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Academy agreed alter amount appointed Approved ASBURY HULL Assembly Assented Attest authority aforesaid Bank Bridge cause cents Church Clerk Commissioners committee contract contrary corporate December deem directed directors district dollars duty eighteen hundred election entered entitled establish Excellency the Governor execution fund further enacted Georgia give Governor hands held hereafter hereby authorised hereby enacted heretofore hold House of Representatives Inferior Court interest issue John Justices land laws liable limits majority manner militating necessary paid passage passed Peace persons present President proper Provided purchase Read receive regulations repealed Represen Resolved river road rules Secretary Senate and House sentatives shares slaves Speaker stockholders successors Superior tatives term thereof third THOMAS STOCKS thousand tion town Treasurer trustees vote Whereas WILSON LUMPKIN
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Page 197 - In making the said valuation the Commissioners shall take into consideration the loss or damage which may accrue to the owner or owners...
Page 191 - That, in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved ; but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold and make an election of directors in such manner as shall have been regulated by the laws and ordinances of the said corporation.
Page 41 - The directors, at their first meeting after each election, shall choose one of their number as President.
Page 256 - ... prosecute to conviction under the laws of this State ; the editor or publisher of a certain paper called the Liberator, published in the town of Boston, and State of Massachusetts...
Page 30 - Not less than seven directors shall constitute a board for the transaction of business, of whom, the president shall always be one. except in case of sickness, or necessary absence...
Page 31 - Such of the said directors who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted, or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act, whereby the same was so contracted or created, may, respectively, exonerate themselves from being so liable, by forthwith...
Page 43 - ... notice in two public newspapers of the place where the bank is seated, and specifying in such notice the object or objects of such meeting. Sixth. Each cashier or treasurer, before he enters upon the duties of his office...
Page 33 - ... answer and be answered unto in any court of law or equity...
Page 161 - States to which they respectively belong, and that their private and professional character shall appear to be fair. " They shall respectively take the following oath or affirmation, viz. : " ' I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will demean myself as an attorney and counsellor of this court, uprightly, and according to law, and that I will support the Constitution of the United States.
Page 40 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever.