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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0218 and id is 1 raw text is: that the five commissioners so elected, shall hold their office for twelve
months, and elect from their own body an intendant, whose duty i'
shall be to preside over all meetings of said board.
See. 4. Ind be it further enacted, That said commissioners shah
Vacael('e have power to fill all vacancies, either by death or removal, and to
how tilled, elect a secretary for the recording of all proceedings of said meeting.
Sec. 5. .Ind be itfurther enacted, That said commissioners shall
have power to pass all laws and ordinances for the better regulation of
said town, not repugnant to the laws and constitution of the State of
Alabama, nor the United States. Approved, November 23, 1837.
,No. 65.] AN ACT'
To prohibit persons from driving Stocks of Catle front the Stnto of Missisippi into the
county of Fuyeite in this State, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen.
tatives of the State of Alabana in General Asscmbly convened,
That from and after the passage of this act, that the judge of the coun-
ty court and commissioners of roads and revenue of Fayette county,
he, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to levy a tax not
exceeding twenty-five cents, on each and every head of cattle running
in said county, belonging to non-residents of this State.
Approved, December 23, 1837.
I No. 66.J AN ACT
To incorporat tO City of Monteetery.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Alacana in General Assembly convened,
That the Town of Montgomery, in said State, shall hereafter be call-
ed the City of Montgomery, and that the said town or city shall in-
hinorporauon clude within its corporate, fractional section twelve, in township six-
teen and range seventeen, cast of the Alabama river, and so much
of the north east quarter of section thirteen, in township sixteen and
range seventeen,as has been heretofore surveyed and laid out into lots
of a size less than one acre; and so much of the north west quarter
of section seven in the last named township and range, as has been
heretofore surveyed, and laid out into lots of a size less than one acre;
the inhabitants whereof shall be a body corporate, and that the mayor
and aldermen of said city, when elected and qualified as hereinafter
directed, shall be named and styled 69 The City Cotincil of Mont-
gomery, and by that name may purchase, receive, hold or let; sell,
grant, alien, or assure property, real and personal, and sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, and to do and perform any other acts
incident to bodies corporate, to hdve a common seal which may be
changed at pleasure, and that the jurisdiction shall extend to and in-
clude all the lands above described, and all the Alabama river oppo-
site to said fractional section twelve.
See. 2. And be it jurther enacted, That the said city shall be
divided into three wards, as follows, to wit: all that part of said city
Oly divided lying westwardly of Commerce street and Court street, continued
into wards south to the southern limits oftsaid city, shall form the first ward; all
that part of said city lying-ast of Court street, continued to said south-
ern limit and south of Market street and Line Creek road, shall form
the second ward; and all that part of said city lying north of Market
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