. The mayor and council of the City of Sylvestor are hereby authorized and empowered to call by ordinance an election by the qualified voters of said city, for the purpose of obtaining the assent of the qualified voters, of the City of Sylvester, to an issue of bonds in such amount or amounts as may be permitted under the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and at such time or times as the mayor and council may, in their discretion, prescribe for any of the following purposes, to-wit: Election to authorize bonds for improvements, etc. (1). For paving, macadamizing, draining or otherwise improving for the travel or use of the public, streets, sidewalks, alleys and lanes of said city. (2). For establishing and maintaining a system of surface

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or storm and storm and sanitary sewers within the city. (3). For the construction of any public building, bridge, viaduct, underpass, hospital or other public works to be used exclusively for lawful corporate purposes looking to the safety, health and general welfare of the citizens of the City of Sylvester or for the enlargement, extension, or improvement of any such public building, bridge, viaduct, underpass, hospital or other public works. It shall be the duty of the mayor and council of the City of Sylvester calling the election, to provide for the submitting separately to the qualified voters of the city, each question presented for ratification or rejection, so that each voter may vote for or against any or all of the purposes for which it is proposed to issue bonds. Questions to be submitted separately. In the event the assent of a sufficient number of the qualified voters of the City of Sylvester is obtained as provided by law, at the election called as herein provided, the mayor and council of the City of Sylvester shall have full authority and power to make all contracts necessary or incident to the expenditure of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds for the purpose and objects for which they were issued; and to enact and enforce all such ordinances, resolutions, rules, and regulations and protection of said public improvement as in their discretion they may deem fit and proper, and to enforce such ordinances and regulation by fine and imprisonment as well as by the issue and levy of execution for that purpose. Sec. 24. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the enumeration of powers contained in this Act shall not be considered as restrictive, but the City of Sylvester and its municipal authorities may exercise all powers, rights and jurisdiction as they might if such enumeration were not made, and the mayor and council may pass such laws and ordinances, rules and regulations they may deem needful and proper for the general welfare of said city, and

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where under this charter, rights are conferred or powers granted, but the manner of exercising them is not fully prescribed, the mayor and council may prescribe additional regulations and modes of procedure not repugnant to the intent and purposes of this Act nor the laws of the State. Enumeration of powers not restrictive. Sec. 25. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed; provided, that nothing in this Act containing shall operate to effect or repeal the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 18, 1900 (Acts of 1900, page 440), town of Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia; entitled An Act establishing a system of public schools of said town of Sylvester, etc. To empower the mayor and council of said city to levy and collect a tax for the support and maintenance there; to provide for the issuance of bonds, for said town for the purpose of purchasing school property, building school houses, etc.; to create a board of commissioners of said town; to authorize and require the county school commissioner of Worth County to pay or turn over to said school commissioner of said town, such part of the State and county funds as may be its pro rata share, and for other purposes; provided also that nothing in this Act contained shall operate to effect or repeal Section 22 of the Act of the General Assembly approved August 13, 1904, entitled an Act to incorporate and create, the City of Sylvester in the County of Worth, and prescribe the limits thereof, etc., which said act and part of Act above referred to is hereby declared to be and remain of full force and effect. Acts not repealed. School tax, bonds, board of commissioners, etc. Approved August 18, 1919.

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SYLVESTER SCHOOL SYSTEM; AMENDING ACT. No. 361. An Act to amend an Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, approved December 18, 1900, and also to continue the school system of the town of Sylvester and establish the same as the school system of the City of Sylvester, approved August 13, 1904; to provide reports from the Sylvester schools to the County School Superintendent and the Board of Education of Worth County; to provide for the payment to the Sylvester schools by the Worth County Board of Education out of the State funds on the same basis as is provided for other schools of Worth County; to provide for a biennial census of the children of school age within the limits of the City of Sylvester; to provide that the annual report of the County School Superintendent of Worth County to the State School Superintendent include the report from the schools of the City of Sylvester; to provide for the qualification of members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Sylvester for the examination of teachers in the schools of the City of Sylvester, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That an Act approved December 18, 1900 (Acts 1900, page 440), entitled, An Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Sylvester, Worth County, Georgia, to empower the mayor and council of said town to levy and collect a tax for the suppart and maintenance thereof, to provide for the issuance of bonds, etc., and also an Act approved August 13, 1904 (Acts 1904, page 645), To incorporate and create the City of Sylvester in the County of Worth, to continue the present school system of the town of Sylvester, and establish the same as the school system of the City of Sylvester; to provide for the maintenance of same by taxation: to create the City of Sylvester,

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and for other purposes. Be it enacted that the above Acts are hereby amended as follows: Acts amended. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Section 6 of the Acts approved December 18, 1900 (Acts 1900, page 440), be repealed. Gu. L. 1900, p. 440; Section 6 repealed. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that Section 7 of the Acts approved December 18, 1900 (1900, page 440), be amended by striking all of said section except the first two sentences so that when amended the same shall read as follows: Be it further enacted that at least one school for white children and one for colored children shall be established and maintained under the provisions of this Act for a term of not less than five nor more than nine months of each year. No white child shall be admitted into the schools for colored children, and no colored child shall be admitted into the schools for white children. Sec. 7 as amended. Schools for white and colored children. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That during the month of August, 1919, and during the same month every two years thereafter, that a census of the children of school age be taken by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Sylvester, and that the expense of same be paid by the mayor and council of the City of Sylvester, out of the funds of said city, and that one copy of said census, including the same data and information as is now provided by law for the State census, be filed with the County School Superintendent of Worth County, and the other with the State School Superintendent of Education. School census. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the principals of the white and colored schools of the City of Sylvester file their reports with the County School Superintendent of Worth County the same as other schools of the County, and instead of the schools of the City of Sylvester receiving their apportionment direct from the State School Superintendent, the County School Superintendent and the Board of Education of Worth County are hereby required to pay over to the treasurer of the City of Sylvester that part of the State school funds coming to Worth County, to which the city

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schools are entitled, and are further required to apportion it to the schools of the City of Sylvester on identically the same basis and in the same manner as they apportion the funds coming to Worth County, to other schools in said County. Reports to county superintendent of schools. Payments from State fund. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the County School Superintendent of Worth County include in his monthly itemized statement provided by Section 1548 of the Code of 1910, to the State School Superintendent the monthly reports from the schools of the City of Sylvester as he does other schools of said County, and that he include in his annual report to the State School Superintendent the report from the schools of the City of Sylvester the same as he does the other schools of Worth County. Reports to State superintendent of schools. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the teachers of the schools of City of Sylvester be required to stand examinations as provided by Section 1565(y) of Volume 1, Park's Annotated Code of Georgia. Examination of teachers. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Commissioners of the schools of the City of Sylvester may admit non-resident pupils in said schools upon the agreement of the County Superintendent of Worth County or by parents or guardians of said pupils to pay over to the treasurer of the City of Sylvester such rates and tuition as will be equal to the expense per pupil incurred by the City of Sylvester on the resident pupils of the city attending said schools. Non-resident pupils. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the qualification for the members of the Board of Commissioners of the schools of the City of Sylvester shall be identical with the qualifications required of the County Board of Education under Section 1565(s) of Park's Annotated Code of Georgia. Board of commisstoners of schools; qualifications. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That all laws conflicting with the above are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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TALBOTTON; ELECTION OF MARSHAL; PAYMENTS FROM STATE SCHOOL FUND; SCHOOL CENSUS. No. 221. An Act to amend an Act approved August 20, 1913, incorporating the town of Talbotton, in the County of Talbot, so as to provide for the election of a marshal for said town, by the mayor and council thereof; to provide that the pro rata part of the State school fund to which said town of Talbotton shall be entitled shall be paid annually direct by the State School Superintendent to the clerk and treasurer of the said town of Talbotton, and by him paid over directly promptly to the secretary and treasurer of the public school board of said town of Talbotton; to provide for the taking of the census of the said town, for the purpose of ascertaining the number of school children within said town, same to be reported to the State School Superintendent, in order that he may arrive at the exact sum to be so paid over, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, that the Act approved August 20, 1913, be amended as follows: By striking from the fourth line of Section 5 the following words, And a Marshal, so that when so amended that part of said paragraph referring to officers to be elected by the qualified voters of the said town shall read as follows: That on the second Saturday in January, 1914, there shall be elected for said town by the qualified voters therein by ballot a mayor, six councilmen. Act of 1913 amended. Sec. 11 amended. Sec. 5 as Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That section eleven of said Act be amended by adding at the end of line ten, the following, A day marshal, so that the part of said section giving power to the mayor and council to elect certain officers for said town, when so amended, shall read as follows: The mayor and council shall also, at said meeting elect a clerk and treasurer, a day marshal and a

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night marshal, and as many other policemen as in their judgment shall seem necessary, a city attorney, if they deem one needed, a board of tax assessors, and a board of health, and such other town officers as the mayor and council shall deem necessary in the government of said town, to be fixed by ordinance. Day marshal. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Act be further amended by striking therefrom all of Section 47 and substitute in lieu thereof the following: Sec. 47. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State School Superintendent shall at the same time he apportions the State school funds between the counties and cities of said State, apportion and pay direct to the clerk and treasurer of the town of Talbotton, the full pro rata share of such State school funds to which the children residing within the corporate limits of the said town of Talbotton shall be entitled, each year, same to be determined by a school census to be taken under the direction of the mayor and council of said town of Talbotton, and by a similar census to be taken by them at the same time and in the same manner as county school censuses are taken, said funds so paid over to him by said State School Superintendent shall be by said clerk and treasurer paid over promptly to the secretary and treasurer of the public schools of said town of Talbotton. Substitute for Sec. 47. Share of State school fund, payment of. School census. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. TALLAPOOSA SCHOOL TAX, INCREASE OF, ETC. No. 228. An Act to amend an Act establishing a system of public schools in the City of Tallapoosa. Georgia, approved December 26, 1888, by increasing the rate of taxation for the support of said schools from one-half of one per

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centum on the assessed value of the taxable property of said city to seven and one-half tenths per centum: to amend Section 6 of said Act to read as follows: That the school established by authority of this Act shall be free to all the children within school age residing within the corporate limits of Tallapoosa, Georgia. The provisions of this Act shall not be in conflict with the provisions of the general laws of this State as now or hereafter enacted on the subject of municipal schools. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Section 1 of the above recited Act be and is hereby amended by striking out the words one-half in the fifth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words seven and one-half tenths, so that said section, when so amended shall read, That the corporate authorities of the City of Tallapoosa, in the County of Haralson, are hereby authorized and empowered to collect a tax annually in addition to that already authorized by the charter of said city, not to exceed seven and one-half tenths of one per centum on the assessed value of the taxable property of said city, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of free public schools in said city. Act of 1888 amended. Sec. 1 as amended. School tax. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Section 6 of said Act be and the same is hereby amended by inserting in the second line thereof, after the word children and before the word residing the words within school age, so that said section, when so amended shall read as follows: That the schools established by authority of this Act shall be free to all children within school age residing within the corporate limits of Tallapoosa. Children of non-residents may be admitted to said schools upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board. The provisions of the above recited Act, as herein amended, shall not be in conflict with the provisions of the general laws of this State as now or hereafter enacted upon the subject of municipal schools. Sec. 6 as amended. Schools free to residents. Admission of non-residents. Approved August 18, 1919.

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TALLULAH PARK, TOWN OF; CORPORATE LIMITS CHANGED. No. 74. An Act to amend an Act incorporating Tallulah Park in the County of Habersham, approved August 19, 1916, and to amend Section 2 thereof by changing the territorial limits thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act to incorporate the town of Tallulah Park, in the County of Habersham, approved August 19, 1916, and Section 2 thereof, be and is hereby amended by striking all of said section after the words, All of land lot No. 161 in the 13th district of Habersham County, and adding in lieu thereof the words: All that part or portion of land lot No. 162 in the 13th district of Habersham County that lies one hundred feet south and east of the Clarksville and Tallulah Falls road, so that said Act as amended will read as follows: That the incorporate limits of the said town of Tallulah Park shall be as follows: All of land lot No. 161 in the 13th land district of Habersham County, and all that part or portion of land lot No. 162 in the 13th land district of Habersham County that lies one hundred feet south and east of the Clarksville and Tallulah Falls public road. Act of 1916 amended. Sec. 2 as amended. Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. THOMASVILLE; AUTHORITY TO CLOSE STREET. No. 84. An Act to authorize the mayor and aldermen of the City of Thomasville to close the western end of Clay street from the point of divergence of the MacIntyre road west of a

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stream known as the Depot branch to and beyond where said Clay street crosses the right of way of the A. C. L. railroad, and to abolish said west end of said street and said crossing. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Thomasville, be and they are hereby authorized to close the western end of Clay street in said city from the point of divergence of the MacIntyre road west of the stream known as the Depot branch to and beyond where said Clay street crosses the right-of-way of the A. C. L. railroad and to abolish said west end of said street and said crossing. Authority to close part of Clay street, Thomasville. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. THOMASVILLE SCHOOL TAX, INCREASE OF. No. 4. An Act to amend the Act approved November 30, 1900, establishing a system of public schools in the City of Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, and all Acts amendatory thereof, so as to increase the tax levy for the establishment and maintenance of said public schools, from the amount now provided by law, to seven-tenths of one per cent., and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Act recited in the caption of this Act, and Acts amendatory thereof, be amended so as to increase the amount of annual tax entitled to be levied as provided in Section 2 and Section 6 of the original Act, and as provided in Section 1 of the amendatory Act approved July 30, 1915, so that from and after the passage of this Act the limit of

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taxation for school purposes shall be an annual tax levy of seven-tenths of one per cent. The effect of this Act is to permit the increase of an annual tax levy for the support of the public schools of the City of Thomasville from two-fifths of one per cent to seven-tenths of one per cent, or to any sum not exceeding seven-tenths of one per cent. Acts amended. School tax. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. TIFTON SEWERAGE SYSTEM. No. 93. An Act to amend an Act providing a charter for the City of Tifton, approved August 16, 1915 (Acts 1915, pages 854-887), by adding thereto a new section to be known as Section 76, granting to the mayor and council of said city power and authority to lay sewers, construct septic tanks, or make other arrangements for the purification or disposal of sewage, locate dumping grounds for garbage, convey such sewage by means of ditches, canals or streams, and drain such dumping grounds by the same method, beyond or without the corporate limits of said city, granting to the mayor and council of said city power and authority, by proper resolution, to condemn land both within and without the corporate limits of said city for said purposes, and for the further purpose of securing ingress to and egress from such sewers, sewage plants, dumping grounds, ditches and streams, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the Act upproved August 16, 1915 (Acts 1915, pages 854-887), providing a charter for the city of Tifton, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section, to be known as Section 76, reading as follows: Act of 1915 amended. Sec. 76 added.

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Sec. 76. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said city shall have power and authority, whenever it may appear to them or to a majority of them to be necessary, proper or expedient, to lay sewers, construct septic tanks or make other arrangements for the purification or disposal of sewage, locate, establish and maintain dumping grounds for garbage and other refuse, and convey such sewage and drain such dumping grounds by ditches, canals or streams, beyond or without the corporate limits of said city. They shall have power and authority to purchase and otherwise acquire, for the purposes aforesaid, land lying either within or without the corporate limits of said city. In event of their failure to agree with the owner or owners of land or lands suitable, necessary, proper or expedient for the aforesaid purposes, they, or a majority of them, may, by a resolution declaring the necessity, propriety or expediency of acquiring such land or lands and describing the land or lands sought to be acquired, condemn such land or lands lying within the limits of this State, and proceed to acquire the same, together with such other lands or easements thereon as may necessary or proper for the purpose of securing ingress to and [Illegible Text] from such sewers, sewage plants, dumping grounds, ditches and streams, by the method provided in Sections 5206 to 5246, inclusive, of the Code of Georgia. The action of the mayor and council in declaring the necessity, propriety or expediency of acquiring any such lands for any purpose or purposes in this section enumerated shall be final, and the correctness of their judgment in that particular shall never be called in question in any court of this State. Sewerage, [Illegible Text] tanks, dumping grounds. Condemnation of property. Approved August 7, 1919. UNADILLA, TOWN OF; BONDS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHTS; ELECTION AS TO. No. 31. An Act to amend the charter of the town of Unadilla, in County of Dooly, approved December 24, 1890, so as

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to authorize the corporate authorities of said town of Unadilla to issue bonds of said town of Unadilla for the purpose of establishing, building, maintaining, equipping and operating an electric light plant and a system of electric lights in the town of Unadilla, in Dooly County, Ga.; to provide for an election by the voters of said town of Unadilla upon said question; to provide revenues for the payment of principal and interest of said bonds, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That, for the purpose of establishing, building, maintaining, equipping and operating an electric light plant and a system of electric lights in the town of Unadilla, in Dooly County, Ga., the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla are hereby authorized to issue and sell bonds of said town of Unadilla not exceeding in amount the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars, of the denomination of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars each, to become due and payable annually at such time or times not longer than twenty (20) years of the issuance thereof, as said mayor and council may determine, and to bear interest not exceeding six per cent (6%), and payable annually, or semiannually, at such time or place as said mayor and council may determine; said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla, and countersigned by the clerk and treasurer of said town of Unadilla; only so much of said bonds shall be issued as the mayor and council of said town of Unadilla may deem necessary for the purposes above stated. Before issuing said bonds the question of issuing the same shall be submitted to the voters of the town of Unadilla on a day to be designated by said mayor and council of the town of Unadilla; notice of which said election shall be published in the newspaper published in the town of Unadilla, and if there be no such paper, then in the newspaper in which the sheriff's advertisements for the County of Dooly are published, thirty days before the election. All persons voting in said election shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, For electric light bonds, or the words, Against electric light bonds, and

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should said election be declared by the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla under the Act approved August 20, 1918, to amend Paragraph 1, Section 7, Article 7, of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, authorizing the issuance of bonds by municipalities, to be in favor of the issuance of bonds, the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla shall issue said bonds, and for the purpose of providing for the payment of the interest on the bonds so issued and negotiated, as well as to provide for the payment of the principal when the same may become due, the mayor and council are authorized to levy and collect such tax annually upon the taxable property in said town of Unadilla as will be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Said mayor and council of the town of Unadilla shall also provide a sinking fund for the redemption of said bonds as the principal thereof shall become due. Said mayor and council shall have the right after eight (8) years to call in and retire said bonds, or any part of said bonds, as fast as they may deem proper, and such right shall be incorporated in said bonds. Bonds for electric lights. Limit $20,000, 6%. Election as to bond issue. Taxation to pay bonds. Sinking fund. Right to call in bonds. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla shall use the proceeds of said bonds in establishing, building, maintaining, equipping and operating an electric light plant and a system of electric lights in said town of Unadilla. Proceeds to be used for electric light system. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That prior to any election hereafter had under the provisions of this Act, the clerk of the mayor and council of the said town of Unadilla shall keep open, for the purpose of registering all persons within said town of Unadilla qualified to vote at such election, at his office in said town of Unadilla, a book kept for the purpose of registering voters; which registration book shall be opened by said clerk of said town of Unadilla immediately upon the call of said election by the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla, and shall be kept open by the clerk from the hours of 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. at his office, and said registration book shall be closed ten (10) days prior to the date of said election,

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and no person shall be allowed to register who has not been a bona fide resident of said town of Unadilla for ninety (90) days prior to said election, and who is not qualified to vote in general elections of said town and for members of the General Assembly. It shall be lawful for any taxpayer of the town of Unadilla to contest the legality of the registration of any voter by filing notice thereof with the mayor of said town, with the grounds thereof, after the close of said registration, and not later than five (5) days before the election the mayor and council shall proceed in a summary way to hear said contest, and shall, after due notice to the person whose right to register is contested, have the right to strike from the list of the registered voters, the names of such person or persons found to be illegally registered. The decision of said mayor and council shall be final. Such registration so made shall be conclusive as to who are the qualified voters of said town of Unadilla, entitled to vote at said election. The clerk of the mayor and council of said town of Unadilla shall on the day appointed for said election and before the polls are opened, furnish to the superintendents of said election a list of the qualified registered voters, arranged in alphabetical order. Registration for election. Objection to registration. Registry list. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all elections held under the provisions of this Act shall be held under the same rules and regulations as govern other elections in said town, and the qualifications of such voters shall be such as heretofore stated, and that no person shall be allowed to vote at any election held under this Act who is not registered as provided in Section 3 of this Act. The superintendents of said election shall make returns thereof to said mayor and council who shall open said returns in open session at 9 o'clock on the next day succeeding the election and declare the results thereof, which shall be entered on the book kept by the mayor and council of the town of Unadilla, for the record of their proceedings. Regulations for elections. Returns. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should the results of the election held under this Act be against bonds, then the said mayor and council of

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the town of Unadilla shall have the power and authority to call another election at any time they so desire, and this Act shall apply to the same, and to all elections held under this Act. Second election. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the funds raised under this Act shall be used for no other purpose except for the purpose of establishing, building, maintaining, equipping and operating an electric light plant and a system of electric lights in said town, and the treasurer of said town shall not pay out of any of said funds except as the warrant drawn on said fund shall be audited and approved by the mayor and council of said town. Payments from fund. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 4, 1919. UVALDA, TOWN OF; SCHOOL BONDS, ELECTION AS TO. No. 367. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Uvalda in the County of Montgomery, State of Georgia, approved July 22, 1910, so as to give said town of Uvalda power and authority to contract debts and issue bonds of said town for the improvement of said town, and for all purposes under the limitations of the Constitution of the State of Georgia applicable to municipalities; and to authorize the mayor and council of said town of Uvalda, in their discretion, to levy a tax for school purposes, upon all the property, real and personal, within the limits of said town of Uvalda, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of

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the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the mayor and council of the town of Uvalda, Montgomery County, are authorized and empowered to have held an election by the qualified voters of said town at such times as said mayor and council may designate, to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said town of Uvalda in a sum not to exceed fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars, to be sold for the purpose of improving and erecting an adequate school building for said town of Uvalda, and for Uvalda School District. Election as to bond issue for school. Said election shall be held in accordance with the provisions for such elections and at said election the ballots used shall be For Bonds and Against Bonds. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if said election herein provided for shall be in favor of bonds for said purposes, then the mayor and council of said town of Uvalda shall be, and are, hereby authorized to issue said bonds of said town of Uvalda in a sum not to exceed fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars in the aggregate. Said bonds shall be designated showing the purpose for which said election was held, and shall be of a sum that may be deemed best by said mayor and council, and be numbered consecutively from one upward according to the number issued by said mayor and council, for said town of Uvalda, and shall draw interest at a rate not to exceed six (6) per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually on such dates as the mayor and council may fix, and be for a term of years, not to exceed thirty, as may seem best to the mayor and council of said town of Uvalda. Said bonds so issued shall be sold by the mayor and council in such a way as may seem most advantageous to said town of Uvalda for not less than par. The proceeds thereof shall be used by the mayor and council of said town of Uvalda for the purpose of repairing and erecting of a school building for the said town and school district of Uvalda, Georgia. Limit of bond issue, $15,000, 6%. Sale of bonds. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said town of Uvalda, shall

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be and are hereby empowered to annually assess and collect a tax on all property, both real and personal, in the corporate limits of said town, in such sum as they may deem right, proper and necessary, for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, and also to create a sinking fund sufficient to redeem and pay off said bonds at maturity thereof, and that the tax, so assessed, levied and collected, shall be kept separate and distinct from all other taxes and moneys belonging to said town of Uvalda, and shall be used solely for the payment of interest on said bonds, as it may accrue, and for the creation and accumulation of a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the same. Taxation to pay bonds. Sinking fund. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if the election herein provided for shall be against the issue of said bonds, the mayor and council of said town may at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of said first election, order another election under the provisions of this Act, and may so continue until the issuance of said bonds is authorized by the legal voters of said town of Uvalda, in the manner provided for. Second election. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. VALDOSTA CITY HOSPITAL, AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH. No. 242. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Valdosta, in Lowndes County, so as to confer full power and authority upon said city to construct, own, maintain and operate a hospital; to provide a commission for the control and management thereof; to provide how such commissioners shall be chosen; to define their powers; to authorize said

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city to receive donations and bequests for a hospital and to make appropriations for its maintenance; to employ such agents and servants as may be necessary in operating the same; to charge such fees to patients using the same as may be determined; to employ and apprentice nurses therein; and to award diplomas to nurses qualified to receive the same; to exercise such power and authority generally as may be necessary to carry into effect the scope and purpose of this Act in establishing and maintaining a well governed hospital, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the City of Valdosta shall be authorized to own a hospital and operate and maintain the same by and through a board of commissioners to be selected as hereinafter provided. And in order to fully carry into execution the power herein given, said city is hereby authorized to receive, take, hold, and own any and all property, real or personal, either within or without the City of Valdosta, that may be in the discretion of the mayor and council necessary for the operation and maintenance of such hospital. Authority to establish hospital. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the control, operation and management of said hospital shall be under a commission consisting of five members, including the mayor of the City of Valdosta, and the chairman of the financial committee of council as ex-officio members thereof. The other three members of said commission shall be selected as herein provided. Said commission shall be known as the Valdesta Hospital Commission. The first commissioners to compose said commission shall be B. H. Jones and D. W. Plowden, as ex-officio members during the time for which they shall hold office as mayor and chairman of the financial committee of council, respectively; J. C. Wilson, who shall hold his office until the 1st day of April, 1921; C.C. Giddens, who shall hold his office until the

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1st day of April, 1923; J. J. Newman, who shall hold his office until the 1st day of April, 1925. At the regular meeting of the mayor and council, at which all other city officials are appointed by said mayor and council, and biennially thereafter the said mayor and council shall elect a commissioner for the term of six years to fill the office of commissioner whose term expires on the 1st day of April thereafter. Should a vacancy occur on said board the remaining members shall immediately notify the mayor and council thereof, who shall at their next regular meeting or so soon thereafter as practicable, fill such vacancy. The person so selected shall hold office for the unexpired term for which he was selected. Said commissioners shall hold office for the terms specified herein and until their successors are elected and qualified. Hospital commission. Commissioners named. Terms. Election of successors. Vacancies. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of commissioners shall be, and they are, hereby given full power and authority: (a) To promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations in the control, operation, management and maintenance of said hospital as may in their discretion be necessary and for the best interest of said hospital and the City of Valdosta. It shall be the duty of the mayor and council to make penal the violations of any such rules and regulations whenever requested so to do by resolution of said commission. (b) To determine what patients shall be admitted to said hospital and treated as charity patients at the expense of the City of Valdosta, and what patients shall be admitted to said hospital for treatment on condition that such patients pay for the services rendered. (c) To provide and maintain a dispensary and free clinic for the benefit of the poor of the City of Valdosta, and to furnish medicine and medical attention to such persons as may be unable to pay for the same. (d) To specify what physicians and surgeons shall be admitted to practice their profession in said hospital, and no physician or surgeon shall be permitted to enter his patients in said hospital or practice his profession therein until he has first obtained from said commission a permit to

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do so. Permits granted by said commission are subject to be revoked by them at any time. Professional trained nurses may be granted permits to practice their profession in said hospital upon the same terms and conditions as permits are granted to physicians and surgeons. (e) To select and designate a board composed of reputable physicians and surgeons of recognized standing, character and ability, to be known as the medical staff of the Valdosta Hospital. The duties, powers and authority of such medical staff shall be such as may be prescribed by said board of commissioners. (f) To conduct a training school for nurses, and to instruct persons in the art of professional nursing and qualify them to register and practice their profession as required by law. (g) To employ all persons necessary for the operation and management of said hospital and all persons so employed shall be under the direct control and authority of said board of commissioners and shall be subject to be discharged at any time by said commissioners; and when any person shall be discharged, he shall have no claim against the said board of commissioners nor against the City of Valdosta for pay from the date of such discharge. (h) To purchase such supplies, furnishings, instruments, and equipment and secure such professional and other services as may be necessary to carry into effect the general purpose for which said hospital is owned and maintained. Provided, always, that the power and authority given in this section shall never be held or construed to authorize any acts prohibited, or enlarge any limitations contained in this Act. Powers of commissioners. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commission shall cause to be correctly kept a set of books showing all receipts, from whatever source derived, and all disbursements made therefrom. Every three months said commission shall file with the mayor and council an itemized statement showing the receipts and disbursements, together with a statement of the money on hand and where deposited. Said book shall be at all times open to the inspection of the mayor and council or any citizen of

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the City of Valdosta under proper regulations prescribed by the said board of commission. They shall have their books audited annually by a certified public accountant and cause to be published once in each year in the official gazette of the City of Valdosta a complete statement of their receipts and disbursements. Accounts. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all money received by said board of commissioners, from whatever source derived, shall be deposited with some solvent bank or banks selected by them and shall not be drawn therefrom except upon vouchers duly drawn and countersigned under the rules of said commission. The clerk of council shall act as secretary, and the treasurer of the City of Valdosta shall act as treasurer of said board of commissioners. Deposit of funds. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinary expenses of operating and maintaining said hospital shall be paid out of the earnings derived from its operation, gifts and bequests made for such purpose, and from the annual appropriations made therefor by the mayor and council. All special and extraordinary expenditures shall be made from gifts and bequests for such purpose and from funds previously appropriated by the mayor and council for such special or extraordinary purpose. Said commission is hereby authorized and empowered to make and enforce all contracts necessary for the maintenance, control, regulation and management of said hospital and make such contracts calling for special or extraordinary expenditures, as may be necessary; provided always, that the expenditures made or liability incurred in such contracts for the maintenance, control, regulations and management of said hospital is within the amount of money on hand as gifts and bequests and that derived from its operation and annual appropriation previously made therefor; and provided, further that the expenditures made or liability incurred under any contract for such special or extraordinary expenditure is within the amount of money on

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hand as gifts or bequests for such purpose and that previously appropriated therefor by the mayor and council. Said commissioners shall never have power or authority to expend any sum of money or incur any liability for the expenditure of money in excess of the money on hand from gifts, bequests and revenue derived from its operation, plus the appropriations previously made therefor as aforesaid. Expenses. Contracts. Expenditures limited to money on hand and appropriations. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be and is hereby created for and in connection with said hospital a board of trustees, consisting of not less than five nor more than nine members. The first of such boards shall be appointed by the mayor and council when and so soon as they may determine after the passage of this Act. Thereafter said board of trustees shall fill vacancies thereon by appointment. They shall serve without compensation and shall have authority to solicit and receive donations and bequests for said hospital, and shall act with the commissioners of said hospital in an advisory capacity. Board of trustees. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commissioners shall take such oath of office and file such bond as may be prescribed by the mayor and council. Oath and bond of commissioners. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. VALDOSTA SCHOOL BONDS, ELECTION AS TO. No. 320. An Act authorizing the mayor and council of the City of Valdosta, in the County of Lowndes, to issue bonds in the sum of $150,000.00 for the purpose of creeting and equipping a school building, or school buildings in the said

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City of Valdosta; to provide for the purchasing of lands on which to erect the same, and for the purchasing of any lands or other property for school purposes; to provide for the payment of principal and interest of said bonds by levying a tax therefor; to provide for the ratification of the provisions of this Act by an election to be held for said purpose and to designate how the provisions of this Act are to be carried into effect, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the mayor and council of the City of Valdosta be authorized to issue and sell bonds, not to exceed in the aggregate $150,000.00 of the denomination of $1,000.00 or $500.00 each, to be due and payable at such time or times within thirty years after the date of issue thereof as said mayor and council may determine, and bear not exceeding five per cent. interest per annum, payable semi-annually; such bonds not to be sold for less than par. Authority to issue bonds; limit. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, that the mayor and council of the City of Valdosta pay over to the board of school commissioners of the City of Valdosta the proceeds of the sale of said bonds as soon as a sale is made of any or all of them, upon receipt to be signed by the chairman of said board and the secretary and treasurer of the same, and all vouchers or checks for the paying out of said funds shall be signed by the secretary and treasurer of said board and countersigned by the chairman of said board. Proceeds to be paid to board of school commissioners. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of the City of Valdosta be, and the same are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect such tax upon the taxable property in said city as will be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, and to pay the principal and interest of said bonds. Tax to pay bonds. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That from the proceeds of sale of said bonds, the board of school commissioners of the City of Valdosta shall be authorized to erect and equip a school building or school buildings in the City of Valdosta;

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to purchase lands on which to erect the same, and to purchase any lands or other property for school purposes anywhere in said city, and to improve the same; that the location, erection and equipping of said school building or school buildings shall be under the direction of the board of school commissioners for the public school system of the City of Valdosta; that said school board shall have full authority to let contracts for the erection and equipping of said school building or school buildings, and perform any and all other acts necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of the Act; provided, that the mayor and council shall concur in the purchase of buildings and school sites. Proceeds of bonds to be used for [Illegible Text]. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of the City of Valdosta may order an election, after notice being given as required by law for such elections, at which election shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Valdosta, under the same rules and regulations as the elections held for mayor and council of said city, the question of issuing bonds. Those in favor of the issuing of said bonds shall have written or printed upon their tickets the words For school bonds, and those against the issuing of said bonds shall have written or printed upon their tickets the words Against school bonds. Should the requisite constitutional majority vote at said election in favor of issuing said bonds, the mayor and council of said city are hereby empowered and directed to issue and dispose of said bonds in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Should the requisite majority fail to vote for the issuing of said bonds, then, and in that event any number of election may be held under the provisions of this Act, after due notice being given as required by law for such elections; provided, no election can be held within one year from date of the last election; the power to order said election being vested in the mayor and council of said city. Election to authorize bond issue. Other elections. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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VALDOSTA SCHOOL TAX, ELECTIONS AS TO INCREASE; SCHOLASTIC YEAR; PAYMENTS FROM STATE FUND. No. 298. An Act to amend an Act establishing a public school system for the City of Valdosta, approved December 20, 1893, and Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize the governing authority of said City of Valdosta to levy and collect an annual tax of not exceeding five-tenths (5-10) of one per centum on the value of all property in the said city returned and assessed for taxation therein for the use of the board of school commissioners in the said city, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by said authority, That the Act establishing a system of public schools in and for the City of Valdosta, approved December 20, 1893, as amended by an Act approved August 22, 1907, be and the same is here amended by striking out the words and figures three-tenths (3-10) wherever they may occur in Section 1 and Section 4 and wherever said words and figures occur in said Act, and substituting therefor the words and figures five-tenths (5-10), and by striking from Section 1 of said Act the words there shall be held in the City of Valdosta, at the next regular election after the passage of this Act, for mayor and council of said city, an election, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following words: The mayor and council of the City of Valdosta may order an election after the passage of this Act and after notice being given as required by law for such election, and that Section 1 be further amended by adding the words For local tax, after the words For and Against and before the words public schools, in said section, so that said sections when amended shall read as follows: Be it further enacted, That in conformity with the provisions of Article 8, Section 4, paragraph 1 of the Constitution of this State,

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the mayor and council of said City of Valdosta may order an election after the passage of this Act and after notice being given as required by law for such elections on the question of local taxation for the support of said system of public schools, and all persons who are entitled to vote in the election for mayor and council of Valdosta shall be entitled to vote in the election herein provided. All voters who favor such local taxation for public schools shall have written or printed on their ballots, For local tax for public schools, and those who oppose shall have written or printed on their ballots Against local tax for public schools, and in case two-thirds of the votes cast at such election shall be For local tax for public schools, then it shall be the duty of the mayor and council of the City of Valdosta annually to raise, by taxation, a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this Act; provided the same shall not exceed five-tenths (5-10) of one per cent. on the taxable property of said city, and in the manner hereinafter provided. The said mayor and council shall give public notice of this election once a week for two weeks prior to said election in the Valdosta Times. The returns of said election shall be made to and the result of the same declared by the said mayor and council of Valdosta. Acts amended. Section as amended. Election as to local tax for schools. Limit of tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said board of school commissioners shall determine, as early as practicable in each year, what amount of money it will be necessary to raise by taxation to defray the expenses of running said public schools for the ensuing year, and shall lay the same before the mayor and council of said city, and the mayor and council are hereby authorized and shall be required to levy a tax annually, in addition to that now authorized by law, on all taxable property in said city, not to exceed five-tenths (5-10) of one per cent. on the same, and when collected the collecting officers of said city shall pay the same over to the treasurer of said board of school commissioners, to be disbursed for the maintenance of said public schools and to be paid out under the order of said board under such regulations as they may prescribe. Said taxes

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shall be collected by levy and sale as the other taxes of said city are collected. Taxation for schools. The scholastic year for the said system of public schools shall commence at such time in the fall of the year as may be determined on by said board of school commissioners, which shall not be earlier than the first Monday in September in any year. School year. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act, so far as the same relates to an increase in taxation for the support of public schools of Valdosta, shall not take effect until the same is ratified by an election held as provided in Section 1 of this Act. Should the requisite majority fail to vote for the said increased taxation, then any number of elections may be thereafter held under the provisions of this Act after due notice as herein provided until said increased taxation receives a constitutional majority of the qualified voters of the City of Valdosta. Until this Act increasing the limit of local taxation for public school purposes to five-tenths (5-10) of one per cent. is ratified by the qualified voters of the City of Valdosta as herein provided, the rate of local taxation for public school purposes shall remain the same as heretofore provided, to-wit: three-tenths (3-10) of one per cent. on the taxable property of the City of Valdosta. Election as to increase of tax rate. Rate. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the board of school commissioners of the City of Valdosta be and they are hereby deemed and held entitled to draw the proportionate part of the State school funds of the City of Valdosta direct from the State school authorities, and the State School Superintendent is hereby authorized to pay the same to the treasurer of said board of school commissioners. Payments from State funds. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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WARRENTON SCHOOL TAX, INCREASE OF. No. 326. An Act to amend an Act to establish public schools for the town of Warrenton, Warren County, approved August 8, 1907. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That paragraph 6, line 2 of the Act to establish public schools for Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia, be amended by striking the words one quarter and substituting therefor the word one-half, making the paragraph read as follows: That the mayor and council of said town may each year levy such tax, not to exceed one-half of one per cent. upon all the property in said town subject to taxation, as may be necessary when added to the fund received from the county school commissioner, and the sum realized from taxation or entrance fees, to support and maintain said schools for the period of nine months in each year. Such tax shall be collected when the other taxes of the town are collected, and shall be paid over by the town council to the board of education of said town to be used by said board in the support of said schools. School tax. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. WAYCROSS SCHOOL TAX, ELECTIONS AS TO INCREASE; BOARD OF EDUCATION INCORPORATED, ETC. No. 6. An Act to amend the Act of October 22, 1887, as amended by the Act of December 26, 1888, creating a public school system for the City of Waycross, by amending Section 7, of

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the Act of December 26, 1888, so as to fix the limit of taxation in the City of Waycross for school purposes at six mills, instead of two and one-half mills, as provided in said Act, and to provide for the submission of this Act allowing the increase in tax rate for school purposes to the qualified voters of the City of Waycross at a special election to be held on September 20, 1919, as provided in Article 8, Section 4, paragraph 1, of the Constitution of Georgia; and to provide that the board of education of the City of Waycross shall be duly incorporated under the name and style of The Board of Education of the City of Waycross, with the right to sue and be sued, the right to own, buy and sell real estate for school purposes, the right to accept gifts and donations for school purposes, the right to manage and operate the schools of the City of Waycross, and to do all things necessary to a successful operation of the schools of the City of Waycross; and to give to the board of education the right and authority to fix the rate of taxation in the City of Waycross for school purposes, not to exceed six mills, and to furnish the rate so fixed to the mayor and council of the City of Waycross on or before the 15th day of February in each year, and to require the mayor and council of the City of Waycross to levy said rate so furnished, in addition to all other taxes on all property, both real and personal, in the City of Waycross, and to collect said taxes as other taxes are collected, and to turn the amounts so collected over to the board of education of the City of Waycross for school purposes; and to give to the board of education the right to borrow money to pay teachers, and to supply casual deficiencies, as now provided by law for the borrowing of money by county boards of education, and to require that all school property now owned by the City of Waycross be deeded to the Board of Education of the City of Waycross, and its successors in office, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same,

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That the Act of October 22, 1887, as amended by the Act of December 26, 1888, creating a public school system for the City of Waycross, be and the same is hereby further amended so as to fix the limit of taxation in the City of Waycross for school purposes at six mills; and that Section 1, of the Act of October 22, 1887, and Section 7, of the Act of December 26, 1888, be and the same are hereby amended, fixing the limit of taxation at six mills, instead of two and onehalf mills, so that when said sections are amended they shall read as follows: Acts amended. That the mayor and Council of the City of Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, are hereby authorized and required to levy a tax annually, in addition to that now authorized by law for other purposes, not to exceed six mills, on all the real and personal property of said city, for the purpose of maintaining public schools in and for said City of Waycross, provided the sum so raised shall be used only for the purpose of maintaining and operating the public schools in the City of Waycross. School tax. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the City of Waycross for their approval, for which purpose the mayor and council of the city shall order an election to be held on the 20th day of September, 1919, of which ten days notice shall be given in the newspaper of said city, which election shall be held under the same rules and regulations as elections for mayor and council of said city are held, and the qualification of voters shall be the same, and that the registered voters of said city who were qualified to vote in the election held for mayor and council of the City of Waycross in the year 1918, shall be eligible and qualified to vote at said special election. At said election those in favor of the approval of this Act shall have written or printed on their tickets: For increased taxation for public school purposes, and those against this Act and of the approval of same, shall have written or printed on their tickets: Against increased taxation for public school purposes.

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The managers of said special election shall make return to the mayor and council of said city, whose duty it shall be, at their first regular meeting thereafter, to open the same, declare the result, and record the same in the book of their proceedings, and if two-thirds of those voting at said election, as provided by the Constitution of Georgia, shall be in favor of the increased taxation, then this Act shall become operative, and said mayor and council and the board of education of the City of Waycross shall proceed to carry out their respective duties under the same. Should said Act as amended fail of adoption, said mayor and council shall submit the same to another election after the lapse of six months from the first election. This Act referred to voters. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the board of education of the City of Waycross, whose design and purpose shall be the direction, management and superintendence of the public education of the children of Waycross, and under the name and style of The Board of Education of the City of Waycross, shall be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, for the purposes aforesaid, and as such shall have full power and authority to devise, establish and modify from time to time a plan and system of education for the children of the City of Waycross, and to superintend the same; to appoint, suspend and remove teachers of said children, and to provide school houses, make by-laws, rules and regulations for their own government and for the government of the teachers and schools under their superintendence; to designate and elect officers of said board, and to fill vacancies, in any manner whatsoever caused, either among officers or members of said board, and to take, acquire, receive, hold and enjoy for the purposes aforesaid, moneys and real and personal estate by bargain and sale, gift, grant, contract, devise or bequest; and they, as such body corporate and by the name and style aforesaid, may sue and be sued, and may have a common seal, and otherwise shall have and be clothed with all the rights, powers

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and privileges incident to corporations and necessary or convenient for carrying out the purposes of their creation. Board of education. Powers. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That said board of education shall determine on or before the 15th day of February in each year what amount of money it will be necessary to raise by taxation to defray the expenses of running the public schools for the ensuing year, and shall lay the same before the mayor and council of said city, and the said mayor and council are hereby authorized and shall be required to levy a tax annually, in addition to that now authorized by law for other purposes, on all taxable property in said city, not to exceed six mills, and when collected the collecting officer of said city shall pay same over to the said board of education, to be disbursed for the maintenance of said public schools, and to be paid out under the order of said board under such regulations as they may prescribe. Said tax shall be collected by levy and sale as other taxes in said city are collected. Estimate of expenses. Tax levy. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the board of education of the City of Waycross shall have the right and authority to borrow money to pay teachers and to supply casual deficiencies, as are now provided by law for the borrowing of money by county boards of education. Authority to borrow money. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That all school property now owned by the City of Waycross be deeded to the board of education of the City of Waycross, and its successors in office. School property to be deeded to board. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That all provisions of law, as provided in the Act of October 22, 1887, and as amended by the Act of December 26, 1888, and other Acts amendatory thereof, shall be and remain in full force and effect, except such provisions as are [Illegible Text] or specifically amended by this Act. Laws continued in force. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved July 29, 1919. WAYNESBORO STREET COMMUTATION TAX INCREASED. No. 88. An Act to amend Section 18 of an Act approved December 15, 1893, and published in the Georgia Laws 1893, 348 to 353, known as the new charter of the City of Waynesboro, so as to authorize the mayor and council of said City of Waynesboro to increase the street commutation tax from two ($2.00) dollars to four ($4.00) dollars, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Section 18 (eighteen) of the Act creating the new charter of the City of Waynesboro, be amended and the same is hereby amended by striking from the seventh line of said section the words two dollars, and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures four ($4.00) dollars, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Act of 1893 amended. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted that the said mayor and council shall have the power to require each male citizen in said city between the ages prescribed by law of the State of Georgia for working public roads to labor on the public works and streets of said city (except those who may be exempt by the laws of the State), and to require them, when notified, to work on the streets and other public works of the city for four (4) days in each year, or to pay a commutation tax of four ($4.00) dollars in lieu of such work. Sec. 18 as amended. Street work or tax. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of

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laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 12, 1919. WHITE, TOWN OF, INCORPORATED. No. 77. An Act to incorporate the town of White, in the County of Bartow; to define its corporate limits; to provide for a mayor and aldermen and other officers, to prescribe their duties, powers and privileges; to provide for the enacting of all necessary ordinances and the enforcement of the same, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the town of White, in the County of Bartow and said State, be and the same is hereby incorporated and made a body politic, and shall have and use a common seal; shall have perpetual succession, be capable to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with; shall have power to purchase, lease, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and retain any estate or estates, real or personal, of whatever kind or name, within its corporate limits, and to sell, exchange, lease or convey the same, and to all other acts as a municipal corporation not inconsistent with the laws of the State. The corporate powers of said town shall be vested in and exercised by a mayor and four aldermen, under the name and style of the town of White. Corporate powers. Mayor and aldermen. Corporate name. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one-half () mile in every direction from the center of the front wall of the Methodist church building in said town. Corporate limits. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That Dr. W. B. Vaughan be, and he is, hereby appointed mayor; J. W. Tierce, J. T. Pierce, L. G. Hughes and W. R. White be, and they are, hereby

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appointed aldermen of said town to hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter provided. Mayor and aldermen named. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That on the second Thursday in December, 1919, and annually thereafter on the same Thursday mentioned, an election shall be held at some public and convenient place in said town for a mayor and four aldermen by the qualified voters of said town, whose terms of office shall be for one (1) year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Said election shall be opened at eight o'clock A. M. and close at four o'clock P. M., to be held under the superintendence of a justice of the peace and two freeholders of said town, or by three freeholders, under the forms and regulations prescribed by law for holding elections for members of the General Assembly. All persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly shall be qualified to vote in all elections held in said town. Elections for mayor and aldermen. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said election shall duly declare the result, and shall issue certificates of election to such persons as receive the highest number of legal votes polled, who shall, on the first Monday in January following said election, qualify by taking and subscribing to the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge all the duties devolving on me as mayor (or alderman, as the case may be) of the town of White during my continuance in office according to the best of my ability and understanding, so help me God. Oath of office. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the said mayor and aldermen shall have power to elect a marshal, clerk, treasurer, and such other officers as they may deem necessary and proper, regulating their salaries, taking their bonds, prescribing their duties and oaths, and to remove them from office, or impose fines, at the discretion of the said mayor and aldermen. The officers so elected or appointed shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, subscribe to the following oath before the said mayor, or mayor pro tem: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully, to the best of my ability and understanding, discharge the duties devolving

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upon me as marshal (clerk or treasurer, as the case may be) to the best of my skill and understanding, so help me God. Marshal, clerk, treasurer, etc. Oath. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and aldermen shall, at their first meeting in each year, elect one of said aldermen mayor pro tem, who shall, in case of vacancy, absence or disqualification of the mayor, perform and discharge all the duties and exercise all authority of the office of mayor, upon taking the usual oath, and not otherwise. Mayor pro tem. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and aldermen shall have power to levy and collect a tax not exceeding one-half of one per cent on all property, both real and personal, within the corporate limits of said town, which may be enforced by execution issued by the clerk in the name of the mayor and aldermen and levied by the marshal. If the property levied on be personalty, the same proceeding shall be had that now governs the sale of property under tax executions at constables' sales, but if the property levied on be realty, the marshal shall return the levy to the sheriff of Bartow County, and by said sheriff sold as the law directs him to sell under executions for State and County taxes when levied on realty. Also, to levy and collect such special taxes on trades, businesses, occupations, theatrical exhibitions, circuses and shows of all kinds, ten pin alleys, billiards, pool tables, itinerant traders, peddlers, auctioneers and all other trades, games or occupations subject to special taxes under the laws of the State as they may deem proper. For the purpose of enforcing the payment for the taxes above enumerated the mayor and aldermen may enact such ordinances and impose such penalties for a violation of the same as they may deem proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State. Taxes. Business taxes. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That there shall be a lien on all the property of said citizens or inhabitants of said town, both real and personal, situated therein for corporation taxes assessed thereon, and for all fines and penalties assessed upon the owners thereof, from the date they are

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assessed or imposed, which shall have a priority over all liens except liens due the State and County. Tax lien. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and aldermen shall have full power and authority to enact and enforce all ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations necessary for the good government of said town, and securing and promoting the welfare, peace, prosperity and health of its inhabitants, and to prescribe the penalties for violating the same, and the mayor, or mayor pro tem, of said town shall hold a mayor's court in said town at any time for the trial and punishment of persons guilty of violating its ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations, the punishment inflicted not to exceed a fine of one hundred dollars, or labor on the streets or public works of said town, or confinement in the calaboose or guardhouse not to exceed sixty days; said fine may be collected by execution to be issued against the estate, both real and personal, of the offender, if any, to be found. Ordinances, general powers. Penalties. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the marshal or other police officers of said town may arrest without a warrant any person guilty of violating any ordinance, rule or regulation of said town, and the marshal or any other police officer may summon any citizen or citizens of said town to assist him in such arrest. Arrests. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That said mayor or mayor pro tem, when any person or persons are arraigned before the mayor's court charged with the violation of any ordinance, regulation or rule of said town, may, for good cause shown, continue the hearing to such other time as the case may be adjourned to, and the accused shall be required to give bond and security for his appearance at the time appointed for trial, or be imprisoned to await trial. If such bond be given and the accused shall fail to appear at the time fixed for trial, the bond may be forfeited by the mayor and aldermen, and an execution issued thereon by serving the defendant, if to be found within the corporate limits, and his securities with a rule nisi, at least five days before the time of hearing said rule nisi, and if the defendant cannot be

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found, then by posting notices in three public places in said town five days before the hearing of said rule nisi. Bond for appearance; forfeiture. Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That said mayor and aldermen shall provide for the working and repairing of the streets, sidewalks and alleys of said town, and to remove any obstruction or nuisance that may be placed in the same, and to that end may compel all persons resident within said town, who may be subject to road duty to work on the streets, sidewalks and alleys of said town for a space not exceeding ten days in each year, but may receive in lieu of said work a commutation fee from such persons, not to exceed five dollars, and the mayor shall have the same powers to punish defaulters as provided in this charter for the punishment of persons violating the ordinances of said town. Power as to streets, etc. Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, That said mayor, or mayor pro tem, when in the official discharge of his duties, may fine for contempt, not to exceed fifty dollars, or labor on the streets of said town or public works of said town or confinement in the calaboose or guardhouse not to exceed twenty-five days. Contempts. Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That the mayor or mayor pro tem, shall be during his term of office a conservator of the peace and have and exercise criminal jurisdiction of a justice of the peace over all offenses committed in the corporate limits of said town. Mayor's powers. Sec. 16. Be it further enacted, That any officer of this corporation who shall be guilty of malpractice or abuse of powers confided to him, shall be subject to indictment in the Superior Court of Bartow County, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia. Misconduct of officer. Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and aldermen shall meet once in every month for the transaction of business, and not oftener, unless in the discretion of the mayor or mayor pro tem, it becomes necessary to have an extra meeting, and in that event the mayor or mayor pro tem may call the aldermen together at once at the usual

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place of meeting. That the mayor or mayor pro tem shall preside at all meetings of the aldermen, and shall not vote only in case of a tie. The mayor or mayor pro tem and two aldermen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Meetings of mayor and aldermen. Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, That in case of vacancy in the office of mayor or councilmen by death, resignation or otherwise, an election to fill such vacancy shall be ordered by said mayor and councilmen, to take place at such time and place as may be specified in such order and public notice of the same posted at three different places in said town for the space of ten days. Vacancies. Sec. 19. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and other officers shall receive such compensation and pay as the mayor and council shall deem proper, but their compensation shall not be increased or diminished during their term of office. Compensation. Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 7, 1919. WILLACOOCHEE, TOWN OF; INCREASE OF TAX RATE. No. 128. An Act to amend an Act entitled, An Act to create a new charter for the town of Willacoochee, formerly in Coffee, now in the County of Atkinson, approved August 15, 1904, and the Acts amendatory thereof, authorizing an increase in the tax rate of said town, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of same, That the Act creating a new charter for the town of Willacoochee, formerly of Coffee, now of the County of

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Atkinson, approved August 15, 1904, and the Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby amended as follows: Acts amended. Sec. 2. That on and after the passage of this Act, that Section 9 of said Act be and the same is hereby amended by beginning at the word tax in the twenty-fifth line and striking therefrom all of said section down to and including the word State in the twenty-eighth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the words, Also a tax not to exceed two per cent on all property within the corporate limits of said town which is subject to State tax under the Constitution and laws of this State. Ga. L. 1904, p. 705; amendment of Sec. 9. Tax rate. Sec. 3. That Section 37 also be amended by beginning at the word annually, in the fourth line of said section, and striking therefrom all of said section down to and including the word per cent, in the sixth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words, A tax in addition to that now provided for by law not to exceed onehalf of one per cent. Sec. 37 amended. School tax. Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. WOODBURY; SEWERAGE AND LIGHTING SYSTEMS; ELECTION AS TO BONDS FOR, ETC. No. 321. An Act to amend An Act to provide and establish a charter for the City of Woodbury, in the County of Meriwether, State of Georgia, approved August 16, 1913, so as to enlarge the power of mayor and council of said City of Woodbury, so that they shall be authorized and empowered to purchase, build, contract for, and establish and maintain a system of sewerage and drainage, and an electric plant or lighting system; to authorize and empower the mayor and council of said city to issue and sell

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bonds of said City of Woodbury, sufficient for said purpose; to provide for an election submitting said bond issue to the voters of said city; to authorize the levy of a tax to pay the principal and interest of said bonds; to authorize the condemnation of property both in and out of said city in laying water mains, sewerage, electric wires and to condemn property for use in opening, changing or laying out or widening streets; to authorize the mayor and council to condemn property for use as a public cemetery, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the mayor and council of the City of Woodbury, in the County of Meriwether, and State of Georgia, in addition to the powers and authority already granted under the present charter of said city, shall have full power and authority to construct, equip, maintain a system of electric lights or lighting plant, a system of waterworks, and a system of sewerage for said city, and to that end shall have full power and authority to acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation proceedings, all necessary lands, easements, water supplies and franchises. Electric lights, waterworks, sewerage. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event said City of Woodbury cannot procure, by purchase, the necessary lands, rights of way of water ways for the construction of the system of lights, waterworks and sewerage, then the mayor and council of said city shall have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain, and to condemn such lands, easements, rights of way of water ways, and franchises, in manner and form as provided in Chapter 9 of Volume 1 of the Code of 1910 of the State of Georgia, and the amendments thereto. Condemnation of property. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council of the City of Woodbury shall have full power and authority to acquire by gift, purchase or condemnation in the manner aforesaid, all lands, easements and franchises necessary for water basin and

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water shed from which the public water supply may be obtained. Purchase of land, etc., for water supply. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Woodbury shall have the right of laying the necessary mains, pipes, conduits and drains for waterworks and sewer purposes, and the right to erect post poles and wires for the purpose of conveying electricity and lighting said city, said rights to apply to the public highways of the County of Meriwether, and over and across and under the land of persons and corporations upon payment of just compensation that may be agreed upon or assessed as provided in said Chapter 9 of Volume 1 of Code of 1910 of this State. Right to lay mains, erect poles, etc. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said City of Woodbury are hereby authorized and empowered to order and have held an election by the qualified voters of said city at such times as said mayor and council may designate to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by the said City of Woodbury in a sum not to exceed the Constitutional limitations to be sold for the purpose of establishing, constructing, equipping and maintaining a lighting plant, a system of waterworks and a system of sewerage for said City of Woodbury. Said election shall be held in accordance with the provisions of Sections 440-444, inclusive, of the Code of Georgia of 1910, and at said election the ballots used shall be For bonds for lights and Against bonds for lights, For bonds for waterworks, Against bonds for waterworks, For bonds for sewerage, Against bonds for sewerage. Said mayor and council shall have the power and authority to order an election for either lights, waterworks or sewerage bonds, or for either two or all of said purposes. Said mayor and council shall be required to advertise said election in a newspaper published in said city for a term of thirty days prior to said election, which notice shall specify in detail the amount of bonds to be voted on and the purpose of same. Election to authorize bond issue. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That if said election herein provided for be in favor of bonds for all of said purposes or for either of said purposes, then the mayor and council of said City of Woodbury shall be and are hereby authorized to issue the amount of bonds, of the City of Woodbury so voted on, in a sum equal to the amount fixed by the mayor and council, for said purpose or purposes, which total sum shall not exceed the limit provided for in the Constitution of this State. Said bonds shall be designated lighting, waterworks and sewerage bonds of the City of Woodbury, as should result from the election so held and carried. Said bonds shall be issued in such denominations as may be fixed by the mayor and council of said city and for a term not to exceed thirty years, the rate of interest on said bonds shall be fixed by the mayor and council in such way as may seem most advantageous for said city after being advertised according to law. Bond issue. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of said City of Woodbury shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to annually assess, levy and collect a tax on all property, both real and personal, corporate and franchise, in the corporate limits of said city, in such sums as may be right, proper and necessary for the specific purpose of paying the interest on said bonds, and also to create a sinking fund, sufficient to redeem and pay off such bonds at the maturity thereof, and the tax assessed, levied and collected shall be kept separate and distinct from all other taxes and moneys of said city and shall be used solely for the payment of the interest on said bonds as it may occur, and for the creation and accumulation of a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the same. Taxes to pay bonds. Sinking fund. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the election herein provided for shall be against the issue of said bonds, that the mayor and council of said city may, at any time after the expiration of one year from the date of said election, order another election under the provisions of this Act for either or all of said purposes, Second election.

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Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and council of the City of Woodbury be and they are hereby empowered and authorized to condemn private and corporate property for the purpose of opening, laying out and establishing new streets in said city, and for the purpose of widening or changing any street already established in said city, said right of eminent domain to be exercised under the laws of this State as required in chapter nine of Volume 1 of the Code of 1910 of this State. Condemnation of property for streets. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the mayor and council of said City of Woodbury shall have authority to acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation, land for the purpose of using same as a public burial ground or cemetery for the use of the citizens and the community. Said mayor and council shall have authority by ordinance to lay out said land so acquired into burial lots, and to fix the price therefor and to convey title to said lots to the purchasers for the purpose of a burial ground, and to provide by ordinance for the disposition of said funds and for the maintenance and control of said public cemetery. Cemetery. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event said City of Woodbury cannot procure by purchase the necessary lands to maintain a public cemetery or burial ground for said city and the rights-of-way thereto, then the mayor and council of said city shall have and are hereby empowered with the right to exercise the power of eminent domain and to condemn said land and rights-of-way thereto or passage to and from same in the manner and form as provided in chapter nine, Volume 1 of the Code of 1910 of the State of Georgia, and amendments thereto. Condemnation of property for cemetery. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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WRENS, TOWN OF; INCREASE OF TAX RATE. No. 101. An Act to amend paragraph ten of An Act to incorporate the town of Wrens, in the County of Jefferson; to define the corporate limits thereof; to provide a municipal government for said town, and to provide for the support and maintenance of the same by taxation and otherwise, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Section 10 of an Act to incorporate the town of Wrens, in the County of Jefferson, approved December 17, 1901, be amended as follows: By striking the words one-half of from line five of Section 10 of said Act, so that said Section 10 of said Act when amended shall read as follows: Act of 1901 amended. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said mayor and council shall have power and authority to levy and collect an ad valorem tax upon all the taxable property owned or kept within the corporate limits of said town, both real and personal, not to exceed one per cent for each fiscal year. They shall have the power and authority to levy and collect a special tax upon all business avocations and professions carried on in the said town, and shall have the authority to arrange, by ordinance, for the collection and enforcement of the payment of all such taxes by execution and sale, or by penal process of attachment. It shall be in their option to adopt ordinances laying a special tax upon all shows, circuses, peddlers, venders of patent or proprietary medicines, insurance agents, and agents of every sort and kind, and upon all kinds and classes of occupations and professions. Sec. 10 as amended. Tax rate. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 12, 1919.

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WRIGHTSVILLE; COUNCIL INCREASED; TIME OF ELECTIONS; MAYOR'S TERM. No. 264. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Wrightsville in the County of Johnson, approved August 2, 1909, so that when so amended said city shall have six councilmen instead of five, and to change the time of holding the election in and for said city, from the first Saturday in January to the first Tuesday in December in each year, and to change the term of office of mayor from two years to one year, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act approved August 2, 1909, amending the charter of the City of Wrightsville, in the County of Johnson, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By striking out of said Act all of Section 2, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Be it further enacted, That the officers of said City of Wrightsville shall comprise a mayor and six councilmen; the mayor to hold office for the term of one year, and until his successor is elected and qualified; the councilmen to hold their office for the term of two (2) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; provided, however, that at the first election held for said city hereafter, there shall be three (3) councilmen elected for the term of one year, and three for a term of two years, and that hereafter on the first Tuesday in December in each year, there shall be held in the said city of Wrightsville, an election. Said election to be held for the purpose of electing a mayor and three councilmen; said election shall be opened at eight o'clock A. M. and shall be closed at four o'clock P. M. and shall be held under the superintendence of a justice of the peace, and two (2) freeholders in said city, under the forms and regulations prescribed by law for

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the election of members of the General Assembly of this State, in so far as they are applicable to such election. Act of 1909 amended. Substitute for Sec. 2. Mayor and council; terms of office. Elections, time of. Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919.

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TITLE II. PRIVATE AND SCHOOL CORPORATIONS. ACTS. Crawfordville Academy Charter Repealed. Illges Company; Title vested in land in Columbus. Lula School District Trustees. Savannah Poor House and Hospital; Election of Managers. Stephens High School, Crawfordville; Board of Trustees Created. Watkinsville School District Trustees; Bond issue. Young's Female Academy Charter Repealed. CRAWFORDVILLE ACADEMY CHARTER REPEALED. No. 180. An Act to repeal an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the Crawfordville Academy in the County of Taliaferro, and to appoint trustees for the same, passed December 25, 1826. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act An Act to incorporate the Crawfordville Academy, in the County of Taliaferro, and to appoint trustees for the same, passed December 26, 1826, be and the same is hereby repealed. Act of 1826 repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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ILLGES COMPANY, TITLE VESTED IN, TO LAND IN COLUMBUS. No. 112. An Act to vest the title to that portion of Eighth avenue, in the City of Columbus, Georgia, which lies between the south part of Commons Block No. 30 and the right-of-way of the Central of Georgia Railway Company and north of Tenth street in the Illges Company, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the title to that portion of Eighth avenue in the City of Columbus, Georgia, which lies between the south part of Commons Block No. 30 in said city and the right-of-way of the Central of Georgia Railway Company and north of Tenth street, be and the title is hereby vested in the Illges Company, a corporation of [Illegible Text] County, Georgia, it being made to appear that the tract of ground hereinbefore described is a portion of a street which has been given over and closed by railroad yards and tracks, and the tract of ground herein conveyed is not susceptible to any use as a street. Title to part of 8th Avenue vested in Illges Company. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. LULA SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUSTEES. No. 325. An Act to establish a system of public schools for Lula School District; to define the boundaries of same; to provide for a board of trustees; to empower said board of trustees to receive from the county school superintendents

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of Hall and Banks Counties, Georgia, the pro rata share of taxes collected by the State and said counties for school purposes, for the support and maintenance thereof; to authorize the county school superintendents of Hall and Banks Counties to pay over to the said board of trustees such part of the State and county school fund as may be the pro rata share belonging to Lula public school district, and to confer upon said board other powers, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the management and control of all schools, both white and colored, within the public school district of Lula, Georgia, shall be vested in five persons, who shall constitute a board of trustees for the Lula Public School District, and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, a common seal, and shall have power to purchase, have, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and retain to them and their successors in office, for school purposes, any property, real or personal, of whatever kind or character, within the jurisdictional limits of said public school district, and by said name be capable of suing and being sued in any court of law or equity in this State. Board incorporated. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the limits of said Lula School-District shall be the same as the public school district now is and as it was laid off by the county board of education of Hall County. Limits of district. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Oscar Brown, E. F. Whitworth, H. N. Gowder, R. L. Scales and T. W. Carlton shall be and constitute a board of trustees for the Lula Public School District from the enactment of said law until the first Tuesday in January, 1921, at which time or as soon as their successors are elected and qualified, their term of office shall expire, unless they shall be re-elected. Members of board named.

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Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the board of trustees of the Lula Public School District shall be elected every two years, said election to be held at the school house in Lula, Hall County, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in January, 1921, and every two years thereafter. The five persons who shall be elected shall serve a term of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Said election shall be held under the same rules and regulations and by the same voters, requiring the same qualifications of said voters, as are now required in State and county elections. Election of board members. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the board of trustees shall organize by electing a president and vice-president from their own number. No member of said board shall receive compensation for his services. Organization and officers. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of trustees shall have the power to [Illegible Text] a secretary and to define his duties and to pay him such salary for his services as in their discretion would be just. It will be the duty of the secretary not only to keep an accurate record of the minutes of all the acts and doings of the board of trustees, but to receive all funds from the county superintendents of education of Hall and Banks Counties, Georgia, and to pay the same out on proper order from the board of trustees; to keep an accurate list of the registered voters living within the Lula Public School District, and to keep same of file in the office of the board of trustees, and no one will be allowed to vote for the election of the members of the board of trustees unless their names appear upon this list of registered voters, as provided in other elections. Secretary's duties. Said secretary shall also, under the direction of the board of trustees, take an accurate census of all white and colored children of school age, living within the boundaries of said district, which census shall be kept on file in the office of the board of trustees; it shall also be the duty of the secretary

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of the board to take an accurate inventory of all the property, both real and personal, and mixed, located within Lula Public School District, and make a permanent record of the same which shall be ascertained from the tax collector's digest, after same has been made up for the tax collectors in each year. The secretary shall also act as treasurer of said board of trustees, and shall give a bond in the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2,500.00) dollars, to faithfully account for all funds placed in his hands. School census. Bond. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board of trustees shall have power to design and adopt a system of public schools for said Lula Public School District; to elect a superintendent; to employ teachers; to suspend or remove the superintendent or teachers; to fix their compensation; to provide text books; to provide school houses by rent, building, purchase or otherwise; to make and hold title to such property; to receive gifts, bequests, and to hold same for the benefit of said schools, and to make such rules for the government of themselves and said schools as they may deem proper, and not in conflict with the laws of this State; and to do any and all things promotive of the best educational interests of said school district, not in conflict with this Act and the laws of this State. Powers of board. Superintendent, teachers. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be established and maintained for such time in each year that said board of trustees may prescribe under the provisions of this Act, one or more schools for white children, and one or more schools for colored children, within said public school district. No white children shall be admitted to the schools established for colored children and no colored children shall be admitted to the schools established for white children. All children entitled to the benefits of public schools under the laws of this State, and whose parents, guardians or natural protectors are bona fide residents within the limits of said district, shall be admitted to the aforesaid schools, upon the payment of such admittance fee as the board of trustees may deem necessary

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to defray the incidental expenses of said schools. Children of non-residents and such others as may not be entitled to the benefit of these schools shall be admitted upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board of trustees, not in conflict with the laws of this State. School term. Separate schools for white and colored pupils. Admittance fee. Non-residents. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the boards of education of the counties of Hall and Banks, or the county school superintendents to turn over, at least semi-annually, to the board of trustees of the public school district of Lula, Georgia, the amount of the public school fund to which children of school age within said district, shall be entitled. The amount turned over shall be in the same proportion to the entire school fund of Hall and Banks counties that the number of pupils entitled to said school fund residing within the limits of the Public School District of Lula shall bear to the entire number of pupils residing in all of Hall and Banks Counties, respectively, entitled to said school fund. This proportion shall be ascertained by a census taken each two years by the board of trustees of the Public School District of Lula and compared with the last census taken by the boards of education of Hall and Banks Counties as provided by law. Portion of school fund. It shall further be the duty of said boards of education to turn over to the board of trustees the amount of taxes collected by the tax collectors of Hall and Banks Counties for local school purposes, that are due or paid upon the property within the Public School District of Lula, said property to be located and ascertained as before provided for in said Act. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any school property acquired by said board of trustees, under the provisions of this Act or otherwise be sold, the funds derived from said sale shall be reinvested in other property at the discretion of the board of trustees, to be used for school purposes. Funds from sale of school property.

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Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the board of trustees shall have absolute control over said schools in said district and shall be authorized and it shall be their duty to protect and care for all property belonging to said schools in any manner that they may deem to the best interests or improvement of same. Control and care of schools. Sec. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. SAVANNAH POOR HOUSE AND HOSPITAL; ELECTION OF MANAGERS. No. 341. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the Savannah Poor House and Hospital, assented to on the 26th day of December in the year 1835, and the Acts amendatory thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia that the Act of the General Assembly assented to on the 26th day of December, 1835, entitled An Act to incorporate the Savannah Poor House and Hospital, and the Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same are hereby amended as follows: (1) The annual election for the managers of said corporation shall hereafter occur on the first Monday in February of each year. All persons who on or before December first of the year preceding each election, contribute the sum of $10.00 in actual cash of their own money for the support of said institution and register on or before said date with the treasurer shall be entitled to one vote at said election. The treasurer of said institution shall keep a book in which he shall record the date upon which each person makes his or her contribution and registers. Annual election of managers. Contributors entitled to vote, when. Record.

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(2) The board of managers of said institution shall be nine in number from and after the first Monday in February, 1920. Of the board so elected three shall hold office for a term of three years, three for a term of two years, and three for a term of one year; and thereafter annually an election shall be held for three managers who shall hold office for the term of three years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Board of nine. Terms. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 19, 1919. STEPHENS HIGH SCHOOL, CRAWFORDVILLE; BOARD OF TRUSTEES CREATED. No. 183. An Act to create a board of trustees for Stephens High School, in the City of Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, to define their powers and duties, provide for their election, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act there shall be a board of trustees for Stephens High School, in the City of Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, composed of five male patrons of said school residing in the Crawfordville School District, as now laid off under the provisions of the law providing for school districts in said State, or as said school district may hereafter be changed. Board of trustees created. Sec. 2. That said trustees at the time of their election be patrons of said school, residents of said school district and shall be elected each for a term of two years from the time of their election. Eligibility; term.

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Sec. 3. The first election for the selection of said trustees shall be held at the court house in the City of Crawfordville on the second Wednesday in October, 1919, at the same time and under the same rules and regulations, except as to qualification of the voters and the manner of declaring the results, and by the same election managers as are now provided for the election of mayor and council for said city, but there shall be separate tickets and a separate ballot box and tally sheets used in the election of said trustees from those used in the election of said mayor and council, the returns to be made to the ordinary of said county and the result declared by him and the expenses of same paid as provided by the law with reference to the election of district school trustees for said school district; and an election to be held as herein provided every two years thereafter for the purpose of electing trustees for said school. Election of trustees. Sec. 4. Every male patron of said school residing in said school district shall be qualified to vote in said elections for trustees aforesaid, and the word patron as used in this Act shall include the father, guardian or other male person standing in the place of a father with reference to the education of children, of a child of school age at the time of said election, or of a child who will arrive at the minimum school age before the beginning of the spring session of said school that school year, provided such father, guardian or other person above stated, of such child in good faith intends to enter said child as a pupil in said school not later than the beginning of said Spring term for same for that school year. Male patrons in district qualified to vote, Patron defined. Sec. 5. Said trustees shall have charge of the selection of teachers for said school, contracting with and paying same, and shall exercise such power and authority in connection with said school as is usual and incident to said office of local trustees of public and high schools in this State; and in matters in connection with the provisions for maintenance of said school, said trustees shall consult and co-operate

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with the district trustees of said school district in joint meetings of said local and district trustees. Powers of trustees. Teachers. Sec. 6. That in case of vacancy in said local board of trustees during their term of office for any cause, such vacancy shall be supplied for the unexpired term by the remaining local trustees of said school by the election by them of some one qualified to hold said office under the provisions herein. Vacancies in board. Sec. 7. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. WATKINSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT TRUSTEES; BOND ISSUE. No. 283. An Act to authorize the trustees of Watkinsville School District in the County of Oconee to issue bonds for the purpose of building, improving and equipping school houses, and for other purposes. After submitting the same to the voters of Watkinsville District, and the same is ratified by two-thirds vote thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the trustees of Watkinsville School District in the County of Oconee, shall, after the passage of this Act, have power and authority to issue bonds of the said school district not to exceed fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be in their judgment necessary for the purpose of building a new school building or adding to the present building of the said district, and equipping same for school purposes. Said bonds shall be issued in denominations of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars and not more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars, and with such rate of interest not exceeding five per cent per annum

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as the trustees of said district may determine upon. The said bonds shall run for a period not exceeding thirty (30) years, and five hundred ($500.00) dollars of said bonds shall mature and become payable annually and the said amount of five hundred ($500.00) dollars of said bonds and the legal interest due on said bonds shall be paid annually at such time as may be designated by the said trustees. Said bonds when issued shall be sold for not less than par, and their proceeds turned over to the board of trustees, to be used by them for the purposes aforesaid. Bonds for school; limit $15,000, 5 per cent. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before said bonds shall be issued, it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees of Watkinsville District to submit the question of their issuance to the qualified voters of said district. For this purpose, the said trustees shall order an election of which at least thirty (30) days notice shall be given by publication of such notice in the newspaper in which legal advertisements and official notices of Oconee County, Georgia, are published, and posted in at least three public places in the said school district. Said election shall be held and governed by the same rules and regulations as elections for trustees of the said district, and the qualifications of voters shall be the same. Each voter shall have written or printed on his ballot the words For Bonds or Against Bonds and if two-thirds of the qualified voters of said district shall vote for bonds it shall be the duty of the said trustees to issue the same and in the event that the said bond election shall not carry, it shall be the duty of the said trustees to order another election, provided said election shall not be held oftener than six months. Election to authorize bond issue. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at or before the time of issuing any of the said bonds, trustees of the said school district shall provide for the levy and collection of an annual tax if necessary in addition to all other taxes authorized by law, and of sufficient amount to pay promptly the principal and interest, of said

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bonded debt, nor shall any part of said fund so raised be used for any other purposes. Tax to pay bonds. Sec. 4. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. YOUNG'S FEMALE ACADEMY CHARTER REPEALED. No. 18. An Act to repeal an Act incorporating Young's Female College and to make disposition of funds of said college still in hand. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia that the above recited Act, as shown in the Acts of 1860, page 176, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the trustees of said institution are hereby authorized and instructed to deliver any money or property in their hands to the Vashti Home, an institution in Thomas County, Georgia, which carries out the ideas of education of Major Elijah Remer Young who endowed Young's Female College. Act of 1860 repealed. Money and property to go to Vashti Home. Be it further enacted, That all-laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919.

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PART IVRESOLUTIONS

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RESOLUTIONS. Academy for the Blind, Committee on. Capitol Heating System; Appropriation for Repairs. Claim against United States for cotton; Approval of Agreement as to. Claim against United States for lands; Employment of Attorneys. Compulsory Work Law; Appropriation for enforcement. Cotton Tax by United States, Counsel to procure Repayment of. [Illegible Text] Closing of Street, etc., and Conveyance to Academy, authorized. Engineering Experiment Stations, Congress urged to provide for. Industrial College for Colored Youth, Appropriation for. Memorial Day Observance for Soldiers of the late War and others. Mother's Day Observance. [Illegible Text] Swamp, Congress urged to establish National Park in. [Illegible Text] Committees, Inspection by. Pension Work of Ordinaries, Appropriation for. Pensions from United States to Confederate Soldiers, request for legislation authorizing. Portraits in Capitol; Appropriation to mark with Names, etc. Refunding Money to John Bradley, Appropriation for. Refunding Money to W. M. Hobby, Appropriation for. Refunding Money to J. L. Peavy, Appropriation for. Refunding Money to [Illegible Text] Smith, Appropriation for. Relief of G. D. Baker as Surety. Relief of C. C. Campbell as Surety. Relief of J. B. Edmonds as Collector, and his Sureties. Relief of C. L. King as Surety. Relief of John Walker and Jim Sullivan as Sureties. Road Fund Distribution Deferred. School for Deaf, Committee to Visit. School to train colored teachers; Quit-claim to correct deed to land for. State Farm, Cotton, etc., to be grown at. Traiping School for Girls, Appropriation for. Unfinished Business of the Assembly. Unfinished Business; Persons Authorized to Remain after Adjournment. Unfinished Business; Statement by Mail. University of Georgia and Branches, Commitees to Visit. ACADEMY FOR THE BLIND, COMMITTEE ON. No. 7. A RESOLUTION. Resolved, by the Senate, the House concurring, that the standing committees on Academy for the Blind of both the Senate and House be and they are hereby, authorized during vacation to visit the Academy for the Blind and make their report to the next session of the General Assembly. Vacation visit. Resolved further, that the members of said committees visiting said institution shall be paid their regular per diem

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and all actual traveling expenses, said payment to be made upon the itemized sworn statement of the committeemen, filed with the chairman of the respective committees, and said statements collectively filed by the chairman of each of the committees with the Governor of the State, who shall draw his warrant therefor upon the treasury of the State. Pay per diem and expenses. Approved August 15, 1919. CAPITOL HEATING SYSTEM; APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIRS. No. 19. A RESOLUTION. Whereas, the boiler plant of heating system of the State Capitol is in urgent need of repairs. Be it resolved, by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly, the Senate concurring therein, that the Governor is hereby directed and empowered to have the said boiler plant overhauled and repaired. $2,000 to repair boiler plant Be it further resolved, that there is hereby appropriated for this purpose the sum of $2,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed. Approved August 18, 1919. CLAIM AGAINST UNITED STATES FOR COTTON; APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT AS TO. No. 33. A resolution to continue and confirm in Pierce Horne certain rights and powers originally granted by an agreement between Hon. James M. Smith, Governor of the State of Georgia, with H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, dated November 13, 1872, wherein H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, were authorized and empowered to sue upon certain claims

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of the State of Georgia against the United States, with reference to certain cotton, in the Court of Claims of the United States, and fixing the compensation of H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, and to this end confirming the approval by Hon. Allen D. Candler, Governor of Georgia, on January 10, 1902, of the transfer and assignment of the original agreement made with H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, to Tomlinson F. Johnson, and ratifying and confirming the transfer made by Tomlinson F. Johnson on March 11, 1919, to Pierce Horne, of Washington, D. C. Whereas, by an agreement between himself and H. V. Johnson, Wires Co., dated November 13, 1872, the Hon. James M. Smith, then Governor, contracted with said firm concerning the collection by them of a claim of the State of Georgia against the United States, with reference to certain cottons, authorizing them to sue upon the same in the Court of Claims of the United States, or otherwise, in their discretion, and empowering them irrevocably in the premises, the said agreement providing for the compensation of the said H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, to be one-third (1-3) part of any and all recovery, all of which will more fully appear by reference to said agreement on file in the office of the Executive Department; and, Preamble. Whereas, by an instrument of writing dated the 28th day of June, 1881, signed by Ann F. Johnson, as executrix and sole legatee under the will of H. V. Johnson, deceased, Tomlinson F. Johnson, then of Savannah, Georgia, was authorized and empowered to do and perform all the acts and things incumbent upon the said H. V. Johnson, of the firm of H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, under the said agreement of November 13, 1872; and, Whereas, the Hon. Allen D. Candler, then Governor, by an instrument of writing dated January 10, 1902, ratified, approved and confirmed the agreement with and grant to the said Tomlinson F, Johnson, made by the said Ann F. Johnson; and, Whereas, the said Tomlinson F. Johnson, by an instrument

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of writing dated March 11, 1919, contracted with and empowered Pierce Horne, of Washington, D. C., in substance to do and perform all the acts and things incumbent upon the said H. V. Johnson, of the firm of H. V. Johnson, Wires Company, under the said contract of November 13, 1872; and, Whereas, the said Pierce Horne has requested his Excellency, the Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor, to ratify, confirm and approve in him the said contract of November 13, 1872, and the subsequent writings hereinbefore recited, so as to enable him to undertake the performance of said contract. Now, therefore, be it resolved, by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, the Senate concurring, that his Excellency, the Governor, be and he is hereby authorized to sign and have legally and properly sealed and attested such instrument or instruments in confirmation of the powers and rights conferred in and upon the said Pierce Horne as aforesaid as may be necessary for the purpose of confirming in the said Pierce Horne all of the rights and powers granted and given to the said Herschel V. Johnson as a member of the firm of H. V. Johnson, Wires Company by the said contract with Hon. James M. Smith, Governor, of November 13, 1872, and to empower him to undertake the collection of said claim. Governor authorized to confirm rights of Pierce Horne, transferee of contract as to collection of cotton claim. Be it further resolved, that the said instrument of ratification, signed by the Hon. Allen D. Candler, Governor, on the 10th day of January, 1902, aforesaid, be and the same is hereby approved. Approved August 18, 1919.

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CLAIM AGAINST UNITED STATES FOR LANDS; EMPLOYMENT OF ATTORNEYS. No. 34. A RESOLUTION. Whereas, large tracts of lands belonging to the States of the United States were in the early history of the country jointly acquired and owned by such States; and, whereas, of such lands jointly owned, certain sections have been given to the States wherein the lands are located, without any corresponding allotments of either lands or their equivalent to the State of Georgia; and, whereas, other States, having like claims to the State of Georgia, are taking the necessary steps to bring this matter to the attention of Congress in an effort to secure recognition and payment of these claims by the Congress of the United States; and, whereas, on July 11, 1916, in a special message to the General Assembly of Georgia, his Excellency, Governor Nat E. Harris, after reciting the facts in support of such claims, advised that the State take the necessary steps to join in the movement; and, whereas, his Excellency, Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, in a message to the General Assembly of Georgia, has also advised that action be taken by the State to present the claims of the State of Georgia to the Congress; therefore, Preamble. Be it resolved, by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, the Senate concurring, that his Excellency, the Governor of Georgia, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered and requested to employ such agents and attorneys as he may deem advisable, and upon such terms as to fees and expenses as his judgment may dictate, to represent the State, to make investigations, collect data, present claims, and file such actions as may be deemed necessary or advisable to secure for the State of Georgia its rights in the premises, provided that such fees as may be contracted for shall be contingent upon recovery by the State, and that the State be put to no expense. Governor authorized to employ agents and attorneys; pay contingent. Approved August 18, 1919

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COMPULSORY WORK LAW; APPROPRIATION FOR ENFORCEMENT. No. 21. A RESOLUTION. Whereas, the General Assembly in 1918 passed what is commonly known as the Compulsory Work Law, which was approved by the Governor August 8, 1918, providing for the appointment of a chief clerk of employment, and not more than two special representatives each, with a salary of not more than eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and provided for a contingent fund of twenty-six hundred dollars; and, Preamble. Whereas, while an appropriation of eight thousand dollars was made to pay the salaries under this Act for the year 1919, and to provide a contingent fund for that year, no appropriation was made for the remainder of the year 1918, following the passage of this Act; and, Whereas, the Commissioner of Commerce and Labor furnished the funds for the immediate operation of the law; and, Whereas, no part of the eight thousand dollars appropriated for the year 1919 has been expended, there having been no effort to enforce this law during the year 1919, by agreement with the Governor, as the necessity no longer prevailed; be it Resolved, that three thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary, of the sum appropriated for 1919, be and the same is hereby appropriated and made effective for the purpose of paying the deficit for the year 1918, and the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of the said Commissioner for the payment of the deficit due for 1918, upon presentation of proper itemized statement. Deficiency appropriation, $3,000. Approved August 19, 1919

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COTTON TAX BY UNITED STATES, COUNSEL TO PROCURE RE-PAYMENT OF. No. 6. A RESOLUTION. Resolved, by the House, the Senate concurring, that the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to employ and contract with counsel, upon such terms as he may approve, for the purpose of endeavoring to have returned to the State or the citizens thereof, the direct tax collected by the United States on cotton in Georgia during and following the war between the States, provided the fees for such counsel shall be contingent and the State shall be put to no cost or expense. Governor authorized to employ counsel; pay contingent. Approved August 18, 1919. DARIEN; CLOSING OF STREET, ETC., AND CONVEYANCE TO ACADEMY, AUTHORIZED. No. 13. A resolution to ratify the action of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Darien in vacating the lane in block 50 between Rittenhouse and Boundrie streets, and Wayne street between Rittenhouse street and Oglethorpe Square, in the City of Darien, and in authorizing the McIntosh County Academy to close said street and lane, and to authorize the mayor and aldermen of the City of Darien to convey said part of said street and of said lane to the said McIntosh County Academy, and for other purposes. Whereas, the lane in block 50 between Rittenhouse and Boundrie streets, a distance of about 300 feet, and Wayne street between said Rittenhouse street and Oglethorpe Square a distance of about 240 feet, has been vacated and abandoned by the City of Darien, and has not been worked or cared for by the said City of Darien for the past two or three years, and has been used exclusively in connection

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with the school grounds and for educational purposes; be it, therefore, Preamble. Resolved, by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the action of the mayor and aldermen of the City of Darien in vacating and abandoning the lane in block number 50 from Rittenhouse to Boundrie streets, a distance of about 300 feet, and Wayne street from Rittenhouse street to Oglethorpe Square, a distance of about 240 feet, and in authorizing the McIntosh County Academy to close said lane between said Rittenhouse and Boundrie streets, a distance of about 300 feet, and Wayne street between Rittenhouse street and Oglethorpe Square, a distance of about 240 feet, be and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and the title to the same is hereby vested in the said McIntosh County Academy, its successors and assigns in fee simple forever. That the mayor and aldermen of the City of Darien be and they are hereby authorized to deed said parts of said lane and said street to the McIntosh County Academy, which said Academy is an adjoining land owner to said property so vacated and abandoned by the said City of Darien. Closing of lane and street, conveyance to McIntosh County Academy, authorized. Approved August 18, 1919. ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATIONS, CONGRESS URGED TO PROVIDE FOR. No. 8. A Resolution memoralizing Congress in support of Engineering Experiment Station legislation. Whereas, there is a long standing need of a system of State engineering experiment stations to aid and encourage the development of American industries and natural resources, corresponding to the aid that has been so invaluable to our farmers by the agricultural experiment stations, and Preamble. Whereas, the war has emphasized the vital importance of organized engineering and industrial research, and

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Whereas, there has been recently introduced in the United States Congress a bill known as Senate Bill No. 516, entitled A Bill to establish Engineering Experiment Stations in the states and territories, in connection with institutions of higher technical education, for the promotion of engineering and industrial research as a measure of industrial, commercial, military and naval progress and preparedness in times of peace of war, and Whereas the operation of this bill will be of incalculable value to the industries of Georgia, and Whereas there is already being developed at the Georgia School of Technology, the State's technical school, a State engineering experiment station which has already been doing, to the best of its resources, much valuable research work that has benefitted the State and the nation, Therefore it is resolved by the General Assembly of Georgia, in regular session, that the United States Congress is hereby respectfully urged to enact the aforesaid bill into law without delay; that every Senator and Representative from Georgia to Congress is hereby encouraged to give his special attention and assistance to the prompt passage of this bill, and that these resolutions be printed and copies be sent to the President of the United States, to the U. S. Secretary of Commerce, to each member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, to the Governor of each State, and to the public press of Georgia. Congress urged to enact law. Resolutions to be sent President and others. Approved August 15, 1919. INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE FOR COLORED YOUTH; APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 15. A RESOLUTION. Whereas the main building of the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth at [Illegible Text] has been destroyed by fire, and Preamble.

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Whereas its replacement is essential to the continuation of the appropriation by the U. S. Government for the support of the Georgia College, Be it therefore resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the sum of $50,000.00 be and it is hereby appropriated, the same to be paid to the trustees of said college, upon warrant of the Governor, out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, $25,000.00 in 1920, and $25,000.00 in 1921. $50,000 to replace [Illegible Text] building. Approved August 18, 1919. MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE FOR SOLDIERS OF LATE WAR AND OTHERS. No. 12. A RESOLUTION. Whereas we deem it to be the sacred duty of the living to honor the [Illegible Text] memory of the dead; and Preamble. Whereas not only in the iron days of the sixties but in the late victorious struggle for democracy throughout the world our Georgia boys have shed renown upon the State and illustrated the best traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race. and Whereas thousands of these boys have given their lives to the flag on European fields, in camp, and in hospital; and Whereas the twenty-sixth day of April is already by legal enactment annually observed in Georgia as Memorial Day, in honor of the State's heroic dead of the sixties; Therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that from and after the passage of this resolution, the associations of Memorial Day be still further enriched by making this sacred day commemorative of the sacrifices made by Georgians in all wars, wheresoever

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and whensoever fought, and that April the twenty-sixth be annually observed in Georgia, in honor of all the heroic sons of this State who have illustrated the chivalry of Georgia on the field of battle, but especially in the late titanic struggle to make a world safe for democracy. April 26 to be annual memorial day for Georgia [Illegible Text] of all wars, especially the late war. Approved August 18, 1919. MOTHER'S DAY OBSERVANCE. No. 23. A RESOLUTION. Whereas the service rendered the United States by the American mother is the greatest source of the country's strength and inspiration; and Preamble. Whereas we honor ourselves and the mothers of America when we do anything to give emphasis to the home as the fountain-head of the State; and Whereas the American mother is doing so much for the home, the moral uplift, and religion, hence so much for good government, patriotism, and humanity; Therefore be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, that the Governor of this State is hereby authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the State officials to display the United States flag on all State and school buildings, and the people to display the flag at their homes and other suitable places and places of business on the second Sunday in May, known as Mother's Day, founded by Anna Jarvis, as a public expression of [Illegible Text] and reverence for the mothers of our State. Second Sunday of May to be observed as Mother's Day. by display of U. S. [Illegible Text] Approved August 19, 1919.

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OKEFENOKEE SWAMP, CONGRESS URGED TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL PARK IN. No. 5. A Resolution memorializing the Congress of the United States to enact appropriate legislation whereby the Okefenokee Swamp in the southern section of the State of Georgia, may be made a National Park reservation, and for other purposes; Whereas the Okefenokee Swamp, located in the southern section of the State of Georgia, containing an area of about 700 square miles, in which the St. Mary's River and the famous Suwanee of song and story take their source, and in which there is found so much to attract the sportsman, as its hammocks and jungles teem with wild animals and game of every description native to North America; its lakes and creeks and rivers abound in fish, and its open forests ring with the music of native bird life, and Preamble. Whereas no place in all the southeastern section of the United States offers more to the student of wild life than this swamp, here preserved, because of its inaccessibility, remains much of the primeval life of America. No place in all the southeastern section of our country in that vast area, bounded on the north by the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and on the west by the Mississippi, contains so many different species of birds as are native to this swamp, and Whereas, here in tangled leaf and wild flower live a great many of our songsters who have escaped the destruction that awaited them elsewhere, here too are some of the largest birds, going up the scale and reaching the largest eagles in this section, here are found a few species that practically are found nowhere else, and Whereas in this jungle also remain much of our wild game, here the bear and southern lynx can be found, the only place in this territory in which black bear exists, except

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in some few cane breaks in isolated spots along our great rivers, and Whereas no section is so rich in its attraction to the student as this section, and here he can reap the satisfaction of seeing many species of both bird and animal life in fairly abundant quantities that are extremely rare if not almost extinct, and Whereas the swamp is equally as rich for the careful student in the study of fish life; here are found a very great variety of our fresh water fish, in fact, in a narrow compass of waters are found more varieties than in any other similar area, the fish that inhabit our still waters of sluggish habits here live and thrive in long lagoons and lakes, here at many points the waters as they meet to make the head of both the St. Mary's and Suwanee Rivers form an ideal spot for the life of some of our game fish, and Whereas in all the northwest and in the southwest sections of the United States great areas have been purchased and set apart so that the people there might have a place in which to go to see the life that has disappeared forever from the plains and forests and mountains of the far west, the National Government having purchased seven great parks to carry out this work, and Whereas here in the southeast no friendly hand has been held out to help us in preserving for future generations the wild life that once existed in this section of the United States; nature herself worked hard and furnished here a natural sanctuary, commerce has come in now and the axe of the lumberman is heard throughout the swamp and the coverts for game, the dense jungles in which birds and animals hide themselves from danger will disappear unless protected, and the great forest, jungle and swamp which form the headquarters of the two great rivers will disappear unless steps are taken to preserve the same; Therefore the House of Representatives of Georgia, the Senate concurring, do resolve:

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(1). That our Senators and Representatives from Georgia in the Congress of the United States be and they are hereby memorialized to have the Congress enact appropriate legislation whereby the Okefenokee Swamp may be made a National Park Reservation. Congress memorialized. (2). That duly certified copies of these preambles and resolutions be immediately transmitted by the Secretary of State upon the passage, approval and filing of same in his office, to each of the Senators and members of the House of Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States. Transmission of resolutions. Approved August 18, 1919. PENITENTIARY COMMITTEES, INSPECTION BY. No. 29. A RESOLUTION. Whereas it has been impossible, on account of enforced attendance upon deliberations of the House and Senate, constantly and almost continuously in session, for the Committees of the House and Senate on Georgia State Penitentiary to make investigation of the various penitentiary institutions and convict camps of the State, and it being necessary for the best interest of the State that careful and painstaking investigation and inspection be made during the interim between the present session and the session of 1920, by visits from sub-committees, a committee in full of both the House and Senate; Preamble. Therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of Georgia, the Senate concurring, that the Committees of the House and Senate on the Georgia State Penitentiary be and they are hereby authorized to visit the various departments of the penitentiary of Georgia and the various penitentiary camps and convict camps in the various counties of said State, in vacation, in the interim between

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the present session and the session of 1920, for the purpose of inspection and reporting on the same. Vacation visit to convict camps, etc. Resolved further, that said committees of the House and Senate shall at the instance of a joint call of their respective chairmen meet at some central point in Georgia for the purpose of organizing and beginning such inspection as it is their duty to make, and to make their reports thereafter. Resolved further that the members of said committees actually visiting said institution be allowed the usual per diem of members of the General Assembly, together with actual traveling expenses and hotel expenses, same to be paid upon itemized statement approved by the chairman of said committees. Per diem pay and expenses. Approved August 19, 1919. PENSION WORK OF ORDINARIES, APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 22. A RESOLUTION. Whereas the appropriation heretofore made by the General Assembly to pay the Ordinaries of the State for their pension work for 1917, 1918, and 1919, is insufficient to make the payment for 1919; and Preamble. Whereas the number of pensions actually paid by the said Ordinaries for 1919 is 13,741; and Whereas there is a balance in the treasury of the State of $4,131.00, after paying for the work of 1917 and 1918, to be used towards the payment for 1919, which leaves the sum of nine thousand, six hundred and ten dollars to be provided to complete the payment for 1919; therefore, be it Resolved, that the sum of nine thousand six hundred and ten dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, in addition to the balance now in the treasury for this purpose, to

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pay the several Ordinaries of the State for their pension work for 1919, and the Governor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on any funds in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated to pay this appropriation. Additional amount for pension work. Approved August 19, 1919. PENSIONS FROM UNITED STATES TO CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, REQUEST FOR LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING. No. 28. A RESOLUTION. Whereas the losses sustained by the Southern States as a result of the war between the States were $4,000,000,000 value of emancipated slavery, $25,000,000 proceeds of captured and abandoned property of the South, and sixty-eight million dollars of taxes collected for cotton tax of 1867 and 1868, which has been adjudged by the Supreme Court of the United States as an illegal tax, which sums of money were actually paid into the treasury of the government and paid out for its uses, and Preamble. Whereas these vast sums of money have actually been received and the damage done the South more than fifty-five years ago as a seeming indemnity held against a conquered province, rather than states of the American Union for exercising a right that had previously been conceded, and Whereas the generation of the South who actually sustained this great loss are fast passing away and the several states are burdened with the cost of making provisions for them, and Whereas the United States Government has by law provided a pension system for the soldiers of the North who enlisted in the armies known as the Federal army, which

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has been paid for the past thirty years by a tax levied on the whole country that has been paid by the South, as well as by the North, and Whereas the people of the Southern States have paid their part for the past thirty years, the annual sum of fifty million or more, in support of the pension burden of the Government and received no part of it in return, and Whereas the people of the South now representing the business interests and who have to carry this pension burden and are thus situatedwhen the people of the North pay the tax it goes into the treasury of the Government, but annually it goes back to their sectionin the payment of the pensions they get it back, put it into use in their upbuilding and prosperity, but when the South pays their part of this pension burden, it never comes back, but goes all across the line to pay the pensions of the North and to add to their success and prosperity, which is an unjust burden carried by generations of loyal and pure Americans for the acts of their fathers of more than half a century ago, and Whereas there should be some return made to the Southern States of this large sum of money obtained from the sale of captured and abandoned property and from the illegal cotton tax which was actually paid into the treasury of Government and used by them for the last fifty years, and Whereas the only relief that can be suggested for the United States Government through the Congress, the law making provision to provide for the payment of a sufficient sum through the Treasury Department of each State to amply provided for the old slaves who are now unable to work for a support which his master was compelled to give him by the State, and to furnish a sufficient sum to each State to be used to pay pensions fixed by the laws of each State to each Confederate soldier and to the widows of such soldiers as are now provided for by the States; Therefore, be it resolved, first, that the Southern States,

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with the existing population, ought to be by this present Congress now in session entirely relieved of the burden of pensions to Confederate veterans by its National Government taking that burden upon itself, preferably using the pension law methods and officers of the different States as the best and already existing agencies for the correct discharge of this duty, and that the grading and classifying of the amount of pensions should be made the same and no less to Confederate veterans, widows of officers or privates, than in like cases to Union veterans. Resolution in favor of pensions from United States to Confederate veterans and widows. Resolved, second, that a fair and just pension should be made by the United States Government to each negro man and woman born and reared in slavery and now too old to work, who by emancipation lost the protecting care and comfort which in times of slavery the laws of every Southern State required the master to bestow upon him or her. Pensions to former slaves. Resolved, third, that a copy of these resolutions be without delay forwarded by His Excellency, the Governor, to His Excellency, President Wilson, at Washington; and a copy to each Senator and to each Representative in Congress from Georgia, with request that appropriate legislation be enacted by the National Government without delay for carrying same into effect. Request for legislation by Congress. Approved August 19, 1919. PORTRAITS IN CAPITOL; APPROPRIATION TO MARK WITH NAMES, ETC. No. 26. A RESOLUTION. Whereas a number of the portraits of distinguished Georgians hanging in the State Capitol are unmarked, Preamble. Therefore be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, that the sum of one hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated,

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to be paid out of such funds as have not otherwise been appropriated, for the purpose of having suitable metal markers showing the name, date of birth and death of such distinguished Georgians, placed on the frame of each unmarked portrait, and that the keeper of public buildings and grounds be instructed to carry out the provisions of this resolution. [Illegible Text] appropriated for markers on portraits. Approved August 18, 1919. REFUNDING MONEY TO JOHN BRADLEY, APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 25. A RESOLUTION. Whereas John Bradley, of Walker County, registered as a peddler in said county, and paid to the tax collector the sum of $50.00 tax as such peddler; and Preamble. Whereas, he was able to attempt to work as such peddler for just a few hours for two days only, when his health was completely broken down, and he has been in continuous ill health since; Therefore be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that the sum of fifty dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to be refunded to the said John Bradley out of any funds available for said purpose, and the Governor is hereby directed to draw his warrant accordingly. Appropriation to refund tax. Approved August 19, 1919.

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REFUNDING MONEY TO W. M. HOBBY, APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 20. A RESOLUTION. Whereas W. M. Hobby, as tax collector of Screven County, Georgia, did, through an error, pay to the State of Georgia $543.00, poll tax, in excess of amount collected; said error being due to the fact that he counted the defaulters' executions at $1.00 each, when they should have been $2.00 each; and Preamble. Overpayment to State. Whereas the said W. M. Hobby has paid into the State treasury, because of said error, $543.00 in excess of the amount due, and Whereas this fact has been established by an audit of the county books; by affidavit of H. L. Howard, clerk of the Board of County Commissioners of Screven County, Georgia, and by affidavit of W. M. Hobby, tax collector of Screven County. Therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that His Excellency the Governor of Georgia be and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the said $543.00 and that the same be refunded to the said W. M. Hobby, tax collector. Repayment authorized. Approved August 18, 1919. REFUNDING MONEY TO J. L. PEAVY, APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 17. A RESOLUTION. Whereas J. L. Peavy was oil inspector at Vienna, Dooly County, Georgia, during the year 1915, and in that year

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over paid the State Treasurer sixty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents ($68.58), and Preamble. Overpayment to State. Whereas said J. L. Peavy died in the year 1916, with said amount credited to his account, and leaving no estate; Be it therefore resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby resolved by authority of the same, that Mrs. Nannie Peavy, widow of J. L. Peavy, deceased, be paid the sum of sixty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents ($68.58) out of general funds in the treasury of the State of Georgia. Repayment authorized. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved August 18, 1919. REFUNDING MONEY TO LIZZIE SMITH, APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 31. A RESOLUTION. Whereas in the year 1916 certain property in Floyd County, Georgia, was assessed against J. T. Early, for taxation, which did not exist and was not owned by J. T. Early; and Preamble. Whereas John M. Vandiver, tax collector of Floyd County, Georgia, issued a tax fi fa. against J. T. Early, amounting to $26.76, representing taxes due the State of Georgia by J. T. Early for said year; and Tax paid for property not in existence. Whereas said tax fi fa. was subsequently transferred to Miss Lizzie Smith of Floyd County, Georgia; and Whereas said tax was improperly assessed and improperly proceeded against J. T. Early; and

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Whereas Miss Lizzie Smith could not realize on said tax fi fa. for the reason stated, and the said Miss Lizzie Smith has paid said sum of money to the State of Georgia without any means of recovering same except through relief granted by the Legislature of the State of Georgia; and Whereas it further appears that the County of Floyd collected through the same means the sum of $46.39, which has been refunded by said County of Floyd to the said Miss Lizzie Smith; Therefore be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia that the sum of $26.76 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be refunded to the said Miss Lizzie Smith as aforesaid, out of any funds available for said purpose, and the Governor is hereby directed to draw his warrant accordingly. Repayment authorized. Approved August 19, 1919. RELIEF OF G. D. BAKER AS SURETY. No. 3. A RESOLUTION. Whereas Walter Springfield was set at liberty upon a bond signed by G. D. Baker, security, the same being for the appearance of the said Walter Springfield to answer to a misdemeanor in Whitfield Superior Court, April term, 1917; and Preamble. Whereas his bond upon which G. D. Baker was security, was forfeited, said bond being for the sum of one hundred dollars; and Whereas the said G. D. Baker, security, captured and delivered to the Sheriff of Whitfield County, the said Walter Springfield, who procured his release by procuring other sureties; and

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Whereas judgment was given against the said G. D. Baker, and execution has issued thereon; Therefore be it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that inasmuch as the purpose for which said bond was given has been fully accomplished, that the said G. D. Baker be relieved of all liability of said execution issued on said forfeiture and judgment, and the clerk of the Superior Court of Whitfield County is hereby authorized and directed, upon the payment of the costs that have accrued in said case, to mark said execution satisfied and cancel same of record. Relieved from execution; canceliation on payment of cost. Approved August 7, 1919. RELIEF OF C. C. CAMPBELL AS SURETY. No. 1. A RESOLUTION. Whereas one Will Raines, white, was arrested in the City of Columbus, Georgia, for disorderly conduct by the police, on the 4th day of September, 1918, and at the same time there was issued by the Recorder of said city, a warrant charging said Raines with assault with intent to murder, and on the.... day of September, 1918, said Recorder, presiding at the Recorder's or Police Court of said city, committed said Raines to the Superior Court of Muscogee County, Georgia, to answer said charge under a bond of fifteen hundred dollars, and Preamble. Whereas said Will Raines gave said bond for his appearance to said Superior Court in said sum with Mrs. Mattie Adams, C. C. Campbell and J. E. Wynn, as sureties, and Whereas at the November term, 1918, of said Superior Court, the grand jury thereof returned a true bill against said Will Raines charging [Illegible Text] with assault with intent to murder, and on the 12th day of November, 1918, during

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said term of court, the criminal docket being then and there called, the case of the State of Georgia against Will Raines was called, and, after the State announced ready for trial, he failed to appear, the State in due form and regular order, forfeited said recognizance, and Whereas said Will Raines after forfeiting his bond as aforesaid, and after C. C. Campbell, one of the sureties above mentioned, made every effort to locate him by spending large sums of money, at the February term, 1919, again failed and refused to appear, and said forfeiture was made absolute, the sureties having been duly and properly served, and after the adjournment of said February term, 1919, of said court, the said Will Raines was located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and refused to return to Georgia without requisition papers, and Whereas said C. C. Campbell, the only solvent surety on said bond, after execution having issued, paid said bond in the principal sum of fifteen hundred dollars, and $18.35 cost of court, and Whereas said C. C. Campbell had to pay out in order to recapture and return said Will Raines to the State of Georgia, the sum of five hundred dollars, and Whereas at the May term, 1919, of said Superior Court, said Will Raines was placed on trial, under said indictment aforesaid, and was convicted, the jury returning a verdict finding him guilty of unlawful shooting, and the judge of said court, then and there presiding imposed a sentence of three years and eight months in the penitentiary of the State of Georgia, and he is now serving said sentence. Therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, the Senate concurring, that the county authorities of Muscogee County be and they are hereby authorized to pay to said C. C. Campbell the sum of $1,518.35 out of the funds arising from the fines and forfeitures in the Superior Court of said county, Georgia, to

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reimburse him the sum so paid on account of said bond as aforesaid. County to repay sum paid on [Illegible Text] for [Illegible Text]. Approved August 12, 1919. RELIEF OF J. B. EDMONDS AS COLLECTOR, AND HIS SURETIES. No. 27. A RESOLUTION. Whereas on the 23d day of August, 1918, the Honorable William A. Wright, Comptroller-General of the State of Georgia, issued an execution against J. B. Edmonds, tax collector of Baker County, and against T. J. Rhodes, B. F. Powell, Elias Faircloth, T. H. Edwards and W. J. Irwin as sureties on the tax collector's bond of the said J. B. Edmonds for the sum of $3,195.63, the said execution having been issued for the amount due by the said tax collector to the State of Georgia in a final settlement for the year 1917; and Preamble. Whereas said execution has been fully paid by said tax collector and the said sureties on said bond without any expense incident thereto on the part of the State of Georgia, but there is a penalty of twenty per cent when tax collectors are slow to make final settlement and executions are issued against them; and Whereas the Comptroller-General has no authority to remit said penalty, and Whereas the said execution has been paid in full and the State has lost nothing by the delay in settlement. Therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, the Senate concurring, that the said J. B. Edmonds as principal and T. J. Rhodes, B. F. Powell, Elias Faircloth, T. H. Edwards and W. J. Irwin as sureties on said tax collector's bond, be and they are

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hereby relieved and released from the full amount of said penalty, the same being interest at the rate of twenty per cent per annum upon the amount for which execution issued as aforesaid from the day of , 1918. Release from penalty. Approved August 18, 1919. RELIEF OF C. L. KING AS SURETY. No. 2. A RESOLUTION. Whereas William Holder was set at liberty upon bond signed by C. L. King and D. T. Leonard; and Preamble. Whereas said William Holder was required by said bond to appear as a witness in Whitfield Superior Court at the October term, 1917, said bond being in the sum of one hundred dollars; and Whereas his bond upon which C. L. King and D. T. Leonard were securities, was forfeited; and Whereas the said C. L. King paid said bond of one hundred dollars, together with all costs, to the sheriff of Whitfield County, D. T. Leonard paying nothing, and Whereas the said C. L. King, after having paid said money, captured the said William Holder and surrendered him to the officers of the county, who placed him in jail, and who afterwards secured his release by procuring other securities. Therefore be it resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that the county authorities of Whitfield County be and they are, hereby authorized to pay the said C. L. King the sum of one hundred dollars, together with the court costs he paid, out of the funds arising from the fines and forfeitures of the Superior Court of Whitfield County, to reimburse

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him for the sum so paid by him on account of said bond. County to repay sum paid on bond forfeiture. Approved August 7, 1919. RELIEF OF JOHN WALKER AND JIM SULLIVAN AS SURETIES. No. 24. A RESOLUTION. Whereas John Walker and Jim Sullivan, both of Ware County, Georgia, became sureties on the bail bond of Will Sullivan for his appearance at the May term, 1912, of the Superior Court of Ware County, to answer to an indictment for carrying pistol concealed, and said case was transferred to the city court of Waycross, and Preambie. Whereas said Will Sullivan failed to appear at the June term, 1912, of the city court of Waycross in compliance with the conditions of said bail bond, and thereupon a rule nisi issued, and Whereas at the September term, 1912, of said city court of Waycross, a rule absolute and final judgment were obtained on said bail bond against the said Will Sullivan as principal, and John Walker and Jim Sullivan as sureties for the sum of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, and Whereas said sureties delivered unto the sheriff of Ware County, Georgia, the said Will Sullivan, who, on the 27th day of November, 1912, was stried, convicted and sentenced to twelve (12) months service on the chaingang or in lieu thereof the payment of two hundred ($200.00) dollars; and Whereas the said Will Sullivan complied with the terms of said sentence; and the costs arising from the forfeiture aforesaid have been paid; [Illegible Text]. Therefore be it resolved by the General Assembly of the

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State of Georgia, that the said John Walker and Jim Sullivan be, and they are hereby relieved of any and all liability of said bail bond, and the judgment and the execution thereon are hereby declared null and void and of no effect insofar as the said John Walker and Jim Sullivan are concerned, and the clerk of the Superior Court of Ware County is authorized and directed to mark the same satisfied as against the said John Walker and Jim Sullivan. Relief from judgment on bail bond. Approved August 19, 1919. ROAD FUND DISTRIBUTION DEFERRED. No. 16. A Resolution authorizing the Governor of the State of Georgia to defer distribution of the State road fund until September 10, 1919. Whereas, in order to complete the payment of pensions of Confederate Veterans within the time specified by law, it was necessary to negotiate a loan of $200,000.00 and also to use the State road fund derived from the sale of automobile license tags, and Preamble. Whereas there has not been sufficient money collected, since using the State road fund, to replace to the credit of this fund the amount used, and Whereas the State treasurer advises the net available balance in the treasury is only $106,886.49, which amount will be necessary to defray the current expenses of the State government during the month of July, and Whereas, to distribute the State road fund to the counties of the State as provided by law at this time, it would be necessary to negotiate another loan of $250,000.00, and Whereas the State will collect, during August and September, corporation taxes amounting to approximately $800,000.00, which will enable the State to repay the loan

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negotiated for payment of pensions and replace the State Road fund. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the General Assembly of Georgia that the Governor be and he is hereby authorized to defer payment of the State road fund to the counties of the State until September 10, 1919. Governor authorized to delay payment. Approved August 18, 1919. SCHOOL FOR DEAF, COMMITTEE TO VISIT. No. 9. A RESOLUTION. Be it resolved by the House and the Senate concurring, that a sub-committee of the Georgia School for the Deaf at Cave Spring is hereby authorized during vacation to visit the Georgia School for the Deaf, and make its report to the next session of this House. Vacation visit. Resolved further that the members of said committee visiting said institution shall be paid their regular per diem and all actual traveling and hotel expenses, said payment to be made upon the itemized shown statement of the committeemen, filed with the chairman of the committee and approved by him. Pay per diem and expenses. Approved August 18, 1919. SCHOOL TO TRAIN COLORED TEACHERS; QUITCLAIM TO CORRECT DEED TO LAND FOR, AUTHORIZED. No. 11. A RESOLUTION. Whereas, under the terms of an Act approved August 31, 1917, creating an Agricultural Industrial and Normal School

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for the training of colored teachers of this State, said Act providing for the location of said school under the supervision of the Governor, the Attorney-General and the State Superintendent of Schools, who are authorized to receive from any county or any of the citizens thereof, donation or tract of land in such county not less than one hundred acres, on which to erect a school, together with any additional donation, in the way of buildings or money; and. Preamble. Whereas the Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute, through its proper officers and corporate action, did make a bid and did offer one hundred acres of land, as hereinafter described, and the buildings contained thereon, to the State of Georgia, as a location for said school, which said offer was accepted under the terms and provisions of said Act; and Whereas, in the conveyance of the title to the lands and buildings thereon, made by said Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute, through proper corporate action, to the trustees of the University of Georgia, for the purpose of being and for said Agricultural Industrial and Normal School, for the training of colored teachers, as provided in said Act, by error of the scrivener and through mutual mistake, 121.8 acres of land were conveyed, more particularly described in said deed, recorded on March 11, 1918, in Deed Book 26, [Illegible Text] 557-9 of the Deeds and Records of Dougherty County, Georgia; and Error in deed. Whereas, by terms of the agreement, only 100 acres, described as follows, to-wit: Tract No. 1Beginning at an iron stake which marks the south side of the Atlantic Coast Light right of way, said iron stake being on the land lot line between land lots Nos. 268 and 269, and from said stake as a starting point, run a line south 1 degree and 15 minutes east 115 feet to a stake, thence south 86 degrees and 15 minutes east 528 feet to a stake, thence north 1 degree and 15 minutes west 115 feet to a stake, thence south 86 degrees and 15 minutes east 263 feet to a stake, thence south 4 degrees and 45 minutes west

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1,181 feet to a stake, thence north 85 degrees and 15 minutes west, 1,724 feet to a stake, thence north 4 degrees and 45 minutes east 1,454 feet to a stake, thence south 85 degrees and 15 minutes east 140 feet to a stake, thence south 4 degrees and 45 minutes west 100 feet to a stake, thence south 84 degrees and 20 minutes east 287 feet to a stake, thence south 1 degree and 15 minutes east 100 feet to a stake, thence south 75 degrees east 496 feet to the point of beginning, said tract of land situate, lying and being in land lots 268 and 269, in the First District of Dougherty County, Georgia, and containing 48.40 acres, exclusive of a thirty (30) foot roadway, running north and south through the west side of said lands, 110 feet from the west line of same. Tract No. 2Beginning at the center of the Blue Springs road, where the south line of Third street intersects same, thence south 11 degrees cast 576 feet down the center of said road, and from this as beginning point, run north 88 degrees and 30 minutes east 348 feet, to a stake, thence south 16 degrees east 2,112 feet to a stake, thence south 75 degrees west 406 feet to the center of Blue Springs road, thence south 14 degrees east 495 feet along center of said road, thence south 77 degrees and 30 minutes west 643.50 feet to low water mark on Flint river, thence in a northwesterly direction along river bank 2,020 feet to stake, thence north 88 degrees and 30 minutes east 897.8 feet to center of Blue Springs road, thence north 14 degrees west along center of said road 819.7 feet to point of beginning, said tract of land situate, lying and being in the First District of Dougherty County, Georgia, and containing 51.60 acres, and being in land lots 268 and 267, were intended to be conveyed, on which said 100 acres are located all the buildings and improvements of the old Albany Bible and Manual Training Institute property; therefore. Be it resolved by the House of [Illegible Text], the Senate concurring, that the Governor of the State of Georgia be and he is hereby authorized and directed to execute, in the name and in behalf of the State of Georgia, a quit-claim deed to the 21.8 acres, in excess of the acreage which was

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stipulated in the original agreement, said 21.8 acres being described as follows: Governor directed to execute quit-claim deed. Tract No. 1Beginning at a point on the south side of Third street, East Albany, where the said street intersects with Blue Springs road, thence 11 degrees and no minutes west 576 feet, thence south 88 degrees and 30 minutes west 348 feet, thence north 16 degrees and no minutes west 195.4 feet, thence north 48 degrees and no minutes west 528 feet, thence south 88 degrees and 30 minutes west 100 feet to point of beginning; said tract containing 3.23 acres, and being part of land lot 268, in the First District of Dougherty County, Georgia. Land described. Tract No. 2Beginning at a point in the center of Blue Springs road, in line with the south margin of James Johnson's land, run south 1,703 chains, thence in a westerly direction parallel with the south side of said Johnson's land 1,250 chains to Flint river, thence east along the banks of said river, at low water mark, and to said Johnson's lands, thence in an easterly direction along the south side of said Johnson's land 11.61 chains to starting point; said land being part of land lots 268 and 267, containing 18.58 acres of land, in the First District of Dougherty County, Georgia. Approved August 18, 1919. STATE FARM, COTTON, ETC., TO BE GROWN AT. No. 30. A RESOLUTION. Whereas, after careful inspection and consideration of the State Farm of Georgia by the committees of the House and Senate, they finding that no cotton was being grown at said farm, by reason of instructions from previous Legislatures against the growing of such crop, thus losing a very large income annually to the State: therefore. Preamble. Be it resolved, by the House of Representatives of Georgia,

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the Senate concurring, that the Prison Commission of Georgia be and they are hereby instructed to plant and grow cotton and any and all other crops that can be profitably grown that can be grown suited to the labor available at said Farm. Prison Commission instructed to grow cotton, etc. Approved August 18, 1919. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, APPROPRIATION FOR. No. 10. A resolution that there be appropriated out of the State Treasury, from funds not already appropriated, to the Georgia Training School for Girls the following sums: Installation of new water system, combining electric generator plant $3,610.00 Appropriation. Construction of septic sewer and other purposes 4,000.00 Total $7,610.00 Approved August 18, 1919. UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE ASSEMBLY. No. 4. A RESOLUTION. Resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, that all bills, resolutions, etc., on the calendar and undisposed of at the adjournment of the present session of the General Assembly go over to the next regular session to convenc in 1920, as unfinished business of the present session, and shall retain the same position on the calendar which they occupy at the time of [Illegible Text] of this session. Business carried over. Approved August 18, 1919.

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS; PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO REMAIN AFTER ADJOURNMENT. No. 18. A RESOLUTION. Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the Senate, the clerk of the House of Representatives and the secretary of the Senate be and they are hereby authorized to remain at the Capitol five days after the adjournment of the General Assembly, for the purpose of affixing their official signatures to all bills and resolutions passed previous to said adjournment, and that they be allowed their per diem for said time. Presiding officers, secretary and clerk to stay 5 days after adjournment. Resolved that the chairman, respectively, of the Enrollment and Auditing Committees of the House and Senate, together with the members of the Senate Enrollment Committee, and eight members of the House Enrollment Committee, to be designated by the chairman thereof, and two members of the House Auditing Committee, and two members of the Senate Auditing Committee, to be designated by the chairman thereof, and the chairman of the House Engrossing Committee and four members of the House Engrossing Committee to be designated by the chairman thereof and the chairman and two members of the Senate Engrossing Committee, to be designated by the chairman thereof, be and they are hereby authorized to remain at the Capitol five days after the adjourned General Assembly, for the purpose of bringing up the unfinished business of the session, and that they be allowed their per diem for said time. Certain committee chairmen and members to remain. Resolved further, That the postmistress of the House be and she is hereby authorized to remain at the Capitol five days after the [Illegible Text] of the General Assembly, for the purpose of distributing and forwarding members' mail, and that she be allowed her per diem for said time. Postmistress.

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Resolved further that three porters of the House and two porters of the Senate be and they are hereby authorized to remain at the Capitol five days after the adjournment of the General Assembly, and that they be allowed their per diem for said time. Porters. Approved August 19, 1919. UNFINISHED BUSINESS; STATEMENT BY MAIL. No. 15. A RESOLUTION. Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring, that Devereaux F. McClatchey, Secretary of the Senate, and E. B. Moore, Clerk of the House, be instructed to prepare, publish and mail to each member of the General Assembly a statement showing the status of all unfinished business of this session at the time of its adjournment. Statement to members of General Assembly. Approved August 15, 1919. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA AND BRANCHES, COMMITTEES TO VISIT. No. 32. A RESOLUTION. Authorizing the committees of House and Senate of the University of Georgia and its branches to visit the University of Georgia and its branches, and also the [Illegible Text] Schools of the various Congressional Districts, in vacation. Said visits to be made by said committees as a whole or in sub-committee and to pay the per diem and expenses of the committeemen and for other purposes. Be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, that the committees of the House and Senate on the University

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of Georgia and its branches be and they are hereby authorized to visit the University of Georgia and its several branches, to include the District Agricultural Schools of the State, in vacation, for the purpose of inspecting and reporting on the same. Vacation visits. Resolved further that the committeemen of said committees be and they are hereby authorized to visit said institutions in vacation for the purpose of inspecting and reporting on the same. Resolved further that said committees of the House and Senate be and they are hereby authorized to visit said institutions. The committee as a whole shall visit the University at Athens, and from that point a committee of not more than five shall visit the branch colleges. Resolved further that the members of said committee actually visiting said institutions be allowed the usual per diem of members of the General Assembly, together with actual traveling and hotel expenses, same to be paid upon itemized statements approved by the chairmen of said committees. Pay per diem and expenses. Approved August 19, 1919.

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Supreme Court of Georgia HON. WILLIAM H. FISH Chief Justice HON. MARCUS W. BECK Presiding Justice HON. SAMUEL C. ATKINSON Associate Justice HON. H. WARNER HILL Associate Justice HON. S. PRICE GILBERT Associate Justice HON. WALTER F. GEORGE Associate Justice GEORGE W. STEVENS Reporter JOHN M. GRAHAM Assistant Reporter Z. D. HARRISON Clerk W. E. TALLEY Deputy Clerk JAMES W. VAUGHAN Sheriff Court of Appeals of Georgia HON. NASH R. BROYLES Chief Judge HON. W. F. JENKINS Presiding Judge HON. ROSCOE LUKE Judge HON. O. H. B. BLOODWORTH Judge HON. ALEXANDER W. STEPHENS Judge HON. CHARLES WHITEFOORD SMITH Judge GEORGE W. STEVENS Reporter JOHN M. GRAHAM Assistant Reporter LOGAN BLECKLEY Clerk W. E. TALLEY Deputy Clerk P. W. DERRICK Sheriff

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Superior Court Calendar for 1919-1920 ALAPAHA CIRCUIT Hon. R. G. DICKERSON, Judge, Homerville. J. D. LOVETT, Solicitor-General, Nashville. AtkinsonFourth Mondays in January, June and October. BerrienThird and fourth Mondays in March and September. ClinchFirst Monday in April and second Monday in October. CookSecond Monday in March and third Monday in October. ALBANY CIRCUIT. Hon. W. M. HARRELL, Judge, Bainbridge. R. C. BELL, Solicitor-General, Caire. BakerFirst Mondays in January and July. CalhounFirst Mondays in June and December. DecaturSecond Mondays in May and November. DoughertyFourth Mondays in March and September. GradyFirst Mondays in March and September. MitchellSecond Mondays in April and October. ATLANTA CIRCUIT. Hons. JOHN T. PENDLETON, WILLIAM D. ELLIS, GEORGE L. BELL, JOHN D. HUMPHRIES, Judges, Atlanta. JOHN A. BOYKIN, Solicitor-General, Atlanta. FultonFirst Mondays in January, March, May, July, September, and November. ATLANTIC CIRCUIT. Hon. WALTER W. SHEPPARD, Judge, Claxton. J. SAXTON DANIEL, Solicitor-General, Claxton. BryanFirst Mondays in May and November. EffinghamThird Mondays in April and October. EvansFirst Mondays in April and October. LibertyThird Mondays in February and September. McIntoshFourth Monday in May, and first Monday in December. TattnallFirst Mondays in January and July. AUGUSTA CIRCUIT. Hon. HENRY C. HAMMOND, Judge, Augusta. A. L. FRANKLIN, Solicitor-General, Augusta. BurkeFirst Mondays in April and October. ColumbiaFourth Mondays in March and September. McDufficFirst Mondays in March and September. RichmondThird Mondays in January, March, May, July, September, and November.

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BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT. Hon. N. A. MORRIS, Judge, Marietta. JOHN T. DORSEY, Solicitor-General, Marietta. CherokeeFourth Monday in February, and first Monday in August. CebbSecond Monday in March, third Monday in July, and third Monday in November. FanninFourth Monday in May, and third Monday in October. ForsythThird Monday in March, and fourth Monday in August. GilmerThird Monday in May, and second Monday in October. MiltonFirst Monday in March, and third Monday in August. PickensFirst Monday in April, and fourth Monday in September. BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT. Hon. J. P. HIGHSMITH, Judge, Baxley. ALVIN V. SELLERS, Solicitor-General, Baxley. ApplingSecond and third Mondays in March and October. CamdenFirst Mondays in April and November. GlynnThird Mondays in May and December. Joff DavisThird and fourth Mondays in February and September. WayneThird and fourth Tuesdays in April and November. CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT. Hon. G. H. HOWARD, Judge, Columbus. C. F. McLAUGHLIN, Solicitor-General, Columbus. ChattahoocheeThird Mondays in March and September. HarrisSecond Mondays in January and July. MarionFourth Mondays in April and October. MuscogeeFirst Mondays in February, August, and November, and second Monday in May. TalbotFirst and second Mondays in March and September. TaylorLast Mondays in March and September. CHEROKEE CIRCUIT. Hon. M. C. TARVER, Judge, Dalton. JOSEPH M. LANG, Solicitor-General, Calhoun. BartowSecond Mondays in January and July. CatoosaFirst Mondays in February and August. DadeThird Mondays in March and September. GordonFourth Mondays in February, May, August, and November. MurraySecond Mondays in February and August. WhitfieldFirst Mondays in January and April, fourth Monday in July, and first Monday in October.

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CORDELE CIRCUIT. Hon. O. T. GOWER, Judge, Cordele. J. B. WALL, Solicitor-General, Fitzgerald. Ben HillFirst and second Mondays in January, April, July, and October. CrispThird Mondays in February, May, August, and November. DoolyFirst and second Mondays in February, May, August, and November. WilcoxThird Mondays in March, June, September, and December. COWETA CIRCUIT. Hon. J. R. TERRELL, Judge, Greenville. C. E. ROOP, Solicitor-General, Carrollton. CarrollFirst Mondays in April and October. CowetaFirst Mondays in March and September. HeardThird Mondays in March and September. MeriwetherThird Mondays in February and August. TroupLast Mondays in January and July, and first and second Mondays in February and August. DUBLIN CIRCUIT. Hon. J. L. KENT, Judge, Wrightsville. E. L. STEPHENS, Solicitor-General, Wrightsville. JohnsonThird Mondays in March and September. LaurensFourth Mondays in January, April, July, and October. TwiggsFourth Mondays in February and August. EASTERN CIRCUIT. Hon. PETER W. MELDRIM, Judge, Savannah. WALTER C. HARTRIDGE, Solicitor-General, Savannah. ChathamFirst Mondays in March, June, and December, and last Monday in October. FLINT CIRCUIT. Hon. WILLIAM E. H. SEARCY JR., Judge, Griffin. E. M. OWEN, Solicitor-General, Zebulon. ButtsThird Mondays in February and August. FayetteThird Mondays in March and September. HenryThird Mondays in April and October. MonroeFirst Monday in February, third Mondays in May and November, and fourth Monday in August. PikeFirst Mondays in April and October. SpaldingThird Monday in January, and first Monday in August. UpsonFirst Mondays in May and November.

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MACON CIRCUIT. Hon. H. A. MATHEWS, Judge, Fort Valley. CHARLES H. GARRETT, Solicitor-General, Macon. BibbFirst Mondays in February and November, and third Mondays in April and July. CrawfordThird Mondays in March and October. HoustonFirst Mondays in April and October. MIDDLE CIRCUIT. Hon. R. N. HARDEMAN, Judge, Louisville. WALTER F. GREY, Solicitor-General, Swainsboro. CandlerFirst and second Mondays in February and August. EmanuelSecond Mondays in January, April, July, and October. JeffersonSecond Mondays in May and November. ToombsFourth Mondays in February, May, August and November. WashingtonFirst Mondays in March and September. NORTHEASTERN CIRCUIT. Hon. J. B. JONES, Judge, Gainesville. J. G. COLLINS, Solicitor-General, Gainesville. DawsonThird Monday in March, and first Monday in August. HabershamFirst Monday in March, and second Monday in August. HallThird Monday in January, first Monday in May, third Monday in July, and first Monday in November. LumpkinThird Mondays in April and October. RabunFourth Mondays in February and August. StephensSecond Monday in January, fourth Monday in April, and second Mondays in July and November. TownsFourth Mondays in March and September. UnionFirst Mondays in April and October. WhiteSecond Mondays in April and October. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Hon. WALTER L. HODGES, Judge, Hartwell. A. S. SKELTON, Solicitor-General, Hartwell. ElbertSecond Mondays in March and September. FranklinThird Monday in January, fourth Monday in March, first Monday in August, and fourth Monday in September. HartFourth Mondays in February and August. MadisonSecond Monday in January, first Mondays in March and September, and fourth Monday in July. OglethorpeThird Mondays in March and September.

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OCMULGEE CIRCUIT. Hon. JAMES B. PARK, Judge, Greensboro. DOYLE CAMPBELL, Solicitor-General, Monticello. BaldwinSecond Mondays in January and July. GreeneFourth Mondays in January and July. HancockFourth Mondays in March and September. JasperFirst Mondays in February and August, and second Monday in November. JonesThird Mondays in April and October. MorganFirst Mondays in March and September. PutnamThird Mondays in March and September. WilkinsonFirst Mondays in April and October. OCONEE CIRCUIT. Hon. E. D. GRAHAM, Judge, McRae. W. A. WOOTEN, Solicitor-General, Eastman. BleckleySecond and third Mondays in January and July. DodgeThird and fourth Mondays in May and November. MontgomeryFirst Mondays in February and August, and first and second Mondays in May and November. PulaskiSecond Mondays in March, June, September, and December. TolfairFourth Mondays in February and June and third and fourth Mondays in October. WheelerFourth Mondays in March and September. OGEECHEE CIRCUIT. Hon. A. B. LOVETT, Judge, Sylvania. BullochFourth Mondays in April and October. EffinghamThird Mondays in April and October. JonkinsSecond Mondays in March and September. SerevenThird Mondays in May and November. PATAULA CIRCUIT. Hon. WILLIAM C. WORRILL, Judge, Cuthbert. B. T. CASTELLOW, Solicitor-General, Cuthbert. ClayThird Mondays in March and September. EarlyFirst Mondays in April and October. MillorFourth Mondays in April and October. QuitmanSecond Mondays in March and September. RandolphFirst Mondays in May and November. TerrellThird Mondays in May and November. ROME CIRCUIT. Hon. MOSES WRIGHT, Judge, Rome. CLAUDE H. PORTER, Solicitor-General, Rome. ChattoogaSecond Mondays in March and September. FloydSecond Mondays in January and July. WalkerThird Mondays in February and August.

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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. Hon. WILLIAM E. THOMAS, Judge, Valdosta. CLIFFORD E. HAY, Solicitor-General, Thomasville. BrooksFirst Mondays in May and November. ColquittThird Mondays in January and July, and first Mondays in April and October. EcholsTuesdays after second Mondays in March and September. LowndesThird Mondays in May and November. ThomasThird Mondays in April and October. SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT. Hon. Z. A. LITTLEJOHN, Judge, Americus. JULE FELTON, Solicitor-General, Montezuma. LeeFirst Mondays in May and November. MaconSecond Mondays in May and November. SchleySecond Mondays in April and October. StewartThird Mondays in April and October. SumterFourth Mondays in May and November. WebsterFirst Mondays in April and October. STONE MOUNTAIN CIRCUIT. Hon. JOHN B. HUTCHESON, Judge, Jonesboro. GEORGE M. NAPIER, Solicitor-General, Decatur. CampbellFirst and second Mondays in February and August. ClaytonThird Mondays in February and August. DeKalbFirst Mondays in March, June, September, and December. NewtonFirst Monday in January, and third Mondays in March, July, and September. BockdaleFirst Mondays in April and October. TALLAPOOSA CIRCUIT. Hon. F. A. IRWIN, Judge, Cedartown. J. R. HUTCHESON, Solicitor-General, Douglasville. DouglasThird Mondays in March and September. HaralsonThird Mondays in January, April, July, and October. PauldingSecond Monday in February, and first Mondays in May, August, and November. [Illegible Text]Fourth Mondays in February and August.

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TIFTON CIRCUIT. Hon. R. EVE, Judge, Tifton. R. S. FOY, Solicitor-General, Sylvester. IrwinThird and fourth Mondays in March and November. TiftFirst Mondays in July and December. TurnerFirst Mondays in March and September. WorthFourth Mondays in January, April, July, and October. TOOMBS CIRCUIT. Hon. B. F. WALKER, Judge, Gibson. R. C. NORMAN, Solicitor-General, Washington. GlascockThird Mondays in February, May, August, and November. LincolnFourth Mondays in January, April, July, and October. TaliaferroFourth Mondays in February, May, August, and November. WarrenFirst Mondays in January, April, July, and October. WilkesFirst Mondays in February, May, August, and November. WAYCROSS CIRCUIT. Hon. J. I. SUMMERALL, Judge, Blackshear. A. B. SPENCE, Solicitor-General, Waycross. BaconThird Mondays in April and November. CharltonFirst Mondays in March and October. CoffeeSecond and third Mondays in March and October. PierceSecond Mondays in April and November. WareFirst and second Mondays in May and December. WESTERN CIRCUIT. Hon. ANDREW J. COBB, Judge, Athens. W. O. DEAN, Solicitor-General, Monroe. BanksThird Mondays in March and September. BarrowFourth Mondays in March, June, September, and December. ClarkeThird Mondays in January and July, and second Mondays in April and October. GwinnettFirst Mondays in March, June, September, and December. JacksonFirst Mondays in February and August. OconeeFourth Mondays in January and July. WaltonThird Mondays in February and August.

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Report of W. J. Speer, Treasurer. Showing Receipts and Disbursements for Years 1918-1917. RECEIPTS. 1918 1917 To Balance in the Treasury $1,459,264 25 $1,386,135 42 To Abstract Companies' Tax 63 00 54 00 To Adding Machine Companies 450 00 450 00 To Agencies 1,080 00 1,620 00 To Artists 1,584 90 1,359 00 To Auctioneers 1,102 50 1,103 26 To Automobile Agents 42,482 25 33,171 34 To Back Taxes 7,665 04 11,597 15 To Ball and Other Parks 45 00 45 00 To Bicycles 1,071 00 949 50 To Billiards and Pool 32,594 50 30,551 35 To Bottlers 4,432 50 5,422 50 To Cash Registers 540 00 270 00 To Cigarette Dealers 56,380 72 50,786 98 To Clerks' Cost Court of Appeals 6,928 75 223 83 To Clerks' Cost Supreme Court 229 59 320 42 To Cold Storage Tax 4,248 00 4,383 00 To Corporation Tax (ad velorem) Miscell 95,168 58 87,775 96 To Cost on Fi Fas 11 00 3 50 To Detective Agents 45 00 81 00 To Directory Tax 90 00 138 15 To Dividends on Stocks 2,782 00 2,968 00 To Electric Shows 12,051 00 10,950 08 To Equipment Companies' Tax 1,860 45 1,597 67 To Express Companies' Tax 4,004 47 5,396 94 To Fees from Fertilizers 113,400 20 89,994 78 To Fees from Pure Food 52,544 28 44,941 29 To Emigrant Agent 450 00 ..... To Forest Reserve Fund ..... 275 71 To Fines and Forfeitures 12 19 ..... To Games 1,575 00 1,192 50 To Game Protection Fees 5,500 00 5,664 87 To General Tax and Professions 3,950,635 67 4,321,066 06 To Poll Tax 303,640 53 307,458 21 To Interest from Tax Collectors 1,666 89 ..... To Health Com. Fees 55 00 50 00 To Inheritance Tax 191,335 99 245,103 61 To Insolvent General Tax 30,216 82 4,493 22 To Insolvent Poll Tax [Illegible Text] 82 267 44 To Insolvent Dog Tax 81 95 2 95 To Insurance Agents 17,673 53 18,801 86 To Insurance Fees 42,120 00 42,871 00 To Insurance Tax by Companies 269,237 16 220,872 81 To Interest from Depositories 15,227 83 13,256 42 To Land Reg. Assurance Fund 4 75 ..... To Investment Companies ..... 50 00 To Leaso Indian Springs 110 00 110 00 To Lightning Rod Agents 387 50 270 00 To Liquor Package Fees ..... 27,162 54 To Loan Agents 513 00 648 00 To Manufacturers Soft Drinks 4,555 89 3,874 30

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To Money Refunded 1,433 28 5,390 65 To Mowing Machine Agents 9 00 ..... To Occupation Tax (Capital Stock) 143,422 62 115,953 51 To Office Foes 3,196 61 2,971 50 To Oil Fees 302,362 57 217,378 39 To Palmists 675 27 315 00 To Pawnbrokers 10,530 00 10,102 50 To Peddlers 6,412 50 6,367 50 To Pensions Refunded 29,477 43 22,464 69 To Pistols and Cartridges 7,708 50 7,313 40 To Railroad News Companies 540 00 360 00 To Railroad Tax 559,225 49 583,927 81 To Real Estate Agents 2,502 00 2,476 26 To Rental Public Property 8 00 4 00 To Rental W. A. Railroad 420,012 00 420,012 00 To Rinks 333 00 81 00 To Sale of Farm Products ..... 2,066 40 To Sale of Public Property 34 50 5 00 To Sale of Acts 425 75 6,442 91 To Sale of Codes 154 50 3,490 [Illegible Text] To Sale of Records 83 40 [Illegible Text] 25 To Sale of Court of Appeal Reports 1,429 28 66 40 To Sale of Supreme Court Reports 1,332 73 499 05 To Sewing Machine Agents 2,220 00 2,359 00 To Sewing Machine Companies 1,800 00 1,200 00 To Show Tax 15,304 50 17,491 50 To Sleeping Car Companies 5,240 30 5,134 92 To Slot Machines 976 50 1,428 75 To Soda Fount Tax 5,796 18 6,399 00 To Specialists 171 00 54 00 To Sale of Automobile Tags (Surplus) 70,000 00 71,730 34 To State Road Automobile Tax [Illegible Text] 48 143,514 00 To Street Railroad Tax 93,573 29 91,535 52 To Telegraph Co.'s Tax 10,521 25 7,759 41 To Telephone Companies' Tax 43,207 39 41,869 67 To Temporary Loan 450,000 00 200,000 00 To Typewriter Agents 495 00 562 50 To Weighing Scales 180 00 499 50 To Wild Lands Sale 191 53 ..... Total Receipts During Years 1918-17 $ 7,686,445 10 $ 7,599,144 82 Aggregate, Including Balance $ 9,145,709 35 $ 8,985,280 24

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DISBURSEMENTS. 1918 1917 By Academy for Blind $ 38,500 00 $ 30,000 00 By Albany Colored Normal 5,000 00 ..... By Agricultural Schools 187,850 00 204,150 00 By Agricultural Schools, Special 10,000 00 ..... By Budget Efficiency Com. 261 86 ..... By Binding Codes 1,667 96 619 70 By Binding Journals 275 00 275 00 By Board of Health 33,500 00 37,500 00 By Civil Establishment 265,600 39 259,817 93 By Clerks' Cost Court of Appeals 1,446 25 248 75 By Clerk to Tax Commissioner 500 00 1,000 00 By College for Colored 9,830 00 8,000 00 By Compiler of Records 4,660 50 4,030 90 By Contingent Fund 31,833 05 15,923 61 By Contingent Fund R. R. Commission 4,000 00 4,000 00 By Contingent Fund Court of Appeals 2,129 68 82 98 By Contingent Fund Supreme Court 1,763 43 1,354 40 By Council of Defense 2,490 88 ..... By Department of Agriculture ..... ..... (a) Maintenance 13,750 00 18,750 00 (b) Pure Food 10,000 00 10,000 00 (c) Chemicals 15,625 00 14,125 00 (d) Contagious Diseases 5,000 00 6,000 00 (e) Hog Cholera Serum 10,000 00 8,500 00 (f) Inspectors' Salaries, etc. 29,003 69 23,573 03 (g) Tick Eradication 25,000 00 28,000 00 (h) Veterinarian Expenses 1,320 56 1,573 04 By Dept. of Agr. Warrants 45,404 59 40,351 85 By Dept. of Commerce and Labor 8,400 00 8,700 00 By Experiment Station 512 88 760 66 By Game Protection Fund 2,000 00 1,000 00 By Geological Fund 16,597 60 13,732 24 By Georgia Medical College 30,000 00 30,000 00 By Ga. Normal and Industrial College 85,830 00 67,500 00 By Ga. Normal and Industrial Col. (Special) ..... 50,000 00 By Horticultural Fund 53,000 00 53,000 00 By Highway Commission 20,942 95 ..... By Incidental Expense General Assembly 124 91 134 50 By Indexing House and Senate Journal 150 00 200 00 By Indian Spgs. Public Comfort House 105 00 105 00 By Inspections of Oils 2,766 29 1,999 86 By Insurance Public Buildings, etc. 11,381 59 80,232 85 By Insurance Department Fund 8,100 00 8,100 00 By Land Script Fund Interest 6,314 14 6,314 14 By Legislative Pay Roll 68,647 35 87,104 76 By Library Fund 3,589 04 3,440 60 By Library Fund Reference Bureau 1,166 44 1,095 87 By Library Fund Court of Appeals 1,023 10 18 90 By Market Bureau 23,333 32 6,250 00 By Military Fund 13,000 00 20,000 00 By North Georgia A. M. College 26,500 00 26,500 00

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By Overpayment Taxes Refunded 6,331 27 7,504 23 By Pension Fund 1,222,353 15 1,147,041 20 By Printing Fund 59,655 18 33,812 94 By Printing Fund R. R. Commission 1,687 72 1,227 89 By Prison Fund 116,591 35 118,911 70 By Public Buildings and Grounds 46,755 85 47,295 84 By Publishing Georgia Reports 7,462 45 11,809 75 By Publishing Georgia Reports (Special) ..... 1,000 00 Public Debt ..... ..... (a) Interest 246,194 70 248,861 25 (b) Sinking Fund 100,000 00 100,000 00 (c) Refunding Bonds 10,000 00 3,000 00 By Rate Expert Fund 3,777 77 4,000 00 By Reward Fund 600 00 850 00 By Roster Fund 4,505 63 4,281 68 By School for the Deaf 61,106 26 54,256 89 By School Fund 2,862,030 73 2,742,856 18 By School of Technology 100,000 00 100,000 00 By School of Tech., Special Appropriation 25,000 00 15,000 00 By Soldiers' Home 45,000 00 40,500 00 By Solicitors Generals' Fees 6,520 00 7,055 00 By South Ga. A. M. College, Val. 29,580 00 87,500 00 By Speciall Appro. Miscellaneous 49,608 20 18,299 54 By Special Appro. Legislative Committee 6,875 03 ..... By Special Appropriations, Marietta Ceme'y 250 00 ..... By Special Appropriations, Steno. Com. ..... 195 00 By State Normal School 57,500 00 57,500 00 By State Normal School (Special) 17,000 00 83,000 00 By State Road Fund (Automobile) 225,226 55 128,059 00 By State Sanitarium 990,166 74 732,916 63 By State Sanitarium (Special) 60,000 00 30,000 00 By State University (Support Fund) 72,600 00 68,000 00 By State Univ. for Agri. College 111,655 00 110,000 00 By State Univ. for Agri. College (Special) 10,000 00 ..... By State Univ. for Smith-Lever 75,879 28 47,415 00 By State Univ. for Summer School 7,500 00 7,500 00 By Stationery, General Assembly 902 30 601 70 By Supervisor County Officers 3,956 32 4,096 75 By Temporary Loan Refunded 456,833 33 203,377 77 By Training School for Girls 39,000 00 23,000 00 By Tuberculosis Sanitarium 33,000 00 40,000 00 By Vocational Education 13,326 82 969 80 By W. A. R. R. Comm. 6,240 61 9,487 75 By Certificates cancelled 66 94 Total Disbursements During Year 1918-17 $ 8,332,569 69 $ 7,526,015 99 To Bal. in State Treas. Dec. 31, 1918 $ 813,139 66 $ 1,459,264 25 Aggregate $ 9,145,709 35 $ 8,985,280 24

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INDEX A ABBEVILLE School tax increase 788 ACADEMIES (See Blind, Academy for; Crawfordville; Deaf, Academy for; McIntosh Academy; Young's Female Academy.) ACTS, TABLES OF (See Resolutions.) Appropriation acts 7 Cities and towns (local acts) 787 Code amendments 73 Constitutional amendments 66 Corporationsprivate and school 1399 County matters (local acts) 565 Courts, City and Municipal 393 Courts, Superior 109 Miscellaneous general laws 122 Solicitors-General, salaries 541 Tax acts 45 ADAIRSVILLE School fund from State, how paid 790 Taxation ad valorem; rate 791 ADEL Charter of town repealed; new charter for city 792 City court, act to establish 393 State depository at 83 AGENTS, TAXATION OF 45 , 54 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Appropriations for 14 , 16 , 62 , 44 Salary increases 75 , 92

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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION See District Agricultural Schools; School Laws. Appropriations for 11 , 12 ALAPAHA JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Act creating 109 Terms of court in 110 ALCOHOL Sale, shipment, etc., regulated 123 ALMA City court established 411 City criminal court abolished 408 AMERICUS Authority to make and sell notes to pay debts 811 City court; fees of clerk and sheriff 424 Taxes ad valorem; how applied 812 APPALACHIAN FOREST RESERVATION Game preserve established in 239 APPLING COUNTY Commissioners; amendment of act creating board 566 Road districts; time of road work 567 APPROPRIATIONS Acts tabulated 7 Board of Public Welfare; appropriation for 227 Capitol heating system; repairs 1414 Committees of General Assembly 25 , 1413 , 1426 , 1447 Compulsory work law enforcement; deficiency 1418 General appropriation act 7 Hog cholera control, appropriations for 15 , 32 Industrial College for Colored Youth 12 , 1421 Insurance on public buildings 34 Old Capitol building; repairs 36 Pension work of ordinaries 18 , 1427 Portraits in Capitol; name plates for 1430 Refunding money 1431-4 Salaries 7 , 26-8 , 32 , 36 , 40-2 Schools 11 , 28 , 30 , 34 , 39 , 42 , 287-8 , 364 , 382 , 1421 , 1445 Soldiers Home 20 , 38

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Technological School 11 , 42 Training School for Girls 1445 Training School for Mental Defectives 382 ARCHITECTS Board for examination of 125 Certificates to 128-32 Definition of practice of architecture 129 Penalty for unauthorized use of title, etc. 133 Registration of 125 Revocation of certificate 132 ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Appropriation for department of 19 Continuance of department, repeal of limitation 234 ARLINGTON Aldermen increased 814 Amendments to charter 813 Election and terms of mayor, etc. 814 Mayor and aldermen named 814 Tax equalizers 817 ASHBURN City court; salaries 425 ASSISTANT ATTORNEY-GENERAL Salary of 134 ATKINSON COUNTY Board of Commissioners created 568 Court (superior) included in Alapaha circuit 110 Court terms changed 112 Treasurer's office abolished; selection of depository 575 ATLANTA Amendments to charter 821 Assessments for street improvements 821 Bonded debts, authority to incur; vote required 260 Chief of fire department; time of service; discharge 833 Condemnation of property in closing underpass 836 Fire department; civil service rules 833

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Marshal, consolidation of office of 833 Municipal court marshal's salary 533 Sewer assessments 832 Street improvements 821 Streets, abandonment or closing of 834 , 836-7 Ward created; eleventh ward 834 ATLANTIC CIRCUIT Solicitor-General; salary in lieu of fees 541 ATTORNEY-GENERAL Appropriation for 10 Assistant; salary 134 Clerical force reorganized 134 Compensation of 134 Stenographer's salary 134 AUDITOR See School Laws. AUGUSTA CIRCUIT Solicitor-General; salary in lieu of fees 545 AUTOMOBILES See Motor Vehicles. Taxation of dealers and assembling plants 47 B BACON COUNTY Board of Commissioners created 577 Bond commission abolished 583 BAILIFFS See local acts. Compensation of 98 , 104 BAKER COUNTY Superior Court terms changed 113 BAKER, G. D. Relief of, as surety 1434 BALL GROUND, TOWN OF Bonds for school houses 839 Tax ad valorem authorized 838

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BANK EXAMINER See Banks. Appropriations for 10 Stenographer's salary 26 BANKS See Depositories. Acceptances by 199 Assessment of stockholder 152 , 160 Assignment by 155 , 210 Assistant superintendent of; duties, salary 139 , 141 , 142 Attorneys for Superintendent of 144-5 , 157 , 161-2 Bank, banker, unauthorized use of term; penalty 137 , 221 Beginning business without permit; misdemeanor 213 Borrowing by officer or employee, when misdemeanor 217 Branch banks 136 , 147 Capital, impairment of 152 Capital stock, over-issue of; punishment 218 Certificates of deposit 199 Charter; grant, amendment, renewal, surrender, etc. 164 , 169 , 172 , 183 , 185 Charter violation, a felony 214 Check, certification of; when unlawful 207 , 218 Check forged or raised 209 Check of decedent or insane person 208 Check without funds to pay it; offense defined 220 Claims against, in liquidation 155 , 158-62 Clerical expenses of department 142 Code of banking laws 135-222 Collection, due diligence in 207 Collection not remitted, lien for 206 Commission to officer or employee 216 Communications from Department of Banking to 151 Concealing loans, etc. 215 Consolidation of 178 Crimes by officers of, and others 212-21 Debts; bad debts defined 205 Debts of banks, limit of 202 Debts, order of paying, in liquidation 159 Decedent's deposit, payment of 211 Definition of bank 135

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Department of Banking created; laws as to 138 Depositor defined 135 Deposits, laws as to. Deposits, receiving after insolvency; falony 219 Director concurring in vote for illegal act, etc. 218 Directors, laws as to 191 Disclosing condition of bank examined, offense of 212 Dissolution of 181 Dividends 204-5 , 208 Embezzlement; felony 216 Examination 145-9 , 193-5 Examination, informing as to time for; offense of 212 Examiners; duties, salaries, expenses 141 , 142 Examiner's misconduct or neglect; punishment 212-13 Expenses of Department of Banking 139 , 142 False entry, or omitting entry; felony when 214 False expense account by examiner, etc. 212 False reports as to matters relating to 212 et seq. False representations as to stock, etc. 215 Federal Reserve Bank, membership in 208 Fees for examination of 147-8 Forfeiture of charter 185 Forged or raised check 209 Fraudulent transfer 219 Impairment of capital 152 Incorporation of 164-68 , 174 , 176 Information, penalty on examiner, etc., giving 148 , 212 Insolvency defined 138 Insolvency fraudulent 219 Insolvent bank, transfer by 210 , 219 Interest by 199 Investments by 200-4 Libel of bank 220 Lien for collection 206 Lien of, on stock of 168 Liquidation of 154-64 , 181 , 186 Loan, commission to officer or employee on; crime 216 Loan, concealment of 215 Loan or gratuity to examiner, etc. 213

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Loan to officer or employee of 217 Loans by, on stock of 200 Loans excessive; limit of loans 194 , 196 , 198-9 Loans, interest on 199 Losses, when charged to surplus 205 Merger of 178 Minor's deposit 208 Misappropriating' or not entering money, etc. 216 Misconduct or neglect by examiner, etc. 212 National, incorporation of, as State bank 176 Notice of violation of law 151 Oath false, on examination; felony 213 Officer not to buy obligations of 203 Officer purchasing bank's paper at discount 217 Officer using capital stock to buy shares 218 Officers, election and bond of 195-6 Order to discontinue illegal or unsafe practice 151 Overdraft by officer or employee; misdemeanor 216 Penalties for violations of banking laws 150 , 212 Possession of, by Superintendent 154 Powers of 188 Presumption against drawer of check without funds 220 Presumption against officer of 214 Presumption of fraud in insolvency; rebuttal 219 Private bank, incorporation of 174 Private banks, requirements as to, and penalty 136-7 , 221 Profits, calculation of 205 Profits; undivided profits defined 138 Prosecution for violations of banking laws 221 Purchases by 200-4 Real estate transactions 202 Regulation of business of 191 Removal of bank officers or employees 152 Reports of Superintendent and examiners 143-4 , 149 Reports; penalty for not making, or false report 150 , 193 , 212-14 Reserve 203-4

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Salaries in Department of Banking 139 , 142 Savings deposits 210-11 Signs, letter-heads, etc.; unauthorized use 137 , 221 Slander of bank, offense of 220 Stock certificate must show amount due on it 168 Stockholders; assessment; sale of stock 152-3 , 160 Stockholder's failure to pay installment 167 Stockholder's liability 189 Superintendent of Banks; duties, salary, etc. 138 et seq. Superintendent of, mandamus against 187 Superintendent of, misconduct or neglect by 212 Superintendent's possession of, when taken; effect 154 Surplus 138 , 204 Taxation of branch banks 136 Transfer unlawful 155 , 210 , 219 Trust, deposit in 209 BARBER SHOPS Taxation of 47 BAXLEY, CITY OF Tax rate; increase authorized 839 BEN HILL COUNTY Depository act repealed; new depositories 585-6 Primary elections, repeal of act as to time of 589 BERRIEN COUNTY Board of Commissioners, amendment as to 589 Bond Commission created 591 Court (Superior) included in Alapaha circuit; terms 110 Depository Act amended 593 BEVERLY, TOWN OF Charter repealed 840 BICYCLE DEALERS Taxation of 52 BIRTH REGISTRATION See Registration of Births.

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BLAKELY, CITY OF Amendments to charter 841 Board of registrars 842 Registration of voters, permanent 841-2 Schools; free tuition; election as to tax for 843 Tax ad valorem; election 843 BLECKLEY COUNTY City court, election as to establishing 426 BLIND, ACADEMY FOR Appropriation for 13 Committee to visit 1413 BOARD OF HEALTH See Local Acts. Appropriations for 20 , 37 Dead body; removal and burial permit 275 Regulations by, to be observed in schools 357 Statistics; registration of births, etc. 273 Training School for Mental Defectives; management by Board of Health 378 Tuberculosis Sanitarium; appropriations for 20 , 37-8 BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE See Public Welfare, Board of. BOGART, TOWN OF Corporate limits extended 844 BOND OF TRUSTEE See Trustees. BONDS, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL See Local Acts; School Laws. Authority for, in cities of 150,000 people or more 260 BONDS, STATE Appropriations to pay 21 BONDSMEN Taxation of 47 BOSTON Tax ad valorem 846 Tax for schools, increase authorized 845

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BOWDEN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE Branch of State University, established 262 BOWLING ALLEYS Taxation 51 BRADLEY, JOHN Refunding money to 1431 BRIBERY See School Laws. BROKERS See Loans. Taxation of 48 BROOKS COUNTY Bulls and boars not to run at large 596 BRYAN COUNTY Depositories; amending act 597 BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT Solicitor-General; salary increase 549 , 550 BUFORD, CITY OF Bonds; election as to issue of 847 BUILDERS See Architects. Taxation of 49 , 50 BUILDINGS See Architects; Board of Public Welfare. BULLOCH COUNTY Bulls and boars at large in 598 Court (Superior) included in new circuit; terms 111 BULLS AND BOARS AT LARGE See Local Acts. BUREAU OF MARKETS See Market Bureau. BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS See Statistics. BURIAL Municipal regulations as to; see Local Acts. Permit for 275 BUTLER New charter for City of 849

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C CAIRO City court; amending act 442 CALHOUN, CITY OF Corporate limits defined 864 Street improvements; assessments for 865 CAMDEN COUNTY See Point Peter. CAMILLA, CITY OF Aldermen; terms of, etc. 872 , 875 Elections 872-5 Street improvements; assessments 867 Wards 875 CAMPBELL, C. C. Relief of, as surety 1435 CANDLER COUNTY Superior court terms 114 CANTON Mayor and council; salaries, terms, time of election 878 Tax increases 876-7 CAPITOL See Public Buildings. Appropriation to repair heating system 1414 Offices for new boards, etc., in 89 , 127 , 140 , 230 Portraits, name plates for 1430 CAR TRUSTS Tax act amended as to 53 CARROLL COUNTY Bond commission created 599 Commissioner and clerk, salaries increased 601 CARROLLTON School commissioners; vacancies, how filled 878 Street improvements; assessments; election as to 880 CATTLE See Local Acts; Veterinarian Appropriations [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text], etc. 15 Development of live-stock industry 15

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CENSUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN See School Laws. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS See Savannah. Fraudulent solicitation or use of funds 225 Inspection of 224 Prosecution for mistreatment, etc. 225 CHARTERS See Banks; School Laws; and see Local Acts. CHATHAM COUNTY Bonds for schools 602 Commissioners and ex-officio judges; powers 604 Court of commissioners; trials; penalties 605 Law library for courts 605 Ordinances by commissioners 605 Records of deeds, etc.; indexing 606 Schools, land and buildings for 603-4 Taxation; powers of commissioners 605 Taxation to pay bonds for schools 603 CHECKS AND DRAFTS See Banks. CHEMISTS Appropriations for 15 CHEROKEE COUNTY Jurors, pay of, in justices' courts 607 Superior court terms 115 CHIPLEY, TOWN OF Bonds; election as to 890 Improvements; lights, waterworks, sewerage 888 Streets, opening, widening, etc. 888 , 892 CIRCUSES, SIDE SHOWS Taxation of 49 CITIES AND TOWNS See Municipal Corporations. CITY COURTS Acts relating to 893 CIVIL GOVERNMENT See School Laws.

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CLAIMS OF STATE AGAINST UNITED STATES Cotton claim, contract as to collection 1414 Cotton tax, attorneys to collect 1419 Lands, attorneys to represent State in claim for 1417 CLAXTON City court established 446 CLINCH COUNTY Board of Commissioners; election to abolish 608 Court (Superior) included in Alapaha circuit; terms 110 COBBTOWN New charter of 897 CODE AMENDMENTS Amended sections; numbers 73 Bailiff's pay (Park's C. 4994(a), 4996; P. C. 876) 98 , 104 Corporations; power to lease or mortgage (C. C. 2823) 95 Depositories for State funds at Adel and Soperton (C. C. 1249) 83 , 84 Fees of constables (C. C. 6006) 101 Fees of Justices (C. C. 6003) 99 General Assembly; pay of members (C. C. 351) 76 Improper communications to females (P. C. 387) 103 Jurors, pay of (P. C. 876) 104 Library Commission; traveling libraries (C. C. 1563-5) 86 Partnership limited; death, dissolution, succession, etc. (C. C. 3202) 96 Paving in certain cities (C. C. 870) 81 Peddling without license; soldier's exemption (C. C. 1888) 90 Pensions unpaid of deceased soldiers (P. C. 1504) 107 Prisoner's parole (P. C. 1224) 106 Railroad Commission's powers as to contracts (C. C. 2662) 94 Road duty and tax in certain counties (Park's C. C. 695) 77

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Road tax for certain counties (C. C. 696) 79 Salaries for Prison Commissioners (P. C. 1188) 105 Salaries of Railroad Commission (C. C. 2621-2) 92 Salaries of State Sanitarium Superintendent, etc.; repeal (C. C. 320) 76 Salary of Agricultural Commissioner's Clerk (C. C. 2067) 92 Salary of Commissioner of Agriculture (C. C. 317, 2067) 75 Salary of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles (Park's C. Sup. 828 (pp)) 80 Salary of Corporation Clerk (C. C. 250) 74 Salary of Oil Inspector (C. C. 1811) 89 Salary of Railroad Commission Secretary (C. C. 2670) 94 Salary of State Treasurer (C. C. 215, 317) 73 Schoolsmanual labor and vocational (C. C. 1510) 86 Sections amended; numbers 73 Tax exemption of school endowments (C. C. 998) 82 University trustees; alumni president added (C. C. 1365) 85 CODE OF BANKING LAWS See Banks. CODE OF SCHOOL LAWS See School Laws. COFFEE COUNTY Board of Commissioners abolished; new board 609 City court abolished 459 Superior court terms changed 115 COLLEGES See references under Schools. COLORED PEOPLE, SCHOOLS FOR Appropriations for 12 , 13 , 364 , 1421 Deed corrected 1441 Separation of races in schools 324 , 331 COLORED SLAVES See Pensions. COLUMBIA COUNTY Board of commissioners created 620

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COLUMBUS City court; salaries 460 Municipal court salaries and fees 535 Title to part of 8th Avenue vested in Illges Co. 1400 COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT Appropriations for 13 , 1418 Salary of Commissioner increased 278 COMMISSION See Community Service Commission; Illiteracy Commission; Railroad Commission. COMMISSION MERCHANTS Defined in tax act 48 Taxation of 48 COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE Appropriation for 14 Salary increase 75 , 92 COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCE AND LABOR See Commerce and Labor Department. COMMISSIONER OF GAME AND FISH Salary of, increased 279 COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES Salary increased 80 COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS See Pension Department. COMMON SCHOOLS See Schools. COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMISSION Act creating 228 Duties and powers 228 Expense: State not to pay officers, etc. 229 Local boards 229 Public welfare service 229 Office at Capitol; stationery, etc., to be supplied 230 Soldiers and sailors, aid to 229 COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE See School Laws.

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COMPULSORY WORK LAW Appropriation to enforce; deficiency supplied 1418 CONCERTS Taxation of 49 CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY See Highway Commission; and see Local Acts. Recording proceedings, etc. 231 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, etc. See Peddling; Pensions; Soldiers Home. CONGRESS See Engineering Experiment Stations; Okefenokee Swamp; Pensions; United States. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS See School Laws. Fund provided for 287 CONSTABLES See Local Acts. Fees of 101 CONSTITUTION; AMENDMENTS PROPOSED County of Lanier, creation of 68 Tax for schools by local authorities 66 CONTEMPT See Local Acts. CONTRACTORS See Architects. Definition of, in tax act 50 Taxation of 49 , 50 CONVICTS See Public Welfare, Board of; Criminal Law; Prison Commission; and see Local Acts. COOK COUNTY Board of Commissioners created 627 Boundary line 625 Court (Superior) included in Alapaha circuit; terms 110 CORDELE, CITY OF Registration of voters, permanent 928 Tax for schools, increase 930 CORPORATION CLERK Appropriation for [Illegible Text] Salary increased 74

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CORPORATIONS See Banks; Charters. Municipal 787 Power to lease or mortgage 95 Private and school 1399 Taxation; agents of non-resident corporations 56 CORPSE See Dead Body. COTTON See Claims of State against United States; State Prison Farm. COUNTIES Acts (local) relating to county matters 565 New county (Lanier), creation of, proposed 68 COUNTY RECORDS, SUPERVISOR OF Office abolished 365 COURTS See Local Acts. City courts 393 Municipal courts 393 Superior courts 109 CRAWFORD COUNTY Treasurer's salary and bond 636 CRAWFORDVILLE Academy charter repealed 1399 CRIMINAL LAW See Prison Commission; and see Local Acts. Alcohol; unlawful dealing or dispensing 124 Architects; unlawful use of title 133 Banking laws, violation of 212-22 Bribery by school-book publisher, etc. 294 Check certified unlawfully 218 Check without funds to meet it 220 Eavesdropping 386 Embezzlement 216 Employer's refusal to pay employee 388 Fishing, violation of law as to 239 Forging or altering teacher's license 355 Game [Illegible Text] violation of regulations 241 Improper communications to females 103 Insolvency of bank 138 , 219

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Inspection by Board of Public Welfare; interforence with 227 Libel or slander of bank 220 Motor-vehicle tags, unlawful use of 258 Oath, false in bank examination 213 Parole of prisoner 106 Peeping Tom, punishment of 386 Presumption against bank officer 214 Presumption against drawer of check 220 Presumption of fraud in bank insolvency 219 Punishment, jury to fix limits of, when 387 Road sign posts, violation of law as to 277 Sentence indeterminate; when to be imposed 387 Wages; times for payment, penalty for not paying 388 D DARIEN, CITY OF McIntosh County Academy, conveyance of land to 1419 Street and lane to be closed 1419 DAWSON City court solicitor's salary 461 DAYS OF OBSERVANCE See Memorial Day; Mother's Day; School Laws. DEAD BODIES See Burial. Transportation of 275 DEAF, SCHOOL FOR Appropriation for 12 Committee to visit 1441 DEATH REGISTRATION See Registration of Births, etc. DECATUR, TOWN OF Assessments against railroads 934 Street improvements 934 Tax for schools; increase; election as to 932

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DE KALB COUNTY Commissioner and clerk; salaries increased 637 DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES, Etc. See Archives. DEPOSITORIES FOR COUNTY FUNDS See local Acts under County Matters. DEPOSITORIES FOR STATE FUNDS Adel, depository at 83 Soperton, depository at 84 DEXTER, TOWN OF Tax increase; proportion for schools 936 , 939 DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS Appropriations for 12 , 28 , 30 Twelfth district to include Treutlen County 234 DIVIDENDS See Banks. DIVORCE Registration of 273 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE Withdrawal of, and substitution of copies 235 DOOLY COUNTY Commissioners, election of; amendment as to 641 Road districts 640 Vacancies in Board of Commissioners 642 DOUGLAS City court abolished; new court established 462 , 464 DRUGS See Alcohol. Appropriation for inspection of 15 Inspector's salary 281 DUBLIN Amendments to charter 939 First ward 940 Fiscal year changed 941 Mayor and aldermen; election; terms 941 Mayor; eligibility; salary; absence limited 940 , 942 [Illegible Text] 940 Recorder; eligibility 940

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Registration 941 Water and light commission 942 E EATONTON Assessments for sidewalks 944 Tax increases 945 EAVESDROPPING See Criminal Law. EDMONDS, J. J. Relief of, on bond as tax collector 1437 EDUCATION See School Laws, and topics referred to under Schools. EFFINGHAM COUNTY Court (Superior) included in new circuit; terms 111 ELBERT COUNTY Bond committee; powers, pay, etc. 643 Commissioners; bond committee added to board 643 Fox hunting, etc., when unlawful 645 ELECTIONS See local acts as to Counties and Municipal Corporations. Taxation for schools, election as to 63 , 66 ELEEMOSYNARY INSTITUTIONS See Charitable Institutions; Public Welfare, Board of. EMANUEL COUNTY Board of Commissioners abolished; new board 646 EMBEZZLEMENT See Banks. EMPLOYER See Criminal Law. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES Taxation of 51 ENDOWMENTS See Schools. ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATIONS Congress urged to provide for 1420 Station established at School of Technology 367

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ENTOMOLOGIST Appropriations for salary and department 16 EVANS COUNTY Superior court terms 116 EVIDENCE See Documentary Evidence. EXAMINATION OF BANKS See Banks. EXAMINATION OF INSTITUTIONS See Public Welfare, Board of; and see Resolutions. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT See Governor. Appropriations for salaries and maintenance 8 EXEMPTIONS See Taxes. EXHIBITIONS Taxation of 49 EXPENSES OF STATE GOVERNMENT Appropriations for 7 EXPERIMENT STATIONS See School of Technology. Appropriations for 16 F FACTORY INSPECTOR Salary appropriation 13 FAIRCLOTH, ELIAS Relief of, as surety 1437 FARMERS WAREHOUSES See Warehouses. FARMINGTON Charter of 948 FEES See City and Municipal Courts; Constables; Justices of the Peace; Solicitors-General. FEMALES Improper communications to 103

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FISH See Fishing. Tax on packers of 54 FISHING Appalachian Forest Reservation; fishing permits 240 Fish defined 238 License for commercial fishing 236 Nets, regulation of fishing with 236 Non-resident's license 238 Oysters, turtles, etc. 238 Salt water; outside and inside water defined 237 FLOYD COUNTY City court judge's salary 479 FOOD INSPECTION Appropriation for 15 Salary of inspector 281 FORGERY See School Laws. FORSYTH COUNTY Board of Commissioners created 652 FORTUNE TELLERS Taxation of 51 FOX HUNTING See local acts under County Matters. FRANKLIN COUNTY Superior court terms 117 FRUIT See Horticulture and Pomology. FULTON COUNTY Taxation for schools 63 G GAME AND FISH See Criminal Law; Fish; Fishing; Hunting, and see Acts under County Matters. Commissioner's salary increased 279 Preserve in Appalachian Forest Reservation 239

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GAMES See Acts under Municipal Croporations. Taxation of 47 , 51 GENERAL ASSEMBLY Committees to visit institutions; expenses, appropriations for 24 Pay of members increased 76 Unfinished business, resolutions as to 1445-6 GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT Appropriation for 16 GEORGIA REPORTS Appropriation for printing 19 Contracts for 272 GEORGIA TRAINING SCHOOL FOR BOYS State Reformatory changed to; management 373 GEORGIA TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Appropriation for 18 Superintendent's salary 285 GLENWOOD, TOWN OF School system; election to establish 958 GOVERNOR Appropriations for 8 , 32 GRADY COUNTY Treasurer's salary and bond 658 GRANT OF STATE PROPERTY See Milledgeville. GUARDIAN See Mental Defectives. GWINNETT COUNTY Board of commissioners; amending act 659 Superintendent of roads; amending act as to 662 H HALL COUNTY Jurors, pay of in [Illegible Text] courts 663 Superior court terms 118 Treasurer's office abolished; depositories 664

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HARRIS COUNTY Superior court terms 119 Treasurer's office abolished; depositories 667 HART COUNTY Board of commissioners created 672 HAWKINSVILLE Street improvements; assessments for 966 Tax ad valorem 968 HAZLEHURST New charter 969 HEALTH See Board of Health; Venereal Diseases; and see local acts. Appropriation for teaching hygiene, etc. 12 HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT Act reorganizing 242 Annual budget sheet; reports 251 Appropriation for 18 Attorney; salary 246 Bridges 247 Compensation of members 245 Contracts 250 Counties reimbursed when 251-2 County's right to condemn 253 County-seat roads, etc. 248 Damages, claims for 249 Districts, division of funds among 250 Divisions (territorial) of members 244 Duties and powers 247 Engineer 245 Federal law, assent to 243 Fund from motor-vehicle license fees 247 Paving funds 251 Purchase of quarries, factories, etc. 250 Rights of way; condemnation; counties to give 250-1 State-aid roads; system created; total mileage 247-9 Surveys, plans, etc. 252 HINESVILLE City court officers' fees 480

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HISTORY See Archives and History. HOBBY, W. M. Refunding money to 1432 HOG CHOLERA CONTROL Appropriations for 15 , 32 Serum, supply and use of 33 HOGANSVILLE Amendments to charter 1019 Bonds for schools; election 1022 School system 1024 HOLIDAYS See Memorial Day; School Laws. HORNE, PIERCE Agreement with, as to collection of claim 1414 HORTICULTURE AND POMOLOGY Appropriations for department of 16 HOSCHTON New charter 1028 Repeal of charter 1061 HUNTING See Game and Fish; and see local Acts. Defined 240 HYGIENE See Health. I ICE CREAM DEALERS Taxation of 51 ILLGES COMPANY Title vestedlin, to land in Columbus 1400 ILLITERACY COMMISSION Act creating 253 Funds for 255-6 INCORPORATION See Banks: Corporations; and See School Laws.

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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES See District Agricultural Schools; Normal Schools; School Laws; Schools for Colored People; Vocational Education. INSANE See Mental Defectives; State Sanitarium. INSOLVENCY See Banks. INSPECTION OF INSTITUTIONS, JAILS, ETC, See Public Welfare, Board of. INSURANCE Public buildings, insurance of 34 INSURANCE COMPANIES Tax on premiums 54 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Appropriations for 9 Salaries of clerks increased 282-3 INTEREST See Banks. INTOXICATING LIQUOR See Alcohol. IRWIN, W. J. Relief of, as surety 1437 J JACKSON COUNTY Road duty and communtation tax 78 JAILS See local acts. Inspection of, by Board of Public Welfare 226 JEFF DAVIS COUNTY Bulls and boars not to run at large 675 JEFFERSON, CITY OF Tax increase 1062 JENKINS COUNTY Superior court included in new circuit; terms 111 JEFFERSONVILLE Schools, repeal of provisions as to 1063

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JESUP, CITY OF Council meetings; elections; penalties, etc. 1063 School system, election to abolish 1066 JONES COUNTY Commissioner's salary increased 676 JONESBORO New charter 1067 JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT See Courts. Appropriations for 21 , 40-2 JURORS See local acts under City and Municipal Courts; County Matters. Compensation of 104 JURY Punishment limit to be fixed by, when 387 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Fees of 99 K KEEPER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ETC. Appropriation for 20 Salary of, fixed 284 KING, C. L. Relief of, as surety 1438 L LABOR COMMISSIONER See Commerce and Labor Department. LABORER'S WAGES See Criminal Law. LAGRANGE City court; salaries etc. 481 Streets, powers as to 1089 Taxes; mode of paying 1089

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LANIER COUNTY Creation of, proposed 68 LAURENS COUNTY Bond commission created 677 Treasurer's office abolished; depository instead 679 LAW REPORTS See Georgia Reports. LAWRENCEVILLE Limits extended; pay of clerk and attorney 1090 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT See General Assembly. Appropriations for 24 LIBEL OF BANK Offense of 220 LIBRARY See Chatham County; Milledgeville: State Library. LIBRARY COMMISSION Appropriation for 88-9 Secretary 87 State Librarian included 87 Traveling libraries 87 LICENSE EXEMPTION See Peddling. LICENSES See Motor Vehicles; School Laws; Taxation; and see acts relating to municipal corporations. LIENS See Banks; and see local acts. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP See Partnership. LIQUOR See Alcohol. LITHONIA Tax to replace burned school buildings 1091 LIVE STOCK See Cattle; Veterinarian; and see local acts. LOANS See Banks; School Laws; and see local acts. Taxation of loan business 52 , 56

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LOBBYISTS Amendment as to designation in tax act 52 LOWNDES COUNTY Boundary line between Cook and Lowndes counties 625 LULA SCHOOL DISTRICT Board of trustees incorporated; powers, etc. 1400 District limits 1401 Schools, provisions as to 1402 LUMPKIN COUNTY Board of commissioners created 682 M MACON, CITY OF Charter amendments 1093 Municipal court judge's salary 537 MADISON, CITY OF Bonds for [Illegible Text]; election to authorize 1096 Bonds for schools; election as to 1098 MADISON COUNTY Fox hunting, etc., when unlawful 689 MANSFIELD, TOWN OF Elections, time of 1103 MANUAL LABOR SCHOOLS See Schools. MARIETTA, CITY OF Bonds for street improvements; elections as to 1105 Mayor's eligibility for re-election 1110 Street improvement certificates 1114 MARKET BUREAU Appropriation for 14 MARRIAGE REGISTRATION 273 McDUFFIE COUNTY Treasurer's office abolished; depository instead 689 McINTOSH ACADEMY Title to land [Illegible Text] in 1420

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McRAE City court, election to abolish 484 MECHANICAL SCHOOLS See references under Industrial Schools. MEDICAL COLLEGE Appropriation for State Medical College 12 MEMORIAL DAY Observance to include Georgia soldiers of all wars 1422 MENTAL DEFECTIVES See State Sanitarium. Appropriation for training school 382 Commitment to training school 379 Definition of mental defectives 379 Discharge or parole 382 Guardian for, when appointed 382 Training School for, established 377 METTER City court, election as to establishing 487 MIDVILLE, CITY OF Commutation tax; sale of property 1116 MILLEDGEVILLE Grant of part of State House Square, for library 241 MILLEN City court; amendment; repeal of act of 1918 502 , 508 MILLER COUNTY City court solicitor's fees 509 MINORS See Banks. MITCHELL COUNTY Commissioners; districts; election; chairman; pay 691 Primary election hours 693 MONROE, CITY OF School tax increase 1117 MONTGOMERY COUNTY Board of commissioners abolished; new board 693-5

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MOTHER'S DAY Observance of, by display of United States flag 1423 MOTOR VEHICLES Commissioner's salary increased 80 License fees; fund from fees 256-9 Registration; number plates, fees 258 Tags; penalty for use after 10 days 258 Taxation of dealers in motorcycles, etc. 52 MOUNT VERNON, TOWN OF New charter 1118 MOVING-PICTURE SHOWS Taxation of 53 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS See School Laws. General laws as to certain cities 63 , 73 , 122 Local acts relating to 788, et seq. Taxation for schools in 63 , 66 MURRAY COUNTY Board of supervisors; duty as to county funds 706 Depository; selection of, etc. 706 MYSTIC, TOWN OF Corporate limits extended 1148 N NASHVILLE School tax; amendment 1150 NATIONAL BANKS See Banks. NATIONAL PARKS See Appalachian Forest Reservation; Okefenekee Swamp. NEWBORN, TOWN OF Registration of voters 1151 NEWTON COUNTY Commissioners; election, terms, pay 708 Commutation tax, repeal of act as to 707 Districts, formation of 708 Treasurer's salary increased 709

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NON-RESIDENTS See Fishing; School Laws. Corporations; agents; taxation of 56 NORMAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Appropriations for 12 , 34 , 39 , 364 Bowden, branch of State University at 262 NORMAL SCHOOL FOR COLORED TEACHERS Deed to land for colored school corrected 1441 NORTH GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Appropriation for 12 O OATHS See Banks; and see acts under County Matters; Municipal Corporations. OCCUPATION TAXES See Taxation; and see acts under Municipal Corporations. OCONEE COUNTY Commissioners, increase of, and chairman's salary 710 Treasurer's office abolished; depository instead 711 OGEECHEE JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Act creating 110 Terms of court in 111 OFFERMAN, TOWN OF Charter; election as to adoption 1153 OGLETHORPE COUNTY Advisory Board; powers, pay, election, etc. 717 Commissioner's pay increased 716 Fox hunting, etc., when unlawful 714 Ordinary to be a commissioner and clerk 717 OIL INSPECTOR Appropriation for 16 Salary increased 89 OIL TANK DEALERS Taxation of 53 OKEFENOKEE SWAMP Congress urged to establish National Park in 424

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OSIERFIELD, TOWN OF Charter, election as to adoption 1164 OYSTERS See Fishing. Tax on packers of 54 P PARKS See acts under Municipal Corporations; Appalachian Forest Reservation; Okefenokee Swamp. PAROLE See Criminal Law; Mental Defectives; Prison Commission. PARTISAN SCHOOL-BOOKS See School Laws. PARTNERSHIP Limited partnership; code amendments as to 96 PATAULA CIRCUIT Solicitor-General; repeal of act as to salary 551 PATENT RIGHTS Taxation of sellers of 54 PAVING See Code Amendments; Highway Department; and see local acts. PEAVY, J. L. Refunding money to 1432 PEDDLING WITHOUT LICENSE Soldiers' exemption extended 90 PEEPING TOM See Criminal Law. PELHAM, TOWN OF Chain-gang 1170 PENAL LAWS See Criminal Law. PENITENTIARY See Prison Commission; State Farm. Committees to yisit convict camps, etc. 1426 PEMBROKE, CITY OF Election and terms of mayor, etc. 1171 PENSION DEPARTMENT See Pensions. Appropriations for 18 Salaries increased 280

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PENSIONS Annual increase for Confederate soldiers, etc. 266 Appropriations for 18 Commissioner of, clerk, etc.; salaries 18 , 280 Increase of, and extension of eligibility 266-7 Savannah city employees, pensions for 1312 Slaves (former), Congress urged to provide for 1430 United States pensions for Confederates, etc., favored 1428 PICTURE SHOWS Taxation of 53 PINEVIEW, TOWN OF Tax ad valorem 1172 POINT PETER Congress memoralized to cede land at 232 POLK COUNTY Board of commissioners abolished new [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 719 City court; [Illegible Text] of act of 1918; terms changed 510 , 512 POMOLOGY See Horticulture and Pomology. PORTRAITS IN CAPITOL See Capitol. POWELL, B.F. Relief of, as surety 1437 PRESUMPTIONS See Criminal Law. PRINTING See Public Printing. PRINTING BROKERS Taxation of 48 PRISON COMMISSION See State Reformatory. Appropriations for 17 Crops to be grown on State Farm 1444 Highway department membership changed 242 Parole in case of indeterminate sentence 387 Salaries of commissioners increased 105 Salary of Secretary increased 284 Sentence indeterminate: rules by commission 387

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PRIVATE INFORMATION DISCLOSURE See Banks. PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS Inspection of 222 PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS See Capitol. Appropriation for upkeep 20 , 36 Elevator operator at Capitol 21 Grant of property at Milledgeville 241 Keeper's salary 20 , 284 PUBLIC DEBT Appropriation for 21 PUBLIC PRINTING Appropriations for 8 , 17 , 19 Contracts for, how made 269 Salary of Superintendent 269 Suits for breach of contractor's bond 271 Superintendent, office of created; duties, etc. 269 PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD OF Act creating, for inspection of institutions, etc. 222 Appropriation for 227 Board of health to have monthly reports from 226-7 Building plans to be submitted to 225 Charitable institutions, inspection of 222 Distribution of literature by 225 Expenses of 224 Fraudulent soliciting of funds for charity 225 Inspection; jails, eleemosynary institutions, etc. 224 Interference with inspection, etc.; punishment 227 Jails and reformatories, inspection of 224 Institutions aided by State, inspection of 227 Local committees appointed by 226 Private institutions or associations 224 Prosecutions by 225 , 227 Reports of and to 225-7 Salaries of members, secretary, etc. 224 Statistics, publication of 226 PUBLIC WELFARE SERVICE See Community Service Commission.

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PUNISHMENT See Criminal Law; and see local acts. PULASKI COUNTY Bond commission created 727 Commissioner of roads, etc.; office created 729 Q QUITMAN City court judge's salary 513 School tax 1173 QUITMAN COUNTY Board of commissioners; amending act as to 736 R RAILROAD CAR EQUIPMENT COMPANIES Taxation of 55 RAILROAD COMMISSION Appropriations for 16 Contracts, power over 94 Salaries increased 92 Secretary's salary 94 RECORD EVIDENCE Withdrawal of, and substitution of copies 235 RECORDS See Archives and History; and see local acts. REFORMATORIES See Georgia Training School for Boys. Inspection of, by Board of Public Welfare. 226 REFUNDING MONEY Resolutions providing for 1431 et seq. REGISTRATION OF ARCHITECTS See Architects. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, ETC Amendment of law as to 273 REGISTRATION OF BUSINESS Tax act as to 47-57

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REGISTRATION OF MOTOR-VEHICLES Amendment of law as to 256 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS See local acts. Outside of voter's district 272 RELIEF OF SURETIES, etc. Resolutions providing for 1434 et seq. RELIGION See School Laws. REPORTS See Banks; Georgia Reports; School Laws; and see various laws relating to boards, officers, etc. RESOLUTIONS 1413 REWARD FUND Appropriation for 8 RHODES, T. J. Relief of, as surety 1437 RICHMOND COUNTY City court solicitor's salary 514 ROAD FUND Distribution of, deferred 1440 ROADS See Highway Department. ROADS See acts relating to different counties. Commutation tax 77 Highway Department reorganized 242 Signs at cross-roads; requirements 275 Tax for certain counties 79 ROME New charter 1174 ROSTER COMMISSION Appropriation for 18 S SAFE AND VAULT DEALERS Taxation of 53

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SALARIES See Appropriation Acts, 8 et seq. ; Code Amendments, 73 et seq. ; Miscellaneous Laws, 122 et seq. ; City and Municipal Courts, 393 et seq. ; Solicitors-General, 541 et seq. ; County Matters, 565 et seq. ; Municipal Corporations, 788 et seq. Semimonthly payments, when required; penalty 388 SANDERSVILLE New charter 1244 SANITARIUMS See State Sanitarium. Tuberculosis; appropriations for 20 , 37-8 SAVANNAH Assessments for street improvements 1299 Board of education, conveyance of land to 1298 Board of sanitary commissioners, authority to create, etc. 1293 Bonds for street improvements 1304 Charter amendments 1294-1310 Charity, authority to donate 1292 City court; salaries of deputy sheriffs, etc. 518 Closing of part of street and lane authorized 1297 Elections and terms of mayor and aldermen 1295 Employees; power to hire and discharge 1294 Hospital appropriations 1292 Lots, removal of weeds, etc., from 1294 Municipal court judges' salaries 538 New street 1298 Paving; renewal or repairing 81 , 1298 Pension board, authority to create, etc. 1312 Poor house and hospital; election of managers 1405 Railroad commission's power as to contracts; proviso 94 Railroad track elevation; ordinance void as to 1298-9 Recreation commission expenses 1309-10 Registration clerk's salary 1310 Street improvements; assessments; bonds 1298 et seq. Tax liens; effect of transfers of property 1296 SAVINGS BANKS See Banks.

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SCHOOLS See Academies; Blind, Academy for; Deaf, School for; District Agricultural Schools; Georgia Training School for Boys; Georgia Training School for Girls; Mental Defectives; Normal Schools and Colleges; North Georgia Agricultural College; School Laws, Code of; South Georgia Agricultural College; Technology, Georgia School of; University of Georgia; and see local acts. Amendment of constitution as to local school tax 66 Appropriations for, 11, et seq. , 28 , 30 , 34 , 39 , 42 , 287 , 288 , 364 , 382 , 1421 , 1445 Common school fund 11 , 288 , 331 Consolidated schools, fund provided for 287 Corporations (school) 1289 Endowments; exemption from taxation 82 Manual-labor schools, power to maintain 86 Taxation for 63 , 66 Vocational, power of county boards as to 86 SCHOOL LAWS, CODE OF See Schools. Adopted as substitute for existing laws 288 , 363 Age limit in compulsory-attendance law 358 Appeals to State Board of Education 293 Assistants to Superintendent 315 Attendance officer 360 Auditor of accounts 315 Bids to furnish books 296 Board of Education (State) 291 Boards of Education of counties 320 Bonds to build and equip schools; elections 345-9 Books 292 , 294 , 311 , 314 , 324 Borrowing to pay teachers, etc. 328-9 Branches taught 295-6 , 330-1 , 361 Bribery by publisher or agent 310 Buildings 324 , 345-9 Census of children 318 Charters for colleges, etc.; prerequisites to grant 293-4 Cities 339 , 340 , 354 , 356-7 Clerical assistance to Superintendent 315 Code substituted for existing laws 288 , 363

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Colored and white children to be separated 323-4 , 331 Common schools, 50% of State revenue to be used for, when 288 , 331 Compulsory attendance law 358-61 Consolidation of schools 287 , 326 Constitutional provisions as to education 289-91 Contracts in excess of appropriation for year 329-30 Corporations, taxation of, for schools 342-3 County-line schools 331-2 Days to be observed 356 Districts 293 , 322 , 333 Election of trustees 335 Elections as to bonds 345-9 Elections as to local tax 290 , 337 Evening schools 330 Forging or altering license, etc. 355 Free school-books 304-5 , 309 Free tuition 331 Fund for common schools 331 Fund unused in State Treasury, use of 317 Funds for counties from State fund 332 Funds, misapplication of 313 Funds, separation of 333 Gifts for schools 323 Health regulations 325 , 356 Governor, chairman of State Board; contracts by 292 , 298 Governor's authority as to warrants to pay teachers 330 High schools 330 Holidays 356 Independent systems 340 Industrial education 330 , 331 , 361 Institutes for teachers 293 , 319 Licenses for teachers 293 , 352-6 Loans for 328-9 Local taxation for 290 , 333-45 Manual labor schools 330 , 331 , 361 Month: 20 school days in school month 317 Municipal school districts 340

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Non-resident pupils 331-2 Partisan matter in school-books, prohibited 295 Property; control, title, sale, etc. 323 Prosecution under compulsory attendance law 359-60 Publishers of school-books, laws as to 294-310 Religious matter in text books 295 Revenue for 331 Salaries of teachers 316 Secretary of trustees 341 , 344 Sectarian matter in books, prohibited 295 Superintendent's salary (State) 312 , 315 (County) 350-1 Superintendent (State) 311 Superintendents of county schools 349 Supervisors (State) 314 Tax exemption as to school property 333 Tax returns in local tax districts 342 Taxation for schools 289-91 , 333-45 Teachers, borrowing to pay 328 Teachers; instruction of; institutes for 293 , 319 Teachers, licenses for 293 Teachers' reports 325 , 356 , 360 Teachers, suspension of 352 Transportation of pupils 327 Trustees in local tax districts 335-6 , 341 Vaccination of pupils 325 Vocational education certificate 356 Vocational education; State Board of 361-3 Warrants for amounts due teachers; sale of 330 Year; school year begins January 1 316 SCREVEN COUNTY Commissioners; terms of office; clerk's salary 741 Superior court included in new circuit; terms 111 SECTARIAN SCHOOL-BOOKS See School Laws. SENTENCE See [Illegible Text] Law: Prison Commission. SHERIFFS See Court of Appeals; Supreme Court. Fee in criminal cases 364

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SHOOTING GALLERIES Taxation 51 SHOWS Taxation of 49 , 53 SKATING RINKS Taxation 51 SLANDER OF BANK Offense of 220 SLAVES (FORMER) See Pensions. SMITH, LIZZIE Refunding money to 1433 SMITHVILLE Corporate limits extended 1314 SOLDIERS See Community Service Commission; Peddling; Pensions; Soldiers Home. SOLDIERS HOME Appropriations for 26 , 38 Weekly allowance for inmates 38 SOLICITORS-GENERAL Appropriations for salaries 23 Duty as counsel for Superintendent of Banks; fees 144-5 Salaries in some circuits 541 SOPERTON City court, act to establish 519 State depository at 84 SOUTH GEORGIA NORMAL COLLEGE Appropriations for 12 , 39 SOUTHERN CIRCUIT Solicitor-General; salary act repealed: new act 553 SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT Solicitor-general; salary increase 562 STANDARD TIME See Time.

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STATE APPROPRIATIONS See Appropriations. STATE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE Funds of, made nucleus for illiteracy fund 256 STATE DEPOSITORIES See Depositories. STATE HISTORIAN See Archives and History. STATE INSTITUTIONS See Appropriations. STATE LIBRARY Appropriations for 15 Books for School of Technology 369 Librarian added to Commission 87 STATE LIBRARY COMMISSION See Library Commission. STATE MEDICAL COLLEGE See Medical College. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL See Normal Schools. STATE PRINTING See Public Printing. STATE PRISON FARM Appropriation for 18 Crops to be grown at 1444 STATE RECORDS See Archives and History. STATE REFORMATORY Name and control of, changed 373 STATE SANITARIUM Appropriations for 20 Salaries of officers; repeal 76 STATE TAX COMMISSIONER See Tax Commissioner. STATE TREASURER Appropriation for 10 Assistant Treasurer; office created; salary 383 Bond of 383 Clerical expenses of department 383 Salary increase 73 STATE UNIVERSITY See University of Georgia.

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STATE'S CLAIMS AGAINST UNITED STATES See Claims of State. STATESBORO Tax increase; purposes 1315 STATIONERY FOR STATE Superintendent of Public Printing to supply 270 STATISTICS Agricultural Department statistics; appropriation 14 Board of Public Welfare to furnish 225-6 Bureau of Vital Statistics; law amended 273 Registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces 273 STEAMBOAT COMPANIES Taxation of 54 STENOGRAPHIC REPORTERS Salary in circuit with city of 65,000 to 100,000 277 STEPHENS COUNTY Superior court terms 119 STEPHENS HIGH SCHOOL Board of trustees created; powers, election, etc. 1406 STOCK AND STOCKHOLDERS See Banks. STOCK BROKERS See Brokers. STREETS See local Acts under County Matters; Municipal Corporations, Paving. SULLIVAN, JIM Relief of, as surety 1439 SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS Office created; duties, powers, etc. 138 et sec. Salary of 139 Salary of Assistant 139 , 142 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC PRINTING See Public Printing; Stationery. SUPERIOR COURT Calendar of times of holding [Illegible Text] Changes in time of holding 109

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Circuits created 109 , 110 Salaries of judges appropriated 23 , 40 Salaries of solicitors-general 23 , 541 Stenographic reporters in certain circuits 277 SUPERVISORS OF SCHOOLS Appointment, duties, and pay of 314 SUPREME COURT Appropriations for 21 , 41 SUPREME COURT SHERIFF Appropriation for 22 Salary increase 285 SURETIES Resolutions for relief of 1434 et seq. SYLVANIA City court judge's salary 530 SYLVESTER, CITY OF New charter 1317 T TALBOTTON Charter amendments 1356 TALIAFERRO COUNTY Ordinary's pay as clerk of commissioners 744 TALLAPOOSA, CITY OF Schools; increase of tax for; free to residents 1357 TALLULAH PARK, TOWN OF Corporate limits changed 1359 TATTNALL COUNTY Commissioners; reorganization, increase, election 744 Road districts 745 TAX COLLECTOR [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] in certain counties 365 Relief of 1437

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TAX COMMISSIONER (STATE) Appropriation for 17 Inheritance tax; amendments as to Commissioner 60 Salary increase 286 TAX RETURNS See School Laws; and see local acts. TAXATION See School Laws; and see local acts as to counties and municipal corporations. Agents of non-resident corporations 56 Amendments to general tax act 45 Banks, taxation of branches 136 Business, license 45 Corporations, taxation of, for schools 342-3 Exemption of educational endowments 82 Exemptions from inheritance tax 60 General tax act of 1918 amended 45 Inheritance or interest passing on death; amendment 58 Insurance premium tax 54 Investigators as to failure to return, etc. 55-6 Motor-vehicles; license 47 , 52 , 257 Occupation taxes 45 Road and commutation taxes in certain counties 77 , 79 Schools, local tax for 63 , 66 TAYLOR COUNTY Treasurer's office abolished; depository instead 747 TEACHERS See School Laws. TEACHERS' AGENCIES Taxation of 47 TECHNOLOGY, GEORGIA SCHOOL OF Appropriations for 11 , 42 Engineering experiment station at 367 State librarian to furnish books to 369 Trustees; powers of local board increased 370 TELEFAIR COUNTY Commissioner, mode of electing 750 Costs in misdemeanor cases, payment of 755 Superior court terms 120

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TEN-PIN ALLEYS Taxation 51 TENNILLE Sandersville may join with, in utilities, when 1271-2 TERMS OF COURT Acts changing 109 Calendar 1450 TEXT BOOKS See School Laws. THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES Taxation 49 , 53 THOMASVILLE Authority to close street 1359 School tax increase 1360 TICK ERADICATION Appropriations 15 , 44 TIFTON Sewerage system 1361 TIME Standard of, fixed 371 TOOMBS COUNTY Clerk of board of commissioners; duties; salary 760 Commissioners increased; names, districts; quorum 758 Districts described 757-8 TOWNS COUNTY Board of commissioners abolished 761 Orders and acts of ordinaries confirmed 765 Treasurer's office abolished; depository instead 762 TRAINING SCHOOLS See Georgia Training School for Boys; Georgia Training School for Girls; School's; Mental Defectives; and see references under Industrial Schools. [Illegible Text] COUNTY Twelfth Agricultural School District includes 234

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TRUSTEES See School Laws; Technology, Georgia School of; University of Georgia; and see local acts. Bond, when required of 384 TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM See Sanitariums. TURTLES See Fishing. U UNADILLA, TOWN OF Bonds for electric lights; election as to 1362 UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE ASSEMBLY Carrying over to next session 1445 Persons remaining at the Capitol for 1446 Statement of, to be mailed to members 1447 UNITED STATES See Pensions. Congress memorialized to cede certain land of 232 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Appropriations for 11 Board of Trustees; alumni president added to 85 Bowden Normal and Industrial College, branch of 262 Committees to visit 1447 Debt to; appropriation to pay interest 21 UVALDA, TOWN OF School bonds, election as to 1366 V VACATION COMMITTEES Appropriations for 25 , 1413 , 1426 , 1447 VACCINATION See School Laws; and see acts as to Municipal Corporations. VALDOSTA, CITY OF Bonds for schools, election as to 1373 Hospital, authority to establish 1368 Schools, amendments as to; tax increase; election 1376

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[Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Property of Young's Female Academy to go to 1410 VENEREAL DISEASES Appropriation for treatment, etc. 20 VETERINARIAN See Hog Cholera. Appropriations for 15 VITAL STATISTICS See Statistics. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION See School Laws. Appropriation for 11 W WAGES See Criminal Law. WALKER COUNTY Road tax 79 WALKER, JOHN Relief of, as surety 1439 WARE COUNTY Attorney for commissioner, pay of solicitor as 772 Bond commission created 767 Clerk of commissioner; salary 772 Commissioner's salary; publication of accounts 772 Ordinary's pay for acting with commissioner 772 Roads designated, to be constructed, etc.; engineer 768 School houses 769 WAREHOUSES FOR FARMERS Congress urged to [Illegible Text] land to State for 232 WARREN COUNTY Board of commissioners abolished 773 Commissioner, office of, created; name 773 Commutation tax 778 Secretary of commissioner; salary 775 Superintendent of roads: duties, salary 777 WARRENTON School tax increase 1379

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WATKINSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT Bonds for school; election to authorize 1408 WAYCROSS Board of education incorporated, etc. 1379 City court; suits, defenses; judge's salary 531 , 532 School tax increase, election as to 1379 WAYCROSS CIRCUIT Solicitor-general; salary increase 563 WAYNE COUNTY Commissioners from road distriets; amending act 779 WAYNESBORO Commutation tax increase 1384 WELFARE SERVICE See Community Service Commission; Public Welfare, Board [Illegible Text] WHITE, TOWN OF Act incorporating 1385 WIDOWS OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS See Pensions. WILCOX COUNTY Commissioners, pay of, increased 780 WILKES COUNTY Fox hunting, etc., when unlawful 782 WILKINSON COUNTY Treasurer's office abolished; depository named 782 WILLACOOCHEE, TOWN OF Tax increase 1390 WOODBURY Bonds for lights, sewerage, etc.; election as to 1391 WORKMEN See Criminal Law, catchword Wages, WRENS, TOWN OF Tax increase 1396

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[Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 1397 Y YOUNG'S FEMALE ACADEMY Charter repealed 1410