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An Act to amend the act incorporating the town of Athens. 1827 121 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0090 and id is 1 raw text is: mount ofoie hundred dollars on the taxes of.a& 4outtY ffrtkIf .ehr one thousand eight hundiled andvtwenty eightwhich NvheA collected shall be, paid over tb the said Andrew 0.11orn: 1'r- ided, that nothing ii this act shall be so construed as to aq-. thorise the letying said tax if said commissioners of roads and revenue think it unjust, for the county to pay the same. Approed, .Janury 12th, 180. IN I 'T, to amend the act incorporating the town of .thens. Svc. 1. Be i enacted by the Senate and Ilouseof Represes* thtives of the State of A1abamna-in General #ssentbly convened, That the inhabitants of the town of At hens in Limestone cour-. nO ty shall be and continue a body politic and corporate by the Athes name of the Mayor and. Aldermen of Athens; and by that styl iamemay purchase, receive, hold or let, sell, grant, alien or as- sure prollerty, real and personal, and sue and be sued and do any othei act as a natural person, and may have aseal, which may be changed at pleasure. SEc. 2. JaAs be it further enaeld, That the present limits of said town be.continued, and that hereafter the corporatel jurisdiction rights privileges dities and restrictions he:eby friven or herein contained shall arise exist and extend in and over-the present limits of said town. S-c . .A.d be it further eted, That said corporation denien to shall coisist of a Mayor, and Aldermen, or seven members, be electedr who, in the first instance, sholl be elected on the first Monday in March next, andannually thereafter on the first Monday in Janua, by ballot, by the free white male citizens within Qnalifleli the aforiesaid limits of the age of twenty-one yeara, who shall voterRay be freeholders or house-holders therein, or who shall have re- side&therein six months preceding and paid a corporate taX for the preceding year, as prescribed by this act or an ordl- riance of tl corporation, or who shall be the legal or equitable owners in good faith of real pi perty within said limits, such Electionb election shall be held by the Sheriff of said county and three whom bel freeholders to be by him sumnied as Judges, and he shall conduct the same in the manner of an election for members of the General Assembly, he giving the casting vote if any two or more shall have an equal number of votbs ; and the seven persons having the highest numixber of votes shall be Aldermen until the next annual election for Aldermen and until their To take successors shall bo qualified, and sai4 Sheiff shall give to oath. each so elected a certificateiof the fact; and thereupon they shall present their certifiicates to the Judge or Clerk of the county court of said county, and before him take the oaths prescribed for civil officors of tho Statq and an oath to perform the duties on them imposed by this act without fovor or partiality, of which qualihicatiQn a record shall be niade in the office of said AldemenL to county court; and the Aldermei .so qualified shall elect by elect Xaved1 ballot one of their number to be Mayor during their termof service; who shall before the said Judge or Clerk take an ad- ditional oath to pe rform without favor or partiality the duties of Nlayo, -ofi vb l D Iike record 5hall he mrado. fd Sheri

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