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An Act for the better regulation of the town of Watkinsville in the county of Clarke. 1815 76 (1815)

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tax on the inhabitants of said county, for one year. hicl
shall not exceed one third of the general tax of said coun-
ty ; and the Collector of said county shall be entith d to
two and one half per cent, for collecting and paying over
the same, which shall he collected in the same manner as
the general tax of said county, to be applied to county pur..
poses.                BENJ. WHITAKER,
Speaker of the House of Itepresentatives.
WILLIAM RABUN,
President of the Senate.
Asiented to, 8th December, 1815.
D. B. MITCHELL, Governor..
AN ACT
For the better regulation ofthe forn of TVatkinsille in
the county of Clarke.
§ 1.    E it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre.
sentatives of the stale of ('eorgia, in General ./Issembl
'met, That 6reorge W. Moore, Ira E. Paschal and George
Rochfort shall he commissioners of said town, and their
successors in office, in place of Bedford Brown, Edward
Bond and Robert Echols, removed, and shall have full
power and authority to pass all bye. laws and regulations
which may be necessary for the improvement and repair-
ing of the streets of the said town, and tle preservation of
the public Springs-Provided, That such bye-laws and
regulations shall not be repugnant to the Constitution and
laws of thisstate, and that no penalty thereby imposed shall
extend to corporal punisliment, except to people of color
-And provided also, That the said comnissioners shall
not impose any tax upon the citizens of the said town,
which shall exceed one dollar on c'ich poll, Within the
term of one year.
§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Cornmis-
sioners shall continue in oflice until the first Monday in
January eighteen hundred and seventeen, 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

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