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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0551 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.
TITLE I.
CITIES-AND TOWNS.
Sec. 1. Fort Gaines incorporated-Corporate
Iiinitm-Corporate unnie. Twn of
Fort (Guinevs-Election of Ma.or and
ConucilniTa-'reeiiircr and larshIl
4. Tat1ken-LicenOstu 1 retttiihiillhu4-tIin-
CiAint Tradeirm-collection of tLxeq-
Costs.
5, 1Iy-laws. & e. Fincs- imprisoiniment.
6. leolk tof Coicil-81alarie of Clek
anod MarIShall-their mu'
7. Mayor aud Council maiky bind over of-
8. Thines and places (il Invtinl'gs of May-
or tond Connllcl-Stavem nold hle ne-
groe-Ta.x on ten pin Alleys, &c.
9, Street tax.
Ill. Faring latnsi exen ipt from nity tax-
Itapproptlilutionof tinlesan111IUXes.
11. Aoval of Malreshal.
1'2. Str-eetm, kV., Inl MUcon ma1y he la611
out and workvid.
13. To be under mole management of May-
or ind Jonncil-Crosfugs and io
wralka.-1'enalty agintnd owners.
11. Extnsion of city nis on wet sido
of river.
15. Further extension of liimit on West
mide oif river.
II. Extenpion oil east mide of river.
17. Jurisdiction of city iutlioritiem exten-
ded over upw territory-nasenot of
ownelrs of re eateto in new limiits,
firatto Ie 1101.
18. Smit It 6llea slias Hev]nwick, incorpora-
ted; elect ion of 5 Coiuissione s.
1,Corporate limito.
i. Coniissioners to appoint city ofliers
-Taxei Nioe of toii imity bo
Chanlged ; Ily-laws.4
1. etaitil of aiciint pip its ; Coinsioin-
ehi miy olilo andRI he led; Ilay hold
pr~operty.
.,. Corporite linitM of Grooverville, de
clared.
(No. 172.)
An Art /0 incorporate t he town of jiiort (aaines it the county /' Clay; ta
(ryile its jtrisdictionl limits, and Jor othcr purposes thrcein itentI ioled.
t. Siox-rN I. The 'i(0wral AselUil do t( f, That the town of.rt (oaieaq
Fort aines shall have flor its corporate limits as follows ; coin-orpous
mencing on the west bank of' the Chattatoochoo river, on the line u.
dividing the State of' Alabama and Georgia, at a point opposite the
mouth of the Semochiechobec creek and running across said river
to the mouth of the said creek, then running east on the old divi-
ding line between Randolph and Early coities to the north east
corner of lot number 361, thence south on the east line of 1111111-
bers 361, 32 and 303 to the Ledbetter Branch, thence the said
branch west to the south line of number 36:3, thencve due west
across the-Chiattaboochee river to a point oti its western bank on
the line dividing the States of Georgia andt Alabaina, thence ont
said State line to the place of beginning ; and that the inhabitants
now living and that may hereafter reside within the said limits be,
and they are hereby constitited and made a body corporate by the
name and style of' the town of Fort Gaines; and the said inhabi-,m town
tants who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assem- '.t..
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