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An Act to define the duties and authority of the Commissioners of the town of Washington in Wilkes county. 1821 17 (1821.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0134 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF 6EORGIA. I qf4. Ind be it farther enacted by the aiuthority aforesaid, That IP any person or persons leasing or renting any lot or lots, tenement or tenements, within the City of Darien or the precincts thereof, shall .fail to pay the rent at the time the same shall become due, and shall refuse to deliver possession to the leasor at the ex piration of his lease, it shall and may be lawful for the Judge of the Superior Court, or any of the Justices of the Inferior Court, of the County of M'In- tody, to issue a writ of possession, directed to the Sheriff or any law- ful constable of the City of 1)a ien or the precincts thereof, counand- ing the said Shier iff or constable to deliver possession of the said lot or -lots, tenement or tenements, to the haid leasor, which shall be by the said Sheriflor constable forthwith executed and returned. § .J1nd be it further Penacted by the authority aforesaid, That all tontracts for rencs, whether verbal or in writing, shall bear, interest from the time the same shall become due, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstandin; and all actions commenced in any of the Courts within the City of Darien, or the precincts-thereof, for the recovery of rent in arrear, shall be returnable and tried at the first term, unless good cause shall be shewn for the continuance there- of; nor shall any such action be continued mnore than one term at the instance of either party, any law to tie contrary notwithstanding. § 6. Ind be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against this act be dnd the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the Ilouse of Representatives. MATTHEW TAXVVLIOT, President of the Senate. - Assented to, Sd December, 1821. JOHN CLARK, Governor6 AN ACT To define the duties and authority of the Commissioners of the town of Washington in Wilkes county. i. lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of lhe State of Georgia, in General Assemubly met,-and it is hereby enact- ed by the authority of the sane, That live Commissioners, being resi- dents and freeholders within the corporate limits of said town, shall be elected by ballot at the usual place of elections for said county, on the second Monday in January, 1823, and on the second Monday in Janu- ary in every succeeding year thereafter, by such citizens residing with- in the said corporate limits, as are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, ten days written notice thereof being given at the Court-llouse by the'preceding Commissioners or a majority of them, or by any justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace for the county of Wilkes. At which election, any Justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace for said county, to-ether with two free: holders of the said town, not candidates, bhall preside. And if.it '17

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