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An Act for the better regulation of the town of Watkinsville, in the county of Clarke. 1806 5 (1806.11)

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!al act
for the better regulation and government of the towb
of Watkinsville, in the county of Clarke.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of' Georgia, in
G. neral Assembly met, That Bedford Brown,
Edward Bond, and Robert Echols, shall be
commissioners of said town, and their succes.
ors in office, shall have full power and au.
thority to pass all by-laws and regulations
which may be necessary for the improvement
and repairing of the streets of the said town,
and the preservation of the public springs-
Provided. That such by-laws and regulations
shall not be repugnant to the constitution and
laws of this State, and that no penalty there-
by imposed shall extend to coporeal punish.
ment (except to people of colour)-And fro-
widedalso, That the said commissioners shall
not impose any tax upon the citizens of the
said town which, shall exceed one dollar on
each poll within the term of one yea,.
. SEc. 2. And be itfurther enacted, That
the said commissioners shall continue in of-
fice until the first Monday in January, one
thousand eight hundred and tight, and on
the first Monday in every year thereafter, on
which day all the free male white citizens of
the said town who have given in their taxable
property, and who are entitled to vote for mem.
bers of the General Assembl, shall assemble.

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