Hallman v. Atlanta Child's Home

The act of 1910 (Acts 1910, p. 130, Park’s Ann. Code, §§ 1676(nn), 1676(oo)), provides as follows: “In all counties in this State having a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand, or more, the board of county commissioners, or, if there be no such board, the ordinary of said county, shall have the power to grant or refuse permission to establish, outside of the limits of incorporated towns, cemeteries, hospitals, sanatoriums, or similar institutions. Said county authority, as above stated, may grant permission to establish such institutions under such regulations as they may deem…