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An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitled an Act, to alter and amend the Patrol Laws of this State. 1860 207 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0524 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.-PATROLS. Dougherty County. line, adjust the rate of their compensation, and exercise a general supervisionary control over all matters appertaining thereto. 3. SeC. III. Be it further enacted, That on the second Saturday Anual eleo- in January, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and annually there-1j fir five after, an election shall be held at the usual place of holding Jus- e a tice's Court in said District, to be presided over by the colimis-rouce. sioned Magistrates in said District, for five (5) persons to act as a Board of Police, also shall hold their offices until their successors shall be elected by the qualified voters of said District. 4. SEc. IV. Be it further enacted, That means shall be provided for the support and maintenance of said mounted Police, by the o payment on the second Zaturday in each and every year by every ri slave owner, of a tax not more than fifty cents per head, on his or Nt re her slaves, as returned on the Tax Digest for the said District; the same to be collected by this Board through their Secretary; and, sflae. s. in the event of any slave owner refusing to pay said tax, it shall be the duty of the Board to issue an execution against said delin- quent, which execution shall be levied and collected as other exe- cutions now are; Provided, that all owners of laves who reside on their plantations at all times of the year, shall he exempted from the operation of this section. rsons re. 5. SEc. V. Be it further enacted, That persons residing in said istt who District who own no slaves, and are not subject to the payment of e.oust any tax imposed by this Act, shall continue subject to the general Pito'L. patrol laws of this State. of thisSt. SEc. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Assented to December 17, 1860. 2. DOUGHERTY COUNTY. Sac. 6. J. P. in Dougherty County made Sec. 7. They may also act in an adjoining Patrol Co:mnissioners in said Co. I District. (No. 215.) An Act to alter and amend an Act, entitled an Act, to alter and amend the Patrol Laws of this State, approved February 20th, 1854* so far as relates to the county of Doughert* y. 6. SEc. I. Be it enacted, Yc., That from and after the passage of this Act, the Justices of the Peace of the county of Dougherty, ion r mnade Pat. shall, and they are hereby declared to be the Patrol Commission-,jCom* ein ers for the said county, and that the appointment of Patrol Colm_ said Co. missioners by the Justices of the Inferior Court, so far as relates to the county of Daugherty for the fiture, shall be dispensed with. 7. SEc. II. Be it further enacted, That should any Militia Dis- trict fail or neglect to elect Justices of the Peace, then the duties - set in n of Patrol Commissioners shall, and may be discharged for said r ingnDon. Distiict by the Justioes of the Peace, in any adjoining District of said county. SEc. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Assented to December 18, ISGO. * See Public Laws of 1833 and 1854, pamp. p. 101. 207

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