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An Act to incorporate the Monroe Camp Ground, in the county of Monroe, and for other purposes. 1842 43 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0317 and id is 1 raw text is: CHURCHES AND CAMP GROUNDS.

ture Legislature -from altering, amending or abolishing any
of the charters or corporations herein granted.
WILLIAM B. WOFFORD,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 28th December, 1842.
CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor.
AN ACT to incorporate the Monroe Camp Ground, in the
county of Monroe, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly net,
and it is hereby enacted by the anthority of the sane, That James
Thweatt, Thomas Battle, Charles Y. Caldwell, Rowland
Redding, James Norris, William C. Redding, and Abner
T. Holt, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby
declared to be a body corporate, under the name and style of
the Trustees of the Methodist Monroe Camp Ground, lying
eight miles below Forsyth, on the Rail Road, in Monroe county.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the Trustees of the said Monroe Camp Ground be, and
they are hereby authorized, to pass such by-laws, and make
such regulations as they may deem necessary and proper
(not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of this
State,) for the good order and government of the same; and
that they have full power and authority to appoint all neces-
sary oflicers to carry the same into effect, and again to re-
move from office and to appoint others in their stead.
SEc. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the Trustees of said Monroe Camp Ground shall have
full powcr and authority to pass by-laws to suppress all ri-
otous and disorderly conduct on said Camp Ground, and
within its corporate limits ; and to that end, upon oath being
made by any one or more of them, before any Justice of the
Peace, he shall be authorized to issue his warrant or warrants
to arrest the offender or offbnders, and bind him, her or them
over to the next Superior Court of Monroe county, to an-
swer to sLch indictment as may then be preferred against
them, or either of theni, which warrant may be served by
the officer of said board, or any Sheriff, Coroner or Consta-
ble of the county.
SEc. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That in all cases where colored persons are the offendors, the

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