The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-09-05
AN ACT.

the City of Marietta in the County of
Cobb, State of Georgia, and to super
sede and repeal the several Acts Gre
ating Boards of Lights, Water
works and Sewerage for said City,
TO create new charter and
government of said City by and
under Board of Commissioners
to be created therefor; to
prescribe for the election of said
Board of Commissioners, define their
powers and duties and fix their
terms of office, to designate other
officers for said City government and
define their terms, duties and pow
ers; to enact bylaws, ordinances and
rules for the preservation of order
and the government of said City and
it's interests; to provide for the pay
ment of the debts of said City and
the Board of Lights and Waterworks,
and for other purposes.
Section l. - Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, That from and after the
passage of this Act the City of Mar
ietta, in Cobb County, heretofore
made a body polite and corporate
by Acts of the General Assembly of
said State, shall continue a body po-
little and corporate, known by the
corporate name of the City of Mar
ietta. By said corporate name. it
may sue and be sued, have and use
a comon seal, buy, hold, exchange,
sell and convey property, make all
needful and lawful contracts, and
by such name transact all it's bust
ness. Said corporation by and
through it's Board of Commissioners
shall have all the power and privi-
Lodges incident to municipal corpo-
rations under the laws OF the State,
and all other powers that are nee
essary and proper to make, regulate,
maintain and preserve a proper and
legal government of said City.
Section 2. - Be it further enacted
by the General Assembly, that the
corporate limits of said City shall
extend one mile in every direction
from center of the park in the public
square except on the east side where
the limits shall be extended as fol-
lows: Beginning in the middle of
Roswell street on the line last one
mile from the center of the park in
the public square and next running
in an easterly direction along the
center of said Roswell street a dis
lance of one-fOurth mile; next due
north and south at right angles to
the center of said street one-fourth
of a mile each way 50 as to make
north and south, and thence by
parallel lines to the center of said
street westwardly to the circumfer-
ence as described under the first
provision of this section.
Section 3. - Be it further enact
ed, that the present Mayer and
Council of said City shall continue
in Office during the term for which
they were elected, and the present
charter OF said City shall continue
in force during the remainder, eX-
cept as herein otherwise provided.
No election for Mayor and Council
Of said City shall be held on the
second Tuesday in December 1913,
as provided by the third section of
the present charter, but in lieu
thereof there shall be held in said
city on the second Tuesday in De-
cember 1918, an election for three
Commissioners to serve said City az
hereinafter specified for terms OF
-one, two and three years, the terms
OF said Commissioners to be deter
mined by lot after their election.
Said election shall be held under
the provisions of Section OF the
present charter of the City of Mar
ietta, and all the terms, conditions
and provisions thereof as to the man
ner of holding said election, the
registration and qualification of
electors hereunder shall apply to
the election of said Commissioners
in all respects as they did to the
election of the Mayor and Council
hereunder. This Section Of this
Act shall become effective from the
the date of the ratification Of this
Act by the people of the City of
Marietta.
Section 4. - The Commissioners
provided for in the preceding sec
ton of this Act shall be known as
the Board of Commissioners of the
City of Marietta; their terms of of
flee shall begin when the present
Mayor and Council shall finally ad-
iourn on the first Monday in Janu-
ary 1914, and continue for terms OF