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Section 1.10. Incorporation. This Act shall constitute the whole charter of the City of Clarkesville, in the County of Habersham, repealing and replacing the charter provided by an Act of the General Assembly, approved February 13, 1956 (Ga. Laws 1956, p. 2298) and all Acts amendatory thereto. The City of Clarkesville, Georgia, in the County of Habersham and the inhabitants thereof shall continue to be a body politic and corporate under the same name and style of the City of Clarkesville, Georgia. Under that name, said city shall continue to be vested with all of the property and rights of property which now belong to the corporation; shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued; may contract and be contracted with; may acquire and hold such property, real and personal, as may be devised, bequeathed, sold or in any manner conveyed or dedicated to or otherwise acquired by it, and from time to time may hold or invest, sell or dispose of the same; may have a common seal and alter and renew the same at will; and may exercise in conformity with this Charter all municipal powers, functions, rights, privileges, and immunities of every name and nature whatsoever.
Section 1.11. Corporate Boundaries. The corporate limits of the City of Clarkesville shall embrace and consist of the territory confined within the following described boundary; Commencing at the southeast end of Soque River bridge next to said city; thence up said river to a point opposite the original northwest corner, between lots two and twenty-three to where the river intersects the original land lot line between lots one and twenty-four, in the 12th land district of said county; thence to said corner between lots two and twenty-three and along the line between said lots nos. two and twenty-three and three and twenty-two in said district and continuing in the same direction along the original land lot line between land lots two and twenty-three, three and twenty-two and four and twenty-one of said district until it intersects the southeast side of the right-of-way of the Tallulah Falls Railway; thence along the southeast side of said right-of-way until the southeast side of said right-of-way intersects the original land lot line between lots forty and forty-one in the 10th land district of said county; thence north 30 degrees west along said original lot line by the northwest corner thereof and continuing in the same direction along the original land lots lines twenty-one, and eighteen and nineteen in the 10th district of said county until the point is reached where the original land lot line between lots eighteen and nineteen in the 10th district as aforesaid intersects the eastern Soque River; thence up said river along the eastern bank thereof to the Southerly side of the right-of-way of Georgia Highway No. 115; thence along said right-of-way in a Northwesterly direction to the center of said river; thence North 82 degrees 41' West 623.4 feet along said right-of-way to concrete monument corner; thence South 0 degrees 21' East 199.9 feet to a concrete monument corner; thence South 37 degrees 18' East 323 feet to a concrete monument; thence continuing South 37 degrees 18' East 56.1 feet to corner in the center of Soque River; thence North 39 degrees 56' East 190.4 feet up Soque River; thence North 67 degrees 15' East 151.3 feet up Soque River; thence North 30 degrees East 251.2 feet up Soque River to the right-of-way of Georgia Highway No. 115; thence in a Southeasterly direction along said right-of-way to the Easterly bank of said river; thence up the Easterly bank of said river to the place of Beginning.
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