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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED 
AT THE REGULAR JANUARY SESSION. 1874. 
PART III.--PRIVATE LAWS. 

1874 Vol. 1 -- Page: 415

Sequential Number: 406 
Law Number: No. CCCCVI. 
Origin: (O. No. 114.) 

Full Title: An Act for the relief of John F. Hollis and the heirs-at-law of 
Jacob A. Clements, both of Marion county.

WHEREAS, Henry N. Hamilton was duly elected Tax Collector for the county of 
Marion in the year 1863, and at each successive election since; and WHEREAS, 
said Henry N. Hamilton has gone on from year to year without having a 
settlement of his account with the State; and WHEREAS, no full and complete 
settlement of his account was ever had until December, 1873; and WHEREAS, upon 
said settlement, said Henry N. Hamilton proved to be in default for the sum of 
two thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, said deficit was not the default of said 
Henry N. Hamilton for one year, but for a series of years, running through his 
term of office; and WHEREAS, said deficit is about to be visited upon the 
sureties of said Hamilton, who signed his last bond; and WHEREAS, said loss 
ought to be sustained by the former sureties, according as said deficit 
occurred; and WHEREAS, said sum, by the promptness of his present sureties, 
has been reduced to six hundred dollars; and WHEREAS, one of said sureties has 
died, and one has applied for, and had set apart, a homestead of realty and 
exemption of personalty; and WHEREAS, the whole of said loss is about to fall 
upon one of said sureties, assisted by the estate of said Jacob A. Clements; 
and WHEREAS, said sureties should not, in good conscience, bear any other or 
further burthen than they obligated; for remedy whereof, 
[Sidenote: Preamble.]

§ 11. SECTION I. Be it enacted, etc., That, from and after the passage of this 
Act, that the execution issued against Henry N. Hamilton, Tax Collector for 
Marion county, and his sureties, John F. Hollis and heirs-at-law of Jacob A. 
Clements, be, and the same is hereby, stayed until the 25th day of December, 
1874; and that the twenty per cent. penalty be, and the same is hereby, 
remitted, and all interest on said execution up to the date aforesaid, to-wit: 
the 25th day of December, [Illegible Text]. 
[Sidenote: Execution against J.F. Hollis, security of H. N. Hamilton, stayed.]

§ 12. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall be so 
construed to discharge the principal, Henry N. Hamilton, from liability on 
said bond. 
[Sidenote: Principal of bond not relieved.]

SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws.

Approval Date: Approved February 27, 1874.

  


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