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An Act to amend An Act to make permanent the site of the Public Buildings for the County of Marion, in the Town of Buena Vista, and to incorporate the said Town. 1853-1854 213 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0405 and id is 1 raw text is: PRI ATE AND LOCAL LAWS.-Crrmis, &c. 213
Buena Vista, in Marion County.
to wit: commencing at a point on the incorporation line, one fourth
of a mile from the Macon and Western Rail Road, and on the Limis Wexn.
Bouth side of said Road and running in a westernly direction, par ded.
allel with said Road five hundred yards, thence, one half mile in
a northernly direction, running concentric with the present corpora-
tion line, thence in an easterly direction to the incorporation line,
thence to the beginning alone' said line.
SEC. X.     And be it further enacted, That all laws, and
parts of laws, militating against this Act, be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
Approved, February 20th, 1854.
(No. 176.)
An Act to amend An Act entitled An Act to make permanent the site
of the Public Buildings for the County of Marion, in the Town of
Buena Vista, and to incorporate the said Town, approved, January
26th, 1850; to repeal certain provisions therein contained, and to
extend the corporate limits of said Town ; to provide for the election
of a Board of Commissioners, to point out the duties of the same,
for the appointment and regulation of Patrols, for the preservation
of Public Property, shade trees, 8;c. ; for the prevention of encamp-
ing, for the prevention and removal of nuisances, to regulate the
working of the Public Streets, for the promotion of the public peace,
fior the appointment of a Marshal, and to point out his duties; for
the appointment of Treasurer, for the regulation of the residence of
Free Persons of Color, to authorize the Commissioners to levy a
Tax on all taxable property, Ten Pin Alleys, Billiard Tables, tyc.,
and to ley a Poll Tax, and to provide for the appointment of Tax
Receiver and Collector, and to require the Commissioners to make
annual reports; and for taxing Transient Traders in Goods,
W'ares, and Merchandize, and all Shows, Exhibitions, jc.
SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much
of Section third of the above recited Act as subjects the residents no
of said town to ordinary road duty be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
SEC. I[. Be it further enacted, That the citizens of said town
entitled to vote for the members of the General Assembly may, on yours.
the first Tuesday in February, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and
on the first Tuesday in February of each year thereafter, assemble
at the Court House in said town, and elect, by ballot, five Com-
missioners for said town; which Commissioners, so elected, shallrmers.
have been residents at least three months immediately preceding
their election, and shall hold their office one year, and until their
successors are duly elected.
SEC. Ill. Be it further enacted, That the corporate jurisdiction Cororato
of said town shall be extended as follows: Commencing at the 
North-west corner of lot anmber 110, running due West the dis-

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