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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Albany, in Baker county; and to allow Tomlinson Fort, Nelson Tift, and J.C. Harris, and their associates, to erect a bridge across Flint river. 1841 52 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0311 and id is 1 raw text is: CITIES AND TOWNS. ment of said city, and not hereinbefore repealed by this act, shall continue in force; and that all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are here- by repealed. WILLIAM B. WOFFORD, Speaker of the I-louse of Representatives. ROBERT M. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to, December Sth, 1841. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Albany, in Baker county; and to allow Tomlinson Fort, Nelson Tift, and J. C. Harris, and their associates, to erect a bridge across Flint river, passed December twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty- eight; and also to enlarge and describe the boundaries of Albany, and to incorporate the same; to provide for the election of a Mayor and City Councilmen, and other officers; and to confer *ipon them certain specified pow- ers; and for other purposes therein mentioned. SECTION 1. Be it eacted by the Sciiate nd house of Repre- sentatives of the State of' Gcorgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority qf the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the town of Albany shall be known as, and called the city of Albany; and the author- ity and jurisdiction of the said city shall extend across the Flint river to its eastern bank. SEC. 2. And bc it firTer enactled by the authority oforesaid, That on the first Saturday in January, in the year eighteen hund-ed and forty-two, and on the first Saturday in every January thereafter, all free white citizens, residing within the incorporate limits of said city, who shall be entitled to vote for members of the Legislature of said State, shall as- semble at the Academy in said city, and vote for a Mayor and six members of the City Council, in lieu and stead of commissioners, as is provided by the act to which this is amendatory; and that any person or persons legally entitled to vote at said election shall be eligible either for Mayor or for members of the City Council; at which election one Justice of the Inferior Court, or one Justice of the Peace, and two freeholders, neither of %N hon being a candidate, shall preside; and the persons receiving the highest num- ber of votes shall be declared duly elected. That the 62

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