Spalding County Communities - Orchard Hill
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1912
PART III.--CORPORATIONS
TITLE I. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
1912 Vol. 1 -- Page: 1190
Sequential Number: 272
Short Title: ORCHARD HILL, TOWN OF, INCORPORATED.
Law Number: No. 598.
Full Title: An Act to incorporate the town of Orchard Hill in Spalding
County to provide for a Mayor and Councilmen
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and other officers of said town; to prescribe their duties, define their
powers and to provide for the enacting of all necessary ordinances and to
provide penalties for the violation of the same and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia
and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that from and after
the passage of this Act, the town of Orchard Hill in the County of
Spalding is hereby incorporated under the name of Orchard Hill.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
corporate limits of said town shall extend 440 yards in every direction
from the Central Railway depot in said town, which town shall be laid out
in the form of a circle.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted that the government of said town shall be
vested in a Mayor and four Councilmen, who may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded and perform any and all other acts necessary for the
government of the said town under the authority of the Mayor and
Councilmen of the town of Orchard Hill.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted that W. J. Grubbs, Jr., be and he is, hereby
appointed Mayor and A. G. Swint, A. L. Johnson, Linton Beekham and P. M.
Brown, are hereby appointed Councilmen of said town to hold office until
the first regular election as hereinafter provided for and until their
successors are elected and qualified.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted that on the first Saturday in December and
annually thereafter on the same day, an election shall be held in said
town for Mayor and Councilmen, whose terms of office shall be one year or
until
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their successors are elected and qualified no one shall vote for or be
eligible to said offices of Mayor and Councilmen who is not a bona-fide
citizen of said town, and who is not qualified to vote for members of the
General Assembly of this State. The said election shall be conducted in
the same manner as elections for County officers of this State and
certificates of the managers shall be sufficient authority to the persons
elected to enter upon the discharge of the duties of the officers to which
they have been elected.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That before entering upon the discharge of
their duties as Mayor and Councilmen they shall take and subscribe to the
following oath which may be administered by any person authorized by law
to administer oaths. I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge
all duties of Mayor or Councilmen of the town of Orchard Hill to the best
of my ability, so help me God.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall have the
power to levy and collect a tax not to exceed one-half of one per centum
upon all real and personal property within the corporate limits of said
town to lay out streets and lines and compel all persons within the
corporate limits of said town who are subject to road duty to work on the
streets of said town, or they may at their discretion, impose a
commutation tax in lieu of said work on the streets of said town the Mayor
and Councilmen being exempt from road duty.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor of said town shall have
authority to try all persons charged with a violation of the ordinances of
said town at any time and punish persons proven guilty by a fine not to
exceed fifty
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dollars or thirty days imprisonment or to work upon the streets of the
said town thirty days, provided any person may appeal from the Mayor's
decision to the Council by giving written notice at the time which said
appeal shall be heard at the next regular session of Council.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That from the Councilmen elected a Mayor
pro tempore shall be chosen, who shall act instead of the Mayor when he is
absent, disqualified, or under other disabilities.
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Councilmen appointed by
this Act and each succeeding Mayor and Council elected and qualified under
this Act shall at their first meeting proceed to elect a marshal who shall
be a citizen of said town they shall have authority to fix his salary and
otherwise regulate his duties.
SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall have
power to pass such ordinances and laws deemed necessary for the proper
government of said town, and observe such rules for collecting taxes and
licenses and fines and all other money due the corporation, and appoint
all the officers in their judgment for the correct administration of
Justice in said town.
SEC. 12. Be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and council shall have
the power to require a license of persons giving exhibitions and shows of
all kinds, also power to regulate and license butcher pens, black smith
shops, railroad and express companies, and business houses of all kinds,
also factories, etc.
SEC. 13. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in
conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Approval Date: Approved August 19, 1912.
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