. Atlanta and its builders, a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South. y were given corporate jurisdic-tion to the extent of the boundary lines of the town, with theprovision that their jurisdiction should be extended as the bound-ary lines of the town were extended. The first year of the history of Marthasville, from all ac-counts of the surviving pioneers, was a good deal in the nature ofa kangaroo government. A few ordinances of the most rudi-mentary kind were passed with due solemnity, but they were notrespected by the citizenry, nor was much effort made to enforcethem. The spa
. Atlanta and its builders, a comprehensive history of the Gate city of the South. y were given corporate jurisdic-tion to the extent of the boundary lines of the town, with theprovision that their jurisdiction should be extended as the bound-ary lines of the town were extended. The first year of the history of Marthasville, from all ac-counts of the surviving pioneers, was a good deal in the nature ofa kangaroo government. A few ordinances of the most rudi-mentary kind were passed with due solemnity, but they were notrespected by the citizenry, nor was much effort made to enforcethem. The spasmodic weak attempts to try offenders onlybrought ridicule upon the grave and reverend law-makers and theofficers entrusted with the enforcement of their laws. The peoplecontinued to live as though they were squatter sovereigns in theback woods, and their bucolic ways were undisturbed by superflu-ous metropolitan frills. The attempt to collect corporation taxesresulted in a water haul, and the town was utterly withoutfinancial resources. As a consequence, the ordinances for the. George W. Adair This pioneer citizen came to Atlanta as con-ductor on the first train which entered thecity over the Georgia Railroad in Septem-ber, 1845. $2 Atlanta And Its Builders laving out and improvement of streets were dead letters. Themost ambitions avenues remained mere cow trails, and citizenshad to jump across a deer lick to walk across the businesscenter. The riff-raff railroad element of the population, by thistime considerably augmented, grew more turbulent and refractoryas the impotence of the local authorities was realized. As is fre-quently the case in small communities, political antipathies andjealousies seem to have divided the population into factions, andthe administration, on the whole, was very unpopular. In 1845 there was a new deal at the town election, but oneof the five commissioners, Willis Carlisle, the merchant, beingreturned to the board. The commissioners elected in Marc
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