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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0183 and id is 1 raw text is: 1835 88
., %-quarter section of land for the sounty scito in said county; be,
and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, January 1, 1635.
C[No. 41] AN ACT
To inceo* , **de the town of Marion.
Section 1. Be it enri. d by the Senate and House of Ie-
presentitives of the State oj Alabama in General Assembly
I convened, That the town of Marion, in the county of Perry
IDCOrpoation be, and the same is hereby incorporated, and that oil that ter-
ritory lying and being within one halfmile of the public square
be, and the same is hereby declared to be within the limits of
the same.
See. 2. /nd be it further enacted, That on the first Mon-
day in March next, and in each and every year thereafter, an
election by ballot, for five counsellors, resident land holders, shall
be held at some convenient and public place in said town, who
shall serve for the tern of one yearafter they have been elected.
The first election shall be conducted and managed by Jonathan
F. Sims, Sidney M. Goode, Henry C. Lea, John Lockhart,
Managers or and Leonard A. Weisi nger, or any two of them, and all subsequent
Electiou. elections shall be held by two of the councillors, to be appoin-
ted by the board for that purpose; and the said councillors so
elected, shall, on the next day after such election in each and
every year, meet and elect by a majority of votes from their
own body, an intendant, whose duty it shall be to preside and
keep order at all meetings of said councillors, and in his absence
or incapacity, any other member may be called to the chair; and
the said councillors shall be, and they are hereby constituted,
a body corporate, by the name and style of the Intendant and
Council of the town of Marion, and by that name, they and their
successors in office, shall be capable in law of sucing and being
Powers&e. stied, pleading and being impleaded, in all manner of suits, ei-
ther in law or eq uity; also, to have and to keep a common seal,
and the same to break, alter and amend at pleasure, and in gen-
eral, to do all acts which are incident to bodies corporate; and
to purchase, hold, and dispose of for the benefit of said town,
real, personal, or mixed property, to the amount of five thou-
sand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corpo.
Ordinanoe. ration shall have power to ordain, or pass all such ordinances and
an4 bye-laws. resolutions, and make all such regulations, as may by them be
deemed necessary for the good order and government of said
corporation, which may extend to the preservation of health,
to prevent and remove nuisances, to license, tax and restrain
theatrical amusements, shows and museumsof all kinds whatso-
ever, within said corporation; to restrain and prohibit every
species of gambling, drunkenness, profane swearing, or other
obscene or unlawful language, assaults and batteries, and all oth-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0183&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)