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An Act to incorporate the town of Carnesville, in the county of Franklin, and to appoint Commissioners for the same, and to define their powers and duties, to amend the act incorporating the town of Thomasville;. 1859 139 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0490 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS-CITIES Amn Towns.

Carnestlle.
CARNESVILLE.
Soc. 1. Carnesville incorporated:; limits. I See t0. Road  Streets, &c.
Commissloners.            It. Tax delinquents. OtherTaxes.
 2. Time, placo and manner of elect-   12. Dy-laws
ing Commissioners.          13. Marshals duty Salary.
 3. Powers. Proviso.               14. Vacancies. Clerk. Treasurer.
4. Spirituous liquors. Gaming.   15. Intendant ex-offirio J. P.
 5. Who may sell liquor. Oath.     I 10. 13th nd 14th sections of Act of
 . Fine and imprisonment.             1850 repealed.
 7. Penalty for furnishing slaves or   17. 3d section of Act of 1857 repealed.
free persons of color with spirit-   18- Mayor and Council of Thoieasvll
uous liquor.                      may grant retail license. Pro.
S. Comm'rs may preserve order.         Viso-
9. Shows. Ordinances. Proviso.   19. Limits of Thoasvilo changed.
(No. 172.)
An act to incorporate the towna of 6Carnesvile, in i/i county of Frili,
and to appoint Gounwissiwzers for the sa.me, and to define tJeir poers
and (luttes, to amend the art incorporati the town of Thoinasoilc ;
approved Marc13 6th, 1sc6, andifor onher pof5eoses.
2. SECTION   i. Be it nact9d, That from  and after the passage
of this act, the town of   Carnesville, in the county of Franklin bec,rnms.ne
and the sapin is Cereby incorporated, under te name and style defo tei poer
the Intendant and Commissioner of the town of Carnesille, and
that the corporate limits of said town shall extend for the distance Ltmnn.
of one mile in every direction from the Court House; and John J.
M. Bagwell, R. D. Crines, James M. Engwell, Hery D. Adderhold, comea
and Wilbon Welden, be and they are hereby appointed Commis-
sioners of said town, with powers to elect one of their number In-
tendant, who shall hold their ofifee until the first Saturday in Jan-
uary, 1861, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
2. SEc. II. And be it further enacted,. That on the first Saturday in a
January, IS6 1, and on the first Saturday in each and every year,j;
thereafter, an election shall be held at the Court House in said town, Sit oW1x're.
by any two freeholders thereof, for Intendant and four Commnis-
sioners for said town; at which election, all the citizens residing
within the corporate limits of said town, entitled to vote for mem-'v--
bers of the Legislature of this State, shall be entitled to vote; and
the persons receiving the highest number of votes for Intendant 'k
and Commissioners, shall be declared duly elected for the term of
one year; and if no election shall be held at the time appointed in
this act, then, upon ten days notice, in writing, posted at the Court
House door of said town, by any two citizens of said town, of the
time and place of holding said election, the legal voters residing
within the corporate limits of said town, shall proceed to elect in
the same way and manner as though the same had been done as
provided for in the body of this act.
3. SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That said Intendant and
Commissioners shall have full power and authority to provide for,#ow.,.
the working of the streets and the public square, and for abating all
*Act for regulation of the town of Carnesville, 1807, pam. 43,145; Amended 1808,
pam. 101.2, 1819, pam. 104-5, 1822 pam. 133 4, 1856, pam 345.

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