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date: 1954-03-01
title: March 1, 1954 Minutes
source: 1954-03/1954-03-01_March 1, 1954_Minutes.pdf
pages: 1
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March 1, 1954

CITY OF STOCKBRIDGE
HENRY COUNTY, GEORGIA MARCH 1, 1954

A regular meeting of the Stockbridge City Council held at the City Hall on March 1st 1954 at 7:30 p.m. with
the following members present: Perry G. Foster, Mayor; Councilmen A. P. Ward, J. T. Mays Jr., B. Knowles
Jr., R. G. Moseley and G. S. Keen.

Meeting called to order by the Hon. Mayor Perry G. Foster.

Minutes of Feb. 1st read and upon a motion by R. G. Moseley and a second by A. P. Ward and carried by a
vote of the Council for this minute to stand approved, with the exception of Paragraph No. 3, which is to be
held out, until the deed is presented to this body and if approved shall be added to Paragraph No. 3, in either
event approved or disapproved.

Minutes of a call meeting read and upon a motion by B. Knowles Jr. and a second by A. P. Ward and carried
by a vote of the Council to stand approved as read, with the following correction in Paragraph No. 2, which
reads to authorize our engineer, Bill Greene, to purchase the 10” pipe from Grinnell Co., which shall read 10”
steel concrete lined pipe. Otherwise, the minute is approved with this correction.

Upon a motion by J. T. Mays Jr. and a second by A. P. Ward and carried by a vote of the Council to rescind
the resolution in the minutes of authorizing the Clerk to put $1.00 from each water bill of all new customer
from the above date in the regular water revenue and the bal. to be deposited in the General Fund and this
rescind effective as of Feb. 1st 1954.

A motion by B. Knowles Jr. and a second by R. G. Moseley and carried by a vote of the Council to pay the
1st National Bank at McDonough the $3,100.00 note that the City owes them, plus the interest.

Upon a motion by J. T. Mays Jr. and a second by B. Knowles Jr. and carried by a vote of the Council
authorizing the Clerk to draw an oath for the peace officers to sign restraining them from belonging to any
organization, pertaining to communism, Ku Klux Klan or any organization that has any tendency to overthrow
the U. S. government or state or county government or by laws of the City of Stockbridge.

I, and each of us, do, on oath, hereby and hereon swear, that I do not belong to any secret order that has
any connection with the communist party or communism or Ku Klux Klan or any other order pertaining to
overthrowing the U. S. government, or the state of Georgia or county of Henry government, or any violation
of the by laws of the City of Stockbridge and under oath, I do hereby sign as a peace officer of the City of
Stockbridge.

Signed: G. T. Bowen, Chief of Police J. B. Floyd, Police
H. L. Goodwin, Police

Upon a motion by R. G. Moseley and a second by J. T. Mays Jr. and carried by a vote of the Council to
adjourn.

G. S. Keen, Clerk
