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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to raise a Revenue for the city of Columbus, amendatory of an act to impose a special tax on the persons and property of the citizens of the city of Columbus, residing and being in the same, annually hereafter and to provide for the collection thereof, and to punish those who may refuse or attempt to defeat the provisions thereof. 1847 29 (1847)

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to raise a Rev-
enue for the city of Columbus, amendatory of an act to
impose a special tax on the persons and property of the
citizens of the city of Columbus, residing and being iii the
same, annually hereafter and to provide fbr the collection
thereof; and to punish those who may refuse or attempt to
defeat the provisions thereof, assented to on the 10th day
of December, 1841, and also to make provisions lbr the
Poor residing in said city.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met,
anl it is hereby enacted by the authority <f the same, That
so much of the first section of the above recited act, passed
the 10th day of December, 1846, as relates to the tax on a
negro slave owned by persons residing without the cor-
porate limits of said city, which negro slave is hired, em-
ployed and laboring in said city, be, and the same is hereby
repealed ; and in place thereof, the highest amount of' the
tax on such slave or slaves, owned, hired or employed, as
aforesaid, shall be three-fourths of one per cent. on the val-
ue thereof, to be given in by the owner or employer of such
slave or slaves.
C-IARLES J. JENKINS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ANDREW J. MILLER,
President of the Senate.
Aproved, December 27, 1847.
GEORGE W. TOWNS, Governor.
AN ACT to alter and amend an act entitled an act to in-
corporate the town of Lincoluton, in the county of Lin-
coln, so far as relates to the appointment of Commission-
ers, assented to 19th December, 1819.
WHE1REAS the second section of the above recited act is in
the following words, to wit: That where any vacancy
in the Commissioners of said Corporation shall happen,
by resignation, removal, or otherwise, the Commissioners
in oflice shall appoint some other person within the limits
of .said Corporation to fill such vacancy:
SECTION 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House
ofRepresentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That
from and after the passing of this act, the said above recited
section be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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