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An Act to incorporate the town of Covington in Newton County. 1822 123 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0152 and id is 1 raw text is: J il ic p bo j Vher the county of 1)ooly, and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are herelby anthorisel and required to proceed as soon as practicable to malke choice of some proper place, as a tempo- ary cou rt-iouse for sald coiunty, wh iich shall be as near central as cooV enince will admit, which plce shIall he considered as the place for holding the courts, and transacting other county business, until per- inan eit arra ngeieits shall Ie made in aindI for said coulity. Sec. . .nd be it further eiacted byq the authority aforesaid, That the courts For siid county shall he ield at thle hou se oF Isaac Jonei, in lie iftih district of said county, until such choice shall be made as thip- law directs, and no longer. Sec. 3. /Ind be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Thkat all laws and parts of Jaws, militating against this act, be and they are hereby repwaled. ALLEN DANIEL, opeaker of the House of liepresentative. MA'TTIIEW TALOT, President of the Senate ssenteid to, Dacciber 25, 1822. JTORLN C'L lK, Govornme AN AC.' To incorporate the town of Covington in N ew ton County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in Gencral dssCIblY met, and it is hereby enacted by the anuthority of the same, That liurrel Matthew:,, Cary Wood, William D. Conyers, Richard S. Shaw kiefOrd, and Richard Sims, are hereby appointed commissioners of said town, and shall con- tinue in office until successors are elected according to the provisions of this act. See. _. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Moinday in January next, and on the first Monday in eve- ry year thereafter, all the free male citizens of the said town, who shall have given in their taxable property, and who shall be entitled to vote for oembers to the general assembly, shall assemble at the court-house in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, and until successors are elected, at which election any two of the juastices of the inferior court, or two of thejustices of the peace of said county shall preside ; and in.case of the death or removal of any of said commissioners, the rqmai,

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