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, GEORGIA: W. J. CAMPBELL 18880000 English

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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. 1888. 18880000 COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: W. J. CAMPBELL, STATE PRINTER. 1889.

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CONSTITUTION JOB OFFICE, ATLANTA, GA.

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TABLE OF TITLES. PART I.PUBLIC LAWS. TITLE I.APPROPRIATIONS. TITLE II.TAXES. TITLE III.CODE. TITLE IV.JUDICIARY. TITLE V.SUPERIOR COURTS. TITLE VI.MISCELLANEOUS. PART II.CORPORATIONS. TITLE I.BANKS, INSURANCE, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES. TITLE II.RAILROAD COMPANIES, DUMMY AND HORSE CAR LINES. PART III.LOCAL LAWS. TITLE I.MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. TITLE II.COUNTY OFFICERS. TITLE III.COUNTY COURTS. TITLE IV.GAME, ETC. TITLE V.REGISTRATION. TITLE VI.REGULATION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC. TITLE VII.FENCES AND STOCK. TITLE VIII.EDUCATION. TITLE IX.MISCELLANEOUS. PART IV.PRIVATE LAWS. TITLE I.PERMITS. TITLE II.EXEMPTIONS. PART V.RESOLUTIONS.

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STATUTES OF GEORGIA PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1888. Part I.Public Laws. TITLE I.APPROPRIATIONS. TITLE II TAXES. TITLE III.CODE. TITLE IV.JUDICIARY. TITLE V.SUPERIOR COURTS. TITLE VI.MISCELLANEOUS.

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TITLE I. APPROPRIATIONS. ACTS. For Support of Government 1889 and 1890. For Furnishing and Fitting New Capitol. To Hezekiah McDaniel for an artificial leg. Allowances for Maimed Confederate Soldiers. GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR 1889 AND 1890. No. 118. An Act to make appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial departments of the government, payment of the public debt and the interest thereon, and for the support of the public institutions and educational interests of the State for each of the fiscal years 1889 and 1890, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 following sums of money be, and the same are hereby

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appropriated for each of the fiscal years 1889 and 1890, to the persons and for the purposes respectively hereinafter mentioned and set forth: Salaries. For the salary of the Governor of the State, three thousand dollars. Governor. For the salary of the Secretary of State, two thousand dollars. Secretary of State. For the salary of the Comptroller-General, two thousand dollars. Comptroller-General For the salary of the Treasurer of the State, two thousand dollars. Treasurer. For the salary of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. Attorney-General. For the salary of the State Librarian, fifteen hundred dollars. Librarian. For the compensation of the Secretaries and clerical force in the Executive Department, six thousand dollars. Clerical force Executive Dept. For salary of Clerk of Secretary of State, one thousand dollars. Clerk of Secretary of State. For compensation of clerks in the Comptroller-General's office, including the Insurance Department and clerk in the Wild Land office, four thousand dollars. Clerks of Comptroller-General For salary of the clerk of the State Treasurer, sixteen hundred dollars. Clerk of Treasurer. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the compensation of the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, there shall be appropriated the sum of seven dollars per diem each, during the session of the General Assembly, and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile by the nearest practicable route in going to and returning from the Capital. Compensation of presiding officers of General Assembly. For compensation of the members of the General Assembly during the sessions, four dollars per diem each, and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile by the nearest practicable route in going to and returning from the Capital. Of members of General Assembly. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the cum of ten dollars each, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to pay the actual expenses of the several commiteemen of the Senate and House in visiting the various public institutions of the State, to be paid on a statement furnished by the members of said committee. No member shall receive a larger sum as such expenses than shall have been actually paid out in cash by him. Expenses of legislative committees. For compensation of the Secretary of the Senate, the sum of sixty dollars per diem for each session, out of which sum he shall pay the entire clerical expenses of the Senate for each session, as provided by the Act approved October 8, 1879. Compensation of Secretary of Senate. For compensation of Clerk of the House of Representatives, the sum of seventy dollars per diem for each session, out of which he shall pay the entire clerical expenses of the House of Representatives

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for each session, as provided by the Act approved October 8, 1879. Of Clerk of House. For compensation of Door-keeper of the Senate, Door keeper of the House of Representatives, Messenger of the Senate and Messenger of the House of Representatives, each, four dollars per diem, and the same mileage allowed members of the General Assembly. Of Door-keepers and Messengers. For compensation of one Gallery-keeper for the Senate, and two Assistant Door-keepers and two Gallery-keepers for the House of Representatives, four dollars per diem, each. Of Gallery keepers and assistant Door-keepers. For compensation of the Chaplain of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, each, one hundred dollars for each session. Of Chaplains. For compensation of three porters of the Senate and five porters of the House of Representatives, for sweeping and cleaning halls and galleries of the Senate and House of Representatives, and attendance on commmittees, each, two dollars per diem for each session. Of Porters. For compensation of four pages for the Senate and six pages for the House of Representatives, each, two dollars per diem for each session. Of Pages. For compensation of three attendants for the Senate and House of Representatives for services in keeping and cleaning water closets at the capitol during each session, one dollar and fifty cents, each, per diem, and the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated to pay J. Troup Taylor for making indexes for the Journals of the House and Senate in accordance with a joint resolution passed at this session, and the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for said sum in favor of said Taylor, when he shall submit a certificate of the State Printer, showing that the work has been properly performed, and the indexes delivered, and to J. C. Allen, clerk of committee of Senate visiting Georgia Lunatic Asylum, seven dollars and sixty cents for his railroad fare to and from the Asylum. Of Attendants. J. Troup Taylor, for Indexes. J. C. Allen-for expenses. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the appropriations for the Judiciary Department shall be as follows: Judiciary Department. For salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court, each, three thousand dollars per annum. Supreme Court Judges. For salaries of the Judges of the Superior Court, each, two thousand dollars per annum, and five dollars per diem for expenses when called to preside in the Supreme Court, the time to be determined by the certificate of the Chief Justice. Superior Court Judges. For salaries of the Solicitors-General of the various circuits, each, two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Solicitors-General. For salary of the Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Court, two thousand dollars per annum. Supreme Court Reporter.

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For compensation of the Clerk of the Supreme Court for printing, stationery, purchasing record books, and binding the opinions of the Supreme Court, five hundred dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Clerk Supreme Court. For the salary of the Sheriff of the Supreme Court, eight hundred dollars per annum. Sheriff Supreme Court. For salary of Stenographer for the Supreme Court, fifteen hundred dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be fixed by the Judges of the Supreme Court. Stenographer Supreme Court. For the purpose of purchasing law books and reports for the State Library, the sum of one thousand dollars and the entire proceeds of the sale of the Georgia Reports, which shall be paid out for such law books as the Judges of the Supreme Court may direct to be purchased, and upon an itemized account approved by them. Law Books for Library. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That appropriations for the support of the public institutions be as follows: Support of public institutions. For the support and maintenance of the Academy for the Blind, and for salaries for its officers, sixteen thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Academy for the Blind. For the support and maintenance of the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and pay of its officers and attaches, seventeen thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, out of this amount the railroad expenses of the inmates be paid to visit their homes and return one time during each year. Institute for Deaf and Dumb. For the support and maintenance of the State Lunatic Asylum, one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended only when directed by the Board of Trustees, and the Governor is authorized to make monthly a safe advance to cover the cost of supplies and incidental expenses of said Asylum: Provided, that the Governor shall require of the superintendent and resident physician an itemized statement monthly of all the expenditures, which statement shall be approved by a quorum of the Board of Trustees of said Asylum; and provided further, that no part of this sum shall be used for building purposes. Lunatic Asylum. For the State University at Athens, the sum of eight thousand dollars per annum. State University. For the Atlanta University at Atlanta, under the Act of the General Assembly, approved March 3, 1874, the sum of eight thousand dollars per annum, to be drawn only in accordance with the conditions prescribed in the joint resolution of the General Assembly, approved September 23, 1887. Atlanta University. For payment of the interest known as the Land Scrip fund, and due the University of Georgia, six thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars and fourteen cents per annum. Interest on Land Scrip fund.

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To the State University for the support and maintenance of the school of Technology, eighteen thousand dollars for the year 1890. School of Technology. To the State University for the support and maintenance of the Branch College at Dahlonega, three thousand dollars per annum. Branch College at Dahlonega. To the State University for the support and maintenance of the Branch College at Milledgeville, two thousand dollars per annum. At Milledgeville. To the State University for the support and maintenance of the Branch College at Thomasville, two thousand dollars per annum. At Thomasville. To the State University for the support and maintenance of the Branch College at Cuthbert, two thousand dollars per annum. At Cuthbert. For the support of the common schools for the year 1889, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Support of common schools for 1889. For the support of the common schools for the year 1890, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars, these sums to be drawn and expended under the General School laws of this State, and to be additional to the moneys already belonging to the common school fund under the existing laws. Should the returns of taxable property for the year 1889 and for the year 1890, prove to be greater than three hundred and sixty million dollars ($360,000,000) then, and in that case, the sums arising from the general tax levy of two and seventy hundredths (2 70-100) mills for 1889, and from the general tax levy of two and forty hundredths (2 40 100) mills for 1890 upon said returns of taxable property in excess of three hundred and sixty million dollars ($360,000,000) is hereby appropriated to the common school fund of the State, in addition to the one-half mill appropriated to the common school fund by this Act for the year 1889, and in addition to the one mill appropriated to the common school fund by this Act for the year 1890, and in addition to the moneys appropriated by existing laws to the common school fund. For 1890 Conditional appropriation. SEC VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the appropriations to pay the recognized valid debt of the State be as follows: For State debt. To pay bonds maturing January 1, 1889, two million one hundred and forty-one thousand dollars. Bonds maturing Jan. 1, 1889. To pay the interest falling due in 1889, four hundred and forty thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. Interest due in 1889. To pay the bonds maturing October 1, 1890, two million and ninety eight thousand dollars. Bonds maturing Oct. 1, 1890. To pay the interest falling due in 1890, four hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. Interest due in 1890. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the appropriations for miscellaneous purposes be as follows: Miscellaneous. For salaries of the Trustees of the Lunatic Asylum, each, three hundred dollars per annum. Trustees Lunatic Asylum.

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For salaries of the Principal Keeper, Assistant Keeper and Physician of the Penitentiary, to be paid from money received from the hire of convicts, each, per annum, as follows. Officers of Penitentiary. Principal Keeper, two thousand dollars; Assistant Keeper, twelve hundred dollars; Physician, two thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of the Principal Keeper, the Assistant Keeper and Physician of the Penitentiary in visiting and inspecting the various convict camps, as required by law, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, per annum, to be paid out of moneys received from the hire of convicts, said expenses to be submitted in an itemized account to the Governor for his approval before payment. Their expenses. For salary of the resident Physician for the Lunatic Asylum, twenty-five hundred dollars per annum. Physician Lunatic Asylum. For salaries of the Railroad Commissioners, twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, each. Railroad Commissioners. For salary of the Clerk of the Railroad Commissioners, fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Their Clerk For contingent expenses of the Railroad Commissioners, five hundred dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses. For repairs to the public buildings, to purchase coal, wood, gas, and furniture for the Executive Mansion, and the various departments of State; to pay the hire of guards, engineer, servants, including servants at the Capitol and Executive Mansion, including a porter for the Treasurer and one for the Librarian, and general incidental expenses, and for such other laborers and servants as may be necessary, twelve thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum fifteen hundred dollars shall be paid to the Keeper of Public Buildings, per annum, as a salary: Provided, that there shall be an itemized account of the various matters upon which these payments are made presented to the Governor before he issues his warrant therefor. Repairs, care, supply and guarding public buildings. Keeper of public buildings. For the contingent fund, eight thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent fund. For the printing fund, twelve thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Printing fund. For the salary of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to be paid from money received from the inspection of fertilizers, two thousand dollars per annum. Commissioner Agriculture. For salary of the Clerk of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to be paid from money received from the inspection of fertilizers, twelve hundred dollars per annum. His Clerk. To pay the bill for stationery furnished the General Assembly for this session, and an adjourned session, seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Stationery General Assembly.

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To pay the incidental expenses of the General Assembly for the present session, to be paid on an intemized account presented to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, seventy-five dollars each, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Its incidental expenses. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated per annum to pay for such printing and advertising as the Railroad Commissioners may deem necessary for the proper carrying on of the business of said Commission as directed by law. Printing, etc., of Railroad Commission. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for purpose of paying the contractors building the new Capitol, the balance due said contractors, under their contract, for building said Capitol, as shown by the report of the Capitol Commissioners to be due said contractors on completion of said building, April 1, 1889, the sum of eighty-one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. Balance due on new Capitol. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for compensation of an assistant to the State Librarian, in lieu of all expenses for manual or clerical labor in the shipment of and distribution of laws, journals, and other books required by law to be distributed, the sum of five hundred dollars for each of the fiscal years 1889 and 1890. Assistant to Librarian. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the respective amounts appropriated by this Act for salaries of the various State house officers and clerical expenses of the various departments shall be held and considered in full payment thereof, and such amounts shall not be increased, directly or indirectly, by payment of additional sums from the contingent or any other fund to such officers, their clerks, or any person by way of extra compensation, or for extra services or extra assistance rendered to said officers, in any department of said government; and should such extra service or extra assistance become necessary to said officers, or in said departments, the same shall be paid for out of the amounts respectively appropriated by this Act for salaries of the various State house officers, and for the clerical expenses of said offices, nor shall any money be paid from any fund to any officer or person as a salary or otherwise, unless the same is authorized by law, and the money duly appropriated therefor. Appropriations to be in full. SEC XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all accounts required to be itemized under this Act shall be duly supported by an affidavit. Affidavits to itemized accounts. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of seven thousand and sixty-eight dollars and eighty cents be appropriated to pay for engraving the coupon bonds and the registered scrip for same, for the advertising, express charges and

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expenses of Governor and Treasurer in visiting the city of New York at various times pending the negotiation of sale of bonds, authorized under Act approved September 5, 1887; said amounts to be paid upon an itemized account made and submitted by the Treasurer to the Governor. Expenses attending issue of bonds in 1887. To be paid on itemized account. SEC. XIV. 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 December 26, 1888. APPROPRIATION FOR FURNISHING AND FITTING NEW CAPI-TOL. No. 134. An Act to appropriate funds for the proper furnishing and fitting of the new Capitol building and the various departments thereof, and to lay off, fit and prepare the grounds around said building, and to provide for the mode of expending the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the sum of eighty-three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury of this State, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of furnishing and fitting of the new Capitol building, and the various departments thereof, to be expended as hereinafter provided. Of this sum twelve thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of furnishing for the Treasury department a proper fire and burglar proof chest, and such other furniture as may be needed for the Treasury vault. Furnishing and fitting new Capitol building. Treasury vault. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of funds in the Treasury of this State, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of laying off, fitting and preparing the public grounds around said building, to be expended as hereinafter provided. Grounds surrounding new Capitol. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That a Commission, consisting of the Governor, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and four persons appointed by the Governor, shall be, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to purchase and contract for all necessary and proper furniture and fittings for said new Capitol, and to contract for the laying off, fitting and preparing of the public grounds around said new Capitol. Commission in charge. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That upon the proper voucher or orders properly approved by said Commission being presented the Governor, he is hereby authorized and empowered to draw his warrant for said sum, in no case to exceed separately, or in the

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aggregate, the amount hereinbefore appropriated, on the Treasurer of the State. Payments only on voucher of Commission. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and they are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. APPROPRIATION TO HEZEKIAH McDANIEL FOR AN ARTIFICIAL LEG. No. 52. An Act to make an appropriation to pay Hezekiah McDaniel, of the county of Upson and State of Georgia, for an artificial leg under an Act approved December 4, 1866. WHEREAS, Hezekiah McDaniel, a Confederate soldier, was entitled to pay for an artificial leg under the Act approved December 4, 1866, but failed to receive any benefit under said Act, therefore, Preamble. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That upon his furnishing satisfactory evidence to his Excellency, the Governor, that he is properly entitled to the benefit of said Act, the sum of seventy-five dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to pay said Hezekiah McDaniel for an artificial leg, as provided by the Act approved December 4, 1866. Seventy-five dollars appropriated. SEC. II. 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 December 24, 1888.

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APPROPRIATING ALLOWANCES FOR MAIMED CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. No. 48. An Act to amend An Act, approved October 24th, 1887, entitled An Act to carry into effect the last clause of article 7, section I, paragraph I, of the Constitution of 1877 and the amendments thereto. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the Act approved October 24th, 1887, entitled An Act to carry into effect the last clause of article 7, section I, paragraph I of the Constitution of 1877, as amended by vote of the people October 1886 be, and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom the first Section of said Act, and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to-wit: That any person who enlisted in the military service of the Confederate States, or of this State during the civil war between the States of the United States, who was a bona-fide citizen of this State on the 26th day October, 1886, who lost a limb or limbs while engaged in said military service, occasioned by reason of such military service, or who may have thus received wounds or injuries which afterward caused the loss of a limb or limbs, or who may have been permanently injured while in said service, and who may be a bona-fide citizen of this State at the time of making application for the benefits herein provided for, shall be entitled to receive, once a year, the following allowances or pay for the purposes expressed in article 7, section I, paragraph I, (and the amendment thereto) of the Constitution of 1877, to-wit: Amendment to Act of Oct. 24, 1889. First section stricken. Inserted clause. Allowances appropriated. For total loss of sight, one hundred and fifty dollars. Specifying injuries and allowances therefor. For total loss of sight of one eye, thirty dollars. For total loss of hearing, thirty dollars. For loss of all of a foot or loss of leg, one hundred dollars. For loss of all of a hand or loss of arm, one hundred dollars. For loss of both hands or both arms, one hundred and fifty dollars. For loss of both feet or both legs, one hundred and fifty dollars. For the loss of one hand or foot, and one arm or leg by same person, one hundred and fifty dollars. For permanent injuries from wounds whereby a leg is rendered substantially and essentially useless, fifty dollars. For permanent injuries from wounds whereby an arm is rendered substantially and essentially useless, fifty dollars. For the loss of one finger or one toe, five dollars. For the loss of two fingers or two toes, ten dollars.

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For the loss of three fingers or three toes, fifteen dollars. For the loss of four fingers or four toes, twenty dollars. For the loss of four fingers and thumb, or five toes, twenty-five dollars For other permanent injury from wounds or disease contracted during the service, and while in line of duty as a soldier, whereby the person injured or diseased has been rendered practically incompetent to perform the ordinary manual avocations of life, fifty dollars. Other injury not above specified. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Act be further amended by striking out the second section after enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following: Second section stricken. That before any person shall be entitled to any of the benefits of this Act, he shall make oath before some officer authorized to administer oaths, stating in what company, regiment and brigade he was serving when the loss was sustained or injury received, and where and when it was lost or received, or when and where he contracted the disease which caused the amputation or loss of his limb or limbs, or produced the permanent disability claimed to exist. The applicant shall fully and clearly set forth ail the facts showing the injury, its character, and especially the extent of the disability resulting therefrom, his citizenship and rights to the benefits of this Act. He shall also furnish an affidavit of one of the commissioned officers of his company or regiment, showing that he rendered service as a soldier and received the injury at the time and place claimed by applicant, and that the disability claimed to exist does exist. If the affidavit of such commissioned officer cannot be had, applicant may prove his service and injury by any three respectable citizens who served with him in the army or who knew of his service and injury, the sufficiency of such proof to be subject to the rules and regulations to be adopted by the Governor and set forth in the blank sent out from his office for use of applicants. The applicant shall also procure the sworn statements of two reputable physicians of his own county, show ng precisely how he has been wounded and the extent of the disability resulting from the wound or injury or disease described. All of said affidavits shall be certified to be genuine by the Ordinary of the county where made, and he shall in his certificate state that all the witnesses who testify to applicants' proofs are persons of respectability and good reputation, and that their statements are worthy of belief, and also that the attesting officer or officers are duly authorized to attest said proofs and that their signatures thereto are genuine. Inserted clause. Specifying mode of application

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Act be and the same is further amended by striking out the third section thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: That when the proofs required by this Act have been filed in the Executive Department of this State and deemed satisfactory by the Governor, he shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State in favor of the applicant for the sum to which he may be entitled, and annually thereafter a similar warrant shall be drawn in favor of applicant whenever it shall be made to appear by oath of applicant properly attested, and by the certificate of the Ordiaary of the county of his residence, that applicant is known to him and that he is a bona fide citizen of said county, and is the individual to whom previous payment or payments have been made. Third section stricken. Inserted clause. How warrant shall be drawn. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Act be further amended by adding: That the beneficiaries under the Acts of 1879 and the Acts amendatory thereof, granting allowances to ex-Confederate soldiers as lost a limb or limbs in the service, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act, at the time the next payments are made to other disabled beneficiaries under the Act of 1887. And the sum necessary to make the payments provided by this Act is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Act further amended. Added clause. SEC. V. 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 December 24, 1888.

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TITLE II. TAXES. ACTS. General Tax Act for 1889 and 1890. Providing for finishing payments on New Capitol. Providing for furnishing New Capitol. Creating Sinking Fund to retire maturing Bonds. GENERAL TAX ACT FOR 1889 AND 1890. No. 123. An Act to levy and collect a tax for the support of the State government and the public institutions; for educational purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English education only; to pay the interest of the public debt, and to pay maimed Confederate soldiers such amounts as are allowed them by law, for each of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, and to prescribe what persons, professions and property are liable to taxation; to describe the method of receiving and collecting said taxes; to prescribe the method of ascertaining the property of this State subject to taxation; prescribe additional questions to be propounded to tax payers, and to provide penalties and for feitures for non-payment of taxes, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Governor be authorized and empowered, with the assistance of the Comptroller-General to assess and levy a tax on the taxable property of this State of two and seven-tenths mills per centum for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and two and four-tenths mills per centum for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety. And the Governor be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered by and with the assistance of the Comptroller-General

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to assess and levy, in addition to the foregoing general State tax, a tax of one-half of a mill for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and a tax of one mill for the year eighteen hundred and ninety, on all of the taxable property of this State for the purpose of raising the funds necessary to meet the appropriations by this General Assembly for educational purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English education only. General ad [Illegible Text] tax. Special educational tax. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in addition to the ad valorem tax on real and personal property, as required by the Constitution, and provided for in the preceding section, the following specific taxes shall be levied and collected for each of the said fiscal years, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety. Specific taxes. FirstUpon each and every male inhabitant of the State, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, on the first day of April, a poll tax of one dollar for each of the said years, 1889 and 1890, which tax shall be for educational purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English education only; Provided, this tax shall not be demanded of blind persons, nor of crippled, maimed or disabled confederate soldiers, relieved of such tax under and by authority of an Act approved July 23, 1883. Poll tax. Exempiions. SecondUpon every practitioner of law, medicine or dentistry, presidents of each of the banks in the State, each agent or firm negotiating loans, and charging therefor, the presidents of each of the railroad companies, presidents of each of the express, telegraph, telephone, electric light and gas companies, doing business in this State, and in case the presidents of any such companies do not reside in this State, then in such case, upon the superintendent or general agent of such companies who may reside in this State, ten dollars and no municpal corporation or county authorities shall levy any additional tax on said professions either as license fee or otherwise. Lawyers, doctors, dentists and officers of various companies. ThirdUpon every daguerrean, ambrotype, photographic, and similar artist, ten dollars in each county in which they may carry on business. Photographic and other artists. FourthUpon every person carrying on the business of auctioneer, for pay or compensation, twenty-five dollars for each county in which they may carry on such business. Keepers of billiard and other tables. FifthUpon every keeper of a pool, billiard or bagatelle table kept for public use, whether in a saloon, bar-room, hotel or other public place, twenty-five dollars for each table. Gaming tables, etc. SixthUpon every keeper of any other table, stand or place for the performance of any game or play, and upon the keeper of

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any flying horses, or any other game or play, (unless kept for exercise or amusement not prohibited by law), and not kept for gain, directly or indirectly, twenty-five dollars in each county. SeventhUpon every keeper of a ten pin alley, or alley of like character, kept for public play, and upon every keeper of a shooting gallery, twenty-five dollars for each place of business. Ten-pin alleys and shooting galleries. EighthUpon every traveling vendor of patent or proprietary medicines, special nostrums, jewelry, paper, soap, or other articles of like character, twenty-five dollars in each county where they may offer such articles for sale. Traveling vendors. NinthUpon every local insurance agent doing business in this State, ten dollars for each county in which they shall solicit business, and upon every agent of a matrimonial, natal or nuptial company, or traveling, special or general agent, of life, fire, accident, or other insurance company doing business in this State, fifty dollars, which said agents must pay before he or they shall be authorized to act as an agent for any of their companies. Said tax shall be paid by said agents to the Comptroller-General, and shall be in addition to the license fee required of insurance companies by the Act approved October 24, 1887. The receipt of the Comptroller-General for the payment of this tax, together with his certificate, as provided by said Act, approved October 24, 1887, shall constitute the license for said agents to transact business for their companies, as designated by said certificates: Provided, this tax shall not be required of agents of assessment, life insurance companies, or mutual aid societies. Insurance agents. Tenth.Upon each emigrant agent, or employer or employe of such agent doing business in this State, the sum of five hundred dollars for each county in which such business is conducted. Emigrant agents, etc. EleventhUpon every traveling vendor using boats for the purpose of selling goods on the rivers or waters within the limits of this State, the sum of fifty dollars in each county where they may sell their wares, and said tax shall be a lien on the boat and its contents without regard to the ownership thereof. Vendors in boats. Twelfth.Upon all itinerant lightning rod dealers or agents, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every county in which they may operate. Itinerant lightningrod dealers. Thirteenth.Upon all shows and exhibitions (except such as histrionic, musical, operatic and elocutionary) including side shows accompanying circus companies, twenty-five dollars in each and every city or town of five thousand inhabitants, twenty dollars in cities or town of four thousand and under five thousand inhabitants, and fifteen dollars in cities or towns of less than four thousand inhabitants. Said tax, so collected, shall be for educational purposes. Shows and exhibitions

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FourteenthUpon every circus company, two hundred dollars each day it may exhibit in the State of Georgia; said tax shall be for educational purposes. Circus companies. FifteenthUpon all dealers in spirituous or malt liquors, intoxicating bitters or brandy fruits or domestic wines, whether dealing in either or all thereof, fifty dollars for each place of business in each county where the same are sold: Provided, this tax shall not relieve such dealers from any local tax or prohibitory law in reference to the retail of spirituous or intoxicating liquors, nor be required of those who sell by wholesale spirits manufactured of apples, peaches, grapes, blackberries or other fruits grown on their own lands, when sold in quantities not less than five gallons: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to levy a tax on dealers in domestic wines manufactured from grapes or berries purchased by or grown on lands owned, leased or rented by said dealer. Said tax shall be for educational purposes. Liquor dealers. Proviso. Domestic wines exempt. SixteenthUpon every peddler or traveling agent selling or offering to sell sewing machines, the sum of twenty five dollars for each county in which they do business. Sewing machine peddlers. SeventeenthUpon all dealers in pistols, toy pistols shooting with metallic caps, or cartridges, dirks or bowie knives, twenty-five dollars for each place of business in each county where the same are sold. Dealers in arms. EighteenthUpon every individual or firm, or his or their agents, engaged in the business of selling or buying farm products, sugar, coffee and salt and meat for future delivery (commonly called futures), five hundred dollars each per annum for the county where such business is carried on: Provided, that this tax shall not be demanded of any cotton warehouseman, dealer in cotton, or any provision broker, who takes orders in the regular course of their trade only for the actual and bona fide delivery of cotton and other produce so ordered, and where, by the terms of the contract, it is not left to the option of the party so ordering, or the party taking such order, to avoid the delivery of the produce or products by paying the difference in the market price of such produce or products at the time of delivery: Provided further, that such cotton warehouseman, dealer in actual cotton or any provision broker does not carry on the business of buying futures in connection with his or their other business. Dealers in futures. Proviso. Additional proviso. NineteenthUpon every peddler of stoves or ranges for cooking purposes, or clocks, the sum of one hundred dollars in every county in which such peddler may do business. Stove or clock peddlers. TwentiethUpon every person or firm, for himself or agent for resident or non resident owners, who holds or keeps for hire or sale any billiard, pool or other table of like character, fifty dollars for each county in which such person or firm does business. Billiard and pool tables.

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Twenty-first Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That blind persons and Confederate soldiers relieved by the proviso in paragraph first of this section, from the payment of the tax designated in that paragraph shall be relieved, also, from the payment of the taxes designated in paragraphs 6, 7, 8 and 11, of this section, if carrying on and dependent upon the kinds of business designated therein: Provided, that before any person shall be entitled to the benefit of any of the exemptions provided for in this paragraph, he shall go before the Ordinary of the county in which he proposes to carry on business, and make and file an affidavit, setting forth the facts that he is entitled to such exemption, and that he is the proprietor of the business he proposes to conduct, and is conducting the same for himself and not for another. Relief of blind persons and Confederate soldiers. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the taxes provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2, of section 2, of this Act, shall be returned to the Tax Receiver in the county of the residence of the person liable to such tax, and shall, by the Receiver of Tax Returns, be entered upon his digest of taxable property, and that the taxes provided for in paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 20, of section 2, of this Act, shall be returned and paid to the Tax Collectors of the counties where such vocations are carried on. Return, entry, etc., of certain taxes. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the taxes provided for in paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, of section 2, of this Act, shall be paid in full for the fiscal years for which they are levied to the Tax Collectors of the counties where such vocations are carried on at the time of commencing to do the business specified in said paragraphs. Before any person taxed by parapraphs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 20, of section 2, of this Act, shall be authorized to carry on said business, they shall go before the Ordinary of the county in which they propose to do business and register their names, place of business, and at the same time pay their taxes to the Tax Collector; and it shall be the duty of said Ordinary to immediately notify the Comptroller-General and the Tax Collector. Any person failing to register with the Ordinary, as herein required, shall be liable to indictment for a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court trying the same, or be imprisoned as prescribed by section 4310 of the Code. Payment of certain taxes. Registry with Ordinary. Fine for failure to register. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all foreign and home insurance companies doing business in this State shall pay one per cent. on all premiums in money or otherwise received by them: Provided, this shall not include return premiums

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on cancelled policies; and in addition to the tax imposed by this Act upon the gross receipts of such insurance companies, all such companies doing brokerage business in this State, such as discounting notes, bills, drafts or exchange, lending money, or in any manner doing a business pertaining to banking or brokerage business, shall be taxed upon the capital so employed in the same manner and at the same rate as other moneyed capital in the hands of private individuals is taxed. Insurance companies. Proviso. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the presidents of all building and loan associations, and other associations of like character, shall be required to return to the Tax Receiver of the county where such associations are located, at its true market value, the stock of such associations owned by the stockholders thereof, (upon which, as shown by the books of such associations, no advance has been made, or money borrowed thereon, by the individual stockholders therein) to be taxed as other moneyed capital in the hands of private individuals is taxed: Provided, That no tax shall be required of real estate and building associations, to be paid upon any portion of their capital which has been loaned or advanced to a shareholder upon real estate, upon which real estate tax is payable by said shareholder. Building and Loan Associations. Proviso. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Presidents of all manufacturing and other incorporated companies (or their agents) other than railroad, insurance, telegraph, telephone, express, sleeping and palace car companies, shall be required to return all their property whatever of their respective companies at its true market value to the Tax Receiver of the county where the same is located, or where the principal business of each company is located, to be taxed for State and county purposes as other property in this State is taxed. The President of every manufacturing company shall be required to answer under oath, in addition to those now provided by law, the following questions: Returns of corporations, generally. President must answer under oath. FirstWhat is the value of raw material on hand April 1st? Questions specified. SecondWhat is the value of manufactured goods or articles on hand April 1st? ThirdWhat amount of money, bonds, notes, accounts, and choses-in-action of every kind did you own on April 1st? FourthAnd what other property of every kind did your company own on April 1st? And such company shall be taxed upon its entire property so ascertained. SEC VIII. Be it further enacted, That all persons or companies, including railroad companies, doing an express or telegraph business, and charging the public therefor, in this State, shall pay two and one-half per cent. on their gross receipts; and all persons, or the Superintendent or General Agent of each telegraph or express

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company, or the President of each railroad company doing such business in this State shall make a quarterly return under oath as follows: On the last day of March, June, September and December in each year to the Comptroller-General, showing a full account of their gross receipts during the quarter ending on such date, and said taxes herein levied upon such gross receipts as shown by said quarterly returns shall be paid by the respective persons or companies to the Comptroller-General at the same time of making such returns. The gross receipts herein named shall be construed to mean the full amount of all money received from business done within this State. If any person, superintendent, agent or president, as the case may be, whose duty it is to make returns under this paragraph, shall fail to do so within thirty days after the time herein required, such person, superintendent, agent or president, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Tax on express, telegraph and electric light companies. Quarterly returns. Showing gross receipts. Penalty for failure. SecondThat each telephone company shall pay a tax for each of the years, 1889 and 1890 of one dollar for each telephone station or box with instruments complete, rented or used by their subscribers, and the superintendent or general manager of the company shall make returns under oath and payments to the Comptroller General on the dates named in the first paragraph of section. Telephone companies. Returns. ThirdThat each non resident person or company whose sleeping cars are run in this State, except the sleeping cars of railroad companies that are taxed as hereinafter provided for, shall be taxed as follows: Ascertain the whole number of miles of the lines of railroads over which such sleeping cars are run, and ascertain the entire value of all the sleeping cars of such person or company, then tax such sleeping cars at the regular tax rate, in the same proportion to the entire value of such sleeping cars that the length of lines in this State, over which such cars run bears to the length of the lines of all the railroads over which such sleeping cars are run. The return shall be made to Comptroller General by the president, manager, general agent or person in control of such cars in this State. The Comptroller General shall frame such questions as will elicit the information sought, and answers thereto shall be made under oath. If the president, manager general agent or person in control of such sleeping cars, shall fail or refuse to answer under oath the questions so propounded, then the Comptroller General shall get the information from such source or sources as he may, and he shall assess a double tax on such sleeping cars. If the taxes herein provided for are not paid, the Comptroller General shall issue execution against the owner of such cars, which may be levied by the sheriff of any county in

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this State upon the sleeping car or cars of the owner who has failed to pay the taxes. Non-resident owners of sleeping-cars. How taxed. Returns. Double tax where no return. Levy, where tax not paid. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no tax shall be assessed upon the capital of banks or banking associations organized under the authority of this State or of the United States and located within this State, but the shares of the stockholders of such bank or banking associations, whether resident or non-resident owners, shall be taxed in the county where such bank or banking associations are located and not elsewhere, at their true and full market value, at the same rate provided in this Act for the taxation of moneyed capital in the hands of private individuals: Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to relieve such banks or banking associations from the tax on property owned by them as provided for in section seven of this Act: Provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to levy any tax on real and personal property held or owned by any bank or banking association, the value of which is represented in the market value of its shares of stock. That each bank and banking association shall pay tax on its surplus and individual profits. Bank stock. Where taxed. Proviso. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the presidents of all the railroad companies doing business in this State shall make returns to the Comptroller-General, as now provided by law, for the taxation of the property, of the gross receipts or net income of such railroads, and shall pay to the Comptroller-General the tax to which such property or gross receipts or net income may be subject according to the provisions of this Act, and the laws now in force relating to the tax on railroads, and on failure to make returns, or refusal to pay tax, said companies shall be liable to all the penalties now provided by law. The Comptroller-General shall cause questions to be printed as hereinafter set out, which shall be answered under oath by the president of each railroad company doing business in this State, to-wit: Returns for railroad companies. Payment of their taxes. Presidennt must answer under oath. FirstWhat is the value of your tracks, including main, side and spur tracks and road-bed in this State? Value of tracks, etc. SecondWhat is the value of your depot buildings within this State? Of depot buildings. ThirdWhat is the value of your water tanks, pumps, stationary engines, wood sheds, saws and coal structures within this State? Water tanks, etc. FourthWhat is the value of all other buildings owned by your company within this State and used for railroad purposes? And in this way the real value of the road shall be ascertained. All property owned by railroad companies and not used for railroad purposes shall be returned to the Tax Receiver of the county where it is situated. Other buildings.

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FifthHow many locomotives does your company own, and what is the value of each? How many passenger cars, and the value of each? How many sleeping cars, and the value of each? How many express cars, and the value of each? How many baggage cars, and the value of each? How many mail cars, and the value of each? How many freight cars, and the value of each? How many cab or caboose cars, and the value of each? How many stock cars, and the value of each? How many platform cars, and the value of each? How many of all other kinds of cars not herein enumerated, and the value of each? Locomotives and cars. SixthWhat is the value of hand cars, pole cars, crank cars and tools and implements of every kind used in railroading that are kept and used within this State by your company? Tools and implements. SeventhAnd the president of every railroad company resident in this State, and every railroad company whose principal place of doing business is in this State, shall also pay tax on all money of his railroad company on hand on April 1, in each year, and on such dividends as have been declared but not paid out on hand at said date. Money and unpaid dividends. EighthAll the property of railroad companies doing business in this State shall be taxed at the same rate as property of natural persons is taxed, except as follows: Tax rate. Exceptions 1stExcept that portion of the property of each railroad company that is exempt by its charter from taxation. First. 2ndExcept in the case of a railroad company doing business in this State, and whose line of road runs into another State, then its locomotives and cars shall be taxed as follows: The value of all its locomotives and cars shall be ascertained; the length of the line of such railroad company shall be ascertained, and locomotives and cars of such railroad company shall be taxed at the regular tax rate in the same proportion to the entire value of its locomotives and cars that the line in this State bears to the entire line of said company. Second. How ascertained. 3rdExcept in case of a railroad company chartered by the laws of another State, but who has a place of general business here, its money on hand, and declared but unpaid dividends o hand in this State on April 1st in each year, shall be taxed as follows: Ascertain the entire length of said line of railroad and the entire money on hand as aforesaid in this State, then such money in this State is to be taxed in the same proportion to the entire money aforesaid that the length of the line in this State bears to the entire line. Third. How determined. NinthIn the event the Comptroller-General is dissatisfied with the returns made by any railroad company of its property for taxation, he shall report the same to the Governor, who shall appoint three competent and disinterested men to examine the property

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and assess the same, who shall be paid each, four dollars per diem for the actual number of days so employed. If the railroad company is dissatisfied with such assessment, arbitration can be had as now provided by law. Assessors provided for. TenthThat every railroad company that pulls over its road sleeping cars of any person or corporation not a resident of this State, and except such sleeping cars as are taxed as property of railroad companies as herein provided, such railroad company shall pay a license for pulling such cars in each of the years 1889 and 1890, as follows: A railroad company whose line is not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred miles long, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars. If more than one hundred and not more than one hundred and fifty miles long, one hundred and fifty dollars. If more than one hundred and fifty, and not more than two hundred miles long, two hundred dollars. If two hundred and fifty miles long, two hundred and fifty dollars, and if longer than two hundred and fifty miles, three hundred dollars. Which license tax shall be paid to the Comptroller-General. Non-resident operators of sleeping cars. License tax determined. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the presidents or principal agents of all the incorporated companies herein mentioned, except such as are required to make returns to the Tax Receivers of the counties, shall make returns to the Comptroller-General, under the rules and regulations provided by law for such returns, and subject to the same penalties and modes of procedure for the enforcement of taxes from companies or persons required by law to make returns to the Comptroller-General. Returns of corporations. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the oath to be administered to all persons making returns of their taxable property shall be the oath required under the Act of October 20, 1885, to be attached to the printed lists furnished under said Act, and presented to each tax payer: Provided, that non-residents, females and sick persons may subscribe the oath herein required before any person authorized by law to administer oaths, and cause same to be delivered to the Tax Receiver. Oath for returns. Proviso. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Comptroller-General is authorized and empowered to order the Tax Receivers of this State to commence receiving the returns of taxable property immediately after the first day of April of the years 1889 and 1890, and that the Comptroller-General is empowered and required to cause the taxes to be collected and paid into the State Treasury by the 20th of Decembereach of said of years 1889 and 1890. When returns are to be received. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or company, resident of this State, who is the owner of a vessel, boats or water craft of any description, shall answer under oath the number of vessels, boats and other water crafts

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owned by them and the value of each, and make a return of the same to the Tax Receiver of the county of the residence of such person or company, and the same shall be taxed as other property is taxed: Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to vessels, boats or other water crafts owned by corporations or joint stock companies upon whose capital stock a tax is paid as provided in section seven of this Act. Owners of vessels, boats, etc. Must return same. Proviso. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in returning property for taxes, all property shall be returned at its valuepromissory notes, accounts, judgments, mortgages, liens of all kinds, and all choses-in-action shall be given in at their value, whether solvent or partially solvent. Every person shall return for taxes all jewelry, and all other property of every kind owned by his wife and minor children, unless the members of his or her family return their property for taxation. In addition to the questions now propounded to tax payers by the Tax Receivers, questions shall be framed by the Comptroller General to reach all property upon which a tax is imposed by this Act, and especially the following questions: Returns must be for par value. Property of wife or minor children. Additional questions: FirstThe number of horses, mules, oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, and of all other animals upon which a tax is imposed by law, and state the value of each. Live stock. SecondThe kind and value of property owned by the wife and minor children of the tax payer, and not returned for taxes by the owners thereof. Wife's and minor children's property. ThirdWhether solvent or partially solvent, give the value of your bonds, stocks of non resident companies or corporations or of companies or corporations in this State whose capital stock is not returned by the president of such company or corporation, all notes, accounts, judgments, mortgages, liens and other choses in action of every kind, whether such bonds, stocks, notes, etc., are held by the tax payer in Georgia or held by some other person for him, either in or out of this State. There shall be no deduction from the value of property returned for taxes on account of any indebtedness of such tax payer. Securities. SEC. XVI. 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 December 26, 1888.

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PROVIDING FOR FINISHING PAYMENTS FOR NEW CAPITOL. No. 150. An Act to levy and collect a tax for the purpose of finishing the payments for the new Capitol. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the same, That the Governor is hereby authorized, with the assistance of the Comptroller General at the time of the assessment of the levy of taxes for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine, to assess and levy a percentum on the taxable property of the State sufficient to raise the sum of eighty one thousand and two hundred and seventy-five and sixty-seven one hundredth dollars for the purpose of finishing the payments for the new Capitol. Per centum tax to raise $81,275.67. SEC. II. 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 December 26, 1888. PROVIDING FOR FURNISHING NEW CAPITOL. No. 72. An Act to levy and collect a tax for the purpose of furnishing the New Capitol of the State SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State, and it is hereby enacted by the same, That the Governor is hereby authorized, with the assistance of the Comptroller-General, at the time of the assessment of the taxes for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, to levy and assess such a per centum on the State tax as will raise the sum of eighty thousand dollars for the purpose of furnishing the new Capitol of the State. Per centum tax to raise $80,000. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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CREATING SINKING FUND TO RETIRE MATURING BONDS. No. 145. An Act to create a sinking fund to pay off and retire bonds of the State as they mature (in accordance with article 7, section 14, paragraph 1, of the Constitution of 1877), by the levy and collection of a tax therefor 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 Governor is hereby authorized, with the assistance of the Comptroller-General, at the time of the assessment of the levy of taxes for the years one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine, and one thousand, eight hundred and ninety, to assess and levy a per centum on the taxable property of the State sufficient to raise one hundred thousand dollars each year, in addition to the amount required to pay the public expenses and interest on the public debt, which shall be a sinking fund to pay off and retire (as hereinafter provided) an equal amount of the valid bonds of the State as they mature, and which shall be applied to no other purpose whatever: Provided, that this tax shall not be estimated by any county authorities in assessing the taxes for county purposes. Per centum tax to raise $100,000 yearly as a sinking fund. Proviso SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the tax authorized herein shall be specially levied and collected, and separate accounts of the same shall be kept by the Treasurer, and the money arising therefrom shall be applied to the paying off and retiring the valid bonds of the State as aforesaid. Applied to retiring bonds. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the said amounts so raised in each of said years shall be applied to the payment of the same amount of the bonds of the State, maturing October 1, 1890: Provided, that the Governor and Treasurer of the State, in case that the bonds of the State cannot be purchased at par, may loan the one hundred thousand dollars raised in 1889 until the maturity of the bonds to which it is to be applied at such rate of interestnot less than four and one-half per cent.as they may be able to obtain; and in case said amount is so loaned, the interest accruing on said amount shall be paid with the principal on the bonds to which it is applied as above stated: Provided, that any applicant negotiating said loan with the State shall hypothecate and give as collateral security to said Treasurer any sufficient number of the valid bonds of the State as said Treasurer may deem ample and full security for the payment of said loan at the time it becomes due; but no bond or bonds so taken as collateral security shall receive as an advancement thereon any sums of money in excess of the par value of the same, and in the contract of loan it shall be

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expressed in the note of obligation or other writing setting forth the contract, a general or special power of the Governor and Treasurer to sell the same upon default either at public or private sale, and the Governor and Treasurer shall have the right to purchase the same, and when so purchased said bond or bonds shall be held as vouchers, and the purchase of said bond or bonds shall be shown in full upon the books of said Treasurer. Maturing Oct. 1, 1890. Proviso. Further proviso. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all bonds paid or purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be cancelled and stamped with the words Sinking Fund, by the Treasurer and filed in his office. Bonds paid to be cancelled with Sinking Fund. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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TITLE III. CODE. ACTS. Amending section 1312 as to time of meeting of Electoral College. Amending section 913 ( a ) specifying State Depositories. Amending section 227 appointing Assistant Reporter of Supreme Court. Amending section 3051Plea of justification in case of tort. Amending sections 1452 and 1454Compensation for impounding animals. Amending section 719 ( f ) concerning publication of Railroad Commissioners' tariffs, etc. Amending section 671Condition in Contractors' Bonds. AMENDING SECTION 1312 AS TO TIME OF MEETING OF ELEC-TORAL COLLEGE. No. 2. An Act to amend section 1312 of the Code of 1882, by changing the time for the meeting of the Electoral College so as to make said section conform to the Acts of Congress approved February 3, 1887, and October 19, 1888. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That section 1312, of the Code of 1882, be amended by striking therefrom all the words after the word capitol in [Illegible Text] four, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: On the second Monday in January next following their appointment, to meet at 12 M., and give their votes for President and Vice-President of the United States, and all acts and proceedings of said electors, and other officers of this State relating to the electoral votes thereof, shall conform to the Acts of Congress approved February 3, 1887, and October 19, 1888, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: On the twentieth day after said election shall have taken place it is the duty of the Governer to consolidate the several returns, and immediately notify those persons of their

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election who have received a vote amounting to a majority, and to require their attendance at the Capitol on the second Monday in January next following their appointment to meet at 12 M. and give their votes for President and Vice-President of the United States, and all acts and proceedings of said electors and other officers of this State relating to the electoral votes thereof, shall conform to the Acts of Congress approved February 3, 1887, and October 19, 1888. Section 1312 of the Code amended by striking certain words. Other words inserted. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved November 26, 1888. AMENDING SECTION 943 ( a ) SPECIFYING STATE DEPOSI-TORIES. No. 32. An Act to amend section 943 ( a ) of the Code of the State of Georgia of 1882, providing for the selection by the Governor of Georgia of banks in certain cities therein named, to be known and designated as State Depositories, so as to add to the cities named in said section, the cities of Thomasville and Newnan and Cartersville and the city of Dalton, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 city of Thomasville and the city of Newnan, the city of Cartersville, and the city of Dalton be added to the list of cities named in said above described section 943 ( a ) of the Code of 1882, so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: The Governor of the State of Georgia shall name and appoint a solvent chartered bank of good standing and credit in each of the following cities of this State, to-wit: in the cities of Atlanta, Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Rome, Americus, Albany, Hawkinsville, Gainesville, Griffin, LaGrange, Thomasville, Newnan, Cartersville and Dalton, which shall be known and designated as State Depositories. Section 943 (a) amended. Certain cities added. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 19, 1888.

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AMENDING SECTION 227APPOINTING ASSISTANT REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT. No. 60. An Act to amend section 227 of the Code of Georgia of 1882, which section provides for the appointment of an Assistant Reporter of the Supreme Court of this State, so as to provide a salary for such Assistant Reporter when appointed, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 227 of the Code of Georgia of 1882 be, and the same is hereby amended by adding after the word Reporters, in the third line of said section, the following: And the salary of such Assistant Reporter, when so appointed, shall be the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, to be paid from the Treasury of this State, and no other perquisite or emolument whatever. So that said section, when so amended, shall read: He may, with consent of the Court, under such rules as they may adopt, appoint an Assistant Reporter, whose duties are the same as the Reporter's, and the salary of such Assistant Reporter, when so appointed, shall be the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, to be paid from the Treasury of this State, and no other perquisite or emolument whatever. Section 227 amended. Certain words added. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further 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 December 24, 1888. AMENDING SECTION 3051PLEA OF JUSTIFICATION IN CASE OF TORT. No. 95. An Act to amend section 3051 of the revised Code of 1882 and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted, That section 3051 of the revised Code of 1882, which reads as followsIn every case of tort, if the defendant was authorized by law to do the act complained of, he may plead the same as a justification; by such plea he admits the act to be done, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of one

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holding the affirmative of the issuebe amended by adding the following to said section: But such plea shall not give to the defendant the right to open and conclude the argument before the jury, unless it is filed and insisted upon before the plaintiff submits any evidence to the jury trying the case. Section 3051 amended. Added clause. SEC. II. Be it enacted, That said section as amended shall read as follows: In every case of tort, if the defendant was authorized by law to do the act complained of, he may plead the same as a justification; by such plea he admits the act to be done, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of one holding the affirmative of the issue; but such plea shall not give to the defendant the right to open and conclude the argument before the jury, unless it is filed and insisted upon before the plaintiff submits any evidence to the jury trying the case. Section as amended. SEC III. Be it enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING SECTIONS 1452 AND 1454COMPENSATION FOR IMPOUNDING ANIMALS. No. 96. An Act to amend section 1452 of the Code of 1882, in reference to the compensation to be allowed parties impounding animals, and section 1454 of the Code of 1882, in reference to the mode of ascertaining damages where animals are impounded, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 1452 of the Code of 1882, in reference to the compensation to be allowed parties impounding animals, be amended as follows, to wit: By striking out of the fourth and fifth lines of said section the following words: Reasonable compensation as hereinafter provided, and inserting in lieu thereof the words, Such compensation as is allowed Sheriffs for like care, feed and attention to stock, so that said section will read as follows: In case any of the said animals should be impounded under the provisions of the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the party so impounding them to give them all necessary care, feed and attention, for which he shall have such compensation as is allowed Sheriffs for like care, feed and attention to stock. Section 1452 amended. Certain words stricken. Other words inserted. Section as amended.

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SEC. II. Be it enacted by authority aforesaid, That section 1454 of said Code, in reference to the mode of ascertaining damages where animals are impounded, by striking out all of said section commencing after the word Laws on the twenty-fourth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: But the defendant in such case against whom a judgment for damages has been rendered may appeal to a jury, as other appeals are allowed in Justices Court. Section 1454 amended. Clause inserted. SEC. III. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the foregoing Act are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING SECTION 719 ( f ) CONCERNING PUBLICATION OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS' TARIFFS, ETC. No. 135. An Act to amend section 719 ( f ) of the Code, so as to include Americus and Athens, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the authority of the General Assembly, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 719 ( f ), which reads as follows: Section 719 (f) amended. The said Railroad Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of just and reasonable rates and charges for the transportation of passengers and freights, and cars on each of said railroads, and said schedule shall, in suits brought against any such railroad corporation wherein is involved the charges of any such railroad corporation for transportation of any passenger or freight or cars, or unjust discrimination in relation thereto, be deemed and taken in all the courts of this State as sufficient evidence that the rates therein fixed are just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers, freights and cars upon the railroads, and said Commissioners shall, from time to time, and as often as the circumstances may require, change and revise said schedule. When any schedule shall have been made and revised as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to cause publication thereof to be made for four successive weeks in some public newspaper published in the cities of Atlanta, Augusta, Albany, Savannah, Macon, Rome and Columbus, in this State, etc,shall be amended by adding the city of Americus and Athens, and when amended shall read as follows: Previous reading of section. Americus and Athens added.

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The said Railroad Commissioners are hereby authorized and required to make for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of just and reasonable rates of charges for transportation of passengers and freights and cars on each of said railroads, and said schedule in suits brought against any such corporation wherein is involved the charges of any such corporation, for the transportation of any passenger or freights or cars or unjust discrimination in relation thereto, be deemed and taken in all the courts of this State as sufficient evidence that the rates therein fixed are just and reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars upon the railroads. And said Commissioners shall, from time to time and as often as the circumstances may require, change and revise such schedule. When any schedule shall have been made or revised as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to cause publication thereof to be made four successive weeks in some public newspaper published in the cities of Atlanta, Augusta, Albany, Savannah, Macon, Rome, Columbus, Americus and Athens, in this State. And after the same shall be so published, it shall be the duty of all such railroad companies to post at all of their respective stations, in a conspicuous place, a copy of said schedule for the protection of the people: Provided, that the schedules thus prepared shall not be taken as evidence as herein provided until schedules have been prepared and published as aforesaid, for all the railroad companies now organized under the laws of this State, or that may be organized at the time of said publication; and all such schedules purporting to be printed and published as aforesaid shall be received and held in all such suits as prima facie the schedules of said Commissioners without further proof than the production of the schedules desired to be used as evidence, with a certificate of the Railroad Commission, that the same is a true copy of the schedule prepared by them for the railroad company or corporation therein named, and that the same has been duly published as required by law, stating the name of the paper in which the same were published, together with the date and place of said publication. Section as amended. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AMENDING SECTION 671CONDITION IN CONTRACTORS' BOND. No. 163. An Act to amend section 671, of the Code of 1882, by changing the condition in the contractors' bonds upon the recommendation of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, or the Ordinary in the counties where there are no such Commissioners, and to fix the liabilities of the counties for injuries caused by defective bridges. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 671, of the Code of 1882, be amended by adding thereto the following words: Provided that such contract may be let out under existing laws without requiring the aforesaid conditions in the contractor's bond, if in the opinion of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, or of the Ordinary in counties where there are no such Commissioners, it would be to the public interest to dispense with said condition in said bond, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: When a public bridge, ferry, turnpike or causeway is let out, the contractor must in his bond make a condition also, to keep it in good repair for at least seven years, and as many more years as the contract may be for; Provided that such contract may be let out under existing laws without requiring the aforesaid condition in the contractors' bonds, if, in the opinion of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, or of the Ordinary in counties where there are no such Commissioners, it would be to the public interest to dispense with said condition in said bond: Provided, however, that in every case the county shall be primarily liable for all injuries caused by reason of any defective bridges, whether erected by contractors or county authorities. Section 671 amended. Added clause. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 29, 1888.

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TITLE IV. JUDICIARY.. ACT. Supplying place of Justice of Supreme Court unable to preside. SUPPLYING PLACE OF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT UNABLK TO PRESIDE. No. 87. An Act to provide for supplying the place of a Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court who are unable to preside in any case from providential cause, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, That whenever one or more of the Judges of the Supreme Court is or are unable to preside in any case in said Court from providential cause, and the parties in such case desire a full bench, it shall be the duty of the Governor, when such fact is made known to him, to designate a Judge or Judges of the Superior Court to preside in the place of the absent Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court. When Justice incapacitated. Superior Court Judge to preside. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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TITLE V. SUPERIOR COURTS. ACTS. Changing Terms of Superior Courts in Southwestern Judicial Circuit. Changing Terms of Baker Superior Court. Changing Fall Terms of Gwinnett and Clarke Superior Courts. Changing Terms of Hall Superior Court. CHANGING TERMS OF SUPERIOR COURTS IN SOUTHWESTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. No. 29. An Act to change the time for holding the Superior Courts in the several counties composing the Southwestern Judicial Circuit of this State, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That beginning with the year 1889, the terms of the Superior Courts for the several counties composing the Southwestern Judicial Circuit of this State, shall be as follows, [Illegible Text] Terms changed. For the county of Webster, on the first Mondays in April and October. Webster. For the county of Schley, on the second Mondays in April and October. Schley. For the county of Stewart, on the third and fourth Mondays in April and October. Stewart. For the county of Lee, on the first Mondays in May and November. Lee. For the county of Macon, the second and third Mondays in May and November. Macon.

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For the county of Sumter, on the fourth Mondays in May and November, and to continue at each term as long as may be necessary to dispose of the business. Sumter. SEC. II. 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 December 17, 1888. CHANGING TERMS OF BAKER SUPERIOR COURT. No. 34. An Act to change the time of holding the Superior Courts of the county of Baker, Albany Circuit, State of Georgia. SACTION I. Be it enacted by the authority of the General Assembly, That from and after the passage of this Act, the terms of holding the Superior Courts in the county of Baker, State of Georgia, in the Albany Circuit, which are now held on the first Mondays in May and November, each year, be and are changed to second Mondays in March and September, each year. Terms changed to second Mondays in March and September. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That suits now brought, or to be brought before the passage of this Act, which are returnable to first Mondays in May and November, stand returnable to second Mondays in March and September. Return of writs, etc. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved December 19, 1888. CHANGING FALL TERMS OF GWINNETT AND CLARKE SUPERIOR COURTS. No. 151. An Act to change the time of holding the fall terms of the Superior Courts of the counties of Gwinnett and Clarke, in the Western Judicial Circuit, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act that the Fall terms of the Superior Courts of said counties shall be as follows: The Fall term of the Superior Court of Gwinnett county shall convene on the first Monday in September, instead of on the second Monday in October as now provided by law. And the

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Fall term of Clarke Superior Court shall convene on the secon Monday in October, instead of the third Monday in November as now provided by law. And that all writs, processes, summonses and all other papers pertaining to said courts shall be made returnable accordingly. Terms changed. Gwinnett. Clarke. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. CHANGING TERMS OF HALL SUPERIOR COURT. No. 158. An Act to change and fix the time of holding the Superior Court in the county of Hall. SECTION I. 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 times of holding the Superior Court of Hall county shall be on the third Monday in January, and the third Monday in July instead of as now provided by law, and that the Court hold two weeks at each term if necessary. Terms changed to third Mondays in January and July. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all petitions, writs, summonses, mesne and final processes, and all other proceedings of whatever kind now pending in, or returnable to said Superior Court as the terms are now fixed, shall hold good, relate to, and be returnable by virtue of this Act, to the terms of said court as provided for herein. Return of writs, processes, etc. SEC. III. 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 December 26, 1888.

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TITLE VI. MISCELLANEOUS. ACTS Authorizing Graduates of Law Department of Emory College to Practice in State Courts. Amending the Common School Law. Accepting Congressional Donation for Agricultural Experimental Station. Defining Blackmail, and prescribing penalty therefor. Granting certain privileges to Building and Loan Associations. Requiring Corporations to redeem Certificates of Indebtedness. Establishing Agricultural Experiment Station. AUTHORIZING GRADUATES OF LAW DEPARTMENT OF EMORY COLLEGE TO PRACTICE IN STATE COURTS. No. 15. An Act to authorize the graduates of the Law Department of Emory College to plead and practice in the several courts of law and equity in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act any person having from the proper authorities of Emory College, in this State, a diploma of graduation in the Law Department of said College, shall be authorized to plead and practice in all the courts of law and equity in this State, without further examination, upon payment of the usual fees, and upon taking the oaths and receiving the license prescribed by law, and said graduates shall have the same rights, privileges and liabilities as are conferred and imposed by law on the graduates of the Law School of the University of Georgia. Law graduates of Emory. To plead and practice, In same manner as those of State University. SEC. II. 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 December 12, 1888.

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AMENDING COMMON SCHOOL LAWS. No. 17. An Act to amend section 44 of an Act to amend, revise and consolidate the common school laws of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes, approved October 27, 1887, by striking all of said section after the words was raised on the seventh line of said section. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 44 of the Act to amend, revise and consolidate the common school laws of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes, approved October 27, 1887, be and the same is hereby amended by striking all of said section after the words was raised in the seventh line of said section, so that said section, when amended, will read as follows: That all poll tax collected in this State shall, from and after the passage of this Act, be paid over to the County School Commissioners of the several counties of this State, and be, by the County Boards of Education in the several counties of this State paid out, without any deduction for fees or salaries of officers, to the support of the common schools in the respective counties where said poll tax was raised. Act of Oct. 27, 1887, amended. Part of section stricken. Section as amended. SEC. II. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 13, 1888. ACCEPTING CONGRESSIONAL DONATION FOR AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL STATION. No. 85. An Act accepting for the State of Georgia the donation by the United States of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, which is an annual appropriation, under the Acts of Congress approved respectively March 2, 1887, and July 18, 1888, for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862, and of the Acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the State of Georgia hereby accepts the donation by the United States of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, which is an annual appropriation,

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under the Acts of Congress approved respectively March 2, 1887, and July 18, 1888, for the establishment of Agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States, under the provisions of an Act approved July 2, 1862, and of the Acts supplementary thereto, upon the terms and conditions and for the purposes therein set forth and prescribed. United States' donation of $15,000, unnually, accepted. For Agricultural Experiment Station. Approved December 24, 1888. DEFINING BLACKMAIL AND PRESCRIBING PENALTY THEREFOR. No. 94. An Act to amend the proviso to the Act approved October e, 1887, which defines the offense of blackmail, and prescribes the penalty therefor, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted, That the proviso to the Act approved October 3, 1887, which defines the offense of blackmail, and prescribes the penalty therefor, be amended as follows: By adding after the word any and before the word presentment in the second line of the proviso, the words, case under this Act before, so that said proviso will read when amended, as follows: Provided that no court in this State shall have jurisdiction to inquire into any case under this Act before presentment made, or indictment found by the grand jury of the county in which the offence has been committed. Proviso to Act of Oct. 3, 1887, amended Certain words added. Proviso as amended. SEC. II. Be it enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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GRANTING CERTAIN PRIVILEGES TO BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. No. 107. An Act to authorize and empower Building and Loan Associations and other like associations of this State, to lend money to persons, not members nor shareholders, at eight per cent, or less, and to aggregate the principal and interest at the date of the loan for the entire period of the loan, and to divide the sum of the principal and the interest for the entire period of the loan into monthly or other installments, and to take security, by mortgage, with waiver of exemption, or title or both upon, and to city, town and suburban property, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That all Building and Loan Associations, and other like associations, now organized and doing business in this State, and that may hereafter organize and do business in this State be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to lend money to persons not members thereof, nor shareholders therein, at eight per cent. or less, and to aggregate the principal and interest at the date of the loan for the entire period of the loan, and to divide the sum of the principal and the interest for the entire period of the loan into monthly or other installments and to take security by mortgage with waiver of exemption or title, or both, upon and to real estate situated in the cities or towns and their suburbs in which said Building and Loan Association may be located. Authorized to aggregate principal and interest on loans. To be paid by installments. With security. SEC. II. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all contracts made and securities taken in accordance with this Act, shall be valid for the full amount of principal and interest charged and shall not be held usurious. Such contracts not usurious. SEC. III. Nothing in this Act shall be held to apply to any Building and Loan Association heretofore incorporated, unless said Association shall, by a vote of a majority of its stockholders, adopt the provisions of this Act as an amendment to its charter. Act not to apply unless stockholders adopt. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act, in so far as they are inconsistant with the same, be and they are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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REQUIRING CORPORATIONS TO REDEEM CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS. No. 146. An Act to require any corporation or person doing business in this State, to redeem in cash any checks, script or other written evidences of indebtedness for the wages of laborers. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, any corporation or person doing business of any kind in this State, and who shall issue checks, script or other written evidences of indebtedness for the wages of laborers, shall be required to redeem at full value in cash, such checks, script or other written evidences of indebtedness, on demand and presentation to the proper person on the regular monthly pay day, and if there be no regular monthly pay day, then upon such demand and presentation on any regular business day, after thirty days from the issuance thereof; and for every failure to redeem such check, script or other written evidences of indebtedness, said corporation or person shall be liable to the owner thereof in the sum of Ten Dollars to be recovered by suit upon proper case made in court, unless said corporation or person shall, upon the trial, prove insolvency or actual inability to redeem at the time of demand and presentation as aforesaid. Issues of checks or company script. Must be redeemed at par, On pay-day Or after thirty days. Penalty for failure. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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ESTABLISHING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. No. 166. An Act to establish in this State an experimental station and an experimental farm to be known as the Georgia Experiment Station, to provide for a Board of Directors for the location and management of the same, to apply the annual donation made by the Federal Congress in the Acts approved March 2, 1887, and July 18, 1888 (providing for the establishment in the several States of agricultural experiment stations), of fifteen thousand dollars to the support and maintenance of the same; to appropriate a sum of money to carry this Act into effect, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That there shall be established in this State an experiment station and an experimental farm to be known as the Georgia Experiment Station. Georgia Experiment Station established. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That within thirty days after the passage of this Act, the Governor shall appoint a Board of Directors, who shall be charged with the control and general management of the said Georgia Experiment Station. The Governor shall select one member of this Board from each congressional district, and the selection shall be made from the practical and successful farmers of said districts, respectively. The Commissioner of Agriculture, for the time being shall be ex-officio the President, the Chancellor of the University of Georgia, for the time being (if for any cause there be no Chancellor, then the acting chairman of the university faculty), and a member of the faculty of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, annually to be designated by the Governor, shall be ex-officio members of said Board of Directors. Thirty days from the date of their appointment, the members of said Board shall meet at the Capital, on the call of the Governor, and shall proceed to organize by electing one of their members as Secretary. Thereupon, they shall draw for their respective terms of office, namely: Two for a term of one year, two for two years, two for three years, two for four years, and two for five years. Annually thereafter, the Governor shall appoint two members for a term of five years. Board of Directors to be appointed by Governor. Of whom composed. To organize thirty days from appointment. Terms of office. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at its first meeting said Board of Directors shall give sixty days notice, in not less than three newspapers of this State, that said Board will receive bids or proposals from counties, communities or persons, to donate lands and buildings, or lands or money, for

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the purpose of inducing the establishing at a given point of said Georgia Experiment Station. In selecting a site for said station the Board shall have reference to the central portion of the State and the accessibility of the place offered, the healthfulness of the locality and the adaptability of the land to represent the variety of soils in this State. The said Board shall dispose of all questions involved in the proposals that may be made as their judgment may dictate to be for the best interests of the State. The Board's choice of a site shall be communicated to the Governor, and the necessary papers shall be executed and duly recorded and filed in the office of the Secretary of State. The property which may come into the possession of the said Board, under the terms of this section, shall be the property of the State of Georgia. Bids or proposals for location to be invited, Of lands, buildings or money. Site must be central and accessible. Property acquired as site to belong to State. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Directors shall be, and the same is [Illegible Text] constituted a body corporate with continued succession of members, with power to purchase property for the purposes of this Act, receive property by bequest or donation, sell the products of said Georgia Experiment Station, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in the name and for the benefit of this State. In the event no acceptable response is made to the advertisement authorized by the provisions of section 3 of this Act, the Board shall proceed to purchase a site for said Georgia Experiment Station at some central point in this State: Provided, that a purpose to purchase, receive, or sell as authorized by this Act, shall first have been formally made known in detail to the Governor, and shall have received his endorsement and approval. Board incorporated. If no local offer acceepted Site to be purchased. Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a minute record of all receipts and expenditures of money shall be kept by the Board, and shall quarterly be submitted to the Governor for his inspection. Record kept. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the specific object of said Georgia Experiment Station shall be to determine the capacity of new plants for acclimation; the manurial value of tertilizers and composts; making soil tests, and testing the purity and vitality of seeds; examining grasses and other plants; investigating the growth, requirements and comparative value of different crops; studying the economic production of milk and butter, and of conducting such other tests, and making such other investigations and experiments in the field as are suggested in an Act of the Federal Congress, approved March 2, 1887, entitled, an Act to establish Agricultural Experiment Stations, etc., as may bear upon questions connected with either the science or the practice of agriculture. In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Board of Directors shall employ one superintendent and such other employes as may be necessary for

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the proper conduct of said Georgia Experiment Station in its several branches or departments. Objects of station. Superintendent and employes. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That wherever located, said Georgia Experiment Station shall be regarded as connected with the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, established under an Act approved February 27, 1875, and nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent or forbid the Board of Directors of the Georgia Experiment Station locating the experimental farm at one point and the laboratory or scientific branch or department of the said Georgia Experiment Station at some other point. Farm and Laboratory may be separated. SEC VIII Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any and all purchases of apparatus, etc., made by the trustees of the University of Georgia with the first fifteen thousand dollars, any moneys subsequently drawn which passed into their hands from the United States, under the provisions of the Acts of Congress, approved respectively March 2, 1887, and July 18, 1888, and by reason of an executive order from the Governor of this State, dated June 14, 1888, shall be subject to the order of the Board of Directors herein before provided for, to be used by the latter in furtherance of the provisions of this Act. Present equipment to be Subject to order of Board. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all future annual appropriations under the Act of Congress, approved March 2, 1887 and July 18, 1888, shall be drawn by the Governor and held to the order of said Board of Directors, to be used by them in the terms of Acts of Congress herein mentioned, and of this Act. Future appropriations. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, the sum of five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of moneys arising from the inspection fees on guanos, and said five thousand dollars as aforesaid, shall be set apart and applied as herein prescribed, next after the general provision for the salary of the Commissioner of Agriculture and of his clerk, and superior to all other claims upon the fund arising from said inspection fees The said sum of five thousand dollars shall be paid to the Board of Directors on the warrant of the Governor, based on the certified statement of said Board, showing that the money is to be used in pursuance of the provisions of this Act. Payments shall be made from time to time, as the necessities of the case may demand. $5,000 [Illegible Text] From inspection fees. Paid on Governor's warrant. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Directors shall prescribe rules and regulations for its own government, and for the government of all persons who may be employed at said station as aforesaid. The said Board shall fix the salaries of the officers and employes of said station. Board to fix salaries and preseribe rules

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Bi-ennially, the said Board shall make, through the Commissioner of Agriculture, a full report to the Governor at the same time reports from State House officers are submitted; and quarterly, through the Department of Agriculture, said Board shall publish the results achieved at said Georgia Experiment Station on the line indicated in section six of this Act. Biennial report. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall meet quarterly for the transaction of business. The members shall be paid their necessary traveling expenses and board bills, while in actual attendance upon the duties of their office. These expense statements of the individual members shall be duly certified by themselves, and must have the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture. Upon presentation of these statements, the Governor shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the necessary amount, the same to be paid by the Treasurer out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. The Board shall not continue in session at the expense of the State a longer time than two days at each quarterly meeting. The Board shall fix, from time to time, its own place of meeting in the State. Quarterly meetings Expenses paid. Two-day sessions. SEC. XIII. 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 December 29, 1888.

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Part II.Corporations. TITLE I.BANKS, INSURANCE, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES. TITLE II.RAILROAD COMPANIES, DUMMY AND HORSE CAR LINES.

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TITLE I. BANKS, INSURANCE, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES. ACTS. Incorporating the Darien Bank. Incorporating the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank of Hogansville. Incorporating the Atlanta Exchange and Banking Company. Incorporating the Jackson Banking Company. Amending Charter of Central Trust and Banking Company of Georgia. Incorporating the Upson Banking and Trust Company. Incorporating the Washington Exchange Bank. Incorporating the Exchange Bank of Fort Valley. Incorporating the State Savings Association. Incorporating the Bank of Cordele. Incorporating the Dow Law Bank. Incorporating the Putnam County Banking Company. Incorporating the Harrold Banking Company. Incorporating the Columbus Savings Bank. Providing for Surrender of Securities of the Cotton States' Life Insurance Company. Incorporating the Monroe County Alliance Exchange Warehouse and Banking Company. Incorporating the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company. Changing name of Georgia Security Investment Company to the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company. Incorporating the Home Loan and Banking Company of Atlanta. Incorporating the Merchants' Bank of Valdosta. Incorporating the Bank of Quitman. Incorporating the Swainsboro Bank. Incorporating the Thomasville Exchange and Banking Company. Incorporating the Home Loan and Banking Company. Incorporating the Bank of Madison.

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INCORPORATING THE DARIEN BANK. No. 8. An Act to incorporate the Darien Bank, and for other purposes connected therewith. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That Adam Strain, James K. Clarke, Charles O. Fulton, Wm. H. Atwood, James Walker, James L. Foster, R. G. Erwin, Jesse C. Woodhull, and such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them and their successors and assigns, shall hereafter be a body politic and corporate with continuous succession under the name and style of The Darien Bank, and by said corporate name shall be competent in law to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter involved; to receive, purchase, own, hold and use property of all descriptions, and alien, convey, lease and mortgage and otherwise dispose of the same in any manner that a natural person might lawfully dispose of similar property. Said corporation shall have power to make, use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, make by-laws not inconsistent with laws of the land, and do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and to exercise in general all the powers incident to corporations and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated. The said corporation shall be located in Darien in this State. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of the corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to be divided into shares of fifty dollars ($50) each; but it shall have power, after said stock shall have been paid up, to increase its said capital stock, from time to time, to any sum not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) whenever it may be deemed expedient by the stockholders in meeting assembled, two-thirds of the entire stock being voted in favor of such increase before the same can be effected. Said corporation is hereby authorized to commence business as soon as twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall be paid in upon said capital stock, and the Board of Directors shall be authorized to call in the balance of said capital stock in such installments and at such times as may be deemed necessary by said Board. Capital stock. Increase. Beginning business. Installments. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any three of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, with power to open books of subscription to said capital stock at such times and places, and for such

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length of time as they may deem best, and when fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of stock shall have been subscribed for, ten dollars ($10) on each share shall be at once paid in cash to said commissioners, and thereupon the said commissioners shall cause notice to be given to the subscribers by publication in a newspaper published in the city of Darien, at least one week prior to the time appointed for the meeting of the subscribers, requiring them to assemble at the time and place to be designated in the publication, to organizie this corporation, and to elect a Board of Directors. On the assembling of the subscribers, or such of them as may choose to attend, in person or by written proxy, they shall proceed to hold an election for the first Board of Directors (which shall consist of such number as the subscribers may determine, not less than five, nor more than nine) for this corporation, under the supervision of said commissioners, who shall declare the result of said election and turn over to the Board so elected, the money subscribed on account of said stock, the charter and subscription lists, and thereupon this corporation will be organized. All subscriptions to the capital stock shall be binding upon the subscribers and upon their heirs, assigns and legal representatives, and shall be payable at such times and in such installments as the Directors may require, the Board of Directors giving at least one notice in a public gazette published in the city of Darien, ten days prior to the day fixed for the payment of such installments; and if any stockholder shall fail to pay any such installment so called for, for thirty days after the time designated in such call, his stock shall be in default, and the Board of Directors shall cause same to be sold out to the highest bidder for cash on the first Tuesday of any month, before the court-house door in Darien, during the legal hours of sale, by an auctioneer, if necessary, upon such notice and advertisement as may be deemed proper by the Board, and said stock may be bought in by and for said corporation, and be re-issued to some other subscriber upon his paying up the value of same, including the amount of the call, the delinquent stockholder receiving the surplus, if any, which said defaulted stock may bring at such sale, over and above the expenses incident upon said sale, advertisement charges and attorneys' fees, if any, and the amount of said call; and any deficiency in the sum thus received, necessary to make the amount of the call and all said expenses, advertisement charges and attorneys' fees shall be made good to said corporation by said delinquent stockholder. A new certificate of stock shall be issued to the purchaser, and he shall stand in the same relation to said corporation as the delinquent would have done had he not so made default. If installments are paid during the said thirty (30) days the stockholder so paying shall also pay interest at the rate of eight (8) per centum per annum upon said installments from the date of the maturity of said

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call to date of payment as aforesaid. Each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock standing in his or her name at all elections for directors, including the organization meeting, or in any convention of stockholders, and such vote may be given in person or by written proxy, duly appointed. All votes shall be by ballot at any elections (including the organization meeting) and a plurality of votes shall elect. Books of subscription. Cash installment. Notice of meeting Organization. First Directors. Effect of subscriptions. Payment. Failure to pay. Sale for default. New certificate issued. Vote of stockholders. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the corporate powers of said corporation shall be visited in and exercised by the Board of Directors, who shall serve one year, and until the election of their successors, except the first Board, which shall serve until their successors are elected, and who shall choose out of their own number a president and vice-president, and shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in said Board, and shall appoint such officers and clerks as may in their judgment be necessary, fix their salaries and define the duties of such officers and clerks, and remove them when it seems to said Board proper to do so, requiring of any officer or agent so appointed such bond and security as may be deemed by said Board proper to secure the faithful discharge by him of his duties and of the results reposed in him. Said Board of Directors shall have power to make by-laws for the management of the affairs of said corporation, and do all things necessary for the protection of its interests, in conformity with the provisions of this Act, subject to revision, modification or repeal by the stockholders in meeting or convention assembled. The Directors shall have power to declare dividends out of the earnings of said corporation: Provided, that no dividends shall be declared until the earnings are sufficient to pay the same after deducting all expenses and losses, and after placing at least ten per cent. of such net earnings annually to a permanent surplus fund until such surplus fund shall be equal to twenty (20) per cent. of the capital paid in. No person shall be eligible as a Director who does not own in his own name at least twenty shares of the stock unpledged and unincumbered, and whenever it shall become known to the Board that any Director has ceased to be the owner of twenty shares of stock, unpledged, and unincumbered as aforesaid, the Board shall, as soon as possible thereafter, declare such person to be no longer a director, and shall fill such vacancy in the Board. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than five nor more than nine, a majority of whom shall be residents of Darien, Georgia and a majority of those known to be in the city at the time of any meeting of the Board, including the president and vice-president, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. Certificates of stock shall be issued to the stockholders in such form and transferred in such manner as the Directors may prescribe, but no transfer or assignments of shares shall operate to release any stockholder from any obligation to the corporation

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without the consent of the Board. The regular annual meeting of stockholders for the election of Directors shall be held at the principal office of the corporation in Darien, Georgia, on the first Tuesday in January of each year; but if no election shall be held on that day, it may be held on any subsequent day selected by the Board of Directors, notice for one week in all cases of election held after the regular meeting day having been given in a news paper published in the city of Darien; and if the Board of Directors should, within thirty days after the said first Tuesday in January, fail to make a call for the meeting for election as above, then the stockholders representing two-thirds of the shares may do so on same notice as above. Directors. Term. Officers. Powers as to agents, etc. General authority of Board of Directors. Dividends. Proviso. Qualifieations of Directors. Vacancies. Number. Residence. Quorum. Transfers of stock. Annual meetings of stockholders. Notice. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That any member of the stockholders of said corporation who own, or represent at the time, two-fifths of the capital stock, may, by giving twnety days' notice thereof in the newspaper published in the city of Darien, call a meeting or convention of all the stockholders of the corporation, at such time and place in the city of Darien, as may be in such call designated, but no act of the stockholders in such meeting or convention except the election of directors, shall be valid or binding on the corporation, unless a majority of the stockholders in value shall be represented; nothing herein provided for shall prevent the Board of Directors from calling a meeting or convention of the stockholders whenever said board may deem it proper to do so. Called meetings of stockholders. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the Darien Bank shall have power and authority to receive money on deposit (and to issue certificates of deposit) on any terms agreed on; to loan and borrow money, and to take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best; to make advances on real or personal property, or both; to invest its funds in such manner and upon such terms as it may deem best, and to transfer its property at pleasure; to receive valuables or other articles of personal property of any sort or kind, including certificates of stock, securities and other evidence of the same, or of titles thereto, on deposit for safe-keeping from any person or persons, as well as from executors, administrators, guardians, receivers, trustees, corporations, public and private officers, and all other fiduciaries, the said corporation charging and receiving therefor such sums of money as may be agreed upon; to deal in precious metals, foreign and domestic exchange; to buy, sell, discount or collect promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, contracts, claims, receipts, rents, chose-in-action of any kind whatsoever, mortgages, bonds, stocks, securities and evidences of debt generally; to buy, sell, rent, improve, mortgage, lease, manage, or otherwise to have, hold, operate in or control any real or personal property in this or any other

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State or territory of the United States; to receive deposits of money for investment purposes on terms agreed on, and to issue receipts or certificates therefor; to negotiate, buy or sell for others, stocks, bonds, bills of exchange, promissory notes, rents, mortgages, choses-in-action, securities and personalty of all kinds, and real estate in this or in any other State or territory of the United States; to advance and loan money on the same, and to negotiate advances and loans upon same, and invest funds for others generally upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between said corporation and those with whom it may deal; to receive from persons or corporations mortgages or deeds conveying property, real or personal, in trust to said corporation, securing negotiable notes and bonds, with or without coupons, not bearing a greater interest than the highest contract rate fixed by law of this State, upon such terms and subject to such powers, conditions and limitations as may be agreed on, or be required by the by-laws, or by the Board of Directors of said corporation, and not in conflict with the laws of this State, and which terms, powers, limitations and conditions shall be made and subscribed by the persons and corporations so executing and delivering such mortgages or deeds in trust, and to sell or negotiate such notes or bonds so secured; or allow them to be sold or negotiated by such persons or corporations so executing and delivering same on such terms as may be agreed upon; to execute and issue its own debentures, bonds or other evidences of debt, bearing interest not exceeding the highest contract rate allowed by the laws of Georgia, singly or in series, or classes of any denomination properly secured, upon property placed with said corporation for said purposes, or upon property owned or held by it, to execute and to issue, demand, receive and enforce all such receipts, certificates, contracts, bonds, or other instruments or writings as may be necessary for the transaction of its business; to receive savings on deposit under such requirements and regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, paying therefor such interest as may be agreed upon; to do a general banking, exchange, savings bank, loan and trust company business, and to do all acts as may be considered by it advisable and best for carrying on the same. General banking powers, etc. Discounts and collections. Deposits. Securities and real estate. Loans and advances. Mortgages and collateral. Negotiation of securities. Debentures and bonds. Savings deposits. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to act as fiscal agent for the State of Georgia, or for any other State, or for any county, city, town, corporation or municipality whatsoever, for negotiating, issuing, registering, selling and countersigning bonds, certificates of stock or other obligations, and for paying bonds, coupons, certificates of stock or other obligations, and generally for managing such business for such corporation as may be agreed upon. May be fiscal agent.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That married women and minors shall be competent to make deposits with said corporation of money or otherwise, and their checks or receipts for same shall be a sufficient discharge to said corporation, and any contract made by them with said corporation in course of business with said corporation as to said deposits shall be valid and binding in law, and such deposits shall not be subject to the claims, control or debts of the husbands respectively of such married women, or the parents or guardians respectively of such minors Deposits by married women and minors Inviolate by others. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have its principal office in the city of Darien, Georgia, but may do or transact business within its corporate scope anywhere in the United States of America, and the Board of Directors shall have power to establish agencies for the transaction of the business of said corporation at any place or places within the State of Georgia or elsewhere that they may deem advisable, and may appoint such agents or officers and delegate to them such powers as may be necessary for the business of such agencies or branches. Principal office, Darien. Agencies and agents. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets; and the stockholders shall be individually liable, equally and ratably, and not one for another, as sureties to the creditors of said corporation for all contracts and debts of said corporation to the extent of the amount of their stock therein (at the par value thereof) respectively, at the time the debt was created, in addition to the amount invested in such shares. Liability of corporation. Of stockholders. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the powers, franchises and privileges granted by this Act to said corporation shall not be repealed or changed so as to affect its power faithfully to execute and carry out any trust held by or contracts entered into by said corporation, or so as to injure any interest committed to its care and management, without the consent of all the stockholders, creditors and persons interested. Provision against alteration of corporate powers. SEC XII. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be of force and effect for the term of fifty (50) years from the date of the organization of said corporation. Term of charter. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 8, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE MERCHANTS' AND FARMERS' BANK OF HOGANSVILLE. No. 9. An Act to incorporate the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That W. S. Hendon, J. H. Covin, E. Mobley, C. K. Bass, and J. F. Mobley and such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate with continuous succession under the name and style of the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, and by said corporate name, shall be competent in law, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter involved, to receive, purchase, own, hold and use property and alien, convey, lease, mortgage and otherwise dispose of property in any manner, that a natural person might lawfully dispose of similar property. Said corporation shall have power to make, use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, make by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and do all other acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the object and purpose of this Act; and to exercise in general, all powers incident to such corporations and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated. Said corporation shall be located in Hogansville, county of Troup, and State of Georgia. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. Location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in section 1 of this Act, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said bank, and they or a majority of them, may cause books to be opened at such time and places as they shall direct for the purpose of receiving such subscription; and as soon as $20,000 of the capital stock is subscribed for by good, solvent parties, the commissioners or a majority of them, may call a meeting of the subscribers for the purpose of organizing, electing a Board of Directors, President and Cashier for said bank, and turn over the subscription list to the Board of Directors. Corporators made Commissioners Their duties. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be $50,000 divided into shares of $50 each, and each share shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote in all meetings of the stockholders. The capital stock may be increased to any amount, not more than $100,000 at any time by a vote of two thirds of the stock. Capital stock.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said corporation, are hereby authorized to organize the Bank and proceed to business as soon as $20,000 of the capital stock have been subscribed for and paid in by good and solvent parties, and the Directors shall elect from their own body, a presiding officer, who shall be styled Vice-President of said Bank. The Board of Directors may fill, by election, any vacancy that may occur from any cause in their own body, pass by-laws to govern their own body, define the duties of the Cashier, declare dividends when earned, either semi-annually or annually, call the stockholders together at their annual meeting, or at a call meeting when necessary. Organization. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money and other valuables on deposit, to loan and to borrow money, to take and to give therefor such security as they may deem best, to purchase, and discount, and collect notes and bills of exchange, and to do all other acts in general banking business. General banking powers. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That each stockholder shall be individually liable for the debts and obligations of said corporation, to the extent of his or her paid in stock, at its par value, and in addition thereto, shall be liable for all debts and obligations of said corporation, to the extent of his or her capital stock, equally and ratably and not one for another. Liability of each stock-holder. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall issue or cause to be issued, to each stockholder certificates of stock representing his or her interest, and such shall be bound to said corporation, for any dues or balances on said stock, or other indebtedness to the said corporation and a lien is hereby declared upon the same, of the highest dignity, and no stockholder shall transfer his or her stock, except by a consent in writing of the Board of Directors of said corporation; if he or she is indebted to said corporation as principal or security or otherwise until such indebtedness is fully paid off, and all sales and transfers of stock in said corporation must, in order to be valid, be entered on the books of said corporation by the owner of said stock or his lawfully appointed attorney in fact. Certificates of stock' how issued and bound. Sale of stock. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the stockholders shall, at their first meeting, elect seven Directors, who shall hold their office for one year or until their successors are elected and qualified, four of whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business. The annual meeting of the stockholders shall be the fifteenth day of January, at which time they shall elect President, Cashier and Directors as aforesaid, and no election shall be valid unless a majority of the whole stock is represented, and in case said officers and directors are not elected on the date of the annual election, it shall be the duty of the Directors then in office to call a meeting

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of the stockholders at the earliest date convenient thereafter, for the purpose of electing officers and Directors. Directors. Stockholders' meeting to elect officers. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall prepare, or have the Cashier to prepare and lay before the stockholders at their annual meeting, a statement of the business and condition of the bank, showing its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns, under oath, as are now required to be made by law, to the Governor of the State of Georgia. Statement of condition to be made stock holders. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the rights and privileges granted by this Act shall be valid and remain in force for the term of twenty years from the date of the approval hereof with the privilege of renewal. Term of charter. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 8, 1888. INCORPORATING THE ATLANTA EXCHANGE AND BANKING COMPANY. No. 12. An Act to incorporate the Atlanta Exchange and Banking Company, to define its powers, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That James D. Collins, William S. Thomson, A. T. McIntyre, Jr., W. H. Venable, Samuel H. Venable, W. H. Holcombe, H. L. Wilson, C. W. Hunnicutt, their associates, successors and assigns be, and they are hereby constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, under the corporate name and style of Atlanta Exchange and Banking Company, and by said corporate name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, receive, purchase, own, hold and use property of all descriptions, and alien, convey, lease and mortgage, and otherwise dispose of same in any manner that a natural person might lawfully dispose of similar property. Said corporation shall have power to make, use, renew and alter at pleasure, a corporate seal; make by laws not inconsistent with the laws of this State or the United States, and do any and all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and to exercise in general, all the powers incident to corporations, particularly banking, loan and trust, fidelity, and exchange companies, and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated, including

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the rights, powers and privileges enumerated and set forth in sections 6, 7, 8 and 11, of the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 18, 1886, incorporating the Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company, the language of which said sections is hereby adopted and made a part of this Act as though fully set forth herein, except the words, The Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted. That the principal place of business of said corporation shall be the city of Atlanta, but it may establish branches or agencies at other places in said State or elsewhere, and delegate to them such powers as may be necessary for properly transacting the business of such branches or agencies. Principal office. Agencies. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, divided into five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the capital stock to five hundred thousand dollars, or five thousand shares, the increase to be made in the manner prescribed by the by-laws; and the incorporators or a majority of them, are authorized and empowered to open books of subscription for said stock, which shall be paid in by the subscribers or stockholders, in monthly installments, and in such sums as may be determined by the Board of Directors, not to be less than two dollars per share, and such payments shall continue until the amounts paid shall be one hundred dollars per share: Provided, any stockholder, with the consent of a majority of the Directors, shall have the right to pay the entire amount subscribed for, or due by him, at any time, and he may receive such interest on advance payments as the Board of Directors may see fit to allow. Capital stock. Subscription books. Proviso. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That as soon as five hundred shares shall be subscribed for, and the sum of ten thousand dollars paid in on said stock, the stockholders shall have the right to organize the corporation under this Act and transact business. At the first, or any subsequent meeting of the stockholders, called by a majority of the corporators, a Board of Directors, of not less than three nor more than seven, shall be elected to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. A majority of the Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Organization. Directors. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the corporate powers of said corporation shall be vested in and exercised by the Board of Directors, who shall serve one year and until the election of their successors, except the first Board, which shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. They shall choose out of their own number, a President and Vice-President, and shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in said Board, and shall appoint such officers, agents and clerks, as may, in their judgment be necessary, fix their salaries and define their duties, and remove them

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whenever it seems to said Board proper to do so, requiring of any officer or agent so appointed, such bond and security as may be deemed proper by said Board, to secure the faithful discharge by him of his duties and of the trusts reposed in him. Said Board of Directors shall have power to make by-laws for the management of the affairs of said corporation, and do all things necessary for the protection of its interests in conformity with the provisions of this Act, subject to revision, modification or repeal by the stockholders at an annual meeting. No stockholder shall be eligible as Director who is not the owner, in his own right, of at least ten shares of the capital stock of said corporation. Terms of service. Officers. Agents and clerks. Bond required. By-laws. Qualification of Director. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have the first lien upon the stock or shares of each stockholder for any indebtedness that the stockholder may owe, or be liable for, to the corporation, whether by over-draft, note, acceptance, endorsement, security, or otherwise, but it shall make no loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock. Lien on stock. Company's stock no collateral. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have authority to establish an exchange department with full power to do any and all acts usual, proper or beneficial, in the conduct of real estate or other exchanges. It may make loans on real estate or personal property, or other security at any rate of interest that may be contracted for in writing, not exceeding the highest rate allowed by law, and may charge interest for the whole time and include the same in the note or notes, mortgage, deed or other security given therefor, and collect the same by monthly installments or otherwise, without any rebate of interest thereon, the debtor so agreeing thereto by executing the note or notes, mortgage, deed or other security aforesaid. Exchange department. Loans on real estate. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and the stockholders shall be individually liable equally and ratably, and not one for another, as sureties, to the creditors of said corporation, for all contracts and debts of said corporation, to the extent of the amount of their stock therein (at the par value thereof) respectively, at the time the debt was created, in addition to the amount invested in such shares, or subscribed therefor. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be of force and effect for the term of fifty years from the date of the organization of said corporation. Term of charter. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 8, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE JACKSON BANKING COMPANY. No. 18. An Act to incorporate the Jackson Banking Company at Jackson; Georgia, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted, That W. S. Withams, F. S. Etheridge, A. H. Smith, Joseph R. Wright, W. M. Mallet, Joel B. Watkins, W. G. Soloman, and L. T. Roberts, and such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of the Jackson Banking Company, to be located in the town of Jackson. Corporators. Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when there shall be twenty-five thousand dollars of said capital stock subscribed, and fifty per cent. of the twenty-five thousand dollars actually paid in, (in law-ful money of the United States), the said company may organize and proceed to business under this Act. Capital stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That when the subscriptions authorized in the second section of this Act, shall amount to twenty-five thousand dollars in money of the United States shall have been received by the Commissioners provided for in this Act, on account of subscriptions, then the said subscribers shall be and become a body corporate and politic of continued succession, under the name of the Jackson Banking Company, and that by that name shall exercise corporate powers, and be competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter involved: and shall be capable of receiving and purchasing, holding real and personal property so far as may be necessary for the safe and convenient prosecution of the business of said bank, as a bank of deposit and discount, and said bank shall have power to make and use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal and do all things necessary and proper to carry into effect the object and purposes of this Act, and the business of said corporation not inconsistent with the laws of this State and of the United States. Organization. General corporate powers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money of deposit, to loan and borrow money, to take and give therefor such security as may be considered best, to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange and do all other acts it may deem advisable for the safe keeping and secure and profitable investments of its funds. Banking powers.

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the total liabilities to said bank of any person or any company, corporation or firm for money borrowed, including (the liabilities of a company or firm) the liabilities of the several members thereof shall at no time exceed one-tenth of capital stock of said bank, but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith and the discount of commercial paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same shall not be considered as borrowed money: Provided, also, that no member of the Board of Directors shall be permitted to become indebted to the same in excess of ten per cent. of its capital stock. Limitation of liabilities. Exception Proviso. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the directory of said bank may semi-annually declared a dividend of so much of the net profits as they shall deem expedient: but before declaring such dividend, they shall carry one-tenth of its net profits of the preceding half year to its surplus fund until the same shall amount to twenty per cent. of its capital stock paid in, but it shall not be lawful for them to create or accumulate a surplus of profits exceeding one hundred per cent. of their paid in capital, and said capital stock and surplus and assets of every kind shall be liable for any and all debts of the company, and in addition thereto the stockholders shall be individually liable for any debts of the company to the full extent of their unpaid shares, that said bank shall be responsible to the creditors of the same to the full extent of its corporate property, and each stockholder shall be individually liable for the ultimate payment of the debts of said corporation to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by him, and the rights and privileges hereinbefore granted shall be valid and in effect for fifty years. Dividends. Surplus fund. Liability of company. Liability of stockholders. Term of charter. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall issue to each stockholder certificates of stock, truly representing his or her interest, and such stock shall be held bound to the company for any dues or other indebtedness by said stockholder to the company, and no stockholder, who may be indebted to said bank, either as principal, endorser or security, shall, while so indebted, sell or transfer the stock held by him or her without the consent of the President and Directors of said bank; and all sales and transfers of the stock in said bank must, in order to be valid, be made on the books of the company by the owner of stock, or his lawfully appointed attorney-in-fact. Stockhow issued and held. Transfers. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of Directors, not less than five nor more than nine, and each one an owner of not less than two shares of said stock in his own name, one of whom shall be elected President. Said Board shall have power to elect a Vice-President and Cashier and such other officers as the interest of the business of said bank may require; and shall declare

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by-laws for their government, fixing the number of Directors, and the days of meeting of said board, and the salaries of its officers. Directors. Qualifications. Officers, etc. By-laws. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the parties named in the first section of this Act or their successors or assigns, shall and they are hereby appointed commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank at such time and place and for such amounts as they or a majority of them shall deem proper, but for no less amount than twenty-five thousand dollars. The Directors of said bank shall be elected by a majority in interest of the stockholders of said bank voting at such election under the inspection of said commissioners, at such place as they may designate, within twenty days from the closing of the subscriptions called for by them, and on the second Tuesday in January in every year thereafter. No election shall be valid when a majority of the whole stock is not represented, and in any election for Directors, and in all questions that may come before any convention of stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars of stock shall entitle the owner to one vote, and it shall be the duty of the President, Vice-President, or Cashier of said bank to prepare and lay before the stockholders thereof semi-annual statements of the business and condition of the bank, its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns under oath to the Governor of the State as are now required by law to be made. Books of subscription. Directors elected by majority interest. Time. One vote per share. Statements and returns. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 15, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF CENTRAL TRUST AND BANKING COMPANY OF GEORGIA. No. 24. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to Incorporate the Central Trust and Banking Company of Georgia, and to Define its Powers, Rights and Duties, and for other purposes, approved October 24, 1887, by striking from the title of said Act the words and banking where they occur in said title. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited Act be so amended as to strike from the title thereof the words, and banking where the same occur in said title; so that the title to said Act, when so amended, shall read as follows: An Act to Incorporate the Central Trust

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Company of Georgia, and to define its powers, rights, and duties, and for other purposes. Act of Oct. 24, 1887, amended. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 15, 1888. INCORPORATING THE UPSON BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY. No. 31. An Act to incorporate the Upson Banking and Trust Company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That G. A. Weaver, J. A. Cotten, and E. A. Flewellen, and their associates, and successors and assigns are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic under the name and style of the Upson Banking Trust Company, and by said corporate name shall be competent in law to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter involved; to receive, purchase, own, hold, and use property of all descriptions, and alien, convey, lease, mortgage, and otherwise dispose of the same in any manner that may lawfully be done by a natural person. Said corporation shall have power to make and use a common seal, and to renew and alter the same, make by-laws not inconsistent with law, and to do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and to exercise in general, all the powers incident to such corporations. Said corporation shall have its principal office in Thomaston, Georgia, but may do or transact business within its corporate scope anywhere in the United States of America, and the Board of Directors shall have power to establish agencies for the transaction of the business of said corporation at any place or places within the State of Georgia or elsewhere that they may deem desirable, and may appoint such agents or officers and delegate to them such powers as may be necessary for the business of such branches or agencies. Corporators. Name. General corporate powers. Principal office. Agents and agencies. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of this corporation shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege after said stock has been paid in, of increasing the capital stock from time to time to any sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, Provided the same shall have been authorized by a vote of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose. Capital stock. Increase. Proviso.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the corporators are hereby appointed commissioners to open books of subscription to said capital stock, and when twenty-five thousand dollars of said capital stock shall have been subscribed for, and twenty dollars on each share shall at once have been paid in cash to said commissioners, they shall cause notice to be given to the subscribers requiring them to assemble at a time and place to be named in the noticeto organize said corporation and to elect a board of directors. The commissioners shall superintend and declare the result of said election and turn over to the board so elected the subscription list, the money paid in on account of said stock, and the charter, and thereupon this corporation will be organized and ready for the transaction of business. At this and all other elections, the vote shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share standing in his or her name, in person or by proxy, and a majority of votes shall elect. Books of subscription. Organization. Representation and elections. All subscriptions to the capital stock shall be binding upon the subscribers and upon their heirs, assigns, and legal representatives, and shall be payable in such installments as the Directors may require. If any stockholder shall fail to pay any such installment in sixty days after the same is due, his stock shall be in default, and shall be sold to the highest bidder upon such notice and advertisement as may be prescribed in the by laws. Said stock may be bought in by and for said corporation, and be re-issued to some other person on payment of the value of the same. Any deficiency in the sum thus received, after paying all expenses of said sale, advertisement, and attorney's tees, shall be made good to said corporation by said delinquent stockholder. A new certificate of stock shall be issued to the purchaser, who shall stand in the same relation to said corporation as the delinquent would have done had he not so made default. If installments of stock are paid during said sixty days, the stockholder so paying shall pay interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the time said amounts were due. Effect of subscriptionswhen payable. Failure to pay. Sale for default. New certificate issued. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the corporate powers of said corporation shall be vested in and exercised by the Board of Directors, who shall serve for one year and till their successors are elected. They shall have power to fill vacancies that may occur in the Board, shall choose a President out of their own number, appoint such officers, clerks, and agents as are deemed necessary, fix their salaries, and define their duties and require such bond, or such security, or both, as may be thought proper to secure a faithful discharge of duties. They shall remove any officer, clerk, or agent so appointed when deemed proper to do so. Said Board shall have power to make by-laws, and do all things for the management and protection of the interest of said

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corporation, in conformity with this Act, but subject to revision, modification and repeal by the stockholders in meeting assembled. The Board shall consist of five stockholders; but the number may be increased to nine by a vote of the stockholders. A majority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Certificates of stock shall be issued to the stockholders in such form, and may be transferred in such manner, as the Directors may prescribe, but no transfers or assignments of shares shall operate to release any stockholder from any obligation to the corporation without the consent of the Board of Directors. The day for the annual meeting of stockholders for the election of officers and the manner of notice of such meetings shall be prescribed in the by-laws. Should the Directors fail to make a call for such meeting and election, then it may be done by the stockholders representing two-thirds of the capital stock, notice being given in the manner prescribed in the by-laws. Directors. Term. Officers, etc. Powers as to agents. Number and qualifications. Quorum. Transfers. Annual meetings. Notice. The Board of Directors may call a convention of stockholders whenever it may be deemed proper to do so. Called meetings by board: SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That any number of stockholders who own or control two fifths of the capital stock of said corporation, may at any time, call a meeting of stockholders by giving notice of the business to be transacted and the time and place of meeting in the manner prescribed in the by-laws. But no act of said meeting shall be binding unless a majority of the capital stock shall be represented. By stockholders. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That this corporation shall have all the rights and powers and be subject to all the liabilities granted and imposed in sections six, eight, ten and eleven of an Act to incorporate the Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company and for other purposes connected therewith, approved December 18, 1886. Further powers. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be of force and effect for the term of fifty years from the date of its organization. Term of charter. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 19, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE WASHINGTON EXCHANGE BANK. No. 40. An Act to incorporate the Washington Exchange Bank and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Boyce Ficklen, G. Y. Lowe, F. H. Colley, W. M. Sims, J. W. S. Lowe, T. M. Green and M. M. Sims and their associates, successors and assigns are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic under the name and style of the Washington Exchange Bank, said bank to be located in Washington, Georgia, and under said name to have perpetual succession, and under said name to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with, to have and use a common seal if they desire, and to alter the same at pleasure. Corporators. Name. Location. Corporate powers. SEC II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be forty thousand dollars divided into four hundred shares of one hundred dollars each with power in the Board of Directors, by a two-thirds vote of the same, to increase the capital stock to any amount, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and said corporation is authorized to commence business when twenty-five thousand dollars of the capital stock has been paid in. Capital stock. Increase. Beginning business. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said corporation is authorized to receive, purchase, own, hold, and use property of all descriptions, and to alien, sell, lease, convey and mortgage the same, to receive money on deposit and issue certificates of deposits therefor on any terms agreed upon; to loan and borrow money and to take and give such security as may be considered best; to invest its funds in such manner and upon such terms as it may think best; to transfer its property at the pleasure of the Board of Directors; to receive for safe keeping on deposit, money or valuables of any kind from any person, including guardians, executors, administrators, trustees, and other fiduciary agents, charging therefor such lawful compensation as may be agreed on, and allowing interest, if they think proper, on money deposits; to buy, sell, discount or collect promissory notes, bills of exchange, accounts, bills of lading, judgments, and any and all evidences of debt, and charge for the same; to receive mortgages, bills of sale, and deeds of trust to said bank; to receive savings on deposit under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, paying such lawful interest as may be agreed upon; to act as fiscal agent for any city, town, corporation or person for negotiating, issuing, selling, registering, countersigning bonds, certificates of stock, or other obligations; to give bond for titles to any person

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borrowing money from said bank, and to make such lawful charges as may be agreed upon for securing satisfactory investigation of titles, and recording deeds, mortgages, and other securities for debt; to make and establish by-laws and rules for the government of the corporation, and to do all acts and things necessary and proper to carry on the purposes of this Act and the business of the corporation, and not in conflict with the laws of this State or of the United States. General banking powers. Safe deposits. Discounts, collections, etc. Savings deposits. May act as fiscal agent. Real estate and collateral. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of Directors, which shall consist of not less than five, nor more than nine, who shall elect from their number a President; said Board of Directors, shall make and establish rules and by-laws for their government and the government of the corporation; shall select and appoint all the employes and agents of the corporation, including the Cashier, who may be a Director, fix the salaries of all such, and of any salaried officers, and may require such bond of any officer, Cashier, or other agent or employe, for the faithful performance of their duties as they think best; shall fix the number of Directors that shall constitute a quorum, and the times of meeting of said Board, and the time of the meetings of the stockholders of said bank. The Board of Directors shall be chosen by the stockholders of said corporation, except as hereinafter provided, and shall hold their office for one year or until their successors are elected and qualified. Until a Board of Directors are chosen by the stockholders, the persons named in the first section of this Act shall constitute the Board of Directors, and they or any of them chosen by a majority of the Board, their successors or assigns, are hereby appointed Commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank, at such time and place, and for such amount, and to such persons as they or a majority of them may determine. Directors. Number. President. Rules and by-laws. Agents and employes. Quorum. Time of meetings. Temporary board. Books of subscription. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That a majority of the stock must be represented in all stockholders' conventions, to render an election valid, and in the election of Directors, or any other election, and in all questions that come before a convention of the stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars shall be entitled to one vote which may be cast by the owner or his or her written proxy. Representation and elections. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall cause to be issued to each stockholder a certificate of stock truly representing his or her interest, and such stock shall be held bound to the bank, for any dues or indebtedness by said stockholder, and said bank shall have a lien upon such stock superior to all other liens, which lien may be enforced after demand for payment of said dues and indebtedness has been made by selling said stock at public outcry before the Court House door of the county in which said bank is located after advertising the sale for four weeks in the

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paper in which sheriff's sales of said county are advertised, said sales to be conducted as sheriff's sales, and no stockholder who may be in any wise indebted to said bank, whether as principal, security, endorser or otherwise, while so indebted, sell, transfer or dispose of his stock without consent of the Board of Directors and such transfer, sale or disposition, or any transfer, sale, or disposition by a stockholder of his or her stock in order to be valid must be made on the books of the corporation by the owner or his duly constituted attorney in fact, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed in the by-laws, and any other sale, transfer, or disposition is void as against the company. Stockholders. Enforcing payment. Sale for default. Transfers. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall elect one of their number as President, and said Board of Directors is authorized to fill any vacancies occuring in the Board between the times of the annual election of the Board of Directors. It shall be the duty of the President to prepare at least once a year, and as often as the Board of Directors may determine, a statement of the condition of the bank, showing its assets and liabilities, for the benefit of the stockholders, and to make such returns to the Governor as the law directs. President. Statement and returns by. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That all the assets of the bank shall be liable for its debts, and each stockholder shall be individually liable for the debts of the corporation to the extent of his or her unpaid stock subscription, and in addition thereto, each stockholder shall be individually liable for the debts of the bank equally and ratably, and not one for another in an amount equal to the par value of the stock owned by him or her at the time the debt was created. Liability of corporation. Of stockholders. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 22, 1888. INCORPORATING THE EXCHANGE BANK OF FORT VALLEY. No. 42. An Act to incorporate the Exchange Bank of Fort Valley, to confer certain powers and privileges upon the same, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That C. G. Gray, R. C. Harris, F. O. Miller, A. D. Skellie, J. F. Duke, T. O. Vinson, T. N. Fagan, W. G. Hartly, Zach Harper and such other persons as may become associated with them, and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted

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a body corporate under the name of The Exchange Bank of Fort Valley, and to be located in the town of Fort Valley, Houston County, Georgia. Corporators. Corporate name and location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said bank shall be ($25,000) twenty-five thousand dollars, said stock to be divided into shares of ($100.00) one hundred dollars each, with power after said twenty-five thousand dollars have been subscribed, to increase the capital stock from time to time to any sum not to exceed ($200,000) two hundred thousand dollars. The times and amounts of such increase to be determined by a two thirds vote of the stockholders in convention assembled, and two-thirds of the entire stock being voted in favor of such increase before the same can be effected. Said bank is hereby authorized to commence business as soon as (25 per cent) twenty-five per cent of the capital stock shall be paid in lawful money to the Board of Directors, who shall be authorized to call in the balance of said capital stock in such installments as may be agreed upon with the subscriber within twenty-four months from the date of his or their said subscription. Capital stock. Increase. Commencing business. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any three of them, are hereby appointed Commissioners with power to open books of subscription to said capital stock at such times and places, and for such length of time, as they may deem best. When ($15,000) fifteen thousand dollars of stock shall have been subscribed for, ten thousand dollars shall be paid at once to said Commissioners; thereupon said Commissioners shall cause notice to be given the subscribers requiring them to assemble at the time and place named in the notice, to organize said bank, and elect a Board of Directors. On assem bling of the subscribers they shall proceed to hold an election for a Board of Directors for said bank; each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock owned or subscribed for by him (at this and all other stockholders' meetings) and such vote must be cast in person or by written proxy, and a plurality of votes shall elect at all stockholders' meetings. The Commissioners shall declare the result of said election and turn over to said Board so elected, all money paid in on account of stock, together with the subscription books and this charter; thereupon this bank will be organized. Books of subscription. Organization. Board of Directors. Vote of stockholders. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That as soon as ($15,000) fifteen thousand dollars has been subscribed for and ten thousand dollars of the same has been paid in to the Directors in lawful money of the United States, said company of subscribers shall become a body corporate and politic, with continued succession under the name of The Exchange Bank of Fort Valley, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers, and be competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in

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any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter involved, and shall have power to take, receive, purchase and hold as security for or in payment of any loans or advances made, both real and personal property of any description whatsoever, so far as may be necessary for the safe and convenient prosecution of the business of said Exchange Bank, as a bank of discount and deposit, and may execute and issue all such receipts, contracts, certificates, deeds or other instruments as may be necessary, and said Exchange Bank shall have power to make and use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, and do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and the business of said Exchange Bank, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. General corporate powers. General banking powers. Corporate seal. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Exchange Bank shall have power to receive money on deposit and pay interest on the same as may be agreed upon with depositors, not to exceed the legal rate; to lend and borrow money, take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best; to purchase and discount notes, buy and sell bills of exchange, stocks, bonds, securities, and other evidences of indebtedness; to lend money for others and charge commissions for the same, and do all acts it may deem advisable and profitable investments of the funds of said bank in the exercise and enjoyment of its corporate powers. Deposits. Discounts, etc. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said bank shall be authorized and empowered to make and negotiate loans to any party or corporation for any length of time upon improved real estate security in this State; said loans to be secured by first mortgage or deeds, and upon all such loans it is hereby given the right to charge for expenses of investigating and abstracting titles, inspecting and reporting on property offered as security, such lawful sum in addition to interest as may be agreed upon by the borrower and said Exchange Bank corporation. Loans on real estate. Charges, etc. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the total liabilities to said Exchange Bank of any person, firm or corporation for money borrowed shall at no time exceed one-tenth part of the capital stock paid in, but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith, and the discount of commercial paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same shall not be considered borrowed money. Restriction on liabilities to. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the corporate and business powers of said bank shall be vested in and exercised by a Board of Directors who shall serve one year, and until the election of their successors, except the first board, which shall serve until their successors are elected. Each Board of Directors shall choose out of their own number a President, and shall have power to fill all vacancies that may

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occur on said Board, and shall appoint such officers and clerks as may in their judgment be necessary, fix their salaries, define their duties, and remove them from office whenever the interest and good of the bank seem to require it. They may require bond and security of any officer or clerk for the faithful performance of duty and the safety of the trusts committed to their care. Said Board of Directors shall have power to make by-laws for the management of the affairs of said bank, and do all things necessary for the protection of its interest in conformity with the provisions of this Act subject to revision or modification, or repeal by the stockholders in convention assembled. Directors. Officers, clerks, etc. By-laws. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Directors shall have power to declare dividends out of the net earnings of said bank, but no dividends shall be declared until the earnings are sufficient to pay the same after deducting all expenses and losses, and after placing at least (10 per cent) ten per cent. of the net earnings annually to a permanent surplus fund, until such surplus fund shall be equal to at least (20 per cent.) twenty per cent. of the capital stock paid in. No person shall be eligible as a Director who does not own (5) five or more shares of said Exchange Bank stock unpledged and unincumbered; and whenever it shall become known to the Board of Directors that a Director has ceased to be the owner of (5) five shares of said stock they shall declare such person no longer a Director, and shall fill such vacancy on the Board. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than (5) five nor more than (9) nine persons, a majority of whom shall be citizens of this State. Dividends. Surplus fund. Qualifications of Directors. Their number. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the annual meeting or convention of stockholders shall be held at such time and under such conditions and circumstances as may be fixed by the by-laws of the bank, but no act of any convention or meeting shall be valid unless a majority of the stock is represented at such meeting or convention. Annual meetings. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That said Exchange Bank shall have the right at its pleasure to open a savings department paying such interest on deposits as may be agreed upon by said Bank and the parties so depositing, and not in violation of the laws of this State. Savings department. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That married women and minors shall be competent to make deposits with said Exchange Bank of money or otherwise, and their checks or receipts for the same, shall be sufficient discharge to said bank, Provided, that nothing contained in this charter shall authorize a married woman to bind said deposits, by any contract of suretyship for any person, or by any assumption of the debts of her husband. Deposits by married women and minors. Proviso.

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SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That said Exchange Bank shall have power to accept and execute any office of agent, assignee or receiver, whether the office or appointment shall be conferred by any person or persons, or by any court either of the State of Georgia or of the United States. The capital stock, property and assets of said Bank shall be liable for the faithful management of the trusts confided to its care as agent, assignee or receiver as aforesaid. All laws of force in this State and not contrary to the provisions of this Act concerning agents, assignees and receivers, shall apply to this Bank when appointed to such office. May be fiscal agent. Capital stock liable. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That all subscriptions to the capital stock shall be binding upon the subscribers and upon their heirs, assigns and legal representatives, and shall be payable in such installments as the Directors may require, and if any stockholder shall fail to pay any such installment in (30) thirty days after the same is due, his stock shall be in default, and the same shall be sold out to the highest bidder for cash on the first Tuesday in any month after falling due, before the bank office door in Fort Valley, during the legal hours of sale, or otherwise, upon such notice and advertisement as may be deemed best by the Board of Directors. Said stock may be bought in by and for said bank, and be reissued to some other person or party upon his, her or their paying the value of the same, including unpaid install ments. The delinquent stockholder receiving the surplus, if any, over and above the expenses incident upon said sale, including attorney's fees, if any, and any deficiency in the sum received at said sale necessary to make the amount due on said stock, and all of said expenses shall be made good to said bank by said delinquent stockholder. Effect of subscriptions. Payment. Failure to pay. Sale for default. Stock re-issued. Surplus to delinquent. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That the stock held by any person or party shall be transferred only on the books of said bank either in person or by power of attorney, and no stockholder shall transfer his or their stock, except by consent of the Directors of said Exchange Bank, and if he or they are indebted to the bank as principal, security or otherwise, not until such indebtedness is paid off and discharged, and for all such indebtedness said Bank shall have a lien of the highest dignity upon the stock of said stockholder. Transfers. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That the President and Directors of said Bank shall place before the stockholders at their annual meeting a sworn statement of the business, and condition of the affairs of said Bank, its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns to the Governor of the State under oath as are now required by law for other State Banks. Annual statements. Returns. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and the stockholders shall be individually liable ratably, and not

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one for another, as sureties to the creditors of said corporation for all contracts and debts of said corporation to the extent of the amount of their stock therein (at the par value thereof) respectively at the time the debt was created in addition to the amount invested in such shares. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be of force and effect for the term of (50) fifty years from the date of the organization of said Exchange Bank. Term of charter. SEC. XIX. Be it further enacted, That the books of said Bank shall be open to inspection and investigation by any stockholder thereof at any and all times. Books open to inspection. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted, That said Bank may receive deposits in the savings departmetn thereof from all journeymen, mechanics and day laborers, and their daily, weekly or monthly wages deposited shall not be subject to garnishment, except as now are or hereafter may be permitted by the laws of this State. Savings deposits. SEC. XXI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 22, 1888. INCORPORATING THE STATE SAVINGS ASSOCIATIONS. No. 55. An Act to incorporate the State Savings Association with power to do a banking business, act as agent, assignee, receiver, and trustee, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia. That M. Mahoney, Chas. S. Kingsberry, James Walsh, L. B. Nelson, J. G. St Amand, R. Schmidt, John Gatins, Evan P. Howell, Jack J Spalding, their associates, successors and assigns be and are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the State Savings Association and by such name said corporation shall have perpetual succession and is empowered to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, to have and use a common seal and at pleasure to alter the same, and to do a general banking business; to ordain and establish such by laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as it shall deem proper, to receive, purchase, own, hold and use property of all descriptions, and the same to alien, convey, lease and mortgage and otherwise dispose of, and to do each and every act requisite, necessary or expedient to accomplish the purpose of the said corporation. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may receive on deposit all sums of money which may be offered, and may lend and invest the same for its benefit at such times and on such terms as it shall see proper, which said sums shall be repaid to such depositors at such times and with such interest, not exceeding the lawful rate, and under such regulations as the Board of Directors shall from time to time prescribe, or in such other manner as may be agreed upon; and if money is deposited by any minor, such money may be withdrawn by the minor without the consent of his or her parent or guardian, and his or her check or receipt therefor shall be as binding as though such minor were of full age. That such corporation shall have power to buy, sell, discount and collect bonds, stocks, securities, notes, bills and other choses in action; to lend money on real and personal property or such other security as it may see fit, at any rate of interest agreed on, not in excess of the highest contract rate allowed by law, and for any time agreed on, and may charge interest for the full time and include the same in the note or notes or other evidences of debt given therefor, and collect the same by monthly or other installments, if the debtor shall so agree, without any rebate of interest thereon; and in such cases the laws applicable to loans made by building and loan associations are hereby made applicable; and to secure any and all such loans, advances or other debts due or owing to it, said corporation is authorized to take such mortgage, deed of trust, conveyance, pledge or other security as it may see proper. Provided, nevertheless, that no person, firm or corporation shall at any time be indebted to said corporation, either as maker, surety, endorser or otherwise, in a sum greater than ten per centum of the capital stock thereof; nor shall any Director or other officer of this Association, at any time, either as maker, surety, endorser or otherwise, become or be indebted to it in a sum greater than five per centum of its capital stock. Banking powers. Deposits. Deposits by minors. Discounts, loans, etc. Installment loans. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have the power and authority to accept and execute the office of Agent, Assignee, Receiver, or Trustee of any kind whether conferred by any person, corporation or court. It shall also have the power to act as fiscal agent for any State, person, or corporation public or private, and for such services it may charge and collect uch commission or compensation as may be agreed on. May be fiscal agent, etc. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the principal office of said corporation shall be in the city of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. Principal office. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars, divided into one thousand (1,000) shares of one hundred ($100.00) dollars each, but the stockholders of said corporation may from

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time to time, by a majority vote, increase its capital stock to any sum not exceeding five hundred thousand ($500,000.00) dollars, and the incorporators, or any three of them are hereby authorized to open books of subscription for said stock, and as soon as one thousand (1,000) shares shall be subscribed for, and the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars paid in thereon, said corporation shall have the right to organize and commence business, Provided, that no deposits shall be received by it till twelve (12) installments or twenty-four thousand ($24,000.00) dollars have been paid in. The stock shall be paid for in monthly installments of not less than two ($2:00) dollars per share subscribed, or in such other way as the Directors may direct, Provided, that any stockholder shall have the right to pay up his entire subscription at any time. And no stockholder of said corporation shall be individually liable for the debts of the corporation, except to the extent of his unpaid subscription to the capital stock thereof, Provided, that when said corporation shall exercise the general banking privileges herein conferred, then each stockholder shall be individually liable for the ultimate payment of the debts of said corporation to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by him. If any installment or assessment on the stock of said corporation called for is not paid when due, such stock shall be subject to forfeiture, sale or transfer and the by-laws of said corporation shall provide for the manner of the same. Said stock shall be transferred only on the books of said corporation in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing, but no transfer or assignment of any stock shall be valid, or operate to release it from the lien which is hereby given said corporation thereon for any and all indebtedness to it by the holder thereof, till all such indebtedness is paid. Such lien may be enforced as may be provided by the by-laws. Capital stock. Increase. Proviso. Further proviso. Liability of stockholders. Forfeiture of stock. Transfers. SEC VI Be it further enacted, That the business and the affairs of said corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors and the officers elected by it; said board shall consist of seven Directors who shall be stockholders of said corporation, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, and they shall be chosen in accordance with the by-laws, and shall hold their offices till their successors are elected and qualified. The officers of said corporation shall be a President. Vice President and Cashier and such other officers as may be hereafter created by the Board of Directors of said corporation, who shall be elected at such time and hold their respective offices for such term as may be fixed by the by-laws. Directors. Quorum. Officers. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE BANK OF CORDELE. No. 59. An Act to incorporate the Bank of Cordele, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That J. W. Cabaniss, S. H. Hawkins, H. C. Bagley, S. W. Coney, C. E. Hamilton, Joseph E. Bivens, J. R. Hosch, B. C. Pitts, and J. E. D. Shipp, and such other persons as may be associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of The Bank of Cordele, to be located in the city of Cordele, Dooly county, Georgia. Corporators. Name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said bank shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to any amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars; said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Certificates of stock shall be issued to each stockholder truly representing his or her interest in the company and all sales and transfers of stock in said bank, must, in order to be valid, be made on the books of the company by the owner of the stock, or by his or her lawfully appointed attorney in-fact. Capital stock. Shares. Transfers. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That when fifty thousand dollars shall be subscribed and paid in on account of subscriptions to stock, then the subscribers shall be and become a body corporate and politic, with continued succession under the name of The Bank of Cordele, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers and be competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter involved; and shall be capable of purchasing, holding and selling real and personal property in the safe prosecution of the business of said bank, and shall have power to make and use a corporate seal and do all acts and things, and to pass and enforce all such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and the business of said corporation: Provided, said rules and regulations are not inconsistent with the laws of this State and of the United States. Organization. General corporate powers. Proviso. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said bank may on the first Monday in January and July of each year declare a dividend of so much of the net profits as they shall deem expedient, but before declaring such dividend they shall carry one-tenth of its net profits of the preceding half year to the surplus fund, until the surplus fund shall amount to twenty per centum of the

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capital stock; and thereafter the amount carried to the surplus fund shall be discretionary with the Directors; and the capital stock and the surplus fund and all the assets of every kind shall be liable for any and all debts of the company, and in addition thereto, the stockholders shall be individually liable for the debts of the company to the extent of one hundred dollars for each share of stock held by them. Dividends. Surplus fund. Corporate liability. Individual liability. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the powers of this company shall be exercised by a Board of Directors of not less than five nor more than nine persons, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their number a President; said Directors shall also elect a Cashier, and appoint from time to time or at any time such other officers or agents as in their judgment the business may require, fix their compensation, dismiss them, and take bonds from persons so elected or appointed in such sum as they may deem proper for the faithful execution of their duties. The Directors of the company shall be elected upon the first organization upon a call of a majority of the incorporators of which organization; each stockholder shall have written notice five days before the same, and annually thereafter on the first Wednesday in October of each year, and the Directors shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified A majority of said Directors shall have power to act at all the meetings of the Board and to fill any vacancies that may occur in the Board. Each stockholder shall be entitled at all elections of Directors of said company to one vote for each share of stock held by him whether in his own right or in any fiduciary capacity; he may vote either in person or by proxy under written power of attorney. If for any reason said election of Directors is not held on the first Wednesday in October, then any member of the stockholders of said company representing one-third of the whole number of shares of said company may call a meeting by giving written notice to every stockholder five days in advance of the day of said meeting or by giving five days' notice in the nearest newspaper to said bank of the day of said election. No election shall be valid unless a majority of the whole stock is represented at such stockholders' meeting. Directors. Officers, etc. Annual meetings. One vote per share. Called meetings. Notice. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money on deposit, to loan and borrow money, to take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best, to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange, to act as agents for borrowers, to secure loans for them on real estate or other security and charge a commission for negotiating same, and to do all other acts it may deem advisable for the safe keeping and secure and profitable investment of its funds. Banking powers.

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SEC. VII. 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 December 24, 1888. INCORPORATING THE DOW LAW BANK. No. 66. An Act to incorporate the Dow Law Bank, to be located in Fort Valley, Georgia, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That H. C. Harris, S. Neil, F. C. Houser, S. E. Bassett, John A. Houser and H. A. Mathews, and such other persons as may be associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of the Dow Law Bank, to be located in the city of Fort Valley, Houston county, Georgia. Corporators. Corporate name and location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be twenty five thousand dollars with the privilege of increasing the same to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. Said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when there shall be twenty-five thousand dollars of stock subscribed, and twelve thousand five hundred dollars actually paid in lawful money of the United States, the said company may organize and proceed to business under this Act. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. Organization. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That when the aforesaid amount of twenty-five thousand dollars shall have been subscribed and the said twelve thousand five hundred dollars in lawful money shall have been received by the Commissioners provided for in this Act, on account of subscriptions to the aforesaid capital stock, then the said subscribers shall be and become a body corporate and politic with continued succession under the name and style of The Dow Law Bank, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers and be competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter involved, and shall have power to take, receive, purchase and hold as security for or in payment of any loans or advances made or otherwise, real, personal or mixed property so far as may be necessary for the safe and convenient prosecution of the business of said bank, as a bank of discount and deposit and may issue and execute all such receipts, certificates, contracts, deeds, or other instrument as may be necessary, and said bank

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shall have power to make, use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, and do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act and the business of said corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. Beginning business. General corporate powers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money on deposit, to lend and borrow money, to take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best, to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange, stocks and bonds, to lend money for others and charge a commission for such service, to buy and sell stocks, bonds, mortgages and other securities on commission, to negotiate loans upon real estate and charge a commission for such negotiation and to do all acts it may deem advisable and profitable in the enjoyment of the corporate powers herein granted. Banking powers. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the total liability to said bank of any person, firm, company or corporation (including in said liabilities of firm, corporation or company the liabilities of the several members thereof) for money borrowed, shall at no time exceed one-tenth part of the capital stock of said bank paid in; but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith, and the discount of commercial paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same shall not be considered as borrowed money. Restriction on liabilities to. Exception. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said bank shall be authorized to lend money and take as security therefor, personal surety notes, mortgages and other evidence of debt, of value as collateral security, and deeds to land giving bond for titles to the borrower, to reconvey the same and such lawful charges as may be agreed on in addition to the legal rate of interest for securing satisfactory investigation of title, and necessary deeds and mortages. Loans and collateral. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of not less than five nor more than nine Directors to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their number a President, may declare by-laws for their government in the management and control of the business of said bank (said by-laws however, being subject to supervision and alteration at the regular annual meeting of stockholders hereinafter provided for), fix the number of Directors, who shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, the day of meeting of said Board, and the salaries of the officers of said bank. A majority of said Directors shall be citizens of this State, and each Director shall be in his own name, a stockholder of said bank. Said Board of Directors shall have power to elect a President and Cashier, and such other officers as the interest and business of said bank may require. Directors. Number. President. By-laws. Powers and qualifications of Directors. Officers, etc.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said bank may, semi-annually declare a dividend of so much of the net profits as they may deem expedient after defraying the expenses and paying its debts, but before declaring such dividends, they shall carry one-tenth part of its net profits of the preceding half year to the surplus fund until the same shall amount to twenty per cent. of its capital stock, and in estimating the net profits of said bank, no assets shall be accounted as solvent which are six months past due unsecured, and not in process of collection, and all such insolvent debts shall be charged off before said surplus is set aside or any dividends declared. Dividends. Surplus fund. Insolvent debts. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall issue to each stockholder certificates of stock truly representing the interest owned by said stockholder, and such stock shall be held bound to the corporation for any dues or indebtedness by said stockholder to the company, and no stockholder who may be indebted to said bank, either as principal, surety or endorser, shall, while so indebted, sell or transfer the stock held by him or her without the consent of the President and Directors of said bank, and all sales and transfers of stock in said bank must, in order to be valid, be made in the register and transfer books of the corporation by the owner of the stock, or his lawfully appointed attorney-in-fact. Stockhow issued and held. Transfers. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any two of them or their successors or assigns shall be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank, at such time and place and to keep them open for such space of time as they may deem proper, but for no less amount of total subscription than twenty-five thousand dollars. Within twenty days after the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars has been subscribed, the said Commissioners may give notice by publication in a paper of general circulation in Houston county, and by a written notice mailed to each subscriber twenty days in advance of the day appointed, of a stockholders' meeting for purpose of electing a Board of Directors. No election shall be valid unless a majority of the whole stock is represented at the meeting where such election is held. The Directors shall be elected in the first instance by a majority at interest of the stockholders thereof, voting at said election held under the inspection of the aforesaid Commissioners, and on the first Monday in January in every year afterward. In all elections of Directors, and in all questions that may come before any convention of stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars shall entitle the owner to one vote. Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors during the intervals of elections, may be filled by said Board, and it shall be the duty of the President of

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said Board to prepare and lay before the stockholders in said bank, semi-annual statements of the business and credits of the bank, its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns to the Governor of the State as are required by law. Should there be no election of Directors at any annual meeting, as here-in-before Provided, the Directors then in office shall continue until the next election. The minutes of the Board of Directors shall be kept in a book provided for that purpose, and signed by the Chairman, President or Secretary, and these minutes shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. Books of subscription. Notice of meeting. Organization. Election of Directors. Time. One vote per share. Vacancies. Statements and returns. Terms of Directors. Minutes. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That when the first Board of Directors are elected as provided in the foregoing section, and when twelve thousand five hundred dollars of the subscriptions are actually paid in, in money, then the conditions for the vesting of the powers of this charter shall be complete. And the said Board of Directors shall have authority to call in the unpaid subscriptions in such installments as they may deem best, but the subscribers may without such call, tender the money for said unpaid shares to the Board and receive therefor certificates of stock. An increase in capital stock may be increased up to the limit of fifty thousand dollars by the Board of Directors. Provided, that no stock shall be authorized by said Board to be issued for less than its par value in actual lawful money. Any increase beyond fifty thousand dollars shall be authorized only by a stockholders' meeting, at which a majority of the stock shall be represented. When charter vests. Unpaid subscriptions. Increase of stock. Proviso. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That in case any subscriber to the stock of the company shall fail or refuse to pay any of the assessments or calls for payment which may be made by the Commissioners or Board of Directors, within the time required, the said Board of Directors may at any time thereafter proceed to enforce the payment of the entire indebtedness on account of unpaid stock of such subscriber, by bringing suit therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction; or the stock of said delinquent stockholder may, by resolution of the Board, after demand for the unpaid balance due on stock, duly made upon said delinquent, and after twenty days' advertisement by posting a notice of such sale before the door of said bank, be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder by any agent of said bank for cash, in which case the proceeds shall be first applied to payment of balance due upon said stock by the delinquent stockholder, and the expenses, if any, connected with said sale, and the remainder of said proceeds paid back to the said stockholder. Default of payment. Enforced by suit, or sold for default. Surplus to delinquent. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the Cashier, who may also be a Director, shall be elected by the Board of Directors and shall give such bond in such sums as they shall require. It shall be the duty of the Cashier to keep safely all moneys, notes, bonds, bills, or other property committed to his care, or shall

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come into his possession in the regular course of business, and he shall have power to bind the company or corporation by signing checks, receipts or certificates of deposit in conducting the business of the bank. Cashier. His duties. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall continue for the term of fifty years, with the privilege of renewal of the same. Term of charter. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and the stock-holders shall be individually liable, ratably and not one for another, as sureties to the creditors of said corporation to the extent of the amount of their stock therein (at the par value thereof), respectively at the time the debt was created, in addition to the amount invested in such shares. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. INCORPORATING THE PUTNAM COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. No. 80. An Act to incorporate the Putnam County Banking Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That J. T. DeJarnette, N. S. Walker, C. M. Davis, E. M. Brown, W. L Turner, J. T. Dennis, T. J. Ingram, Z. J. Edmonson, H. A. Jenkins, J. H. Allen, Robert A. Reid, and W. F. Jenkins, all of Putnam county, Georgia, and their associates and successors be, and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of The Putnam County Banking Company, with power to have and use a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, discount bills, and other evidences of debt, sell and buy exchange, loan and borrow money, and receive and hold the same on deposit, buy and sell real and personal property when necessary in business, and hold and convey the same, and to establish by-laws as may be deemed necessary to carry on a general banking business not in conflict with the laws of the State of Georgia nor with the laws of the United States. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. SEC. II. The capital stock of said bank shall be forty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, and each share shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote in all meetings of stockholders. The capital stock may be increased to any amount not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, by vote of two-thirds of the stockholders. Capital stock. Increase.

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SEC. III. As soon as one-half of the capital stock is subscribed, and fifty per cent of said subscription is paid in, the incorporators, or a majority of them, may call a meeting of the subscribers and they may organize by electing a Board of Directors, not less than five nor more than nine, as their by-laws may designate, who shall hold their offices one year and until their successors are elected. Such Board shall elect one of their number President. They shall also appoint all other officers and employees, and prescribe such bond and security as they may deem necessary. They shall call a meeting of the stockholders at least once in each year and make to them a full report of the management of said bank the preceding year. Organization. Directors. President, officers and employes. Reports. SEC. IV. That the assets of every kind of said bank shall be liable for any and all debts of said banking company and each stockholder in said corporation shall be individually liable for the debts of the corporation to the amount of his or her unpaid subscription to the capital stock of the corporation, and for an additional amount equal to his subscription. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. INCORPORATING THE HARROLD BANKING COMPANY. No. 81. An Act to incorporate The Harrold Banking Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Henry R. Johnson, Uriah B. Harrold, Sampson P. Boone, Henry T. Davenport, R. James Perry, Erwin J. Eldridge, George D. Wheatley, Charles A. Fricker and J. W. Sheffield, and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body corporate and politic under the name of The Harrold Banking Company, with power by this name to sue and be sued, in any court whatever; to have and use a common seal; to make, alter and repeal such by-laws as they may deem necessary or proper for the government of its officers and the conduct of its business, not in contravention of this charter or the law; to acquire and hold any property, real or personal, or choses-in action, by purchase, donation or satisfaction of any debt due the said corporation, or which may have been mortgaged or conveyed to said bank for moneys which may have been owing to it or advanced by it, and to control the same, and to hold or dispose

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of the same, as in the opinion of the Board of Directors may seem best for the interest of the bank; to receive, acquire, use, own, hold property of every description, as collateral to, or security for, any moneys loaned or advanced by it, or in satisfaction thereof; and to alien, convey, lease, rent, mortgage, sell or otherwise dispose of the same, in any manner that a natural person might law-fully dispose of similar property; to appoint and remove at the pleasure of the Board of Directors any and all officers and agents that said Board may deem necessary or proper for the conduct and management of its business; and to do all acts and things necessary or convenient to properly carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act; and to exercise in general all the powers incident to corporations, and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated. The said corporation shall be located in the city of Americus, Sumter county, Georgia, and have perpetual succession of the corporate powers hereby granted, or hereafter granted it. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. Location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be ($50,000) fifty thousand dollars divided into shares of one hundred ($100) dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the same at any time to any sum not exceeding ($500,000) five hundred thousand dollars, as may be deemed best by the Board of Directors, but no increase of capital stock shall be valid unless ratified by the consent in writing of the owners of ([frac23]) two-thirds of the stock paid in. Said corporation shall have the authority and privilege to commence its said business so soon as fifty thousand dollars of said capital stock shall be subscribed and actually paid in And when fifty thousand dollars shall be subscribed and paid in, the said corporators, or any one of them, may call a meeting of all the persons who have subscribed to the capital stock of said bank, to assemble at a time and place to be designated in a written or printed notice which shall be sent to each person who has subscribed to the capital stock; at which time and place an election shall be held for a Poard of Directors under the supervision of said corporation, at which election each one hundred dollars subscribed to the capital stock shall be entitled to one vote. The persons receiving a majority of the votes shall be declared duly elected, and the Board of Directors thus elected shall hold their offices until the regular annual meeting, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Capital stock. Increase. Proviso. Organization. Temporary board of Directors. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the annual or special meetings or conventions of the shareholders shall be had at such times and under such conditions and circumstances as may be fixed by the by-laws of the corporation, but no Act of any convention shall be valid, unless a majority of the stock is represented; that at the annual meetings of the stockholders, the Board of Directors shall

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make, or cause to be made, full statements of the condition of the business of said bank, and at such other times as the owners of a majority of the stock may require. Annual meetings. Statements. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of the said corporation, the said Harrold Banking Company, shall be vested in a Board of (9) nine Directors, to be elected by the stockholders at their annual meetings by a vote of the owners of a majority of the stock; but no person shall be elected a Director of said bank who shall not be a stockholder in said bank to the extent of (10) ten shares in his own right. Said Board of Directors shall elect from their number a President, and shall have power to appoint a Cashier, Assistant Book-keeper, Teller, Attorney, and such other officers, agents or subordinates as in their discretion they may deem best; to fix the salaries of the President and all other officers and employees of the bank, and to remove all such officers, agents and employees at their pleasure, and to exercise all the powers of this franchise. The Board of Directors shall cause a minute of all of its proceedings, to be recorded in a book to be provided for that purpose, and the same shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. All stockholders at all elections of this corporation or other conventions of the share-holders shall be entitled to one vote for every share of stock held or owned by such stockholder, and said vote may be given in person or by proxy duly appointed in writing. Executors and administrators shall be entitled to control the votes to which the testator or intestate would be entitled to, if living, and the stock of minors shall be represented and controlled by their guardian. All votes shall be by ballot. A majority of the Directors, including the President or President pro tempore, shall constitute a quorum of the Board for the transaction of business, which Board shall have power to enact all laws or by-laws which may be deemed necessary or proper for the business of the bank, and may amend or repeal same, and may exercise all the powers granted by this Act to the said corporation, may fill vacancies in the office of President or Director, may confer upon the President and other officers to be appointed such power and authority as they may deem consistent with this Act. Directors. Qualifications. Officials, etc. Powers of Board. Minutes open to inspection. One vote per share. Quorum. By-laws Other powers of Directors. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That certificates of stock shall be issued to stockholders in such form and manner as the Board of Directors may prescribe All transfers of stock shall be made in person or by written power of attorney, in a book to be kept for that purpose. Stockits issue and transfer. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation, The Harrold Banking Company, shall have power and authority to receive money on deposit, and to issue certificates of deposit therefor, on lawful terms agreed upon; to loan and borrow money and to take and give therefor such securities

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as may be considered best; to make advances upon real or personal property, or both; to invest its funds in such manner and upon such terms as it may deem best, and to transfer its property at pleasure; to receive valuables and other articles of personal property of any sort or kind, including certificates of stock, choses in action, securities and other evidences of the same or of titles thereto, on deposit for safe-keeping, from any person or persons, as well as from executors, guardians, administrators, trustees, receivers, corporations, public and private officers, assigns and all other fiduciaries, the said Harrold Banking Company Bank charging and receiving therefor such sums of money as may be agreed upon; to deal in precious metals, foreign and domestic exchange, to buy, sell, discount or collect promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, contracts, claims, receipts, rents, choses in action of any kind whatsoever, mortgages, bonds, stocks, securities and evidences of debt generally, and to enforce the same in any court whatever; to do a general banking business; to buy, sell, rent, improve, mortgage, lease or otherwise to have, hold, operate or control any real or personal property in this or any other State or territory; to receive deposits of money for investment purposes, on such lawful terms as may be agreed upon; to issue certificates or receipts therefor; to negotiate, buy or sell for others, stocks, bonds, bills of exchange, promissory notes, rents, mortgages, deeds choses in action, securities, real and personal property; to make or negotiate loans for others for any length of time upon real or personal property in any State or Territory in the United States, and to secure the same by mortgages, deeds or otherwise, and to guarantee the payment of the principal and interest, or either the principal or interest of such loans, if it should so determine, and for all such loans said corporation, The Harrold Banking Company, shall have the power and authority to charge and collect therefor, for expenses incurred and services rendered or procured to be rendered in examining the property advanced upon, and in making investigations and abstracts of title thereto, and for reporting on and inspecting the property offered as security, and for making or negotiating or guaranteeing the payment of such loans, such sum in addition to legal interest as may be agreed upon by the borrower and said Bank; to receive moneys in trust or on deposit and invest or accumulate the same at such rate of interest as may be agreed upon, not to exceed the lawful rate, and to accept and execute all such trusts of every description as may be committed to it by any person or persons or corporation whatsoever. Deposits. Loans and advances. Safe deposits. Securities. General banking powers. Trust property. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the said Harrold Banking Company shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and each stockholder shall be liable to the creditors of the bank as a surety for the debts of the bank to the

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amount of their stock paid therein respectively, and to the amount of their subscription in case the capitol stock is increased. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. INCORPORATING THE COLUMBUS SAVINGS BANK. No. 88. An Act to incorporate the Columbus Savings Bank, to [Illegible Text] certain powers and privileges on the same and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That G. Gunby Jordan, John W. Murphey and William A. Little and their associates, be and they are hereby made a body corporate and politic, under the name of the Columbus Savings Bank, and in such name shall have the power to sue and be sued; complain and defend in any court of law or equity; to make, use and alter a common seal; to make by-laws and rules for the government of the corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of this State nor of the United States; to contract and be contracted with; and in general, to exercise any corporate powers, necessary to the execution of the powers herein conferred. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation shall have power to do and transact a general banking business; to receive deposits of money without liability for interest; to discount notes, drafts, bills of exchange, checks, certificates and other evidences of debt; to purchase stocks, bonds and other securities of any kind except its own stock; to lend money and take as security, real estate, bonds, stocks, promissory notes or any other security or thing of value; to borrow money and secure the same by deed or mortgage, and any written evidence of debt, and any other security; to purchase, hold, sell, convey, and mortgage real estate, and to invest their funds therein, and receive the rents and profits thereof; to buy, sell, lease, hold and rent real estate; to buy and discount notes, secured or unsecured, given for the purchase of real or personal property; to discount commercial paper, to buy and sell exchange, and make collections. General banking powers. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said body corporate shall have the power to receive deposits of money, and to contract to pay thereon such a rate of interest as may be agreed on, not exceeding seven per cent. per annum.

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And in the by-laws for the government of the company, may regulate the maximum and minimum amount of the deposits they will receive, the rate of interest to be paid, the manner of payment, and they shall have power at their discretion to cause the interest on any deposit to cease, first giving not less than thirty days' notice to the depositor, personally or by publication, of the date on which their liability shall cease, and such notice, if made by publication, may be made to apply either to one or more depositors, or to a particular class of depositors, or to depositors of amounts above or below a sum named, or to all of the depositors. Interest deposits. Regulation of same. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That evidences of the deposit made shall be given by the bank by means of pass books, certificates, or in such other manner as they may prefer. Any deposits made in the name of a minor, or of a female, or in the name of a trustee, where the name of the cestui que trust, is not coupled with the name of the trustee, shall be held for the exclusive right of the depositor, free from the control or lien of all persons whatsoever, except creditors, and the receipt or acquittance of such minor or female (or trustee, as such) shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge for such deposit, with any accruing interest so paid. Pass books, etc. Deposits by minors and females, Inviolate. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said bank shall have the right to procure and establish safety boxes and vaults, and may let the same for hire and collect such hire. Such bank may also deposit its funds, as other depositors, in any national bank, or in any bank incorporated under the laws of this State, and may authorize any officer therein to receive for them any deposit, and pay out for them such moneys as they may direct. Such bank shall also have the power by contract to occupy a part of the premises of any other bank, and use for its business the vaults, safes, furniture and fixtures of such other bank as may be agreed on. They shall have the right and power to act as agents, and may negotiate loans of money and charge a reasonable commission for their services. Safety deposits. May act as agents. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of deposits on interest, the sum deposited, with accrued interest, shall be paid to the depositors respectively, or to their legal representatives after demand, in such manner and at such times, and after such previous notice, and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, which regulations shall be printed in the pass-books, and shall be evidence between the bank and the persons holding the same of the terms on which the deposits are made, and the bank may refuse to receive a deposit, and may also, at any time, return all or any part of any deposit. Interest deposits. How regulated.

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SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the place of business of said bank and its principal office shall be in the City of Columbus, Georgia. Principal office. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to two hundred thousand dollars by a two thirds vote of the stockholders in amount. The capital stock shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, and shall be transferable, in such manner as may be prescribed in the by-laws, and each stockholder shall be individually liable to the creditors of the corporation to the extent of their unpaid subscriptions to the capital stock, and before the bank shall commence business, the full amount of fifty thousand dollars shall be subscribed and paid in Capital stock. Increase. Shares. Stockholder's liability. When business shall commence. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the affairs of the corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors of not less than three, to be selected by the stockholders, to serve for such terms and elected at such time and manner as shall be prescribed in the by-laws. The officers shall be a President and Treasurer and such other officers and agents as may be deemed by the Directors necessary for the transaction of its business. Directors. Number. Officers, etc. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That in addition to the powers heretofore conferred, the corporation herein created shall, in law, be capable of being appointed a trustee, with the powers of holding and managing property for persons under a disability, and capable also of being made assignee of property for the use of others. May be trustee and assignee. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the term of this charter shall be for the full period of fifty years. Term of charter. SEC. XII 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 December 24, 1888.

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PROVIDING FOR SURRENDER OF SECURITIES OF THE COTTON STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 89. An Act to provide for the surrender of the securities deposited with the State for the security of policy holders of The Cotton States Life Insurance Company and for other purposes. WHEREAS, The Cotton States Life Insurance Company have in compliance with the terms of its charter deposited with The Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, with the approval of the Comptroller-General of the State of Georgia, one hundred thousand dollars in securities subject to his order as a guarantee fund for the security of the policy holders under the rules and regulations specified in the seventh article of the Act incorporating said Insurance Company; And Whereas said Insurance Company has ceased to do business, and under a bill in equity filed by certain policy holders of said Company, which is now pending in the Superior Court of Bibb county, a receiver has been appointed with full power and authority to take possession of all the assets of the said Cotton States Life Insurance Company, real and personal, to convert the said assets into cash and hold the same subject to the order of said Court for the purpose of paying all the liabilities of said Company, including all policy holders in said Company; Now for the purpose of enabling said Court to control said securities so deposited, and to use the same in paying said liabilities and policy holders: Preamble. Receiver having been appointed. To render assets available. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That upon filing with the Comptroller-General a certified copy of any order or decree of said court appointing a Receiver of The Cotton States Life Insurance Company and authorizing such Receiver to take possession of all the assets of said Insurance Company, the Comptroller-General is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to said Receiver all the bonds and other secureties deposited by said Insurance Company under the rules and regulations specified in the seventh article of the Act entitled an Act to incorporate an Insurance Company in the city of Macon, Georgia, and to be called The Cotton States Life Insurance Company. When deeree of appointment is filed. Comptroller to surrender securities. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts of Acts militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888

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INCORPORATING THE MONROE COUNTY ALLIANCE EXCHANGE WAREHOUSE AND BANKING COMPANY. No. 100. An Act to incorporate The Monroe County Alliance Exchange Warehouse and Banking Company of Georgia, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Thomas Jefferson Cheeves, Lewis Amos Ponder, William Walker, Guilford G. Flint, Andrew Mulcay, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them and their successors and assigns, shall be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, and under the name and style of The Monroe County Alliance Exchange and Banking Company of Georgia, and by that name shall have perpetual succession; shall and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in any court whatever; may have and use a common seal, and have such powers as are herein set forth. Their office shall be in Forsyth, Monroe county, Georgia. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. Location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said Banding Company shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into five thousand shares of five dollars each, and each share shall entitle its owner thereof to one vote at all meetings of the stockholders. The capital stock may be increased to any amount not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars at any time by a vote of two thirds of the stockholders. Capital stock. Increase. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That no one shall be a Director or other officer in said corporation except he is a member of an Alliance, and the Board of Directors shall have the power to prescribe on the by laws who shall or can become possessed of stock in said corporation, and the manner in which, and the conditions under which, stock may be purchased or owned and transferred. Qualifications and powers of Directors. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That no one person be permitted to purchase or hold in his or her name more than five hundred shares, and shall any one person become possessed of more than five hundred shares, the number of shares in excess be denied a voice in all meetings of stockholders. Limit of representation. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That as soon as twelve thousand five hundred dollars shall have been subscribed, the incorporators, [Illegible Text] majority of them, shall call a meeting of the stockholders and [Illegible Text] to the election of a Board of nine Directors, who, upon [Illegible Text] election, shall proceed to elect a President and two others,

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who, with himself, shall constitute an executive board. The Directors shall elect the Cashier and such other help as they deem necessary to carry out the intents of the corporation, and prescribe such bond and security as they deem necessary They shall call a meeting of the stockholders at least once a year, on the first Tuesday in December, at their office in Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, and make to them a full report of the management of said banking company for the preceding year. Organization. Directors. President, eashier, ect. Time and place of meetings. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the stock shall be transferred, only, on the books of the company, either in person or by power of attorney, and no stockholder shall transfer his or her stock except by the consent of the officers of said banking company, if he is indebted to the bank as principal, security or otherwise, until such indebtedness is paid off and discharged, and for all such indebtedness the bank shall have a first lien upon the stock of such stockholder. Stock transfers. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That when twelve thousand five hundred dollars of lawful United States money shall have been paid in by stockholders, the Directors shall be empowered to proceed with their business, receive deposits, discount commercial paper, buy and sell exchange, acquire and hold real and personal estate, and perform such other Acts usual in such cases, shall have authority to loan money on real and personal estates or such other security as said Board of Directors may see fit at any rate of interest that may be agreed on in writing not in excess of the highest interest allowed in contract by the laws of Georgia. Beginning business. Banking powers. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the said company shall have power to take charge of, management of or custody of warehouse for the furtherance of their business and to receive on storage or deposit, goods, for safe keeping or for shipment wares, merchandise, bullion, specie, freight, stocks, bonds, choses in action, certificates and evidences of debt, titles and other personal property, to guarantee the payment of promissory notes, bills of exchange and liens or securities and to advance and loan money take securities and extend credit on personal property and the faith and security thereof, and to transact and carry on all kinds of business usually transacted by warehousemen or safety deposit companies. Warehouse, storage and safety deposits. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and the stockholders shall be individually liable, ratably and not one for another, to the creditors of said corporation, to an amount equal to the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof at the time the debt was created, in addition to the amount invested in said shares. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders.

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SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That at least twenty-five per cent. of the earnings of the corporations to be set aside as a reserve fund to be used in such manner as the directors shall prescribe; Provided, however, that when said reserve fund shall have equaled the capital stock, that certificates of stock be issued to holders of the original stock, and such stock be subject to same laws governing original stock. Reserve fund. Proviso. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the charter shall be in force for fifty years from the passage of this Act. Term of charter. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE ATLANTA MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY. No. 104. An Act to incorporate The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That W. A. Hemphill, A. D. Adair, George W. Parrott, T. J. James, J. H. Mecaslin, R. H. Wilson, A. M. Robinson, F. G. Hancock, H. L. Wilson, Porter King, J. L. Logan, Jr., F. J. Cooledge, Henry C. Leonard, Jno. T. Glenn, G. T. Dodd, R. D. Spaulding, W. W. Boyd, J. W. Rankin, J. R. Wylie, F. E. Block, C. A. Collier, L. E. O'Keefe, M. C. Kiser, I. C. McCrary, T. J. Kelly, and W. T. Ashford, all of Fulton County, Georgia, their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic, under the name of The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company; with the rights under such name to sue and be sued, to purchase, receive, hold, own and use property of all descriptions, alien, convey, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the same in any manner that a natural person might lawfully do; to have and use a common seal, to make by-laws, and generally to do any act necessary to carry into effect the objects of the corporation not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States, and to exercise all powers incidental to corporations and necessary and right for the transaction of their business. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of this corporation shall be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) divided into twenty-five hundred (2500) shares of one hundred ($100) dollars each, to be paid by the subscribers as hereinafter

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provided; but this capital stock may be increased to any sum not exceeding five hundred thousand ($500,000) dollars, from time to time whenever the same may be deemed expedient by the Board of Directors then in office. The incorporators named above are hereby constituted commissioners for securing subscription to the capital stock of said company, and the said incorporators are authorized to meet, and after acceptance of this charter, to elect from among their number a Board of Directors of not less than seven, nor more than fifteen members, which Board shall select from among its number a President, Vice-President and Secretary. The Board so chosen, and the officers so elected shall hold their offices until the stockholders are called together for permanent organization as hereinafter provided for. The said incorporators, or any three or more of them may, after effecting a temporary organization as above provided, open books of subscription to the capital stock of said company, and when one hundred thousand dollars thereof, or more, has been subscribed for, the said subscribers shall be called together for the purpose of a permanent organization. The call for this meeting may be made by publication for five days in any newspaper published in the city of Atlanta. At such meeting, those so subscribing for said stock, shall elect from among their number a Board of Directors, to consist of not less than seven, nor more than fifteen members, which Board shall continue in office until the next annual meeting of the stockholders, or until their successors are elected. Said Board shall elect from its number a President, Vice-President and Secretary, who shall hold their respective offices for the period of one year, or until their successors are elected. Capital stock. Increase Temporary Directors. Books of subscription. Organization. Notice of. Board of Directors. Officials. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That calls may be made by the Board of Directors for payments on account of subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, in such amounts and at such time as they may see proper; Provided, that no call shall be made upon any stockholder for exceeding twenty per cent. of his subscription at any one time, and also, Provided, that at least three months shall elapse between any two calls for payment unless larger or more frequent calls may be required to enable the company to meet any of its debts or obligations. In this event, the full amount subscribed for by each stockholder, or as much thereof as necessary, may be at once called for by the Board of Directors. In opening books of subscription, the Commissioners named above, will follow this direction in taking subscriptions; but nothing herein contained shall prevent any stockholder from paying a larger share of his subscription, or the entire amount thereof on such terms as he and the Board of Directors may agree upon. Said corporation as payments are made on account of stock subscriptions, shall have authority to deposit the same in bank, to

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loan it out upon satisfactory security, or to make such investment thereof as the Board of Directors may deem best, until the aggregate of said payments shall amount to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. When the said payments on account of stock subscriptions shall amount to one hundred thousand dollars, and the said corporation shall be possessed thereof in cash, or in assets consisting of stocks and bonds estimated at their actual market value, or of mortgages on real estate worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, then, and not until then, said corporation shall have the power to incure against losses by fire on all kinds of property, either real or personal or mixed, also against all the hazards of ocean or inland navigation and transportation of every kind, for such rates of premiums as it may determine. The contracts of insurance to be entered into by the said company, shall not be binding unless evidenced by a policy of insurance in writing or print, or both, and the liability of said company in case of loss sustained by any policy holder, shall be governed by the terms, stipulations and conditions appearing upon the face of said policy. No contract of insurance or policy, shall be binding on said corporation except it be signed by the President and Secretary thereof. Calls for payment. Limitation. Proviso. Full callwhen. Payments. Disposal of. Beginning business. Contracts. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall have authority to appoint all officers and agents deemed necessary by them for the successful conducting of the business of the company. They shall have power at any time to remove any of such officers or agents, to prescribe their compensation and provide for the taking of bonds for the protection of the corporation. They shall also have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in their own body, and if the President, Secretary or any Director shall be absent without leave for five successive regular meetings of the Board, a majority may declare his place vacant and proceed to fill it without notice. No person shall be eligible to the office of Director unless he owns not less than ten shares of the stock of said company, and no Director shall be eligible to the office of President unless he owns not less than twenty shares. The date of the annual meeting of the stockholders to elect Directors, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before it, shall be fixed by the subscribers to the stock at the time of permanent organization, but may be changed at any stockholders' meeting. Special meeting of the stockholders may be called at any time by the Directors, and such notice shall be given of these meetings as the Directors may prescribe. Powers of Board. Officers and agents. Vacancies. Director's qualification. Annual meetings. Special meetings. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That at all meetings of stockholders, those holding a majority of stock upon which there is nothing due to the company under any call that may have been

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made by the Directors, shall constitute a quorum, and each stockholder shall be allowed one vote for each share held and owned by him. Such stock may be represented by proxy, but no one except a stockholder shall be capable of holding such proxy. Quorum. Proxies. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the principal office of the company shall be in the City of Atlanta, but it may do business and establish agencies and branch offices at any place or places in this State or the United States. Principal office. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Directors shall have the power to fix the form of certificate of stock and the mode of transfer. They shall have the power to pass such by-laws as may be necessary to carry this Act into effect, and to direct the execution of such contracts as may seem by them best for the interest of the corporation. Stock transfers, by-laws, etc. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That it any stockholder shall fail or make default for ten days to pay any call regularly made on his subscription to stock, the Directors may direct suit to be brought against him forthwith for the amount of such call, or may in their discretion, after ten days' notice to such stockholder, cause his said stock, after such advertisement as may seem to them proper, to be put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder; and any deficiency in the sum thus received, necessary to make the amount of the call, shall be made good by the delinquent. Any surplus over the amount of the call and the expenses of the sale shall be paid to him. A new certificate of stock shall be issued to the purchaser, and he shall stand in the same relation to the company as the delinquent would have done had he not so made default. The sale shall be in Atlanta, at such time and place as the Directors may prescribe. If the Directors see proper, they for the use of the company, either at the public, sale above provided for, or by private agreement with the delinquent, may purchase the stock held by such delinquent. Default of stock payment. Stock may be sold. New certificate issued. Directors may purchase. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property, and each holder shall be liable to creditors for all unpaid subscriptions, and in addition thereto to an amount equal to his subscription. Corporate and individual liability. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all the increase and accumulation of said company, after paying current expenses and liabilities, and after setting apart the necessary reserve, contingent and re-insurance fund, shall be applied to the balance due on stock subscriptions or distributed as a dividend among the stockholders, as the Directors may order. After the stock subscriptions have been paid up in full, all such increase shall be distributed among the stockholders as a dividend. The manner of declaring such dividend, and the time and place of payment, shall be entirely within the control of the Directors. They shall have the power also to give the holders of policies of said company the right to

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participate in the net profits of the company to such an extent, in such manner and upon such terms as they may deem proper, and for any amounts so allowed to said policy holders, there shall be no accountability to the stockholders, either in the way of applying the same to their stock subscriptions or the paying of the same to them as a dividend, as above provided for. Disposal of surplus. Dividends. Policy-holders. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Operation. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. CHANGING NAME OF GEORGIA SECURITY INVESTMENT COMPANY TO THE ATLANTA TRUST AND BANKING COMPANY. No. 110. An Act to change the name of the Georgia Security Investment Company, chartered by the Superior Court of Fulton County, to the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, and to incorporate the stockholders of said Georgia Security Investment Company under the name of the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, and to grant to said Company the power to do a general Banking business, and other rights and privileges, and to fix the capital stock, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the name of the Georgia Security Investment Company, an existing corporation, chartered by the Superior Court of Fulton County on May 31, 1887, and the charter of which was amended by said Court on March 17, 1888, be changed to the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, and that the present stockholders of said corporation be incorporated under said name, and by that name have perpetual existence, with power to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal, contract and be contracted with, acquire, hold, and alien property both real and personal, and generally to do whatever acts may be necessary to enable it to carry on the business and accomplish the objects and purposes hereinafter set forth. The domicile of said corporation shall be in Fulton County, Georgia, but it shall have the power and the right to carry on its business anywhere in this State, or in the United States, or elsewhere. Name of company changed. General corporate powers under new name. Domicile. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power and authority to carry on in this State a banking business, receive money on deposit with or without allowing interest thereon,

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buy and sell exchange, loan money on real or personal security or otherwise, and sell and assign such securities with or without its guaranty, to receive and hold on deposit, in trust and as security, estate, real and personal, including notes, bonds, obligations and mortgages of individuals, corporations, municipalities, States and of the United States, and the same to purchase, collect, adjust and settle, sell and dispose of in any manner, with or without its guaranty; to insure owners of real estate mortgages, security deeds, trust deeds, and others interested in real estate, from loss by reason of defective titles, liens and incumbrances; to receive upon deposit for safe keeping, jewelry, plate, stocks, bonds and valuable property of every description, upon such terms as may be agreed upon; to act as assignee, receiver, guardian, executor and administrator, to execute [Illegible Text] of every description not in conflict with the laws of this State or of the United States; to act as agent for the purpose of countersigning the certificates of stocks, bonds or other obligations of any corporation, association, municipality, State or public authority; to receive and manage any sinking fund thereof on such terms as may be agreed upon; to act as agent for the investment of money for any persons or corporations; to act as agent for the procurement of loans of money on real or personal security or otherwise for any persons or corporations. All of said Acts to be done for such compensation as is or may be fixed by law or agreed upon. General banking powers. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to any amount it may see proper, not to exceed one million dollars. The present stockholders of the said Georgia Security Investment Company shall each have the right to such a proportion of such stock as will be equal, at a par valuation, to ten per centum of the stock held by each of said stockholders in said Georgia Security Investment Company, and the remainder of said stock shall be sold and disposed of in such manner for not less than par, and said corporation may determine; but said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company shall not become a legal corporation under this charter, nor exercise any of the enlarged powers and privileges hereby granted and bestowed, until this charter shall be accepted by said Georgia Security Investment Company, and all of the remaining capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars shall be subscribed, and at least seventy-five per centum of the whole paid in in cash. Upon these acts being done, said Georgia Security Investment Company shall become merged into, and its name changed to, the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company. Capital stock. Increase. Division and disposal of same. Conditions attending charter.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all of the acts that have been heretofore done, or contracts entered into by said Georgia Security Investment Company, or which may be done or entered into, before the same shall become merged into the Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, shall inure to said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, to be binding and obligatory upon the same, in the same manner and to the same extent as if there had been no change in the same, by the granting of this charter, and that said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company shall have full power and authority to enforce, and shall equally be bound on its part to carry out in good faith all such obligations, contracts, rights or liabilities of the Georgia Security Investment Company. Acts and contracts of old company inure to new. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That should the said Georgia Security Investment Company accept this charter in lieu of the one it now holds, and its stockholders become a body corporate hereunder by virtue of a compliance with the provisions of this Act, that such act shall not in anywise change or affect the organization of said company, but that its organization shall be transferred in toto to said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, and all of its officers, agents and employees shall at once occupy the same relation to said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, with the same rights and privileges and subject to the same obligations and duties, as may exist or grow out of their relations or contracts with said Georgia Security Investment Company. But the stockholders of said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company shall, at the next annual meeting, choose not less than five or more than seven Directors, to whom shall be entrusted the entire management of the business of such corporation, and said Board of Directors shall be elected annually. The by-laws, rules and regulations of said Georgia Security Investment Company shall continue in force and be binding upon said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company until such time as they may be duly changed, altered or abrogated by said Board of Directors, but no by-laws, rules or regulations shall be adopted which shall be in violation of this charter, or of the laws of this State or of the United States. Said Board of Directors shall have the power to elect such officers and appoint such agents, and delegate to them such powers as they may deem proper for the carrying on of the business of said corporation, not in violation of this charter or of the laws of this State or of the United States. A quorum of said Board shall consist of not less than a majority of the members thereof. Organization of old company transferred in toto to new. New Board of Directors. Elected annually. By-laws, rules, etc. Officers, agents, etc. Quorum. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Atlanta Trust and Banking Company shall have power to hold any real or personal property that it may deem necessary or desirable to carry on its business, or which it may receive at any time in payment of any debt, and to alienate and convey the same at will. Real and personal property.

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SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That each stockholder shall be individually liable to the creditors of said corporation to the amount of his unpaid stock or the balance due thereon, and shall be individually responsible ratably and not one for another for all contracts, debts and engagements of said corporation to the extent of his or her stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested therein. Liability of stockholders. SEC VIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this charter are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE HOME LOAN AND BANKING COMPANY OF ATLANTA. No. 115. An Act to incorporate the Home Loan and Banking Company of Atlanta SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That Martin F. Amorous, George R. De Saussure and Morris Brandon of said State, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic under the name of the Home Loan and Banking Company of Atlanta, with perpetual succession, and with power under this name to sue, and be sued; and with all other powers enumerated in section 1679, of the Code of Georgia published in the year 1882. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into twelve hundred and fifty shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the same at any time to five hundred thousand dollars, and the incorporators or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to open books of subscription to said stock, and to organize and commence business when twelve hundred and fifty shares shall have been subscribed, or the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars paid in on said stock. The stock shall be paid for in monthly installments of not less than two and one-half dollars for each share subscribed for, or in such other way as the Directors may decide; Provided, that any stockholder shall have the right to pay the entire amount subscribed, or any part thereof in excess of his monthly installments at two and one-half dollars per share, at any time, and on such basis as shall be agreed on by the Directors. Provided further, that said corporation shall not have the right to receive deposits as a bank till the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars of

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the capital stock shall have been paid in, and Provided further, that unless twenty-five hundred dollars of its capital stock shall have been paid in before the expiration of three years from the passage of this bill, this charter shall be void and of no effect. Capital stock. Increase. How paid. Proviso. Additional proviso. Voiding clause. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That at the first meeting of the stockholders called by a majority of the incorporators, a Board of Directors, not less than three nor more than thirteen, as may be agreed on by said stockholders, shall be elected from among the stockholders, to hold office for the period of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. A majority of the number of Directors agreed on shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Said Board of Directors shall have power generally to manage the business of the corporation, elect and appoint all such officers as they may deem necessary, fix their compensation, fill vacancies occurring in their body, and do and perform such other things as shall be delegated to them by the by-laws of said corporation. Directors. Term of. Quorum. Powers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the right to do a general banking business, to receive deposits, to make loans and discounts, to loan its own or its depositors funds, to obtain and procure loans for any person, company, partnership or corporation, to invest its own money or the money of others, to lend and invest money in or upon the security of and by way of mortgage, pledge, deed, or otherwise on or over any lands, hereditaments, or real property, or interest thereon of any description, situate anywhere; to lend money upon, or purchase or otherwise acquire bills of lading or the contents thereof, bills, notes, bonds, choses in action, or any and all negotiable or commercial paper, or any crop or produce whatever, or any stock, bullion, merchandise or effects, and the same to sell or in anywise dispose of, and to charge any rate of interest on all such loans that may be agreed on in writing, not exceeding the rate allowed by law; and it may also make such loans for any length of time agreed on, and charge interest for the whole time, and include the same in the note or notes or other security given therefor, and collect the same by monthly, bi-monthly, semi-annual or annual installments or otherwise, without any rebate of interest thereon, if the debtor or borrower will so agree. General banking powers. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said company may subscribe to, purchase, acquire, or lend money upon any stock, shares, notes, bonds, debenture, or other securities of any government, State, municipality, corporation, company, partnership, or person, and to hold, deal in, or sell the same, or to distribute the same among the stockholders; to negotiate or place in behalf of the corporations, companies, partnerships, or persons, all or any of them, shares, stocks, debentures, notes, mortgages, or other

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securities with or without guaranty, or collateral obligation, by this company, and to sell or subscribe any of the property, real or personal, or any interests acquired therein by it, to any other corporation for any portion of its bonds, securities, obligations, or capital stock as may be agreed upon without liability on such stock so purchased or subscribed for, beyond the agreed terms of said purchase or subscription. Collateral and securities, real and personal. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may receive on deposit all sums of money which may be offered it for the purpose of being invested, in such sums and at such times and on such terms as the Board of Directors may agree upon, and which shall be repaid to such depositors at such time, with such interest, not exceeding the lawful rate, and under such regulations as may be fixed by such Board; and if money is deposited by any minor, either as an investment or otherwise, such money may be withdrawn by the minor without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, and his or her check or receipt therefor shall be as binding upon such minor as though he or she were of full age. Deposits. Interest. Minors' deposits. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said company, at any time agreed on by the Board of Directors, may issue (debenture) coupon bonds in denominations of not less than ten nor more than five thousand dollars, payable at any time fixed upon, and drawing any rate of interest agreed on not forbidden by the usury laws. And to secure the payment of the same may transfer to any person, natural or artificial, as trustee, all of its securities, property, effects or franchises, or any part thereof, by way of mortgage, deed, pledge or otherwise. And said company may sell, loan, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of said debenture bonds, by the use of agents or otherwise, at any price, and paying its agents any commission its Board of Directors may agree on, for the purpose of obtaining money for use in its general business. May issue bonds. Disposal of same. SEC VIII Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the right to act as agent, factor or trustee for any State, county, town, municipality, corporation, company or individual, on such terms as to agency and commission as may be agreed on, in registering, selling and countersigning, collecting, acquiring, holding dealing and disposing of on account of such State, county, town, municipality, corporation, company or person, bonds, certificates of stock or any description of property, real or personal or for guaranteeing the payment of such bonds, certificates of stock, etc., and generally for managing such business, and may charge such premiums, commissions or rate of compensation as may be agreed on in and for any of the matters and things authorized by this charter. May act as agent, trustee, etc.

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SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money in trust, and shall have power to accept and execute any trust that may be committed to it by any court, corporation, company, person or persons, and it shall have power to accept any grant, assignment, transfer, devise or bequest, and hold any real or personal estate, or trust created in accordance with the law of this State, and then to execute the same on such terms as may be established and agreed upon by its Board of Directors; and said corporation is hereby fully authorized and empowered to act as trustees or assignees, and to receive on deposit all funds in litigation in the various courts of this State, and pay therefor such interest as may be agreed upon, not exceeding the lawful rate; it shall have power and authority to receive for safe-keeping or deposit, all money, bonds, stocks, diamonds, and silver plate, and other valuables, and charge and collect a reasonable compensation for the same, which said charge shall be a lien upon such deposit until paid, and generally to do and carry on the business of a safety deposit and trust company Trust funds. Funds in litigation. Safety deposits. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said corporation, after fifty thousand dollars shall have been paid in on its capital stock, shall have power to accept and execute the office and appointment of executor of the last will and testament of any person, and of guardian, when appointed as such by will, but not otherwise, and the Ordinaries of this State are authorized to grant letters testamentary to said corporation when it is appointed executor of any will. Said corporation shall have power to accept and execute the office of agent, assignee, receiver or trustee of every kind whatsoever, whether said office or appointment shall be conferred by any person or persons, or by any corporation, public or private, or by any court, either of the United States or of this State. The capital stock, assets and property of this corporation shall be absolutely liable for the faithful management of the trusts as confided to its care as executor, guardian or trustee, agent, assignee or receiver, as aforesaid: Provided, said corporation shall have power to act as administrator of any deceased person's estate on the same terms and conditions as natural persons. But nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to give said corporation the right or power to act as trustees, executor, administrator, guardian or assignee without first executing a bond for the faithful performance of said trust as and in the same manner as is now or may hereafter be required by law of natural persons. May act as executor or guardian. As agent, assignee, receiver, etc. Liability as such. Proviso. Must execute usual bond. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That said company shall and are hereby given the right to carry on the business of guarantee insurance, and to insure or guarantee the payment of any dividends, bonds, notes, undertakings, mortgages, or other securities or evidences of indebtedness, or the interest thereon of any person,

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partnership or corporation, for any price and on any consideration agreed on. Guarantee insurance. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That the officers of said company shall consist of a President, and as many Vice-Presidents as shall be agreed on, a Cashier and as many Assistant Cashiers as may be agreed on, and a general counsellor who shall be elected at such times, and shall hold their respective offices for such terms as may be fixed by the by-laws, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The stockholders may in their discretion vest in the Board of Directors the power to make, alter and amend said by-laws. The by-laws shall fix the duties of the various officers, including the Vice-Presidents and Assistant Cashiers. Officers, etc. By-laws. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the stock held by any one shall be transferred only on the books of said corporation, either in person or by power of attorney, and no stockholder shall transfer his stock except by consent of the Directors of said corporation, if he is indebted to the corporation as principal, security or otherwise, until such indebtedness is paid off and discharged, and for all such indebtedness said corporation shall have a lien superior to all other liens upon the stock of said stockholders. Transfers of stock. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That each stockholder in said corporation shall be individually liable for the debts of the corporation to the amount of his or her unpaid subscription to the capital stock of the corporation, and the stockholders of said corporation shall be individually liable to the creditors of said corporation to the amount of the capital stock subscribed or at any time held by them respectively. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE MERCHANTS BANK OF VALDOSTA. No. 126. An Act to incorporate The Merchants Bank of Valdosta, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That R. V. Lane, W. T. Lane, T. M. Smith, of Valdosta, A. T. MacIntyre, W. H. Mitchell, of Thomasville, and M. V. MacIntyre, of Savannah, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of The Merchants Bank of Valdosta, to be located in the city of Valdosta Lowndes county, Georgia. Corporators. Corporate name.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when there shall be fifty thousand dollars of said capital stock subscribed and twenty-five thousand dollars actually paid in, the said company may organize and commence business under this Act. Capital stock. Shares. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That when the subscription authorized in the second section of this Act shall be fifty thousand dollars or more, and when twenty-five thousand dollars or more in lawful money of the United States shall have been received by the Commissioners provided for in this Act on account of subscriptions, then the said subscribers shall be and become a body corporate and politic with continued succession, under the name of The Merchants' Bank of Valdosta, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers, and be competent to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction in the subject matter involved, and shall have power to take, receive, purchase and hold, as security for or in payment of any loans or advances made, real, personal or mixed property, so far as may be necessary for the safe and convenient prosecution of the business of said bank as a bank of discount and deposit, and afterwards sell and convey such property, real, personal and mixed, and may execute and issue all such receipts, certificates, contracts, deeds and bills of sale or other instruments as may be necessary; and said bank shall have power to make and use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, and to do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and the business of said corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the the United States. Requisites for organization. General corporate powers. General banking powers. Corporate seal. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money on deposit, to lend and borrow money, take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best; to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange, stocks and bonds, to make advances on cotton and other agricultural products with liens thereon; to secure said advances by attaching bills of lading and otherwise, and to do all other acts it may deem advisable for the safekeeping and secure and profitable investments of its funds. Deposits. Discounts, advances, etc. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of not less than three, nor more than five Directors, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their number a President; may declare by-laws for their government, not inconsistent herewith; fix the number of said Directors, who shall be a quorum for the transaction of business the day of meeting of said Board, and the salaries of its officers. Each of said Directors shall be a citizen of

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this State, and be owner in his own name of not less than five shares of said stock. Said Board shall have power to elect a Vice President and Cashier, and such other officers as the interest and business of said bank may require. Directors. President. By-laws. Quorum. Qualifications and power of Directors. Officers. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the total liabilities to said bank, of any person or of any company, corporation or firm (including in the liabilities of the company or firm the liabilities of the several members thereof), shall at no time nor by any construction or device, exceed one-tenth part of the amount of the capital stock of said bank paid in; but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith and the discount of commercial paper actually owned by the party negotiating the same, and loans payable on demand, and securities convertible in the open market, shall not be considered as any portion of said liabilities, and no Director, stockholder or officer of said bank shall, by virtue of such position, holding or office, be entitled to or enjoy any advantage, preference or privilege in the use of the funds of said bank, which might not otherwise be extended to them. Liabilities to bank limited. Convertible securities excepted. No preference to officials. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said bank may semi-annually declare a dividend of so much of the net profits as they may judge expedient, after defraying its expenses and paying its debts; but, before declaring such dividend, they shall carry one tenth of its net profits of the preceding half year to its surplus fund until the same shall amount to twenty-five per centum of its capital stock, (but it shall not be lawful for them to create or accumulate a surplus of its profits exceeding one hundred per centum of their paid up capital), and in estimating the net profits of said bank, no assets shall be accounted as solvent which are over six months past due and unsecured and not in process of collection, and all such insolvent debts shall be charged off before such surplus is set aside, or any dividend declared. Dividends. Surplus fund. Limit to. Insolvent assets. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall issue to each stockholder certificates of stock truly representing his or her interest, and such stock shall be held bound to the company for any dues or other indebtedness by such stockholder to the company, and no stockholder who may be indebted to said bank, either as principal, security or endorser, shall, while so indebted, sell or transfer the stock held by him or her without the consent of the President and Directors of said bank, and all sales and transfers of stock in said bank must, in order to be valid, be made on the registry and transfer books of the company by the owner of the stock or his lawfully appointed attorney-in-fact; and the Board of Directors may close the transfer books from time to time, as provided by their by-laws, as the conveniences of the bank may require. Liability of stock. Transfers.

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SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any two of them, or their successors or assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank at such time and place, and to keep them open for such length of time, as they may deem proper, but for no less amount of subscription than fifty thousand dollars, as hereinbefore provided. The Directors of said bank shall be elected by a majority in interest of the stockholders thereof voting at said election, under the inspection of said Commissioners, at such place as they may designate, within ten days from the closing of the subscriptions called for by them, and on the second Monday in February in every year thereafter. No election shall be valid where a majority of the whole stock paid in is not represented, and in any election for Directors, and in all questions that may come before any convention of stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars shall entitle the owner to one vote. Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors during the intervals of election may be filled by said Board; and it shall be the duty of the President of said bank to prepare and lay before the stockholders thereof semi-annual statements of the business and condition of the bank, its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns to the Governor of this State as are now required by law to be made. Books of subscription. Majority interest elects. Time and place. One vote per share. Vacancies. Statements and returns. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That should there be no election of Directors at any annual meeting as herein provided, the Directors then in office shall continue until the next election in which the majority of the stock shall be represented in person or by legal proxy, and until their successors are duly elected and enter upon the discharge of their duties. The minutes of the Board of Directors shall be kept in a book provided for that purpose, and signed by the President, Chairman or Secretary, and these minutes shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. Directors to hold overwhen. Minutes open to inspection. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That after twenty-five thousand dollars or more, by installments, have been paid in, in lawful money of the United States, said company may organize and elect Directors, and from its body elect a President, and when such organization shall have been perfected, such Directors shall call in the balance of said subscription or stock in such installments as they may deem best for the institution. Organization. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That in case any subscriber to the stock of the company shall fail or refuse to pay any of the assessments or calls for payment which may be made by the Commissioners or Board of Directors within the time required as aforesaid, the Board of Directors may, at any time thereafter, proceed to enforce the payment of the entire indebtedness for such

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subscription to stock of such defaulting subscriber, by bringing suit therefor in the courts of the State, city or county where said defaulting subscriber resides; or the said stock belonging to such delinquent may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, after thirty days' notice in writing to such delinquent subscriber, be forfeited, in which case the portion previously paid in shall be forfeited to the company, and the said company shall have the right to reissue said stock. Default of subscriber. Payment to be enforced. By suit. Forfeiture and reissue. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the Cashier, who may also be a Director, shall be elected by the Board of Directors, and shall give such bond in such sum as they may require. It shall be the duty of the Cashier to keep safely all moneys, notes, bonds, bills, or other property committed to his care, or shall come into his possession in the regular course of business, and he shall have power to bind the company by signing promissory notes, checks, receipts, or certificates of deposit in conducting the business of the bank. Cashier. His duties. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That the company shall have a printed copy of this charter placed in a frame in their office so that all persons may see the same, who wish to transact business therewith. Framed copy of charter. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That in all elections stockholders may ballot by proxy as well as by themselves; that a Director when he cannot attend the meeting of the Directors, may empower another to vote for him on all questions that may or shall come before said Board of Directors for action in his absence. Proxies. SEC. XVI Be it further enacted, That each stockholder shall be liable to the creditors of said bank to the amount of his unpaid subscription, and in addition thereto to an amount equal to the par value of the stock owned by him, each stockholder to be liable individually and ratably only, and not one for another. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage, and shall continue in force for thirty years thereafter. Operation and term of charter. SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE BANK OF QUITMAN. No. 128. An Act to incorporate The Bank of Quitman, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That M. B. Lane, of Valdosta, W. R. MacIntyre, W. H Mitchell, of Thomasville, E. P S. Denmark, of Quitman, and M. V. MacIntyre, of Savannah, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of the Bank of Quitman, to be located in the city of Quitman, Brooks county, Georgia Corporators. Name and location. SEC II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when there shall be fifty thousand dollars of said capital stock subscribed and twenty-five thousand dollars actually paid in, the said company may organize and commence business under this Act. Capital stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That when the subscription authorized in the second section of this Act shall be fifty thousand dollars or more, and when twenty-five thousand dollars or more in lawful money of the United States shall have been received by the Commissioners provided for in this Act, on account of subscription, then the said subscribers shall be and become a body corporate and politic with continued succession, under the name of The Bank of Quitman, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers, and be competent to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction in the subject matter involved; and shall have power to take, receive, purchase and hold as security for or in payment of any loans or advances made, real, personal or mixed property, so far as may be necessary for the safe and convenient prosecution of the business of said bank, as a bank of discount and deposit, and afterwards sell and convey such property, real, personal and mixed, and may execute and issue all such receipts, certificates, contracts, deeds and bills of sale, or any other instruments as may be necessary; and said bank shall have the power to make and use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, and to do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect, the objects and purposes of this Act, and the business of said corporation not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. Organization. General corporate powers. General banking powers. SEC IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money on deposit, to lend and borrow money, take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best;

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to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange, stocks and bonds; to make advances on cotton and other agricultural products, with liens thereon to secure said advances, by attaching bills of lading and otherwise, and to do all other acts it may deem advisable for the safe keeping, and secure and profitable investments of its funds. Deposits, etc. Discounts, exchange, etc. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of not less than three nor more than five Directors to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their number a President; may declare by-laws for their government, not inconsistent herewith, fix the number of said Directors, who shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, the day of meeting of said Board and the salaries of its officers. Each of said Directors shall be a citizen of this State, and be owner in his own name of not less than five shares of said stock. Said Board shall have power to elect a Vice-President and Cashier, and such other officers as the interest and business of said Bank may require. Directors. Powers and qualifications. Officers. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the total liabilities to said bank, of any person, or of any company, corporation or firm (including in the liabilities of the company or firm the liabilities of the several members thereof), shall at no time nor by any construction or device, exceed one-tenth part of the amount of the capital stock of said bank paid in, but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith, and the discount of commercial paper actually owned by the party negotiating the same, and loans payable on demand on securities convertible in open market, shall not be considered as any portion of the said liabilities, and no Director, stockholder or officer of said bank shall, by virtue of such position, holding or office, be entitled to or enjoy any advantage, preference or privilege in the use of the funds of said bank which might not otherwise be extended to them. Restrictions on liabilities to. Exception. Convertible securities. No preference to officials. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said bank may semi-annually declare a dividend of so much of the net profits as they may judge expedient, after defraying its expenses and paying its debts; but, before declaring such dividend, they shall carry one tenth of its net profits of the preceding half year to its surplus fund, until the same shall amount to twenty five per centum of its capital stock (but it shall not be lawful for them to create or accumulate a surplus of its profits exceeding one hundred per centum of their paid up capital), and in estimating the net profits of said bank, no assets shall be accounted as solvent which are over six months past due and unsecured, and not in process of collection; and all such insolvent debts shall be charged off before such surplus is set aside or any dividend declared. Dividends. Surplus fund. Restriction. Insolvent assets.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall issue to each stockholder certificates of stock truly representing his or her interest, and such stock shall be held bound to the company for any dues or other indebtedness by such stockholders to the company, and no stockholder who may be indebted to said bank, either as principal, security or endorser, shall, while so indebted, sell or transfer the stock held by him or her without the consent of the President and Directors of said bank, and all sales and transfers of stock in said bank must, in order to be valid, be made on the registry and transfer books of the company by the owner of the stock or his lawfully appointed attorney-in-fact, and the Board of Directors may close the transfer books from time to time as provided by their by-laws, as the conveniences of the bank may require. Stockhow held and bound. Transfers. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any two of them, or their successors or assigns, shall be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank, at such time and place, and to keep them open for such length of time as they may deem proper, but for no less amount of subscription than fifty thousand dollars, as hereinbefore provided. The Directors of said bank shall be elected by a majority in interest of the stockholders thereof voting at said election, under the inspection of said Commissioners, at such place as they may designate, within ten days from the closing of the subscriptions called for by them, and on the second Monday in February in every year thereafter. No election shall be valid where a majority of the whole stock paid in is not represented, and in any election for Directors, and in all questions that may come before any convention of stockholders, each share of one hundred dollars shall entitle the owner to one vote. Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors during the intervals of the election may be filled by said Board, and it shall be the duty of the President of said bank to prepare and lay before the stockholders thereof, semi-annual statements of the business and condition of the bank, its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns to the Governor of this State as are now required by law to be made. Books of subscription. Majority interest elects. Time. One vote per share. Vacancies Statements and returns. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That should there be no election of Directors at any annual meeting as herein provided, the Directors then in office shall continue until the next election in which the majority of the stock shall be represented in person or by legal proxy, and until their successors are duly elected and enter upon the discharge of their duties. The minutes of the Board of Directors shall be kept in a book provided [Illegible Text] that purpose, and signed by the President, Chairman or Secretary, and these minutes shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. Directors to hold overwhen. Minutes.

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SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That after twenty-five thousand dollars or more, by installments, have been paid in, in lawful money of the United States, said Company may organize and elect Directors and from its body elect a President; and when such organization shall have been perfected, such Directors shall call in the balance of said subscription or stock in such installments as they may deem best for the institution. Organization and call for stock. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That in case any subscribers to the stock of the company shall fail or refuse to pay any of the assessments or calls for payments which may be made by the Commissioners or Board of Directors within the time required as aforesaid, the Board of Directors may, at any time thereafter, proceed to enforce the payment of the entire indebtedness for such subscription to stock of such defaulting subscriber by bringing suit therefor in the courts of the State, city or county where said defaulting subscriber resides, or the said stock belonging to such delinquent may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, after thirty days notice in writing to such delinquent subscriber, be forfeited, in which case the portion previously paid in shall be forfeited to the company, and the said company shall have the right to reissue said stock. Default of subscriber. Payment enforced, By suit. Forfeiture and reissue. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the Cashier, who may also be a Director, shall be elected by the Board of Directors, and shall give such bond in such sum as they may require. It shall be the duty of the Cashier to keep safely all moneys, notes, bonds, bills or other property committed to his care or shall come into his possession in the regular course of business, and he shall have power to bind the company by signing promissory notes, checks, receipts or certificates of deposit in conducting the business of the bank. Cashier. His duties. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That the company shall have a printed copy of this charter placed in a frame in their office, so that all persons may see the same who wish to transact business therewith. Framed copy of charter. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That in all elections, stockholders may ballot by proxy as well as by themselves. That a Director when he cannot attend a meeting of the Directors, may empower another to vote for him on all questions that may or shall come before said Board of Directors for action in his absence. Proxies. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That each stockholder shall be liable to the creditors of said bank to the amount of his unpaid subscription, and to the additional amount of the par value of his stock, ratably and not one for another. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage, and shall continue in force for thirty years thereafter. Operation and term of charter.

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SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE SWAINSBORO BANK. No. 130. An Act to incorporate the Swainsboro Bank, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That John C. Coleman, J. Neal McLeod, G. L. Smith, Green Bell, Alfred Herrington. J. A. Brannan, and such other persons as hereafter may become associated with them, and their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Swainsboro Bank, for the term of fifty years; and as such, shall have the right to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to purchase, own, hold and sell and receive all property of any description; to alien, sell, convey, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the same as a natural person; to make all by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of the State, and to do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry out the objects and purposes of this Act, and to exercise all the powers incident to a corporation and necessary to the transaction of its business. Corporators. Corporate name and term. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, divided into two hundred and fifty shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the same at any time to five hundred thousand dollars, and the incorporators are hereby authorized to open books of subscription for said stock. The stockholders shall pay in the stock subscribed for, by monthly installments in such sums and under such conditions and rules as may be determined by the Board of Directors, not to be less than two dollars per month per share. Such payments shall continue until the amounts paid in shall amount to one hundred dollars per share: Provided, any stockholder shall have the right to pay the entire amount subscribed by him at any time. Capital stock. Increase. Payments. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That as soon as two hundred and fifty shares shall be subscribed for and the sum of ten thousand dollars paid in, the incorporators shall have the right to organize and transact a loan and banking business. At the first meeting of the stockholders, a Board of five Directors shall be elected from

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the stockholders to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum. The Board of Directors may be increased to nine by a vote of the stockholders; said Board of Directors shall have power to manage the business of the corporation; to declare dividends when earned; to elect all officers of the corporation, and to provide for the sale or forfeiture of any stock by reason of default in paying the installments aforesaid. Organization. Directors. Quorum. Powers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have the right and authority to lend money on real estate or personal property, to make loans for any time that may be agreed on, and collect the interest by monthly installments or otherwise as they deem best. Loans and collections. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have authority to do a general banking business, to receive deposits, discount commercial papers, to buy and sell exchange, to acquire and hold real and personal property and dispose of the same, and to perform all acts usual in such cases General banking powers. SEC VI. Be it further enacted, That the principal office shall be located at Swainsboro, Georgia, and that the Board of Directors shall have power to establish agencies or branch banks for the transaction of said business in any place they may think proper. Principal office. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That all the assets of the bank shall be liable for its debts, and each stockholder shall be individually liable for the debts of the corporation to the extent of his or her unpaid stock or subscription, and in addition thereto, each stockholder shall be individually liable for the debts of the bank equally and ratably, and not one for another, in an amount equal to the par value of the stock owned by him or her at the time the debt was created. Corporate and individual liability. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That no Director, officer or shareholder of said bank shall be allowed to become indebted to said bank in an amount exceeding ten per cent. of its capital stock actually paid in Restriction on debt to. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE THOMASVILLE EXCHANGE AND BANKING COMPANY. No. 140. An Act to incorporate the Thomasville Exchange and Banking Company, to define its powers, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That R. T. McLean, W. H. Mitchell, J. A. Hurst, William Campbell and R. B. Mardre, of Thomas county, Georgia, their associates, successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, under the corporate name and style of Thomasville Exchange and Banking Company, and by said corporate name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, receive, purchase, own, hold and use property of all descriptions, and alien, convey, lease and mortgage, and otherwise dispose of same in any manner that a natural person might lawfully dispose of similar property. Said corporation shall have power to make, use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, make by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or the United States, and do any and all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and to exercise in general all the powers incident to corporations, particularly banking, loan and trust, fidelity and exchange companies, and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated, including the rights, powers and privileges enumerated and set forth in sections 6, 7, 8 and 11 of the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved December 18, 1886, incorporating the Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company, the language of which Sections is hereby adopted and made a part of this Act, as though fully set forth herein, except the words, The Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. Special privileges. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the principal place of business of said corporation shall be the city of Thomasville, but it may establish branches or agencies at other places in said State or elsewhere, and delegate to them such powers as may be necessary for properly transacting the business of such branches or agencies. Location. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, divided into five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the capital stock to five hundred thousand dollars, or five thousand shares, the increase to be made in the manner prescribed by the by-laws, and the incorporators, or a majority of them, are authorized and empowered to open books of subscription

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for said stock, which shall be paid in by the subscribers or stockholders in monthly installments and in such sums as may be determined by the Board of Directors, not to be less than two dollars per share, and such payments shall continue until the amounts paid shall be one hundred dollars per share: Provided, any stockholder with the consent of a majority of the Directors shall have the right to pay the entire amount subscribed for or due by him, at any time, and he may receive such interest on advance payments as the Board of Directors may see fit to allow. Capital stock. Increase. Books of subscription. Payments. Proviso. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That as soon as five hundred shares shall be subscribed for and the sum of one thousand dollars paid in on said stock, the stockholders shall have the right to organize the corporation under this Act and transact business, except said corporation shall not receive deposits or sell exchange until twenty-five thousand dollars shall be paid in. At the first or any subsequent meeting of the stockholders, called by a majority of the corporators, a Board of Directors of not less than three or more than seven, shall be elected to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified. A majority of the Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Organization. Restriction. Directors. Quorum. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the corporate powers of said corporation shall be vested in and exercised by the Board of Directors, who shall serve one year, and until the election of their successors, except the first Board which shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. They shall choose out of their own number a President and a Vice-President, and shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in said Board, and shall appoint such officers, agents and clerks as may in their judgment be necessary, fix their salaries and define their duties, and remove them whenever it seems to said Board proper to do so, requiring of any officer or agent so appointed such bond and security as may be deemed proper by said Board to secure the faithful discharge by him, of his duties and of the trusts reposed in him; said Board of Directors shall have power to make by-laws for the management of the affairs of said corporation, do all things necessary for the protection of its interests in conformity with the provisions of this Act, subject to the revision, modification, or repeal by the stockholders at an annual meeting. No stockholder shall be eligible as Director who is not the owner, in his own right, of at least ten shares of the capital stock of said corporation. Powers, term of service and qualifications of. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have the first lien upon the stock or shares of each stockholder for any indebtedness that the stockholder may owe, or be liable for to the corporation, whether by overdraft, note, acceptance, endorsement, security, or otherwise, but it shall make no loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock Stock liable for indebtedness of stockholder. No loan on its own stock.

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SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have authority to establish an exchange department with full power to do any and all acts usual, proper and beneficial in the conduct of real estate and other exchanges. It may make loans on real estate, or personal property, or other security, at any rate of interest that may be contracted for in writing, not exceeding the highest rate allowed by law, and may charge interest for the whole time and include the same in the note or notes, mortgage, deed, or other security given therefor, and collect the same by monthly installments, or otherwise, without any rebate of interest thereon, the debtor so agreeing thereto by executing the note, or notes, mortgage, deed, or other security aforesaid. Exchange department. Interesthow collectible. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and the stockholders shall be individually liable, equally, ratably, and not one for another, as securities to the creditors of said corporation, for all debts and contracts of said corporation, to the extent of the amount of their stock therein (at the par value thereof) respectively, at the time the debt was created, in addition to the amount invested in such shares or subscribed therefor How responsible to creditors. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be of force and effect for the term of fifty years from the date of the organization of said corporation. Term of charter. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE HOME LOAN AND BANKING COMPANY. No. 154. An Act to incorporate The Home Loan and Banking Company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That William Slade, James B. Kimball, Lucius H. Chappell, Frank C. Reich, H. H. Daniel, and such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them and their successors and assigns, shall hereafter be a body politic and corporate, with continuous succession, under the name and style of Home Loan and Banking Company, and by said corporate name shall be competent in law to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court having jurisdiction over the subject matter involved; to receive, purchase, own, hold and use property of all descriptions, and alien, convey, lease and mortgage,

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and otherwise dispose of same in any manner that a natural person might lawfully dispose of similar property. Said corporation shall have power to make, use, renew, and alter at pleasure, a corporate seal, make by-laws not inconsistent with laws of the land, and do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and to exercise in general all the powers incident to corporations, and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated. The said corporation shall be located in Columbus, in this State. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of this corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars ($100) each, but it shall have power, after said stock shall have been paid up, to increase its said capital stock from time to time, to any sum not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), whenever it may be deemed expedient by the stockholders in meeting assembled, two-thirds of the entire stock being voted in favor of such increase before the same can be effected. Said corporation is hereby authorized to commence business as soon as ten (10) thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be paid in upon said capital stock, and the Board of Directors shall be authorized to call in the balance of said capital stock in such installments and at such times as may be deemed necessary by said Board. Capital stock. Increase of capital stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any three of them, are hereby appointed Commissioners, with power to open books of subscription to said capital stock at such times and places and for such length of time as they may deem best, and when fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of stock shall have been subscribed for, ten dollars ($10) on each share shall be at once paid in cash to said Commissioners, and thereupon said Commissioners shall cause notice to be given to the subscribers, by publication in a newspaper published in the City of Columbus, once a day for three (3) days prior to the time appointed for the meeting of the subscribers, requiring them to assemble at the time and place to be designated in the publication, to organize this corporation, and to elect a Board of Directors. On the assembling of the subscribers, or such of them as may choose to attend, in person or by written proxy, they shall proceed to hold an election for the first Board of Directors, which shall consist of not less than five (5) nor more than nine (9), for this corporation, under the supervision of said Commissioners, who shall declare the result of said election and turn over to the Board so elected the money subscribed on account of said stock, the charter and subscription lists, and thereupon this corporation will be organized. All subscriptions to the capital stock shall be binding upon the subscribers, and upon their heirs, assigns, and

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legal representatives, and shall be payable at such times and in such installments as the Directors may require, the Board of Directors giving at least one notice in a public gazette published in the City of Columbus, ten days prior to the day fixed for the payments of such installments; and if any stockholder shall fail to pay any such installment so called for for thirty days after the time designated in such call, his stock shall be in default, and the Board of Directors shall cause same to be sold out to the highest bidder for cash on the first Tuesday of any month, before the court house door in Columbus, during the legal hours of sale, by an auctioneer, if necessary, upon such notice and advertisement as may be deemed proper by the Board; and said stock may be bought in by and for said corporation, and be reissued to some other subscriber upon his paying up the value of same, including the amount of the call; the delinquent stockholder receiving the surplus, if any, which said defaulted stock may bring at such sale, over and above the expenses incident upon said sale, advertisement charges and attorney's fees, if any, and the amount of said call; and any deficiency in the sum thus received, necessary to make the amount of the call, and all said expenses, advertisement charges and attorney's fees, shall be made good to said corporation by said delinquent stockholder. A new certificate of stock shall be issued to the purchaser, and he shall stand in the same relation to said corporation as the delinquent would have done had he not so made default. If installments are paid during the said thirty (30) days the stockholder so paying shall also pay interest at the rate of eight (8) per centum per annum upon said installment from the date of the maturity of said call to the date of payment as aforesaid. Each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock standing in his or her name at all elections for Directors, including the organization meeting, or in any convention of stockholders, and such vote may be given in person or by written proxy, duly appointed. All votes shall be by ballot at any elections (including the organization meeting) and a plurality of votes shall elect. Requisites for organization. Board of Directors. Subscriptions to stockhow payable. Defaulted stock. Reissuing stock. Elections. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the corporate powers of said corporation shall be vested in and exercised by the Board of Directors, who shall serve one year, and until the election of their successors, except the first Board, which shall serve until successors are elected, and who shall choose out of their own number a President and Cashier, and shall have power to fill any vacancies which may occur in said Board, and shall fix the salaries of the President and Cashier; requiring of the Cashier such bond and security as may be deemed by said Board proper to secure the faithful discharge by him of his duties and of the trusts reposed in him. Said Board of Directors shall have power to make by-laws for the management of the affairs of said corporation, and do all

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things necessary for the protection of its interests, in conformity with the provisions of this Act, subject to revision, modification or repeal by the stockholders in meeting or convention assembled. The Directors shall have power to declare dividends out of the earnings of said corporation: Provided, that no dividends shall be declared until the earnings are sufficient to pay the same after deducting all expenses and losses, and after placing at least ten per cent, of such net earnings annually to a permanent surplus fund until such surplus fund shall be equal to twenty (20) per cent. of the capital paid in, after which time, at least five per cent. of the net earnings shall be added to the surplus fund annually. No person shall be eligible as a Director who does not own in his own name at least ten (10) shares of the stock unpledged and unencumbered, and whenever it shall become known to the Board that any Director has ceased to be the owner of ten (10) shares of stock, unpledged and unencumbered as aforesaid, the Board shall, as soon as possible thereafter, declare such person to be no longer a Director, and shall fill such vacancy in the Board. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than five, nor more than nine, a majority of whom shall be residents of Columbus, Georgia, and a majority of those known to be in the city at the time of any meeting of the Board, including the President and Cashier, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. Certificates of stock shall be issued to the stockholders in such form and transferred in such manner as the Directors may prescribe, but no transfers or assignments of shares shall operate to release any stockholder from any obligation to the corporation without the consent of the Board. The regular annual meeting of stockholders for the election of Directors shall be held at the principal office of the corporation in Columbus, Georgia, on the second Tuesday of January of each year, but if no election shall be held on that day, it may be held on any subsequent day selected by the Board of Directors, notice once a week for four (4) weeks in all cases having been given in a newspaper published in the city of Columbus, and if the Board of Directors should within thirty (30) days after the said second Tuesday in January, fail to make a call for the meeting for election as above, then the stockholders representing two-thirds of the shares may do so on same notice as above. Board of Directors. President and cashier. Powers of Board. By-laws. Dividends. Proviso. Surplus fund. Qualifications of Directors. Stock certificates. Annual meetings. Time and place. Notice of SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That any number of the stockholders of said corporation who own or represent at the time, two-fifths of the capital stock may, by giving twenty (20) days notice thereof in a newspaper published in the city of Columbus, call a meeting or convention of all the stockholders of the corporation at such time and place in the city of Columbus as may be in such call designated, but no act of the stockholders in meeting or convention, except the election of Directors, shall be valid or binding on the corporation, unless a majority of the stockholders in

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value shall be represented; nothing herein provided for shall prevent the Board of Directors from calling a meeting or convention of the stockholders whenever said Board may deem it proper to do so. Called meetings SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That The Home Loan and Banking Company shall have power and authority to receive money on deposit, and to issue certificates of deposit, on any terms agreed on; to loan and borrow money, and to take and give therefor such securities as may be considered best; to make advances on real or personal property, or both, for any period that may be agreed upon by the borrower in writing, at any rate of interest not exceeding the highest rate allowed by law, and may charge such interest for the full period of the loan and collect the same, together with the principal, without rebate or discount, by monthly installments, the borrower executing his note, draft or other written contract for such installments of principal and interest, as aforesaid; to invest the funds in such manner and upon such terms as it may deem best, and to transfer its property at pleasure; to receive valuables or other articles of personal property, or of any sort or kind, including certificates of stock, securities and other evidences of the same, or of titles thereto, on deposit for safe-keeping, from any person or persons, as well as from executors, administrators, guardians, receivers, trustees, corporations, public and private officers, and all other fiduciaries, the said corporation charging and receiving therefor such sums of money as may be agreed upon; to deal in precious metals, foreign and domestic exchange; to buy, sell, discount or collect promissory notes, bills of exchange, bills of lading, contracts, claims, receipts, rents, choses-in-action of any kind whatsoever, mortgages, bonds, stocks, securities and evidences of debt generally; to buy, sell, rent, improve, mortgage, lease, manage or otherwise to have, hold, operate in or control any real or personal property in this or any other State or Territory of the United States; to receive deposits of money for investment purposes on terms agreed on, and to issue receipts or certificates therefor; to negotiate, buy or sell for others, stocks, bonds, bills of exchange, promissory notes, rents, mortgages, choses-in-action, securities and personalty of all kinds, and real estate in this or any other State or Territory of the United States; to advance and loan money on the same, and to negotiate advances and loans upon same, and invest funds for others generally upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by and between said corporation and those with whom it may deal; to receive from persons or corporations mortgages or deeds conveying property, real or personal, in trust to said corporation, securing negotiable notes or bonds, with or without coupons, not bearing a greater interest than the highest contract rate fixed by law of this State, upon such terms and subject to

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such powers, conditions and limitations as may be agreed on or be required by the by-laws, or by the Board of Directors of said corporation, and not in conflict with the laws of this State, and which terms, powers, limitations and conditions shall be made and subscribed by the persons and corporations so executing and delivering such mortgages or deeds in trust, and to sell or negotiate such notes or bonds so secured, or allow them to be sold or negotiated by such persons or corporations so executing and delivering same on such terms as may be agreed upon: Provided, that for such services of negotiating or selling and receiving and paying over proceeds of the sale of said note or notes, bond or bonds to the persons or corporations executing the same, said corporation shall in no case charge a larger compensation than the commissions now allowed by law to trustees for receiving and paying over moneys; to execute and issue its own debentures, bonds or other evidences of debt, bearing interest not exceeding the highest contract rate allowed by laws of Georgia, singly or in series, or classes of any denomination properly secured upon property placed with said corporation for said purposes, or upon property owned or held by it; to guarantee, insure, or indorse, interest bearing loans, notes, bonds, debentures or other evidences of debt when said corporation is fully secured, and to negotiate and issue or cause same to be issued for value; to guarantee or insure titles to real estate for valuable consideration, to execute and to issue, demand, receive and enforce all such receipts, certificates, contracts, bonds or other instruments of writing as may be necessary for the transaction of its business; to receive savings on deposit under such requirements and regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, paying therefor such interest as may be agreed upon; to do a general banking, exchange, savings bank, loan and trust company business, and to do all Acts as may be considered by it advisable and best for carrying on the same. Deposits. General banking powers. Safe deposits. Securities, etc. Brokerage. Mortgages and other collateral. Negotiating securities. Proviso. May issue bonds, debentures, etc. Guarantee titles, etc. Savings deposits. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to accept and execute the office and appointment of executor of the last will and testament of any person, and of guardian when appointed as such by will, but not otherwise; and the ordinaries of this State are authorized to grant letters testamentary to said corporation when it is duly appointed executor of any will. Said corporation shall have power to accept and execute the office of administrator, agent, assignee, receiver or trustee of every kind whatsoever, whether the office or appointment shall be conferred by any person or persons, or by any corporation, private or public, or by any court either of the United States or this State. That all laws of force in this State, and not contrary to the provisions of this Act, concerning executors, administrators, guardians, trustees,

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assignees or receivers, shall apply to this corporation when appointed to such office. That said corporation shall have power to act as fiscal agent for the State of Georgia, or for any other State, or for any county, city, town, corporation or municipality whatsoever, for negotiating, issuing, registering, selling and countersigning bonds, certificates of stock or other obligations, and for paying bonds, coupons, certificates of stock or other obligations, or for guaranteeing the payment of such bonds, certificates, obligations or coupons, or for doing or performing any other contracts or obligation by this corporation, and generally for managing such business for such corporation as may be agreed upon. When the management of any estate or fund is vested in said corporation under the provisions of this Act, said corporation may be sued as to any matter connected therewith in the county in which the appointment was made, and it shall be the duty of said corporation to have an agent in every such county upon whom service can be effected, and in case it fails to have such agent, it may be served by publication as non-resident defendants in equity causes are now served. That when said corporation shall have moneys in its hands, acting in any of the aforesaid fiduciary capacities which ought to be invested, it may invest same in the bonds or public debt of the United States, or of this State, or in bonds indorsed or guaranteed by the State of Georgia, or in any bonds allowed by this State for the investment of fiduciary funds, with like freedom from liability as though ordered to do so by the will, deed or other instrument, or order, or decree of court creating the trust: Provided, such investment be not contrary to any of its directions. That said corporation shall not be obliged to convert into cash or change any investment of stocks, bonds or other securities which may come into its hands when acting in any of the aforesaid official or fiduciary capacities, unless directed by deed or will, or otherwise required to do so for the payment of debts, expenses or pecuniary legacies. That whenever any court shall appoint said corporation as trustee, assignee or receiver, or deposit with said corporation any moneys, such court may at any time appoint a suitable person to investigate the condition and management of said corporation, who shall report to said court his opinion of the safety and prudence of its investments, and of the integrity and ability with which its affairs are conducted, and the reasons and figures supporting said opinion. The Governor of this State may, if he sees fit, cause such examination to be made by the proper person or persons annually, or oftener, if, in his opinion, any emergency should require it; but nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to exempt this corporation from making the usual returns and exhibits required by law from other banks and trust companies. May act as executor, guardian, etc. Receiver, assignee, etc. Fiscal agent, etc. How sued or served. Investmentswhat securities permissible. Proviso. Change of investments. Investigation of affairs by order of court. Examination may be annual. Returns made annually.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That married women and minors shall be competent to make deposits with said corporation of money or otherwise, and their checks or receipts for same shall be a sufficient discharge to said corporation, and any contract made by them with said corporation in course of business with said corporation as to said deposits shall be valid and binding in law, and such deposits shall not be subject to the claims, control or debts of the husbands respectively of such married women, or the parents or guardians respectively of such minors. Deposits by minors and married women. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have its principal office in the City of Columbus, Georgia, but may do or transact business, within its corporate scope, anywhere in the United States of America, and the Board of Directors shall have power to establish agencies for the transaction of the business of said corporation at any place or places within the State of Georgia, or elsewhere that they may deem advisable, and may appoint such agents or officers and delegate to them such powers as may be necessary for the business of such agencies or branches. Principal office. Agents and agencies. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property and assets, and the stockholders shall be individually liable, equally and ratably, and not one for another, as sureties to the creditors of said corporation, for all contracts and debts of said corporation to the extent of the amount of their stock therein (at the par value thereof) respectively, at the time the debt was created, in addition to the amount invested in such shares. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the powers, franchises, and privileges granted by this Act to said corporation shall not be repealed or changed so as to affect its power faithfully to execute and carry out any trust held by or contracts entered into by said corporation, or so to injure any interest committed to its care and management, without the consent of all the stockholders, creditors and persons interested. Change of franchises, etc., not to impair contracts. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be of force and effect for the term of fifty (50) years from the date of the organization of said corporation. Term of charter. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE BANK OF MADISON. No. 160. An Act to incorporate the Bank of Madison, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That G. B. Stovall, R. U. Thomason, L. T. Campbell, J. H. Hunter and E. W. Butler, and such other persons as may become associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of Bank of Madison, to be located in Madison, Morgan county, Georgia. Corporators. Name and location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to one hundred thousand dollars, said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when there shall be fifty thousand dollars of said capital stock subscribed and twenty-five thousand dollars actually paid in lawful money of the United States, the said company may organize and proceed to business under this Act. Capital stock. Amount to be paid in SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That when the subscription authorized in the second section of this Act shall be fifty thousand dollars or more, and when twenty-five thousand dollars or more, in lawful money of the United States, shall have been received by the Commissioners provided for in this Act, on account of subscriptions, then the said subscribers shall be, and become a body corporate and politic, with continued succession under the name of the Bank of Madison, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers, and be competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter involved, and shall have power to take, receive, purchase and hold as security for, or in payment of any loans or advances made, or otherwise, real, personal or mixed property, so far as may be necessary for the safe and convenient prosecution of the business of said bank, as a bank of discount and deposit, and may execute and issue all such receipts, certificates, contracts, deeds, or other instruments as may be necessary, and said bank shall have power to make, use, renew and alter at pleasure, a corporate seal, and do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the objects and purposes of this Act, and the business of said corporation not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States. Organization. General corporate and banking powers

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have power to receive money on deposit, to lend and borrow money, take and give therefore such securities as may be considered best; to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange, stocks and bonds; to lend money for others and charge therefor commissions as hereinafter provided, and to do all acts it may deem advisable and profitable investment of the funds of said bank, and the exercise and enjoyment of its corporate powers. Deposits. Loans and discounts. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the total liabilities to said bank of any person. firm, company or corporation, including in said liabilities of firm, corporation or company the liabilities of the several members thereof for money borrowed, shall at no time exceed one tenth part of the capital stock of said bank paid in, but the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith, and the discount of commercial paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same, shall not be considered as borrowed money. Restriction on liabilities to. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said bank shall be authorized to lend money and take as security therefor personal security, notes, mortgages and other evidences of debt, of value, as collateral security, and deeds to land, giving bond for titles, or to reconvey to the borrower, to re-convey same and make such lawful charges as may be agreed upon, in addition to the legal rate of interest, for securing satisfactory investigation of titles and necessary deeds, mortgages and liens. Mortgages and other collateral. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of not less than five nor more than nine Directors, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their number a President, may make by-laws for their government not inconsistent herewith, fix the number of Directors who shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, the day of meeting of said Board, and the salaries of its officers. A majority of said Directors shall be citizens of this State, and each Director shall be owner, in his own name, of not less than three shares of said stock Said board shall have power to elect a President and Cashier, and such other officers as the interest and business of said bank may require. Board of Directors. Their powers and qualifications. Officers. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said bank may semi-annually declare a dividend of so much of the net profits as they may judge expedient, after defraying its expenses and paying its debts, but before declarng such dividends they shall carry one-tenth part of its net profits of the preceding half year to the surplus fund, until the same shall amount to twenty-five per cent. of its capital stock; and in estimating the net profits, no assets shall be accounted as solvent which are six months past due, unsecured and not in process of collection, and all such insolvent debts shall be charged off before said surplus is set aside, or any dividends declared. Dividends. Surplus fund. Insolvent assets.

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SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall issue to each stockholder certificates of stock correctly representing his or her interest, and such stock shall be held bound to the bank for any dues or indebtedness by said stockholder to the company, and no stockholder who may be indebted to said bank, either as principal, security or endorser, shall while so indebted, sell or transfer the stock held by him or her, without the consent of the President and Directors of said bank, and all sales and transfers of stock must, in order to be valid, be made on the register and transfer books of the bank by the owner of the stock, or his lawfully appointed attorney-in-fact. Stockhow issued and held. Transfers. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or any three of them, or their successors or assigns, shall be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank at such time and place, and for such length of time as they may deem proper, but for no less amount of subscription than fifty thousand dollars. The Directors of said bank shall be elected by a majority at interest of the stockholders thereof voting at said election under the inspection of said Commissioners, at such place as they may designate, within twenty days after the closing of the subscription called for by them, and on the first Monday in January in every year thereafter. No election shall be valid when a majority of the whole stock paid in is not represented, and in any election of Directors, and in all questions that may come before any convention of stockholders, each share shall entitle the owner to one vote. Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors may be filled by said Board, and it shall be the duty of the President of said Board to prepare and lay before the stockholders thereof, semi-annual statements of the business and credits of the bank, its assets and liabilities, and to make such returns to the Governor of the State as are required by law. Should there be no election of Directors at any annual [Illegible Text] as herein provided, the Directors then in office shall continue until the next election. The minutes of the Board of Directors shall be kept in a book provided for that purpose, and signed by the President or Secretary, and these minutes shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. Books of subscription. Elections. Time and place. One vote per share. Vacancies. Statements and returns. Minutes open to inspection. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That in case any subscriber to the stock of the company shall fail or refuse to pay any of the assessments or installments of the capital stock, which may be called for by the Commissioners or Board of Directors. the Board may, at any time thereafter proceed to enforce the payment of the entire indebtedness for subscription to stock of such defaulting subscriber by bringing suit therefor in any court having jurisdiction of the same, or the stock of such delinquent subscriber may, by resolution of the Board of Directors, be sold on terms prescribed

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by said resolution, and in a way prescribed therein, after thirty days' notice in writing to the delinquent. Default of subseriber. Payment enforced. By suit. By sale. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That the Cashier, who may also be a Director, shall be elected by the Board of Directors, and shall give such bond, in such sum as they may require. It shall be the duty of the Cashier to keep safely all moneys, notes, bonds, bills or other property committed to his care in the course of business, and he shall have power to bind the bank by signing thecks, drafts, receipts, or certificates of deposits in conducting the business of the bank. Cashier. His duties. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That said bank shall have authority to loan money on real estate or such other security as the President or Board of Directors may accept at any rate of interest that may be agreed on, in writing, not in excess of the highest rate fixed by law; and said bank shall have authority to allow interest on money deposits, to accept and execute trusts of every description which may be committed to it by any order, or decree of any court, and shall have power to accept by grant or assignment, transfer, devise or bequest, and hold any real or personal estate, or trust created in accordance with the laws of this State, and to execute such legal trusts on such terms as may be declared, established or agreed upon in regard thereto. Loans. Interest. Additional powers. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That all capital, property and assets of said bank shall be bound for the payment of its debts, and in addition thereto, the stockholders shall be individually bound and liable to contribute to the payment of the debts of the bank, each in an amount equal to the par value of the stock held by him, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Corporate liability. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall continue of force for a term of fifty years. Term of charter. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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TITLE II. RAILROAD COMPANIES, DUMMY AND HORSE CAR LINES. ACTS. Making legal and valid the occupancy of Ninth street, Columbus, by tracks of Mobile and Girard Railroad. Amending Charter of Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad. Empowering Mayor and Council of Macon to grant an Encroachment to Georgin Southern and Florida Railroad. Incorporating the Midville, Swainsboro and Red Bluff Railroad. Amending Charter of Augusta and Chattanooga Railroad and Banking Company. Incorporating the Empire and Dublin Railroad Company. Amending Act incorporating Washington street Railway Company. Incorporating the Milledgeville and Asylum Dummy Railroad Company. Incorporating the North and South Street Railroad Company of Rome. Incorporating the Talbotton and Western Railroad Company. Incorporating the South Brunswick Terminal Railroad Company. Incorporating the Americus Street Railroad Company. Incorporating the Central City Street Railroad Company of Macon. Incorporating the Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company. Incorporating the Thomasville Street Railway Company. Changing name of Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company to Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway. Amending Charter of Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad Company. Amending Act incorporating the Ore Belt Railroad Company. Incorporating the Georgia Overland Railway and Improvement Company. Incorporating the West Atlanta Street Railroad Company of Fulton County. Incorporating the Fairmont and Augusta Railroad Company. Incorporating the Millen, Mount Vernon and Florida Railroad Company. Incorporating the Marietta Street Railroad Company. Incorporating the Nacoochee Valley Railroad Company. Incorporating the Cleveland Railroad Company. Incorporating the Mountain Valley Railroad Company.

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MAKING LEGAL AND VALID THE OCCUPANCY OF NINTH STREET, COLUMBUS, BY TRACKS OF THE MOBILE AND GIRARD RAILROAD. No. 3. An Act to make legal and valid, the occupancy of Ninth Street in the City of Columbus, west of Broad Street, by certain side tracks of the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, as they now exist in said street, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, by a resolution of the Mayor and Council of the City of Columbus, the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, was authorized to construct in 9th Street, west of Broad Street in the City of Columbus, certain side tracks for the speedy delivery of freight. AND WHEREAS, by a vote of the people of the City of Columbus, said action of the Mayor and Council was ratified, and said side tracks were constructed. Now, in order that such occupancy of said street as it now exists by said tracks, may be made legal, and such additional servitude be so declared, Preamble. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted, That certain railroad tracks, known as side tracks, belonging to the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company and used by them in the delivery of freight, which have been heretofore placed in Ninth Street in the City of Columbus, west of Broad Street, and which are situated in said street north and south of the main line of the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company as they are now placed and situated, be and the same are hereby declared to be legal, and the occupancy of said street by such tracks, is hereby made legal and valid, with the right to said Railroad Company to use the same for the delivery of freight as now. Occupancy of Ninth street, Columbus, By tracks of Mobile and Girard Railroad, Legal and valid. Tramway included. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not be so construed as to make legal the use of any side track in Ninth Street, east of Broad Street. Reservation. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 3, 1888.

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AMENDING CHARTER OF GEORGIA SOUTHERN AND FLORIDA RAILROAD. No. 25. An Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company, and for other purposes, approved September 28th, 1881; so as to authorize the construction, maintenance and operation of the said railroad in the streets of the city of Macon, and in other cities and towns through or into which said railroad may run; to condemn property, either in cities, towns or elsewhere in said State, for the purpose of right of way for said road or for depots, warehouses, shops and terminal facilities of any kind, and to construct a branch road from some point on the main line of said railroad into the city of Brunswick, in said State. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company, as incorporated by the Act of the General Assembly, approved September 28th, 1881, and amended by the Act of the General Assembly, approved October 16th, 1885; and further amended by an Act of the General Assembly, approved September 21st, 1887, be amended as follows: Said Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company shall have power and authority under their charter to enter the city of Macon, or any city or town into or through which said road may run; and for this purpose authority is hereby given them to build, construct and maintain the tracks of said railroad across, along and through the public streets of the city of Macon, in this State, and across, along or through the public streets of any other city or town in this State, into or through which the said railroad may run: Provided, that should the said railroad company, in construction of their said road through the streets of said cities and towns, damage the property of any person in so constructing said railroad, it shall, before proceeding with the said construction, pay to the owner of said property the amount of said damage; and in case the said railroad company and the owner of said property fail to agree on the amount of said damages, then either of said parties shall have power to have the same ascertained in the method provided in the charter of said railroad company for condemning property for the right of way of said railroad company; and Provided, further, that said railroad company, before building through, to or into any town or city, shall first obtain the consent of the municipal authorities of said town or city as to the route, upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the municipal authorities of said town or city. Charter amended. Extension through Macon. Proviso. Must pay for damages. How determined. Municipal consent.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said charter be further amended as follows: Said Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company shall have full power and authority to construct, equip and use a branch line from some point on the main line of said railroad, into the city of Brunswick in Glynn county, with the same rights and privileges as to said branch line as are conferred by the charter and amendments thereto as to the main line of said railroad. Branch line to Brunswick. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said charter be further amended as follows: That said Railroad Company shall have the power and authority under the terms of its charter heretofore granted, to condemn private property in any of the cities or towns or elsewhere in this State for the purpose of right-of-way, and for depots, shops and side tracks and terminal facilities. May condemn private property. SEC. IV. 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 December 17, 1888. EMPOWERING MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF MACON TO GRANT AN ENCROACHMENT TO THE GEORGIA SOUTHERN AND FLORIDA RAILROAD. No. 26. An Act to authorize and empower the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon, to grant to the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company a permanent encroachment of 80 feet or less, on 5th street, in said city, adjoining lots numbers 1 and 8, in block 57, in said city, and extending from Plum to Pine street, for the location, construction, occupancy and use of depots and tracks in said city. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon are authorized and empowered to grant to the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company, a corporation existing under the laws of this State, a permanent encroachment on and out of 5th street, in the City of Macon, of 80 feet or less, adjoining lots numbers 1 and 8, in block 57, and extending from Plum to Pine street in front of and adjoining lands now owned by said Railroad Company on said 5th street, upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon. Mayor and council authorized to grant encroachment. Locating encroachment.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company are hereby authorized and empowered to use and occupy the encroachment which is herein authorized to be granted to it, with their depots, tracks, warehouses, and other facilities: Provided, that the said Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company shall pay to the owners of property on said street any damages to their property that may be sustained by them by reason of the use and occupancy of said street by said Railroad Company. Railroad authorized to occupy encroachment. Damage to property owners. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 17, 1888. INCORPORATING THE MIDVILLE, SWAINSBORO AND RED BLUFF RAILROAD. No. 36. An Act to incorporate the Midville, Swainsboro and Red Bluff Railroad, to define its powers, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That Jesse Thompson, James W. Burch, Albert G. Sherman and Wm. S. Gregg, of Richmond County, their successors and assigns be, and they are hereby created a body politic under the name of Midville, Swainsboro and Red Bluff Railroad, with its principal office at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, and with a capital stock of two hundred thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, with power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, have a common seal, make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this State, with power to buy, purchase, own or lease real and personal property, including the railroad privately built from Midville to Swainsboro, to maintain and operate the same; and to construct, maintain and operate a railroad from Swainsboro to Red Bluff as part of that already built to Swainsboro from Midville. Corporators. Corporate name. Capital stock. Shares. Corporate Powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said railroad shall have power to issue stocks, to issue bonds, to secure the same by mortgage or deed of trust, to borrow money; to cause its route or proposed route to be surveyed, and for said purpose to enter upon the land of others for that purpose; to own and hold all land necessary for its roadway, offices, depots, side tracks, yards, wharfs, stations, terminal facilities, or other uses in connection with said road; to lay out its road not exceeding two hundred feet wide, and construct the same; to maintain and operate a railroad

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between the points named; to convey persons and property, and charge therefor, and do all things incident to a railroad business. General power of common carrier. Interest of H. P. Smart Bro. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall authorize said railroad to condemn the interest of H. P. Smart Bro. in the road now built from Midville to Swainsboro. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said railroad shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises mentioned and contained in the Act approved September 27, 1881, and commonly known as the General Rail Road Incorporation Act, and now codified in the Code of 1882, Section 1,689 ( a ) et sequitur, as if in this Act specially and fully set out at large. Said railroad shall have the right to condemn land to the same extent, for the purposes and in the manner set out in said General Rail Road Law, and shall elect its officers in the manner, and for the terms therein mentioned, and all powers therein given shall be exercised in the manner, and to the extent therein provided. All rights granted under the General Railroad Law given. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all the powers heretofore granted said railroad under the General Rail Road Law by the charter issued thereunder by the Secretary of State, are hereby conferred and established. Confirming charter issued by Secretary of State. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That no property condemned under the provisions of the said General Rail Road Law, shall be taken until compensation has been first paid. Compensation for property condemned. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 21, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF AUGUSTA AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD AND BANKING COMPANY. No. 37. An Act to amend Section 9 of the Act approved December 22, 1886, entitled an Act to incorporate the Augusta and Chattanooga Railroad and Banking Company; to authorize it to do a banking business, and to operate a line of steamboats on the Savannah river, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the first sentence of Section 9 of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out of said first sentence all after the words, annually by the stockholders. Amending section 9.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That this amendment shall not take effect until after the same shall have been accepted by a majority of the stockholders of said company, at a stockholders' meeting, regular or called for the purpose. Ratification by stockholders. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 21, 1888. INCORPORATING THE EMPIRE DUBLIN RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 38. An Act to incorporate the Empire and Dublin Railroad Company, to grant certain powers, rights and privileges to said corporation and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That J. C. Anderson, J. W. Hightower, R. A. Anderson, W. A. Heath, N. E. Harris and Y. H. Morgan, their successors and associates be, and they are hereby incorporated under the name of Empire and Dublin Railroad Company, and by that name to have perpetual succession, purchase and hold property, sue and be sued, make contracts, and generally do any and everything that may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this incorporation. Corporators. Name. Corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the same from time to time, by a vote of the Board of Directors hereinafter provided for, to a sum not to exceed two and a half million dollars. The corporation shall have the right to commence business so soon as thirty per cent. of the capital stock first aforesaid is paid up, either in money or property. Capital stock. Shares. Increase. Commencing business. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the affairs of the said corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors, to consist of five members, to be elected annually by the stockholders. The said Board shall select one of their number to act as President, and shall have the right to provide for such other officers or agents as they shall deem necessary for the transaction of the business of the corporation. The salaries and compensation of all officers and agents shall be fixed by said Board of Directors. The said Board shall also have the right to prescribe and establish by-laws, rules, and regulations for the government of said corporation in the transaction of its business, not in conflict with its charter or the laws of the State. Board of Directors. President, etc. Salaries. By-laws.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have authority to construct, lay out, maintain, equip, and operate a line of railroad from the town of Hawkinsville, in Pulaski county, by way of the town of Empire, in Dodge county, to the town of Dublin, in the county of Laurens, in this State, and shall have all the powers, rights, franchises, and facilities necessary or proper to successfully accomplish and maintain the object of its incorporation as aforesaid. It may purchase, condemn, and acquire such rights of way, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, terminal facilities, and other real estate along its line, as may be necessary or proper for its use, or to aid in accomplishing its construction. Provided, that just compensation shall, in every case, be paid therefor before said railroad company shall enter upon or take possession of any land for its purposes, without the consent of its owner. Route. Rights of way. Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That Section 1698 (I) of the Code of this State, concerning the acquisition of rights of way and other property necessary or proper for the construction of railroads, and setting forth the methods of proceeding to condemn such property in certain cases therein stated, be, and the same is hereby made part of this charter, and incorporated into the same, and all the powers, rights, privileges and franchises set forth and described in said Section may be exercised by this corporation in the manner therein set forth. Section 1698 (I) of code made part of charter. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall be authorized to extend the main line of its railroad from any point on its line, or from either terminus, in any direction that may be desired in the discretion of its Board of Directors, a two-thirds vote of said Board being first obtained therefor. It shall also have a right to build such branches along the main line as may be desirable in the judgment of the Board of Directors. The said corporation shall have the same right to acquire title to land or right of way, or other property required for the purpose of constructing the said extensions and branches as are granted herein for the construction of the main line, and all the powers, rights and franchises granted to said corporation for the construction and operation of the main line, shall apply to and be operative as to all such extensions and branches as aforesaid. Extension. Branches. Franchises same as for main line. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the principal office of said corporation shall be located at Empire, in Dodge county, Georgia. Principal office. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have authority to borrow money at such rate of interest not to exceed the conventional rate authorized by law, and upon such terms as the Board of Directors may authorize or deem expedient. It shall have the right to make, issue and negotiate bonds in such amounts as its Board of Directors may deem proper, and for the purpose of securing the payment of the principal and interest of

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the same, may execute such deeds of trust, mortgages, or other encumbrances as may be proper, upon the property of said corporation, its franchises, privileges, immunities, rolling stock, furniture, tools, implements, appendages, appurtenances, or other property owned or held in connection with its railroad business, and generally to do any and everything that may be necessary to effecfuate the power herein granted. May borrow money. Issue bonds. Execute trust deeds, mortgages, etc. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall be authorized to construct its railroad across, along or upon any stream of water, water course, street, highway or canal which the routes of said road shall intersect or touch. Whenever the track of said railroad shall touch, intersect or cross any road, highway or street in any incorporated town or city, such road, highway or street may be carried over or under said railroad as may be found most expedient for the public good. In case of necessity, it shall be lawful for said corporation in constructing said railroad to change the course or direction of any road, highway or street, regard being had in all such cases to the public convenience, subject to the approval of the municipal or county authorities, as the case may be; it may cross other railroads at a grade level, or be carried under or over such railroads as may be deemed expedient by its Board of Directors, under the usual rules applicable thereto. Right to cross waterways, highways, etc. May change direction of s reets, etc. Crossing [Illegible Text] railroads. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the corporators named in the first section of this Act shall have authority to organize the corporation and to manage its business until permanent Directors are elected as hereinbefore provided, and in case of the death, or refusal to act of one or more of said persons, the remaining persons shall have the power to elect others in their stead Provisional Directors. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall continue for the space of fifty years from and after the passage of this Act: Provided, as many as twenty miles of said road are constructed and in operation within five years from the passage of this Act, and if said road is not in operation for as many as twenty miles within said time of five years, then in that event this charter shall be void. Term of charter. Proviso. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 22, 1888.

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AMENDING ACT INCORPORATING WASHINGTON STREET RAILWAY COMPANY. No. 39. An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Washington Street Railway Company: to define the powers, duties, and privileges of said corporation, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the Act approved October 24th, 1887, granting a charter to the Washington Street Railway Campany, be and the same is hereby amended, so as to make the capital stock of the said company five thousand dollars instead of fifteen thousand dollars. Amending charter of Oct. 24, 1887. SEC. 2. And the said Act shall be further amended so as to allow the company to organize and commence business when the sum of four thousand dollars is subscribed. And the sixth section of said Act, with the amendments named therein incorporated, shall read as follows: SECTION VI. Be it enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be five thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each; said capital stock may be increased from time to time to any sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars: Provided, said increase be authorized in each instance by a direct vote of a majority of all the stock of the company at an annual or at a special meeting called for that purpose; but said corporation may organize and commence business whenever the sum of four thousand dollars is subscribed. When company may commence business. Section 6 as amended. SEC. III. 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 December 22, 1888. INCORPORATING THE MILLEDGEVILLE AND ASYLUM DUMMY RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 44. An Act to incorporate the Milledgeville and Asylum Dummy Railroad Company, and to define its rights, powers and privileges, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Solomon Barrett, William Caraker, Jacob Caraker, L. N. Callaway, P. M. Compton, D. B. Sanford, J. L. Harris, Robert Whitfield, A. Joseph, Guardian, W. T. Conn, P. J.

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Cline, Mrs. P. T. Cline, R. C. Humber, T. E. White, E. P. Lane, Joseph Miller, Mrs. T. M. Gobert, L. H. Compton, C. M Wright, F. B. Mapp, R. N. Lamar, T. O. Powell, Mrs. M. E. Windsor, John Davis, M. F. Davis, W. H. Jewell, T. L. McComb, Fred. Haug, H. Turner, M. Hines, Perry Clark, W. G. Perry, Geo. Haug, W. A. Walker, G. T. Wirdenmon, Samuel Evans, C. L. Lase, Alice Harris, R. H. Gray, A. J. Carr, Rebecca Gates, Joe Dunn, J. M. Whitaker, J. A. Horne, J. G. Fowler, B. T. Bethune, W. H. Armstrong, Joseph Staley, W. G. Hawkins, T. F. Johnson, Jane Miller, I. H. Hall, J. T. Miller, J. J. Pearson, Mrs. W. B. Ferrell, E. E. Bell, J. M. McMillan, G. D. Case, Agent, George D. Case, T. W. Turk, J. E. Tyler, E. T. Alling, C. W. Ennis, Ben Adams, Jr., W. H. H. Bares, T. H. Lattimer, Ellen Richardson, J. M. Edwards, and such others as they may hereafter associate with themselves, be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body corporate and politic under the name and style of the Milledgeville and Asylum Dummy Railroad Company. Corporators. Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation, by said name, shall have continuous succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, to plea and be impleaded, and may have and use a common seal, and may alter and renew the same at pleasure, and may make, alter and repeal such laws governing its own members, officers, attorneys, agents, employes, and persons dealing or having business with it, as said corporation may deem proper: Provided, said by-laws are not in conflict with existing laws; and it may make contracts, borrow money, issue bonds, notes and other evidences of debt, and secure the same by such mortgages or deeds of trust as it may deem proper; and it may acquire, purchase, receive and hold such property, real and personal, as it deems best and most profitable to its purposes, and it may dispose of any part thereof at pleasure; and it shall have all the powers, facilities, rights and franchises necessary or proper to successfully conduct the business of a common carrier, and to fix rates and charge for carriage of persons and property, and to collect the same. General corporate powers, As common carrier. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the principal office of said corporation shall be in the city of Milledgeville and said State, and that the capital stock of the same shall be thirty thousand dollars divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing said amount to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars at any time the stockholders shall decide so to do. The principal business of said corporation shall be to lay out, build, construct, equip and operate a dummy railroad or roads, to and from the respective depots of the railroads in the city of Milledgeville and the village of Midway, and between those and the village of Midway, the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, and such other points and places as said corporation may hereafter

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decide, to haul freight and carry passengers, and to do and perform any and all other traffic and business as a common carrier. Principal office. Capital stock. Increase. Route. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation shall have full power and authority to survey, lay out, construct, equip, use and enjoy lines or routes of said road in the city of Milledgeville, as have been already or may hereafter be agreed upon and contracted for by the aforesaid corporators and the Mayor and Aldermen of said city of Milledgeville; and the use and enjoyment of so much of the public streets of said city as has heretofore been granted to said corporators by the said Mayor and Aldermen is hereby confirmed in and unto the said corporation. May construct street lines in Milledgeville. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should said corporation find it necessary, at any time in the construction of its road or roads, to have and use the lands of private persons or other corporations, said corporation may acquire the same by pursuing the mode prescribed in the general law for the incorporation of railroads, approved September 27th, 1881. May condemn private lands. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the affairs and business of said corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors, consisting of ten persons, each one being a stockholder in his own right, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum. They shall be elected annually by the stockholders, at such time and place as may be fixed in the by laws and shall hold their offices until their successors are elected. They shall elect one of their number President, another Vice-President, and a Secretary and Treasurer, whose powers and duties shall be prescribed in the by laws; and the Directors shall have full power and authority to manage and conduct, and to prescribe rules for managing and conducting, all the business of the corporation of every kind. Board of Directors. Annually elected. Officers. Power of Directors. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this charter shall be and continue for the term of ninety-nine (99) years, with the privilege of renewal at the end of said term, and all the acts, contracts, agreements and proceedings heretofore had, and made in the premises by the hereinbefore named corporators are hereby ratined and confirmed, as fully and completely as if done under and by virtue of the provisions and powers of this Act Term of charter. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws in conflict with this Act, whether general or special, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE NORTH AND SOUTH STREET RAILROAD COMPANY OF ROME. No. 47. An Act to incorporate the North and South Street Railroad Company of Rome, and to define its powers, the corporate authorities of the city of Rome, the town of Forestville, and the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of Floyd County having given their consent to the authority hereinafter granted, said consent being evidenced by certified copies of the official action of the said corporate authorities and Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue exhibited in both branches of the General Assembly before the passage of this Act. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That John C. Printup, J. G. Daily, J. A. Stansbury, Wm. H. Hidell, G. W. F. Lamkin, John H. Reece, Daniel Callahan and their associates and successors and assigns be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the North and South Street Railroad Company of Rome, and by that name may have succession for the term of fifty years with the privilege of renewal at the end of that time; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded with; may have and use a common seal, and the same alter or destroy at pleasure; may lease, purchase and hold such personal and real estate as in the opinion of the Directors may be necessary for carrying on the business of the corporation, and the same to sell and dispose of at pleasure; may make all needful by-laws for their government not inconsistent or in conflict with the laws of the State of Georgia and the United States; may issue bonds and other obligations of the corporation, and secure the same by mortgages or deeds of trust on any property of the corporation and its franchise, and do such other acts, and have such additional power and authority as the successful inauguration and prosecution of its business may render necessary and proper. Corporators. Corporate name. Term of charter. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand dollars, with the right and privilege on the part of said company to make it one hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and the same be subscribed to and made subject to such calls and times of payment as said Directors, hereinafter provided for, shall designate, but said company may organize and commence business whenever the sum of eight thousand dollars has been subscribed and paid in; and that said company shall have power to receive land or other property as part payment of the subscription

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to its capital stock, at such valuation as may be agreed on under the rules and by-laws of said company. Capital stock. Shares. Commencing business. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all corporate powers of said company shall be vested in and exercised by a Board of Directors, and such officers and agents as said Board shall appoint, which said Board of Directors shall consist of seven members, and until the election of their successors the seven persons above named shall act as Directors, with like authority as hereinafter provided for their successors; and said persons shall, within one year after this Act, call a meeting of the stockholders to elect seven of their number to act as Directors of said company, and thereupon said Directors shall choose one of their number to act as President, and may elect such other officers as they may think necessary, and fix the salary of the same, said officers to remain in office for one year and until their successors shall be duly elected; and at the end of one year after the election of such Directors, and annually thereafter, upon due-notice to be given by the President and Secretary, or either of them, in a newspaper published in the City of Rome, or by mail to the stockholders, of the time and place of such election, the stockholders shall meet and elect seven Directors for the ensuing year, each stockholder to have one vote for each share of stock held by him or her. Said Directors shall thereupon proceed to organize as above provided for the organization of said Board of Directors, and so on annually during the existence of this charter. Said stockholders may vote in person or by proxy. Five of said Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Temporary Directors. Number. Permanent Board. President and officers. Elections. Organization. Quorum. SEC IV. Be it further enacted, That each stockholder shall be individually liable to the creditors of said company only to an amount equal to the amount unpaid on the stock held by him for all the debts and liabilities of said company, until the whole amount of the capital stock so held by him shall have been paid to the company, or until the stockholder shall have paid out of his private funds, debts of the said company to an amount equal to his unpaid subscription. Liability of stockholders. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power to survey, lay out, construct, equip, use, and employ the following line of street railroads in the city of Rome, town of Forestville, and county of Floyd, Georgia, as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point on Broad street in the city of Rome near the iron bridge spanning the Etowah river, and connecting with South Rome, thence north on said Broad street and its extension to and through the county and the town of Forestville to the Rome and Decatur railroad depot, and thence on to Printup City Park and Reece's Spring. Route of line.

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SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said company shall also have power and authority from time to time to survey, lay out, construct, equip, use, and enjoy, such other routes or lines of street railroad in the city of Rome, the towns of Forestville and South Rome, and in the county of Floyd as it may deem best, in addition to that or those specially named in this Act, whenever it deems it to its interest and the public convenience so to do; but before said company shall begin work upon any other and further line or route of street railroad within the jurisdiction named, it shall first obtain the consent of the aforesaid corporate authorities or of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, in whose jurisdiction the proposed line or route may be; and said company may, with the consent of the proper authorities, use, as motive power for their cars, horses or electricity, or underground cables driven by steam, or dummy engines, or any other appliance that may hereafter be invented or used as motive power. May construct other lines. Restriction. Consent of authorities required. Motive power. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said company may convey on their lines passengers and freight and may charge reasonable and just rates for such transportation. Common carrier. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power and authority to cross at grade or otherwise any railroad or street railroad heretofore built or to be built in said City of Rome or County of Floyd: Provided, that all crossings made for the use and benefit of this said company shall be made and maintained by and at the expense of this same company, and the same shall be so made and maintained without interference with or interruption of the use of the track so crossed by the company operating the same: Provided further, that the cars and motors passing over the track crossed, shall at all times have the right of way at such crossing in preference to the cars or motors of this said company: Provided further, that for any violation of any one of the two foregoing provisions, by which the owner or owners of said track crossed shall be damaged, the said owner or owners of said crossed track shall have a right of action in the courts for damages against this said company. Crossings. Proviso-must be at their expense. Right of way at crossings. Damages. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE TALBOTTON AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 51. An Act to incorporate the Talbotton and Western Railroad Company, and to authorize said company to build and operate its road from the Town of Talbotton, in the County of Talbot, Georgia, westward to some point on the Georgia Midland Railroad in the County of Harris, and eastward from Talbotton to Flint River in the County of Talbot, and to grant certain powers and privileges to the same, and for other purposes therein named. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That for the purpose of constructing a railroad, as set forth in this Act, J. H. Martin, R. Leonard, J. B. Parker, Wm. H. Martin and J. B. Gorman, of the County of Talbot, J. H. Pitts of the County of Harris, and W. A. Little and T. E. Blanchard, of the County of Muscogee, their associates and assigns, be, and they are hereby, declared a body corporate and politic by the name of the Talbotton and Western Railroad Company, and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with; purchase, receive, have, hold, use, powers and enjoy real and personal property which they may deem necessary and proper for the use of said railroad company. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said railroad company shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall [Illegible Text] exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars. Capital stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That whenever the sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to the capital stock of said company, the corporators, or a majority of them, shall, by notice in a public gazette for ten days, published in the town of Talbotton, or the city of Columbus, call a meeting of the stockholders or subscribers to the capital stock of said company, to be held in the town of Talbotton, the city of Columbus, or the town of Waverly Hall, for the purpose of electing from their number a Board of Directors, of not less than five, nor more than nine, to manage and control the business of said company for one year, and until their successors are elected and installed, and said Board of Directors, as well as all other Boards of Directors that may be thereafter elected, shall select from its own number a President, and shall have power to make and adopt by-laws for the Board and company, and to appoint and employ such officers, agents and servants as may be deemed proper by said Board of Directors. Beginning business. Meeting of subscribers. Board of Directors. President. By-laws. Officers, etc.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That in the elections herein-before provided for, each subscriber to the capital stock of said company shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock subscribed by him or her, or which he or she may represent as proxy or by power of attorney, upon which ten per cent. has been paid. One vote per share. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That when said corporators have complied with the requirements set forth, and Directors have been elected, the entire business and management of the affairs of said company, books of subscription shall be turned over to said company. When Directors take charge. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That when the Board of Directors shall have been elected, they and their associates and successors shall be deemed and held a body corporate and politic under the name and style of the Talbotton and Western Railroad Company, with continuous succession, and the rights, powers, privileges usual and necessary to such a corporation, for fifty years. Organization. Term of charter. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power to survey, locate, construct, make, build, maintain, equip, use and operate a railroad from Balbotton, Georgia, westward to some point on the Georgia Midland, in Harris County, and east ward through Talbot County to the Flint River, and shall have power to accept, purchase, lease, have and hold and convey any property, real or personal, or mixed, and to erect such buildings, depots and shops, operate such machinery, and do such other things as it may deem necessary and proper for its advantage and benefit. Boute. Powers of common carrier. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That when a question of right of way arises, and the company cannot agree with the owner or representative of the land upon which it is proposed to enter, the Sheriff of the county in which the land is located, at the request of either party, shall summon five disinterested freeholders of said county, who shall assess the damage to be paid by said company, who shall be sworn to do justice impartially between the parties, which assessment shall be final, unless an appeal be entered to the Superior Court of said county within four days, which may be done by complying with the law of appeals to the Superior Court. Each party shall be entitled to ten days' notice of time and place of hearing by Sheriff, unless the same be waived: Provided, that said company shall not take possession of or enter upon the lands of any person without first paying just compensation for the same. Right of way. Assessment of damages. How effected. Proviso. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That until the Board of Directors be chosen a majority of the corporators, may do any and all things needful to carrying on the affairs of the company. Before Board is chosen. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said company may contract loans, borrow money, mortgage its property, real or personal and the franchise, and do any and every act necessary to its interest and advantage not inconsistent with the laws of Georgia. May borrow on mortgage.

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SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That in case of the failure of said company, the stockholders shall be bound in their private capacity to the creditors of said corporation only to the amount of their unpaid subscription, if any be unpaid. That if work under this charter is not commenced within five years from the passage of this Act, then and in that case, all the rights and powers herein granted shall be, and become null and void. That the company shall have no power to transfer this charter before at least six miles of road are graded and ironed, ready for rolling stock; and in the event of such previous transfer, this charter shall thereby be forfeited eo instante. Liability of stockholders. When work must commence. Restriction on transfer of charter. SEC XII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. INCORPORATING THE SOUTH BRUNSWICK TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 91. An Act to incorporate the South Brunswick Terminal Railroad Company, and to grant certain powers and privileges to the same, and to provide for the building of its line from a point on Blytheback river on Colonel's island in the county of Glynn, in the State of Georgia, into Wayesville in the county of Wayne, said State, and to authorize said Railroad Company to connect its road with the Brunswick and Western Railroad, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That W. F. Penniman, Mallory P. King, Henry R. Symons, all residents of Glynn County, State of Georgia, and such other persons as may be associated with them, and who shall be stockholders, and their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the corporate name of The South Brunswick Terminal Railroad Company, with power under said name to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of law and equity, or law or equity within this State; to have and use a corporate seal, with the right to break, alter or change the same at their will; to purchase, hold and use all such real and personal property of every kind and description as may be deemed desirable or necessary, or in any way conducive to the interest or welfare of said company, together with such other powers hereinafter conferred, as also those powers which are conferred

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generally on like corporations by the laws of this State; and the principal office of said company shall be located in the city of Brunswick, in the county of Glynn, said State, but the Board of Directors shall have, and are hereby given full power to change the same at any time, to any point at or near its line, either in the county of Glynn, or county of Wayne, by first giving sixty days' notice of their intention to change said principal office in the newspapers in which the Sheriffs' advertiging of said counties of Glynn and Wayne are published. Corporators. Corporate name. General corporate powers. Principal office. Change. Notice. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to survey, lay out, grade and construct, build, equip, maintain, erect, conduct and operate, a railroad from a point on Blytheback River, on Colonel's Island, in the county of Glynn, said State, through said county of Glynn, and thence through the county of Wayne, said State, by the most practicable route, into Wayesville, in said county of Wayne, with full power and authority to cross, connect, or consolidate with, any railroad now constructed or which may hereafter be constructed, and which may form a link in said line, and likewise to cross any creeks or rivers, between said two points, whether the same be navigable or not: Provided, that the bridges, which may be by said company erected, built or constructed over navigable streams, shall be so constructed as not to impede navigation. Route. May cross water-ways, But not to impede navigation. SEC III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the said company is hereby empowered to cause such examination and surveys to be made of the proposed line, as shall be necessary to select the most advantageous route, and for that purpose may enter upon the lands of any person or persons, natural or artificial, and by gift or purchase said corporation may acquire title to real estate or personal property necessary for the construction, maintenance and accommodation of said railroad, and may hold and use such real estate and other property for stations and connections with other railroads, terminal facilities and for all other purposes; and shall have, and are hereby given full authority, to have or buy all lands necessary for its use, and to sell any lands which may be owned by them, and may be deemed advisable; and said corporation is further authorized and empowered to lay out its line of railroad on a right-of-way not more than two hundred feet in width, and for the purpose of cutting and filling, and for obtaining ground and material to take such and so much land, as may be necessary for the proper construction and security of said railroad, and to move trees and other obstructions on the right-of-way, making just compensation therefor to the owners thereof, in the manner prescribed in this Act, and to construct its railroad ways along and upon any water course, street, highway, after obtaining consent of county or municipal

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authorities, or canal and along or across any other railroad which the route of this line of railroad shall intersect or touch, to cross at grade, intersect, join or unite its railroad with any railroad now or hereafter to be constructed and built at any point in its route upon the right-of-way of any other railroad company, making compensation therefor in the manner herein prescribed, and may erect the necessary turnouts, sidings, switches and other conveniences necessary in the constructions and operation of the railroad, and may run over the right of way of any other railroad to its freight or passenger depot, shops, etc, in any city, town or village through which said railroad may run; to convey passengers and all manner of property over its railroad by the use of steam, animal or any mechanical power, and to charge and receive compensation therefor, and to do all things necessary for a general railroad business, to erect and maintain all necessary buildings, stations, fixtures, wharves and machinery within or without a city, town or village for the accommodation or use of its business of all character whatsoever; also to borrow such sums of money at such rate of interest (not usurious) and upon such terms as such company or its Board of Directors may agree upon and may deem necessary and expedient, and to secure the same may execute one or more trust deeds or mortgageseither or bothas occasions may require of its railroad franchise, privileges or other property owned by it of every character or kind. Surveys. Real estate. Right of way, etc. Compensation. Crossings. Side tracks, etc. May cross track of other roads. Powers of common carrier. May borrow money. Execute mortgages. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be five hundred thousand dollars, with power, by a majority vote of the stockholders, to increase the same from time to time to an amount not to exceed one million dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and said company shall be authorized, and they are hereby authorized, to commence to construct and build said railroad whenever in the judgment of the corporators the amount of sixty thousand dollars is bona fide subscribed to the capital stock of said company. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. Commencing business. SEC. V. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the books of subscription, or subscription list, may be opened by the corporators at either Brunswick or Waynesville, in their discretion, or elsewhere if they (said corporators shall so elect); and subscription to the capital stock of said company may be made in the form of a general contract or agreement, or in promissory notes or other form, or may be paid in cash, as said corporators may elect; and when said subscriptions are fully paid, certificates of stock shall be issued on the basis of one share for every one hundred dollars paid. Books of subscription. Form of subscription. Issue of stock. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That all subscriptions to the capital stock shall be payable in such amounts, either as a whole or by installments,

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as may be agreed upon, or in the absence of such agreement, as may be ordered by the Board of Directors (in installments); and if any stockholder shall neglect or refuse to pay any installment within sixty days after the same may be due and notice given, such stock, together with all payments previously made thereon, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, shall be forfeited to the company, or the said company shall, and are hereby given power and authority to sue for and recover all such installments as may be called for and not paid. Payments. Default. Forfeiture of stock. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby enacted, That whenever said company and any persons natural or artificial, through or on whose lands or right of way said railroad shall be located, or when the company shall select the same for the purposes of locating thereon wharves, terminal facilities, depots, stations, sidings, shops, round houses, or for other necessary purposes conductive to the interests of said company, and the parties can not or do not agree upon the amount to be paid for the right of way, easement, or title to the land desired, it shall and may be lawful for said company to construct its railroad over any lands belonging to any persons or corporations, and upon and across the right of way and tracks of other railroad companies, upon first paying to the owners thereof, or to his or her or their authorized representative, just and reasonable compensation therefor: Provided further, that nothing herein shall be so construed to authorize said company to connect with any other railroad company for the purpose of defeating or lessening competition or encouraging monopoly. May condemn private property, By compensating owner. Proviso. SEC. VIII. Be it enacted further and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said railroad company shall have power and they are hereby empowered to make, issue and sell bonds of such denomination, to bear such interest (not exceeding seven per cent.) per annum, payable at such times and places and to such amounts, as the Directors may determine, and to secure payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, by mortgages or deeds of trust, or both, of its railroad, real and personal property, franchises, and all other rights of property. May issue bonds secured by trust deed or mortgage. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the business and affairs of said corporation, to wit: Said Railroad Company, shall be managed by a Board of not exceeding seven Directors, nor less than five Directors, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders, and shall hold their office until their successors are elected and qualified; but until the amount of sicty thousand dollars is bona fide subscribed to the capital stock, and until a Board of Directors shall have been elected and shall have qualified, the business and affairs of said corporation shall be managed by said corporators or a majority of them, and such other persons as they may associate with them as Directors.

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The first election shall be held whenever a majority of the stockholders shall determine, and annually thereafter at such time and place as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said company. In all meetings of the stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he shall own shares; that is to say, for each share he shall be entitled to one vote. All elections shall be by ballot, [Illegible Text] otherwise, if so provided by the by laws of said company. The votes shall be cast in person by the stockholder, or by such person as he may by writing, duly appoint as his proxy. The Board of Directors of said company are hereby empowered to fill all vacancies which may occur in the Board of Directors, and the person or persons so appointed by said Directors shall hold his office or their office until his successor or their successors are elected and qualified. Board of Directorswhen elected. Meanwhile Directors to act as such. Electionswhen held. One vote per share. Proxies. Vacancies. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the incorporators may choose one of their number as President, to act as President until a Board of Directors are elected and qualified, and thereafter the Board of Directors shall elect from their number a President of said railroad company; and they may also elect a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. The President shall appoint such other officer, agents and employes as he may deem necessary and proper to carry on the business of said company. The President and Board of Directors shall have and are hereby given full power to control all the business and affairs of said company, call on and demand payment of subscriptions in installments or in whole, as may be agreed upon by said stockholders, and may forfeit shares of stock subscribed for, and all previous payments made thereon if all payments shall not have been made as required; but the company shall not be entitled to recover for any installment that may be due upon stock when said stock shall have been forfeited as aforesaid. The Directors shall have power to adopt a corporate seal, make by-laws and declare dividends. President. Other officials. Powers of President and Board of Directors. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That the stock in said company shall only be transferable on the books of said company, under regulations to be prescribed in the by-laws. But no share shall be transferable until the whole amount shall have been paid to the company. Transfers. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That all powers, privileges, and immunities specified under the general law for the incorporation of railroads in this State set forth and contained in the Code of Georgia (1882) from Section 1689 (A) to 1689 (gg) inclusive, are hereby granted to and conferred upon this railroad company, except so far as this Act may alter, change or add to the same. Nothing in this charter shall be construd to grant to said company (The South Brunswick Terminal Railway Company) the right to run along, use, or

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occupy, except for the purpose of crossing the same, any part of the constructed track or right of way of the Brunswick and Western Railroad Company, or of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company, or of any of the branches of the last named railway company, or of any railroad owned or operated by either of said last-named railroad companies, without first obtaining the consent of such railroad company so to do. Powers under general railroad law conferred. Restriction. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That this company are hereby empowered and given special privileges to erect at their terminal on said Colonel's Island, wharves, grain elevators, and generally all and every kind of buildings or appliances as may be in any way conducive to their interest as carriers of freight or passengers. Terminal facilities. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That this Act shall continue for the full term of fifty years hereafter ensuing with privilege of renewal: Provided further, that this charter shall be forfeited [Illegible Text] said railroad shall not have been constructed, built and in operation within a period of two years from the approval of this Act. Term of charter. Proviso SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts or laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. INCORPORATING THE AMERICUS STREET RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 101. An Act to incorporate The Americus Street Railroad Company, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, Geo. C. Schofield, J. Lipman, H. R. Johnson, H. C. Bagley and John B. Felder, have applied to the General Assembly of Georgia for a charter incorporating them, their successors and associates, under the name of The Americus Street Railway Company with power to construct, maintain and operate a railway upon and along the hereinafter mentioned streets of the City of Americus, in the County of Sumter, and with the other powers usually incident to such corporations; and WHEREAS, it appears that the Mayor and City Council of the said City of Americus have assented to the grant of such powers. Preamble. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Geo. C. Schofield, J. Lipman, H. C. Bagley and John B. Felder, and all other

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persons who shall be or become stockholders in the company hereby incorporated, shall be a body corporate by the name and style of The Americus Street Railway Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal. Corporators. Name. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of four hundred (400) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each, amounting in the aggregate to forty thousand dollars, with the privilege to increase the same, at a meeting or meetings of the stockholders, to be specially called for that purpose, to any amount not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars; and the incorporators, or a majority of them, named in this Act, shall have power to open books for the subscription to the capital stock, at such times and places as they may deem expedient, and when not less than two hundred shares have been subscribed, and when ten per centum on the amount of stock subscribed has been paid in, the stockholders may elect five or more Directors, (not exceeding thirteen) to serve until the ensuing annual election, or until their successors have been duly elected and qualified; and the Directors so elected of said company, when it shall have been organized may, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to have and to exercise in the name and in behalf of the company all rights and privileges which are intended to be hereby given, and should the capital stock be at any time increased, the stockholders at the time of such increase shall be entitled to a pro rata share of such increase upon the payment of the par value of the same. Capital stock. Increase. Books of subscription. Organization. Directors SEC III. And be it enacted, That the Directors shall be elected annually by the stockholders on the first Monday of November, and shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified; and if, at any time it shall happen that an election of Directors shall not be made on the day designated, the corporation shall not, for that reason, be dissolved, but it shall [Illegible Text] lawful on any other day to hold such election in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws of the company. At all such elections, and at all meetings of the stockholders, each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote. When elected. One vote per share. SEC. IV. And be it enacted, That the Directors of said company shall have power from their number to elect a President and to appoint such other officers, agents and servants as the business of the company may require; to allow them a suitable compensation, require security for the faithful discharge of their duties, and to regulate the terms of office; to make by-laws, not inconsistent with law, for the management of the property and regulation of the affairs of the company, and for the transfer of its stock, for the payment of subscriptions to the stock, for the forfeiture of stock not paid for, and for the disposition of the proceeds thereof, for

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the calling of regular, special and general meetings of the Directors and of the stockholders of the company, and fixing the place or places where the same may be held, and to provide for all other matters which may be regulated by by-laws, and from time to time to repeal, annul or re-enact the same; and to declare such dividends of profits of the said company as they may deem proper: Provided, that no dividend shall be declared when the capital stock would be impaired thereby. Powers of Directors. Proviso. SEC. V. And be it enacted, That all the stockholders of the said corporation shall be severally and individually liable to the creditors of the said corporation, to an amount equal to the amount of their unpaid subscription to the stock respectively, but no stockholder shall be individually liable to the creditors of said company beyond the amount of his or her unpaid subscription to the capital stock. Liability of stockholders. SEC. VI. And be it further enacted, That the said company be and is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to such conditions and regulations as may have been prescribed by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Americus, to construct, maintain and operate a railway with single or double tracks and turn outs, turn-tables, side-tracks and switches as, and wherever, the same may be necessary or convenient, through, on and along any or all of the streets of the said City of Americus now existing, or that may hereafter be opened or extended, and to extend its said railway or build lateral branches beyond the corporate limits of the said city, by consent of the county authorities, or for any such extension or lateral branch beyond the said corporate limits, the said company shall have the rights and powers for acquiring, condemning a right of way, that are provided in the general laws of this State, relating to the formation of railroad companies. Route of line. Right of way. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted, That The Americus Street Railway Company shall have power to take and hold such voluntary grants of real estate and other property as may be made to it, to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its road; but the real estate so received by voluntary grant, shall be held and used for the purpose of such grant only; to purchase, hold and use all such real estate as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of its road, and the stations, wharves, docks, terminal facilities and all other accommodations necessary to accomplish the objects of its incorporation, and to sell, lease or buy any land necessary for its use; to cross, intersect or join or unite its railroad with any other railroad heretofore or hereafter constructed at any point in its route, with the necessary turn-outs, turn-tables, sidings and switches, and other conveniences necessary in the construction of such road, and may run over any other railroad's right-of-way necessary or proper to reach its depot;

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to take and convey persons or property over its railroad by the use of steam, electricity or animals, or any other motive power not deemed objectionable by the Mayor and City Council of said city, and to receive compensation therefor, and to do all those things incident to railroad business; to erect and maintain convenient buildings, stations, fixtures and machinery for the accommodation and use of its passengers and business; to regulate the time and manner in which passengers and property shall be transported, and the compensation to be paid therefor, subject to any law of this State upon the subject, and to the ordinances of said city; to borrow such sum or sums of money at such rates of interest, and upon such terms as said company or its Board of Directors may authorize or agree upon, and may deem necessary or expedient, and may execute one or more trust deeds or mortgages, or both it occasion require upon any or all of its property, including the rights and franchise hereby granted, for the amount or amounts borrowed, as its Board of Directors shall deem expedient; and in such deed or mortgage may make such provisions for transferring its railroad, depots, stations, buildings, grounds, rights, privileges, franchise, immunities, machine houses, rolling stock, animals, furniture, tools, implements, appendages and appurtenances used in connection with its railroad, as security for any bonds, debts or sums of money that may be secured by such deed or mortgage, as they shall think proper. And in case of a sale or foreclosure under such deed or mortgage, the party or parties acquiring title thereunder and their associates, successors or assigns shall have or acquire thereby, and shall exercise and enjoy thereafter the same rights, privileges, grants, franchises, immunities and advantages in or by such deed or mortgage enumerated and conveyed as fully and absolutely in all respects as the corporators, office-holders, share-holders and agents of said company hereby created, might or could have done had not such sale taken place; such purchaser or purchasers, their associates, successors or assigns may proceed or organize anew by filing articles of association and electing Directors as provided in the general law authorizing the formation of railroad companies; and such purchaser or purchasers and their associates shall thereupon be a corporation, with all the powers, privileges and franchises conferred by and be subject to the provisions of this Act. Real estate. Terminal facilities. Side tracks, etc. Crossings. Common carrier. May borrow money. Execute mortgage and trust deed. All franchises transferred by sale under foreclosure. Purchaser to stand in same capacity. SEC. VIII. And be it further enacted, That all powers, rights, privileges and immunities hereby granted shall cease, determine and be void unless said company shall, within five years from the passage of this Act, build, equip and put in permanent operation at least one-half mile of said railroad. Requisite for continuance of charter. SEC. IX. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AMENDING CHARTER OF CENTRAL CITY STREET RAILROAD COMPANY OF MACON. No. 108. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Central City Street Railroad Company, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes, so as to authorize the consolidation with said company of the Macon City Suburban Railway Light and Power Company, to enlarge the powers and duties of said Central City Street Railroad Company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the charter of the Central City Street Railroad Company, as granted by an Act of the General Assembly, approved October 24, 1887, be amended as follows: The said Central City Street Railroad Company shall have power and authority under its charter to consolidate with the said company the Macon City and Suburban Railway Light and Power Company, the consent of the stockholders of the said Macon City and Suburban Railway Light and Power Company thereto being first had and obtained: Provided, that all the property, rights and franchises of the consolidated company shall be bound for the payment of all debts due and owing by either of the corporations herein named. Amending charter of Oct. 24, 1887. Consolidated with the M. C. S. R. L. P. Co. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That upon the consolidation of said company all the rights, powers, franchises, privileges, immunities and property of the said Macon City and Suburban Railway Light and Power Company shall be exercised, used, owned, possessed and enjoyed by the said The Central City Street Railway Company, and to the same extent as if the same had been originally granted and conveyed to the said The Central City Street Railway Company: Provided, said consolidated company shall never charge more than five cents for the fare of any one passenger for one ride on said consolidated line from the Court House to any terminal point in the country. How franchises, etc., are now to vest. Provisofive cents to be maximum rate. SEC. III. Be it enacted, That the grant by the City of Macon of authority to the Central City Street Railroad Company to build its line from the Confederate Monument through the streets of said city by the route specified in said grant, be and the same is hereby rendered legal and valid: Provided, that said corporation shall be subservient to all ordinances hereafter enacted by said Mayor and Council. Grant by city of Macon legalized. Proviso. SEC. IV. The consolidated company shall not exercise the right of eminent domain, nor condemn private property, either under this Act or the Acts originally incorporating either of the corporations hereby consolidated. Cannot condemn property.

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE MACON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 114. An Act to incorporate the Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, Willis B. Sparks, Jeff Lane, William W. Collins, Henry J. Lamar, Jr., Richard F. Lawton, Henry L. Jewett, W. H. Wells, and such other persons and incorporators as are or may be associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be pleaded with in any court of law or equity in this State; may contract and be contracted with; may have and use a company seal; may make by-laws, and appoint all necessary officers for the conduct of the business of said corporation and define their duties; may accept, purchase, hold, and convey both real and personal property necessary and proper for the purposes herein prescribed, and do all lawful acts for the control, promotion, and transaction of its business; that said company shall have power and authority to survey, lay out and construct, maintain and equip, a railroad from the city of Macon, in the county of Bibb, or from some point on the present line of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, through the county of Bibb and through the following counties or such of them as said railroad company may deem fit, to-wit: Houston, Crawford, Monroe, Upson, Pike, Meriwether, Troup and Heard, to some point on the State line of Alabama, by the most direct and practicable route, to be judged of by them, and in the direction of the city of Birmingham, Alabama: Provided, if said road run through the county of Meriwether it shall run into and through the city of Greenville in said county, and through the city of LaGrange in the county of Troup. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. Route of line. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said railroad company shall be $100,000, and that the same may be increased to $3,500,000, whenever the same shall be authorized by a majority of the stockholders at a meeting called for that purpose.

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Said stock shall be divided into shares of the value of $100 each. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the business of said company shall be managed by a Board of Directors, to consist of such number as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said company; that said Board of Directors shall select from their number a President and Vice-President, who shall perform such duties as may be conferred upon them by the said by-laws; that the said Board of Directors shall elect all other officers of said company as may be necessary to conduct its business. Directors. Officers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the persons named, or a majority of them, in case the whole of the capital stock herein provided for is not subscribed open books of subscription to fill up the capital stock of the company in such places, and after giving such notice, as they may deem expedient; and may from time to time receive subscriptions until the whole of the capital stock is subscribed: and, Provided further, that said railroad company shall obtain the consent of the proper authorities of the counties, respectively, through which said railroad may run before they shall be authorized to take and use any of the public roads for the purposes of said railroad. Books of subscription. Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That as soon as the capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, herein provided for, is subscribed for, the incorporators herein named, or a majority of them, shall call together the persons who have subscribed to said capital stock for the purpose of organizing the said company; and said persons shall at said meeting or at some subsequent meeting, the time of which is to be fixed by them, adopt by-laws for the government of said company, and select the Board of Directors to manage the affairs of said company; said Directors shall be chosen by a majority of the votes of the stockholders; each share of the stock being entitled to one vote; and said Board of Directors shall continue in office until others are elected in their places as provided in the by laws of said company; that in the election of Directors and all other elections the stockholders may vote in person or by proxy, and vacancies in the Board of Directors shall be filled as prescribed by the by laws of said company. Organization. Selection of temporary Board. Elections and proxies. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That in addition to the powers herein conferred upon said company, that they shall have the power and authority to cause such examination and survey to be made of the railroad as shall be necessary to the selection of the most advantageous route, and for such purposes to be empowered by its officers, agents, servants and employes, to enter upon the land or waters of any person for that purpose. To take and hold such voluntary grants of real estate and other property as may be made to it to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of its road. To lay out its road-bed not exceeding two

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hundred feet in width, and to construct the same, and for purposes of cuttings and embankments, and for obtaining gravel and other material. To take as much land as may be necessary for the proper construction, operation and security of the road; or to cut down any trees that may be in danger of falling on the track of the road or obstructing the right of way, making compensation therefor as provided in the section for property taken for the use of said company. To construct its road across, along or upon, or to use any stream of water, water-course, street, highway or canal which the route of its road shall intersect or touch; and whenever the track of said road shall touch, intersect or cross any railroad, highway or street, it may be carried along, over or under such railroad, highway or street as may be found most convenient for its purposes; and in case any embankment or cut in the construction of said road shall make it necessary to change the course of any highway or street, it shall be lawful for the company constructing said railroad to so change the course of said road, highway or street: Provided, that said railroad company shall first obtain the consent of the municipal or county authorities, as the case may be. To cross, intersect, join or unite its railroad heretofore or hereafter to be built or constructed at any point on its route, or upon the grounds of any other railroad, with the necessary turn-outs, side-tracks and switches and other conveniences necessary in the construction of said railroad; and it may run over any other part of any other railroad's right of way in order to reach its freight and passenger depots, or for the purpose of constructing its road in any city, town, village or county through or near which its railroad may run. That in order to reach its freight and passenger depots in any city or town in this State, authority is hereby given it to use any street, lane or alley in said city or town as it may deem necessary for this purpose: Provided, the consent of the municipal authorities of said town or city be first obtained. To erect and maintain convenient buildings, stations, fixtures and machinery, whether within or without a city, town or village, for the accommodation and use of their freight and passenger business, and for machine shops and other terminal facilities, and authority is hereby given them in case it may be necessary to condemn private property for these purposes, as herein provided for: Provided, that the said railroad company shall not assign any of its franchises or powers until it has completed and in operation ten miles of said road: and, Provided further, that this charter shall be null and void without judgment of forfeiture if the said company fail to build and have in operation ten miles of said road within three years from the grant of this charter. To borrow such sum or sums of money, at such rates of interest, and upon such terms as said company or its Board of Directors shall authorize or agree upon, or may deem necessary or expedient, and may

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execute such trust deed or deeds, mortgage or mortgages, on the property of said corporation for the amount or amounts borrowed and owed by said company as said Board of Directors shall deem expedient; and said company may make provisions in such trust deeds or mortgages for transferring their railroad tracks, depots, grounds, rights, privileges, franchises, immunities, rolling stock and appurtenances used in connection with said railroad in any manner belonging to said company, or which shall thereafter belong to it as security for said bonds, debts or money. Surveys. Real estate. Rights of way. Water ways. Crossings. May change course of street, etc. Proviso. Side tracks, etc. Use of streets. Proviso. Terminal facilities. Proviso. Requisite for preserving charter. May borrow money and execute mortgage. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the said Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company shall have power to sell, lease, assign or transfer its stock, property, franchises, to or to consolidate the same with those of any other railroad company incorporated under the laws of this State or of any other State, or of the United States, which has been incorporated or may hereafter be incorporated for building a railroad, or which may have been already built either within or without this State, and which shall connect with and form a continuous line of road with the said Macon and Birmingham Railroad between Macon, in the State of Georgia, and Birmingham, in the State of Alabama, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by them. May alien franchise, Or consolidate with other roads. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company shall have the power and authority to acquire from any other railroad now constructed, or hereafter to be constructed, the right to use the tracks and right of way of said railroad for the purpose of reaching their depots and warehouses in any of the cities or towns of this State; and the said company shall have power and authority to lease or contract with any other road now built or to be built in the State, by which said railroad shall acquire the right to use the tracks of the said Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company for the purposes aforesaid. May acquire right to use tracks of other roads. SEC. IX Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have all the powers granted in 1689 (1) of the Code 1882: Provided, that nothing in this charter shall be construed to give to said company the power to take or damage any private property till just and adequate compensation has first been paid. Vested with powers conferred by general railroad law. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for purposes of depots, warehouses, machine shops, and other terminal facilities, the said railroad company is hereby authorized by and with the consent of the municipal authorities of any city or town in this State into or through which said railroad may run, to use and occupy any portion of the street or streets of said city or town: Provided, that such use or occupancy on the part of said railroad company does not deprive the public of the use and enjoyment of the whole of said street or streets. Use of streets. Proviso.

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SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the principal office or place of business of said corporation shall be in the city of Macon, in the county of Bibb and State of Georgia. Principal office. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company shall continue to exercise all the rights and franchises herein conferred, for and during the term of fifty years. Term of charter. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE THOMASVILLE STREET RAILWAY COMPANY. No. 116. An Act to incorporate the Thomasville Street Railway Company, and to define its rights, powers and privileges, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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. H. W. Hopkins, J. W. Reid and their associates and successors be, and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Thomasville Street Railway Company, and in and by that name and style, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity of this State, or where their rights may come in question; may have and use a common seal, and the same alter or destroy at pleasure and purchase, accept, hold, enjoy or convey any property real or personal that may be necessary for the purpose hereinafter set forth, or which they may require in the progress of their business, and that the place of business of said company shall be in the city of Thomasville. Corporators. Name. Corporate powers. Location. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have power and authority to survey, lay out, construct, equip, use and employ street railroads in the city of Thomasvilie and county of Thomas, upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the municipal authorities of said city: Provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to hinder the city authorities in the future from building such sewers as they may deem necessary for drainage purposes, or laying such gas or other pipes as they may deem necessary for lighting the said city or supplying it with water. Object of corporation. Proviso.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each; but said capital stock may be increased to fifty thousand dollars, or any intermediate sum, upon a vote of a majority of the stockholders. Capital stock. Shares. Increase. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the officers of said company shall be a President, Secretary, Treasurer, a Board of five Directors, and such other officers or agents as said company may desire to elect or employ. Officers. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said company may convey upon their lines passengers, freights and baggage, charging reasonable rates for the same. Common carrier. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said company shall not employ any steam engine upon their road without the consent of the City Council of Thomasville. Restrietion. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the track of any road or roads which the said company may lay in any of the streets of the city of Thomasville shall be so laid as not to prevent drays, carriages or other vehicles from crossing the same. Tracks not to obstruet. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the charter of said company shall continue in force for thirty years. Term of charter. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said corporators shall not assign this charter or any interest therein until the sum of ten thousand dollars has been expended in the construction of said road, or the purchase of its appurtenances, and unless said investment is made within three years from the passage of this Act, this charter shall be forefeited without judgment of forfeiture. Requisite for validity of. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888

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CHANGING NAME OF AMERICUS, PRESTON AND LUMPKIN RAILROAD COMPANY, TO SAVANNAH, AMERICUS AND MONTGOMERY RAILWAY. No. 117. An Act to amend the charter of The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, so as to change the name of said corporation to The Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway, and to authorize said corporation to apply to the Legislature of Alabama for incorporation under the laws of that State, so as to enable it to extend its line westward to Montgomery or other point in said State of Alabama. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the charter heretofore granted to The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company and the several amendments thereto, be and they are hereby amended by changing the name of said corporation from The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company to The Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway. Former charter amended. Name changed. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by authority of the same, That said corporation under and in its new name and style shall have, own, hold and enjoy all property, rights, credits, choses in action and franchises heretofore held and enjoyed by The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, and shall have and enjoy all the powers, privileges and immunities heretofore conferred by law upon The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, that all suits now pending in any of the courts in this State, against or in behalf of said corporation, shall proceed as if its name had not been changed and said corporation under its new name, shall assume all liabilities of The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company. Powers, franchises, etc., of old company to vest in new. Liabilities also to attach. SEC III. Be it further enacted by authority of the same, That said corporation shall have power to apply to the Legislature of Alabama for incorporation under the laws of that State, so as to enable it to extend its line westward to Montgomery, or to such other point in the State of Alabama as the Directors of said corporation may deem best, or as the Legislature of Alabama may sanction. Extension into Alabama. SEC IV. Be it further enacted by authority of the same, That this act shall go into effect at such time in the future as the Directors of said corporation shall formally adopt a resolution accepting this amendment: Provided, that in order to make this Act operative, the said resolution accepting this amendment shall be adopted and spread upon the minutes of the Board of Directors within six months from the passage of this Act. Operation of Act. Proviso.

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted by authority of the same, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF CHATTANOOGA, ROME AND COLUMBUS RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 119. An Act to amend the charter of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad Company so as to authorize said Company to extend its railway lines to the cities of Atlanta, Augusta, Macon and Savannah, and also to the Florida line, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That in addition to the rights and powers heretofore granted to the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad Company, the said company is hereby authorized and empowered to build, equip and operate a line of railroad, as now built and in operation, to a point in or in the vicinity of the city of Atlanta upon such route or line as said company may choose and adopt: Provided, that the extension to Atlanta shall not touch any counties except Polk, Haralson, Carroll, Douglass, Campbell and Fulton. Previous charter amended. May build to Atlanta. Proviso. SEC II. Be it further enacted, That said company shall also be authorized and empowered to build, equip and operate upon such routes as said company may choose and adopt, other and additional lines of railway from any points or places on its line of railroad as now built or hereafter to be built, to points in or in the vicinity of the cities of Augusta, Macon and Savannah, in this State, and also to any point on the lines dividing the States of Georgia and Florida. Extensions to other points. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company may be increased to fifteen millions of dollars. Increase of stock. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the general direction of the lines to be built under this Act shall not be within ten miles of any road already built or in actual process of construction, except at the terminal points of said lines. Restriction on location of lines. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That unless at least ten miles of road authorized by this Act shall be actually built and equipped within five years from the passage of this Act, then the privileges herein granted shall lapse and become of no effect. Requisite for validity of charter.

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SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. AMENDING ACT INCORPORATING THE ORE BELT RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 121. An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Ore Belt Railroad Company, approved October 15, 1887, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the capital stock of the Ore Belt Railroad Company may be increased from time to time to a sum not exceeding five millions of dollars. Increase of stock. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said railroad company shall be, and it is hereby authorized and empowered to extend its railroad from any point in, or near the vicinity of the town of Cave Spring, in this State in a northerly or westerly direction, through the county of Floyd, and may build its said railroad to any point on the line dividing the States of Georgia and Alabama in said county of Floyd, and at said dividing line may connect with or consolidate with any railroad authorized to be built by the laws of any other State in the United States. Extension from Cave Spring to Alabama line authorized. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said company shall be, and it is hereby empowered to extend its railroad from any point in or near the vicinity of Cedartown, in this State, in a southerly direction through the counties of Polk, Haralson, Carroll, Heard, Troup, Harris and Muscogee, and may build its said railroad to any point on the line dividing the States of Georgia and Alabama, in either of said counties, and at said dividing line may connect with or consolidate with any railroad authorized to be built by the laws of any other State in the United States. Extension from Cedartown to Alabama line. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said company shall be, and it is hereby authorized by and through its Board of Directors to purchase or lease the railroad franchise and property of any other railroad or transportation company, chartered or organized under and by virtue of the laws of any other State in the United States, and may in like manner consolidate its railroad, franchise and property with the railroad, franchise and property of any other railroad company chartered and organized under the laws of any other State as aforesaid. May acquire franchises, etc., of other roads.

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That no railroad company, chartered or organized under and by virtue of the laws of this State, or any other State in the United States, shall have the right to construct and operate a railroad from or near Cedartown, in this State, to a point on the Alabama Division of the East Tennessee, Virgnia and Georgia Railway, within three miles of the line now surveyed and adopted by the said Ore Belt Railroad Company. Protection to extension here granted. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said railroad company shall have power to receive in payment of subscriptions to its capital stock, or as donations, real estate and other property, and may sell, and by its deeds and bills of sale convey the same in as full and ample manner as private individuals are by law authorized to do Real estate, etc. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the stockholders shall be liable for the debts of said company to the extent of their unpaid stock and no further. Liability of stockholders. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the right to take for its right of way a strip of land not exceeding two hundred feet wide, and shall have the right to buy and sell, also, such real estate as they may desire: Provided, that no land shall be taken by said company without just compensation being paid therefor. Right of way. Proviso. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That any executor, administrator, guardian or trustee shall have the power to donate or sell to said railroad company the right of way for said railroad through any lands held by such executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and execute titles to the same, without obtaining an order from any court, and said titles, when made, shall be good and valid. Conveyances to by custodians of estates. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE GEORGIA OVERLAND RAILWAY AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. No. 122. An Act to incorporate the Georgia Overland Railway and Improvement Company, to confer certain powers and privileges on said company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That R. C. Johnstone, H. W. Johnstone, W. J. M. Thomas and their associates, and such other persons as may be associated with them,

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and who shall be stockholders, and their successors and assigns be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name of The Georgia Overland Railway and Improvement Company, with power under said name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in the courts of law and equity in this State; to have and use a corporate seal, to hold, use and enjoy all such real and personal property as may be necessary to, and will advance the interests of said company, together with such other powers as are herein specially conferred. Corporators. Corporate name and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company be, and are hereby empowered and authorized to survey, lay out, construct and equip as well as maintain and operate a railroad from some available point on the boundary line between Georgia and Alabama, at or near the intersection of the line between the counties of Floyd and Chattooga with the said boundary line, to connect with the railroad systems of Alabama and the steamboat systems of the Coosa river, from the said available point on the boundary line in a northeasterly direction through either or all of the counties of Floyd, Chattooga, Walker, Gordon, Whitfield, Murray, Gilmer, Fannin and Union, to the most available point on the boundary line between the States of Georgia and Tennessee or North Carolina, in the direction of the town of Murphey in the State of North Carolina, crossing the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad and the Western and Atlantic Railroad at or near the city of Dalton in Whitfield county. With power also to the said company, to survey, lay out, contract, equip, maintain and operate one or more branches from any convenient point or points along the line of said railroad to any towns, mines, factories, etc., within the counties named in this charter, which may in the discretion of the Board of Directors, add to or subserve the interest of said company. Route. Branches. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating said lines of railroad, the said company is empowered to cause such examinations and surveys to be made of the proposed line and branches as shall be necessary to the selection of the most advantageous route, and for that purpose are empowered to enter the lands of any person; to acquire by purchase or gift, real estate and other property to be used for the construction, maintenance and accommodation of said railroad, and to hold and use such real estate and other property useful for the same, and for stations, wharves, docks, connections with other railroads, terminal facilities and all other accommodations and purposes necessary to accomplish the objects of this incorporation; and to lease, buy and mortgage all lands and other property necessary for its use, or they may sell the same; to lay out its line of railroads on a right of-way not more than two hundred feet in width, and to remove trees and

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other obstructions on the right-of-way and road, making compensation therefor in the manner prescribed in this Act. To construct its railroad across or along any water course or highway or canal: Provided, the crossing of said highway is constructed in conformity with the provisions of the Code of Georgia providing how such highways may be crossed: Provided, that no highway shall be taken without the consent of the county authorities, also to cross any other railroad which the route of its railroad shall intersect or touch, as provided for by section 705, of the Code of Georgia. Said railroad shall also have the right to join or unite its railroad with any other railroad heretofore or hereafter constructed, run along any railroad now constructed, or run upon the grounds of any other railroad company with the necessary turnouts, sidings and switches, and other conveniences necessary in the construction of the railroad by contract, and upon paying just and reasonable compensation for the privileges thus enjoyed by consent of such other railroad company: Provided, however, that this shall not be construed to prevent said railroad from running as near to any other railroad for the first five miles leading into or out of any city as may be to the interest of the railroad now chartered. To take and convey persons and all manner of property over their railroad by the use of steam or any other mechanical power, and to receive compensation therefor, and to do all things necessary to a railroad business. To erect and maintain convenient buildings, wharves, docks, stations and machinery whether within or without a city, town or village for accommodation and use of passenger and freight business. To borrow such sums of money at such rates of interest, not contrary to law, and upon such terms as such company or Board of Directors may agree upon and may deem necessary and expedient; and may execute one or more trust deeds and mortgages, one or both, as occasion may require, on its railroad or other property to secure the same. Preliminary surveys. Acquisition of property. Right of way. Crossings, etc. Proviso. Consent of county authorities. Railroad crossings. Side track facilitiesby contract. Proviso. Powers of common carrier. Terminal facilities. May borrow money on mortgage, etc. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be two millions of dollars, with power by a two-thirds vote of the stockholders to increase the same to an amount not exceeding five millions of dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and said company shall be authorized to commence work whenever five per cent of the subscribed capital stock shall have been paid in. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. Beginning work. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That books of subscription may be opened by the Board of Directors at either terminus and in any county in which it is proposed that said railroad may be located and constructed, and subscriptions to the capital stock of said company may be made in the form of a general contract or promissory notes or other form which may be selected, or paid in cash or lands or material as per contract under

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the direction of the Board of Directors; and certificates of stock shall be issued to the persons paying on the basis of one share for every one hundred dollars so paid, but, no certificate shall be issued for less than one share. But nothing in this Act shall be so constructed as to render invalid, illegal or less binding any subscription made to or any contract made with the said Georgia Overland Railway and Improvement Company under the general laws of this State. Books of subscription. Form of. Stock certificates. Limit to. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all subscriptions made to the capital stock shall be payable in such installments as may be agreed on, and if any stockholder shall neglect or refuse to pay any installment which may be called in, for sixty days after the same may have become due and notice given, as hereinafter provided, by the Board of Directors, such stock, with all payments previously made thereon, shall be forfeited to the company: Provided, such forfeiture is clearly authorized by the by-laws of the said company; or they may have a right of action to recover thereon all such installments as may be called in said subscriptions of stock. Payments. Default. Forfeiture. Proviso. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have all the powers granted in Section 1689 (1) of Code of 1882: Provided, that nothing in this charter shall be construed to give said company the right to take or damage private property till just and adequate compensation has been first paid. Powers conferred by general railroad law. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the principal office of the said company shall be in the county of Whitfield, in this State, but the Board of Directors may cause the same to be changed to any other county in this State where any portion of said railroad is located, by giving sixty days' notice of such change in a newspaper published in the city of Dalton, after such change has been approved by a majority of the Board of Directors. Principal office. Changehow effected. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said railroad company shall have power to make and issue bonds to such an amount and in such denominations, and for such a rate of interest, not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, payable at such times and places as they may determine, and to secure the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds by mortgages or deeds of trust of its railroads, real and personal property, franchises and all other rights of property; also, to make and issue preferred stock and give preferences in the payments of dividends, as may best serve the interests and purposes of the said railroad company. May issue bonds, Secured by mortgage. Preferred stock. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the business and affairs of the said railroad company shall be managed by a Board of seven Directors, who shall be stockholders in said

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company, who shall be elected annually by the stockholders, a majority of which Directors shall be residents of this State. The first election shall be held by the stockholders at a regular meeting to be held within one year from the date of the granting of this charter, and annually thereafter at such time and place as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the company. In all meetings of the stockholders each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as the shares held by him or her. All elections shall be by ballot, and the votes must be cast in person or by proxy, duly given in writing. The following persons are hereby appointed and authorized to act as Directors of said company until the first annual meeting of the stockholders, hereinbefore provided for, and until their successors are elected and installed with all the powers conferred by this Act and the by-laws of the company, to-wit: R. C. Johnstone, H. W. Johnstone, W. J. M. Thomas. The Board of Directors of said company shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur in said Board before the first annual election, and between the succeeding annual elections. Management. Elections. Time and place. Proxies. Provisional Directors. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the present and all future Boards of Directors shall elect from their number a President of said company and to elect or appoint such other officers, agents and employes as they may deem necessary and proper to carry on the business of the said railraod company. The President and Board of Directors shall have power to conduct and control all the business and affairs of the company, except as to matters expressly ordered otherwise by the stockholders. To make all contracts, fix compensation therefor, call in and demand payments of subscriptions in installments or as they may deem proper, under penalty of forfeiting shares of stock subscribed for, and all previous payments made thereon; if payments shall not have been made within sixty days after demand, or notice shall have been published once a week, for four weeks in the newspaper containing the Sheriff's advertisements published in the county in which the principal office of the company is located. But the recovery by action of any installments, shall preclude the company from forfeiting that stock by reason of non-payment of installments. The Directors shall have power to adopt a corporate seal, make regulations and by-laws, declare dividends, but the stockholders shall have power to regulate and limit the powers of the Board of Directors. Board of Directors, and President. Their duties and powers. Installments. Default. Forfeiture or recovery. Other powers of Board. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the stock in the said company shall only be transferable on the books of the company under regulations to be prescribed in the by-laws; but no share shall be transferred until the sum of one hundred dollars shall have been paid thereon to the company in money, lands, material or services as per contract. Stock transfers.

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SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the stockholders in said railroad company shall in their private capacity be bound to any creditor of the company for the amount of stock subscribed for by him or her, until such subscription is fully paid up, or, until such stockholder shall have paid out of his private property an amount equal to his unpaid subscription, and not otherwise. Liability of stockholders. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said railroad company shall have the power and authority to establish, maintain and operate a steamboat or line of steamboats or barges, one or all, to navigate the Coosawattee, Conasauga, Oostanaula and Coosa rivers, either one or all of said rivers, for the purpose of carrying freight and passengers for the benefit of and in connection with their said railroad. May operate steamboat lines. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act of incorporation shall continue and be of full force for a term of fifty years, with the privilege of renewal. Term of charter. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to give the said company power to use the right-of-way or tracks of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, but it may cross the same and connect therewith as hereinbefore provided. As to W. A. R. R. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this charter to be null and void without a judgment of forfeiture if the company herein and herewith chartered shall fail to construct and equip ten miles of said road within five years from this date or shall sell or negotiate this charter at any time without having constructed and equipped ten miles of said railroad. Limitation of charter. SEC. XVIII. 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 December 26, 1888.

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REINCORPORATING THE WEST ATLANTA STREET RAILROAD COMPANY, OF FULTON COUNTY. No. 129. An Act to reincorporate the West Atlanta Street Railroad Company, of Fulton County, so as to give said road power to extend its track in various directions in said county, and for other kindred purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, as follows; The charter of the West Atlanta Street Railroad Company, said company being heretofore incorporated in the year 1888 under the General Law of the State contained in sections 1689 (a), and those following, of the Code of Georgia, and the subsequent amendments of the same, is hereby re-enacted, ratified, confirmed and established, and said company is hereby reincorporated, and all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities granted railroads incorporated under the General Law just mentioned are hereby granted and bestowed upon said company reincorporated as aforesaid. Charter under general railroad law confirmed. SEC. II. The General Assembly do further enact, Said company is empowered to locate and construct its road on any street, alley, roads or public ways in the city of Atlanta, or in the county of Fulton, and build a belt railroad around the city of Atlanta and enter with said road the limits of said city at such places as may be selected by said company; and said company is also empowered to extend its railroad in various directions in said county, either inside or outside the limits of said city, with the privilege to operate said railroad with steam or other motive power, or both; and said company is authorized to do a general business on its railroad of carrying persons and property. Location of lines. Motors, etc SEC. III. The General Assembly of Georgia do further enact, Said company shall have the right, from time to time, to increase its capital stock to such amount as may be necessary for constructing and extending its said railroad, to improve the same, to transact its business, and for other purposes, by a vote of its Board of Directors: Provided, that this Act shall be inoperative and void unless said West Atlanta Street Railroad Company shall begin the construction and operation of said road within three years from the passage of this Bill: Provided further, that nothing herein shall be construed to authorize said company to enter upon or damage private property without first paying just and adequate compensation therefor: Provided further, that before any street, alley or public way in the city of Atlanta is entered upon by said company, the consent of the proper authorities of said city shall

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be first obtained, and no public road outside of the city of Atlanta shall be taken without the consent of the Commissioners. Increase of capital stock. Limitation of charter. Further proviso. SEC. IV. The General Assembly do further enact, All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE FAIRMONT AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 131. An Act to incorporate the Fairmont and Augusta Railroad Company, and for other purposes therein named. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Philip E. Pearce, James D. Dawson, William H. Warren, John H. Vannerson, William J. Rogers, Robert A. Fleming, Robert P. Sibley, and William T. Wheless, or a majority of them, their successors and assigns, are hereby declared to be, and constituted a body corporate under the name and style of the Fairmont and Augusta Railroad Company, for the purpose of constructing a railroad from Fairmont (at Wheless Station on the Georgia Railroad) by the most favorable route to Augusta, and at least two branches to practical points within five miles of the city of Augusta, as the said company may elect, and by that name and style shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered in any court of law or equity of the State of Georgia or of the United States, and may have and use a common seal, buy, purchase, and hold real and personal property, or take and receive the same by way of subscriptions to the capital stock, or for any debts, dues or obligations to them with full power to mortgage, transfer and convey the same, with all the privileges heretofore granted to other railroads as to right-of-way. Corporators. Name. Route. Branches General corporate powers. Right of way. SEC. II. The capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, with the privilege of being increased to the amount of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars, and that the capital stock of said corporation shall be divided into shares of one hundred ($100) dollars each, and at all business meetings upon all questions arising, each stockholder shall be entitled to vote one vote for each share of stock owned by him or her either in person or by proxy. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That said company shall not be considered as organized until stock to the amount of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars shall have been subscribed, and an

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installment of five per cent. paid thereon, after which the stockholders shall elect five Directors to manage the property, business and affairs of the company, one of whom shall be chosen by the Directors President, which Directors shall be chosen annually by the stockholders: Provided, that the Directors for the time being shall serve until their successors are elected, and they or a majority of them shall form a quorum for the transaction of business and shall have full power to fill vacancies for unexpired terms arising from death, resignation or the disqualification of not being a stockholder or any other legal disability, and make all needful rules touching the mode and kind of subscriptions received and the times and places for payment of same, also the management of road and branches to be constructed; shall have full power to employ such officers, agents, clerks or laborers as they may see proper, and fix the salaries thereof, and remove and discharge the same at pleasure. Organization. Directors and president. Their duties and powers. SEC. IV. And be it further enacted, That said company shall have the right to construct their road and branches of any width of track they may desire, and to operate the same by steam power, and to connect their road or branches with any other road within five miles of the city of Augusta. Gauge and motor power. Connections. SEC V. Be it further enacted, That said corporation be invested with power to exact and demand such rates of toll for persons and property passing over and upon such road and branches as they may from time to time establish not inconsistent with the Constitution of the State of Georgia and the Acts of the General Assembly. Tariff rate SEC. VI. Be it enacted, That said company shall have full power to borrow money at such time, and on such terms, as it may deem best, and secure the payment of same by mortgage or mortgages, or deed or deeds of trust, upon any or all, or part of its property and franchises and rights generally, to do any and all things necessary to fully secure the payment of said money. May borrow money on mortgage. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted, That in case any person or persons shall wilfully injure or obstruct the road or branches of said company, whereby the company shall sustain any loss, he or she causing the injury or loss shall forfeit and pay the company the amount of all damages which they may sustain in consequence thereof, to be sued for and recovered in any court having jurisdiction thereof, in same manner as is provided by law for individuals in like cases, and be further subject to indictment, and upon conviction to be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. Wilful obstructions, etc. May recover for. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have all the powers granted in Section 1689 (l), of the Code. 1882: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to give said company the power to take or damage private property till just

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and adequate compensation has been first paid: Provided, that said railroad company shall not take nor occupy the streets of the city of Augusta, nor the public roads of the county of Richmond, without first obtaining the consent of the municipal or county authorities, as the case may be. General railroad law. Proviso. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE MILLEN, MT. VERNON AND FLORIDA RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 133. An Act to incorporate the Millen, Mount Vernon and Florida Railroad Company, to define its powers, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Horace P. Smart, Alfred G. Smart and George A. Rice, their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body politic under the name of the Millen, Mount Vernon and Florida Railroad Company, with power to construct and maintain a railroad from Millen, Ga., to Mount Vernon, and thence to Tallahassee, Florida, and to operate the said road, and to build under this charter, subject to all the provisions of the General Railroad Law of the State, as embraced in Section 1689(a) to 1689(g), both inclusive, and Section 705 of the Code of 1882, and the Acts amendatory thereof: Provided, no property of individuals or corporations shall be taken or damaged until just and adequate compensation has been first paid Corporators. Name. Route. Vested with powers conferred by general railroad law. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE MARIETTA STREET RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 142. An Act to incorporate the Marietta Street Railroad Company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That W. J. M. Harris, George S. Owens, and A. Armstrong, and such other persons as may be associated with them, and their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby declared a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the Marietta Street Railroad Company, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State or where their rights may come in question; may have and use a common seal, and the same to alter or destroy at pleasure, and purchase, hold accept, enjoy or convey any property, real, personal or mixed, that may be necessary for the purposes herein set forth, or which they may acquire in the course of their business. Corporators. Name. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power and authority to survey, lay out and equip, use, run and employ street railroads in the town of Marietta, Cobb county, Georgia, to commence at a point two miles south of Marietta Court House, on the dirt road from Marietta to Atlanta, Georgia, running northward to Kennesaw Mountain from point of beginning via Atlanta road and street to Court House in Marietta, thence along the south and west lines of the Park to Church street, thence along Church street to Kennesaw avenue, thence along Kennesaw avenue to city limits of Marietta, thence by most practical route to any parts of Kennesaw Mountain via Elizabeth Station. Said company shall have the right to use as motive power, horse or steam, electricity or underground cables, or any other appliances that may be invented and used as motive power: Provided, that the company shall first receive the consent of the county authorities before they build their line outside of the incorporate limits of said city. Route of lines. Motive power. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be five thousand dollars, which may be increased to one hundred thousand dollars, should the business of said company require it; books of subscription shall be opened at the town of Marietta. Said stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and shall be issued and transferred in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as the Board of Directors may direct. Each share shall be entitled to one vote in all meetings of stockholders or Directors. Capital stock. Increase. Sharestheir issue and transfer.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all corporate powers of said company shall be vested in the Board of Directors and such officers and agents as said Board shall appoint, which said Board shall consist of five members, who shall be stockholders of said company. The first Board of Directors shall be elected in such manner as said corporators, or a majority of them, may determine, and annually thereafter by the stockholders of said company. Said Directors shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, and they may fill any vacancy that may happen in the Board by death, resignation, or otherwise. They may also adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of said company, and the management of its affairs and business, as they may think proper, not inconsistent with the laws of this State and the United States. Board of Directors How elected. Their powers. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Marietta Street Railroad Company may carry on its line passengers or freight, as the exigences of the business community and public wants may require, and may charge reasonable and just rates for such transportation. Common carrier. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That if it shall become necessary for said company to occupy private land for its track, depots, platforms or other appurtenances, and it shall fail to agree with the owner on compensation, the same shall be ascertained as follows: The company shall appoint one freeholder, and the land-owner one freeholder, both to be citizens of Cobb county; these two freeholders shall select one other freeholder, a citizen of Cobb county; and said freeholders, after being duly sworn to faithfully and impartially perform the duty assigned to them, shall proceed and hear evidence as to the right-of-way in dispute, and on payment of the award made by them, such right-of-way not to exceed twenty-five feet, shall vest in said company for street railroad purposes. The award shall be filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Cobb County, to be entered on record in the book of deeds. Should either party be dissatisfied with the award, such party may enter an appeal to the Superior Court of Cobb county under the laws governing appeals: Provided, said corporation shall not construct said street railroad within the corporate limits of the town of Marietta without the consent of the corporate authorities of said town: Provided, this charter shall be absolutely null and void unless the road shall be completed and in operation within two years after the granting of this charter, and Provided further, that this charter shall not be transferable until as much as one mile of this road is constructed, equipped and ready for operation. May occupy private lands. How assessment of same shall be [Illegible Text] Award. Appeal. Proviso. Limitation of charter and its transfer. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE NACOOCHEE VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 148. An Act to incorporate the Nacoochee Valley Railroad Company, and to define its rights and privileges, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That George B. Edwards, J. Lamb Johnston and S. V. Stewart, of the City of Charleston and State of South Carolina, and Jesse R. Lumsden and R. A. Williams, of White County, Georgia, and such other persons as they may associate with them, their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic under the name and style of the Nacoochee Valley Railroad Company; that said company shall have the power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, under said name, in all the courts of law and equity of this State; to have and use a common seal; to have a continuous succession as a corporation, and with power to sell or alien this franchise, to alter its seal at pleasure, to purchase and receive as a donation all such real and personal property as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this incorporation; to make, alter or repeal all such by-laws as are necessary for the government of said corporation as are not contrary to the laws of this State or of the United States, and generally to do any and all acts not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, for successfully carrying the objects of this act into full effect. Corporators. Name. General corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to one-half million dollars by a vote of a majority of the stockholders whenever deemed necessary for the purposes of this Act; that said capital stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and may be paid in money, labor, land, right-of-way, material, or anything which can be used in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation shall have the right to commence operations and exercise all the rights, powers, functions and privileges granted by this charter as soon as the sum of twenty thousand dollars has been bona fide subscribed on the books of said corporation, and ten per cent. paid in. Beginning business. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all meetings of said corporation, each share of capital stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote, either in person or by proxy, and said shares shall be considered personal property, and

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shall be transferable on the books of said corporation in such manner as may be provided for in the by-laws. One vote per share. Transfers. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authoriy aforesaid, That the affairs of said corporation shall be managed by the persons named in the first section of this Act until permanent Directors are elected; and the corporators named, or a majority of them, shall have the right to open books of subscription to said capital stock at such place or places as they may deem best, and the subscribers thereto may pay the amount, as provided in the second section of this Act, to be determined and accepted by the Board of Directors, if said Directors see proper to accept any other thing of value in lieu of money. Provisional Directors. Subscription books. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be a meeting of stockholders to be called by said corporators at such time and place as a majority of them may deem best after giving notice thereof, whenever as much as twenty thousand dollars have been subscribed to said capital stock as aforesaid, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors of not less than five nor more than nine, who shall be elected from the stockholders for the term of one year and until their successors are elected. The said Directors shall select from their number a President and Vice President of said company; they shall also have power to appoint any and all such other officers, agents and employees of said company as they may deem best, and determine the amount of their compensation, and they shall manage and control the business of said company, declare and pay dividends when earned, and generally supervise and control the interests of said company. There shall also be an annual meeting of the stockholders of said company at its principal office, which shall be in Nacoochee valley, White county, in said State, at which time a Board of Directors, as aforesaid, shall be elected for one year and until their successors are elected. At all such meetings a majority of the stockholders present in person or by proxy, which shall be written, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of (its) business, but no person not a stockholder shall be capable of holding such proxy. A majority of the Directors shall constitute a quorum, and whenever any Director ceases to be a stockholder, he shall cease to be a Director and a vacancy shall occur. The Board of Directors shall have power to fill any vacancy in said Board until the meeting of the stockholders next thereafter; until said Directors are elected, as aforesaid, the corporators named in this Act, or a majority of them, shall exercise all the powers of the Directors. Organization. Board of Directors. Their powers. Annual meeting. Proxies. Quorum. Vacancies. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have the right with full power and authority to survey, lay out, locate, build, construct, equip and operate a railroad

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of such gauge as it may elect from some point on the Richmond and Danville Railroad between Mount Airy in Habersham county and Lula in Hall county, the nearest and most practicable route from such point when selected through the counties of Hall, Habersham and White, or through either or any of said counties to some point in Nacoochee Valley in White county, with the privilege of extending the said road through the counties of Towns, Union or Fannin, to the North Carolina line or the Tennessee line; also the right to construct, use and operate a branch road from the said point in Nacoochee Valley to the Yonah Mountain and the town of Cleveland in said county. It may purchase, acquire or condemn such rights of-way not exceeding two hundred feet in width and terminal facilities, and it shall have power to borrow money and to issue stocks and bonds and give mortgage or other security on its property and franchises to secure the payment of such money borrowed, and to do any and all things necessary to secure the payment of the money, to build, construct and use said railroads. Route. Right of way. May issue bonds SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the powers given to railroad corporations mentioned in Section 1689(i) of the Code of Georgia of 1882 shall be and they are incorporated into and made a part of this Act, and that Section 1689(l) of the said Code, as to how rights of way may be obtained, etc., be and the same is incorporated in full in this Act and made a part of it; and that all the powers and privileges mentioned in said Sections (i and l) may be exercised by said company: Provided, that nothing in this charter shall be construed to give to said company the right to take or damage any property till just and adequate compensation has been first paid: Provided, that this charter shall be void unless the organization is effected and work begun within three years from the passage of this Act. Vested with powers confered by general railroad law. Proviso Limitation of charter. SEC. IX. 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 December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE CLEVELAND RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 153. An Act to incorporate the Cleveland Railroad Company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That A. H. Henderson, H. A. Jarrard, R. T. Renimer, J. H. Jackson, C. P. Craig, W. K. Williams, J. W. H. Underwood, W. H. Cavitney, J. Lamb Johnson, J. J. Kimsey, W. B. Bell, W. A. Reaves, W. H. Curtis, and Geo. W. Slaton, their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby incorporated under the name and style of The Cleveland Railroad Company, with continuous succession as a corporation, and by that name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts; to have and use a corporate seal, to make by-laws, etc., not contrary to the laws of this State nor the United States; to acquire by gift, grant, lease, or otherwise, property of all kinds, and to hold and dispose of the same at pleasure, and to do any and all other acts necessary to carry out the object of this Act and not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this State or the United States. Corporators. Name. Corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock shall be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars with the privilege of increasing the same to half million dollars; said capital stock shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each. That the corporators before named shall act until Directors are elected by the stockholders and manage and control all the business of said company. That each share of such capital stock will authorize its holder in person or written proxy to one vote, and no one shall handle such proxy but a share holder. That the stockholders shall have annual meetings at which a Board of Directors from 5 to 10 shall be elected, who from their own number shall elect a President and Vice-President and no one shall be a Director who is not a stockholder in said company. That the corporators or Directors may open books for subscription at such times and places as they may think proper, and such Directors may, in their discretion, receive other things than money from subscribers; that a majority of stockholders and also a majority of the Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Capital stock. Increase. Provisional Directors. Shares. Annual meetings. Board of Directors. Subscriptions, Quorum. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power to lay out, survey, construct, equip and run a railroad the nearest and most practicable route from Gainesville or Lula, in Hall county, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad, into the county of White, to Cleveland, with the privilege of extending the same to the North Carolina line in the direction of Murphy. Route.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Sections 1689(i) and 1689(l) of the Code of Georgia of 1882 be incorporated and made part of this Act, and all other parts of said Code upon the subject of incorporating railways, not inconsistent with this charter and its purpose, be and the same are hereby made a part of this Act: Provided, that nothing in this Section shall be construed to give to said company the right or power to take or damage any private property till just and adequate compensation has first been paid: and, Provided further, that said company shall obtain the consent of the proper authorities of the counties, respectively, through which said railroad may run before they shall be authorized to take and use any of the public roads for the purposes of said railroad. Vested with powers conferred by general railroad law. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That this charter shall be void unless the organization is effected and work begun within three years from the passage of this Act. Limitation of charter. SEC. VI. 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 December 26, 1888. INCORPORATING THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 156. An Act to incoporate the Mountain Valley Railroad Company, and to grant certain privileges therein mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That C. J. Welborn, of Blairsville, Union county, Georgia, W. R. McConnell, of Hiawassee, Towns county, Georgia, and Frank W. Hall, of Dahlonega, Lumpkin county, Georgia, together with such others as they may associate with them under this Act be, and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name of the Mountain Valley Railroad Company, and by that name they and their successors and assigns shall, and may continue such body corporate and politic; may make by-laws, rules and regulations for its government not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this State, and do all lawful acts incident to a corporation, and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated; may determine as to the number of Directors, time and mode of electing them, and to have a common seal, and to alter and destroy the same at pleasure. Corporators. Corporate name and powers.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have the right, power and authority to build, construct, own and maintain a railroad from the southern or central portion of Lumpkin county, where it may connect with the Augusta and Chattanooga Railroad, or any other railroad that may be constructed or under contract to build, via Dahlonega, in the said county of Lumpkin, and through the counties of White or Union, or both, to the North Carolina line in the counties of Towns or Rabun, in this State, with full authority to connect or consolidate with any railroad within the counties of Towns or Rabun now constructed or that hereafter may be constructed in said counties, and which may form a link in any part of said line. Route. May connect or consolidate. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company is empowered to cause such examinations and surveys to be made of the proposed line as shall be necessary to select the most advantageous routes, and for that purpose may enter upon the lands of any person; and said corporation may acquire, by gift or purchase, real estate or other property for the construction, maintenance and accommodation of said railroad; and shall have authority to lease or buy any lands, and to sell such lands as they may deem advisable; and said corporation is further authorized and empowered to lay out its line of railroad on a right of way not more than two hundred feet in width, and to remove trees and other obstructions in the right of way, making compensation therefor in the manner prescribed in this Act; to construct its railroad across, along and upon any watercourse, street, highway or canal, and along or across any other railroad, which the routes of railroad shall intersect or touch; to cross at grade, intersect, join or unite its railroad with any railroad now or hereafter to be constructed and built at any point in its route upon the right of way of any other railroad company, making compensation therefor in the manner herein prescribed. Preliminary surveys. Acquisition of property. Right of way. Crossing high ways and water courses. Crossing other railroads. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That when damages for right of way, or the value of land sought to be condemned, cannot be agreed on by and between the company and the land owner, the matter in controversy shall be submitted to arbitration in the manner prescribed by the Code of 1882, but if either fail or refuse to choose an arbitrator, the Ordinary of the county where the land sought to be condemned is situated, shall upon the application of the other party, select an arbitrator for said person or persons; such arbitrators so chosen, after selecting a third, shall proceed to condemn the land in question, fix its value and file their award in terms of the law, either party having the right to appeal to the Superior Court of the county, under the general law of appeals; and upon the payment of damages so assessed, a fee simple title to such lot, strip or parcel of land shall vest in said company. Damages for right of way. How assessed. Award. Appeal. [Illegible Text] simple.

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be five hundred thousand dollars, with power by a majority vote of the stockholders to increase the same from time to time to any amount not to exceed two million dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and said company shall be authorized to commence to construct said railroad whenever in the judgment of the corporators the amount of fifty thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and five per cent of the amount actually paid in. Capital stock. Increase. Shares. Beginning business. SEC VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the books of subscription, or subscription lists may be opened by corporators or others at either terminus or in either county in which it is proposed said railroad may be located and constructed, or elsewhere; and subscriptions to the capital stock of said company may be made in the form of a general contract or agreement, or in promissory notes or other form or may be paid in cash, labor, land, cross-ties or timber; and when said subscriptions are fully paid, certificates of stock shall be issued, but no certificate shall be issued for less than one fourth of a share. Books of subscription. Form of. Stock certificates. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all subscriptions made to the capital stock shall be payable in such installments as may be agreed upon, or in the absence of such an agreement, in such installments as may be ordered by the Board of Directors; and if any stockholder shall neglect or refuse to pay any installment in sixty days after the same may have become due and personal notice given ten days, or publication in paper where Sheriff's sales are published for that county, such stock, with all payments previously made thereon, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, shall be forfeited to the company, or the said company shall have the right of action to recover all such installments as may be called and not paid. Installments. Default. Forfeiture or recovery. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said railroad company shall have power to make, issue and sell bonds of such denomination or denominations, to bear such rate of interest, not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, payable at such times and places, and to such an amount, as the Directors may determine; and to secure payment of the principal and interest of said bonds by mortgages or deeds of trust of its railroad, real and personal property, franchises and all other rights of property. May issue bonds, Secured by trust deed or mortgage. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the business and affairs of said railroad company shall be managed by a Board of not exceeding thirteen Directors who shall be elected annually by the stockholders, and shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, and the President, by virtue of his office, shall be one of the Directors above mentioned; but until

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the amount of fifty thousand dollars is subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and until a Board of Directors shall be elected and shall qualify, the business and affairs of said corporation shall be managed by said corporators or a majority of such of them as shall act, and such other persons as they may associate with them as Directors. The first election shall be held whenever the stockholders may determine, and annually thereafter at such times and places as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said company. In all meetings of the stockholders each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes or fractional parts of votes as the number of shares or fractional parts thereof, are owned by him or her. All elections shall be by ballot unless otherwise provided by the by-laws of said company, and the votes may be cast in person by the stockholders, or by any person duly authorized by a written proxy. The Board of Directors of said company shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur in the Board of Directors, and the person so elected shall hold office until the next regular election, and until their successors shall qualify. The incorporators may choose one of their number to act as President until a Board of Directors are elected and one of their number chosen as President. They may also elect a Secretary and Treasurer. The President may appoint such other officers, agents and employes as he may deem necessary and proper to carry on the business of the company. The President and Board of Directors shall have power to control all the business and affairs of said company, call in and demand payment of subscription in installments as agreed, or as they may deem proper, but the company shall not be entitled to recover by action for any installments that may be due upon stock which is forfeited for non-payment of installments. The Directors shall have power to adopt a corporate seal, to make any by-laws and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the State, and to declare dividends. Board of Directors. Provisional Board. Meetings and elections. Vacancies in Board. President. Officers and employes. Powers of Directors and president. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the the stock of the company shall only be transferable on the books of the company under regulations to be prescribed by the by-laws. Transfers of stock. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all powers, privileges and immunities specified under the general law for the incorporation of railroads, together with all the powers, privileges and immunities set forth and contained in the Code of Georgia of 1882, from Section 1689 (a) to Section 1689 (gg) inclusive, are hereby specifically granted to and conferred upon the Mountain Valley Railroad Company, except so far as this Act may alter, change or add to the same. This Act shall continue and be in force for the term of fifty years with privileges of renewal. The charter hereby granted shall not remain legal and valid for a longer term than ten years from the date of this grant unless bona fide work is commenced on the same; nor if the said line of railroad

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shall run in a parallel direction with any other railroad now completed (unless to cross the same) within a distance of ten miles; Provided, this inhibition shall not be deemed and held to exist where it is necessary for said railroad to reach a terminal point or city or town on its line. Nothing in this charter shall be construed to authorize said company to take, use, own or control any land or property until just and adequate compensation shall have first been paid: Provided, that said railroad company shall not be authorized to take and use any of the public roads of any of the counties through which said railroad passes without first obtaining the consent of the proper authorities of the respective counties. Vested with powers conferred by general railroad law. Term of charter. Limitation of. Inhibition. Proviso. Consent of county authorities. SEC. XII. 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 December 26, 1888.

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Part III.Local Laws. TITLE I.MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. TITLE II.COUNTY OFFICERS. TITLE III.COUNTY COURTS. TITLE IV.GAME, ETC. TITLE V.REGISTRATION. TITLE VI.REGULATION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC. TITLE VII.FENCES AND STOCK. TITLE VIII.EDUCATION. TITLE IX.MISCELLANEOUS.

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TITLE I. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. ACTS. Extending Corporate Limits of Columbus. Increasing number of Atlanta Aldermen from five to six. Amending Charter of Atlanta. Amending Charter of the town of Vernonsburg. Incorporating the town of Rochelle. Amending the Sinking Fund Law of Augusta. Authorizing Mayor and Council of Montezuma to issue bonds. Amending Charter of Atlanta. Providing New Charter for the town of Buena Vista. Amending Charter of the town of Roswell. Incorporating the City of Cordele. Amending Charter of Cartersville. Providing New Charter for the town of Fayetteville. Providing New Charter for the town of Lithonia. Amending Act incorporating the city of Culloden. Amending law relative to the Board of Health of Augusta. Amending Charter of Rising Fawn. Amending Charter of the town of Bartow. Amending Charter of Griffin. Amending Charter of Atlanta. Providing New Charter for the City of Tallapoosa. Amending Charter of Jesup. Amending Charter of the town of Norwood. Extending Corporate Limits of Rome and repealing Charter of DeSoto. Amending Charter of the town of Carrollton. Amending Charter of Newnan. Incorporating the town of Moreland. Incorporating the town of Sparks. Changing name of the town of Ocean City to Tybee. Amending Charter of the town of Sharon.

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EXTENDING CORPORATE LIMITS OF COLUMBUS. No. 1. An Act to extend the corporate limits of the City of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 Columbus shall be extended for police purposes, so as to include the territory within the following limits to-wit: Commencing on the eastern side of the present city limits, so that the north line of the Coweta reserve shall be the north line of said extension, and the east line of lot number seventy-four (74) in said Coweta reserve shall be the east line of said extension, and the south line of said extension shall be the road known as the Middle road, which runs west from the the old Female Academy to the present city cemetery, and the west line of said extension shall be the present east line of said city of Columbus. The property embraced in this extension shall not be subject to city taxes, nor shall the city of Columbus be at any expense whatsoever on account of this extension. Extension for police purposes. Boundaries of territory annexed. Not subject to city taxes. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the right and power to make arrests in said annexed territory for violation of any of the ordinances of the city of Columbus, now in force or which may be hereafter ordained by the Mayor and Council of the city of Columbus, is hereby conferred on the police force of said city of Columbus, or any person or persons on whom police power may be conferred by the proper authorities of said city; and when any person shall be arrested, either by the regular or special police of said city of Columbus, for violation of any ordinance of said annexed territory, such person so offending shall be tried before the Mayor of said city, and if found guilty shall be punished in the same manner as if said offense were committed in any other part of said city of Columbus. Police powers of city in said annex. Trial of offenders. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council of the city of Columbus shall have power, in their discretion, from time to time, to pass such ordinances as they may deem proper for the protection of persons or property in said annexed territory, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. City ordinances. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That this extension shall not be construed so as to affect the rate of speed at which railroads may run engines and cars in said annexed territory. Railroad trains not affected. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved November 14, 1888.

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INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ATLANTA ALDERMEN FROM FIVE TO SIX. No. 6. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved February 28th, 1874, and the several Acts amendatory thereof so as to increase the number of Aldermen of the city of Atlanta from five (5) to six (6) and providing for the election of said additional Alderman. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the number of Aldermen at large for the city of Atlanta shall be increased to six, and that there shall be elected at the next annual election one additional Alderman, Provided this Act shall become a law before said annual election occurs, to-wit: In December, 1888, otherwise the election for said additional Alderman shall take place within ten days from the approval of this Act by the Governor. Which additional Alderman, when elected, shall hold his office for three years, from January 1, 1889. And in any case in the first election under this Act, the ballots for said additional Alderman shall be separate and distinct from the ballots cast for any candidate for any other aldermanic vacancy in the city of Atlanta, and the ballots in said election shall be expresly cast for the position created by this Act. The next election held under this Act shall be on the regular day for holding elections for Mayor and General Council of Atlanta in the year 1891, and every three years thereafter, and the term of the first incumbent under this Act shall expire on January 1, 1892. Additional Alderman. Proviso. Term and election of new Aldermen regulated. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 3, 1888.

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AMENDING CHARTER OF ATLANTA. No. 16. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved Feb'ry 28, 1874, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, so as to authorize and empower the authorities of said city to assess and condemn so much of the real estate of the Atlanta Street Railroad Company, in said city, as may be required by said city for public use for opening, widening or extending Edgewood Avenue, formerly Exchange Place and Foster Street, between Pryor and Ivey Streets. SECTION I. The Mayor and General Council of the city of Atlanta are hereby authorized and empowered to condemn so much of the real estate of the Atlanta Street Railroad Company in said city, for public use, for opening, widening or extending, as they may desire, Edgewood Avenue, formerly Exchange Place and Foster street, between Pryor and Ivey streets. Condemnation of property, For widening Edgewood Avenue. SEC. II. Said real estate desired by said city for said street, as aforesaid, shall be assessed and damages awarded as is now provided by the charter of said city where real estate of natural persons is desired for opening, laying out, widening, straightening or otherwise changing streets in said city. The said Mayor and General Council and the said Atlanta Street Railroad Company shall, in the exercise of the power herein given, have all the rights and be subject to all the obligations conferred in said charter and the Acts amendatory thereof, in reference to taking real estate for the purposes aforesaid. Award for damages. Future exercise of right of eminent domain. SEC. III. That all laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved December 10, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF VERNONBURG. No. 19. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate a town called Vernonburg, in Chatham county, approved March 6, 1866, by changing the day for the election of Intendent and Commissioners for said town, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Vernonburg, in

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Chatham county be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, to-wit: By striking out all of section second after the word town, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: On the first Wednesday in July of each year, and shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified; so that said section second when so amended shall read as follows: Charter amended. Part of section 2 stricken. Inserted clause. SEC. II. The corporate powers of said town shall be vested in an Intendant and three (3) Commissioners, who shall be elected by the owners of lots in said town on the first Wednesday in July of each year, and shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. Section as amended. SEC. II. 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 December 15, 1888. INCORPORATING THE TOWN OF ROCHELLE. No. 20. An Act to incorporate the town of Rochelle, in the county of Wilcox and State of Georgia; to define the limits of the same, provide for officers to govern it, prescribe their duties, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 Rochelle, in the county of Wilcox, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be incorporated under the name and style of the Town of Rochelle, and as such shall be entitled to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and do such other acts as may be authorized under this Act. Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend three fourths of a mile from the crossing of Ashley street and Third avenue, as a central point, due south; thence due east, three-fourths of a mile; thence due north, one and one-half miles; thence due west, one and one-half miles; thence due south, one and one-half miles; thence due east, three-fourths of one mile, to the point of starting on said south line. Corporate limits. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the government of said town shall be vested in a Mayor and six Aldermen; that Peter H. Coffee be appointed Mayor, and L. F. Nance, S. F. Laidler, B. F. Wilcox, W. B. Fitzgerald, D. D. Huff and Jno. M. Warren be appointed Aldermen, to hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified, as hereinafter provided. Mayor and Aldermen. First officers.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in January, 1889, and annually thereafter, on the same day in each year, an election shall be held in said town for a Mayor and Six Aldermen, who shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; but no one shall vote for, or be eligible to, the office of Mayor or Alderman of said town, who is not qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State. Said elections shall be held and conducted in the same manner as elections for county officers in 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. Municipal elections. Qualification of voters. Regulation of elections. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the Mayor and Aldermen 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 the duties devolving upon me as Mayor (or Alderman as the case may be), of the town of Rochelle according to the best of my ability, so help me God. Official oath. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Aldermen shall have power and authority to pass all ordinances and by-laws, which they may deem necessary for the good government of said town: Provided, they be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of said State, and of the United States. Ordinances, etc. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Aldermen shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding three tenths of one per cent. upon all property, both real and personal within the corporate limits of said town. They shall also have power to require persons within the corporate limits of said town, who are subject to road duty, to work on the streets of said town, or they may prescribe a commutation tax in lieu of work on the streets. Taxes. Street work. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor, if from any cause he fails to act, any three of the said Aldermen are authorized to try and punish any person charged with violation of any ordinance of said town, and to punish persons proven guilty of such violation, by fine not to exceed fifty dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days. Mayorhis powers and duties. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Aldermen be, and they are hereby vested with the power to prescribe such rules for the collection of taxes, fines, and all other moneys due to said corporation, and for the enforcement of all other powers herein given them, as in their judgment may seem proper. Powers of Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. X. 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 December 15, 1888.

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AMENDING THE SINKING FUND LAW OF AUGUSTA. No. 21. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to confirm an Ordinance of the city council of Augusta, entitled an Ordinance to create a sinking fund, passed the 10th day of March, 1877, as amended by the Ordinance passed the 6th day of August, 1877, and for other purposes, approved August 27, 1879, so as to provide for a suspension of the tax of one-quarter of one per cent. levied thereby until December 31, 1891, the date of its expiration, Provided, that said tax shall be levied for three years, beginning January 1, 1893, at such rate per cent. as will realize the amount which would have been realized if said suspension had not been made, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 Act entitled an Act to confirm an Ordinance of the City Council of Augusta, entitled an Ordinance to create a sinking fund, passed the 10th day of March, 1877, as amended by the Ordinance passed the 6th day of August, 1877, and for other purposes, approved August 27, 1879, be, and the same is hereby amended as follows, viz: The said City Council is hereby authorized to suspend the assessment and collection of the tax of one-quarter of one per cent. levied by said Ordinance until December 31st, 1891, the date of the expiration of said ordinance, Provided, however, that said tax shall be levied by said City Council of Augusta for three years, beginning January 1st, 1893, at such rate per cent. as will realize the amount which would have been realized if said suspension had not been made. Former Act amended. Tax suspended. Provisoamount to be made up in future. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 15, 1888.

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AUTHORIZING MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF MONTEZUMA TO ISSUE BONDS. No. 22. An Act to authorize the Mayor and Council of the town of Montezuma in the county of Macon, to issue and sell bonds not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars in the aggregate for the purpose of building a bridge with abutments, earthworks, trestles and approaches thereto across Flint river near Montezuma in the county of Macon, and to authorize the said Mayor and Council to levy and collect a tax on the taxable property within the limits of said town of Montezuma, to redeem said bonds and to pay the interest that may accrue thereon. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Council of the town of Montezuma, in the county of Macon, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds not to exceed in the aggregate fifteen thousand dollars, of such denomination as the said Mayor and Council may determine, to be due and payable at any time within twenty years after issue, as they, the said Mayor and Council may determine. The said bonds when so issued shall bear interest at six per cent. per annum. Issue of bonds authorized for $15,000. Maturity. Interest. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Mayor and Council and they are hereby empowered to assess and collect a tax upon the taxable property within the corporate limits of said town sufficient to pay off said bonds, principal and interest within twenty years as they may become due, as provided in section 1st of this Act; said bonds or so much of them as may be necessary for the purposes for which they may be issued, shall be signed by the Mayor and Clerk of Council of said town of Montezuma, and shall be sold in such manner as said Mayor and Council may determine to be for the best interest of said town. Tax for payment. Signature and sale. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That after the said bonds shall have been issued and sold as herein provided by this Act, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council to apply the proceeds thereof or so much as may be necessary to the building of a bridge, with abutments, earthworks, trestles and other approaches as may be necessary across Flint river near Montezuma, at or near what is known as the Montezuma Free Ferry on said Flint river. Purposeconstruction of bridge. Location. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That after the passage of this Act the Mayor and Council of said town of Montezuma shall submit the question of issuing said bonds to an election, to be voted upon by the qualified voters of said town, on a day to be fixed by the said Mayor and Council. Notice of said election shall be given by advertising the same thirty days before the election in the paper

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in which the legal advertising of Macon county is done. Said election to be held in the same manner and under the same rules prescribed by law for holding elections for members of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, unless otherwise provided in this Act. Should the assent of two thirds ([frac23]) of such qualified voters voting at said election be received thereto, the provisions of this Act shall obtain and be of full force and effect, and said bonds shall be issued in pursuance thereto. Election as to issue. How regulated. Necessary majority. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That those who favor the issue and sale of said bonds, as set forth in this Act, shall have written or printed upon their ballot, For issuing bonds; and those who are opposed to the issue and sale of said bonds as set forth in this Act, shall have written or printed upon their ballot, Against issuing bonds. Ticketshow worded. SEC. VI. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 15, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF ATLANTA. No. 23. 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, so as to authorize assessments for the improvement of streets and alleys, not to exceed four squares of any street or alley a portion of which is already paved or macadamized, when such improvement by paving, macadamizing or otherwise, will connect a portion or portions of such street or alley already improved, or will connect an improved portion of such street or alley with another improved street, upon the petition of abutting owners having less than one-third frontage, in the discretion of the Mayor and General Council. Also, to authorize said city to require of the owner or keeper of each house or saloon for selling lager beer and other fermented drinks at retail, for license, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars per year. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Acts approved respectively September 3rd, 1881, and December 24th, 1886, amending the charter of the city of Atlanta be, and the same are hereby amended so as to authorize the Mayor and General Council of said city, in their discretion, in addition to the powers conferred by the above recited Acts, to grade, pave, macadamize,

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and otherwise improve for travel and drainage, streets and alleys in said city not to exceed four squares of any street or alley, a portion of which street or alley is already paved or macadamized or otherwise improved, when such improvement by paving, macadamizing or otherwise, will connect a portion or portions of such street or alley already improved, or will connect an improved portion of such street or alley with another improved street or alley, upon the petition of abutting owners having less than one-third frontage on the street or alley or portion of the street or alley, the improvement of which is petitioned for, the same to be done in the manner prescribed by said-above recited Acts, of which this Act is amendatory, or amendments to either of said Acts, the cost thereof to be ascertained, paid for, and payment enforced in like manner as is or may be provided by law, and ordinances of said city in other cases. Former Acts amended. Grading and paving authorized, To connect improved streets or portions thereof, By petition of less than one-third frontage. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That section twenty-nine (29) of an Act establishing a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved February 28th, 1874, be, and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom where they occur in said section the words, one hundred dollars, and by inserting in lieu or place of said stricken words, the words following, to-wit: Five hundred dollars, so as to hereby authorize the Mayor and General Council of said city to require of the owner or keeper of each house or saloon for selling lager beer and other, or lager beer or other fermented drinks at retail, for license, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars per year. Charter of 1874 amended. Part of section strickenother words inserted. Regulating beer license SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 15, 1888. PROVIDING NEW CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF BUENA VISTA. No. 28. An Act to repeal an Act approved Jan. 26th 1850, incorporating the town of Buena Vista in the county of Marion, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and establish a new charter for said town and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act of the General Assembly approved Jan. 26th 1850, incorporating the town of Buena Vista in the county of Marion, and all Acts amendatory thereof be, and the same are hereby repealed. Act of 1850 repealed.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act, the said town of Buena Vista in the county of Marion be incorporated, with corporate limits extending three quarters of a mile each way from the Court House in said town under the name and style of the City Council of Buena Vista, with the right to exercise all the powers enumerated in Sections 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785, 786, 786 (a), 786 (b), 786 (c), 787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, of the Code of Georgia of 1882. Buena Vista reincorporated, With powers conferred by Code, sections 779 to 796, incl. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the first election held under this charter, shall be held on the first Tuesday in February 1889, and in the same manner as members of the General Assembly are elected, and all subsequent elections to be held in accordance with Section 781, of the Code of 1882. Elections. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 17, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF ROSWELL. No. 41. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Roswell, in the county of Cobb, to provide for the election of an Intendant and Board of Commissioners for the same, and to confer upon them specified powers, and for other purposes therein mentioned, so as to lay off the town of Roswell into wards, and to provide for the election of Intendant, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 town of Roswell, Cobb county, Georgia, shall be and the same is hereby divided into three wards. The first ward shall embrace all the territory within the corporate limits of the town of Roswell north of Roswell Academy, the south line of said ward to run east and west, so as to embrace all the territory north of Roswell Academy within the corporate limits of the said town of Roswell. The second ward shall embrace all the territory within the corporate limits of the town of Roswell south of the first ward, to a line running east and west, fifty feet south of the Barrington King's residence, now occupied by Rev. Dr. Baker; and the third ward shall embrace all of the territory within the corporate limits of the town of Roswell south of the second ward, and not embraced in the first and second wards. Division into three wards. First ward. Second ward. Third ward.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, that section 2 of an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Roswell, in the county of Cobb, to provide for the election of an Intendant and Board of Commissioners for the same, and to confer upon them specified powers, and for other purposes therein mentioned, said Act approved February 16, 1854, be and the same is hereby stricken from said Act, and the following substituted in lieu thereof, to be section 2 of said Act: That on the second Monday in January, 1889, and on the second Monday in January every year thereafter, all persons residing within the corporate limits of the town of Roswell, who shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly of said State, shall be entitled to vote for an Intendant for said town, and that any person or persons legally entitled to vote for said Intendant, shall be eligible for said office, and at the same time each ward shall elect two Commissioners to represent said ward, and all persons residing within the first ward and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly shall be entitled to vote for Commissioners to represent said ward, and all persons entitled to vote in said ward, and that may reside in the same, shall be eligible to the office of Commissioner for said ward; and all persons residing in the second ward, and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote for Commissioners to represent said second ward; and all persons entitled to vote in said second ward, and that may reside in the same, shall be eligible to the office of Commissioner for said ward; and all persons residing in the third ward, and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall be entitled to vote for Commissioners to represent said ward; and all persons entitled to vote in said third ward, and that may reside in the same, shall be eligible to the office of Commissioner for said ward. Said Intendant and Commissioners shall be elected at the same time. Said election shall be conducted by one Justice of the Peace, together with three freeholders, each ward furnishing one freeholder, and the persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected; that the managers shall give to those elected certificates to that effect, which shall be sufficient evidence of their election, and authority to them to act, which certificate shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the Clerk of the Commissioners: Provided, at the election of Intendant and Commissioners, separate ballot-boxes shall be kept for the election of Commissioners, so that each ward shall be entitled to vote separately for the election of Commissioners, but the election of Intendant shall be by the whole people of the town, as provided for in this Act. Act of 1854 amended by striking section 2. Substituted section Qualifications of voters. Intendant. Commissionerstwo from each ward. Electionshow regulated. Separate ballot boxes.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the powers and duties of the Intendant and Commissioners provided for in this Act, shall be the same as set out, and provided for in the original charter of the town of Roswell, and the amendments thereto. Powers and duties of Intendant, etc. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 22, 1888. INCORPORATING THE CITY OF CORDELE. No. 43. An Act to incorporate the city of Cordele, in the county of Dooly, define its limits, prescribe its municipal powers and privileges, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 city of Cordele, in the county of Dooly, is hereby incorporated. Its corporate limits shall embrace and include all the territory contained in the boundary of lots of land numbers two hundred and fifteen (215), two hundred and sixteen (216), two hundred and seventeen (217), two hundred and thirty-two (232), two hundred and thirty-three (233), two hundred and thirty-four (234) in the Tenth District of Dooly county. Corporate name and limits. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the municipal government of the city of Cordele shall consist of a Mayor and six Aldermen, who are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of the Mayor and City Council of Cordele, and by such name they shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; may have and use a common seal; and shall be capable in law and equity, to purchase, have, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and retain to them and their successors, for the use of the city of Cordele, any estate or estates real or personal, of whatsoever kind or nature within the jurisdiction and limits of said city; and may make all such contracts in their corporate capacity, as they may deem best for said city. Municipal government. Style. Corporate powers. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the terms of office of the Mayor and Aldermen shall each be two years and until their successors are elected and qualified, except as to three of the aldermen elected at the first election held under this charter, as herein-after provided. Terms of office.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That on the second Wednesday in January, 1889, there shall be held in said city an election for a Mayor, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified, and six Aldermen, three of whom shall hold their offices for one year, and three of whom shall hold for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. At said first election the voters shall designate, upon their ballots, the three men whom they wish to hold office for one year, and the three whom they wish to hold for two years; at said first election all persons residing within the incorporate limits aforesaid who would be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly shall be qualified electors. After said first election there shall be held annually, on the second Wednesday in January, an election for Mayor and three Aldermen, or for three Aldermen only, if the Mayor's term of two years is not about to expire. At such subsequent elections all persons who shall have been bona fide residents of said city for sixty days before the day of the election, who, before registering, as hereinafter required, have paid all taxes of every description legally imposed and demanded by authority of the city; who shall have been duly registered, as hereinafter provided, and who shall be qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall be qualified electors. Such election shall be conducted under the management of a Justice of the Peace and two freeholders who are residents of said city, and not candidates in said election; or, in the absence of a Justice of the Peace, any three freeholders, residents of said city, not candidates in said election, may manage the same. Said managers shall conduct such elections, as nearly as practicable, as elections for members of the General Assembly are conducted. The polls at such elections shall be opened at 8 o'clock a. m and closed at 3 o'clock p. m. After the first election held under this charter, the Mayor and City Council may appoint any three freeholders, or any two freeholders and a Justice of the Peace, who are residents of said city, to conduct said election. The managers shall, each, before proceeding with election, take and subscribe the following oath: All and each of us do swear that we will faithfully superintend this day's election; that we are qualified, by being freeholders or Justice of the Peace, to hold the same; that we will make a just and true return thereof, and not knowingly permit any one to vote unless we believe that he is entitled to do so, according to the charter of this city, nor knowingly prohibit any one from voting who is so entitled, and that we will not knowingly divulge for whom any vote was cast unless called upon under the law to do so, so help us God. Said affidavit shall be signed by each superintendent or manager in the capacity in which he acts. Said oath shall be made and subscribed before some officer authorized to administer oaths, if any such be present, and if no such officer is present said oath may be made and subscribed

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by each manager in the presence of the others. The managers acting at the first election held under this charter shall issue a certificate of election to each of the persons elected, which shall be recorded on the records of said city; said certificate shall be sufficient authority to the persons so elected to enter upon the discharge of their official duties, after qualification as hereinafter provided. The managers of each subsequent election shall issue to the newly elected Mayor and each of the Aldermen elected a like certificate, and shall also certify the result of the election to the acting Council, which last certificate shall be entered upon the records of said Mayor and City Council. Said managers shall also furnish to the City Council one of the tally sheets of said election, certified to by them as correct. Election. For Mayor and Aldermen. Ballotshow worded. Annual elections. Qualifications of voters. Conduct of election. Oath of managers. How made Certificates of election. Tally sheets. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That in the event that the office of Mayor or of any one or more Aldermen shall become vacant by death, removal, disqualification, or other cause, the mayor in case his office is vacant, the Mayor [Illegible Text] or the Aldermen, if both said offices should be vacant, shall order an election, of which at least ten days' written notice shall be given, by publication in some newspaper published in said city, or if there is no such newspaper, by posting the notice at three of the most public places in said city, to fill such vacancy or vacancies; said newly elected persons to fill unexpired terms only. Vacancies. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, the mayor and each alderman shall make and subscribe the following oath, which may be administered by any person qualified to administer oaths: 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 city of Cordele during my continuance in office, according to the best of my ability and understanding, so help me, God. Said oath shall be entered upon the records of the city. Oath of Mayor or Alderman. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen shall elect, annually, at the first regular meeting of the City Council in January, a Mayor pro tem., from the Aldermen, whose duty it shall be to act in all cases as Mayor in the absence, disqualification or sickness of the Mayor, during which time he shall be clothed with all the necessary powers of the Mayor; a City Marshal, a Clerk and Treasurer, and when the growth of the city may require additional police protection, such [Illegible Text] of policemen as they may deem best. All of said officers shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, that any of said officers may be removed, at ony time, by a majority vote of the Mayor and City Council, for neglect of duty, incapacity or malfeasance in office All of said officers shall be governed by such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Mayor and City Council, which are not inconsistent

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with the provisions of this Act. The Mayor and City Council may also appoint special policemen, when in their judgment such appointment may be necessary. Such policemen to be discharged when the emergency requiring their service has passed, and to be compensated as the Mayor and Council may determine; or the City Council may, by a general ordinance, provide for the appointment at a fixed compensation per day, week or month, of such special policement by the Mayor. While such special policemen are on duty they shall have the same authority in preserving order and be charged with the same duties as are prescribed for the regular policemen of the city. Mayor, protem. City officers. Terms. Proviso. How governed. Special police. Their authority. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That in no case shall the corporation herein created be liable in damages to any person or persons for any unlawful or unauthorized arrest or false imprisonment made or effected by the Marshal or any of the policemen of said city, but if damages are ever thus sustained, they can only be recovered out of the officer or officers whose unlawful and unauthorized conduct may have produced them. Damages for unlawful arrests. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That after the first election held under this charter, no person shall be allowed to vote in any election held for said city who has not been duly registered, as hereinafter provided. Registration. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk and Treasurer, upon the first Monday in December of each year, to open a registration list, or book, for the registration of the qualified voters of said city; said list shall be kept open from 9 o'clock a. m. until 12 m., and from 2 o'clock p. m. until 5 o'clock p. m. each and every day (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) until the first Wednesday in January, when it shall be fairly and absolutely closed. It shall be the duty of the Clerk and Treasurer upon application, in person and not by proxy, of any male citizen, who is qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, who has paid all taxes, of every character legally imposed and demanded by the authority of the city, and who upon the day of the election, if then a resident, will have resided in said city for sixty days 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 the city where he resides; said clerk or treasurer shall not knowingly permit any one to register who is not lawfully entitled to do so; and may, in any case, before registering the applicant, administer to him the following oath: 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 city for sixty days, next preceeding this registration, or that by the date of the next city election, if still a resident of the city, you will have fullilled these conditions; that it is your intention to remain a resident

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of this city until the day of the election; that you are twentyone years old; that you have paid all taxes due the city of Cordele, and that you have made all returns required to you by the ordinances of this city, so help you God. Registration listhow kept and managed. Applicant's oath. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk and treasurer, to prepare a list of the names registered, arranged in alphabetical order and publish the same in some newspaper published in said city between the time of said registration list, and the day of the election, or, if there be no such newspaper, or no issue thereof in which said list can be published, then he shall post copies of said alphabetical list, of the registered voters at at least, two of the most public places in said city for two days before the election. It shall also be the duty of the clerk and treasurer to furnish the managers of the election, at or before the opening of the polls on the day of the election, with a complete list of all the registered voters arranged in alphabetical order, certified to under the hand of the clerk and treasurer, and the corporate seal of the city. 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 upon said list, and when said election is over, it shall be the duty of the said managers to return said list to the city clerk and treasurer to be by him safely kept and preserved. Publication of registration list. Managers of election to be furnished with same. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That any person voting at any city election, who is not qualified to vote according to the provisions of this charter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the Superior Court of Dooly county, he shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of Code of this State of 1882. Illegal voting. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That any persons qualified to vote at said city election, as above provided for, and eligible to hold office according to the Constitution and laws of this State, shall be eligible to hold any office in said city. Eligibility for office. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That the salaries of all officers of the city of Cordele shall be fixed by the Mayor and City Council at the first regular meeting in January of each year, which salaries shall not be increased nor diminished during the terms of office of said officers. Salaries. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City Council shall have full power to levy and collect an ad valorem tax, not to exceed one per cent., upon all property, real or personal, within the incorporate limits of the city, which is taxable under the laws of this State, except land used exclusively for agricultural purposes, which exemption shall not include vegetable gardens or patches adjacent to or forming part of residence lots, but shall apply exclusively to lands used for farming purposes in

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said city. Said ad valorem tax shall be for the purpose of defraying the general expenses of the city government. Ad valorem tax. Farming lands exempted. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have authority, in addition to the ad valorem tax above provided for, to levy and collect a specific tax upon all billiard tables, ten pin alleys or nine pin alleys, and all tables and alleys of any kind used for the purpose of playing with balls or pins, or both, within said city, and on all contrivances of whatever kind used for the purposes of gaming or carrying on a game of chance, by selling cards, tickets or numbers, or by turning a deal or wheel, selecting or designating cards, pictures, envelopes or photographs from a number of similar articles or objects, or by pitching rings at sticks or knives, or by throwing dice, or by any other artifice or contrivance whatever. They shall also have authority to levy a tax, in such sums as they may see proper, upon all circuses, sleight of hand performances, tricks of legerdemain, theatrical exhibitions and other shows which may exhibit in said city such taxes to be for each exhibition, and to be collected, if not voluntarily paid, by exccution, as hereinafter provided in this act, for other taxes. Said Mayor and City Council shall also have authority to levy and collect such license taxes upon any or all business occupations, of whatever kind or character, carried on for any length of time in said city, as they may see proper, and to enforce the collection of the same as in case of other taxes. Specific taxes. Enumeration of. Licenses. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have full power and authority to remove, or cause to be removed, all buildings, porches, steps, fences, or other obstructions, or nuisances in the public streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, or public squares, in said city. They shall have power, if necessary, to establish a market in said city; to regulate all butcher pens, slaughter houses, tanyards, livery stables, blacksmith shops, forges, stoves and chimneys, steam saw mills, steam grist mills, mill ponds, fish ponds, and steam gins within said city, and remove or cause to be removed, the same or any of them in case they become nuisances dangerous or injurious to the health of the city. They shall have power also to fill up all pits cellars, or excavations in said city, or cause the owner to do so when they shall deem it necessary for the public interest for the same to be done. They shall have power to license and regulate all [Illegible Text] and public houses; to license and regulate all drays, omnibuses, hacks, wagons, and other vehicles owned or kept for use and hire in said city, and to regulate and control all public pumps and wells, fire companies and engines, or any apparatus of like character, in said city. They shall have power to remove or cause to be removed, all dilapidated or unsafe buildings, fences, chimneys, etc., which may be considered dangerous or considered a nuisance. Obstructions and nuisances. Regulation or abatement of. Public houses and carriers.

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SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council of Cordele shall have power to license and appoint annually, as many auctioneers or vendue masters for the city, as they may deem proper, and to fix and collect the amount of license fees required of each. They shall further have power to levy a tax upon all goods sold at auction in said city to be paid by the auctioneer. They shall have power and authority to license all other occupations or business not herein specially provided for, and not otherwise taxed. Auctioneers, etc. Other occupations. SEC. XIX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have the sale and exclusive power and authority to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors, vinous, malt and intoxicating liquors in said city, to grant licenses for the sale of the same, to fix the fees for said licenses; to establish such regulations and restrictions with reference to the sale of the same, as they may see proper, and to impose penalties upon persons selling such liquors without license, or for violating any of the city ordinances regulating the sale of the same. Sale of spirituous liquors. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City Council shall have power and authority to open, lay out, widen, straighten or otherwise change the streets and alleys of said city, and shall have power to lay off, vacate, close up, open, alter, curb, pave, drain and repair the roads, streets, bridges, sidewalks, alleys, crosswalks, drains and [Illegible Text] for the use of the public or any citizen of the city. They shall have power to protect places of public worship; to provide places for the burial of the dead and to regulate interments therein; to regulate the keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles and explosives; to make regulations for guarding against fire, and to fix and establish fire limits, and from time to time to change, enlarge or restrict the same. Public improvements. Places of worship. Cemeteries. Combustibles, etc. SEC. XXI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have power and authority to pass all such ordinances and regulations for the government of said city, for the suppression of disorderly conduct, the protection of life and property, the maintenance of the public peace and the protection of the public health, which are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States, as they may see proper to do, and to prescribe and enforce penalties for the violation of the same. Police powers of Mayor and Council. SEC. XXII. Be it further enacted, That all male residents of said city between the ages of eighteen and fifty, who have resided in said city thirty days before the first day of April of each year (except licensed ministers of the gospel in charge of one or more churches) shall be subject to work the streets of said city, not to exceed ten days in each year, or to pay a commutation tax in lieu thereof, not to exceed five dollars, as the Mayor and Council may determine. Should any person liable to work the streets of said city under this section fail or refuse so to do, or to pay the

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street tax assessed in lieu of such service, after having received due notice from the Marshal so to do, such person may be sentenced by the Mayor to work upon the streets of said city for and during the term of, not exceeding fifteen days, under the direction and control of the city Marshal, or to confinement in the guard house for a term not exceeding ten days in the discretion of the Mayor: Street work Who liable. Failure to work. Punishment. SEC. XXIII. Be it further enacted, That should any person fail or refuse to pay the city tax, or license, or tax and license imposed by the city authorities, according to this charter, within the time allowed or prescribed by the ordinances of said city, the Clerk and Treasurer shall issue an execution against such delinquent tax payer for the amount due by him to the city, which shall be signed by the Clerk and Treasurer, in his official capacity and bear test in the name of the Mayor and City Council of Cordele. Said execution shall bind all the property that said defaulting tax payer owned in said city on the first day of April, in the year for which such taxes are due. Said execution shall be directed to and enforced by the Marshal of said city, who, after levying the same upon the property of such defaulting tax payer shall, if the property levied upon be personal property, advertise the sale by posting a notice thereof in three of the most public places in said city for ten days before the sale, and if the property be real estate he shall advertise the same once a week for four weeks in the public gazette wherein the Sheriff's sales of Dooly county are advertised before selling the same. All sales under such execution shall be made by the City Marshal before the door of the Council Chamber, or at such place as the Mayor may direct, notice of which place and the time of the sale shall be contained in the advertisement. The property levied upon shall be sold by the Marshal at public outcry, within the hours allowed by law for Sheriffs' sales, to the highest and best bidder. Where personal property is sold, the Marshal shall deliver possession thereof on the spot to the purchaser. Where real estate is sold, the Marshal shall make to the purchaser a deed, which shall be as effectual in passing the title as the deed of the person against whom the execution is issued; and it shall be the duty of such Marshal, upon application by the purchaser or his agent, to put said purchaser or his agent in possession of the real estate sold: Provided, said Marshal shall not be authorized to turn out any other person than such delinquent tax payer, his heirs, tenants, or assignees since the lien of the city for taxes attached. The Clerk and Treasurer shall be entitled to fifty cents costs for each fi. fa. issued, and the Marshal to the same fees for levies as are by law allowed to Bailiffs in this State, and to the same fees for selling as are received by the Sheriffs of this State. Failure to pay tax or license. Execution to issue. Marshal to levy on property. Advertisement. Sale. Possession. Proviso. Fees.

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SEC. XXIV. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council of Cordele shall have power and authority to establish and provide regulations for a city guard-house, in which to confine for punishment, when necessary, persons sentenced by the Mayor for violating any of the city ordinances, or any of the penal sections or provisions of this charter, and for the safe detention of all disorderly persons and all persons committing or attempting to commit crimes. Guard house. SEC. XXV. Be it further enacted, That the Marshal or any policeman of said city shall have the right to take up all disorderly persons and all persons committing or attempting to commit any crime, and to confine them in the guard-house to await their trial the next day. Disorderly persons and criminals. SEC. XXVI. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and members of Council shall be bound to keep the peace and for this purpose, shall be ex officio Justices of the Peace, so to enable them or either of them, to issue warrants for offences committed within the jurisdiction of the city of Cordele, and shall have full power on examination to commit the offender or offenders to the guard-house in said city or to the jail of Dooly county, or to bail them if the offence be bailable, to appear before the next Superior Court of Dooly county. Mayor and Council ex officio Justices of the Peace. SEC. XXVII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor of said city, or the Mayor pro tem. when acting as Mayor, shall have power and authority to hold a police court for the trial and punishment of all violators of the ordinances, rules or regulations of said city, and upon conviction to punish such offenders by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars and costs, or by labor on the streets of said city under the control and direction of the City Marshal, not to exceed forty days, or by confinement in the guard-house not to exceed thirty days. The Mayor may, in his discretion, sentence the offender to imprisonment in the guard-house, or to work upon the streets for a specified time, and allow in such sentence a commutation of such punishment upon the payment of a specified fine, not to exceed fifty dollars and costs. The Mayor, when presiding in such police court, shall have authority to punish for contempt, by a fine not exceeding five dollars, or imprisonment in the guard-house not to exceed forty-eight hours. Mayor judge of police court. His powers as such. SEC. XXVIII. Be it further enacted, That whenever any execution issued by the proper authority of said city for fines, forfeitures, taxes, licenses, or any other debt or demand due said corporation shall be levied on any property which is claimed by any other person, not a party to the execution, said claim shall be interposed under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as regulate claim cases under the laws of this State; and the said claim shall be returned and tried before a jury in the first Justice

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Court or Superior Court having jurisdiction thereof as the case may be. Claims. SEC. XXIX. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and City Council shall prescribe by ordinance the time and manner in which and the person or persons to whom all property, occupations, etc., shall be returned for taxation by said city. City tax returns. SEC. XXX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have power and authority each year, if in their discretion they see proper, to appoint three Assessors, whose duty it shall be to value the real estate in said city for taxation, and to scrutinize carefully each return of property, real or personal, by any tax payer of the city, and if, in their judgment, they shall find the property embraced in the return, or any portion of it returned below its value, they shall assess the value thereof within fifteen days. Whenever the Assessors shall raise the valuation at which the tax payer has returned his property, they shall give him written notice of their assessment, and it shall be the tax payer's privilege, if dissatisfied with the assessment, to have the matter left to three disinterested persons, residents of said city, one of whom shall be selected by him, one by the Assessors, and the other by these two so selected, and a majority of these arbitrators shall fix the assessment which shall be final and conclusive. Assessors. Their powers and duties. Arbitration in case of dissatisfaction. SEC. XXXI. Be it further enacted, That the Clerk and Treasurer of the city of Cordele shall give bond in a sum to be fixed for his term of office, by the Mayor and City Council, with at least two good securities, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as Clerk and Treasurer of said city, which bond shall be approved by the Mayor He shall also take an oath before the Mayor that he will, to the best of his skill and power, faithfully perform the duties of his office without favor or partiality. Bond and oath of Clerk and Treasurer. SEC XXXII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have authority if in their discretion they see proper so to do, during the month of March in each year, to appoint five fit and proper persons who shall constitute the Board of Health of said city. When the Board of Health is appointed it shall be its duty to meet once a week, or as often as may be necessary, to visit all and every part of the city, and to report in writing to the Mayor and City Council all nuisances which are likely to endanger the health of the city, or of any neighborhood. Said Mayor and City Council shall have power, upon the report of the Board of Health, to cause said nuisance to be abated and the recommendations of the Board carried out in a summary way, at the expense of the party whose act or negligence caused said nuisance, or of the owner of the premises as the Council may elect. Board of Health. Its powers and duties. Abatement of nuisances. SEC. XXXIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have power and authority, upon the recommendation of the Board of Health, to cause the owners of lots or parcels of

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lands in said city to drain the same, or to fill the same to the level of the streets or alleys upon which they front, or to drain any pond or pool of water thereon; also to compel the owner or owners of cellars, occasionally holding water, to cause the same to be emptied of the water, or filled up, if necessary; and in case the owner of said lot or lots or parcel or parcels of land shall fail or refuse, after reasonable notice to him or his agent, to comply with the requirements of said Mayor and City Council, by filling up said lots or parcels of land, or by draining the same, or by draining any pond or pool of water thereon, or by emptying or filling up said cellars, it shall be lawful for the said Mayor and City Council to employ some one or more persons to do the same; and for the amount expended for this purpose the Clerk and Treasurer shall forthwith issue an execution against the owner of said property, to be collected from said lot or parcel of land, or out of any other property belonging to him; and a sale under such execution by the Marshal shall pass the title as completely to the purchaser as a sale under a judgment and execution by the Sheriff of the county. They shall also have authority, upon the recommendation of such Board of Health, to make and enforce (for any length of time) such rules and regulations as they may deem proper to prevent the introduction into said city of any infectious or contagious disease, or to isolate, localize or prevent the spread or increase of the same when found in the city. The power and authority conferred in this and the preceding Section may be exercised by the Mayor and City Council, in their discretion, without the recommendation of the Board of Health, if at the time no such Board exists in the city. Drainage. Failure to drain, etc. Work to be done by city. Recovery of costs. Quarantine powers. SEC XXXIV. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have the right, at any time, to fill any vacancies that may occur in said Board of Health. Vacancies. SEC XXXV. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this charter may be pleaded and shall be a complete defense, to any action brought against the said Mayor and City Council or either of them for any act or acts done by them, or either of them, under and in accordance with its provisions and the ordinances passed in pursuance thereof. Charter profects against damages. SEC. XXXVI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and City Council shall have power and authority to compel the owners or lessees of property to pave or otherwise keep in good order and condition, as they may direct, the sidewalks in front of such property; they may restrict the operation of any ordinance passed in pursuance of the power conferred in this section to any designated part of the city or in any way that they deem best. Should any owner or lessee fail or refuse to comply with any ordinance passed in pursuance of this section, the work may be done by the city

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and the expense attending the same collected by execution issued against said owner or lessee. Paving sidewalks. SEC. XXXVII. The Mayor who presides in the Mayor's Court may call said court whenever he may deem it necessary to clear the guard house or dockets of said court. Sessions of Mayor's court. SEC. XXXVIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 22, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF CARTERSVILLE. No. 45. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Cartersville, so as to authorize and empower the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Cartersville to levy and collect a special tax on all the taxable property in said city, not to exceed one-fourth of one per cent., for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the water supply and fire protection for said city. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Cartersville, in Bartow county, shall be authorized and empowered to levy and collect annually, as the other taxes of said city are levied and collected, a special ad valorem tax upon all the taxable property in said city, not to exceed one-fourth of one per cent. per annum, for the purpose of defraying the expense of water supply and fire protection for said city. Special ad valorem tax authorized SEC. II. 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 December 24, 1888

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PROVIDING NEW CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF FAYETTEVILLE. No. 57. An Act to repeal an Act incorporating the town of Fayetteville in the county of Fayette, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, and to provide a new Charter for said town, and for the election of a Mayor and Councilmen; to prescribe their powers and duties; to extend the limits of said town, and for other purposes. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the several Acts incorporating the town of Fayetteville, as well as the Acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof, the charter of said town shall be and read as follows: Old charter repealed. SECTION I. Be it enacted, That the municipal government of the town of Fayetteville, in the county of Fayette, shall be vested in a Mayor and five Councilmen, who are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of Mayor and Council of the town of Fayetteville, and by that name and style, shall have perpetual succession, and shall in said name be capable to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this State; shall have power to purchase, lease, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and retain to them and their successors for the use and benefit of said town, any estate or estates, real or personal, of whatever kind or name, within the limits of said town, and to sell, alien, exchange, lease or convey the same, or any part thereof, and to do all other acts relating to their corporate capacity, consistent with the constitution and laws of said State. New charter: Municipal government. Name and style. Corporate powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said town of Fayetteville shall extend and embrace one-half mile in every direction from the Court House in said town: Provided, that on the north side of said town, the land line of J. L. Blalock, next to said town shall be the corporate limits. Corporate limits. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That an election shall be held in said town on the second Wednesday in January, 1889, for a Mayor and five Councilmen, who shall hold their offices for the term of six months, or until their successors are elected and qualified. That an election shall be held in said town on the second Wednesday in July, 1889, for Mayor and five Councilmen, and in each year thereafter, who shall hold their offices for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Said election shall be opened at 8 o'clock a. m. and closed at 5 o'clock p. m., to be held under the superintendence of a Justice of the Peace and two freeholders in said town, or by three freeholders in said town, under the forms and regulations prescribed by law for election of members

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of the General Assembly, in so far as they are applicable to such election and do not conflict with the specific rules herein prescribed. Election for Mayor and Council. Time. How regulated. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said superintendents of election shall duly declare the result of said election, and shall issue certificates of election to such persons as receive the highest number of legal votes polled, who shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, qualify by taking the following oath before some officer of the State authorized to administer oaths: I, as Mayor and Councilmen of the town of Fayetteville, do swear that I will well and truly perform all the duties required of me by law as such Mayor and Councilmen, to the best of my skill and power, so help me God; which oath, with a list of the voters and tally sheet and certificate of election given by said superintendents, shall be entered on record of the minutes of said Council, and the original filed in office of the Clerk of Council. Certificates of election. Oath of officers. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the qualification of voters at said election shall be such as are required for electors to the General Assembly, and in addition thereto, a bona fide residence within the corporate limits of said town for six months next preceding the election and the payment of all legal taxes and fines required of them by said corporation, and no person shall be eligible to the election or performing the duties of the office of Mayor or Councilman who is not a qualified voter in said town. Qualification of voters. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That in case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor or Councilman, an election to fill such vacancy shall be ordered by said Council, to take place at such time as may be specified in said order after the public notice of same by posting at court house door, in said town, for the space of at least ten days before said election. In case of vacancy in the office of Mayor, the same may be supplied by the Board of Councilmen by electing from their body a Mayor pro tem., who shall perform all the duties of said office until the election and qualification of his successor, as above provided. Election to fill vacancy. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to appoint a Clerk, Treasurer, Marshal and such other officers as they may deem necessary and proper; to regulate the time and mode by which they will elect said officers, fix their fees and salaries, to take their bonds, to prescribe their duties and oaths, and to remove them from office and impose fines for neglect of duty for sufficient cause at their discretion. Officials. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have full power and authority to assess, levy and collect such taxes not exceeding 100 per cent. on the State tax upon all and every species of property, both real and personal within the limits of said town, (except church and school property) at its market value on the first day in April each year, also to levy and collect

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such special taxes on trades, business occupations, theatrical exhibitions, or other performances exercised, performed or carried on within the limits of said town, including circuses and shows of all kinds, itinerant traders, peddlers, auctioneers and all other trades, games, or occupations subject to special tax under the State law, as they may deem proper. They shall also have power to tax, license and regulate ten-pin alleys, billiard and pool tables, or to prohibit or remove the same for sufficient cause, as they may deem necessary. They shall have power to license, regulate or prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors and other intoxicating drinks in said town, provided the tax for the sale of spirituous liquors or intoxicating drinks in said town shall not be less than ten thousand dollars: Provided, however, the above provision of this section relating to the sale of spirituous liquors and intoxicating drinks shall not be operated so long as the sale of spiritous liquors is prohibited in Fayette county. For the purpose of enforcing the payment or collection of taxes above enumerated, the Mayor and Council may prescribe such rules and regulations, and impose such penalties for a violation of the same as they may deem necessary, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State; and the Mayor of said town is hereby vested with authority to issue executions for such fines or taxes as may become collectable in favor of said town, and the Marshal may proceed to collect the same by levy and sale; in case of levy on personal property, after ten days advertisement at the Court House door in said town, and in case of levy on real estate, by return to the Sheriff of Fayette county, who shall advertise and sell in the same manner as prescribed by State law for levies made on real estate and returned by constable. Taxes General and special. Licenses, etc. Liquor tax. Proviso. Enforcement of collection. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall have full power and authority to open, and lay out, to widen, straighten and otherwise change streets and alleys in said town. Whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall exercise the power above delegated, they shall appoint two freeholders, and the owner or owners of lots fronting on said streets or alleys, shall on five days notice, appoint two freeholders, who shall proceed to assess the damages sustained or advantages derived by the owner or owners of said lots in consequence of the opening, widening, straightening or otherwise changing said streets and alleys; and in case said assessors can not agree, they shall select a fifth freeholder. The said assessors to take an oath that they will faithfully discharge their duties, and either party to have the right to enter an appeal to the Superior Court of Fayette county within ten days from the rendition of said award, under the same rules and regulations as govern appeals from the Justice Courts. Improvements. Assessment of damages. Appeal from award. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all males over the age of sixteen years and under the age of fifty years, who have resided

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in said town ten days, shall be subject to work the streets and roads in said town not exceeding fifteen days in each year, or to be taxed therefor, as the Council may direct or determine, as a commutation tax, not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) per year; and the Mayor and Council shall have full power and authority to call out each and every male person within the jurisdiction of said corporation subject to street duty, who s all be compelled to do road and street duty according to the laws of this town; and the said Mayor and Council may have power to punish defaulters by a fine of not more than two dollars per day for each day's default; and in default of the payment of said fine, to work upon the streets or public works of said town not less than ten nor more than thirty days; or the said Mayor and Council shall have the power to levy and collect a tax in lieu of such road or street duty from all persons subject thereto, and no person who shall be indebted to said town in any tax, fine, fee or assessment shall be allowed to vote at any election held under this charter. Street work Commutation tax. Defaulters. Punishment. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council 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 health of the inhabitants thereof, not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State; to protect places of Divine worship; to provide places for the burial of the dead and regulate interments therein; to make regulations to guard against danger and damage by fire; to drain such branches, ponds or pools as may be injurious to the health of the citizens; to abate nuisances; to protect the public health and to promote and protect the peace and good order of said town. Further powers of Mayor and Council. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor shall hold a police court in said town at any time for the trial and punishment of all violators of the ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations of said town, and shall keep a docket upon which he shall enter all cases and judgments tried or rendered by him, the punishment inflicted not to exceed a fine of fifty ($50.00) dollars or imprisonment in the guard house or common jail, or labor on the public streets or works of said town not to exceed thirty days, and in addition thereto the cost of the proceedings. It shall be the duty of such Mayor to act as presiding officer of the Council when in session and look after the promotion of the peace and good order and the enforcement of the by-laws and ordinances of said town. That when said Mayor is sitting as a court, he may fine for any contempt offered said court not to exceed ten dollars or imprisonment not to exceed five days for such contempt. But from all decisions of such Mayor (except in cases of contempt) there may be an appeal on such terms as may be prescribed to the Mayor and Council. Police court. Further duties and powers of Mayor. Appeal from fines.

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SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That in the event of the absence for sickness of the Mayor, or from any reason he cannot act, said Councilmen may select one of their number Mayor pro tem who shall be required to perform all the duties of the Mayor. Mayor pro tem. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall have the power to provide how any bond that may be taken, payable to them, for the appearance of any defendants before the Mayor, may be forfeited. Appearance bonds SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor or Mayor pro tem and any three Councilmen shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority of the votes shall determine all questions and elections before the Council, and the Mayor or Mayor pro tem shall be, to all intents and purposes, a Justice of the Peace, so far as to enable them, or either of them, to issue warrants for offences committed within the corporate limits of said towa, which warrants shall be directed to any Marshal, Sheriffs or Deputy Sheriffs of this State, and to commit to the county jail of Fayette county, or to admit to bail according to law, offenders, for their appearance before the next Superior Court of Fayette county to await his or her or their trial, and it shall be the duty of the jailer of said county to receive all persons so committed, and them safely to keep until the same be discharged by due course of law. Quorum. Magistrate's powers. Committals. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That the expenditures of the Mayor and Councilmen and the compensation of the town officers shall be paid out of the town funds by an order drawn by the Clerk of the Council upon the town Treasurer, and countersigned by the Mayor, or Mayor pro tem of the Council, out of the funds in the hands of the Treasurer, who shall keep a book in which he shall make an entry of all sums of money paid out, and to whom and for what purpose, which book shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the Mayor and Councilmen of said town, or any or either of them, and likewise shall entries be made of all sums of money paid into the hands of the Treasurer by the provisions of this Act, and the same is hereby directed to be a fund for the exclusive use of said town. Town accountshow kept. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligible to office under this Act who is not eligible as a voter at the election aforesaid, and any officer of said incorporation who shall be guilty of mal-practice or abuse of the power confided to him shall be subject to indictment in the Superior Court, and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, (said fine to be paid over to the Treasurer of said town and appropriated to the use of said town), or to be imprisoned not to exceed six months, in the discretion of the court, and upon said conviction, said party shall be removed from office. Eligibility for office. Malpractice. Punishment.

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SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor or Mayor pro tem while acting as Mayor shall have the right to vote upon all questions before the Council when said vote is a tie, and said Mayor and Mayor pro tem shall also have the right to veto any measure passed by the Council, which veto must be filed in writing within four days after the passage of such measure and be entered of record on the minutes of Council, and said measure shall not be effectual until passed over said veto by a vote of two-thirds of the Council at the first or second regular meeting of the Council after said veto, and not thereafter. Mayor's vote. Veto. SEC XIX. Be it further enacted, That any of the officers of said incorporation who may be sued for any act done in his or their official capacity or character may justify under this Act. Justification. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Councilmen shall receive no salaries. No salaries. SEC. XXI. Be it further enacted, That all previously granted charters and amendments thereto, to said town of Fayetteville be and the same are hereby repealed by this Act; and all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved December 24, 1888. PROVIDING NEW CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF LITHONIA. No. 63. An Act to repeal the existing charter of the town of Lithonia, in DcKalb county, and to reincorporate said town under a new charter, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That from and after the first day of January, 1889, the following sections shall constitute the charter of the town of Lithonia, in the county of DeKalb, which said town is reincorporated under the same. The corporate powers of said town shall be vested in a Mayor and five Councilmen, and by the name of the Mayor and Council of the town of Lithonia they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and exercise all other corporate powers that may be necessary in performing their duties. Reincorporation. Mayor and Council. Corporate powers. SEC. II. That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one half of one mile in every direction from the present depot site of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. Corporate limits. SEC. III That on the first Wednesday in January, 1889, and annually thereafter on the same day, an election shall be held in the Council Chamber in said town for a Mayor and five Councilmen,

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whose terms of office shall begin on the second Wednesday in January, 1889, and annually thereafter on the same day, and who shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; but no one shall vote for or be eligible to the office of Mayor or Councilmen who has not resided in said town six months previous to the day of election, and who is not qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, and who has not paid all fines or taxes due to said town. Said election shall be held and conducted in the same manner, and under the same regulations, as are elections for members of the General Assembly, and the certificate of the managers shall be sufficient authority to the persons elected to enter upon the discharge of their duties. In the event that the Mayor or any member of the Council shall die, resign, be removed from office or remove beyond the corporate limits of said town, there shall be an election ordered by the Mayor within ten days thereafter to fill such vacancy, or in case there is no Mayor, by a majority of the members of Council then in office, upon five days' notice in writing in three of the most public places in said town, which election shall be conducted as are the regular elections. Election for Mayor and Council. Qualification for voters. Special elections. SEC. IV. That before entering upon the discharge of their duties, the Mayor and Council shall take and subscribe to the following oath, which may be administered by any officer of this State authorized by law to administer oaths, to-wit: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge all the duties devolving on me as Mayor (or Councilman, as the case may be) of the town of Lithonia, DeKalb county, to the best of my ability and understanding, so help me God. Official oath. SEC. V. That said Mayor and Council shall have full power and authority to pass all laws and ordinances that they may deem necessary for the government of said town, for the protection of person and property, the promotion of the health, peace and good order thereof, not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States. They shall have absolute power and control over the opening, widening, closing or changing of streets, alleys, lanes and sidewalks of said town, subject to the Constitution and laws of this State. Powers of Mayor and Council. Improvements. SEC. VI. That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax not exceeding one half of one per centum upon all property, real and personal within the incorporate limits of said town, and the same may be enforced and collected by executions issued by the Clerk in the name of the Mayor and Council, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe. All levies shall be made by the Marshal of said town, and all sales made by him, and conducted in the same way and under the same regulations as are Sheriff sales in this State under tax executions. Said Mayor and Council shall also have power to

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levy a street tax, not exceeding five dollars per annum upon all persons residing within the incorporate limits, who are subject to road duty under the laws of this State for the purpose of working and keeping in repair the streets, sidewalks, lanes and alleys of said town, or in lieu of the payment of said street tax, they may prescribe by ordinance for a number of days, not exceeding ten days, to be worked on said streets, sidewalks, lanes and alleys, under the direction of the Marshal, by persons who fail to pay said street tax within a time or period to be named by said Mayor and Council. Taxes. Levies and sales. Street tax. Failure to pay same. SEC. VII. That the Mayor of said town, and in his absence, the Mayor pro tem (who shall be elected by the Councilmen from their own number) shall be the chief executive officer of said town. He shall see that the ordinances, by-laws, rules, and orders of the Council are faithfully executed. He shall have control of the Marshal and police of said town, and may appoint special police in any emergency he may deem necessary, and it shall be his duty specially to see that the peace and good order of the town are preserved, and that persons and property therein are fully protected, and to this end he may cause the arrest and detention of all rioters, disorderly or violent persons in said town. He shall hold weekly police courts, or oftener, if necessary, shall preside therein, and shall have power to impose fines, not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment and work upon the streets, not exceeding thirty days, either or both, in his discretion, upon all offenders against the laws, orders or ordinances of said town, brought before him. He may, also, fine or imprison, or both, in not exceeding the same amount or time, as above specified, any or all persons in said town subject to road duty, as aforesaid, who refuse to pay any street tax, levied as aforesaid, or work the required number of days upon said street within the time named, or as required by any ordinance passed by said Mayor and Council. The Mayor or the Mayor pro tem may administer any oath required under the laws of said town, or of the State of Georgia. Mayor. His powers and duties. SEC. VIII. That the Mayor and Council, at their first meeting in January of each year, shall elect a Clerk of Council from their own number or from any citizen of said town, who shall also be ex-officio Treasurer of said town; and also a Marshal, who shall be a citizen of said town. The Clerk and Marshal shall give bond, with good security, in the sum of at least one thousand dollars each, for the faithful discharge of their duties, to be judged of by the Mayor and Council, and to be given before entering on the discharge of their duties, and made payable to the Mayor and Council. The Mayor and Council may elect one or more Deputy Marshals, permanently or temporarily, at any time they may deem necessary. Town officials.

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SEC. IX. That the Marshal, his deputies and the Clerk shall receive such salaries as the Mayor and Council shall deem just and proper, to be fixed in each instance before their elections, and not to be changed during the terms for which they are elected. The Mayor shall also receive such salary as may be fixed by the preceding Mayor and Council at their last regular session in each year. The Mayor and Council shall also be exempt from the payment of street taxes during their terms of office, but Councilmen shall not receive any salaries. Salaries. Exemptions. SEC X. That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to tax all shows, auctioneers, peddlers, sleight of hand performers, pool and billiard tables, ten pin alleys, shooting galleries, flying jennies and other like enterprises or amusements, as they may deem to the interest of the said town. License taxes. SEC. XI. That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to regulate and control the sale of vinous, malt, spirituous, intoxicating liquors, bitters, or mixture, by whatever name called, or any drink or beverage that will produce intoxication in said town, to grant or withhold license to each firm or dealer therein in said town; to fix any fee they see proper for said license or licenses, and to impose penalties and restrictions upon any person selling such intoxicating liquors, bitters, mixtures, or beverages in said town with or without such license or licenses. License and control of liquor traffic. SEC. XII. That the Act of the General Assembly approved incorporating said town, and the various Acts amendatory thereof be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and that, on and after the first day of January, 1889, this Act shall take effect and constitute the charter of the town of Lithonia in DeKalb county. Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING ACT INCORPORATING THE CITY OF CULLODEN. No. 65. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the city of Culloden in the county of Monroe, define its limits, and for other purposes, approved October 24, 1887, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the city of Culloden in the county of Monroe, define its limits, and for other purposes, be, and the same is hereby amended by striking from the first section thereof the words one mile,

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and inserting in lieu thereof the words, one half mile, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Act of incorporation amended. Words stricken and Substituted. 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 city of Culloden is hereby incorporated. Its municipal government shall consist of a Mayor and six Aldermen, who shall be known by the corporate name of the Mayor and City Council of the city of Culloden, and by such name may sue and be sued, may have and use a common seal, purchase, take and hold real and personal property, exchange, sell and convey the same when and in such manner as they deem best for the interest of said city, and to make all contracts in their corporate capacity which they deem best for the welfare of said city: Provided, the sale, purchase or exchange of real estate is not to be made until the same is ratified by a majority of the legally qualified voters of said city at an election to be held under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Aldermen of said city. The corporate limits of said city shall extend one-half mile in every direction from the well, known as the public well in the village of Culloden. Section as amended. New corporate limits. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are repealed Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING LAW RELATIVE TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF AUGUSTA. No. 67. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the City Council of Augusta to create a Board of Health for said city, approved February 26, 1877, and amended August 23, 1879, approved December 8, 1880. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Act entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize the City Council of Augusta to create a Board of Health for said city, approved February 26, 1877, and amended August 23, 1879, approved December 8, 1880, be amended by adding thereto the following provisions: That the Fifth ward in the city of Augusta shall have the same representation and the same rights, powers and privileges on said Board of Health as are now allowed by law to each of the four other wards in said city, and the said Board of Health shall consist of fourteen members instead of twelve as now constituted. Act creating Board of Health amended. Representation given Fifth Ward. New Board.

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SEC. II. Be it likewise enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF RISING FAWN. No. 68. An Act to repeal an Act entitled An Act to amend an Act, to incorporate the town of Rising Fawn, in the county of Dade, by repealing so much of said Act as allows the Commissioners the right to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors, approved October 24, 1887, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 entitled an Act, to amend an Act, to incorporate the town of Rising Fawn, in the county of Dade, by repealing so much of said Act as allows the commissioners the right to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors, approved October 24, 1887, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the original Act is hereby re-enacted. Charter amended. Right to regulate liquor sale repealed. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BARTOW. No. 83. An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the town of Bartow, in the county of Jefferson, to grant certain powers and privileges to the same, and for other purposes, approved September 20th, 1887, so as to fix an additional qualification for voters at municipal elections in said town, to empower the Council of said town to elect a Clerk of Council who is not a member of Council, and to enlarge their powers of special taxation, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the above recited Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the twelth section the following sections, to be known as sections XIII, XIV, XV, XVI and XVII: Charter amended. Sections added.

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SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be qualified to vote at any municipal election held in said town unless he shall be registered as hereinafter provided, and before registering every person shall take the following oath, to be administered by the Registrar for said town, to-wit: I do solemnly swear that I am twenty one years of age, have resided in this State twelve months, in Jefferson county six months, and in the town of Bartow six months consecutively next preceding this election; that I have paid all taxes required of me and which I have had an opportunity to pay since the adoption of the present Constitution; that I am a bona fide resident of the town of Bartow, and not stationed therein temporarily, so help me God. Registration. Oath of applicant for registry. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk of said Council shall provide a book of registration for said town, in which the names of all qualified voters at municipal elections in said town shall be registered; that said Clerk is hereby made the Registrar for said town, and is hereby authorized and empowered to administer to persons offering for registration the oath provided in Section XIII of this Act. Registration book. Clerk made registrar. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of said town, in addition to the powers of taxation already given them, shall have power and authority to levy a special tax on every species of business carried on in said town as they may deem for the best interest of said town. Special business tax. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to elect any person Clerk of Council who is not a member of said Council: Provided, said person shall be a resident of said town. Clerk of Council. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF GRIFFIN. No. 90. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Griffin, so as to authorize the Mayor and Council of said city to fix a compensation for the Aldermen of said city, not to exceed fifty dollars per annum each. SECTION I. 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 Griffin shall have authority to fix a compensation, payable to the Aldermen of said city for

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their services, not to exceed the sum of fifty dollars per annum for each Alderman; that said salaries shall be paid out of any moneys in the City Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and that the charter of said city is hereby amended to conform to this Act. Charter amended. Compensation of Aldermen. SEC. II. 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 December 24, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF ATLANTA. No. 99. An Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved February 28th 1874, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, so as to provide that the removal of any officer from the Ward he was elected to represent or serve, shall operate as a vacation of said office, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, an Act establishing a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved February 28th 1874, and the several Acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby amended so as to hereby provide that in any and all cases in which any person has been heretofore or may be hereafter elected by popular vote, or be elected or appointed by the Mayor and general Council of said city of Atlanta, or by any Board, Commission or department of said city government, to any office or official service for or to serve or represent any ward of said city, and any such person so elected or appointed as aforesaid has heretofore, or shall hereafter remove from the ward from or for which he was so elected or appointed to represent or serve, the fact or act of such removal shall thereby create a vacancy in such office or official service, and such vacancy shall be filled as in other cases of vacancy in office in said city. Charter amended. Removal from Ward by Ward representative or appointee. Creates vacancy. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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PROVIDING NEW CHARTER FOR THE CITY OF TALLAPOOSA. No. 102. An Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Tallapoosa, in the county of Haralson, and for other purposes, approved December 20, 1860. To adopt a new charter for said town, to provide for the time and manner of holding elections for municipal officers of said town, and to define the limits of the same, approved December 7, 1880. To reincorporate said town under and by the name of the City of Tallapoosa; to adopt a new charter for said city; to provide for the time and manner of electing and appointing all municipal officers of said city; to empower the Mayor and Council to levy and collect a tax from the property in said city: to license and collect a special tax from all persons, firms or corporations following or carrying on any profession, trade, business, calling or avocation in said city; to regulate or prohibit the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, and license the same, and to impose penalties for selling the same without a license; to provide penalties for violations for all ordinances for said city. To establish fire limits, and a system of drainage, water works and gas lights; to define the limits of said city, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Act approved December 7, 1880, entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Tallapoosa, in the county of Haralson, and for other purposes, to adopt a new charter for said town, to provide for the time and manner of holding elections for municipal officers of said town, and to define the limits of the same, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Old charter repealed. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said town be, and it is hereby reincorporated, and the inhabitants of the territory herein-after designated, are made a body politic and corporate, under and by the name and style of the City of Tallapoosa, with power to govern themselves by such ordinances, resolutions and by-laws for muncipal purposes as they may deem proper, not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States; with power in and by said corporate name to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all the courts of this State. To purchase, hold, receive, possess and retain for the use and benefit of said city of Tallapoosa in perpituity or for any term of years, any estate or estates, real or personal, within the limits or without the limits of said city for corporate purposes. Reincorporated as City of Tallapoosa. Corporate powers.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the government of said city shall be vested in a Mayor and seven Councilmen. That G. R. Hutchins be, and he is hereby appointed Mayor, and J. R. Driver, C. E. Head, W. Brock, J. H. Plummer, R. M. Strickland, A. J. Head and George X. Graham be, and they are hereby appointed Councilmen of said city of Tallapoosa, to hold their offices until the first election, as hereinafter provided, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Municipal government. Mayor and Council appointed, provisionally. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in January, 1889, and annually thereafter on the same day, an election shall be held between the hours of seven o'clock a. m. and four o'clock p. m. in said city for a Mayor and seven Councilmen, who shall hold their offices for the term of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified, and no person shall vote for or be eligible to the office of Mayor or Councilmen of said city who is not qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State. And it is further provided that the Councilmen so elected shall be residents of the ward for which they are elected to represent, after said city has been divided in wards. Election provided for. Qualifications of voters and candidates. Further requirement. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of the city of Tallapoosa shall include land lots Numbers 176, 177, 178, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 102, 103, 104 and 105, in eighth district and fifth section of Haralson county. Corporate limits. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council of said city shall have special power and authority therein to lay off, vacate, close, open, alter, widen, curb, pave and keep in good order and repair, streets, avenues, alleys, lanes, sidewalks, cross-walks, drains, sewers and gutters for the use of the public or any citizen of said city, and to improve and light the same and have them kept free from any obstructions of any kind. To regulate the width of the sidewalks and crosswalks on the streets, and to order the sidewalks, crosswalks and footways to be curbed and paved and kept in good order, free from obstructions and clean, by the owner and occupants thereof, or of the real property next adjacent thereto; and if such owner or occupant thereof shall fail or refuse to so curb, pave, remove obstructions or clean such sidewalks when so ordered, the Mayor and Council shall have the same done, and the cost of the same, when done, shall be a lien on such adjacent property, and the same shall be collected by execution to be levied on such property, which shall be sold under same rules and regulations as govern other Marshal's sales in said city. To establish and regulate markets, to prescribe the time for holding same, to prevent injury or annoyance to the public or individuals from anything dangerous, offensive or unwholesome, to prevent hogs, cattle, sheep, horses and other animals and fowls of all kinds from going at large in said city or any prescribed territory therein; to protect places of divine worship, to abate or cause to be abated

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anything which in the opinion of the Council is a nuisance; to regulate the keeping of gunpowder and all other combustibles; to regulate the running and management of steam engines, whether used byforfactories, cotton gins or for any other purpose; to limit and regulate the speed at which any animal or any and all sorts of vehicles, howsoever drawn or propelled, may traverse or cross any streets, avenues, alley, lane or road; to provide, lay out, improve and maintain public parks or pleasure grounds; to make regulations for guarding against danger and damage by fire; to protect the property and persons of the citizens and all other persons in said city, and preserve peace and good order therein, and to appoint, when necessary, any number of extra or special Marshals to assist the Marshal or other officer in the discharge of any duty required of him by the ordinances of said city; to prescribe the powers and define the duties of all officers appointed by the Mayor and Council, fix their term of service and compensation, require and take from them bonds when necessary, payable to said city in its corporate name, with such securities and in such penalties as said Mayor and Council may see proper conditioned for the faithful discharge of such duties as may be required of them. Powers of Mayor and Council. Improvements. Markets. Nuisances. Steam power. Speed of vehicles. Public parks. Special police. Appointees. Indemnity bonds. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council of said city shall have authority to grant licenses to public wagons, drays, carts, trucks and other vehicles, conveying persons or property for hire in said city, and to prescribe fees for such license, and to levy and collect a special tax from any person, firm or corporation, following or carrying on any profession, business, trade or avocation in said city. Licenses, etc. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power to levy and collect, by execution or other legal process, a tax upon all the property, both real and personal, within the corporate limits of said city and upon all banking, insurance and other capital employed therein, including all cash, notes, mortgages or other evidence of debts held in said city, Provided that the rate of tax hereby authorized, shall not exceed one per cent upon the assessed value of such property. Said Mayor and Council shall have power to levy and collect a special tax upon all shows and exhibitions, keepers of pool and billiard tables and all other like tables, ten-pin alleys and all other tables, alleys or places kept for the purpose of playing on or renting. General tax. Limit to rate. Special taxes. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council of said city, on or before the first day of February, 1889, and biannually thereafter on or by said first day of February, to appoint three upright, intelligent, and discreet freeholders of said city to serve as a Board of Tax Assessors for said city for the term of two years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and if, from any cause, the place of any

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one or more of said Board of Assessors is made vacant, said Mayor and Council shall cause the same to be supplied by appointment as before provided; and, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, said Board of Assessors shall each take and subscribe an oath to faithfully and impartially report all real estate in said city subject to taxation, and assess the same at the reasonable and just value thereof. It shall be the duty of said Assessors, between the first days of April and July of each year, to make out a complete list of all lots in said city as shown by the maps thereof, and all real estate in said city not divided into lots, and to assess for taxation each lot and parcel of land at its reasonable and just value; the list so made out shall show the name of the owner, if known, and his residence, the number of the block and the number of the lot, if platted and numbered; if not, then such description shall be given as is necessary to locate the property, opposite which description shall be set its value as assessed by said Board. It shall be the duty of all owners of taxable personal property and other subjects of taxation as provided in this charter, to make by themselves or agents, returns under oath, to the Tax Assessors of said city, of all their personal property at its reasonable and just value. Such returns shall be made between the first day of April and first day of July in each year, and if any person shall fail or refuse to make such return by the first day of July in any year, the Board of Tax Assessors shall assess the personal property of the person so failing to make returns, at double the value of such property; and if any person shall make any returns of personal property which the Assessors may deem incorrect, then said Board of Assessors shall assess such personal property and fix such value upon it as they may deem reasonable and just. If the owner of any real or personal property conceives that said Assessors have placed too great a value on such property, such owner or his agent may appeal such assessment to the Mayor and Council of said city, who shall assess such property at its just and reasonable value, and the action of said Mayor and Council shall be final in the premises; and if any taxpayer in said city shall think that said Assessors have placed too low an estimate on any property therein, such person shall have the right to have such assessment reviewed by said Mayor and Council, whose action shall be final as aforesaid. The lists of all real estate assessed as herein provided, and all personal property returned by the owner or assessed as herein provided, shall be completed by said Board of Assessors and returned by them to the Mayor and Council on or before the first day of August; and within fifteen days thereafter said Mayor and Council shall ascertain and declare the rate to be levied and collected from such assessments and returns, and the tax so levied shall be due and payable on the 15th day of September, in the year for which they are levied. And when the taxes so levied are not paid before

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the 15th day of October in each year, the same shall be collected as follows: An execution shall be issued by the Clerk of Council, directed to the Marshal of said city, against the real and personal estate of each defaulter, and in case of real estate, the owner of which is unknown, against the said real property, describing the same by number and location, which execution shall be levied by a Marshal of said city, and after advertising the same once a week for four weeks in some newspaper published in said city, he shall sell the property so levied on before the door of the Justice court house in said city on some regular Sheriff's sale day, and within the legal hours of Sheriff's sales; and the deed of said Marshal shall be as effectual to pass the title to property thus sold as the deed of the owner of such property: Provided, that the property thus sold may be redeemed by the owner thereof within six months from such sale upon such owner paying to the purchaser the amount paid out by him in such purchase, together with twenty per cent. on the same. The Mayor and Council shall prescribe by ordinance the compensation to be paid said Assessors. Board of Tax Assessors. Vacancy on. Assessor's oath. Duties of Assessors. Returns by property owners. When made. Penalty for failure. Appeal from assessment. Review of assessment. Returns by Assessors. Tax rate. Payments. Limit of. Execution against real estate. Levy. Sale. Redemption. Assessors fees. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council before entering upon the discharge of their duties shall each take and subscribe an oath to discharge faithfully the duties of their office, and this oath they shall also require to be taken by each person appointed by them. Oath of Mayor and Council SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor shall be chief executive officer of said city, and it shall be his duty to see that the ordinances, rules, regulations, acts and resolutions of the council are faithfully executed, and during any absence or disability of the Mayor, the Council shall select one of their number, who, during such absence or disability, shall act as Mayor pro tem, with all the powers and duties of the Mayor. Mayorhis duties. Mayor pro tem. SEC XII. Be it further enacted, That if the office of Mayor or Councilman shall become vacant at any time more than sixty days previous to a regular election for Mayor and Councilman, it shall be the duty of the Mayor, or in case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor, the remaining Councilmen, to order an election to fill the office or offices so vacant, and if such office or offices shall become vacant in less than sixty days next, before such regular election, then such vacant place or places shall be filled by appointment of the members of the Council remaining. Vancancies. SEC XIII. Be it further enacted, That in all elections for Mayor and Councilmen whether at a regular election or a special election to fill a vacancy as provided in the preceding section, the election shall be managed and presided over by three freeholders of said city and the persons elected either as Mayor or Councilmen shall take and subscribe the oath of office hereinbefore prescribed, before some officer of this State authorized to administer an oath, and the certificate of such managers shall be sufficient authority to the persons elected. Management of elections.

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SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor of said city shall have jurisdiction to try all persons charged with violation of any law or ordinance, rule or regulation of said city, and to punish such persons when properly convicted by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, imprisonment in the calaboose of said city not to exceed thirty days, and to work at hard labor on the streets or such other public works of said city as the Mayor shall adjudge, not to exceed thirty days. Any one or all of these punishments may be inflicted in the discretion of said Mayor or person acting as Mayor in the trial of offenses. Judicial powers of Mayor. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That if, in the judgment of the Mayor and Council, it shall at any time become necessary to open, widen or in any manner, alter any street, alley, side-walk or other passways in said city, they shall have full power to order the same done upon complying with the following rule: If the owner of the property to be affected by such alteration conceives that he will be damaged thereby, and if such owner and said Mayor and Council shall be unable to agree as to the fact of such damage or the amount thereof, said Mayor and Council shall cause to be served on such owner or his agent, notice of their intention to condemn such property, describing in such notice the property sought to be condemned, and to state the quantity sought to be taken, and the purpose for which it is to be taken, which notice shall also state the time and place, the proceedings to condemn such property will be had, which shall not be less than five nor more than ten days from such time of service. It shall be the duty of said Mayor and Council to select one upright and intelligent freeholder, of said city, and the owner of such property, or his agent, may select one such person, or if he shall fail or refuse to make such selection, then it shall be the duty of the Justice of the Peace of the militia district in which said city is situated, to select some intelligent and upright citizen freeholder, as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the two persons, selected in either way above named, to select a third upright and intelligent citizen of said city, and it shall then be the duty of said three persons to inspect the property sought to be condemned, and to hear such evidence pertaining thereto, as the parties may offer, taking into consideration the enhanced value, if any, of the property, by reason of the opening, widening or altering such streets, alleys, sidewalk or other passways, as the case may be, and from the decision of said freeholders there shall be an appeal by either party to the Superior Court of Haralson county, under the same rules and regulations as govern appeals from Justices Courts to the Superior Court. The Mayor and Council, upon payment or tender to the owner or his agent of any sum found by said arbitrators, shall have the right to proceed to open, widen or alter such street, alley or sidewalk, notwithstanding any appeal by the owner of such premises. Improvement of streets, etc. Damages. How assessed. Appeal from award. Work may proceed pending, appeal.

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SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That all processes, writs, warrants, subp[oelig]nas or other papers shall be issued by the Clerk of the Council in the name of the Mayor of said city, and signed by such Clerk. And it shall be the duty of the Marshal of said city to serve all such processes and to levy all executions as may be placed in their hands in favor of said city, and to advertise and sell the property so levied upon in the manner prescribed in section IX of this Act. Processes and writs. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall have power to require every male inhabitant of said city, who is subject to road duty under the laws of this State, to work such length of time on the streets of said city as said Mayor and Council shall by ordinance direct, or they may prescribe a commutation tax to be paid by such persons in lieu of said work; and they shall have power to enforce obedience to their laws and ordinances under this Section by a fine, imprisonment or work on the streets, as provided in section 14 of this Act; and no tax paid in lieu of such work, nor any money arising from fines or forfeitures for failure of persons to perform such work, shall be used for any purpose except in payment for work done or improvements put on the streets or sidewalks. Street work Commutation tax. Enforcement of. SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to establish and maintain a system of sewerage and drainage in and around said city for the health, cleanliness and comfort of its inhabitants, and in all cases where it becomes necessary to take or use private property or injure private rights and the owners of said property or the persons so injured, and the Mayor and Council cannot agree as to the amount of damage to be paid to the injured party, the damages shall be assessed as is provided in section 15 of this Act; and the same rights of appeal, etc., as therein provided shall also prevail in condemning property under this section. And said Mayor and Council shall have entire and absolute control and jurisdiction of all soil pipes, private drains and sewers, water-closets and privy vaults 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 the preservation of the health of the inhabitants of said city, with power also to require changes in or the total discontinuance of any such contrivances and structures. Sewerage and drainage. Assessment in case of damage to property. Complete jurisdiction as to pipes and drainage. SEC. XIX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to establish and maintain a system of water works for said city, and they shall have power to acquire any property or rights either within or without said city limits necessary or appropriate for affording a complete and sufficient supply of pure water for said city, and said Mayor and Council shall have power to cause such examinations and surveys to be made for the work contemplated in this section as shall be necessary

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or proper to the selection of the most advantageous location or locations, site or sites, water shed or sheds, and right or rights, way or ways, for locating all their works and appliances for the purpose of bringing the water and distributing it in the city, and for carrying out the object of this section, and for such purpose said city by its officers, agents, servants or employes shall have the right and power to enter upon the land or water of any person which may be necessary for the proper construction, operation and security of their works, and condemn and take such land, water and right-of-way, first making just compensation therefor, as provided by law for private property taken for public use. Water works. Surveys for. May condemn private property to this end. Just compensation required. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to light the streets in said city by means of gas, electricity, or such other means as they may see proper to adopt, and for this purpose they shall have power to lay mains and pipes along any street or highway in said city. Lighting streets. SEC. XXI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to establish and fix fire limits in said city, and from time to time to extend and enlarge the same in their discretion, within which fire limits, when established, it shall not be lawful for any person to erect other than fire proof buildings; and should any person erect or cause to be erected any building or other structure not fire-proof within the fire limits so established, said Mayor and Council, after giving ten days' notice, shall cause the same to be removed at the expense of the owner, to be collected by execution, as provided in section 9 of this Act. And should the owner of such building or structure fail or refuse to remove the same within ten days, after being notified so to do, such owner may be punished as prescribed in section 14 of this Act. And should any person, after receiving like notice. continue to work on and aid in erecting such building or other structure, they shall be liable to the like penalties. Said Mayor and Council shall have power to determine, either from their own knowledge or from the advice of competent persons appointed to examine the same, what buildings or other structures are fire-proof and what buildings are not. Fire limits. Regulations as to, binding. How enforced. Council to pass on what buildings fire proof. SEC. XXII. Be it further enacted, That any person, company or corporation owning real estate in said city desiring to improve the same, or which has already been improved, located upon any street, avenue or alley, the grade of which has not been fixed and established, shall possess the right to have the grade of such street, avenue or alley, permanently established by complying with the following requirement, to wit: The owner, his agents or attorney shall make affidavit stating the ownership and the description of the property and the improvements done or to be done. That such improvements have or are to cost above the sum of two hundred

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dollars, and that he desires to have the grade of such street or alley permanently established, said affidavit or a copy thereof shall then be served on the Mayor and Council, who shall within thirty days thereafter have the necessary surveys made and fix the grade of such street or alley, and make a plat showing the same, and shall deliver it to the applicant together with the affidavit of the surveyor showing that the same is correct and fair, and upon the same being filed together with the original affidavit of the applicant in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Haralson county for record, the owner shall thereupon have a vested right to such grade and shall be entitled to recover damages from said city for any injury doue to said property, should the city thereafter alter such grade. Permanent grades. Lot owner may demand same, If improvements cost $200. Grade to be fixed in 30 days. Vested right to same in owner. SEC. XXIII. Be it further enacted, That if at any time said city shall adopt a system of public schools therein, said Mayor and Council shall have the authority to levy and collect, in addition to the taxes hereinbefore authorized to be levied and collected, a tax on the real and personal property in said city not exceeding one-half of one per centum on the assessed value of such property, which tax shall be used only for the purpose of maintaining such public schools. Public schoolsauthority as to. SEC. XXIV. Be it further enacted, That any money arising from any source except as provided in sections 17 and 23 of this Act, in excess of any amount sufficient to meet the necessary annual expenses of the government of said city, may be used in establishing and maintaining any of the improvements contemplated by this Act, or for such other purpose as the interest of said city may require. Surplus funds may go to improvements. SEC. XXV. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to organize and maintain a fire department at the expense of said city. Fire department. SEC. XXVI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to regulate, restrict or prohibit the sale of spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors or bitters in said city, and the violation of any ordinance adopted by authority of this section shall be punished as is prescribed in section 14 of this Act. Sale of spirituous liquors. SEC. XXVII. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person holding any office in said city, whether by election or appointment, to be interested either directly or indirectly in any contract to which said city is a party, and any contract made in violation of this section shall be void as against said city, and any such officer violating this provision shall be dismissed from his office, and in addition, shall be punished as prescribed in section fourteen of this Act. Officials not to be interested in city contracts.

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SEC. XXVIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to appoint a Board of Health for said city, and also a Board of Water Commissioners, Gas Commissioners and Street Commissioners, City Attorney, and such number of Marshals as they shall deem proper, and such other officers and agents as may be necessary to the interests of said city; to prescribe their duties and compensation. And they shall have power at any time to remove any of said officers or agents. Boards, Commissions and city officers. SEC. XXIX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council may compel the payment of any tax, fine or forfeiture by execution, levy and sale as provided by section nine of this Act. Enforcement of tax. SEC. XXX. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor, or Mayor pro tem. shall have authority to punish any person guilty of contempt as prescribed by section fourteen of this Act. Punishment for contempt. SEC. XXXI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall provide, by ordinance, the manner in which bonds for the appearance of offenders against the ordinances, may be forfeited and collected. Appearance bonds. SEC. XXXII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Mayor and Council to require to be kept in books provided for that purpose, full and correct accounts of all the acts and doings of said Mayor and Council, and of all other officers and agents of said city, and such books shall be at all times subject to inspection by any citizen of said city; said Mayor and Council shall also make, or cause to be made, by the person having such matter in charge, an annual statement and account, under oath, of the financial condition of said city; such account shall be a full and itemized statement of all moneys collected, when and from what source collected, of all amounts paid out, and when and on what account paid out, the sums due said city and from what source due, the existing liabilities of said city, and the balance on hand. This account shall be made and published on or before the first day of January in each year. Minutes. Annual financial statement. SEC. XXXIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor, and in his absence the Mayor [Illegible Text] shall be, to all intents and purposes, a Justice of the Peace so far as to enable them to issue warrants for offences committed against the laws of the State, within the corporate limits of said city, which warrants may be executed by any Marshal or Deputy Marshal of said city, and to commit to the jail of Haralson county, or admit to bail such offenders for their appearance at the next term of the Superior Court of said county; and it shall be the duty of the Jailor of said county to receive all persons so committed and safety keep them until discharged by due course of law. Magistrate's powers of Mayor. SEC. XXXIV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor of said city shall preside at all meetings of the Council, but he shall have no vote except in case of a tie. He shall have the revision of all

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ordinances, orders and resolutions passed by the Council, and said Mayor shall have five days after the meeting at which any ordinance, order or resolution was passed, in which to file with the Clerk of the Council, in writing, his dissent thereto, which, when filed, shall have the effect to defeat such ordinance, order or resolution; but notwithstanding such veto, said Council may, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the Council, pass such ordinance, order or resolution; and in the absence of the Mayor, the veto power may be exercised by the Mayor pro tem. Further powers and duties. Veto. SEC. XXXV. Be it further enacted, That if any person, after having been tried and convicted before the Mayor or Mayor pro tem. shall be dissatisfied with such judgment of conviction, such person shall have the right to certiorari the same to the Superior Court of Haralson county under the same rules and regulations as govern in cases of certiorari from the Justice Courts to the Superior Court, except that in all cases of certrorari the party defendant shall pay the costs which have accured and give a good and sufficient bond, to be judged of and approved by the Mayor or Mayor pro tem., payable to said Mayor and Council, conditioned to pay such fine and costs as may have been adjudged against him, as well as all future costs in said case. Certiorari. SEC. XXXVI. Be it further enacted, That the salary of the Mayor shall be one hundred dollars per annum for every one thousand inhabitants in said city at the time said Mayor shall be elected, said number of inhabitants to be determined by the last preceding enumeration until the population of said city shall reach twenty thousand, and that thereafter said salary shall remain at two thousand dollars per annum. The compensation of members of the Council shall be fixed by themselves. Said Mayor and Council shall cause to be taken in the month of December in each year, an enumeration of the population in said city. Salary of Mayor. Compensation of Council. SEC. XXXVII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AMENDING CHARTER OF JESUP. No. 103. An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Jesup, and to confer certain powers on the Commissioners thereof, and for other purposes therein named, approved October 24, 1870, so as to increase the number of Aldermen of said town to six; to enlarge, prescribe and define the term of office of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and prescribe the salary of the Mayor thereof; create the office of Clerk, Treasurer, Marshal, Assistant Marshal, Policemen and Town Attorney and Town Physician, and Assessors of said town, and authorize the Mayor and Aldermen thereof, to define their duties and powers, term of office, oath, bond, costs and salary; to fix a time for elections of all officers of said town; to designate the corporate name of said town; to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of said town to own and hold property for said town, both real and personal, as well beyond, as in its corporate limits; to authorize the collection of ad valorem taxes, and all property in said town, not exceeding one and one half per cent. of its value; to authorize the collection of licenses or business taxes on all businesses carried on in said town; to prescribe for the working of the streets by certain inhabitants of said town, and authorize the discharge of that service by the payment of money; to authorize the issuing of executions for unpaid taxes against person and property; to prescribe the time for the sale of property under tax executions; to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of said town to buy in property at tax sales; to provide for the registration of voters and the payment of registration fee; to create a Board of Health; to prescribe qualifications of voters in said town; to more clearly define the limits of said town; to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of said town to pass ordinances regulating and preventing the running at large of certain animals in the streets of said town; to prohibit and regulate the walking on the streets of said town of disreputable characters after nine o'clock at night; to prevent and punish for the use of vulgar and obscene language; to define, prohibit and punish lewd and disorderly conduct; to establish and regulate markets; to license and control all places of public amusement; and to license performances, circuses and shows; to prescribe fire limits; to prohibit the discharge of fire arms and to pass all ordinances for the welfare of said town; to abate nuisances, define fire proof buildings and regulate and control the erection of such within said town; to borrow money and contract loans for the public good of said town; to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of said town to lay out streets,

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alleys and public squares in said town; to widen or alter or close up any street, alley or public square of the same; to provide for the taking and payment for property for that purpose, and prescribe the manner of doing the same; to give the Mayor and Aldermen of said town complete jurisdiction over the streets, sidewalks, drains and public squares; and to regulate license and control the sale of liquor in said town and to prescribe the amount of license therefor; and to confer upon the Mayor and Aldermen of said town other and further powers and privileges and for other purposes as in this Act hereinafter specified. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the above recited Act be, and the same is hereby, altered, changed and amended as hereinafter and to say. Heading. Former charter amended. SEC. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Saturday in January, 1889, an election by ballot shall be held in the council room in said town for a Mayor and six Aldermen, and that all male persons who are legal voters in the county of Wayne and residents of the town of Jesup for a space of thirty days next immediately preceding that time shall be entitled to vote at said election which shall be held by any three freeholders of said town who are not candidates and who shall be appointed by the Mayor in office at that time, and if he fails to appoint may act on request of any citizen; and the person receiving the highest number of votes at said election for Mayor shall serve as such until the first Saturday in January, 1890 and the three persons receiving the highest number of votes for Aldermen at said election, shall serve as such until the first Saturday in January 1891, and the three persons receiving the next highest number of votes at said election shall serve as Alderman of said town until the first Saturday in January, 1890; and that an election in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be held on the first Saturday in January of each and every year for a Mayor and three Aldermen to fill the seats of those whose terms shall expire that year, and that the Mayor so elected shall hold his office for the space of one year; and the Aldermen so elected, for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Election for Mayor and Aldermen. Qualifications of electors. Managers. Respective terms. Annual election. SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor of said town, who has not attained the age of thirty years, and no person shall be elected Alderman who has not attained the age of twenty-five years, and who is not a legal voter of said town and a resident thereof for at least one year previous to his election. ligibility. SEC. IV. And be it further enacted, That should the Mayor's office or that of Aldermen be made vacant by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise, the Mayor and Board, or Board of

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Aldermen, by resolution, shall order an election to fill such vacancy, which shall take place after ten days' notice has been given by publication in the paper where the legal advertisement of the said town of Jesup is done. Election to fill vacancy. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town in addition to the oath required of all civil officers of this State, shall take and subscribe the following oath of office: I do solemnly swear, that I will truly and faithfully discharge all of the duties required of me asof the town of Jesup, and will not vote for or encourage any measure or ordinance which is not, in my judgment, for the best welfare of the inhabitants of said town, and that when sitting as a Judge of the police court of said town, or trying cases on appeal therefrom, I will do equal justice between the rich and the poor, the high and the low, and the judgments render according to the opinion I entertain of the evidence and the law, as I understand it, so help me God. Official oath. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That neither of the Aldermen of said town shall receive any salary or compensation for his services; and all meetings of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall be in public, except when engaged in executive business, and the Mayor and three Aldermen shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. No salaries. Quorum. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted, That all elections for Mayor and Aldermen of said town, after the election herein provided to take place on the first Saturday in January, 1889, shall be held by the Clerk of the town of Jesup and a member of the Board of Aldermen and one freeholder, or by three freeholders, residents of said town, and shall be held at the place where the meetings of the Mayor and Aldermen are held. And the polls at such elections shall be opened at seven o'clock in the morning and closed at six o'clock in the evening; and that no person shall be entitled to vote at such elections who is not a qualified voter of the county of Wayne, a resident of the town of Jesup for six months next before the day of such election, who has not paid all taxes due to said town, county and this State, and who shall not have been registered as hereinafter provided. Management of elections. SEC VIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the town of Jesup to open books for the registration of voters, on the first Saturday in September before each annual election, (after the first election herein provided for to be held on the first Saturday in January, 1889), at ten o'clock A. M., and keep the same open from day to day, from ten A. M. to six P. M. until the first Saturday in October, when the same shall at six P. M. finally close; in which shall be inscribed the name of the person entitled to vote in said town and his place of residence and occupation; and the said Clerk must not permit any one to register

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who is not entitled to do so, and if he does so knowingly, he shall be discharged from office. Each person registered shall pay to the clerk of said town a registration fee of fifty cents, which shall be used as the Mayor and Aldermen of said town may prescribe. And no person who is not registered shall be allowed to vote at any election in said town for officers thereof, or for any measure or matter affecting the same. Registration. Fee. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the superintendents of all elections for Mayor and Aldermen held by authority of this Act, shall have the same conducted according to parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 11 of section 1288 of the Code of 1882 of this State, and said parts of said section are hereby made applicable to such elections, and which are hereby adopted as a part of this amended charter, and the superintendents of such elections shall make return thereof to the Mayor and Aldermen of said town. Conduct of elections. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That any person who shall hereafter vote more than once at any election held in said town, and under authority of this Act, or who shall vote at any such election, when he has not resided in this State one year, in the county of Wayne and said town six months, next preceding the election at which he so voted; or who shall vote at such election, who has not paid all taxes, which, since the adoption of the present Constitution of the State, have been required of him previous to the year in which said election occurs, and which he has had an opportunity of paying agreeable to law; or who has not registered as provided by this Act; or who has been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State, of embezzlement of public funds, malpractice, bribery or larceny, or any crime involving moral turpitude and punishable by the laws of this State with imprisonment in the Penitentiary, unless such person shall have been pardoned; or any person who shall buy or sell at any such election, or offer to buy or sell, a vote or votes, shall be indicted for a misdemeanor, and on conviction in any court in said county having jurisdiction, shall be punished as prescribed by section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Illegal voting. Indictment for, and punishment. SEC. XI. And be it further enacted, That any voter at such elections, may challenge any person who offers to vote, and any person so challenged shall take the following oath, to-wit: (and it he refuses to do so, his vote shall be rejected). I swear that I am 21 years old; am a citizen of the United States; have resided the last twelve months in this State; six months in this county and town; have paid all taxes which have been required of me to pay, and which I have had an opportunity of paying agreeable to law, and have never been convicted of any offense against the laws of this State or the United States, which debars me from voting, so help me God. Challenges. Oath of person challenged.

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SEC. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall, at the first regular meeting in each year after their organization, elect a Clerk, a Treasurer, Marshal, assistant Marshal, such policemen as they see proper, three Assessors and a Town Attorney and a Town Physician of said town; and the said Mayor and Aldermen are hereby authorized and empowered to define and prescribe the powers and duties, the term of office, oath and bond of such officers when the same is not done herein, but they may, in their discretion, elect an assistant Marshal and policemen, Town Attorney and Physician only, when in their discretion it may be proper to do so, and fix at pleasure the number of policemen, and may remove any of such officers, at their discretion, for breach of duty, and establish their fees and salaries; and any such salary, fees and compensation can, at any time, be reduced, increased or abolished at any regular meeting of the Mayor and Aldermen. Town officers. Powers of Mayor and Aldermen as to. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor and Aldermen shall be known as the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Jesup, and shall, by such, their corporate name, plead and be impleaded, sue and be sued, and do all other acts relative to their corporate capacity; shall have and use a corporate seal; shall be capable in law to purchase, hold, receive and possess and retain for the use and benefit of the town of Jesup, forever or for any number of years, any estate, real or personal, either within or without the limits of said town, and whether the same be necessary for the administration of the government of said town or not. Corporate name and powers of Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. XIV. And be it further enacted, That said Assessors to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, shall, at the first appointment of Assessors be appointed, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and ever thereafterwards one Assessor shall be elected and qualified annually, and shall hold his office for the term of three years and until his successor is elected and qualified, except when an appointment is made to fill a vacancy, and shall take the following oath: Ido solemnly swear that I will faithfully perform the duties of Assessor for the town of Jesup, and will make a true and just valuation of all property assessed; and it shall be the duty of the Assessors to assess and value annually, all real estate in said town liable for taxation, at a true and just valuation, and to enter their assessment of the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, and return the same to the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and file it with the Clerk of Council of said town on or before the 1st day of March of each and every year; in which return they shall describe the property assessed, by number, metes and bounds or other sufficient description, so as to give a sufficient identification thereof; and after said return is made and filed, and on or before

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the 1st day of May in each and every year, every person, or agent of every person claiming said assessed real estate or any part of the same, shall return his name, or the name of his principal when the return is made by an agent, to the Clerk of Council of the town of Jesup, and write the same opposite the property claimed or owned by him, or the name of the person for whom he is agent, and as such agent make such return; and where the person or agent claims a portion only of any particular piece of property assessed, he shall specify in writing, and clearly describe the portion he claims and the interest of the claimant therein; and if the person making such return, makes the same as trustee, he shall specify in the return for whom he is trustee, giving the names of the ecstui que trusts. Assessors. Terms. Oath. Their duties. Property digest. Returns. How regulated. SEC. XV. And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That if, on the first day of May of any year there is any such real estate assessed in said town which has not been so returned by the owner or claimant thereof, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Council of said town to issue an execution against said real estate which has not been so returned by the owner or owners thereof, as non-returned property, which execution shall plainly describe the property against which it is issued so as to sufficiently, and with reasonable certainty identify the same, and shall be directed to the Marshal of the town of Jesup, requiring him to levy upon that particular property, and out of the same to make, by levy and sale, the amount of the taxes due on said property for that year, and that the sale of non returned property shall be advertised once a week for twelve weeks before the day of sale, and that when any property is sold as non-returned property as aforesaid, when the same was not returned and the terms of this Act authorizing such sale shall have been fully complied with, and the same is not redeemed within the time hereinafter mentioned, that then and in that case the sale of the same shall absolutely and entirely divest the claim and title to the same from all persons before and at the time of such sale, claiming or owning the same or any interest therein, and shall vest the title thereto absolutely and unconditionally in the purchaser at such sale, and his heirs and assigns; and that any person who will make oath before any officer authorized by the laws of this State to accept an affidavit, that he is the owner, or agent of the owner, stating the name of the real owner, (and if such affidavit is made by a trustee, he shall state who are the cestui que trusts for whom he claims) of such property and that he desires to get a re-conveyance of the same, he may do so on paying the amount of the purchase money at such sale and all costs and charges and ten per cent. on all the same at any time within twelve months from the day of the sale; and that whenever property is sold as non-returned property, as aforesaid, and brings more than the amount of the taxes and costs attending such sale, the

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Marshal shall pay the excess to the Treasurer of said town and take his receipt for the same, which balance shall be held by said Treasurer for the space of two years, from the date of the sale, when, if no person has made claim to the same as hereinafter provided, the same shall become the property of the said Mayor and Aldermen, and be by them used for the best wel are of said town, and no suit at law or in equity shall be brought to recover such excess, after said period of two years, and when any person within said period of twelve months shall redeem such non-returned property as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to pay any such excess as aforesaid over to the person redeeming the same, and his receipt on the back of such affidavit, and if such excess is claimed after a period of one year and within said period of two years by any owner or claimant, then it shall only be necessary for such owner or claimant or agent of such, to make an affidavit that he was the owner of such non-returned property, or the agent of the owner, and name in his affidavit the owner, and stating that the time in which to redeem the same having elapsed, he desires to have paid to him such excess, and on his receipt on the back of such affidavit, the Treasurer shall pay him the same. Failure to return. Execution for. Levy. Advertisement and sale. If not redeemed, absolute title to vest in purchaser. Re-conveyance. Limit to. Surplus to be held two years. Covered into town treasury. Regulation as to refunding. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That when any property, real or personal, has been returned, as in this Act required, and the person returning the same shall make default in the payment of any prescribed taxes for that year, then it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to issue his tax executions against such person, which shall be directed to the Marshal, requiring him to make the amount of such taxes out of the person making such return by seizure of the property of such person. And it shall be the duty of the Marshal to levy such execution first upon the personal property of said defaulter, if any is to be found, and if not, to make return of that fact and then levy on the real estate of such person; and the sale of such property shall be advertised once a week for four weeks preceding the day of sale of such property; and such sale shall pass the title to the same as effectually and as absolutely as would the deed of the person or persons against whom such execution was issued. Whenever property has been sold as aforesaid for non-payment of taxes, and when return has been made, the person against whom the execution is issued may redeem the same at any time within twelve months from the day of the sale, on paying the amount for which it is sold and the costs and charges aforesaid, and ten per cent. on all the same. Default of taxes. Execution to issue. Levy. Advertisement and sale. Redemption. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all sales herein provided for in this Act shall take place on a regular Sheriff's sale day, between the regular hours of Sheriffs' sales provided for in this State. And on the day of sales herein provided for it shall be the duty of the Marshal to offer the property

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levied, the same being realty, first for rent for one year, and if an amount is not offered sufficient to pay the taxes and costs, then for rent for five years, then for rent for ten years, then for twenty years; and if he receives no such sufficient bid, then to offer for sale one-fourth undivided interest, and if he then receives no bid sufficient as aforesaid, he shall then offer the whole for sale and shall knock it off to the highest bidder, after crying the same according to the laws of the land; and that the amount to be charged for advertising the sale of such property shall be the same as now prescribed by the general laws of this State, and a fee of one dollar for levy, one dollar for selling and five per cent. commission on the amount realized at the same and one dollar for signing the deed, shall be paid the Marshal for his costs in that behalf; and the Clerk shall receive fifty cents for each execution issued. Time of sales. Conduct of. Fees for. SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person not a party to any such execution claiming property levied on may file his claim to the same, as claims are now field to property levied on under mean or ordinary process in the State, and as by the practice now obtaining generally in the courts of this State; and when property so levied on is so claimed, it shall be the duty of the Marshal to return the execution and claim to the Superior Court of said county, where it shall be tried and disposed of as other claim cases. Claimshow filed and returned. SEC. XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall be defined and are hereby prescribed to be all the area lying within the measurements and limits to say: Within the square described within a line drawn parallel with and one mile southward of a line drawn through the center of Cherry street in said town, and parallel with the same and at right angles with Broad street, and a line running parallel with and one mile northward of the said center line of said Cherry street, and parallel with said first described line; and a line drawn parallel with and one mile eastward of the center line of Broad street, and at right angles with said Cherry street, and said first two described lines; and a line drawn parallel with and one mile westward of the center line of Broad street, and the line last above described, which is hereby declared to be what is meant in the above recited Act, by the term one mile in all directions from the depot in said town. The area of said town forming a square with sides two miles long and embracing four square miles within its corporate limits. Corporate limits. Area. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have power and authority from time to time to make, ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances, rules and regulations as shall to them appear necessary for the security, welfare, convenience and interest of said town and the inhabitants thereof, and for preserving the health, morals, peace, order and good government of the same. By-laws.

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SEC. XXI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town may, by ordinance, prohibit all intoxicated persons, tramps and lewd women from walking or idling in the streets, squares and alleys of said town, after the hour of 9 o'clock at night, and to provide a penalty by ordinance for the use of vulgar and obscene language, and to punish lewd and disorderly conduct within the limits of said town, and to pass ordinances establishing and regulating markets, and licensing and controlling all places of public amusement, and all performances, circuses and shows of every nature, and defining the meaning of the words intoxicated persons, tramps, and lewd women, as used in this section of this Act. Vicious characters. Obscently and lewdness. Public places. SEC. XXII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever they see fit to do so, to create a Board of Health for said town, to consist of any number not over ten male persons, twenty-one years of age, and shall have and are hereby given power to define their term of office, which shall not be over five years; their oath, duties, qualifications and bond, if any, and prescribe their fees, if any, and confer on them, by ordinances, such powers as are usually and generally conferred upon such bodies. Board of Health. SEC. XXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no ordinance, by-law or resolution of said Mayor and Aldermen of a public character shall be binding within the limits of said town or person within the same, natural or artificial, until the same shall have been published for the space of once a week for four weeks in the newspaper in which the proceedings of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town and the legal advertising of said town is done. And it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town to select as the official organ of said town any paper which has a general circulation in the county of Wayne and said town. And the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall cause the proceedings of each meeting of Council to be published in such paper, and no ordinance or by-law shall pass the Board of Aldermen of said town and become a by-law or ordinance thereof until the same shall have been introduced and read once at the regular meeting of said Mayor and Aldermen when the same is introduced, and twice at the next regular meeting of said Mayor and Aldermen, before the same passes and becomes a law; and the regular meetings of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall be on the first and third Mondays in each and every month. Publication of ordinances, etc. Official organ. Passage of ordinances, etc. SEC. XXIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances, by-laws and resolutions shall be spread at length upon the minutes of the Council at the meeting when the same are adopted, and before the next regular meeting, by the Clerk of Council; and he shall also keep a full and explicit minute

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book of all regular, special or call meetings of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, in which he shall give a detail minute of all their actings and doings, and shall specify the Mayor and Aldermen who are present, giving their names, and those who are absent, giving their names. Minutes of proceedings. SEC. XXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all executions for taxes shall be signed by the Clerk of Council of said town, which shall be directed to the Marshal of said town, and shall be returnable before the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and the proceeds of all such shall be paid to the Treasurer of said town, and that at all tax sales under executions for taxes due said Mayor and Aldermen, the Mayor and Aldermen of said town may bid in the property so offered for sale in the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and have a deed of realty or a bill of sale of personalty of the same made by the Marshal of said town to them, and shall hold the same for the use of said town, provided the same does not bring more at such sale than the amount of the taxes and cost due on said execution. Executions and sales for taxes. How regulated. SEC. XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the authority and power to levy and collect a tax upon all taxable property within the limits of said town, upon real and personal property, money, stock in corporations, choses in action, incomes and commissions derived from the pursuit of any profession, faculty, trade or calling, upon dividends, banks, insurance, and other like companies or their agencies; and upon all other sources of profit, not expressly prohibited or exempt by the laws of this State; thus to raise such sum of money as may be necessary for the safety, convenience, benefit and interest of said town, the maintaining the municipal government and the payment of the debts thereof: Provided, the rate of taxation shall not exceed one and one half per centum upon a fair valuation of the property taxed: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the said town, nor the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, to levy or collect any tax of any kind upon the property of any railroad or express company not subject to taxation for county purposes under the laws of this State as they existed on the 4th day of December, 1888, nor shall they levy any tax whatever upon the business, income, or agencies of either class of said corporations. General tax. Limit to rate. Exemptions. SEC. XXVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the sole and exclusive right to grant licenses to sell or retail liquors within the limits of said town, and of fixing the rates and amounts of such licenses, and the terms and conditions upon which they shall issue, and to declare such licenses void when said terms and conditions are not complied with. Liquor licenses.

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SEC. XXVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any assessment of any estate authorized by this Act shall be deemed erroneous, the owner or agent of any such real estate who may be dissatisfied with such assessment shall have the privilege of making complaint to the said Mayor and Aldermen of said town within twenty days after the date of the report of the Assessors, which complaint must be made in writing; and upon such complaint being made, the assessment complained of shall be immediately referred to three arbiters, one chosen by the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, one by the party complaining and the third by the two so chosen, whose award in the matter shall be made within ten days, and shall be conclusive and final. Complaint from assessment. How referred. SEC. XXIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all taxes and assessments due the said town of Jesup shall rank as debts due the public, whether in the administration of the assets of the decedent or otherwise, and tax executions in favor of said town of Jesup shall have the same lien on property as judgments have by law. Taxes and assessments to rank as primary liens. SEC. XXX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall be vested with authority and power of a Justice of the Peace, so as to suppress all riots, breaches of the peace, and commit for violations of the criminal laws of Georgia within the limits of said town, and to arrest, confine or bind over all offenders against the laws of this State to answer for such offenses before the proper tribunal, and may issue warrants on affidavits made before them, and may hold courts of inquiry as other Justices of this State, when the offense was committed in said town. Judicial functions of Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. XXXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid; That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have power to compel all male persons within the corporate limits of said town, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, except those hereinafter exempted, to work on the public streets of said town not more than ten days during each year: Provided, that any person subject to work on said streets may commute the services so required by the payment, to the officer of said town authorized to receive and receipt for the same, the sum of fifty cents for each day he is required to work. Street work. Commutation tax. SEC. XXXII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the authority and power to widen, straighten or alter any street, alley, lane, way or square in said town, and to open, lay out and establish any new street, alley, lane, way or square of whatever nature; but whenever said Mayor and Aldermen shall exercise the power to widen, extend or straighten a street, alley, lane, way or square, or to open, lay out and establish any new street, alley, lane, way or square to the injury of private rights, there shall be appointed

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five freeholders, two by the Mayor and Aldermen, two by the owner of said land, and the other by the arbitrators so chosen, of character and responsibility, who shall assess the damages sustained by the owner or owners of the lot or lots, over and through which pass the said streets, lanes, alleys, ways or squares so widened, extended, straightened, opened, laid out or established, and from which award an appeal can be had to the Superior Court of said county of Wayne by either party: Provided, private property shall not be so taken for such public purposes, until the damages so assessed shall be first paid by the authorities of said town. Improvement of streets, etc. Damageshow assessed. Appeal from award. Proviso. SEC XXXIII And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the power and authority to establish work-houses and to cause labor and confinement therein, and also on the streets, drains, squares and commons in said twon, by all persons who shall have been convicted of any offense against the ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations of said town, and so sentenced by the proper tribunal. Work-housess etc. SEC XXXIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the authority and power by ordinances or resolutions or either, to order the occupant of any lot to make such pavements or sidewalks, and repairs of the same, as they may deem necessary, and upon the failure of any person to comply with such order within the time prescribed, the said Mayor and Aldermen may cause the same to be done, and shall levy and collect the expenses thereof, by execution issued, directed and returned as tax executions against the lands, goods and chattels of the owner or owners of such. Paving. SEC. XXXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the authority to regulate and control, or prohibit the running at large of any dogs, horses, mules, cattle, hogs or other stock within the limits of said town. Stock law. SEC. XXXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the authority and power, by ordinances, resolutions or order, to cause to be abated, within the limits of said town, any nuisance which may tend to the immediate annoyance of the citizens generally, and which may be manifestly injurious to the public health and safety, which may tend greatly to corrupt the manners and morals of the people of said town, or any considerable portion thereof, whether the same be a nuisance at common law, or by statute of this State, or by ordinances of said town passed in conformity with law, and to enforce the order of the abatement and the removal of such nuisances by the Marshal, or other civil force of said town. Abatement of nuisances.

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SEC. XXXVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall secure a just and proper accountability, by requiring bonds, with sufficient penalties and securities, from all persons entrusted with the receipt, custody or disbursement of money, and shall, as often as once a year, cause to be published for the use of the inhabitants, a particular account of the receipts and expenditures, and a schedule of town property and of the town debts. Indemnity bonds. SEC. XXXVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, to furnish the superintendents presiding at all elections for Mayor and Aldermen of said town, at the time of opening the polls on the day of said elections, a complete list of the names, arranged in alphabetical order, which shall have been registered according to the provisions heretofore set forth, together with the occupation or business, and place of residence in said town, certified under the hand of said Clerk or other officer, and the seal of said town, which list shall be kept before the said Superintendents during such elections, and afterward deposited by them in the office of said Clerk, to be safely kept by him. Registration lists. SEC. XXXIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said Superintendents to allow no one to vote at said elections unless he be qualified to do so under the provisions of this Act; and to that end they shall be authorized to administer the oath prescribed in section II of this Act. Duty of election Superintendents. SEC. XL. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have power to borrow money and contract loans for the public good when, in their judgment, it shall be for the interest of said town to do so, and to issue bonds and pledge the property, faith and credit of said town for the payment of debts so incurred, where now allowed by law. Authorities may borrow money and issue bonds. SEC. XLI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor's Court of said town in hereby established and declared to be a court of record, and shall be presided over, and its sessions shall be held by the Mayor or the Mayor pro tempore of said town, and shall be held as often as the presiding officer of said court may determine; and the Clerk of Council of said town is hereby declared to be Clerk of the Mayor's Court; said court shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of and over all offences against any violations of the ordinances and by laws and rules and regulations of said town committed within its limits, and shall have power to impose on each person convicted thereof, such punishment as may be prescribed in the [Illegible Text] rules and regulations of said town, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, for violations of the same, and shall have the power to fine or imprison or fine and imprison for contempt, and may enforce the collection

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of fines by execution issued, directed and returned as tax executions are provided to issue in this Act, and shall enforce all such imprisonments by [Illegible Text] directed to the Marshal or Assistant Marshal of said town, and in all prosecutions in said town, and the same shall be commenced by affidavits as prescribed in section 4715 of the Code of Georgia, upon which a warrant shall issue and be signed by the presiding officer of said Mayor's Court which shall be in form of warrant described in section 4716 of the Code of Georgia, except that it shall be directed only to the Marshal or Assistant Marshal or Policeman of said town, and shall require the person therein named to be taken before the said Mayor's Court of the town of Jesup for trial, and on this warrant an affidavit, the issue of guilty or not guilty shall be formed and the trial proceed whenever the case is sounded in open court, unless continued under the rules of law as far as they can be applied to said court, and it shall only be necessary in such affidavit to describe the offence alleged with sufficient particularity as that the Judge of said court may readily understand the nature of the charge and no more; and if such affidavit and warrant should be dismissed for want of informality, either on demurrer before trial, or be detected afterwards and at any time before judgment, and whether the case is pending before the Mayor's Court on appeal before the Mayor and Aldermen, the same be nolle prosequied, and another and another, and another sued out, and so on, from each dismissal until one should be drafted sufficient for the purpose, and from the judgment of said Mayor's Court there shall be an appeal within ten days, to the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, in council assembled, which shall be tried at the next regular meeting of said Mayor and Aldermen of said town after it is entered unless continued under the rules of law granting continuance in this State, as far as the same can be applicable, and before such appeal is received the defendant shall pay all costs and give bond for his personal appearance to abide the final judgment in said case, and whenever a person is arrested by authority of this Act, it shall be lawful for him to enter into a bond to be approved by the Marshal of said town, conditioned for the faithful appearance of such person to answer such charge, when the same shall be heard, and shall be payable to the Mayor and Aldermen of said town of Jesup, which bond shall be forfeited on the non-appearance of the defendant in the same manner in said court as penal bonds are forfeited in Superior Courts of this State. And no certiorari shall be allowed or granted to the decision of said Mayor's Court, until the same has been appealed before the Mayor and Aldermen and the decision there confirmed or sustained in whole or in part, and until all costs have been paid to the Clerk of Council of said town, and bond given for the appearance of the petitioner in certiorari to

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answer the final judgment of the court in that matter, but there shall be no appeal or certiorari from a fine or commitment for contempt, but such fine for contempt shall not exceed five dollars or imprisonment for contempt, not exceeding five days, and the presiding officer of said Mayor's Court, or the presiding officer over the Council, when sitting on appeal cases shall have the power to summon any witness residing in the county of Wayne or in said town, to appear and testify for either prosecution or defense. But the Mayor, or Mayor pro tempore, who heard the case in the Police Court, shall not be allowed to sit in the trial of the said case in appeal before the Mayor and Aldermen of said town. Mayor's Court a court of record. Its jurisdiction and powers. Proceedings before Mayor's Court. Absolute formality unnecessary. Trial. Continuance. Appeal. Appearance bond. Certiorari. Not to issuewhen. SEC. XLII. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have the power and authority to impose and inflict such fines, penalties and forfeitures for the violation of any ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation of said town as shall, in their judgment, be conducive to the interest, welfare, good order of and proper government of said town, and may for such violations of such ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations, punish by a fine, not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the guard house of said town not to exceed thirty days, or work on the chain gang on the public works, streets, alleys, and so forth, of said town of Jesup, not to exceed sixty days; or if said town of Jesup has no chain gang, to work for the space of sixty days on any chain gang under control of the authorities of Wayne county; and if said town has no established guard-house, to be confined in the jail of Wayne county for thirty days; and any one or more of these penalties may be ordered, in the discretion of the presiding officer of said Mayor's Court, or the Mayor and Aldermen when sitting to try appeals; that is to say, they may fine one hundred dollars and sentence to labor for sixty days on any such public works, and sentence to imprisonment for thirty days in any such prison, or may fine a less sum than one hundred dollars, and imprisonment in such prison for a term less than thirty days, and sentence to labor for a term less than sixty days, or may impose any one of said penalties or put the sentence in the alternativethat is, sentence to labor or confinement, to be discharged on payment of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and costs; and it shall be sufficient description of the punishment to be inflicted for the violation of any ordinance of said town for the Mayor and Aldermen thereof to say in such ordinance that the violation of such ordinance shall be punished as prescribed in this section of this charter, referring to it by number, without setting it out in full in the ordinance, if they so choose. Fines, penalties and forfeitures. Maximum of fines. Imprisonment and chain-gangmaximum sentence. Both penalties permissible. Sentence may be alternative. SEC. XLIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town are authorized, and it is their duty and power to prescribe by ordinance annually, and within thirty days after the assessment of said Assessors' is field,

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as in this Act provided, the amount of taxes for that year; and they may, in their judgment, collect said taxes in semi-annual payments, or they may collect the whole in one yearly payment, and they shall prescribe in said ordinance fixing the taxes yearly, when and how it shall be paid. If collected in semi-annual payments, the first payment shall be collectible on the first of June and the second payment on the first of December. If collected in annual payments it shall be due and collectable on the first of September, and execution may issue for such taxes thirty days after they are due and payable. Taxes. Payments of. Time of collection. SEC. XLIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town shall have power, and it is their duty annually to prescribe the annual license for each and every year and what, as provided in this amended charter, shall be licensed, and to pass ordinances punishing all persons who carry on any of said businesses without first taking out such licenses. Licenses. SEC. XLV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town may, at any time, elect annually a Town Attorney, and define his duties and prescribe his salary by proper ordinances or resolutions, and his oath of office; but they may, if they see fit to do so, not regularly employ an attorney by the year, but may in their discretion employ the services of an attorney at law only when in their judgment it is necessary to do so. Town Attorney. SEC. XLVI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons claiming or owning personal property of every or any nature and sort in the limits of said town, or who is engaged in any sort of business shall, on or before the first day of May of each and every year, make a return of the same to the Clerk of said Council, together with the value of the same, under oath, in which return the following facts shall be set forth: Returns Under oath. 1st. What and how many businesses are you engaged in, either individually or as a partner, or otherwise, in said town? Specifications: 2nd. How much capital have you in any bank or banking-house doing business in said town? 3rd. How much capital has any bank or banking-house in said town of which you are president? 4th. How much capital or stock have you in any business or loan association in said town? 5th. How much capital have you in stocks and bonds of any association in said town? 6th. How much money have you on hand? 7th. What is the gross value of your notes, accounts or other obligations for money, and the market value thereofwhether the same are against persons or debtors within or without the State?

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8th. What is the value of your merchandise of all kinds on hand? 9th. How much capital have you invested in bonds, except bonds of the United States as are by law exempt from taxation? Specifications: 10th. What is the value of your household furniture, including your table ware? 11th. What is the value of your kitchen furniture? 12th. What is the value of your office furniture? 13th. What is the value of your pianos, organs, or other musical instruments? 14th. What is the value of your sewing machines? 15th. What is the value of your gold watches? 16th. What is the value of your silver watches? 17th. What is the value of your watches made from material other than gold or silver? 18th. What is the value of your gold and silverware? 19th. What is the value of your diamonds and jewelry worn by owner or not? 20th. What is the value of your horses? 21st. What is the value of your mules and asses? 22nd. What is the value of your cattle? 23rd. What is the value of your sheep? 24th. What is the value of your goats? 25th. What is the value of your hogs? 26th. What is the value of your carriages, wagons and buggies? 27th. What is the value of your agricultural tools, implements and machinery? 28th. What is the value of your library, pictures, paintings and statuary? 29th. What is the value of your cotton, corn and other farm products on hand or for sale? 30th. What is the value of your guns, pistols, bowie knives and such articles? 31st. What is the value of your portable saw-mills, saw-mills, gins, engines and other machinery, or of such other machinery, stationary, and otherwise, and not returned as part of the realty? 32nd. What is the value of your property not herein mentioned? SEC. XLVII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Council to issue an execution against any and all personal property of every kind, describing it sufficiently, so that it may readily be identified from such description, which is not returned for taxation as provided in this Act. Which execution shall be issued, returned and directed as provided for executions against non-returned property, and that all provisions of this Act applying to the sale of property under tax executions for returned or unreturned real property respectively

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shall apply to the sale of returned or unreturned personal property and that moneys realized from such sales of returned or unreturned property shall be held, disbursed and disposed of and accounted for in the same manner respectively as is provided elsewhere in this Act, for the disbursement, disposition and accounting of moneys received from the sale of returned or unreturned real property respectively, as the case may be, and that the same statute of limitations prescribed in those cases respectively be, and the same hereby, is made to apply respectively in cases of returned or unreturned personal property. Where no return made, Execution to issue. Proceeds of salehow held and disbursed. SEC. XLVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and any persons who have lost one arm, or one leg, or a leg and arm, or both legs and both arms, or a foot or a hand, or an eye, or a foot and hand, or both hands and both feet, and all persons who are physically, from deformity, injury or accident, or disease, unable to perform manual labor, shall be exempt from the performance of street duty as provided in this Act. Exemption from street duty. SEC. XLIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor of said town shall receive a salary not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and that the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, in Council assembled at their first meeting in each and every year, shall by resolution prescribe the amount of such salary, and they may order payment of the same monthly, quarterly, semi annually or annually, as to them may seem best, and the resolution fixing the salary shall fix the time of payment. Salary of Mayor. SEC. L. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said town may, at any time, elect annually a City Physician and define his duties and powers by proper ordinances and fix his salary, or, in their discretion, they may only employ the services of one when in their judgment it is necessary, without regularly electing one. City Physician. SEC. LI. 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 December 26, 1888.

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AMENDING CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NORWOOD. No. 105. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Norwood on the Georgia Railroad, in Warren county, and provide for the election of Mayor and Councilmen of said town, and for other purposes herein contained, approved Oct. 7th 1885. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited Act be amended by striking out the word three in the third line, in third section of said Act, and substituting the word five so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: That an election shall be held in said town on the first Monday in November next for a Mayor and five Councilmen who shall serve for fourteen months, or until their successors are elected and qualified; said election to be held on the first Monday in January statedly after the first. Third section of old charter altered. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the figures 779 in the second line of the sixth section of said Act be stricken out and 797 (c) be substituted therefor, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: That the provisions of the new Code of Georgia from section 774 to 797 (c) inclusive, and not in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby made applicable to said corporation and the officers elected as herein provided and their successors in office. Sixth section altered. Section as amended. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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EXTENDING CORPORATE LIMITS OF ROME AND REPEALING CHARTER OF DESOTO. No. 120. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to extend the corporate limits of the city of Rome, Georgia, so as that it may include all the territory now embraced in the chartered limits of the town of DeSoto, and to repeal the charter of the town of DeSoto, approved October 5th, 1885, be amended by adding a new section to said Act, to be known as Section IX, so as to straighten and define more particularly a part of the northwest boundary of the city of Rome. SECTION I. 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 entitled An Act to extend the corporate limits of the city of Rome, Georgia, so as that it may include all the territory now embraced in the chartered limits of the town of DeSoto, and to repeal the charter of the town of DeSoto, approved October 5th, 1885, be amended by adding a new section to said Act, to be known as section IX, and section IX to be hereafter known as section X, and said section IX shall read as follows, to-wit: Chartered limits of DeSoto included in those of Rome. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the street extending from the bridge recently erected by the Rome Land Company to the Alabama road, known as the extension of Second avenue, formerly Howard street, shall be the boundary line of the city of Rome between the two points, and the balance of said northwestern boundary shall remain as heretofore provided by law. New boundary lines. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF CARROLLTON. No. 136. An Act to amend the charter of the town of Carrollton, Georgia, and Acts amendatory thereof, so as to provide for the appointment of three Tax Assessors to assess the value of real property in said town for taxation, and for other purposes. SECTION. I. Be it enacted, That the Mayor and Council at their first meeting after the passage of this Act, and annually thereafter

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at the meeting when the Marshal and Clerk of said town are elected shall elect three Tax Assessors for said town, who shall be freeholders in said town resident therein and twenty-one years of age. They shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified, and the said Mayor and Council shall have authority at any time to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation or otherwise. Tax Assessors. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Tax Assessors at such time as they shall be directed by the Mayor and Council, to inspect and assess a valuation upon all real estate in said town liable to taxation, assessing such property at such value as in their judgment represents its true market value at the time the assessment is made. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties they shall be sworn before the Mayor or some member of the Council, who are hereby authorized to administer such oath, to faithfully and honestly perform and discharge their duties as such assessors. Their duties. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the said Tax Assessors shall, in a book to be provided for that purpose by the Mayor and Council, make out a list of the taxable real property of said town, with their valuation thereon, which they shall return to the Clerk of the Council, who shall assess the tax thereon, as now or may hereafter be provided in the ordinances of said town; Provided, that should any owner of real property in said town be dissatisfied with the valuation put upon his property by the said Tax Assessors, he may complain to the said Clerk, whereupon the question shall be submitted to arbitration, as follows: The property owner shall select one arbitrator, and the Clerk, representing the Mayor and Council, one, and they two a third, all of whom shall be residents of said town and freeholders therein, and they shall proceed to pass upon the question, inspecting the property and hearing such evidence as they may desire, and their judgment assessing the value upon the property in question shall be final. Property digest and returns. Arbitration. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Tax Assessors herein provided for shall be paid out of the town funds for their services such sum as the Mayor and Council shall prescribe, not exceeding five dollars per day each. Compensation of Assessors. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AMENDING CHARTER OF NEWNAN. No. 138. An Act to amend the charter of Newnan so as to provide for condemning and valuing property for altering, widening, straightening, or otherwise changing the streets, alleys and squares in said city of Newnan, and for laying out and opening new streets or alleys, to empower the Mayor and Aldermen to tax and license livery, sale, and feed stables, drays, hacks, and like common carriers, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the city of Newnan, in Coweta county, through its Mayor and Aldermen, shall have full power and authority to condemn property for the purpose of opening and laying out new streets and alleys, and for widening, straightening, or otherwise changing the streets, alleys, and squares of said city of Newnan. May condemn property for improvements. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That whenever the Mayor and Aldermen of said city of Newnan shall desire to exercise the power and authority granted in the preceding section of this Act, it may be done whether the land sought to be condemned is in the hands of an owner or a trustee, executor, administrator or guardian, in the following manner: The Mayor and Aldermen shall appoint two freeholders, and give, or cause to be given to the owner of the land sought to be condemned, or to the trustee, executor, administrator, or guardian, in whose hands the lands may be, not less than five days' notice of the time and place where said freeholders will meet to assess and determine the amount of damages, and said owner, trustee, executor, administrator or guardian, shall appoint two freeholders, and said four freeholders shall select a fifth man, and the five men so selected shall, at the designated time or at such other time as they may desire and appoint, value, assess and determine the damages and make their award accordingly. In case the owner of the land, trustee, executor, administrator or guardian notified fails to appoint, or either of those appointed by either party fails to act, another time not more than ten days distant shall be appointed, and if any of the arbitrators appointed fails to act at such time and no others are appointed to fill their places, those acting shall select other freeholders until the board of five is completed, and these five shall make the finding and award. The finding of the majority of those acting shall be deemed the finding and award of the Assessors just as effectually as though it had been agreed by all. Said Assessors shall make out their finding and award, stating plainly what property is to be taken, and the estimated

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damages due therefor, and file the same with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Coweta county within ten days from the time appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen for the Assessors to meet to pass on the amount of damages. In estimating the amount of damages, the Assessors shall take into account the benefits accruing to the party whose land is being condemned. Provided, that when the benefits accruing are of greater value than the land taken, no amount shall be found in favor of the city against the other party for the excess in value of benefits over value of the land taken. In all cases where the property sought to be condemned belongs to a railroad company, service of notice on them shall be had by serving the nearest agent of the railroad company. When estate property is involved- Procedure by arbitration. Manner of making assessment. Finding and award. Damages and proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That either of the parties may have the right within ten days after the filing of said award, to enter an appeal to the next term of the Superior Court. A ter filing said appeal, which said appeal may be entered with the Clerk of the Superior Court by complying with the law regulating appeals from the Justice to the Superior Court, the city of Newnan shall have the right at any time before entering an appeal, to abandon the proceedings to condemn, on paying the cost of the proceedings up to time of abandoning the proceedings. Appeals. Reserved right to city. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That each of said Assessors shall be paid two dollars per day for each day they are engaged in estimating the damages and making their award, which cost shall be paid by the city of Newnan. Compensation of Assessors. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said city of Newnan shall have power and authority to tax and license livery, sale, and feed stables, drays, hacks, and like common carriers, for which which license the Mayor and Aldermen shall charge a sum to be fixed by them each year, not to exceed fifty dollars per annum for livery, sale, and feed stables, and not to exceed twenty-five dollars per annum for drays, hacks, and like common carriers. Licenses. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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INCORPORATING THE TOWN OF MORELAND. No. 139. An Act to incorporate the town of Moreland, in the county of Coweta, and for other purposes connected therewith. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the town of Moreland, in the county of Coweta, be, and is hereby, incorporated, and that the corporate limits of said town of Moreland shall extend one-quarter of a mile in every direction from the railroad depot in said town. Corporate name and limits. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That on each and every second Monday in January, after the passage of this Act, all the citizens residing in the corporate limits of said town, who shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, shall be entitled to vote for a Mayor and four Aldermen, which election, held annually on said day, shall be held in said town and in the manner and under the same rules and regulations as are elections for members of the General Assembly, so far as they are applicable, the polls to be opened and closed as at precincts. Election for Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the certificate of the managers of the election shall be proof of election, and that before entering upon the duties of their office the Mayor and Aldermen shall each make and subscribe an oath to faithfully discharge his duties as an officer of said town. Certificate and official oath. SEC IV. Be it further enacted, That all contested election cases shall be heard before the managers of the election under such rules as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Aldermen, and all vacancies in the Board of Mayor and Aldermen occurring between elections by the people, shall be filled by the remaining members of the Board. The term of the Mayor and Aldermen, except when elected to fill an unexpired term, shall be for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. Contests. Vacancies. Terms. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Mayor and Aldermen shall have full power and authority to alter the rules and regulations herein prescribed for the management of elections, to pass all ordinances and by-laws for the government of said town not in conflict with the laws of this State or of the United States, and to enforce the same by execution, by fine or imprisonment, and may sentence in the alternative; said Board may provide for trial of cases and offenders before the Mayor, and for an appeal from his decision to the full Board or a majority of them. Powers of Mayor and Aldermen. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Aldermen, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, shall have

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power and authority to appoint all officers they may deem necessary for the good of said town and to carry this Act into effect, to compel all persons in said town liable to road duty to work on the streets or pay a commutation fee in lieu thereof, to open streets where deemed necessary, to levy and collect an ad valorem tax on all the property in said town, and such special taxes upon drays, livery stables, peddlers, billiard tables, sale of spirituous liquors, auctioneers, and all like enterprises, as they may deem best for said town. Quorum. Town officers. Street work. Taxes and licenses. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Mayor and Aldermen by their corporate nameMorelandshall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded with, and have and use all the powers granted by and embraced in Sections 774 to 797, inclusive, of the Code of 1882 of Georgia, which sections, so far as not in conflict with anything herein stated, are embodied in and made a part of this charter. General corporate powers. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 28, 1888. INCORPORATING THE TOWN OF SPARKS. No. 152. An Act to incorporate the town of Sparks in the county of Berrien, and provide a government for the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the town of Sparks, in the county of Berrien be, and the same is hereby incorporated as a town under the name of the town of Sparks. Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one half () mile in every direction from the crossing of Center and Colquitt streets in said town. Corporate limits. SEC III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That J. F. Parrish be, and he is hereby appointed Mayor, and I. A. Williams, W. H. Bryant, N. E. Patterson, E. J. McDermid, James Whitehurst be, and they are appointed Councilman of said town of Sparks, to hold their offices until the first annual election, as hereinafter provided. Mayor and Aldermen appointed. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That on second Tuesday in January, 1890, and annually thereafter, on the same day, an election shall be held in the council chamber in said town for a Mayor and five Councilmen, who shall hold their offices for one

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year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; but none shall vote for or be eligible to the office of Mayor or Councilmen of said town, who does not reside within the corporate limits thereof, and who is not qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, and resided in the incorporate limits 20 days next preceding the election. Said election shall be held and conducted in same manner as elections for county officers in 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. Annual elections. When and how conducted. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That before entering on the discharge of their duties as Mayor and Councilmen 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 the duties devolving on me, as Mayor (or Councilman, as the case may be,) of the town of Sparks, according to the best of my ability and understanding, so help me God Official oath. SEC. VI Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Councilmen shall have power and authority to elect such Marshals, Clerks, and other subordinate officers as they may deem necessary for carrying into effect the powers herein conferred upon them; to prescribe the fees and duties of said subordinate officers, and require such bonds for the faithful performance of their duties as they may deem necessary and proper. Town officers. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor shall be exofficio Justice of the Peace, and shall have full authority to issue warrants for any offence committed within the corporate limits of said town, and shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, to examine them under oath, to admit any offender to bail or commit him to jail for violation of the laws of the State, and to admit to bail, or commit to the guard-house, for violations of the ordinances of said town. Judicial powers of Mayor. SEC VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Councilmen shall have power and authority to pass all laws and ordinances that they may deem necessary for the government of said town, and protection of property from loss or damage by fire therein; Provided, they be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State and of the United States. Fire ordinances. Proviso. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Councilmen shall have power to levy and collect a tax, of not exceeding five-tenths of one per cent. upon all 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 streets of said town, or they may prescribe a commutation tax which may be paid in lieu of work on the streets. General tax. Street work.

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SEC. X. 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 number) shall be the chief executive officer of said town. He shall see that ordinances, by-laws, rules and orders of the Council are faithfully executed. He shall have control of the police of said town, and may appoint special police whenever he may deem it necessary, and it shall be his duty especially to see that the peace and good order of the town are preserved, and that persons and property therein are protected, and to this end he may cause the arrest and detention of all riotous and disorderly persons in said town. 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 he may imprison the offender in the guard house of said town not exceeding thirty days. Mayorhis powers and duties. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That it at any time the office of Mayor or Councilman shall become vacant by death, resignation or otherwise, 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. Vacancies. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. CHANGING NAME OF THE TOWN OF OCEAN CITY TO TYBEE. No. 159. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Ocean City, on Tybee Island, in Chatham county, to grant certain powers and privileges to the same, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 section I of the Act aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words, Ocean City and inserting in lieu thereof the word Tybee, so that the said section, when amended, shall read as follows, to wit: SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all persons, citizens of the State of Georgia, who are property owners on that portion of Tybee Island, hereinafter more particularly mentioned, are hereby declared and created a body politic and corporate, and such incorporation

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shall be known as the town of Tybee; it shall have a common seal, may sue and be sued in any court of law or equity in this State; may purchase, hold, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their successors in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any estate, real, personal or mixed; make by-laws and govern itself by such ordinances, resolutions and by-laws, for municipal purposes, as it may deem proper, not in conflict with its charter, the statute laws of the State of Georgia or of the United States; may acquire, by gift, act, purchase or otherwise, such real and personal property as may be deemed necessary for corporate purposes, and to use, manage, improve, sell, convey, rent or lease any or all of such property in such manner and upon such terms as may be deemed most advisable for the corporate interests. Name changed to Tybee. Section I of former Act As amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the said words Ocean City, wherever they may occur in the said Act, are hereby stricken and the word Tybee is inserted in lieu thereof. Change uniform throughout. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That section 3 of the said Act be, and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the 1888, and inserting in lieu thereof 1890, so that the said section, when amended, will read as follows, to-wit: SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said town shall be governed by a Mayor and six Councilmen, who shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have been property holders in said town for at least sixty days immediately before their election, and who shall be elected by qualified voters of said town on the first Monday in April, 1890, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 4 P. M., and every two years thereafter on the first Monday in April, ten days' public notice thereof being previously given in one or more newspapers published in the city of Savannah; that all male property holders of the age of twenty-one years, who are citizens of this State, and shall have owned any portion of land in said town for sixty days immediately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for said Mayor and Councilmen. The Mayor and Council shall hold their respective offices until their successors are duly elected and qualified. For the purpose of holding the first election under this Act, the Judge of the Superior Court of Chatham county is hereby empowered to, and shall, upon the written request of ten property holders of said town, appoint three property holders of said town to act as Commissioners of election, and that thereafter the Mayor and Councilmen for the time being shall appoint such managers to conduct each ensuing election: Provided, that in the absence of the Judge of the Superior Court, the Judge of the City Court of Savannah, or the Ordinary of Chatham county, in the order named, in the same manner, shall appoint said Commissioners of election. Section III amended. Section III as amended.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the organization of said town government may be deferred until the first Monday in April, 1890. Organization deferred. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. AMENDING CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF SHARON. No. 161. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Sharon, in the county of Taliaferro, to provide for the election of Commissioners of said town, and for other purposes, approved December 24th, 1884, so as to authorize said Commissioners to levy taxes to issue licenses, and fix and collect the price thereof, for retailing spirituous and fermented liquors in said town, to issue and fix price for license for shows and exhibitions of every character and for the business of peddling in said town, for billiard and pool tables and ten-pin alleys, to impose penalties for the violation of their ordinances, to alter and keep in good order and condition the public streets and public buildings of said town, and to confer on said Commissioners other powers, and to define more specifically the duties of the Marshal of said town. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited Act be amended as follows: SECTION I. Be it enacted, That said Commissioners of the town of Sharon, or a majority of them, may impose such taxes upon all the real and personal estate within the incorporate limits of said town, as they shall deem necessary for the suppor of the government of said town, or for other purposes, and they may enforce the collection of the same, and also of all fines that may be imposed by them, in such manner as they by law or ordinance may prescribe; and said Commissioners shall further have power to adopt such plan as they deem proper, for a just and equitable assessment of the value of said property for taxation; shall have power to issue and have enforced executions against all tax defaulters for municipal taxes in said town; which execution shall be a lien superior to all other liens against the defendant in execution and upon the property liable for the tax, except liens for county and State tax. Section I of former charter as amended.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have the sale and exclusive right of granting license to retail, and to sell in any other quantity, spirituous or fermented liquors within the limits of said town; of fixing the rates or prices of such licenses, and the terms upon which they shall issue, and of punishing by fine or imprisonment or work on the streets, all persons who shall retail or sell such liquors within the limits of said town without first obtaining license. Liquor licenses. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have power to issue and fix the prices thereof, licenses for all shows and exhibitions of every character in said town, and also, for the business of peddling in said town, and to prescribe and inflict a penalty on any person or persons engaged in such shows or business, without first obtaining a license. Other licenses. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have power to establish, lay out, and alter the public streets in said town, and to prescribe the manner in which the same and all public buildings in said town shall be kept in good order and repair. They shall have power to remove all nuisances whether in the streets or in the lots of individuals; to remove any obstructions upon the public streets; to license billiard and pool tables or ten pin alleys upon such terms as they think proper; and to fix and collect the price for such licenses. Said Commissioners shall further have power to pass all other laws and ordinances that they may deem necessary for the preservation of the peace, health, prosperity and comfort of the citizens of said town, consistent with the laws and Constitution of this State and the United States. Further powers of Commissioners. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners, or any two of them, may at all times hold a police court for the trial of any offenders against the laws and ordinances of said town, and may punish to any extent, by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, by imprisonment not to exceed sixty days, and by work on the streets not exceeding sixty daysany one or more of these penalties, in the discretion of said Commissioners. Police court. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Marshal of said town to enforce any and all orders, ordinances and laws of said Commissioners or of said town that said Commissioners may require of him; and to this end, whenever he deems it necessary, he may call to his aid any number of citizens to assist him in arrests, quelling disturbances, preserving the peace and enforcing any law or ordinance; and said Commissioners shall have the power of prescribing a penalty against any person refusing to render such assistance. Marshalhis duties.

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SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That if any vacancy shall occur in said body of Commissioners, the same shall be filled by an election made by the remaining members of said body, and the person so elected shall hold his office so long as his predecessor would have held the same. Vacancieshow filled. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners and their successors may elect one of their number President of their body, and as such President may preside over their meetings and call said body together at any time he may deem proper. President of Board. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That all laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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TITLE II. COUNTY OFFICERS. ACTS. Refunding excess of licenses paid Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in Fulton county. Providing for appointment of Commissioners of Chatham county by the Governor on recommendation of Grand Jury. Authorizing Commissioners of Thomas county to build new Jail. Creating Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for Stewart county. Fixing fees of Treasurer of Randolph county. Fixing salary of Clerk of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Fulton county. Creating Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Miller county. Fixing compensation of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for Wayne county. Creating Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Baldwin county. Abolishing Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Johnson county. Fixing salary of County Treasurer of Fulton county. REFUNDING EXCESS OF LICENSES PAID COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUES IN FULTON COUNTY. No. 4. An Act to authorize the refunding of excess of two hundred and fifty dollars paid for licenses to sell spirituous liquors granted by the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in and for the county of Fulton in 1887 and 1888. WHEREAS, upon the defeat of local option in the county of Fulton, in 1887, the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in and for said county fixed the price of license to sell spirituous liquors in said county at sixteen hundred dollars, and such sum for license so to sell was paid by several parties; and WHEREAS, afterwards said Commissioners reduced the price of such license to one thousand dollars, at which reduced price other parties obtained license so to sell; and WHEREAS, said Commissioners afterwards made a still further reduction, fixing the price of such license at two hundred and fifty dollars; and WHEREAS, there is now in the treasury of Fulton county certain [Illegible Text] of money realized from licneses to sell spirituous liquors, for which licenses the grantees thereof paid

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over two hundred and fifty dollars, to-wit: some sixteen hundred dollars and some one thousand dollars, for each license; and WHEREAS, it is but just that no one person should pay more than another for such license, and that all of said money over and above the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for each license should be refunded to the respective parties who paid the same into the treasury as aforesaid; and WHEREAS, said County Commissioners desire so to refund, but there is no law authorizing them so to do. Preamble. SECTION I. Be it, therefore, enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in and for the county of Fulton be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to have refunded the excess of two hundred and fifty dollars to any person who, in 1887 or 1888, paid over two hundred and fifty dollars into the treasury of Fulton county for license from said Board to sell spirituous liquors in said county. Sums in excess of $250 to be refunded. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 3, 1888. PROVIDING FOR APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS OF CHATHAM COUNTY BY THE GOVERNOR ON RECOMMENDATION OF GRAND JURY. No. 5. An Act to amend an Act, approved February 21st 1873, entitled an Act to create and organize Commissioners of Chatham county, who shall be ex officio Judges, to define their jurisdiction and duties, and for other purposes by providing that the appointments by the Governor shall be of citizens recommended by the Grand Juries of the Superior Court of said county; and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 February 21st 1873, entitled an Act to create and organize Commissioners of Chatham county, who shall be ex officio Judges, to define their jurisdiction and duties, and for other purposes, be amended by striking out section II of said Act, and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to be section II of said Act, viz: That said Commissioners and ex officio Judges for the county of Chatham, State of Georgia, shall be appointed and commissioned by the Governor of said State, and shall be citizens who have been

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recommended to him by the Grand Juries of the Superior Court of Chatham county. They shall be appointed for a term of four (4) years, except in cases of vacancies when the appointments shall be for the unexpired period of the term. The Grand Jury of the Superior Court of Chatham County, at its December term 1888, shall select and forward to the Governor the names of five citizens whom they recommend him to appoint as Commissioners and ex officio Judges for the term of four years commencing March 1889. Whenever a vacancy occurs in this or subsequent Boards of Chatham County Commissioners by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Grand Jury of the Superior Court then in session, or if said Court is not in session, then of the Grand Jury of said Court at its term next after the occurrence of said vacancy, to select and forward to the Governor the name of a citizen whom they recommend for appointment to fill said vacancy, and the Governor shall appoint and commission him as Commissioner and ex officio Judge for the unexpired period of the term. That before entering upon the discharge of their duties, said Commissioners and ex officio Judges shall each take and subscribe the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I will impartially discharge the duties of Commissioner and ex officio Judge for the county of Chatham, which oath shall be taken before the Judge of the Superior Court of said county, or in his absence, before the Clerk of the Superior Court for said county; the said Commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to all exemptions formerly allowed to Justices of the Inferior Court. Act of 1873 amended. Section II stricken. Section substituted. Commissionershow appointed. Vacancies. Commissioner's oath. SEC. II. 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 December 3, 1888.

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AUTHORIZING COMMISSIONERS OF THOMAS COUNTY TO BUILD NEW JAIL. No. 7. An Act to authorize the County Commissioners of Thomas county to sell the jail lot and the buildings and improvements thereon, in the town of Thomasville, Ga., and invest the proceeds thereof in the purchase of another lot and the building of a new jail for said county thereon, and to make a good title to the present jail lot. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the County Commissioners of Thomas county be, and they are hereby authorized to sell at public outcry the lot of land in the town of Thomasville, in said county, known as the jail lot; said lot fronting feet on the west side of Madison street, and two hundred and ten feet on Jefferson street, and all the buildings and appurtenances thereto pertaining, and to convey to the purchaser all the right, title and interest of the county of Thomas in and to said lot and appurtenances; a deed of conveyance, signed by the Chairman and at least two other members of the Board of County Commissioners, and countersigned by the Clerk or Secretary, and entered upon the Minutes of said Board shall be sufficient evidence of the sale, and shall vest in the vendee named in said deed, his heirs and assigns, all the title of said county of Thomas in and to said lot and its appurtenances: Provided, however, that said lot shall not be sold for a less sum than ($3500) thirty-five hundred dollars. Old jail lot authorized sold. Provisomust bring $3,500. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said County Commissioners shall be, and are hereby authorized, to procure or purchase another lot in the town of Thomasville, and to erect thereon a jail that shall conform to all the requirements of the laws of this State in the matters of heating, lighting, ventilation, etc., and shall re-invest therein the proceeds of the sale of the present jail lot, and as much more from the money raised by taxation for county purposes as may be necessary to obtain a suitable location, and erect thereon a jail such as will comply with the requirements above referred to, and supply the same with all necessary fixtures and furniture. The County Treasurer shall not be entitled to any commissions for receiving or paying out the money arising from the sale of said jail lot. The contract for building the new jail shall be let in strict accordance with the law of the State in regard to public buildings. New lot to be purchasedin part with funds above. New jail built by contract. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 5, 1888.

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CREATING BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUE FOR STEWART COUNTY. No. 11. An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue in the county of Stewart. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, there shall be established in the county of Stewart, in this State, a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, to consist of five persons, to be recommended by the grand jury and appointed by the Presiding Judge of the circuit of which Stewart county forms a part. The first appointment to be made at the April term of the Superior Court of said county in the year 1889, and the term of office of said Commissioners shall be four years: Provided, at the first appointment, two of said Commissioners shall be appointed for two years only, but whose successors shall be appointed for four years, so that appointments shall be made every two years, appointing two at one time and three the next, and so on, so as to prevent the terms of office of all of said Commissioners from expiring at same time. Board of Commissioners established. Term of office. Proviso SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person is eligible as Commissioner under this Act unless he has been a resident citizen in the county at least one year next preceding his election. Should a vacancy occur in said Board, the remaining members of said Board shall be authorized to fill said vacancy by electing a suitable person to said office, who shall hold said office until the next regular election by the grand jury thereafter. Before entering upon the duties of their office, each member shall take and subscribe, before the Ordinary of said county, in addition to the usual oath required of all civil officers, an oath that he will well and faithfully, to the best of his skill, knowledge and ability, discharge the duties of said office. Said Commissioners are exempt from militia, road and jury duty. Eligibility for. Vacancy. Official oath of Exemptions. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it shall require three of said Commissioners to constitute a quorum, and that at least three must concur to authorize the granting or passage of any order or decree. Quorum. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall have exclusive jurisdiction when sitting for county purposes, over the following subjects, to wit: Jurisdiction of Board. 1st. Governing and controlling all property of the county as they may deem expedient according to law. Subjects:

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2nd. In levying a general tax for general and a special tax for particular county purposes according to the provisions of the Code and the laws of Georgia. Subjects of jurisdiction. 3rd. In establishing, altering and abolishing all roads, bridges and ferries, in conformity to law. 4th. In establishing and changing election precincts and militia districts. 5th. In examining, settling and allowing all claims against the county. 6th In examining and auditing the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collecting and disbursement of money belonging to the county or appropriated for its use and benefit, and bringing them to a settlement. 7th. In making and enforcing such rules and regulations for the support of the poor of the county, and for promotion of health as is not inconsistent with law. 8th. In regulating peddling and fixing the cost of license therefor and granting same. 9th. Said Board shall examine and approve the official bond of all county officers, and shall exercise such supervision over such official bonds as may be necessary for the protection of the county as is not inconsistent with law. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have power to appoint Road Commissioners and enforce the road laws, and shall exercise such other powers as are indispensable to their jurisdiction, so far as the same pertains to county matters. Road Commissioners. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Commissioners shall hold four regular sessions annually; that a majority of said Board may convene in extra session whenever, in their judgment, it may be necessary. Quarterly and extra sessions. SEC. VII That the Ordinary shall be ex officio clerk of said Board of Commissioners, and shall be paid a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars per annum; and that said Commissioners shall receive a sum not to exceed two dollars per day for the time they are actually engaged in looking after the interest of the county Ordinary ex officio clerk. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the following named persons, to wit: Jas T. Gordy, O. Samuel Morton, A. J. Foreman, Alexander H. Simpson and Daniel Bradley be, and the same are hereby, appointed Commissioners for said county until their successors are appointed. Commissioners named. SEC. IX. Said Commissioners shall keep a set of books, in which shall be kept a correct record of all their acts and doings, said books to be turned over to the Grand Jury of each April term of Superior Court of said county for examination and approval. Record. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws conflicting herewith be repealed. Approved December 8, 1888.

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FIXING FEES OF TREASURER OF RANDOLPH COUNTY. No. 49. An Act to repeal an Act, approved February 23, 1876, in relation to the salaries of the County Treasurers of Sumter and Randolph counties, in so far as the same relates to the county of Randolph, and to fix the fees of the Treasurer of said county of Randolph. SECTION I. 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 fix the salaries of the County Treasurers of Sumter and Randolph counties, approved February 23, 1876, in so far as the same relates to the county of Randolph be, and the same is hereby repealed. Act of 1876 repealed. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, the fees of the County Treasurer of said county of Randolph, shall be the same as are prescribed by the general laws of this State, and as fixed by section 3703 of the Code of Georgia of 1882. Fees regulated by section 3703 of Code. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. FIXING SALARY OF CLERK OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUES OF FULTON COUNTY. No. 50. An Act to fix the salary of the Clerk of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Fulton county, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the salary of the Clerk of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Fulton county be fixed by the said Commissioners at a sum not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars per annum: Provided, this Act shall not go into operation until the expiration of the term of the present incumbent of said office. Maximum of salary. Proviso. SEC II That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, in so far as they fix said salary at a different sum be, and they are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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CREATING BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUES FOR MILLER COUNTY. No. 69. An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Miller, define their powers and duties, and for other purposes therein mentioned. SECTION. I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, there shall be established in the county of Miller, a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, consisting of five persons, as follows: G. W. Riley, Perry S. Spooner, D. D. Grimes, G. W. Cleavland and J. W. Harrell, Sr., citizens of said county, whose term of office shall continue until the first Wednesday in January, 1889, and until their successors are elected and qualified, as is hereinafter provided. Board of Commissioners by name. Their terms. SEC. II. Be it enacted by authority aforesaid, That the successors of the aforesaid Commissioners shall be elected by the qualified voters of said county on the first Wednesday in January, 1889, and every two years thereafter, and shall hold their office for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Annual election for. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That upon election of said Board as provided in the above cited section, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court to certify to the Governor, under the seal of his office, the names of the persons so elected, and the Governor, upon the receipt thereof, shall commission them for the term to which they have respectively been elected, and upon presentation of their commission and taking the oath hereinafter prescribed, they shall enter at once upon the discharge of their duties. Certificate of election and commission. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be competent to serve on said Board until he shall have taken the following oath of office, which shall be administered by the Ordinary of said county, and which oath shall be by the Ordinary recorded on the minutes of the Court of Ordinary, to-wit: You, and each of you, do solemnly swear that you will faithfully discharge the duties of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, and in all matters which require your official action, to the best of your skill and knowledge, you will so act as in your judgment will be most conducive to the welfare and prosperity of the entire county. Oath of Commissioner. SEC. V. Be it enacted by authority aforesaid, That three of said Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and that three must concur in order to pass any order, or let any contract, or grant or allow any claim against the county. Quorum.

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SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That any vavancy occurring in said Board, from any cause whatever, the Ordinary shall fill said vacancy by appointment, and the person so appointed, after taking the oath prescribed by this Act, shall enter upon the duties of said office, and shall hold the office until the next regular election prescribed by this Act. Vacancies. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That said Board when sitting for county purposes, shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the following subject matters: Jurisdiction 1st. In governing and controlling all county property as they may deem best, according to law. Subjects: 2nd. In levying taxes, for county purposes, in accordance with law. 3rd. In examining the public records of the various offices in said county and reporting thereon to the grand jury at each term of the Superior Court of said county. 4th. In examining, auditing, allowing and settling all claims against the county. 5th. In establishing, altering, abolishing, or opening roads, bridges, and ferries, in accordance with law. 6th. In the appointment of said Commissioners, and in general management of roads, bridges, and revenues of the county, to grant or refuse license to sell spirituous liquors in said county, in their discretion, according to law. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of Road Commissioners to endorse all orders drawn upon the funds of the county, before the Treasurer of said county shall be authorized to pay the same. Must endorse vouchers. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That said Commissionerr shall hold their meeting upon the fourth Monday in each month, and shall keep a record of all their proceedings in a well-bound book, to be purchased by them for the purpose, and shall be paid for by the County Treasurer on their order, and shall submit the same to the inspection of the grand jury at each regular term of the Superior Court. Said Commissioners may hold special sessions in addition to their regular monthly sessions whenever the interest of the county demands it. The Clerk of the Superior Court shall be ex officio Clerk of said Board, and shall receive the same pay for his services as is hereinafter provided for said Commissioners to be paid by the County Treasurer on the order of said Board. Monthly meetings. Record of. Special sessions. Clerk of Court ex officio clerk of Board. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of said Board shall be paid the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for the time they actually sit for county purposes. Compensation.

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SEC. XI. 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 December 24, 1888. FIXING COMPENSATION OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUE FOR WAYNE COUNTY. No. 92. An Act to fix the compensation of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Wayne, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 each member of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of the county of Wayne shall be entitled to compensation for their services as such Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for said county, to wit: Three dollars per day for each member of said Board while engaged in their official duties as such Commissioners of Roads and Revenue. Compensation fixed at $3 per day. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of said county shall be entitled to their compensation to be paid out of the general funds of said county; that a certificate from the Clerk of said Commissioners' Court, with the seal of said court thereto attached, certifying to the number of days each member of said Board were actually engaged in their official duty as such Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, said certificate shall be sufficient authority to authorize the County Treasurer of said county to pay the same upon the presentation of said certificate by said Commissioners, whenever there are funds in the treasury of said county. How paid. SEC. III. 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 December 24, 1888.

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CREATING BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUES FOR BALDWIN COUNTY. No. 106. An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Baldwin, to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That at the next regular term of the Superior Court of Baldwin county, after the passage of this Act, the grand jury of said county shall elect by ballot three discreet and upright citizens who are resident freeholders of said county, one of whom shall be elected for one year, and one shall be elected for two years, and one shall be elected for three years, and each succeeding grand jury at the spring term of said court shall elect one Commissioner who shall hold office for three years, unless removed by death, resignation, or by recommendation of two-thirds of the grand jury for incompetency, or malpractice in office, or until their successors are elected and qualified; and they shall take the oath prescribed for civil officers of this State. Board of Commissioners-how elected. Their terms. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That said Commissioners shall hold their meetings on the first Tuesday in each month, at the court house in said county, begining on the first Tuesday after the term of court when said Commissioners shall have been elected as aforesaid; Provided, that the regular time of meeting may be changed to some other day of the month by order on their minutes, of which due notice shall be given by publication in the official gazette of said county, which order shall remain of full force until rescinded: And provided further, said Commissioners may hold special sessions at any time they may see proper, or may be called together by a majority of said Board for county purposes. Monthly meetings. Change permissible on notice. Special sessions. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That a majority of said Commissioners shall constitute a quorum to transact business or exercise any power herein delegated pertaining to the duties of said Commissioners. Quorum. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That said Commissioners shall have power to exercise exclusive and original jurisdiction over the following subject matters, to wit: Jurisdiction- 1st. In directing and controlling all the property of the county as they may deem expedient according to law. Subjects: 2nd. In levying a general tax for general purposes, and a special tax for particular purposes, according to the provisions of law in such cases made and provided.

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3rd. In establishing and changing election precincts and militiadistricts. 4th. In examining and auditing the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collecting or disbursement of money belonging to the county or appropriated for its use and benefit, and bringing them to a settlement. 5th. In examining, settling, and allowing all claims against the county. 6th. In establishing, altering or abolishing all roads, bridges, and ferries, in conformity to law. 7th. In making such rules and regulations for the government of the poor house or paupers of the county, and for the promotion of health, as are granted by law, or are not inconsistent therewith. 8th. In regulating peddling, and fixing the license therefore, and fixing the amount of the license for the sale of spirituous liquors. Subjects of jurisdiction. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That said Commissioners shall have the same power of appointing Road Commissioners and enforcing the road laws the Justices of the Inferior Court had by the Code of this State, prior to the ratification of the Constitution of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight of this State, and shall exercise such other powers as are granted by the laws of this State, or are indispensable to their jurisdiction, and shall have no jurisdiction save and except such as pertains to county matters. Road Commissioners, etc. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Treasurer of said county shall not disburse or pay out any of the funds from the County Treasury on any order unless the same shall have been signed and sanctioned by at least a majority of said Commissioners. To sign Treasurer's vouchers. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia. That the Board of Commissioners shall elect their own Clerk with such pay as the Board may allow, and said Clerk shall take charge of the minutes of said Board, and all books and records appertaining to said Commissioners' Court, and keep the same in some safe room in the court house, as said Commissioners may direct. Clerk and minutes of Board. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall be the duty of the Ordinary and Judge of the County Court of said county to turn over to said Commissioners all books and papers relating to the jurisdiction and powers herein conferred, and the Ordinary and said Judge of the County Court, on the election and qualification of said Board of Commissioners, shall have no power to exercise any of the powers herein conferred upon said Commissioners. Independent jurisdiction. SEC IX. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That said Commissioners shall receive not morethan three dollars per day each, while occupied and engaged at the

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regular and special sessions in transacting business for county purposes, to be paid by the Treasurer of the county. Compensation. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That all vacancies in said Board shall be filled by the remaining Commissioners, until the next meeting of the grand jury. Vacancies. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. ABOLISHING BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUES FOR JOHNSON COUNTY. No. 127. An Act to repeal an Act creating a Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Johnson, approved September 25th, 1879, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Act of September 25th, 1879, establishing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Johnson be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act of 1879 repealed. SEC. II. 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 December 26, 1888. FIXING SALARY OF COUNTY TREASURER OF FULTON COUNTY. No. 141. An Act to fix the salary of the County Treasurer of Fulton County. SECTION I. Be [Illegible Text] 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 salary of the County Treasurer of Fulton county be fixed at two thousand dollars per annum payable out of the county treasury of Fulton county: Provided, that this Act shall not go into effect until the expiration of the term of the present incumbent of said office. Salary fixed at $2000. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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TITLE III. COUNTY COURTS. ACTS. Creating office of County Court Solicitor for County Court of Tatnall county. Abolishing County Court of Gilmer county. Amending Act providing for Solicitor of County Court of Oconee county. CREATING OFFICE OF COUNTY COURT SOLICITOR FOR COUNTY COURT OF TATNALL COUNTY. No. 33. An Act to create the office of County Solicitor for the County Court of Tatnall county, to provide for the appointment of said Solicitor, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the same, That the office of County Solicitor for the County Court of Tatnall county be, and the same is hereby, created. Office created. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon the passage of this Act, there shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a County Solicitor for the County Court of Tatnall county, who shall receive such fees and compensation, and shall perform such duties as are now provided by law in the fourth chapter of the Code of 1882, and whose term of office shall be four years. Appointed by Governor. Term four years. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Solicitor shall be an attorney-at-law of at least one year's practice. [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. 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 December 19, 1888.

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ABOLISHING COUNTY COURT OF GILMER COUNTY. No. 64. An Act to abolish the County Court of Gilmer county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, that the County Court of Gilmer county, established in 1885 by the Grand Jury of Gilmer county, be, and the same is hereby, abolished. County Court abolished. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all civil suits pending in said court may be withdrawn and sued in any court having jurisdiction, and that all criminal prosecution be transferred to the Superior Court of said county. Disposition of business. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any Grand Jury of said county may hereafter establish a County Court for said county by recommending the appointment of County Judge under the County Court Act contained in the Code of 1882. Grand juries may re-establish. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. AMENDING ACT PROVIDING FOR SOLICITOR OF COUNTY COURT OF OCONEE COUNTY. No. 97. An Act to amend section 2 of an Act to provide for a Solicitor of the County Court of Oconee county, approved December 5, 1882. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, that section 2 of said Act be amended by inserting after the word qualified in the fifth line of said section, the following: He shall be a practicing attorney, and a resident of said county of Oconee. So that said section when amended shall read as follows: That the Solicitor of the County Court herein provided for shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold his office for four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified; he shall be a practicing attorney, and a resident of said county of Oconee. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the Governor in the interim between sessions of the General Assembly until the Senate shall next thereafter convene. Section II of Act of 1882 amended. Words inserted. Section as amended. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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TITLE IV. GAME, ETC. ACT. Amending Game Law for Macon county. AMENDING GAME LAW FOR MACON COUNTY. No. 164. An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act for the protection of game and birds in the county of Macon; to prohibit the killing, trapping and netting of the same, or buying, selling or offering for sale the same, during certain months in said county; to provide penalties for so doing, and for other purposes. Approved October 6th, 1885. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is enacted by authority of the same, That section one (I) of an Act entitled An Act for the protection of game and birds in the county of Macon; to prohibit the killing, trapping and netting of the same, or buying, selling or offering for sale the same, during certain months in said county; to provide penalties for so doing and for other purposes, approved October 6th 1885, be, and the same is hereby amended by striking thereform the words fifteenth day of October in the fifth and eight lines of said section and in serting in lieu thereof the words first day of November, so that said section, when amended, will read as follows: That from and after the passage of this Act, any person who shall shoot, kill, trap, snare, net or otherwise destroy any deer, wild turkey, wild duck or partridge in the county of Macon between the first day of April and the first day of November of any year, or any person who shall buy, sell or offer for sale any deer, wild turkey, wild duck or partridge in said county, between the first day of April

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and the first day of November of any year, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Section I of Act of 1885 amended. Date stricken. Date inserted. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That section three (3) of the above recited Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking therefrom the words twentieth day of July, in the fourth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words first day of November, so that said section, when amended, will read as follows: That any person who shall shoot, kill, trap or otherwise destroy, or shall buy, sell or offer for sale any dove in said county between the first day of April and the first day of November of any year shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in the first section of this Act. Section III amended. Date stricken. Date inserted. Section as amended. SEC. III. 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 December 29, 1888.

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TITLE V. REGISTRATION. ACTS. Repealing registration law for Macon county. Amending registration law for Meriwether county. Amending registration law for Worth county. Registration law for Dooly county. Repealing registration law for Pulaski county. Registration law for Wayne county. Amending registration law of Wayeross. Registration law for Oconce county. Registration law for Wilcox county. Registration law for Hancock county. REPEALING REGISTRATION LAW FOR MACON COUNTY. No. 10. An Act to repeal an Act entitled An Act to provide for the registration of the qualified voters of Macon county, Georgia, and for other purposes therein contained. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act to provide for the registration of the qualified voters of Macon county, Georgia, and for other purposes therein contained, approved October 24, 1887, be and the same is hereby, repealed. Act of Oct. 24, 1887, repealed SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 28, 1888.

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AMENDING REGISTRATION LAW FOR MERIWETHER COUNTY. No. 28. An Act to amend an Act, approved October 20th 1887, to authorize and require the registration of all voters in the county of Meriwether, in this State, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, that section VI of an Act, approved October 20th 1887, to authorize and require the registration of all voters in the county of Meriwether, in this State, be amended by striking out section VI of said Act, and inserting the following section, to be known as section VI, in lieu thereof: Be it further enacted, That immediately after the first election succeeding each registration, the said Board of Commissioners shall re-deliver said books to the Registrars, and any person having failed to registe, during the period for registration, as provided in said Act, approved October 20th 1887, may do so at any time preceding any election thereafter, upon taking the oath as required by said Act, and as provided by section III (3) of said Act, and the Registrars shall return correct lists from said books to the Board of Commissioners, or some member or Clerk thereof, ten days before such election, so that said Commissioners may cause a supplemental list to be prepared containing the names of those registering since the preceding general registration: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person not registering during the general registration in December 1888, from registering between that time and the first Wednesday in January 1889, by complying with the provisions of this Act, and the Registrars' certificate of registration shall be sufficient to entitle such person to vote at said election, on the first Wednesday in January 1889. Act of Oct. 20, 1887, amended. Section VI strickennew section substituted Section VI as amended. Proviso SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That section VIII., of said Act, be amended by striking out the words one dollar and fifty cents for each day's actual service, in the last line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words one dollar for each day's actual service; so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners may, in their discretiod, appoint Assistant Registrars, with the same powers, duties and liabilities as the Registrars, said Assistant Registrars to act only in the absence or sickness of the Registrar. The term of office of the Registrars shall be four years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. All vacancies occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by said Commissioners. The Commissioners shall fix the compensation of the Registrars and Assistant Registrars, which shall not exceed the sum of one dollar for each day's actual service. Section VIII amended. Words stricken and substituted Section VIII as amended.

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SEC III. Be it further enacted, That said Act be further amended by adding a new section, to be known as section XIII, and that section XIII be known as section XIV: SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That when Registrars are to be appointed, they shall be appointed by the grand jury of said county of Meriwether, in the same manner as now required by the Board of Commissioners. And whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of Registrar by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Board of Commissioners to fill such vacancy as now provided by said Act. New section embodied in Act. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 17, 1888. AMENDING REGISTRATION LAW FOR WORTH COUNTY. No. 35. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to provide for the registration of the qualified voters of Worth county, and for other purposes, approved October 24, 1887. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That section third of said Act be amended in the tenth line after the word districts and before the word, and the further proviso, that all qualified voters, who for providential reasons have not registered when the Registrars have closed their books, that they are then authorized to go before the Ordinary of said county and register, and this right shall continue until three days before the day of election, and each voter so registered by said Ordinary he shall furnish him with a certificate of registration and for this purpose the Ordinary of said county is declared to be one of the Registrars of said county; when said section so amended will read as follows: Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Registrars of said county during the year 1888 and biennially thereafter, or during each year that elections are held for Governor, members of the General Assembly, members of Congress and Presidential Electors to keep a book in which he shall enter upon the personal application of any person entitled under the Constitution and laws of Georgia to vote in any election in this State: Provided, All persons applying to be registered shall do so in the respective militia districts in which they reside, and shall be registered in and for said districts. Section III of Act of Oct 24, 1887, amended. Section as amended. Proviso.

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That all qualified voters who for providential reasons have not registered, when the Registrars have closed their books, that they are then authorized to go before the Ordinary of said county and register, and this right shall continue until three days before the day of election, and each voter so registered by said Ordinary he shall furnish him with a certificate of registration and for this purpose the Ordinary of said county is declared to be one of the Registrars of said county, and before registering, such persons shall take the following oath: I do swear that I reside in District G. M. of said county, that I have attained the age of twenty-one years, that I am a citizen of the United States and have resided for the last twelve months in this State next preceding the election to be held in October next, and six months in the county of Worth next preceding said election, that I have paid all taxes since the adoption of the present Constitution of this State, that have been required of me, previous to this year, and which I have had an opportunity to pay. Registration after close of books. Registry oath. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 21, 1888. REGISTRATION LAW FOR DOOLY COUNTY. No. 54. An Act to require and provide for the registration of all voters in the county of Dooly. SECTION I. 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 Tax Collector of the county of Dooly shall be, by virtue of his office, Registrar of said county, and shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties imposed by this Act. It shall be his duty as such Registrar to register all persons applying who are legally qualified to vote. in the following manner: Said Registrar shall stamp or write the word registered both upon the tax receipt of the person registering and also upon the stub in their book of tax receipts, together with the date of registration and the year and the election for which said person is registered. Their books for registering shall be closed ten days before each election. All persons voting shall vote in the district in which they reside, and for which they were registered: Provided, there is a voting precinct established in said district, and if there is no such precint, then at any precinct in the county. All applications to register shall be in person, and no person shall be

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registered unless he is a citizen of the United States and has resided in the State of Georgia one year, and in said county six months next preceding the coming election, and is twenty-one years of age, or will become so before said election, and has paid all State and county taxes which have been due by him except for the year of the election, of which fact the Registrar may require the applicant to make oath before him when he is not satisfied as to the qualifications of said voter. It shall be the duty of each said Registrars immediately on the closing of his books to make out alphabetical lists of the registered voters of each militia district in his county, and turn the same over to the Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, if any, and if none, to the Ordinary of said county, as the case may be. Tax Collector made Registrar. His duties. Where citizens must vote. Proviso. Qualifications for registry. Alphabetical lists-to whom returned. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Boards of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, or Ordinaries, as the case may be, shall cause to be printed said alphabetical lists of said voters so registered, and shall cause to be furnished to the managers of elections at each precinct copies of the lists of registered voters of the district in which they sit, which list shall first be verified from the Registrar's list before being turned over to said managers, and the said managers shall not permit any person to vote at said election whose name does not appear on said lists, under all the pains and penalties prescribed by law for illegal voting; and any person voting at any of said elections without having been registered as aforesaid, or who shall vote in the name of some other person appearing on said list other than his own name, or otherwise violating the provisions of this Act, shall be punished as prescribed by Section 4310 of the Code of 1882: Provided, that any person who presents his tax receipt with the word registered stamped or written on it by said Registrar, shall be entitled to vote in district of his residence, although his name does appear on the list in the hands of the managers of said election: Provided, however, that if the said stamping or writing of the word registered upon the tax receipt has been done after the time for closing the registration, said vote shall be illegal, and the voter and any and all parties concerned in the unlawful stamping and writing shall be subject to all the pains and penalties prescribed by law for illegal voting. Printed registry lists For precinct managers- How verified. Illegal voting. How punished. Proviso-Registrar's stamp equivalent to registry, If before close of registration SEC. III. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That the amount of compensation for the services to be thus done by said Registrars shall be two and one-half cents for each person registered, to be paid from the county treasury on the order of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, or Ordinary, as the case may be. Compensation of Registrars. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when two or more elections occur within sixty days of each other in the same year, the registration list for the first shall be used for

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the succeeding election: Provided, that the Registrar's books shall be kept open up to within ten days before said election, and supplemental lists made out and used in the manner prescribed in this Act for the original registration. Double use of lists. Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, or the Ordinary, as the case may be, shall furnish to said Registrar a well-bound book, in which the Registrar shall transcribe in alphabetical order the names of all registered voters and the militia district for which they have registered, keeping the registry lists for each year separate; and it shall be the duty of said Registrar to deposit said book with said county authorities on or before the day of said election. Registration book. SEC. VI. Be it enacted by the authority of the same, That if at any time it shall be made to appear to the Board of Commissioners, or in case there be no such Board, then to the Ordinary of the county, by the petition of one or more citizens, that the Registrar has entered on the list or issued certificates of registration to any person not entitled to vote, then the said Board shall have authority, and it is hereby made the duty of the same, or of the Ordinary, as the case may be, to cause rule to be issued against the Registrar, calling upon him to show cause why said lists should not be corrected. The said Registrar and the person alleged to be illegally registered, each to have five days' written notice of the hearing of said rule. If upon the hearing it should appear from the evidence offered that any persons are illegally registered, the Board of Commissioners, or Ordinary, shall order the names of such illegally registered persons to be stricken from the lists, specifying the names of said illegally registered persons, and such person shall not be allowed to vote, unless he shall, upon a new application to register, remove the disqualification which has been adjudged against him. The registration of voters shall not be conclusive evidence of the right of the person registered, but the right of contest shall apply to all of the elections herein provided for. Correction of registration list. Registrar ruled. Notice. Illegally registered names stricken. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws in conflict herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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REPEALING REGISTRATION LAW FOR PULASKI COUNTY. No. 84. An Act to repeal An Act to require and provide for the registration of all voters in the counties of Floyd, McDuffie, Burke, Randolph, Elbert, Oglethorpe, Wilkinson, Green, Washington, Walton, Morgan, Lowndes, Emanuel and Pulaski, and to provide for the carrying the same into effect, and for other purposes, approved October 3, 1885, so far as the said Act relates to the county of Pulaski. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That an Act to require and provide for the registration of all voters in the counties of Floyd, McDuffie, Burke, Randolph, Elbert, Oglethorpe, Wilkinson, Green, Washington, Walton, Morgan, Lowndes, Emanuel and Pulaski, and to provide for carrying the same into effect, and for other purposes, approved October 3. 1885, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, in so far as the said Act relates to the county of Pulaski. Act of Oct. 3, 1885, repealed as to Pulaski county. SEC. II. 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 December 24, 1888. REGISTRATION LAW FOR WAYNE COUNTY. No. 93. An Act to provide for the registration of the qualified voters of Wayne county, and to provide that the same shall be done before the Tax Receiver of said county, to prescribe his duty in this connection and fix his compensation; also to fix the time, place and manner of such registration; also, to provide that no person shall be entitled to vote in any election to be held hereafter in said county of Wayne unless he shall have complied with the terms of this Act, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this Act, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of January 1890, it shall not be lawful for any person to vote or attempt to vote in any election in the county of Wayne without having registered in the manner as hereinafter provided. When registration law to begin.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Tax Receiver of said county of Wayne shall be Registrar of said county of Wayne, and in case of any unavoidable cause, that said Tax Receiver could not register the voters of said county at the time as hereinafter provided, then, and in that case, the Ordinary of said county shall appoint a suitable person of said county to be Registrar of said county of Wayne, and shall, before entering upon their duties as such, before the Ordinary of said county take and subscribe to the following oath: I do swear that I will not knowingly register as a voter any person who is not legally qualified to vote under the laws of this State, and the provisions of the Constitution, and that I will use my best efforts to prevent the registration of all persons not entitled to vote. Tax Receiver made Registrar. Ordinary appointswhen. Registrar's oath. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Registrars of said county, during the year 1890, and biennially thereafter, or during each year that elections are held for Governor, members of the General Assembly, members of Congress, and Presidential Electors, to keep a book in which he shall enter upon the personal application of any person entitled under the Constitution and laws of Georgia to vote in any election in this State: Provided, all persons applying to be registered shall do so in their respective militia districts in which they reside, and shall be registered in and for said districts, and before registering such persons, said Tax Receiver or Registrar shall administer to them the following oath: I do swear that I reside in the district G. M. of said county of Wayne, that I have attained to the age of twenty-one years, that I am a citizen of the United States, and have resided for the last twelve months in this State next preceding the election to be held in October next, and six months in the county of Wayne preceding said election, that I have paid all taxes since the adoption of the present Constitution of this State, that had been required of me previous to this year, and which I have had an opportunity to pay. Duties of Registrar. Registration book. Registration to be by militia districts. Applicant's oath. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to vote at any election in said county unless he shall have registered as required by this Act, and any person who has not registered and who shall vote or attempt to vote at any election in said county, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Voting without registry illegal. Punishment. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Registrar shall enter the names of such persons as register in his book of registration in alphabetical order, keeping separate list of the colored voters. Separate lists. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That on the 15th day of August in each year in which they are required to make registration of the voters, the Registrar shall close his work of registration, and by

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the twentieth day of September thereafter said Registrar shall file with the Ordinary of said county the original books of registration. Close of books. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of said county to make out for each militia district a complete list of the white registered voters, and also of the colored registered voters, separately and in alphabetical order of such militia district, and send the same to the Justice of the Peace of each militia district, when he sends the election blanks to said district to be used by the managers of the election in said district. When said election is over said Justices of the Peace or managers of said elections shall return said lists to the Ordinary to be preserved by him for the inspection of the grand jury until the elections thereafter, when the same course shall be pursued with said list. Registration lists for magistrates Return of same to Ordinary. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That any person offering to vote at any election in said county, shall be subject to challenge under the same rules and regulations as now govern, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act. Challenges. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said Registrar shall receive three cents per capita for each and every person registered by him for his services in this connection, to be paid out of the general funds of said county upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of said county, and the Ordinary one cent for each and every person registered. Compensation of Registrar, etc. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall apply to any person or persons arriving at the age of twenty-one years after the books of registration shall have been closed, and before the election at which he offers to vote: Provided, he is otherwise qualified to vote under the laws of this Act. Attaining majority after close of books. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Registrar shall give notice in writing ten days before he appears and opens his books of registration in each militia district in said county of Wayne, to be posted at the door of the court-house in each militia district, plainly stating what day of the week and the month he will be at said militia district for the purpose aforesaid, and shall go at least three times in each militia district in said county. Registrar's notice. SEC. XII. 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 December 24, 1888.

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AMENDING REGISTRATION LAWS OF WAYCROSS. No. 98. An Act to amend the registration laws of Waycross, Ga., so when amended no excuse will be received for the failure to register between the first days of November and December. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the registration laws of the town of Waycross, Ga., passed by the Legislature and approved by the Governor October 15th 1887, be and the same are hereby amended as follows: The Mayor and Council of said town shall have their books for registration open the first of November to the first of December of each year, and all parties who fail to register during said period shall be precluded from registering thereafter during said year whether prevented providentially or otherwise from registering: Provided, this Act shall not interfere with the right of any person to appeal to the Mayor and Council during the period said books are open, if they have made application to register and been refused the right to register. Act of Oct. 15, 1887, amended. Must register in stated time. Proviso. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. REGISTRATION LAW FOR OCONEE COUNTY. No. 112. An Act to require and provide for the registration of all voters in the county of Oconee, and to provide for carrying the same into effect, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 Tax Collector of the county of Oconee shall be, by virtue of his office, Registrar for said county, and shall take an oath to faithfully discharge the duties imposed by this Act. It shall be his duty as such Registrar to register all persons applying who are legally qualified to vote in the following manner: Said Registrar shall write or stamp the words, Registered for elections in the year 18, with the date of registration and name of Registrar both on the tax receipts and upon the stubs in their books of tax receipts, the blank in the

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year to be filled with the year in which they are qualified to vote, which will qualify the voter to vote at any elections to be held that year. His books for registering shall be closed fifteen days before each election. All persons voting shall vote in the district in which they reside and for which they are registered; Provided, there is a voting precinct established in his district, and if there is no such precinct, then at any adjoining district in said county: Provided further, that if any person who has registered and would be legally qualified to vote, shall have removed from the district in which he is registered, between the time of registering and the time of voting, to some other district in said county, then he shall be allowed to vote in the district to which he has removed, but before voting, the managers of the election may require him to make oath before them that he has thus removed, an to produce his evidence of registration if they are not satisfied of the fact. All applications to register shall be in person, and no person shall be registered unless he is a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the State of Georgia for one year, and of said county for six months next preceding the coming election, and is twenty one years of age, or will become so before said election, and has paid all State and county taxes due from 1878 inclusive until and including the year next preceding the election (as required by the Constitution), and who has not been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason against the State, of embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, bribery or larceny, or of any crime involving moral turpitude, punishable by the laws of this State with imprisonment in the penitentiary unless such person shall have been pardoned, idiots and insane persons. If the Registrar is not satisfied as to the qualifications of any applicant, he may require the voter to make oath before him of such fact. It shall be the duty of the Registrar immediately on the closing of his books, to make out alphabetical lists of the registered voters for each militia district in his county, and turn the same over to the Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of said county. Tax Collector made Registrar. Method of registration. Regulations as to voting. Removal [Illegible Text] voter. Qualifications of. Alphabetical lists for Commissioners. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue shall cause to be plainly written or printed said alphabetical list of said voters so registered, and shall cause to be furnished to the managers of elections at each precinct in said county, copies of the lists of said registered voters in their respective districts, which list shall be verified from the Registrar's lists, before being turned over to said managers; and said managers shall not permit any person to vote at any election whose name does not appear on the list for said militia district, unless it be a voter who has legally registered in some other district in said county and has removed therefrom between the time of his registering and the time of voting, and is at the time of voting a bona fide resident of the district

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in which he proposes to vote, and if the managers are not satisfied of his registration and removal, or if any person shall challenge said vote, then the managers shall require him to make oath of such registering and removal: Provided, further, that any person residing in an adjoining district, where there is no election precinct established by law, may be permitted to vote, provided he is legally registered: Provided, further, if any person shall present his tax receipt, with the evidence of registration thereon, shall be entitled to vote in the district of his residence, although his name does not appear on the list in the hands of the managers, but if said voter has not been legally registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act, then said vote shall be illegal. Printed lists for managers. How verified. Voter's name must be on list. Further provisions as to voters. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That if any person who on account of his age, and having no property, or is otherwise tax free and whose name does not appear on the tax books, shall when he registers receive from the Registrar a certificate of his registration which will entitle him to vote in his district. Certificate of registration. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of said county, shall furnish to the Registrar a well bound book in which the Registrar shall transcribe in alphabetical order the names of all registered voters and the districts for which they have registered, keeping the registry list for each year separate. Registration book. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That before entering on his duty said Registrar shall, before some officer authorized to administer oaths, take and subscribe the following oath: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge my duty as Registrar for the county of Oconee, I will not knowingly permit any person to register, who is not entitled to do so under the provisions of this Act, nor will I knowingly prohibit any one from registering who is so entitled, so help me God. Which oath shall be recorded in the book of registration. Registrar's oath. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the compensation allowed the said Registrar for his services shall be two and one half cents for each person registered, which shall be paid out of the County Treasury, under order of the said Commissioners. Compensation of Registrar. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall register and vote in said county who is not legally entitled to do so under the provisions of this Act, or who shall vote without being so registered shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Illegal voting. Punishment. SEC VIII. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act, all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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REGISTRATION LAW FOR WILCOX COUNTY. No. 124. An Act to provide for the registration of the qualified voters of the county of Wilcox, and to provide that the same shall be done before the Tax Receiver of said county, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 first day of January, 1890, it shall not be lawful for any person to vote or attempt to vote in any election to be held in the county of Wilcox without having registered as hereinafter provided. Registration necessary to vote. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Tax Receiver of said county of Wilcox shall be the Registrar of said county, who shall, before entering upon his duties as such before the Ordinary of said county, subscribe to the following oath: I do swear that I will not knowingly refuse to register as a voter, any person who is legally qualified to vote under the provisions of the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and that I will use my best efforts to prevent the registration of all persons not entitled to vote. Tax Receiver made Registrar. His oath. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Tax Receiver of said county, during the year 1890 and while making his rounds for receiving returns of taxable property in said year, and biennially thereafter to keep a book in which he shall enter the name upon the personal application of any person entitled under the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia to vote in any election in this State: Provided, all persons applying to be registered shall have administered to them by the Tax Receiver, before entering their names, the following oath, which oath shall be written or printed at the head of each list of voters, towit: I do swear that I have, or will have, attained the age of twenty-one years by the next general election to be held in this State; that I am a citizen of the United States, and that I have resided for the last twelve months in this State next preceding the election to be held in October next, and six months in the county of Wilcox, next preceding said election; that I have paid all taxes since the adoption of the present Constitution of this State that have been required of me previous to the present year, and which I have had an opportunity to pay. Duties of Registrar. Registration list. Proviso. Applicant's oath. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be entitled to vote at any election in said county; unless he shall have registered as required by this Act, and any person who has not registered, and who shall vote or attempt to vote at any election, shall

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be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Voting without registry illegal. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Tax Receiver shall enter the names of such persons as register in his book of registration in alphabetical order, each in his proper militia district making a separate list of white voters, and a separate list of colored voters. Alphabetical lists. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That on the first day of August in each year in which he is required to make a registration of the voters, the Tax Receiver shall close his work of registration and by the fifteenth day of August thereafter he shall certify to and file with the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, the original book of registration. Close of registration. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county to make a certified copy in book form of the original book of registration for each militia district in the county, and send the same to a Justice of the Peace of each district at least fifteen days before the next general election to be held in said county, on failure to do so, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Certified lists for magistrates. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Justice of the Peace in each militia district to present to the managers of the next general election to be held in said county, the book of registration furnished them by the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, to be used by the managers of election in said districts. When said election is over, said managers of election shall return said book of registration to the said Justice of the Peace to be preserved by him until future elections occur, when the same course shall be pursued with said list. On failure of said Justice of the Peace and said managers to comply with this Act, said Justice of the Peace and said managers shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as provided in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Lists for managers. Return of same. Non-compliance a mis lemeanor. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall, between the times of registration, from having moved into the county, or having attained his majority, become entitled to vote, he shall be allowed to do so without registration. Attaining majority after close of books. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the power to fix the fees of said Receiver and Clerk of the Superior Court for such work as this bill fixes upon them, shall be vested in the Grand Jury of the county of Wilcox, and when so fixed, the Ordinary or such person or persons having control of the finances of the county, shall draw their warrant on the Treasurer of said county for said sums so fixed Grand Jury to fix fees. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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REGISTRATION LAW FOR HANCOCK COUNTY. No. 147. An Act to require the Tax Collector of Hancock county to make a permanent register in a book to be kept by the county for that purpose, of the names of all the male citizens of said county who paid their taxes for the year preceding said registration, and to file the same in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county for public inspection on or before the first Thursday in July of each year, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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, it shall be the duty of the Tax Collector of Hancock county, on or before the first Thursday of July in each year, to make and record in a book to be provided by the County Commissioners of said county, an accurate list alphabetically arranged, white and colored separately, of all male citizens of said county more than twenty-one years of age, who paid to him, or on fi fas issued by him, their taxes for the preceding year; said lists shall contain the names of said tax payers, the amounts of tax paid by them for county, State and poll tax separately, and the date of such payment. Tax Collector made Registrar. Registration lists. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said book when containing said lists so made shall be deposited in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court of said county, and shall be open to public inspection at all times during office hours, and on all questions of contests in any of the courts of this State, or before any officer of this State, shall be prima facie evidence not only of the fact that those parties whose names appear on said book have paid their taxes for the years designated, but also of the fact that all whose names do not appear on said book who were chargeable with taxes, and residing in said county, have not paid their taxes for said years. Open to inspection. Value as evidence. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Tax Collector of said county shall receive for his services in preparing and recording said lists, to be paid out of the county Treasury, the same compensation now provided by law to be paid him for making out and recording his tax default list. Compensation of Registrar. SEC. IV. 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 December 26, 1888.

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TITLE VI. REGULATION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC. ACTS. Prohibiting sale within four miles of Powell's Chapel in Carroll county. Prohibiting sale within three miles of Salem Baptist Church in Meriwether county. Prohibiting sale within one mile of Worthville Baptist Church in Butts county. Prohibiting sale within one mile of Zion Church in Butts county. Prohibiting sale within one mile of Macedonia Baptist Church in Butts county. Prohibiting sale within 693rd, 779th and 938th Districts, G. M., of Heard county. Regulating sale in Montgomery and Telfair counties. Prohibiting sale within three miles of Sardis Church in Fulton county. Prohibiting sale within three miles of Washington Institute in Hancock county. Prohibiting sale within three miles of Horeb Baptist Church, of Jewell's Baptist Church and of Rock Mills Methodist Church in Hancock county. Amending local option law of Whitfield county. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN FOUR MILES OF POWELL'S CHAPEL, IN CARROLL COUNTY. No. 58. An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors within four miles of Powell's Chapel Church, in Carroll county, Georgia, and to provide a penalty therefor, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to vend, sell or exchange any kind of spirituous, malt or alcoholic liquors, in any quantity, within four miles of Powell's Chapel Church, in Carroll county, Georgia. Sale prohibited within four miles. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN THREE MILES OF SALEM BAPTIST CHURCH IN MERIWETHER COUNTY. No. 61. An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, malt or vinous liquors within three miles of Salem Baptist Church in the Gills district of Meriwether county, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the same. SECTION I. 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 it shall not be lawful for any person to sell or barter, either directly or indirectly, spirituous, malt or vinous liquors within three miles of Salem Baptist Church, in the Gills district of Meriwether county: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall prevent the manufacture or sale of domestic wine or cider made by the person selling, upon his own premises or premises rented by him. Sale prohibited within three miles. Domestic wines excepted. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882 of Georgia. Penalty. SEC. III. 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 December 24, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN ONE MILE OF WORTHVILLE BAP-TIST CHURCH IN BUTTS COUNTY. No. 73. An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating, spirituous or malt liquors within one mile of Worthville Baptist Church in Butts county, and to provide a penalty for violation of the same. SECTION. I. 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, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors within a radius of one mile of Worthville Baptist Church in Butts county. Sale prohibited within one mile.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by authority of the same, That any person or persons violating any provision of the foregoing section shall be punished, upon conviction, as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code, for each and every violation of this Act. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN ONE MILE OF ZION CHURCH, IN BUTTS COUNTY. No. 74. An Act to prevent the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within one mile of Zion Church, in the county of Butts, in said State, to provide a penalty, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within one mile of Zion's Church, in the county of Butts, in said State. Sale prohibited within one mile. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons violating the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code, 1882. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN ONE MILE OF MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH IN BUTTS COUNTY. No. 75. An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating, spirituous, or malt liquors within one mile of Macedonia Baptist Church in Butts county, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the same. SECTION I. 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, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, to sell spirituous, malt, or intoxicating liquors within one mile of Macedonia Baptist Church in Butts county. Sale prohibited within one mile.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That any person or persons violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code, for each and every violation of this Act. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN THE 693RD, 779TH, AND 938TH DIS-TRICTS, G. M., OF HEARD COUNTY. No. 79. An Act to prohibit the sale, or furnishing, of spirituous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors or bitters, in any quantity, either by wholesale or retail, within the limits of the 693rd, 779th, and 938th districts, G. M., of Heard county, Georgia, and to provide for the punishment of the same. SECTION I. 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, it shall not be lawful for any person, or persons, or firm, to sell or furnish in any quantity, either at retail or wholesale, directly or indirectly, any spirituous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors or bitters, within the limits of the 693rd, 779th, and 938th districts, Georgia Militia, of Heard county, Georgia. Sale prohibited in districts specified. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person, or persons, or firm, who shall violate the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to any person selling domestic wine of their own manufacture, made from grapes or berries grown on land owned, rented or leased by them. Domestic wine excepted. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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REGULATING SALE IN MONTGOMERY AND TELFAIR COUNTIES. No. 86. An Act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors in the counties of Montgomery and Telfair, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation of the same. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person, natural or artificial, to sell or vend any spirituous or malt liquors or any intoxicating bitters or drink of any kind, in any quantity whatever, in the counties of Montgomery and Telfair, without first complying with the now existing laws in force in said counties, prescribing the manner or method of procuring retail license, and obtaining a license to retail and paying therefor the sum of $5,000.00, according to said laws. Sale must conform to law regulating license. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person violating the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN THREE MILES OF SARDIS CHURCH IN FULTON COUNTY. No. 132. An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors within three miles of Sardis Methodist Church in Buckhead district, Fulton county, and to provide a penalty for violation of same. SECTION I. 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, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors within a radius of three miles of Sardis Methodist Church, situated near the Buckhead cross roads in Buckhead district, in the county of Fulton. Sale prohibited within three miles. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by authority of same, That any person or persons violating any provision of the foregoing section, shall be punished, upon conviction, as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code, for each and every violation of this Act. Penalty.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the forgoing Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN THREE MILES OF WASHINGTON INSTITUTE, IN HANCOCK COUNTY. No. 143. An Act to prohibit the sale of all spirituous, intoxicating, or malt liquors within three miles of Washington Institute, located in Hancock county, in this State, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any spirituous, intoxicating, or malt liquors within three miles of Washington Institute, located in Hancock county, Georgia: Provided, the terms of this Act shall not apply to those persons who now have licenses until the said licenses shall have expired. Sale prohibited within three miles. Proviso SEC. II. 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 December 26, 1888. PROHIBITING SALE WITHIN THREE MILES OF HOREB BAPTIST CHURCH, OF JEWELL'S BAPTIST CHURCH AND OF ROCK MILLS METHODIST CHURCH IN HANCOCK COUNTY. No. 144. An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, intoxicating, or malt liquors within three miles of Horeb Baptist Church, within three miles of Jewell's Baptist Church, and within three miles of Rock Mills Methodist Church, each located in Hancock county, in this State, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any spirituous, intoxicating, or malt liquors within three miles of Horeb Baptist Church, or within three miles

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of Jewell's Baptist Church, or within three miles of Rock Mills Methodist Church, each located in Hancock county, State of Georgia: Provided, the terms of this Act shall not apply to those persons who now have licenses, until the said licenses shall have expired. Sale prohibited within three miles. Proviso. SEC. II. 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 December 26, 1888. AMENDING LOCAL OPTION LAW OF WHITFIELD COUNTY. No. 149. An Act to amend an Act approved September 23, 1883 entitled an Act to submit to the qualified voters of Whitfield county, or any Militia district therein, whether liquors shall be sold in said county or in said district by adding another section thereto to be known as section 9, authorizing the makers of wine from grapes grown in said county to sell said wine under certain restrictions, and to change the numbers of some of the sections of said Act, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That any person who shall manufacture wine from grapes raised on lands owned or rented by him in said county shall have the right to sell said wine in quantities not less than one-half gallon at the place where said grapes are grown and said wine is manufactured: Provided, that no such sale shall take place to any minor, nor shall such sale be legal if there is any school house or church within two miles of such place of manufacture and sale, nor shall any sale take place on days of election, if there be any election precinct within two miles of the place of such manufacture and sale, nor shall such sale be legal if a majority of those above the age of eighteen, male and female, residing within two miles of such place of manufacture and sale, shall at any time file in the office of the Ordinary objections in writing to such sale. Sale of domestic wines authorized. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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TITLE VII. FENCES AND STOCK. ACTS. Stock law for 741st District, G. M., Taylor county. Stock law for 740th District, G. M., Macon county. Stock law for 743rd District, G. M., Taylor county. Repealing stock law as to certain districts in Fulton county. Stock law for 725th District, G. M., Stewart county. Stock law for 1002nd and 1070th Districts, G. M., Macon county. Authorizing adoption of stock law by a portion of the 1022nd District, G. M., Dawson county. STOCK LAW FOR 741ST DISTRICT, G. M., TAYLOR COUNTY. No. 30. An Act to better protect the lands and farming interest of the 741st District, G. M., known as Reynolds District of Georgia, Taylor county, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, that it shall not be lawful for any horse, mule, cow or hog, or any other domestic animal used, or fit for either labor or food, to run at large within the 741st district, Georgia militia, of Taylor county. Stock not to run at large. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That if any stock enumerated in the first section of this Act shall be found running at large on the lands of any person, whether owner, lessee or renter, within said district, that the owner, or owners, lessee or renter of said land shall be authorized to impound said stock and dispose of them as is prescribed for in sections 1451, 1452, 1453 and 1454 of the Code of 1882. Loose stock may be impounded. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 17, 1888.

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STOCK LAW FOR 740TH DISTRICT, G. M., MACON COUNTY. No. 53. An Act to prevent the running at large upon the lands of another, whether enclosed or unenclosed, in the 740th district, G. M., Macon county, Georgia, of all horses, mules, cows, hogs, sheep, goats, and cattle and stock of all kinds, to provide penalties for its violation, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the first day of March, 1889, it shall be unlawful for the owner of horses, mules, cows, hogs, sheep, goats, or stock of any other description, to allow the same to run at large upon the lands of another in the 740th district, G. M., in Macon county, whether enclosed or unenclosed. Stock not to run at large. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That if any of the animals named in the foregoing section shall commit any trespass, or damage to the crop or property of another, or shall be found running at large on the premises of another, whether such crops, property or premises be enclosed or unenclosed, the owner of said stock shall be liable to the person damaged in the amount of actual damage sustained by him, and the party injured or the owner, of said premises, his tenant or lessee, may impound said stock or cattle until such damages and all cost and expense of taking up and impounding the same shall have been paid by the owner of such cattle or stock. Owner liable for damages. Party trespassed on may impound. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That in case any such animals shall have been impounded under the provisions of the foregoing section, the party so impounding shall give them all necessary care, feed and attention, for which he shall have reasonable compensation, as hereinafter provided. It shall be his duty, within twenty-four hours after said stock or cattle shall have been taken up and impounded, to give notice thereof to the owner; if the owner, however, is not known or cannot be ascertained within three days after impounding such stock or cattle, they shall be disposed of as provided by law in cases of estrays, except that in case any such animals shall be disposed of after payment of the legal cost and expense, the balance shall be applied first, to the damages which such cattle or stock may have caused to the owners, or tenants, or lessees of lands, premises or crops thereon. Care and disposal of impounded animals. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That in case of disagreement between the party claimed to be damaged, or the taker up of such animals, and the owner of the same, as to the amount of damages sustained on account of the alleged trespass, or the expense of feed and attention, the party claiming said damages or expense may sue for the same as in other cases of trespass in Justice Court of

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any amount of Justice Court jurisdiction: Provided nevertheless, that said suit shall stand for trial at the first term of the court to which it is brought; and Provided further, that a special lien upon the trespassing animals for the payment of the judgment obtained shall attach from the date of the trespass Difference as to damages How settled. Proviso. Special lien on animal. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That in cases of litigation as contemplated by the preceding section, the owner of said stock or cattle may replevy the same by giving bond with good security, to be approved by the officer before whom the suit is brought, conditioned to pay plaintiff all damages and cost and expenses which may be recovered against him in said suit. Replevy. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That whenever any of said animals are impounded as hereinbefore prescribed, if any person or persons shall take them or cause them to be taken from said pound without the consent of the person or persons so impounding, or without first duly replevying them as provided in section V of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code. Illegal removal a misdemeanor. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. STOCK LAW FOR 743RD DISTRICT, G. M., TAYLOR COUNTY. No. 71. An Act to better protect the lands and farming interest of 743rd District, G. M., known as Carsonville district of Georgia, Taylor county, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, that it shall not be lawful for any horse, mule, cow, hog or any other domestic four footed animal, used or fit for either labor or food to run at large within the 743rd district, Georgia militia of Taylor county Stock not to run at large. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That if any stock enumerated in the first section of this Act, shall be found running at large on the lands of any person owning or renting lands within said district, that the owner or owners or tenants of said lands shall be authorized to impound said stock and dispose of them as is prescribed for in sections 1451, 1452, 1453 and 1454, of the Code of 1882. If trespassing may be impounded. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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REPEALING STOCK LAW AS TO CERTAIN DISTRICTS IN FULTUN COUNTY. No. 76. An Act to repeal the Act approved October 3, 1887, entitled, An Act to make operative the provisions of the stock law as to Fulton county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Act approved October 3, 1887, and entitled, An Act to make operative the provisions of the stock law as to Fulton county be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, that this Act shall not be construed to relieve any militia district of the county which has previously adopted the stock law from the operation of said law, but shall only apply to those districts which by their last vote on the question refused to adopt said law. Act of Oct. 3, 1887, repealed. As to districts voting fence. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. STOCK LAW FOR 725TH DISTRICT, G. M., STEWART COUNTY. No. 113. An Act to require the owners of horses, mules, cows, hogs, sheep, goats, cattle, and stock of all kinds, to prevent the same from running at large upon the lands of another, whether enclosed or unenclosed, in the 725th district, G. M., in the county of Stewart, and to define the liabilities of owners of such stock or cattle of any kind, so running at large, and the rights of such persons as may be damaged by said stock. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of March, 1889, it shall not be lawful for the owner or owners of any horse or horses, mule or mules, cow or cattle, hog or hogs, sheep, goat or goats, or stock of any kind, to allow the same to run at large, upon the lands of another, whether enclosed or unenclosed, lying within the limits of the 725th district, G. M., in the county of Stewart, State of Georgia. Stock not to run at large. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any of the animals named in the foregoing section shall commit any trespass or damage to the crop or property of another, or

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shall be found running at large upon the premises of another, whether such crop, premises or property be enclosed or unenclosed, the owner of said stock or animals shall be liable to the person damaged in the amount of actual damages sustained by him, and the party injured, or the owner of said premises, his tenant or lessees, may impound said stock or cattle until such damages and all costs and expenses of taking up and impounding the same, shall have been paid by the owner of such cattle or stock. Impounding for damages authorized. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event any such animal or animals shall have been impounded under the provisions of the above section, the parties so impounding shall give them all necessary care, feed, and attention, for which he shall have reasonable compensation, as hereinafter provided. It shall be his duty within twenty-four hours after such stock or cattle shall have been taken up and impounded, to give notice thereof to the owner; if the owner is not known and can not be ascertained within six days after the impounding of such stock or cattle, they shall be disposed of as now provided by law in cases of estrays; except that in case any such animals shall be disposed of after the paymant of legal costs and expenses the balances hall be applied first to damages which such stock or animals may have caused to the owner or owners, tenants, or lessees of lands, premises, or crops thereon. Care and disposal of impounded animals. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of disagreement between the party claiming to be damaged or the taker up of such stock or animals and the owner of the same as to the amount of the damages sustained on account of the alleged damage or trespass, or the expense of feed and attention, the party claiming said damages or expenses may sue for same, as in other cases of trespass: Provided, that said suit shall stand for trial at the first term of the court to which it is brought; and Provided further, that a special lien shall attach upon the trespassing stock or animals from the date of the trespass for the payment of the judgment obtained in said suit. Disagreement regarding damages. How settled. Special lien on animal. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of litigation as contemplated by the preceding section, the owner of said stock or animals may replevy the same by giving bond with good security, to be approved by the officer, judge or justice before whom the suit is brought, conditioned to pay plaintiff all damages and costs and expenses which may be recovered against him in said suit. Replevy. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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STOCK LAW FOR 1002ND AND 1070TH DISTRICTS, G. M., MACON COUNTY. No. 125. An Act to require the owners of horses, mules, cows, sheep, hogs and stock of all kinds, to keep the same from running at large upon the lands of another in the 1070th and 1002nd districts, G. M., in Macon county, Georgia, to define the liabilities of said owners and the rights of persons damaged by said stock so running at large. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of March 1889, it shall not be lawful for any person owning or in charge of any horse, mule, cow, sheep, goat, hog or stock of any kind, to permit the same to run at large upon the lands or premises of another in the 1070th and 1002nd districts, G. M., of Macon county, Georgia, and any person owning or having in charge any of the animals above enumerated, who shall permit the same to run at large in said districts of said county, shall be liable for the actual damage which such animals shall commit upon the premises of another, whether such premises be enclosed or uninclosed, to be recovered as hereinafter provided. Stock not to run at large. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That if any animal or animals enumerated in the foregoing section shall commit any trespass, or shall be going at large in said districts in said county, upon the premises of another than the owner or manager, it shall be lawful for the owner or person in charge of such premises, to impound such animal or animals and retain them until the owner thereof shall make full satisfaction or reparation for the actual damage committed, including all cost and expenses in impounding and keeping the same unless disposed of as hereinafter provided. Provided further, that the owner or person having in charge any of said animals so enumerated, shall be liable to the amount of said actual damages so committed, whether said animals running at large be impounded or not. Impounding for damages authorized. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That in case any animal shall be impounded under the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the person impounding to give the said animals all necessary feed, care and attention, and it shall be his duty to give the owner or person in charge of such animal, if known, notice of the facts of such impounding in twenty-four hours and the amount of damages committed and the cost and expense of impounding, feeding and keeping the same, and in the event the parties shall fail to agree upon the amount to be paid by the owner of such

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animal, or such owner shall fail or refuse to pay the same, then the owner of such animal, or animals may relieve them from the pound by giving the party damaged a good and sufficient bond in double the amount of the damages claimed for the forthcoming of such animals to answer any judgment that may be obtained against him in any suit to be commenced within one year from the date of such bond, said bond to be approved by the Justice of the Peace or Notary Public and cx officio Justice of the Peace of the district in which said trespass was committed. If the parties shall fail to agree upon the amount of damages and expenses sustained, or the owner of such animal shall replevy them as above provided, then the party may file his complaint in any Justice or other court having jurisdiction of the same, setting forth the amount claimed, and the subsequent proceedings in said suit, including the issuing and serving of process, shall be the same as in other suits before said courts, except that the said suit shall stand for trial at the first term of the court after the filing of the same. Any judgment that may be rendered in favor of the plaintiff in any suit originating under the provisions of this Act shall have a special lien on the animal impounded from the date of the trespass complained of superior to all other liens, except taxes, and may be enforced by executions, as in other cases, whenever any case shall be tried in a Justice court, and either party shall be dissatisfied with the judgment of the court, said party shall have the right to appeal or [Illegible Text] under the laws regulating appeals and continuances in other cases. Care of impounded stock. Notice. Replevy bondhow taken and approved. Disagreement regarding damages. How settled. Judgments create special lien on animal. Appeal or [Illegible Text]. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That if the person impounding such animals shall not know or shall not ascertain the owner there-of within three days from the time of impounding the same, they shall be disposed of as provided by law in cases of estrays, except that in the case any such animal or animals shall be sold under the provisions of the estray law, the proceeds of such sale, after the payment of cost, shall be applied first to the payment of damages sustained by the aggrieved party, including reasonable compensation for the impounding, feed, care and attention to such animal or animals. Disposal of impounded stock. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That whenever any of said animals are impounded as hereinbefore prescribed, if any person or persons shall take them or cause them to be taken from said pound without the consent of the person or persons so impounding or without first duly replevying them as provided in section third of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Removal of animals impounded a misdemeanor. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AUTHORIZING ADOPTION OF STOCK LAW BY A PORTION OF THE 1022ND DISTRICT, G. M., IN DAWSON COUNTY. No. 137. An Act to authorize the legal voters on the south side of the Etowah river in the 1022nd district, G. M., of Dawson county, to adopt the stock law, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Sections 1449, 1450, 1451, 1452, 1453, 1454, and 1455, of the Code of 1882, be and the same are hereby declared of force in that part of the 1022nd district, G. M., lying on the south side of the Etowah river, in Dawson county, which said river, for all the purposes of this Act, is hereby declared to be a lawful fence: Provided, this Act shall not become operative in the territory to be affected by it till the same shall have been adopted by a vote of the qualified voters of said territory, at an election to be held for that purpose, said election to be held as provided for in Section 1455 of the Code of 1882. Stock law for south side Etowah river. Proviso SEC. II. 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 December 26, 1888.

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TITLE VIII. EDUCATION. ACTS. System of Public Schools for Cartersville. Amending Public School system of Athens. Amending Public School system of Carrollton. Authorizing tax levy for school purposes in Whitfield county. Amending Public School system of Richmond county. System of Public Schools for Tallapoosa. Amending Public School system of Waycross. Amending Public School system of Ware county. System of Public Schools for Quitman. Authorizing election in Greenesboro on question of issuing bonds to erect school house. SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR CARTERSVILLE. No. 46. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Cartersville so as to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen to establish a system of public schools and to provide revenue for the support of the same, and to authorize the County School Commissioner of Bartow county to pay over to the corporate authorities of said city for the use of said public schools such part of the State school fund as may be their just pro rata share thereof, and for other purposes herein mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, ( the corporate authorities of the city of Cartersville having so recommended, ) That the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Cartersville in Bartow county, are hereby authorized to levy a tax annually, in addition to that now authorized by law, on all the taxable property in said city not to exceed one-fourth () of one per cent for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a system of public schools in said city: Provided, the money so raised by taxation shall be used only for school purposes as in this Act set forth. Special tax authorized. Proviso.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before this Act shall take effect and be of force in said city of Cartersville, the Mayor and Aldermen shall order an election giving at least twenty (20) days notice, by publication in a newspaper published in said city, to ascertain the will of the qualified voters under this Act, whether a system of public schools shall be established or not in said city. All persons voting at said election shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, For Public Schools, or Against Public Schools. Should the question be decided in favor of public schools by the necessary Constitutional majority, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen to so declare, and proceed to levy and collect the tax provided for in section I of this Act; but should said question be decided against public schools, said Mayor and Aldermen are authorized to order other elections upon the same question when as many as fifty legal voters of said city, shall by petition so request: Provided, twelve months shall elapse between said elections. Election as to public school system. How ballots shall read. If measure defeated. New election in order. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any election held under this Act shall be governed and managed under the same rules and regulations as elections held for Mayor and Aldermen of said city of Cartersville are conducted, and the Mayor and Aldermen of said city may, in their discretion, provide for the registration of voters for said elections. Management of election. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That John W. Akin, W. H. Howard, W. C. Baker, Martin Collins, J K Rowan, Thomas W. Milner, W. L. Kirkpatrick, Starling Roberts, John H. Wikle, James M. Neel, John A. Crawford, A W. Fite, A. M. Foute, J. C. Wofford, Aaron Collins and Charles H. Smith be, and they are hereby, created a Board of School Commissioners for said city of Cartersville with perpetual succession, and whenever a vacancy or vacancies occur in said Board by resignation, removal or otherwise, such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by said Board of School Commissioners. No one shall be eligible to the office of School Commissioner who is not a resident of said city, and who is not twenty-one years old. The officers of said Board shall be a President, Vice President and Secretary. The Treasurer of the city of Cartersville shall be ex-officio Treasurer of said Board, and shall give a separate bond with good and sufficient securities in such amount as the Mayor and Aldermen may prescribe, payable to said city of Cartersville, conditioned for the sale keeping and proper disbursement of the school funds placed in his hands. The Treasurer shall keep a book in which he shall enter all sums received and disbursed by him, which book and vouchers shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the city authorities and School Commissioners, and he shall make written reports whenever required so to do. The officers of said Board of School Commissioners,

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except the Treasurer, shall be elected in such manner and at such time, and for such terms as said Board may determine, and said Board shall prescribe the duties of its officers. Board of School Commissioners. Vacaney on. Eligibility. Officers. Treasurerhis duties. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the members of said Board of School Commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services, except the Secretary, whose compensation shall not exceed twenty-five dollars per annum. Compensation. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Commissioners shall have authority to establish, and from time to time modify, a system of public schools for said city of Cartersville, to be open not less than six nor longer than ten scholastic months in each year. Said Board shall have authority to purchase, build, enlarge and rent buildings, appurtenances and furniture for school purposes, to employ a superintendent or principal and other teachers, to suspend or discharge them for good causes, to prescribe the terms upon which students are to be received into said schools, and to establish such rules, regulations and by-laws as they may deem right and proper in maintaining a system of public schools in said city: Provided, the same are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State: Provided, further, that the money raised by this Act, or which said Board may receive by authority of this Act, shall only be used in giving instruction in the English branches of an education. Said Board may charge entrance fee not exceeding three dollars per annum, for the admission of children to said schools as they may deem proper. They shall also have power to provide a course of instruction for students who desire to engage in studies other than those usually included in an English education, but students who pursue such studies must pay such tuition as the Board may determine is proper in addition to what is paid under the system of public schools established by this Act. Authority and duties of Board. Restriction on curriculum. Entrance fees. Extra studies. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That 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 Aldermen of said city, and said Mayor and Aldermen shall levy and collect the same as provided in this Act, and when collected the collecting officer of said city shall pay the same over to the Treasurer of said Board of School Commissioners, to be disbursed for the maintainance of said public schools, and to be paid out upon the order of said Board under such regulations as they may prescribe. Said taxes shall be collected by levy and sale as the other taxes of said city are collected. Estimate of annual expenses. Tax levy to provide for same. How collected and disbursed.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the County School Commissioner of the county of Bartow, shall pay over to the Treasurer of said Board of School Commissioners the [Illegible Text] share of the State and county public school fund coming to said city, to be by them expended in the maintenance of said public schools. The Board of School Commissioners shall require the teachers of said public schools to make out reports of the attendance of children entitled to draw the State school fund so that the amount due said city may be estimated. [Illegible Text] public school fund. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said Board of School Commissioners shall establish separate schools for the white and colored children. That all children between the ages of six and eighteen years, whose parents, guardians or natural protectors bona fide reside within the corporate limits of said city shall be entitled to the benefit of said schools. The Board may also admit children into said schools, whose parents, guardians or natural protectors do not reside within the corporate limits of said city, upon the payment of such tuition fees as the Board may deem reasonable and proper: Provided, that all sums arising from these sources shall be used only for the purposes of maintaining said schools. Said Board are authorized to receive all gifts and donations and appropriate the same to the support of said schools. Separate schools for white and colored. Further regulations. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said Board of School Commissioners shall make a report annually on or before the first Monday in January, to the Mayor and Aldermen of said city, of their receipts and disbursements, the number of pupils attending said schools, and the property in their custody. Annual report. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said city shall have power to appropriate from time to time such sums of money for the purposes of building or purchasing school houses or other school property for the use of the public schools herein provided for as the condition of the treasury may authorize. Appropriation by city for building. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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AMENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF ATHENS. No. 56. An Act to amend an Act to establish a system of public free schools in Athens, Ga., approved October 15th 1885, and the Act amendatory thereof approved October 24th 1887, so as to change the term of office of the members of the Board of Education of Athens, Ga., to fix the term of office of the present members, to vest the election of the members of said Board in the Mayor and Council of the city of Athens, to confer additional powers upon said Board of Education, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section III of the Act to establish a system of public free schools in the city of Athens, approved October 15th 1885, as amended by the Act approved October 24th 1887, be further amended by striking out the words, who shall be (by virtue of his office) the President of the Board, in the 4th and 5th line of said amended section; and by striking out the last paragraph of said amended section; so that said section as amended shall read as follows: Act of 1885 amended. Portions of section III stricken. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the public free schools of Athens, Georgia, shall be managed and conducted by a Board of Education to consist of eleven members, to-wit: The Mayor of the city of Athens, and of two members from each ward and two members from the city at large, to be a body corporate and politic, with continuous succession, under the corporate name and style of the Board of Education of Athens, Georgia, with the right to take and hold to it and it successors for the city of Athens, any grant or devise of lands or donations or bequest of money or other personal property, with the right to sue and the liability of being sued Section as amended: Board of Education. Corporate name and powers. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the term of office of the present members of the Board of Education of Athens, Georgia, shall expire as follows: R. Nickerson, from the first ward, and J. H. Rucker, from the third ward, January 1, 1889; Charles Stern, from the second ward, and Andrew J. Cobb, from the fourth ward, January 1, 1890; R. K Reaves, from the first ward, and C. D. Flanigen, from the second ward, January 1, 1891; R. B. Russell, from the city at large, and D. C. Barrow, Jr., from the fourth ward, January 1, 1892; A. L Hull, from the third ward, and John Gerdine, from the city at large, January 1, 1893; and their successors shall be elected by the Mayor and Council of the city of Athens, to hold their office for a term of five years. Expiration of terms of present members.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor of the city shall be member only during his term of office as Mayor; and shall not hold any office in said Board unless elected thereto by the Board. Hereafter no person shall be elected a member from any ward unless such person is a resident of the ward from which elected. Removal from the city, or removal from the ward from which elected, shall vacate the seat of the member so removing. Mayor's term as member. Ward members. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the members of said Board of Education shall in all cases hereafter be elected by the Mayor and Council of the city of Athens, two members being elected each year, at the regular meeting of said Mayor and Council in November, to hold office for a term of five years from the first day of January thereafter. If, for any reason said election is not held at the time herein fixed, then said Mayor and Council shall hold said election as soon thereafter as possible, either at a regular meeting, or at a meeting called for that purpose. When vacancies occur in said Board, by death, resignation, or otherwise, said Mayor and Council shall, as soon as practicable after they are notified of a vacancy, elect a member to hold for the unexpired term of the member whose seat has become vacant. Mayor and Councll to elect Board. Time elections. Vacancies. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Education shall be authorized in their discretion to charge an entrance fee not to exceed twenty dollars for each pupil in all high school grades now established or that may be hereafter established by said Board; said fees when fixed by said Board shall be payable annually, and the payment of the same shall be a condition precedent to entrance into said schools. Entrance fees. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall have power to appropriate annually not exceeding two hundred dollars for the purposes of holding Normal Institutes for the benefit of the teachers employed by the Board under such rules and regulations as shall be adopted by said Board. The amount desired by said Board for said purpose shall be included in the annual statement rendered to the Mayor and Council, and shall be raised by said Mayor and Council in the same manner as other funds are raised for said Board. Normal In stitutes. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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AMENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF CARROLLTON. No. 62. An Act to amend an Act entitled: An Act to establish a system of public schools for the city of Carrollton, in Carroll county; to provide for the maintenance and support of the same; to create a Board of School Commissioners, and for other purposes pertaining thereto, approved November 26, 1886, so as to provide for increasing the entrance fee for the admission of scholars into the schools, and to vest in the School Commissioners discretion to admit indigent children to the schools on such terms as they may prescribe; and also to provide for the admission of non-resident pupils whose parents, or who themselves, pay tax within the town, by allowing them a reduction for the tax so paid, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority thereof: SECTION I. That section VI of the above recited Act be amended in the twelfth line thereof by striking out $3.00 per annum in said twelfth line, and inserting in lieu thereof $5.00 per annum. Change of figures. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said section VI of said Act be amended by adding thereto the following: Said Board of Commissioners may admit indigent children, resident within the town, to the schools on such terms as they may prescribe and may in their discretion relieve thm entirely of the payment of the entrance fee or tuition. Non-resident pupils whose parents or guardians or who themselves pay school tax within the town, shall have a reduction from the tuition charged such non-resident pupils equal to the amount of the tax so paid: Provided, that should the tax so paid equal or exceed in amount the tuition so charged, such non-resident pupils shall still pay the said tax and a sum equal to the entrance fee or tuition charged resident pupils of the same grade; and should the said tax lack only the amount or part of the amount of the entrance fee or tuition charged resident pupils of equaling the tuition charged non-resident pupils, such non-resident pupils shall still pay said tax and an amount sufficient to make the regular tuition charged non-resident pupils, and an amount equal to the entrance fee or tuition charged resident pupils of the same grade. Addition to section VI: Indigent children. Non-resident tax payers. Proviso in case of. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 24, 1888.

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AUTHORIZING TAX LEVY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES IN WHITFIELD COUNTY. No. 70. An Act to authorize the Grand Jury at each of the Spring Terms of the Superior Court of Whitfield county, in each and every year, to levy and assess a tax not to exceed one and one-half tenths of one per cent. upon all of the taxable property of Whitfield county, in aid of and supplementary to the present fund now received by said county for common school purposes, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That at each and every Spring Term of the Superior Court of the county of Whitfield the Grand Jury at said term, or if no Grand Jury at such term, then the first Grand Jury of each and every year, or if such time shall be hereafter changed, then the Grand Jury of the term corresponding under such change to the present Spring Term, are hereby authorized and empowered (if in their discretion they see proper to do so) to levy and asses a tax upon all the property in said county subject to taxation, not to exceed one and one-half tenths of one per cent., in aid of and supplementary to the present fund for common school purposes, such tax thus assessed and levied to be collected as other county taxes now are, and to be used solely for the purposes for which levied and assessed, and to be added to the present funds now received and to be used as it is. Tax authorized for common school purposes. How collected and used. SEC. II. 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 December 24, 1888. AMENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF RICHMOND COUNTY. No. 77. An Act to amend an Act entitled, An Act to regulate Public Instruction in the county of Richmond, approved August 23, 1872, by providing for the election of three School Trustees from the fifth ward in the city of Augusta, who shall be members of the County Board of Education. WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly, approved , the limits of the city of Augusta were extended so as to include the territory now known and designated as the Fifth Ward, formerly

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a part of the 1269th District, G. M., Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an Act entitled, An Act to regulate Public Instruction in the county of Richmond, approved August 23, 1872, be amended as follows: Preamble. Act of 1872 amended. SECTION I. That said Fifth Ward shall be entitled to the same representation by three School Trustees on the Board of Education of Richmond county as is now provided by law for the other wards of the city of Augusta. Representation given Fifth Ward. SEC. II. That any member of said Board of Education now representing the 1269th District, G. M., whose residence is within the limits of said Fifth Ward shall be a member of said Board of Education from the Fifth Ward until the expiration of his current term; that on the second Saturday in January, 1889, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Board of Education of Richmond county shall elect three new members to supply the unfilled places in the Fifth Ward and in the 1269th District, G. M., and shall so arrange the terms of such members as to make each of said terms expire as now provided by law for the other wards and districts. Terms of members from Fifth Ward and 1269th Dist. SEC. III. That all subsequent elections of members of the said Board of Education from the Fifth Ward and the 1269th District, G. M., shall conform in all respects to the law now of force as to the other wards and districts in said city and county. Future elections. SEC. IV. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. Approved December 24, 1888. SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR TALLAPOOSA. No. 109. An Act to establish a system of public schools in the city of Tallapoosa, and provide for the maintenance and support of the same, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, 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 one half 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. Tax to public school purposes authorized. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in conformity with the provisions of article 8th, section 4, paragraph I, of the Constitution of 1877, an election shall be held on the first Wednesday in February

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1889, on the question of local taxation for the support of said system of free schools, and all persons who are citizens of said city, and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, shall be entitled to vote in the elections provided by this Act. All voters who favor such free school system shall have written or printed on their ballots the words For free Schools, and those who are opposed to such free school system shall have written or printed on their ballots the words Against free Schools, and in case two-thirds of the votes cast at said election shall be for free schools, then it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council of Tallapoosa to raise annually by taxation as provided in section 1st of this Act, a sum sufficient to carry out the purpose of this Act, but if two-thirds of those voting at the election as above provided for shall not vote for free schools, then the Mayor and Council of said city may order an election at intervals of six months after said first election to be conducted in the same manner, with the same rules, regulations and restrictions as hereinbefore provided, and whenever two-thirds of the votes cast at any election held for that purpose, whether on the first Wednesday in February or at some subsequent election, shall be for free schools, then it shall be the duty of said Mayor and Council to carry the provisions of this Act into effect: Provided, that said Mayor and Council shall cause to be published a notice of any election ordered by them ten days before such election. Election as to adoption of school system. Ballotshow worded. Majority must be two-thirds. If measure fails, new election permissible After interval of six months. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it at any election herein-before provided for, two-thirds of the voters voting in such election shall vote for free schools, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council, within thirty days thereafter, to appoint a Board of Education for said city, which Board shall consist of five citizens who are freeholders of said city, and said Board shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to employ teachers for said schools and fix their compensation and prescribe their duties; to prescribe rules for the government of said schools, dictate the course of studies, the organization of classes, the number and character of text books, the methods of teaching, the time and mode of examinations, and to make and enforce a complete system of rules for the government and efficiency of said schools. Said Board may also prescribe such rules for their own government as they may think proper. Said Mayor and Council shall have power to fill all vacancies in the Board by appointment. Said Board shall be appointed for the term of two years. Board of Education. Its duties. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Education shall be a body corporate with the rights to sue and be sued as such, and to purchase, take and hold to it, and its successors in trust for the city of Tallapoosa, any lands, and to erect and furnish buildings thereon, money, or other personal property for Educational purposes. Corporate powers of Board.

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That within ten days from the date of their appointment, the Board shall organize by electing from their number a President and Vice-President and a Secretary and Treasurer. The Secretary shall keep a record of all the acts and doings of the Board, which record shall be open to inspection by any person interested therein. The Treasurer shall give bond with good and sufficient security, payable to said Board and its successors, conditioned for the safe keeping and proper disbursement of the funds placed in his charge as such Treasurer The amount of such bond, and the sufficiency of the security to be judged of by said Board, and said Board may, at any time, require said Treasurer to increase the amount of his bond or give other and additional security, or both, as they shall deem proper, and it shall not be lawful for the Treasurer to pay out any funds except upon order of the Board. Organization. Secretary. Treasurer. Bond of. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the schools established by authority of this Act shall be free to all children 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. Schools free to residents. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That provision shall be made under this Act by said Board for the education of all children, both white and colored, in said city, but separate schools shall Be provided for white and colored children. Separate schools. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Education shall make or cause to be made annually, a full and complete list of all pupils in attendance upon said public schools who reside in the county of Haralson, and present the same to the County School Commissioner of said county; and it shall be his duty to pay over to said Board of Education, or to such other person as they may appoint to receive the same, such pro rata part of the public school fund as may be due such public schools within said city. Annual roster of attendance. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That elections held under the provisions of this Act shall be held and conducted under the same rules and regulations as govern elections for members of the General Assembly of this State, and any person who shall vote or attempt to vote at any election held under this Act, without being qualified according to its provisions. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in Section 4310 of the Code of 1882. Elections under Act. Illegal voting at. How punished. SEC X. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall also have the authority to erect and improve buildings for school purposes, provided they shall first have a title in fee simple to the property upon which it is proposed to erect or improve such buildings. School buildings. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AMENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF WAYCROSS. No. 111. An Act to amend an Act establishing a system of public schools for the town of Waycross, approved October 22nd, 1887, by providing for a Board of Education for said town, and prescribing their powers and duties, and to repeal all of said Act conferring power upon the Mayor and Council of said town to regulate and control said public school system, except the power to levy and collect taxes for the support thereof; to fix the limit of taxation at one fourth of one per cent., and the admission fee at four dollars per annum for each child, payable quarterly, and to provide for a submission of the Act creating said public school system, as amended, to the qualified voters of said town for their approval. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an Act establishing a system of public schools for the town of Waycross, approved October 22nd, 1887, be so amended as to provide for a Board of Education for said town, composed of seven members, to be chosen as hereinafter prescribed, one for the term of one year, three for two years, and three for three years, for their first terms respectively, and their successors shall be elected by the legal voters of said town at the election for Mayor and Council next preceding the expiration of their several terms, to hold for a term of three years from the first day of February after their said elections, and on failure to elect, until their successors are elected and qualified; and said Board shall have power to fill vacancies in their body occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, but no one shall be eligible as a member of said Board who is not twenty-one years of age and has not been a bona fide citizen and resident of said town for twelve months next preceding his election. Act of Oct. 22, 1887, amended. Board of Education provided for. Terms and election. Qualification. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall supervise, regulate and make efficient said school system; shall have power to make rules for the government of themselves and the teachers and pupils of said schools; to establish grades therein and prescribe the studies therefor; to elect, employ, fix the salaries and pay the teachers therefor, and to provide for the necessary conveniences and appliances of said schools, and to do all lawful acts necessary to the proper operation of the system, and are authorized to hold and apply any grants or donations of money or property made by any person or corporation for the benefit of said schools. Powers and authority of Board.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall keep a record of all their proceedings; shall elect of their body a President and a Secretary, the compensation of Secretary to be regulated and fixed by the Board, the President and other members of the Board to receive no salary. Record. Officers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall have power, and it shall be their duty to maintain at least one school for the whites, and one for the colored people in said town, out of the fund provided for that purpose, and they shall make a report annually to the Mayor and Council of said town of their receipts and disbursements on or before the first Monday in January in each year after 1889, and the same shall be published in the newspapers of said town. Separate schools for white and colored. SEC V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall require their Secretary to prepare annually a list of all pupils entitled to the State school fund, in attendance upon said schools of Waycross as established under this Act who reside in Ware county, and furnish it to the Treasurer of said town, who shall present the same to the School Commissioners of said county, and receive from him such portion of the educational fund for Ware county, as said pupils are entitled to, to be determined by the number of said pupils, which said sum it shall be the duty of said School Commissioner to pay over to said Treasurer, to be applied by said Board to the maintenance of said schools according to law, and it shall further be the duty of said Treasurer to recover from the Mayor and Council of said town all the money raised by them by taxation, and the admission fees, and all tuition paid, and said Treasurer shall report the same to the Board at each meeting thereof, and said Treasurer shall pay the same out only upon the order of said Board of Education. Annual roster of attendance. Pro rata of school fund. Other funds. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all of said Act establishing a system of public schools for said town conferring power upon the Mayor and Council of said town to regulate and control said public school system, except the power to levy and collect taxes for the support thereof is hereby repealed. Powers withdrawn. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Act be further amended by reducing and fixing the limit of taxation at one fourth of one per cent. and the admission fee at four dollars per annum for each child, payable quarterly. Limit of taxation, etc. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the [Illegible Text] aforesaid, That the said Act establishing a system of public schools for the town of Waycross, approved October 22, 1887, as amended by this Act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town for their approval, for which purpose the Mayor and Council of said town shall order an election, of which ten days' notice shall be given in the newspapers of said town, which election shall be held

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under the same rules and regulations as elections for Mayor and Council of said town, and the qualification of voters shall be the same. Those in favor of pablic schools and of the approval of said Act as amended shall have printed or written on their tickets, For Public Schools, and those against public schools and of the approval of said Act as amended shall have printed or written on their tickets, Against Public Schools. The managers of said election shall make return to the Mayor and Council of said town, 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 proccedings; and if two-thirds of the qualified voters of said town, qualified to vote at said election, shall be for public schools, said Act as amended shall become operative, and said Mayor and Council and said Board of Education shall proceed to carry out their respective duties under the same. Should said Act as amended fail of adoption, said Mayor and Council may submit the same to another election after the lapse of twelve months from first election. Election as to adoption of amended Act. Ballotshow worded. Declaration of result. Two-thirds majority necessary. New election. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should Act as amended be approved, the Mayor and Council of said town shall forthwith order an election for members of the Board of Education provided for by this Act for the respective terms as herein prescribed, giving ten days' notice thereof in the newspapers published in said town, which election shall be held and governed by the same rules and regulations governing the election for Mayor and Council for said town, and the qualification of voters shall be the same. Election for Board of Education. How held and regulated. SEC. X. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. AMENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF WARE COUNTY. No. 155. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to change and regulate the school system in the counties of Ware, Echols, Lowndes, Berrien, Charlton, Dodge and Clinch, approved by the Governor February 15th, 1877, in so far as it relates to the county of Ware. SECTION I. 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 second of the Act of the Legislature of Georgia approved

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February 15th, 1877, regulating the school system in the counties of Ware, Echols, Lowndes, Berrien, Charlton, Dodge and Clinch, reading as follows, to-wit: That it shall be the duty of the said County Commissioner to apportion the school funds to the said school districts according to the number of children in each school district entitled to said school fund, and keep said funds for the benefit of said school district, until all the children of said district entitled to said school fund shall receive their proportion of instruction in said schools, be, and the same is hereby, amended in so far as it relates to the county of Ware, and when amended it shall read in relation to the school system of Ware county as follows, to-wit: That it shall be the duty of the County School Commissioner to apportion the school funds to the school districts according to the number of children in each school district entitled to said fund who actually attend school; and that all of the school funds of said county shall be distributed annually by the County School Commissioner to the schools of said county for the benefit of the children who actually attend school. Section II of Act of 1877 amended, As to Ware County. Section as amended. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888. SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR QUITMAN. No. 157. An Act to establish a system of public schools in the town of Quitman, Georgia, to provide for raising revenue to maintain said schools; to authorize the County School Commissioner of Brooks county to pay over to the Board of Education of said public schools such part of the State school fund as may be their just pro rata share thereof. SECTION I. 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 town Council of Quitman are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax on all the property in the said town of Quitman, that is subject to taxation, as will be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, and to adopt such methods in reference to a fair and equitable assessment of said property for taxes as they may deem wise and just, and that the revenue derived by the town of Quitman from the following sources be, and they are hereby appropriated to the maintenance of said public schools and shall be turned over by the corporate authorities of said town to the Board of Education,

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to be chosen and elected by the legal voters of said town when collected, namely: All proceeds from the grant of licenses to sell spirituous liquors by said town authorities within the town of Quitman, and also all proceeds from the grant of licenses to circuses and other shows traveling through the country and exhibiting under tents and otherwise within the town of Quitman. Special school tax authorized. Other revenues appropriated, viz: Liquor and show licenses. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the election of a Board of Education shall be chosen and elected from the competent voters of said town to consist of not less than seven, under the same rules and regulations as other elections are conducted, who shall have power and authority to fill all vacancies which may occur in its body by death, resignation, removal from said town of Quitman or otherwise, and in case, for any cause the number be reduced below a quorum of the original membership, then it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council of said town to appoint a new Board to fill out the unexpired term or terms for which said Board was elected. Board of Education. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Education shall have the power to appoint a principal and such number of assistant teachers as they may consider necessary; to remove any member of the faculty when they consider it to the interest of the schools to do so; to fix the salaries of the principal and assistants, and the mode and time of payment; to prescribe the course of study; to establish the rates of matriculation fees: Provided, the same shall not exceed one dollar per month, per scholar; to adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the schools, not to be in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the State or of the United States, and to exercise general supervision and control over all the property and interest of the schools. Powers of Board. Rates of charges. Proviso. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the said Board of Education shall have power to elect from their body a Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be put under such restrictions as they may provide under their by-laws; that said Board of Education shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and shall publish from time to time the same in the paper or papers of the town. Officers and minutes. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the election of said Board of Education shall be annually, and at such times as the election may be held to elect a Mayor and Council in said town of Quitman, and under the same rules and regulations as other elections are conducted, except that the returns thereof shall be made to the Town Council of Quitman, which Council shall declare the result of said election within three days from the time the same is held. Election of Boardhow held. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Education shall have power to provide for suitable

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buildings for school purposes, in addition to those already provided by the town, as they may be required to meet the demands of the schools. School buildings. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the Town Council of Quitman shall be authorized to turn over all school tax, when assessed and collected, to such Board of Education as may be duly elected by the legal voters of said town of Quitman, to be disbursed by said Board of Education as in their judgment will be right and proper for the maintenance of said public schools. Fundshow disbursed. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Education shall provide separate schools for the white children and the colored children who shall be admitted to said schools, and that the schools shall be kept open during not less than nine scholastic months in each year. Separate schools. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Town Council of Quitman shall, within fifteen days after notification of the passage of this Act, order an election, of which notice shall be given by publication in the Quitman papers, and which shall be conducted as other elections are held in said town, and at which election the qualified voters residing within the corporate limits of said town shall be entitled to vote. At said election said voters shall have written or printed on their ballots For Schools, or Against Schools, and this Act shall not become operative unless two-thirds of all the qualified voters of said town shall cast their ballots For Schools. Election as to adoption of Act. How conducted. Two-thirds majority requisite. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event there shall not be fifteen days intervening between the time of the passage of this Act and the election of a Mayor and Council for the town of Quitman, in the January election next ensuing, then there shall be called an election within ten days after the matter has been determined: Provided, a majority favor schools at which a Board of Education shall be elected, who shall enter upon their duties of organizing and otherwise providing for said public schools. Called election. Proviso. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 26, 1888.

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AUTHORIZING ELECTION IN GREENESBORO ON QUESTION OF ISSUING BONDS TO ERECT SCHOOL HOUSES. No. 13. An Act to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Greenesboro to call an election in said city to determine the question of issing bonds for the purpose of constructing and furnishing a school house for the whites and also one for the colored people, to purchase suitable real estate for such house or houses, to provide for the payment of the principal and interest accring on said bonds by local taxation, to provide for the proper division of the fund raised by the sale of said bonds between said schools, and also for the proper disbussement and custody of the fund so raised, and to repeal the Act with reference to the same subject approved December 24th, 1886. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Greenesboro shall, at such time as they by ordinance or resolution designate, order an election to be held at the court house in said city, notice of which election shall be given, and said election shall be held and conducted, and returns thereof made, consolidated and the result declared in accordance with the provisions of sections 508 (i) and 508 (j) of the Code of 1882. The qualifications for voters at said election shall be the same as required by law at elections for Mayor and Aldermen of said city. All persons voting at said election shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, For issuing bonds, or the words, Against issuing bonds, and if it should appear to the Mayor and Aldermen that the requisite constitutional majority of two-thirds of the voters of said city have voted For issuing bonds (to be ascertained according to the provisions of section 508 (l) of said Code), then in that even said Mayor and Aldermen are hereby authorized to issue, bonds, provide for the payment of the same, upon the conditions and for the purposes hereinafter stated. Election authorized. Qualifications of voters. Ballotshow worded. Majority of two-thirds requisite. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in the event the necessary majority of votes shall be cast at said election for issuing bonds, that the Trustees of the Greenesboro Male and Female Academy, who shall be residents of said city or their successors representing the schools for the whites, and the Trustees for the male and female school for the colored people, to be selected by the patrons of said school, if no such Board now exists, shall before any bonds are issued or any further steps are taken under the provisions of this Act, first agree upon the proportion of the amounts raised under the provisions of this Act that shall be appropriated for the use and benefit of the respective schools they represent: Provided,

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that in the event of the failure of said Boards of Trustees to agree, said Mayor and Aldermen may adopt the proportion heretofore agreed upon by said Boards, when it was contemplated to issue bonds under the Act of December the 24th 1886. When such agreement is had, or such proportion is adopted by said Mayor and Aldermen, then said Trustees, each Board acting solely for its own school, either by themselves or through such building committees as they may appoint, shall make such contract or contracts in reference to purchasing suitable real estate and building and furnishing suitable school houses as they may deem to the best interests of the public: Provided, that such contracts by each Board shall be within the limit of the sum in the city Treasury ready to be appropriated to its school; and Provided further, that the buildings so constructed or repaired, or the property so purchased shall not be in any way encumbered by liens for any part of the purchase money. If measure passes, Trustees white and colored schools To apportion funds. Proviso. Purchase of sites. Provisos. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of enabling said Boards of Trustees to buy suitable real estate, and to purchase, build or repair suitable school houses, and to supply the same with furniture, apparatus, etc., the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Greenesboro are hereby authorized to issue bonds of said city, not exceeding in amount the sum of seventy-five hundred dollars, to run for not exceeding twenty five years, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually at such times as said Mayor and Aldermen may determine. Said bonds shall be issued in the sum of one hundred dollars each, and shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Treasurer of said city; shall bear the corporate seal of the city; shall have interest warrants attached to them for each installment of interest, which warrant or coupon shall be signed by the Treasurer, and the principal and said interest warrants shall be payable at maturity on presentation to the city Treasurer. Said bonds shall recite on their face that they are school bonds, issued under the provisions of this Act, and that the faith of the city is pledged for their redemption. Said bonds when so issued shall not be sold for less than par, and only so much of the same shall be sold or negotiated as the said Boards of Trustees may require for the purposes specified in this section, and said Mayor and Aldermen may deem necessary. Issue of bonds limited to $7,500. Interest 6 per cent. Par value $100 each. Payment of interest and principal. Further regulations. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Aldermen may provide that after the expiration of five years from the issuing of said bonds, such a proportion of the same shall fall due annually, or at other given periods, as will in their judgment make the rate of taxation for the payment of the principal and interest as nearly equal one year with another as practicable, and as will best subserve the public interest. Equalizing maturity of bonds. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Aldermen are authorized and required to levy, impose and collect such tax

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upon the taxable property in said city as will be necessary for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds so issued and negotiated as the same shall become due; and to appoint Assessors whose duty it shall be to assess and reutnr the value of the property liable to such taxation, or to adopt such other method in reference to a fair and equitable assessment of said property for taxes as they may deem wise and just. Provision for future payment. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the members of said Boards of Trustees shall hold their office for three years, and until their successors are elected; the term of the present members to be computed from the time of the passage of this Act. Each one of said Boards shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in its body by death, resignation, removal from said city, or otherwise. Each race, colored and white, shall have power to elect the Board of Trustees for its own school, to succeed the present and all future Boards; the qualifications of voters at such elections being the same as that required by law in elections for Mayor and Aldermen. All contests growing out of said elections shall be decided by said Mayor and Aldermen. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen, if no such election is held within thirty days from the expiration of the term of office of any Board, to order such election, giving due notice of the time and place of holding the same. Each Board shall have the power to appoint auditors to examine the books, accounts and vouchers of its Treasurer. Term of Boards of Trustees. Vacancies. [Illegible Text] Boards for white and colored. Contests - how decided. Auditing accounts. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the title to all property acquired under this Act shall vest in said Trustees for the benefit of the respective schools they represent. Said Board shall elect its own President and Secretary. The City Treasurer of Greenesboro shall be ex officio Treasurer for each one of said Boards, but shall not be a member of either one, and in addition to his bond as City Treasurer, shall also give bond and good security, to be judged of by said Boards of Trustees, for the faithful performance of his duties as their Treasurer under this Act. Titles vest in Trustees. Officers. Bond of Treasurer. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That no sums raised under this Act, except the funds set apart for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds aforesaid, shall be paid out by said Treasurer except upon such claims for property purchased, or work done as have been audited by said Boards, each for its own school, and upon approval of the Mayor of said city; and it shall be the duty of said Mayor to examine each account or claim submitted to him for approval, and unless satisfied of its correctness he shall call a meeting of the Council of said city, and to notify the Board of Trustees approving such claim of the time and place of meeting, which Council shall decide upon the correctness and justness of said claim. How payments shall be audited and approved.

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SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the local Act approved December 24th 1886, entitled An Act to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Greenesboro to issue bonds and to provide for the payment of the principal and interest accruing on the same by local taxation, for the purpose of constructing and furnishing a school house for the whites, and also one for the colored people, and to purchase suitable real estate for such house or houses and for other purposes, and all other laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved December 12, 1888.

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TITLE IX. MISCELLANEOUS. ACTS. Authorizing conveyance by City of Savannah to Chatham county of a portion of President street for site of new court house. Prohibiting sale of Seed Cotton in Butts county from 15th of August to 15th of December in each year. AUTHORIZING CONVEYANCE BY THE CITY OF SAVANNAH TO CHATHAM COUNTY OF A PORTION OF PRESIDENT STREET FOR SITE OF NEW COURT HOUSE. No. 14. An Act to authorize and empower the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah to grant to the county of Chatham eight feet from the south side of President street, between Drayton street and Wright square, in said city of Savannah, to be added to lot letter H, Percival ward, and to be used in the erection of a new court house for said county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to grant to the county of Chatham eight feet from the south side of President street, between Drayton street and Wright square, in said city of Savannah, to be added to lot letter H, Percival ward, and to be used in the erection of a new court house for said county; and that any grant made by said Mayor and Aldermen to said county of said encroachment be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed. Grant of eight feet from President street authorized. SEC. II. 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 December 12, 1888.

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PROHIBITING SALE OF SEED COTTON IN BUTTS COUNTY FROM 15TH AUGUST TO 15TH DECEMBER IN EACH YEAR. No. 27. An Act to prohibit the sale of seed cotton in the county of Butts, from the 15th day of August to the 15th day of December of each year, and to provide penalties for the violation of the same. SECTION I. 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, it shall be unlawful to sell, buy, or otherwise traffic in seed cotton in the county of Butts between the 15th day of August and the 15th day of December of each year: Provided, the provisions of this Act shall not apply to judicial sales by any officer authorized by law to make such sale. Traffic prohibited between certain dates. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons violating this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on indictment and conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of this State. Violation a misdemeanor. SEC. III. 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 December 17, 1888.

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Part IV.Private Laws. TITLE I.PERMITS. TITLE II.EXEMPTIONS.

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TITLE I. PERMITS. ACT. Authorizing Thomas Murphy to peddle without license in Jefferson county. AUTHORIZING THOMAS MURPHY TO PEDDLE WITHOUT LICENSE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. No. 82. An Act to authorize Thomas Murphy, of the county of Jefferson, to peddle without license in the county of Jefferson. WHEREAS, Thomas Murphy, of the county of Jefferson, lost his left arm on the 15th day of September, 1888, by having the same cut off in a gin; and WHEREAS, the said Thomas Murphy has a large family dependent on his labor for support; wherefore, Preamble. On account of lost arm SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the said Thomas Murphy, of the county of Jefferson, in the State of Georgia, be, and he is hereby, authorized to peddle in the county of Jefferson without obtaining a license for such purpose. Thomas Murphy authorized to peddle. SEC. II. 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 December 24, 1888.

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TITLE II. EXEMPTIONS. ACTS. Amending Act exempting from jury duty certain members of Macon Volunteers. Exempting from jury duty one hundred members of Columbus Guards. AMENDING ACT EXEMPTING FROM JURY DUTY CERTAIN MEMBERS OF MACON VOLUNTEERS. No. 162. An Act to amend an Act entitled, An Act to exempt from jury duty certain members of the Macon Volunteers, approved December 12, 1882, and to provide for certain additional exemptions. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the first section of the above recited Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words twenty-five in the second line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words one hundred, so that when thus amended, said first section shall be as follows: SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That there shall be exempt from jury duty one hundred honorary members of the Macon Volunteers, a volunteer military organization in the city of Macon. Act 1882 amended. Words changed. One hundred members exempt. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the same authority, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved December 29, 1888.

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EXEMPTING FROM JURY DUTY ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS OF COLUMBUS GUARDS. No. 165. An Act to exempt one hundred members of the Columbus Guards from jury duty. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That one hundred members of the Columbus Guards, a volunteer infantry organization of the city of Columbus, and attached to the sixth battalion Georgia Volunteers, be, and the same are hereby, exempted from jury duty. One hundred members exempt. SEC. II. 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 December 29, 1888.

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Part V.RESOLUTIONS.

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Authorizing Governor's warrant favor Trustees Deaf and Dumb Asylum for $4,500. Requesting President of United States to pardon violators of Internal Revenue laws. Prolonging session. Extending time for completion of New Capitol to April 1, 1889. Asking Federal aid in preventing damage from overflows of Savannah river. To visit State University. Authorizing payment of per diem of Hon. James Hunt and Hon. S. C. Chambliss, deceased. Towards securing Congressional amendment to National Bank Act. Towards obtaining fuller Congressional recognition of Altamaha river. Providing for printing, etc., of Acts and Resolutions of the session. For the relief of W. T. Woodruff, former Tax Collector of Taliaferro county. Providing for recess of General Assembly from December 22, 1888, until first Wednesday in July, 1889. Creating Joint Committee to examine accounts and vouchers of Comptroller and Treasurer. AUTHORIZING GOVERNOR'S WARRANT FAVOR TRUSTEES DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM FOR $4500. No. 1. A resolution to authorize the Governor to draw his warrant in favor of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb for the sum of forty-five hundred dollars, heretofore appropriated, which has lapsed into the treasury. WHEREAS, By an Act approved September 13, 1887, the sum of nine thousand dollars was appropriated for the purpose of making certain repairs and improvements to the buildings of said Institution to be paid out in two installments. $4500 during the year 1887, and $4500 during the year 1888; and Preamble. WHEREAS, Under the terms of said Act, no money could be drawn until the whole work had been let to responsible contractors after certain preliminaries had been complied with; and WHEREAS, Owing to the fact that but three months and a half iof the year 1887 were left after the approval of said Act, it was impossible to draw the money appropriated for the year 1887, herefore,

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Be it resolved, That the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State in favor of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, for the sum of forty-five hundred dollars, heretofore appropriated by the Act of September 13, 1887, upon the said Trustees' compliance with the terms of that Act, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay said warrant the same as though said appropriation had not lapsed. $4,500 ordered paid to Trustees. Approved December 12, 1888. REQUESTING PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES TO PARDON VIOLATORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS. No. 2. A Resolution. Resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, That his Excellency the President of the United States be, and he is hereby requested specially to inquire into convictions had in this State under the Internal Revenue Laws of the United States, and to exercise, in so far as his sense of justice will permit, executive clemency in pardoning such offenders. Executive elemency invoked. Approved December 12, 1888. PROLONGING SESSION. No. 3. A Resolution. Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring and two-thirds of both Houses agreeing thereto, That the present session of the General Assembly be, and the same is hereby prolonged, beyond the first forty days, for such length of time as may be necessary to transact the public business of the State. Session prolonged beyond forty days. Approved December 13, 1888.

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EXTENDING TIME FOR COMPLETION OF NEW CAPITOL TO APRIL 1, 1889. No. 4. A resolution to authorize an extension of the time for completing the building of the New Capitol until April 1, 1889, and a continuance of the powers and duties of the Capitol Commissioners until that date: Provided, that there shall be no increase in the cost to the State above the sum originally contemplated. Resolved by the House of Representatives and Senate, in General Assembly met, That the time for the completion of the building of the New Capitol be, and the same is hereby extended until April 1, 1889, and that the duties and powers of the Capitol Commissioners be and the same are hereby continued and extended until said April 1, 1889: Provided, that there shall be no increase in the cost to the State above the sum originally contemplated by law; and Provided further, that nothing herein shall be held or construed to release any contractor, security, bondsman, officer or other person or persons from liability from acts already done or omissions of duty arising prior to January 1, 1889, or that may occur before April 1, 1889: Provided, that the securities consent in writing to such extension of time before the first day of January 1889. Time extended to April 1, 1889. Provisono increase in cost. Liability still to hold. Securities must consent. Approved December 14, 1888. ASKING FEDERAL AID IN PREVENTING DAMAGE FROM OVERFLOWS OF SAVANNAH RIVER. No. 5. WHEREAS, The Savannah river, the eighth river in size in the United States, whose stream has been used for navigation for 420 miles, and for three hundred miles by steamboats, with two large and important trade centersAugusta and Savannahon its banks, established to utilize the facilities for transportation offered by the river, now carrying on a large commerce on its waters, and dependent upon it for their support and progress, draining a watershed of 12,000 square miles, inhabited by a rapidly increasing population of 600,000, producing annually agricultural products to the value of $25,000,000, with a large area of most fertile lands still untouched, has, within recent years, greatly deteriorated as a navigable stream in consequence of the denudation of the hills at its source, causing the filling up of the channel, and in

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consequence of works undertaken by the federal government and left in an incomplete condition in consequence of insufficient appropriation by Congress, so that the river is now a menace to the commercial, agricultural, and industrial life of its whole valley; and Preamble. Preamble. WHEREAS, This said river having one-fifth of the total navigable waters above tidewater on the Atlantic slope, has received only nine-tenths of one per cent. of the appropriations made for the rivers of this slope; therefore, be it. Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, the Senate concurring. That we earnestly call the attention of the members of Congress from this State to the above recited facts, and request them to represent to the federal Congress the pressing urgency for remedial measures to an evil which is increasing, which stands as a bar to the progress and development of a large community, and which is dependent entirely on federal aid for any measures of relief. Congress urged to adopt remedial measures. Approved December 24, 1888. TO VISIT STATE UNIVERSITY. No. 6. A Joint Resolution. WHEREAS, the annual commencement of the State University, at Athens, takes place next year before the meeting of the adjourned session of the General Assembly, the Trustees of the University having changed the time of the closing of the annual term of the University from July to June; therefore, Preamble. Be it resolved, That a committee of ten from the House and five from the Senate be appointed by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate to attend said commencement and report to the General Assembly on the condition of the University. Committee to attend commencement. Approved December 24, 1888.

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AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF PER DIEM OF HON. JAMES HUNT AND HON. S. C. CHAMBLISS, DECEASED. No. 7. A joint resolution authorizing the payment of the per diem of the Hon. James A. Hunt and the Hon. S. C. Chambliss, deceased, members of the House of Representatives. WHEREAS, The Hon. James A. Hunt, of the county of Catoosa, and the Hon. S C. Chambliss, of the county of Bibb, late members of the House of Representatives, have died during the present session of the General Assembly, of which they were members, without having received the whole of their pay for the session, as provided by law, therefore, the Preamble. General Assembly of the State of Georgia do resolve, That the State Treasurer be authorized and directed to pay to the widows, and if no widows, to the children of said Hon. James A. Hunt and Hon. S. C. Chambliss, the per diem and mileage of said deceased members for the present or fall session of the present General Assembly, as provided by law contained in section 191, of the Code of 1882, and that a receipt of the person or persons to whom said amount is paid, shall be a sufficient voucher for the State Treasurer therefor. Per diem ordered paid. Approved December 24, 1888. TOWARDS SECURING CONGRESSIONAL AMENDMENT TO NATIONAL BANK ACT. No. 8. Joint Resolution. Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That our Representatives in Congress be requested, and our Senators be instructed, to use their best efforts to have the National Bank Act so amended as to authorize National Banks to accept real estate as collateral for loans made by them. Congressional amendment urged to National Bank Act. Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to furnish each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress with a copy of these resolutions. Approved December 24, 1888.

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TOWARDS OBTAINING FULLER CONGRESSIONAL RECOGNITION OF ALTAMAHA RIVER. No. 9. Resolution. WHEREAS, The Altamaha river with its tributaries is the largest body of water in Georgia and one of the most important, running through and giving an outlet to all of the southern central portion of this State; and Preamble. WHEREAS, Said river with its tributaries notwithstanding their great importance, have received little or no recognition from the National Congress; Be it therefore resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be, and they are hereby urgently requested to use their united and utmost endeavors to obtain for the Altamaha river its tributaries and bar, from the United States Congress the recognition that they deserve. Recognition of Altamaha River urged. Resolved further, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved December 24, 1888. PROVIDING FOR PRINTING, ETC., OF ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SESSION. No. 10. A Resolution. Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia: 1st. That so soon as the present session of the General Assembly shall be adjourned to such day in the year 1889 as may be designated by joint resolution, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Public Printing of this State to proceed at once to have printed and bound, as now provided by law, all the Acts, public and general, as well as private and local, and also all Resolutions passed and adopted at the present session of the General Assembly and approved by the Governor, when his approval is necessary to the validity of such Acts or resolutions. Acts and Resolutions to be printed and bound at once.

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2nd. Be it further resolved, That the number of volumes of said Acts and resolutions to be so printed and bound, as herein provided, shall be four thousand, and that said Acts and resolutions so printed and bound shall be distributed and disposed of as now provided by law. Number and distribution of volumes. Approved December 24, 1888. FOR THE RELIEF OF W. T. WOODRUFF, FORMER TAX-COLLECTOR OF TALIAFERRO COUNTY AND HIS SECURITIES. No. 11. A Joint Resolution. WHEREAS, The Comptroller-General, acting in the discharge of his official duty, did on the 8th day of July, 1885, issue a tax fi. fa. for the year 1884, against W. T. Woodruff, Tax Collector of Taliaferro county, as principal, and J. T. Wright, G. G. Hixon, B. F. Moore, W. A. Stone, J. W. Hixon, securities; and Preamble. WHEREAS, One of the securities, J. W. Hixon, has paid the principal and penalty due on said fi. fa., to-wit: The principal being $11.30, and penalty being $5.95 to date of payment by said security, J. W. Hixon; therefore, be it Principal and penalty having been paid Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That they, the said securities, be and they are hereby relieved from the payment of the 20 per cent. penalty, amounting to $102.08, and said Tax Collector, W. T. Woodruff, and the securities, are hereby relieved from further payment on said fi. fa., and the same is cancelled. Further penalty remitted. Approved December 26, 1888. PROVIDING FOR RECESS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM DECEMBER 22, 1888, UNTIL FIRST WEDNESDAY IN JULY 1889. No. 12. A Resolution. Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That, on the twenty second day of December, 1888, the General Assembly do take a recess until the first Wednesday in July, 1889, to reconvene on that day, at ten o'clock a. m., for the purpose of finishing the public business. Recess from Dec. 22. 1888, to first Wednesday in July, 1880. Approved December 26, 1888.

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CREATING JOINT COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE ACCOUNTS AND VOUCHERS OF COMPTROLLER AND TREASURER. No. 13. A Joint Resolution. Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That a committee of two from the Senate Finance Committee, and three from the House Appropriation Committee, shall be appointed by President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, respectively, whose duty it shall be to examine into the accounts and vouchers of the Comptroller and Treasurer, as provided for in section 186 of the Revised Code. That said committee is authorized to assemble a reasonable time before the commencement of the next session of the General Assembly, in order to thoroughly examine into the condition of said offices, and to make such suggestions as may seem best to subserve the interest of the State; and if, in their opinion, any legislation is necessary in that respect, said committee is authorized to report by bill or otherwise. Committee of five appointed. To assemble previous to meeting of Legislature in July. Approved December 26, 1888.

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS AT TREASURY FOR YEAR ENDING, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1888. To Balance in Treasury September 30, 1887 $ 349,762 38 RECEIPTS. DISBURSEMENTS. From Auctioneers' Tax, 1887 $ 227 00 On account Academy for the Blind, 1887 $ 4,000 00 From Auctioneers' Tax, 1888 562 50 On account Academy for the Blind, 1888 12,000 00 From Billiard Tax, 1887 1,890 00 On account Agricultural Department, 1887 2,560 00 From Billiard Tax, 1888 4,522 50 On account Agricultural Department, 1888 7,500 00 From Capital Tax, 1887 254,049 54 On account Artificial limbs, 1888 60 00 From Capital Tax, 1888 8,975 62 On account Contingent Fund, 1887 2,800 38 From Dealers in Iron Safes, 1887 67 50 On account Contingent Fund, 1888 3,061 81 From Dealers in Pistols, etc., 1887 360 00 On account Contingent Fund Railroad Com'rs, 1887 125 00 From Dealers in Pistols, etc., 1888 2,250 00 On account Contingent Fund Railroad Com'rs, 1888 375 00 From Dividends on Stock 2,503 00 On account Contingent Fund Supreme Court, 1888 744 38 From Docket Fee, United States Court 20 00 On account Civil Establishment, 1886 27 18 From Express Companies' Tax, 1887 1,453 29 On account Civil Establishment, 1887 54,092 81 From Express Companies; Tax, 1888 1,451 11 On account Civil Establishment, 1888 53,212 50 From Electric Light Companies' Tax, 1887 195 49 On account Compiling Laws 300 00 From Fees of State House Officers, 1888 854 30 On account Costs Clerk Supreme Court 418 75 From Fees of Inspectors 97,919 46 On account Funded Debt 1,630 00 From Fines paid by Lessees 5,000 00 On account Insuring Public Buildings, 1887 3,221 11 From General Tax, 1886 109 75 On account Insuring Public Buildings, 1888 1,558 64 From General Tax, 1887 906,496 15 On account Institute for Deaf and Dumb, 1887 3,750 00 From Hire of Convicts, 1887 25,000 00 On account Institute for Deaf and Dumb, 1888 11,250 00 From Insurance Agents' Tax, 1887 240 00 On account Lunatic Asylum, 1887 72,916 65 From Insurance Agents' Tax, 1888 4,796 90 On account Lunatic Asylum, 1888 116,666 68 From Insurance Companies' Tax 24,514 90 On account Lunatic Asylum Trustees 1,950 00 From Insurance Fees, 1887 97 70 On account Library Fund 747 50 From Insurance Fees, 1888 6,633 80 On account Land Script Fund, 1888 6,314 14 From Insolvent General Tax 812 21 On account Legislative Pay-roll, 124,222 70 From Liquor Tax, 1884 119 25 On account Maimed Soldiers 26,900 00 From Liquor Tax, 1885 68 64 On account New Capitol 267,558 53 From Liquor Tax, 1887 8,301 13 On account Overpayment of Taxes 5,149 32 From Liquor Tax, 1888 37,492 80 On account Penitentiary Fund (general account) 1,260 83 From Lightning Rod Dealers, 1887 293 50 On account Penitentiary Fund (special account).1887 354 50 From Lightning Rod Dealers, 1888 361 00 On account Printing Fund, 1887 518 04 From Penalties paid by Collectors 151 30 On account Printing Fund, 1888 7,905 62 From Railroad Tax, 1887 29,751 12 On account Printing Fund Railroad Com'rs, 1887 49 02 From Railroad Tax, 1888 44,699 43 On account Printing Fund Railroad Com'rs, 1888 485 06 From Rental of Western Atlantic Railroad 300,000 00 On account Public Building Fund, 1887 2,949 94 From Rental of Public Buildings 176 62 On account Public Building Fund, 1888 5,500 00 From Special Nostrum Tax, 1887 653 50 On account Public Debt 802,734 69 From Special Nostrum Tax, 1888 293 13 On account Penitentiary Fund, (special account) 1888 445 40 From Show Tax, 1887 3,470 70 On account Salary of Inspectors 9,017 74 From Show Tax, 1888 392 00 On account Salary of Chemist 3,000 00 From Sewing Machine Agents' Tax, 1887 78 80 On account Solicitors-General, (Act 58) 1,595 00 From Sewing Machine Agents' Tax, 1888 1,170 50 On account School Fund 1887 304,800 61 From Sewing Machine Agents' Tax, 1886 3 00 On account School Fund, 1888 3,089 22 From Sewing Machine Companies' Tax, 1888 801 00 On account School Fund, 1889 991 50 From Sale of Supreme Court Reports 1,038 47 On account School of Technology 40,825 80 From Surplus from sale of Wild Lands 752 05 On account Supreme Court Reports 6,000 00 From Sale of Bonds, (5 per cent, deposited as a guarantee) 95,000 00 On account Special Appropriations 34,527 02 From Tax on Games, 1887 180 00 On account University of Georgia, 1888 8,000 00 $ 2,019,103 07 From Tax on Games, 1888 90 00 By Balance in Treasury September 30, 1888 231,351 52 From Tax of Agents Selling Musical Instruments, 1887 67 50 From Tax on Telegraph Companies, 1887 1,091 77 From Tax on Telegraph Companies, 1888 964 37 From Tax on Telephone Companies, 1887 1,026 00 From Tax on Telephone Companies, 1888 1,109 50 From Tax on Agents for Nurserymen, 1887 68 50 From Wild Land Tax 23 91 1,900,692 21 $ 2,250,454 59 $ 2,250,454 59

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PART IPublic Laws. [For Index to Corporations, see Part II, of this Index.] A. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Appropriatin for, 12 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION Accepting Congressional donation for, 45 Establishing, 49 ALLEN, J. C. Appropriation for expenses, 9 AMENDING COMMON SCHOOL LAWS 45 AMENDMENTS TO CODE, (see CODE AMENDMENTS) APPROPRIATIONS Agricultural department, 12 Allen, J. C., for expenses, 9 Capitol, New, furnishing and fitting of, 14 Contingent fund, 12 Executive department, salaries, etc., 8 General appropriation Act for 1889 and 1890 (begins) 8 General Assembly, compensation of, 8 , 9 General Assembly, stationery and incidentals, 12 , 13 Judicial department, salaries of, 9 Lunatic Asylum, for trustees of, 11 Maimed Confederate soldiers, allowance for, 16 McDaniel, Hezekiah, for artificial leg, 15 Penitentiary, for officers of, 12 Printing fund, 12 Public buildings, etc., 12 Public institutions, for support of, 10 , 11 Railroad Commission, etc., 12 , 13 State debt, 11 , 13 State Librarian's assistant, 13 State Library, for books, 10 Taylor, J. T., for indexing journals, 9 ASSISTANT REPORTER SUPREME COURT Appointing, section 227 of Code amended, 35

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B. BAKER SUPERIOR COURT Terms changed, 42 BLACKMAIL Definition of and penalty for, 46 BOND OF CONTRACTORS Condition in, section 671 of Code amended, 39 BONDS, MATURING Sinking fund to retire, 31 BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS Granting certain privileges to, 47 C. CAPITOL, NEW Appropriation for furnishing and fitting, 14 Tax for finishing payments on, 30 Tax for furnishing, 50 CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS Requiring corporations to redeem, 48 CLARKE AND GWINNETT SUPERIOR COURTS Terms changed, 42 CODE AMENDMENTS Assistant Reporter Supreme Court, appointing, section 227, 35 Bond of contractors, condition in, section 671, 39 Electoral College, meeting of, section 1312, 33 Impounding animals, compensation for, sections 1452 and 1454, 26 Justification in case of tort, plea of, section 3051, 35 Railroad Commissioners' tariffs, publication of, section 719 (f), 37 State depositories, specifying, section 943 (a), 34 COMMON SCHOOL LAWS Amending, 45 CONTINGENT FUND Appropriation for, 12 D. DEFINITION Of Blackmail, 46 E. ELECTORAL COLLEGE Meeting of, section 1312 of Code amended 33

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EMORY COLLEGE Law graduates of to practice in State courts 44 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Appropriation for salaries, etc., 8 EXPERIMENT STATION Agricultural, accepting Congressional donation for 45 Agricultural, establishing 49 G. GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT For 1889 and 1890 8 GENERAL ASSEMBLY Appropriation for stationery and incidentals, 12 , 13 GENERAL ASSEMBLY Appropriation for compensation of, 8 , 9 GENERAL TAX ACT For 1889 and 1890 19 GWINNETT AND CLARKE SUPERIOR COURTS Terms changed 42 H. HALL SUPERIOR COURT Terms changed 43 I. IMPOUNDING ANIMALS Compensation for, sections 1452 and 1454 of Code amended 36 J. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT Appropriation for salaries of, 9 JUDICIARY Supreme Court Judge unable to preside, supplying place of 40 JUSTIFICATION Plea of, in case of tort, section 3051 of Code amended 35 L. LAW GRADUATES Of Emory College, authorized to practice 44 LUNATIC ASYLUM Appropriation for Trustees of, 11

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M. MAIMED CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS Appropriation for allowances for 16 McDANIEL, HEZEKIAH Appropriation for artificial leg 15 N. NEW CAPITOL Appropriation for furnishing and fitting 14 Tax for finishing payments on 30 Tax for furnishing 30 P. PENALTY Prescribed for blackmail 46 PENETENTIARY Appropriation for officers of, 12 PRACTICE IN STATE COURTS Law graduates of Emory College authorized to 44 PRINTING FUND Appropriation for, 12 PRIVILEGES Granted to building and loan associations 47 PUBLIC BUILDINGS Appropriation for, 12 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS Appropriations for support of, 10 , 11 R. RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS Publication of tariffs of, section 719 (f) of Code amended 37 S. SOUTHWESTERN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Terms changed 41 STATE DEPOSITORIES Specifying, section 943 (a) of Code amended 34 STATE DEBT Appropriation for, 11 , 13 STATE GOVERNMENT Appropriations for 8 STATE LIBRARIAN'S ASSISTANT Appropriation for, 13

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STATE LIBRARY Appropriation for books for, 10 STATE TAXES Capitol, New, providing for finishing payments on 30 Capitol, New, providing for furnishing 30 General tax Act for 1889 and 1890, 19 Sinking fund to retire maturing bonds, 31 SUPERIOR COURTS Baker, terms changed, 42 Hall, terms changed, 43 Gwinnett and Clarke, terms changed, 42 Southwestern Circuit, terms changed, 41 SUPREME COURT Supplying place of judge unable to preside, 40 T. TAXES Capitol, New, providing for finishing payments on, 30 Capitol, New, providing for furnishing, 30 General tax Act for 1889 and 1890, 19 Sinking fund to retire maturing bonds, 31 TAYLOR, J. T. Appropriation for indexing journals, 9

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PART IICorporations BANKS, INSURANCE, LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES Atlanta Exchange and Banking Company 64 Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company, The, incorporated 100 Atlanta Trust and Banking Company, name of Georgia Security and Investment Company, changed to, 104 Bank of Cordele, incorporated, 83 Bank of Madison, incorporated, 132 Bank of Quitman, The, incorporated, 116 Central Trust and Banking Company of Georgia, charter amended, 69 Columbus Savings Bank, incorporated, 94 Cordele, Bank of, incorporated 83 Cotton States Life Insurance Company, The, providing for surrender of securities of, 97 Darien Bank, incorporated, 56 Dow Law Bank, incorporated, 85 Exchange Bank of Fort Valley, incorporated, 75 Georgia Security Investment Company, changing name of, 104 Harrold Banking Company, The, incorporated, 90 Home Loan and Banking Company of Atlanta, incorporated, 107 Home Loan and Banking Company, The, incorporated, 124 Jackson Banking Company, incorporated, 67 Madison, Bank of, incorporated, 132 Merchants' and Farmers' Bank of Hogansville, incorporated, 62 Merchants Bank of Valdosta, The, incorporated, 111 Monroe County Alliance Exchange Warehouse and Banking Company, The, incorporated, 98 Putnam County Banking Company, incorporated, 89 Quitman, The Bank of, incorporated, 116 State Savings Association, incorporated, 80 Swainsboro Bank, incorporated, 120 The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company, incorporated, 100 The Bank of Quitman, incorporated, 116 The Cotton States' Life Insurance Company, providing for surrender of securities of, 97 The Harrold Banking Company, incorporated, 90

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The Home Loan and Banking Company, incorporated, 124 The Merchants Bank of Valdosta, incorporated, 111 The Monroe County Alliance Exchange Warehouse and Banking Company, incorporated, 98 Thomasville Exchange and Banking Company, incorporated, 122 Upson Banking and Trust Company, incorporated, 70 Washington Exchange Bank, incorporated, 73 RAILROAD COMPANIES, DUMMY AND HORSE CAR LINES Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, The, name changed, 170 Americus Street Railroad Company, The, incorporated, 159 Augusta and Chattanooga Railroad and Banking Company, charter amended, 142 Central City Street Railroad Company of Macon, charter amended, 163 Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad Company, charter amended, 171 Cleveland Railroad Company, The, incorporated, 188 Empire and Dublin Railroad Company, incorporated, 143 Empowering Mayor and Council of Macon to grant encroachment to Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, 140 Encroachment authorized in Macon by Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, 140 Encroachment in Columbus by Mobile and Girard Railroad made legal and valid 138 Fairmont and Augusta Railroad Company, incorporated, 180 Georgia Overland Railway and Improvement Company, incorporated, 173 Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, amending charter, 139 Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, encroachment in Macon by, authorized, 140 Macon and Birmingham Railroad Company, incorporated, 164 Making legal and valid the occupancy of Ninth street, Columbus, by tracks of Mobile and Girard Railroad, 138 Marietta Street Railroad Company, incorporated, 183 Midville, Swainsboro and Red Bluff Railroad, incorporated, 141 Milledgeville and Asylum Dummy Railroad Company, incorporated, 146 Millen, Mt. Vernon and Florida Railroad Company, incorporated, 182 Mountain Valley Railroad Company, incorporated, 189 Nacoochee Valley Railroad Company, incorporated, 185

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North and South Street Railroad Company, of Rome, incorporated, 149 Occupancy of Ninth street, Columbus, by tracks of Mobile and Girard Railroad, made legal and valid 138 Ore Belt Railroad Company, charter amended, 172 Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway, The, name changed to from The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, 170 South Brunswick Terminal Railroad Company, incorporated, 154 Talbotton and Western Railroad Company, incorporated, 152 The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, name changed, 170 The Americus Street Railroad Company, incorporated, 159 The Cleveland Railroad Company, incorporated, 188 The Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway, name changed to, from The Americus, Preston and Lumpkin Railroad Company, 170 Thomasville Street Railway Company, incorporated, 168 Washington Street Railway Company, incorporated, 146 West Atlanta Street Railroad Company, reincorporated, 179

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PART IIILocal Laws. A ABOLISHING Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues of Johnson County 288 County Court of Gilmer County 290 ALDERMEN Increasing number of in Atlanta 199 AMENDING Act creating Solicitor of County Court of Oconee County 290 Board of Health law of Augusta 203 Game law for Macon County 291 Local option law for Whitfield County 314 Public school system of, Athens 327 Carrollton 329 Richmond County 330 Ware County 336 Waycross 334 Registration law for, Meriwether County 294 Waycross 302 Worth County 295 Sinking fund law of Augusta 203 AMENDING CHARTER OF Atlanta 200 , 205 , 233 Bartow, the town of 231 Carrollton, the town of 264 Cartersville 220 Culloden, the city of 229 Griffin 232 Jesup 245 Newnan 266 Norwood, the town of 263 Rising Fawn 231 Roswell, the town of 207 Sharon, the town of 273 Vernonburg, the town of 200

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APPOINTMENT OF Commissioners of Chatham County 277 ATHENS Amending public school system of 327 ATLANTA Amending charter of 200 , 205 , 233 Increasing number of Aldermen of 199 AUGUSTA Amending Board of Health law of 230 Amending sinking fund law of 203 AUTHORIZING Mayor and Council of Montezuma to issue bonds 204 Commissioners of Thomas County to build new jail 279 Conveyance by city of Savannah to Chatham County 344 B BALDWIN COUNTY Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues created 286 BARTOW Amending charter of the town of 231 BOARD OF HEALTH Of Augusta, amending law of 230 BUENA VISTA Providing new charter for 206 BUTTS COUNTY Sale of seed cotton in, prohibited 345 C CARROLLTON Amending charter of the town of 264 Public school system of 329 CARTERSVILLE Amending charter of 220 System of public schools for 323 CHANGING NAME Of Ocean City, the town of, to Tybee 271 CHARTER, NEW (See NEW CHARTER.) CHARTER OF, AMENDED (See AMENDING CHARTER OF.) CHARTER REPEALED Of DeSoto 264 CHATHAM COUNTY Commissioners of, providing for appointment of 277 Conveyance to, by city of Savannah, authorized 344 CLERK Commissioners Fulton County, salary fixed 282

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COLUMBUS Extending corporate limits of 198 COMMISSIONERS Baldwin County, roads and revenues, created 286 Chatham County, appointment of 277 Fulton County, excess of licenses paid to, refunded 276 Fixing salary of clerk of 282 Johnson County, roads and revenues, abolished 288 Miller County, roads and revenues, created 283 Stewart County, roads and revenue, created 280 Thomas County, authorized to build new jail 279 Wayne County, roads and revenue, compensation fixed 285 COMPENSATION Fixed, for Commissioners of Wayne County 285 CONVEYANCE By city of Savannah of portion of President street, authorized 344 CORDELE Incorporating the city of 209 CORPORATE LIMITS Of Rome, extended 264 Of Columbus, extended 198 COUNTY OF Baldwin, Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues created for 286 Butts, sale of seed cotton in, prohibited 345 Chatham, appointment of Commissioners of 277 Dawson, adoption of stock law by portion of, authorized 322 Dooly, registration law for 296 Fulton, fixing salary of clerk of Commissioners of 282 Fixing salary of Treasurer of 288 Repealing stock law as to certain districts in 318 Refunding excess licenses paid Commissioners of 276 Hancock, prohibiting sale of liquor near certain churches in 313 Registration law for 307 Heard, sale of liquor prohibited in certain districts of 311 Johnson, Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues, abolished 288 Macon, amending game law for 291 Repealing registration law for 293 Stock law for 740th district in 316 Stock law for 1002nd and 1070th districts of 320 Meriwether, amending registration law for 294 Miller, Board of Commissioners, etc., created 283 Montgomery, regulating sale of liquor in 312

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Oconee, registration law for 302 Pulaski, repealing registration law for 299 Randolph, fixing fees of Treasurer of 282 Richmond, amending public school system of 331 Stewart, Board of Commissioners, etc., created 280 Stock law for 725th district in 318 Taylor, stock law for 741st district in 315 Stock law for 743rd district in 317 Telfair, regulating sale of liquor in 312 Thomas, Commissioners of, authorized to build new jail 279 Ware, amending public school system of 336 Wayne, compensation of Commissioners of, fixed 285 Registration law for 299 Whitfield, local option law of, amended 314 Tax levy for school purposes, authorized in 330 Wilcox, registration law for 305 Worth, amending registration law for 295 COUNTY COURT Gilmer County, abolished 290 Oconee County, amending Act providing for Solicitor for 290 Tatnall County, office of Solicitor of, created 289 CREATING Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues for Baldwin County 286 Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues for Miller County 283 Board of Commissioners of roads and revenue for Stewart County 280 Office of County Court Solicitor for Tatnall County 289 CULLODEN Amending charter of the city of 229 D DAWSON COUNTY Adoption of stock law by portion of 1022nd district in, authorized 322 DESOTO Charter of, repealed 264 DOOLY COUNTY Registration law for 296 E EXTENDING CORPORATE LIMITS OF Columbus 198 Rome 264

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F FAYETTEVILLE Providing new charter for the town of 221 FEES Fixed for Treasurer of Randolph County 282 FIXING Compensation of Commissioners for Wayne County 285 Fees of Treasurer of Randolph County 282 Salary Clerk of Commissioners, Fulton County 282 Salary Treasurer of Fulton County 288 FULTON COUNTY Commissioners of, excess of licenses paid to, refunded 276 Fixing salaries of clerk of Commissioners of 282 Fixing salary of Treasurer of 288 Repealing stock law as to certain districts in 318 G GAME LAW Amending, for Macon County 291 GILMER COUNTY County Court of, abolished 290 GREENESBORO Authorizing election in, as to building school houses 340 GRIFFIN Amending charter of 232 H HANCOCK COUNTY Registration law for 307 HEARD COUNTY Sale of liquor in certain districts in, prohibited 311 HOREB CHURCH Prohibiting sale of liquor within three miles of 313 I INCORPORATING Cordele, the city of 209 Moreland, the town of 268 Rochelle, the town of 201 Sparks, the town of 269 J JAIL, NEW Authorized built by Thomas County 279

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JESUP Amending charter of 245 JEWELL'S CHURCH Prohibiting sale of liquor within three miles of 313 JOHNSON COUNTY Board of Commissioners of roads and revenues of, abolished 288 L LICENSES Excess of, paid Commissioners in Fulton County, refunded 276 LIQUOR SALE PROHIBITED (See SALE OF LIQUOR PROHIBITED.) LITHONIA Providing new charter for the town of 226 LOCAL OPTION LAW For Whitfield County, amended 314 M MACEDONIA CHURCH Sale of liquor prohibited within one mile of 310 MACON COUNTY Amending game law for 291 Repealing registration law for 293 Stock law for 740th district in 316 Stock law for 1002nd and 1070th districts in 320 MERIWETHER COUNTY Amending registration law for 294 MILLER COUNTY Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for, created 283 MONTEZUMA Mayor and Council of authorized to issue bonds 204 MONTGOMERY COUNTY Regulating sale of liquor in 312 MORELAND Incorporating the town of 268 N NAME CHANGED Ocean City, the town of, to Tybee 271 NEW CHARTER Provided for Buena Vista 206

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Provided for Fayetteville 221 Provided for Lithonia 226 Provided for Tallapoosa 234 NEW JAIL Authorized built by Thomas County 279 NEWNAN Amending charter of 266 NORWOOD Amending charter of the town of 263 O OCEAN CITY Name of the town of, changed to Tybee 271 OCONEE COUNTY Registration law for 302 Solicitor for County Court of, amending Act providing for 290 P POWELL'S CHAPEL Sale of liquor prohibited within four miles of 308 PROHIBITING LIQUOR SALE (See SALE OF LIQUOR PROHIBITED.) PROHIBITING SALE OF SEED COTTON In Butts County, between certain dates 245 PROVIDING NEW CHARTER FOR Buena Vista, the town of 206 Fayetteville, the town of 221 Lithonia, the town of 226 Tallapoosa, the city of 234 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM (See SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.) PULASKI COUNTY Repealing registration law for 299 Q QUITMAN Public school system for 337 R RANDOLPH COUNTY Fixing fees of Treasurer of 282 REFUNDING Excess of licenses paid Commissioners in Fulton County 276

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REGISTRATION LAW Dooly County 296 Hancock County 307 Macon County, repealed 293 Meriwether County, amended 294 Oconee County 302 Pulaski County, repealed 299 Waycross, amended 302 Wayne County 299 Wilcox County 305 Worth County, amended 295 REGULATING LIQUOR SALE In Montgomery and Telfair Counties 312 REPEALING Charter of DeSoto 264 Registration law for Macon County 293 Registration law for Pulaski County 299 Stock law as to certain districts in Fulton County 318 RICHMOND COUNTY Amending public school system of 330 RISING FAWN Amending charter of 231 ROCHELLE Incorporating the town of 201 ROCK MILLS CHURCH Prohibiting sale of liquor within three miles of 313 ROME Corporate limits of, extended 264 ROSWELL Amending charter of the town of 207 S SALARY Of Clerk Commissioners Fulton County, fixed 282 Of Treasurer of Fulton County, fixed 288 SALEM CHURCH Sale of liquor within three miles of, prohibited 312 SALE OF LIQUOR PROHIBITED Hancock County, within three miles of certain churches in 313 Heard County, in certain districts in 311 Macedonia Church, within one mile of 310 Powell's Chapel, within four miles of 308 Salem Church, within three miles of 309 Sardis Church, within three miles of 312 Washington Institute, within three miles of 313

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Worthville Church, within one mile of 309 Zion Church, within one mile of 310 SALE OF SEED COTTON Prohibited in Butts County 345 SARDIS CHURCH Sale of liquor within three miles of, prohibited 312 SAVANNAH Conveyance by city of, to Chatham County, authorized 344 SCHOOL HOUSES In Greenesboro, election as to, authorized 340 SCHOOL TAX Whitfield County, levy for, authorized 330 SEED COTTON Sale of, in Butts County, prohibited 345 SHARON Amending charter of the town of 273 SINKING FUND LAW Of Augusta, amending the 203 SOLICITOR COUNTY COURT Oconee county, amending Act creating for 290 Tatnall county, office of, created for 289 SPARKS Incorporating the town of 269 STEWART COUNTY Board of Commissioners of, created 280 Stock law for 725th district in 318 STOCK LAW Dawson county, adoption by portion of, authorized 322 Fulton county, repealing as to certain districts in 318 Macon county, for 740th district in 316 Macon county, for 1002nd and 1070th districts in 320 Stewart county, for 725th district in 318 Taylor county, for 741st district in 315 Taylor county, for 743rd district in 317 SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS Athens, for, amended 327 Carrollton, for, amended 329 Cartersville, for 323 Quitman, for 337 Richmond county, for, amended 330 Tallapoosa, for 331 Ware county, for 336 Waycross, for, amended 334 T TALLAPOOSA New charter for city of, provided 234

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System of public schools for 331 TATNALL COUNTY Office of solicitor for county court, created 289 TAX LEVY Whitfield county, for school purposes in, authorized 330 TAYLOR COUNTY Stock law for 741st district in 315 Stock law for 743rd district in 317 TELFAIR COUNTY Sale of liquor in, regulated 312 THOMAS COUNTY Commissioners of, authorized to build new jail 279 TREASURER Fulton county, salary of, fixed 288 Randolph county, fees of, fixed 282 TYBEE Name of the town of Ocean City changed to 271 V VERNONBURG Amending charter of the town of 200 W WARE COUNTY Amending public school system of 336 WASHINGTON INSTITUTE Sale of liquor within three miles of, prohibited 313 WAYCROSS Registration laws of, amended 302 System of public schools for, amended 334 WAYNE COUNTY Compensation Commissioners, etc., of, fixed 285 Registration law for 299 WHITFIELD COUNTY Local option law of, amended 314 Tax levy for school purposes, authorized 330 WILCOX COUNTY Registration law for 305 WORTH COUNTY Registration law for, amended 295 WORTHVILLE CHURCH Sale of liquor within one mile of, prohibited 309 Z ZION CHURCH Sale of liquor within one mile of, prohibited 310

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PART IVPrivate Laws. THOMAS MURPHY Authorized to peddle without license 349 EXEMPTING FROM JURY DUTY Columbus Guards, one hundred members 351 Macon Volunteers, one hundred members, 350 PART VResolutions. 1. Authorizing payment of lapsed appropriation to Deaf and Dumb Asylum 355 2. Invoking clemency of National Executive for violators of revenue laws 356 3. Prolonging Session 356 4. Extending time for completion of New Capitol to April 1, 1889 357 5. Asking Federal aid in preventing overflows of Savannah river 357 6. To visit State University 358 7. Authorizing payment of per diem of deceased members 359 8. Towards securing Congressional amendment to National Bank Act 359 9. Towards obtaining fuller Congressional recognition of Altamaha river 360 10. Providing for the printing of the Session 360 11. For the relief of W. T. Woodruff, etc 361 12. Providing for recess from December 22, 1888, to first Wednesday in July 1889 361 13. Creating joint committee to examine accounts of Comptroller and Treasurer 362 Treasurer's Statement. Treasurer's Statement 364 , 365

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SUPERIOR COURT CALENDAR. [ Revised for 1889 by W. H. Harrison. ] ALBANY CIRCUIT. B. B. BOWER, Bainbridge, Ga., Judge; W. N. SPENCE, Camilla, Ga., Solicitor-General. BakerSecond Monday in March and September. CalhounSecond Monday in June and December. DecaturSecond and third Monday in May and November. DoughertyFirst, second and third Monday in April and October. MitchellThird and fourth Monday in March and fourth Monday in November. WorthFourth Monday in April and October. ATLANTA CIRCUIT. M. J. CLARKE, Atlanta, Ga., Judge; C. D. HILL, Atlanta, Ga., Solicitor-General. FultonFirst Monday in March and September. AUGUSTA CIRCUIT. H. C. RONEY, Augusta, Ga., Judge; BOYKIN WRIGHT, Augusta, Ga., Solicitor-General. BurkeFirst Monday in June and December. ColumbiaFourth Monday in March and September. McDuffieThird Monday in March and September. RichmondThird Monday in April and October. BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT. WILL J. WINN, Marietta, Ga., Judge; GEORGE R. BROWN, Canton, Ga., Solicitor-General. CherokeeFourth Monday in February and second Monday in September. CobbSecond and third Monday in March and third and fourth Monday in November. DawsonThird Monday in April and second Monday in September. FanninFourth Monday in May and third Monday in October. ForsythThird Monday in February and fourth Monday in August. GilmerThird Monday in May and second Monday in October. MiltonFirst Monday in February and third Monday in August. PickensFourth Monday in April and September. BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT. SPENCER R. ATKINSON, Brunswick, Ga., Judge; W. G. BRANTLEY, Blackshear, Ga., Solicitor-General. ApplingSecond Monday in March and October. CamdenTuesday after fourth Monday in April and November. CharltonTuesday after third Monday in April and November. ClinchFirst Monday in March and October. CoffeeTuesday after second Monday in April and November.

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GlynnFirst Monday in May and December. PierceFourth Monday in March and October. WareFirst Monday in April and November. WayneThird Monday in March and October. CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT. JAMES M. SMITH, Columbus, Ga., Judge; A. A. CARSON, Butler, Ga., Solicitor-General. ChattahoocheeFourth Monday in March and September. HarrisSecond Monday in April and October. MarionFourth Monday in April and October. MuscogeeSecond Monday in May and November. TalbotSecond Monday in March and September. TaylorFourth Monday in February and August. CHEROKEE CIRCUIT. THOS. W. MILNER, Cartersville, Ga., Judge; A. W. FITE, Cartersville, Ga., Solicitor-General. BartowSecond Monday in January and July. CatoosaSecond Monday in February and August. DadeThird Monday in March and September. GordonFourth Monday in February and August. MurrayThird Monday in February and August. WhitfieldFirst Monday in April and October. COWETA CIRCUIT. S. W. HARRIS, Carrollton, Ga., Judge; T. A. ATKINSON, Greenville, Ga., Solicitor-General. CampbellFirst Monday in February and August. CarrollFirst Monday in April and October. CowetaFirst Monday in March and September. DouglasThird Monday in January and July. FayetteThird Monday in March and September. HeardFourth Monday in March and September. MeriwetherThird Monday in February and August. TroupThird Monday in April and first Monday in November. EASTERN CIRCUIT. A. P. ADAMS, Savannah, Ga., Judge; W. W. FRASER, Savannah, Ga., Solicitor-General. ChathamFirst Monday in March, June and December. BryanFirst Monday in May and November. EffinghamSecond Monday in May and November. McIntoshFourth Monday in May and November. LibertyThird Monday in May and November. FLINT CIRCUIT. JAMES S. BOYNTON, Griffin, Ga., Judge; E. WOMACK, Covington, Ga., Solicitor-General. ButtsSecond Monday in March and September. HenryThird Monday in April and October. MonroeFourth Monday in February and August. NewtonThird Monday in March and September. PikeFirst Monday in April and October. RockdaleThird Monday in February and August. SpaldingFirst Monday in February and August. UpsonFirst Monday in May and November.

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MACON CIRCUIT. G. W. GUSTIN, Macon, Ga., Judge; W. H. FELTON, JR., Macon, Ga., Solicitor-General. CrawfordThird Monday in April and October. HoustonFirst Monday in April and October. BibbFirst Monday in May and November, and continues as long as necessary. MIDDLE CIRCUIT. JAMES K. HINES, Sandersville, Ga., Judge; OSCAR H. ROGERS, Sandersville, Ga., Solicitor-General. BullockFourth Monday in April and October. EmanuelThird Monday in April and first Monday in November. JeffersonSecond Monday in May and November. JohnsonFourth Monday in March and September. ScrevenThird Monday in May and November. TatnallSecond Monday in April and October. WashingtonFirst Monday in March and September. NORTHEASTERN CIRCUIT. C. J. WELLBORN, Blairsville, Ga., Judge; HOWARD THOMPSON, Gainesville, Ga., Solicitor-General. HallThird Monday in January and July. HabershamFirst Monday in March and September. RabunThird Monday in March and September. TownsFourth Monday in March and September. WhiteSecond Monday in April and October. LumpkinThird Monday in April and October. UnionFirst Monday in April and October, NORTHERN CIRCUIT. SAMUEL LUMPKIN, Lexington, Ga., Judge; W. M. HOWARD, Lexington, Ga., Solicitor-General. ElbertSecond Monday in March and September. GlascockThird Monday in February and August. HancockSecond Monday in April and October. HartThird Monday in March and September. LincolnFourth Monday in April and October. MadisonFirst Monday in March and September. OglethorpeThird Monday in April and October. TaliaferroFourth Monday in February and August. WarrenFirst Monday in April and October. WilkesFirst Monday in May and November. OCMULGEE CIRCUIT. WM. F. JENKINS, Eatonton, Ga., Judge; GRAY LEWIS, Sparta, Solicitor-General. BaldwinThird Monday in January and July. GreeneSecond Monday in March and September. JasperFourth Monday in March and September. JonesThird Monday in April and October. MorganFirst Monday in March and September. PutnamThird Monday in March and September. WilkinsonFirst Monday in April and October. OCONEE CIRCUIT. DAVID M. ROBERTS, Eastman, Ga., Judge; TOM EASON, McRae, Ga., Solicitor-General. DodgeFourth Monday in February and August. DoolySecond and third Monday in March and September.

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IrwinTuesday following Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September. LaurensFourth Monday in January and July. MontgomeryFourth Monday in April and October. PulaskiThird Monday in May and November. TelfairTuesday after third Monday in April and October. TwiggsSecond Monday in April and October. WilcoxFourth Monday in March and September. PATAULA CIRCUIT. J. T. CLARKE, Cuthbert, Ga., Judge; JAMES M. GRIGGS, Dawson, Ga. Solicitor-General. ClayThird Monday in March and September. EarlyFirst and second Monday in April and October. MillerThird Monday in April and October. QuitmanSecond Monday in March and September. RandolphFirst and second Monday in May and November. TerrellFourth Monday in May and November, and holds two weeks. ROME CIRCUIT. JOHN W. MADDOX, Summerville, Ga., Judge; CHAS. G. JANES, Cedartown, Ga., Solicitor-General. ChattoogaFirst Monday in March and September. FloydFourth Monday in March and September, and holds four weeks, longer, if necessary. PauldingFirst Monday in January and August. PolkSecond Monday in February and August, and holds two weeks. HaralsonThird Monday in January and July, and holds two weeks. WalkerLast Monday in February and August. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. AUGUSTIN H. HANSELL, Thomasville, Ga., Judge; D. W. ROUNTREE, Quitman, Ga., Solicitor-General. BerrienThird Monday in March and second Monday in October. BrooksFirst Monday in May and November. ColquittFirst Monday in April and October. EcholsSecond Monday in March and fourth Monday in September. LowndesThird Monday in May and November. ThomasThird week in April and October. SOUTHWESTERN CIRCUIT. ALLEN FORT, Americus, Ga., Judge; C. B. HUDSON, Ellaville, Ga., Solicitor-General. WebsterFirst Monday in April and October. SchleySecond Monday in April and October, StewartThird and fourth Monday in April and October. LeeFirst Monday in May and November. MaconSecond and third Monday in May and November. SumterFourth Monday in May and November, and to continue as long as necessary. STONE MOUNTAIN CIRCUIT. RICHARD H. CLARK, Atlanta, Ga., Judge; J. S. CANDLER, Decatur, Ga,, Solicitor-General. ClaytonFirst Monday in March and September. DeKalbSecond Monday in February and August.

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WESTERN CIRCUIT. N. L. HUTCHINS, Lawrenceville, Ga., Judge; R. B. RUSSELL, Athens, Ga., Solicitor-General. BanksThird Monday in March and September. ClarkeSecond, third and fourth Monday in April and second Monday in October. OconeeFourth Monday in January and July. FranklinFourth Monday in March and September. GwinnettFirst and second Monday in March and first Monday in September. JacksonFirst and second Monday in February and August. WaltonThird Monday in February and August. SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. LOGAN E. BLECKLEY, CHIEF JUSTICE. Term to January 1, 1893. THOS. J. SIMMONS, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. Term to January 1, 1895. M. H. BLANDFORD, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. Term to January 1, 1891. Z. D. HARRISON, CLERK. HENRY C. PEEPLES, REPORTER. GEO. W. STEVENS, ASSISTANT REPORTER. J. M. GRAHAM, STENOGRAPHER. J. W. VAUGHAN, SHERIFF. Terms begin First Monday n March and October.