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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0517 and id is 1 raw text is: 90 LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.-CITIES AND TOWNS.
Cumming-Dallas-Daltoqj.
8. CUMMING.
[For Act to extend the corporate limits of, see Act No. 98,
To amend the several Acts incorporating the city of Dalton, &c.]
9. DALLAS.
[For Act to repeal certain portions of the Act of 1854, incor-
porating the town of Dallas, see Act No. 101 To incorporate
the town of Montezuma, &c.
10. DALTON.
Sec. 20. Charter of the city of Dalton amend Sec. 24. Council may subscribe to the stock
ed. of 1. Rt. Companies may issue
21. Quorum of the City Council of the bonds to said subscriptions, and
city of Atlanta for the transaction levy a tax to redeem the same:
of business. Proviso.
22. Council may pass all ordnances 25. Council may levy a tax, not exceed-
necessary to punish persons who ing one per cent, to defray the ordin-
furnish slaves, or free persons of ary expenses of the city.
color with spirituous liquors. 26. Corporate limits of the town of
23. Council may prevent the sale o Cumming extended.
lager beer without license therefor :1
Proviso.
(No. 98.)
An Act to amend the several Acts incorporating the city of Dalton,* and
amendatory of and in addition to the several Acts incorporating the
city of Atlanta,t aud to extend the corporate limits of the town of
CummingT in the county oj Forsyth.
Charter of the 20. SECTION I. Be it enncted, 4'c., That it shall not be lawful for
ton amended. the corporation of the city of Dalton after the present year, to
tax any lands within the limits of said corporation which are used
solely for farming purposes, and which are not laid off in city lots.
21. SEC. 11. Be it fitather enacted, That the Mayor and six mem-
Quorum of bers of the City Council of the city of Atlanta shall constitute a
t/,ele I quorun for the transaction of business, and in the absence of the
thetransac. Alayor, seven members of the Council shall make a quorum, and
ust. when both the Mayor and President pro tem. are absent, any mem-
ber present may be chosen as Chairman for that meeting.
conil may 22. SEC. Ill. Be it firther enacted, That the Mayor and Council
cass all ordi-
lame nece-of said city shall have full power and authority to pass all such
eary to pun.
igrs- by-laws and ordinances as they may deem necessary and proper to
saves or fteeprovide for the punishment of all persons who may be convicted
persons of
color with of selling to or furnishing any slave, or free person of color, with
sprexcd any intoxicating drink of any kind whatever, within said city, not
$100fi andto exceed one hundred dollars fine and fifty days imprisonment;
prisonment. * Cross Plains incorporated 1839, pam. 83. Name changed to Dalton, 1817, pam. 47.
Crharter amended 1850, pam. 86. Act of 1817 repealed 1852, pam. 388. (Did this Act change
its name again to Cross Plains ? Again incorporatnd under the rame and style of '! City of
Dalton, 1853, pam. 253 '43. Charter of city of Dalton amended 1856, pam. 369 71.
t Marthasville incorporated 1843, pamphlet 83; name changed to city of Atlanta 1847,
pam. 50; charter amended 1850, pam. 96; also 1852, pam. 386 '7; also 1854, pam. 212, 203,
241; also 1856, pam. t295; City Courts established 1856, pam. 245; Act of 1856. amending
charter, repealed 1857, pain. 6.
T See Act-Cummiing incorporated and made the county site 1854, pam. p. 255.. Cum-
ming incorporated 1845, pam. p. 125. Amended 1850, pamp. p. 81.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsga0517&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)