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PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
1337
Ibid. sec. 20.
45. That the president shall preside at all meetings of the
commissioners, and shall have all the powers and authority of
a justice of the peace in any matter wherein the commissioners
are a party, and shall receive the same fees allowed justices of
the peace in similar cases; and an appeal from his judgment
wherein the fine or demand exceeds five dollars may be taken
to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, which shall hear
and determine the matter as upon appeals from justices of the
peace.
Ibid. sec. 21.
46. That the bailiff shall be paid the same fees for making
distress for taxes as are allowed county collectors; and for
making arrests or serving process for violations of any ordi-
nance of the corporation, the same fees as are allowed consta-
bles for similar services; and in any case wherein the bailiff
willfully fails to discharge any duties of his office he may be
fined not exceeding ten dollars for each offense.
1904, ch. 680, sec. 22.
47. That any fines, penalties or forfeitures imposed by this
charter or by any ordinance of the commissioners may be col-
lected by proceedings in the name of the commissioners or
under warrant of a justice of the peace, and the said president
or justice of the peace shall have power to commit the offender
to the county jail on failure to pay such fines or forfeitures
until the same shall be paid, with costs.
Ibid. sec. 23.
48. That the commissoners shall not expend or contract to
expend in any one year more money than the revenues for that
year.
Ibid. sec. 24.
49. That the commissioners, for the county, justices of the
peace, sheriff, constable, and all State and county officers shall
have, hold and exercise their offices and jurisdiction in said
town as if this charter had not been granted; and the County
Commissioners of Montgomery County shall, on or before the
first day of January, in the year 1905, and on or before the
first day of January in each and every year thereafter, pay
over to the commissioners of said Town of Barnesville that
proportion of the entire county levy for the laying out and
repairs of roads which are the real property assessed within
the limits of the Town of Barnesville bears to the whole
amount of assessed property in Montgomery county, so that
the Commissioners of Barnesville may receive and disburse for
the repair and maintenance of the streets of said town the
amount levied upon the real property within the corporate
limits of the Town of Barnesville for the construction and
repair of roads by the said Commissioners of Montgomery
County.
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