The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-07-15
SALE IS FAVORED

mayor and council to appropri tie OF
use any monies so derived for aJ.y
other purpose or object. This provis
ion is made in lieu of the existing
provision of the charter of said city
requiring and directing said mayor and
council to pay over to said board Of
education for the support of said
schools, all sums and monies derived
Or received from said Town Commons
or the improvements thereon, either
in the form of rents, or in the form
of taxes. If it should be held and
decided by the court that the provis-
ion herein made requiring the levy
and collection of such special tax for
the support of the public schools of
said city is invalid, then the provision
herein made that such special tax
shall be in lieu of the rents and taxes
from said Town Commons to said
board of education, shall be void, and
the existing laws and provisions of
the charter of said city providing for
the payment by said mayor and coun-
Gil to the board of education, of all
taxes and rents derived from the
Town Commons of said city, and the
improvements thereon shall again be-
come effective, so that said mayor
and council shall in such event be
required to pay over to said board of
education, for the support of the pub
lie schools of said city, all rents and
taxes levied and collected from the
lands and improvements now en-
braced within the area comprising the
Town Commons, Notwithstanding that
at such time said mayor and council
may have sold and disposed of this
interest in said commons.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted bv
the authority aforesaid that all of the
provisions of sections one %, two
t2), three (3). and four (4) of this
act shall be null and void and of no
effect, unless the same shall be
ratified by two-thirds vote of those
voting in the regular city election for
mayor and aldermen, or mayor or aid
ermen, to be held on the second Tues
day in December, 1911; and there
shall be printed on said ballots at said
city election, ''For, the provisions of
sections one Q), two (2), three (3),
and four (4) of the act of 1911 ap-
proved --- day of - 1911.
including the levy of the special tax
therein indicated" and Against the
provisions of sections one %. two
~, three (3) and four a., of the
Act OF 1911, approved day of
1911, including the levy of the
special tax therein indicated"
Sec 6. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, that beginning
with the year 1912 assessment of the
property in the City of Brunswick.
both real and personal, including the
improvements on land, shall be made
annually; that the board of equalizers
now provided by law, shall annually
examine the assessors valuation of
all property; that said board of equa-
llzers shall sit for not more than
twenty days, but shall be allowed
twenty days after finishing said sit
tlngs within which to make up it's
findings and report to the mayor and
council of the City of Brunswick; that
said board of assessors shall annually
pass on the valuation of<all property
both real and PERSONAL that SO much
OF section one % of the Act of the
General Assembly entitled "An Act
to amend an Act entitled AN Act to
consolidate and amend the several
acts incorporating the City of Bruins
wick, ETC., approved August %,
1908, and appearing on page $50 ct
seq of the Acts of 1905, as is in con-
flict with the provisions of this sec
t1on be, and the same, are hereby re.
pealed.
Sec. Z. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid that the fol-
lowing words that there shall be
three assessors appointed, as herein
after, whose duty it shall be to as-
sess all real property in said city at
a true and fair valuation, and they
shall be appointed by said mayor and
aldermen as follows: at the first ap:
po1htment of assessors, which shall
take place under this act at the first
regular meeting of the said mayor and
council after the organization of the
next board in January next, they shall
be appointed, one for one year, one tor
two years, and one for three years,
and ever thereafterwards, one asses
sor shall be elected and qualified an
nually, and shall hold his office for
the term of three years, and until his
successor is elected and qualified, ex-
cept where an appointment is made to
fill vacancy" appearing in secri,n
fourteen 14 of an Act amending the
charter of the City of Brunswick, ap-
proved November II, 1889, be strick-
en- from said section; and in lieu
thereof shall be inserted the follow.
ing: that beginning with the year
1872, there shall annually be three as
SCISSORS elected by the mayor and
council, whose duty it shall be to as
sess all real and PERSONAL property in
said city at true and fair valuation;
and who shall be elected as follows:
the election of asspsSOrs choII rofJa