ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Incorporation of the town of Alto, Georgia (Abstract)</title> <style><!-- .Normal {punctuation-wrap:simple; text-autospace:none; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} --> </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US class="Normal" bgcolor="#ffffff" background="Images/mute190.jpg" text="#003333"> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><font size="+1">Incorporation of the town of Alto, Georgia (Abstract)</font></span></u></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, 1895</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Volume 1-page 121</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Law number 144</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the town of Alto, in the counties of Banks and Habersham, be, and the same is, hereby incorporated as a town under the name and style of the town of Alto.</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Section II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one-half mile in every direction from the depot of the Air-Line Railroad in said town, for police and road duty and road tax purposes, but for purposes of other taxation shall extend only one-quarter mile on every direction from said depot.</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Section III. Be it further enacted, That P. T. Shore be, and he is, hereby appointed mayor, and F. H. Bond, W. H. Shore, M. L. Dillashaw, M. M. Lynch, and B. G. Cook be, and they are, hereby appointed as councilmen of said town of Alto, to hold their offices until the first annual election, as in hereinafter provided.</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Note: The first election was set for the second Tuesday in December, 1896, by the legislation.</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Approved December 16, 1895</span></font></b></p> <br> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="../"><img src="Images/textbackblue.gif" border="0" width="61" height="24"></A> <br> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><b>Art work Copyrightýÿ by <a href="http://paulav.com">Paula Vaughn</a></b> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><a href="http://paulav.com" target="_blank"><img src="Images/PAULA.JPG" border="0" width="405" height="45"></a> <p ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://www.wendysbackgrounds.com/welcome.html" target="_blank"><img src="Images/textlogoblue.gif" border="0" width="165" height="71"></A> <br> <center><b>This page was last updated <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED"-->. </b> <br> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Copyright &copy 2004 by Jacqueline King.</span></font></b></p> </body> </html>