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An Act to incorporate the Town of Dalton in the County of Whitfield, under the name and style of the City of Dalton, and to provide for the election of a Mayor and City Councilmen, and such other officers as may be required, and confer upon them specified powers, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and to make permanent the location of the Court House and Jail in said County of Whitfield; and to amend the several Acts incorporating the City of Atlanta, and the several Acts heretofore passed incorporating the City of Columbus; and also the several Acts incorporating the City of Macon. 1853-1854 235 (1853)

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Charter of Albany amended and Dalton Incorporated.
within the corporate limits of said Town, and to collect and use way grant
for the purpose of improving said Town, the amount of the li- liense.
conse so granted by them, and that they be further empowered to
fine and collect the fine of such as may vend ardent spirits with-
out such license, under such by laws as they may hereafter adopt:
Provided, the sanuc be not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws
of this State.
SEc. XVIII. And be it further enacted, Tnat the laws hereto-
fore passed, incorporating the city of Albany, be so amended that
whenever the words County of Baker, or Baker County occur, the Abr or
word Dougherty shall be substituted for Baker, so as to conform amended.
the Act or Acts incorporating said City, to the law creating the
county of Dougherty, and that the contemplated residence of Nel-
son Tift, adjoining the north line of the City, be included within Nelson Tif.
the City limits.
SEC. XIX. And be it jurther enacted by the authority afore-
said, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act
be and they are hereby repealed.
Approved, Fobruary 8th, 1854.
(No. 185.)
An Act to ineorporate the Town of Dalton in the County of Whit-
feld, under the name and style qf the City of Dalton, and to
provide for the election of a [the] .fayor and City Councilmen,
and such other qoes as may be required, and confer upon them.
specife(l powers, and ,fr other purposes therein nentioned * and
to mnakepernanent the location of the Court House and lail in
in said County of Whit/leld; and to amend the several Acts in-
corporating the City of Atlanta, and the several Acts heretofore
passed incorporating the City of Columbus; and also the several
Acts incorporating the City qf Jfacon.
Sm. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after
the passage of this Act, the Town of Dalton shall be known and cit. of Dal-
called the City of Dalton; that the corporate limits of said city be, ton, 1in:1
and the same are hereby, extended three-quarters of a mile in ev- extnded.
ery direction from the Western and Atlantic Rail Road Depot in
said city.
SEC. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the corporation tax to be imposed upon such property situa- Limit oftax.
ted or used in said city, shall not be assessed upon a larger sum
than the value thereof.
SEo. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That within twenty days after the passage of this Act, and by giv-
ing ten days notice, and on the second Monday in every January
thereafter, all free white male persons, citizens residing within the'Mato and
corporation of said city, who shall be entitled to vote for members coneil, and
of the General Assembly of this State, be entitled to vote for when'
Mayor and six members of the City Council; and that any person

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