UPSON COUNTY, GA - HISTORY Incorporation of Thomaston Jun 1825 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF The State of Georgia, Passed at Milledgeville, AT AN EXTRA SESSION IN MAY AND JUNE, 1825. [missing title] 1825 Vol. 2 -- Page: 23 Sequential Number: 010 Type: AN ACT Full Title: To incorporate the town of Thomaston, and to make permanent the seat of justice in the county of Upson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the [Illegible Text] of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Edward Hollaway, Robert [Illegible Text] Collier, James Walker, Sen. James Cooper and Joseph Rogers be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of said town, and shall continue in office until their successors are appointed and qualified according to the provisions of this act. SEC. 2 And be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and on the first Monday in January in every year thereafter, all persons inhabitants of said town, entitled to vote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 24 for members of the General Assembly shall assemble at the court-house in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners who shall continue in office one year and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, at which election any two justices of the inferior court, or any two of the justices of the peace of said [Illegible Text] not being themselves candidates shall preside, and if it shall so happen that said election shall not take place on the day herein appointed, any one or more of the justices of the inferior court or justices of the peace for said county, may afterwards by giving ten days public notice, hold the same in the manner herein prescribed; and in case of the death or removal of any of the said commissioners the remaining commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy until the next annual election. SEC. 8. and be it further enacted, That, it shall not be lawful for any of said commissioners so elected or appointed to enter on the duties of his office until they shall have taken and subscribed the following oath: "I. A. B. do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will well and truly perform the duties of a commissioner, by adopting such measures as shall in my judgment, be best calculated to promote the general good of the citizens of the town of Thomaston." SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, the said commissioners shall have full power and authority to make any bye-laws, ordinances or regulations, and power to enforce the same, that they may deem best calculated to promote the general good of the citizens of said town: Provided always, That no such law, ordinance or regulation shall be contrary to the constitution and laws of this state or of the United States. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall have jurisdiction within half a mile of the court-house in all directions. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said town of Thomaston shall be the seat of justice of the county of Upson. JOHN ABERCROMBIE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ALLEN B. POWELL, President of the Senate. G. M. TROUP, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, June 11, 1825.