Newton County GaArchives News.....State Commissioners Convention September 23 1897
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Georgia Enterprise
     County Commissioners, THOS. A . PERRY, J. W. SOCKWELL and W. S. RAMSEY, 
represented Newton county at the State Commissioners Convention in Atlanta last 
Thursday. The necessity of good roads was discussed. Recommended all 
misdemeanor convicts remain in custody of the counties, and  that all felony 
convicts whose terms do not exceed  five years shall be placed in county chain 
gangs. Recommended also that a general law be passed abolishing the fee system 
of the county offices. Requested that the next legislature enact a law 
providing for the equalization of taxation and marshaling all property  subject 
to taxation in the state.


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