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An Act to amend the act incorporating the town of Huntsville. 1827 140 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0086 and id is 1 raw text is: .14o ip fine Cor i an ooui shall haVe power and auIthority to take cog- adecentan- itizance of, and impose a reamnable fine on ill pel'sons who gIrnIe orbe may be ggossly Indecent in language or behavibr, litblicly in the streets, or elsewhere in said town. SEC; 4, And be it further ctactc4 That the Intendaut aid maiy impris. Council shall haVe lislLpower, from time to time, to commit on not ex- to piikou in the jail of Jelterson county, for any time not ex- ceeding two ceeding two days, all such persons who shall incur any pen- days alty o* forfeiture, intended to be inflicted by any of theb3 e. Iaws of the said corporation, passed conformably to the pow- ers vested in them by this act, or the act to which this is an amounent. Approved, Jan. 11 h 1828, All ACT to amend the act incorporating the town of Htuntsvile. SEC. 1. Be it encCled yl the Senate'and.luse of 11prerita<- tives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly canvened, Style &c. of That the inhabitants ofthe town of Huntsville shall be and cprporation. continue a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Mayor and Aldermen of Huntsville; and by that name nay purchase, receive, hold, or let, sell, grant, alien, or assurO property, real and personal, and sue and be sued, and do any other act as a natural person, and may have a seal, which may be changed at pleasure. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, Ti'at the present limits of CmVpora4gon said town be extended, and that hereafter the <orporate ju- risdiction rights, privileges, duties, and restrictions hereby given, or herein contained, shall arise, exist, and extend. in, and over.a superficial square; namely: a square whose centre will be the present Court House of Madison county, and whose four boundary lines; each of which is to be one mile in length and run parallel with a corresponding boundary line. of the present public square in said town, will embrace an area of one mile square and the inhabitants thereof. Provided that part of John Boardman's purchase from Leroy Pope, ad- joing the Town of Huntsville. which is not includr. in the present.1inits of the Town, lie excluded from the limits es- tablished by this act. And also the quarter section of land on which Henry W. McVay resides he excluded. SEC. S. And be it further enacted, That said corporation WAy and shall consist of a Mayor and Aldermen, or nine members, who. eected. in the first instance, shall be elected on the first Monday of February next, and annually thereafter ont the first Monday in anuary, by ballot, by the free white mnale citizens within the foresaid limits of the age of twenty-one years, who hsli be freeholders or house holder s therein, or who shall have re- sided therein six months ptreceding and paid a corporation tax for the preceding year, as prescribed by this act, or an ordi- iance of the corporation, or who shall be the legal or equitable owners *in good faith of real property within said limits. Such ElecUon by election shall be held by the Sheriff of said county and three wm * freholders to be by -him summozed as jurigy, and it saU

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