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An Act to incorporate the town of Mardisville in the county of Talladega. 1838 82 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0233 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 70. AN ACT IF Incorporate the town of Murdisvillo in the county of Talladge. Section 1, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen. tatives of' the State of Alabama ini Geeral Issembly convened, That the tract of land included within the following boundaries, tc mcorporation wit: the east half of the north west one fourth, and west half of the north east quarter ofsection eighteen, township nineteen, range five east; and also twenty acres of the east half, of the south-west one fourth, and thirty acres of the west half, of the south east one fourth of section seven, township nineteen, range five east, so as to include the former residence of General J. T. Bradford and Doct. Alex. ander I lutchison, shall be designated by the name of the town of the town of Mardieville, and the citizens residing within the limits of said town as hereby established, shall be, and they are hereby con. stituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the President and Trustees of the town of Alardisville, and by their aid corporate name and style, they may sue and he sued, plead and be impleaded either at law or in equity, and may grant, eceive and do all other act as natural persons and may have and use a corporate seal, which they may alter at pleasure. See. 2. Ind be itfirther enacted That the said corporation shall elect a board, to be denominated the president and trustees of Election ror the town of Alardisville, which board shall consist of five members, Ofticers residents of said town over tl age of twenty-one years, and the said five membters shalt beaTected annually by ballot, in a genueral ticket by the free white male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years and upwards having resided in the Statl twelve months, the last three months of which he shall have rasided within the town, which five members so elected shall within three days after such e- lection meet and elect by a majority of votes from ticir own body a president whose duty it shall be to preside and keep order at all meetings of said trustees and in his absence or incapacity any other member may lie called to the chair. See. 3. And be it f/rther enacted, That the first election shall he held by a Justice of the Peace for said county, and two free-hol- ders or house-holders, to be by him aipointed, on the irst M\Ionday in Marih, eiglteen hundred and thirty-nine, and annually thereafter Eleelines on the first Monday in January in each and every year, giving at least itieu Ititd. ten (lays not ire of the time and place of Said election, and the five persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be trustees of said town, for the unsuing year; and if any two or more shall re- ceive ati equal number of votes it shall be the duty of the J ustice of the Peace holding sid election, to declare which ofsaid persons is elected, and to give the person so elected a certificate of the same, and the trustees so elected shall take the oath required by law to be taken by all civil oflicers in this State, and an othi to discharge with- out favor or partiality the (Iities imposed by this act, Peovided, that if the said Justice and free-holders or house-holders shail fail at any time to hold ati el.!ction at the thee herein appoiitcd, ' shall be the duty of the board of trustees to appoint two of their body to hold 1839 82

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