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An Act to incorporate the town of Homer, in the county of Banks, and appoint commissioners for the same, and for other purposes therein specified. 1859 172 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0495 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS-CITIES AND TOWNS. Homer. com* .%sioners shall have the power of Justices of the Peace, within the corporate limits of said town, and bind over to the Superior Court all persons guilty of offences within the corporate linits of said town, or for want of bail commit them to jail. Six. XXI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved December Sth, 1869. * Ilawkinsvillo incorporated 1830, pam. 214. Charter amended 1836, pam. 103. HOMER. Sc. 1. Commissioners appointed-pow. Sc. 9, To fine or imprison disturbers of ers.t public peace-ot exceed. 2, Coutinxance in office-successors ina $25 fine, or 24 hours im- 3. Jurisdiction of corporation. 4, Power to levy extra tax-for the 10, A majority of Commissioners to benefit of said town, &c. to issue execution-directedto ' 5. To work streets-to abolish nui- Mall &C. ances, &c. 11. To appoint a Treasurer-dities 6, To employ nt Marsiall-oath to be of Trvasurerprescribed, &c. taiken by Marshall, &c. 12, Oath to ho taken by Conmis- 7, To collect a Poll Tax, sioners. 8, To compel all persons to work on 64 13, To regulate the sale of spiritu- sircots-citizens exempt from Otis liluors-license not to ox. all other road and patrol duty. plceed 1-, &c. (No. 190.) An act to incoqporafo the town of oi~onr, in th5 couny oJ Bn/os, and appoint conzsissioncrs for the sanie, and iror othr uoss therein speccificd. 1. Sic. I. Be it enacted, tv., That' from and after the passage of m,'ttois act, James M. McDonald, J. N. Turk, James Norwood, J. N. I~~ft~. Chandler, John, E . Harper, nnd Davis T. Bradley, are hereby ap- POW pointed commnissiolers of th town o1 Homer, in the county of Banks, with full power to make all by laws, and regulations, ne- cessary for the government of said tohn. 2. Siic. IL Be it fititlwr enactud, by the autthoriiy afurcsaid, That C,,1tl-1anu said connnissioners shall continue in o uisce until the second Satur- in (itiiW.. day in January eighteen hundred and sixty-one, at which time all the citizens residing within said incorporation, entitled to vote for members of the General isenbly, shall eet at the Court I-louse, or soni other convenient place in said town, and elect their suc- cessors, who shall be residents of raid town, and shall hold their tI offices until their successors are elected and qualified, said election Quali;po sntall be held by t o justices of the peace, or two justices of the rkiuniid. inferior court, or one or either, with one free holder; Prorided; in the event of there being no election of commissioners at the time herein pointed out, the comnissioners then in Ofice, shall so con- tinue until their successors arc elected and qualified, and that the cnnngra ,,manwrel of said election shall give a certificate of election, Shich give thcii- te suicient authority or said conrissionr to enter oi tie tiono. discharge of their duties, and in case no election is held by the le- gal voters onl te day aforesaid, then at any tide tta eretafter, on a Elmtn ho' writtennoticeoftei days, beig eposted at thecourt housedoor,by any two free holders of said ton, giving notice of the tiand place .172

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