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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0232 and id is 1 raw text is: 143 1839.
IN*. 125.] AN ACT
To Icorporate the town orPckensville in the county of Piekens.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of liepresen-
tatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened,
That all that tract of land being in the county aforesaid, in .iuded in
the following limits, viz: one quarter of a mile east, one quarter of a
mile west, one quarter of a mile south, and one quarter of a mile incorporation
north, from the centre of broad street, at the point where said street
is intersected by main street, in said town of Pickens, be and the
same is hereby incorporated, under the the corporate name of the
town of Pickeniville.
See. 2. And he itfurther enacted, That on the first Monday in
February next, and annually thereafter, between the hours of ten in cbeuncileo eto
the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon, an election by bal. .
lot shall be held for five councillors at some convenient place in said
town, and that all white male persons of the age of eighteen and up.
wards, who shall be land holders or free holders within the same, or
shall have resided therein for the space of six months, next preceding
such election, shall be entitled to vote for said councillors, and when
the election shall be closed, the managers thereof shall proclaim the
result, and give notice to the persons elected, who shall on the fol.
lowing day, at the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon next at the
place chcre said election was held and there proceed to elect by bal. Counciltorsto
lot from their own body, a Mayor, whose duty it shall be to preside elect rayor
over and preserve order at all meetings of the council, and the per-
sons elected councillors as aforesaid shall continue in office until their
successors are duly qualified: Provided, that if the first or any sub-
sequent election shall from any cause fail to be held, it shall be the
duty of the managers in the first election, and at each succeeding
election of the Mayor and council to cause an election to be held at
any time not excceding-one month after the first of February, notice
having been given of the time and place of holding such election in
the manner and form set forth in the following section.
Sec. 3. And be itfurther enacted, That the first election shall
be held and conducted by Randolph W. Roper, Albert T. Henley,
William D. layles Robert W. Suazy and Gray Hitcheoke or any three
of them, who shall give ten days previous notice of the time and
place of holding such election by advertisement, in three or more
public places in said town, and all future elections shall be managed
by such persons, not exceeding three as the Mayor and council shall
appoint, who shall give the like notice of the time and place of hold-
ing the same, and the Mayor and council respectively before 'enter-
ing on the duties of his or their office, take and subscribe the follow-
ing oath, before some Justice of the Peace of Pickens county, I
do solemnly swear that I will impartially perform all the Town otticers
duties required of me by the act incorporating the town of Pickens- to take Utb.
ville, so help me God.
See. 4. And be it further enacted, Tiat the Mayor and town Private a
council are hereby declared to be a corporate body by the nam ofr ge.
the town council of Pickensville, and by. that name they and their
successors in office shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsal0232&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)