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date: 1946-08-05
title: August 5, 1946 Minutes
source: 1946-08/1946-08-05_August 5, 1946_Minutes.pdf
pages: 1
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August 5, 1946

CITY OF STOCKBRIDGE
HENRY COUNTY, GEORGIA AUGUST 5, 1946

The regular meeting of the City Council held in the City Hall with the following members present: R. E. Lee,
Mayor; Councilmen A. P. Ward, G. T. Love, J. Q. Moseley, W. L. Wyatt, J. R. Lewis.

Motion by W. L. Wyatt, 2nd J. Q. Moseley to accept minutes as read on regular meeting June 2, 1946.

Motion by J. Q. Moseley, 2nd W. L. Wyatt to accept minutes on call meeting held on July 19, 1946.

Motion to pay Advertiser Printing Co. 17.00 for printing of election notices and ballots.

McCrary Engineering Co. sent a representative here to test the two deep wells the City had drilled on July
25, 1946. One well #2 on a 9 hour run, that the test showed the well producing 39.8 gallons of water per
minute.

Then on the 27 of July 1946, the same company tested well #1, which is 500 ft deep and located between
the City Hall and jail and after a continuous 8 hour test, it showed it was producing 29.7 gallons of water per
minute. The two wells together being 67.5 gallons per minutes or 97,200 gallons for each 24 hours.

Motion by J. R. Lewis, 2nd G. T. Love to set the rate of tax on real estate at $1.50 per hundred or .15 mills
on the dollar.

Motion by J. Q. Moseley, 2nd W. L. Wyatt to elect as tax assessors for the following year, Joseph Mann, W.
J. Mays, W. D. Mays.

No other business in order to adjourn, motion by J. Q. Moseley, 2nd G. T. Love to adjourn.

J. R. Lewis, Clerk
