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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0411 and id is 1 raw text is: P1IVATE AND LOCAL LAWS.-CrrE, &o.
Town of Roswell.
(No. 205.)
An Act to incorporate the Tmon of Rowell, in the County of Cobb,
to provide for the Election <f an Intendant and Board of Com-
msi88One for the same, and to confer qtpon them sjecfed
.powers, and for other purposcs therein mentioned.
SECTION 1. 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 the village noswou. Iln.
at and around the factory buildings of the Roswell Manufacturing corporated.
Company, in the County of Cobb, in this State, embracing an area
of one mile in every direction from the Presbyterian Church in
said village, be and the same is hereby incorporated by the name
and style of the Town of Roswell.
Sc. II. Be itfurther enacted, &c., That on the second Monday
in March, 1854, and on the second Monday in January of every year who ure vo.
thereafter, all free white persons, citizens of and residing within the
said limits of said Town, who shall be entitled to vote fir Members
of the Legislature of said State shall be entitled to vote for an In-
tendant and live members of the Board of Connissioners of said
Town, and that any person or persons legally entitled to vote for
said Intendant and Commissioners shall be eligible for saile offices Intendant
at such elections; one Justiceof the Inferior Court, or of the Peace, mC' Corn.
shall preside at said election, together with two freeholders, the inIsioners.
latter citizens of said Town, and the persons receiving the highest
number of votes for said offices shall be declared duly elected; that
the managers of said elections shall give to those elected certifi-
cates to that effect, which shall be sufficient evidence of their
election and authority to them to act, which ceitificates shall be
recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose by the Clerk of said
Commissioners.
SEO. III. Be it / rther enacted, &C., That the Intendant and Com-
missioners of said Town shall hold and exercise their offices until
their successors are elected and qualified, and in the event of a
vacancy at any time, by death, resignation, or otherwise, in said
offices of Intendant or (omnmssioners, the remaining acting Inten- acancies,
dant and Commissioners, or in [the?] event of the vacancy being
that of Intendant, then the acting Commissioners shall order an
election, on ten days notice to fill the same, said notice to be post-
ed at two or more of the most public places in said Town.
S:o. IV. Be itftrtheid enated, c., That the said Intendant and
Commissioners by their said corporate name of the Town of Ros-
well are declared perpetual, and by their said name shall sue and Pe and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, and do all other acts relating to privileges
their corporate capacity, and shall have and use a common sea], finned.
and shall be capable in law to purchase, hold, receive, enjoy and
retain to them and their successors, for the use and benefit of said
Town, any and all property, real, personal, or mixed, within the
limits of said Town, and to sell, exchange or release the same or any
part thereof ; and the said Intendant and Board of Commissioners,
-or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to pass
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