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An Act to incorporate the Town of Aberfoil in the County of Macon. 1838 26 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0241 and id is 1 raw text is: *1839. 20 amount, time, and place, at which the interest on the itat lian.isto be paid. on the two million and a halfloan, authorised by this State, approved December the 23d, 1837. See. 2.'. And be it further. enacted, That the President and Di- rectors of the Bank of the State of Alabama, and the BranchiBanks at iantpire Montgomery. Mobile, DecAtir and Huntsville be, and they are. hcre- State took by required to provide the means for paying promptly all the inter- eat on the State Stock, at the time and place where the same has been contracted to be paid, in proportion to the amount thereof, held by them respectively. Approved Jan. SG, 1839. No. 3. AN AC r To Incorporate the Town of Aherfull in the Conty or inacori. See ion 1. Be it eaucted by the Senate: and House of Represen. taives of the State of Alabama. in General Assemby convened, Townor Aber'That the Town of Aberfoil in the County of Macon, be and the fail Incurpora same is hereby incorporated, and that all the east half of the north- led. east quarter of the thirty-sixth section in township thirteen, and orporate limrange twenty-three in said county he, and the sanie is hereby de. clared to be within the limits of the same. See. 2. And be itfurthe, enacted, That on the first Monday of March next, or on.a day subsequent, as soon as may be convenient, andi in each andevery year thereafter, an election by ballot, shall be rive Council htbld for five Councillors, resident housholders, at some convenient lorstoolected pblic place in said town, who shall serve for the term of one year: the first election shall be conducted and managed by Lewis Stonden. mire, Charles G. Lynch, Thomas Scott, David Hudson, andi A. J. E. A. Jackson, or any three of them, and all subsequent elections shall be held by such persons as said Councillors may appoint for Term or ser that purpose and the said Couneillors,.when elected, shajl in each vice. and every year, elect from'their own body an Intendant, whose duty it shall be to preside and keep order at their meetings, and in his absence any other member may be 'alled to the chair, and the said Couneillors shall be, and they nre herehy conatituted'a body corpo- rate. by the name of tho' Intendant and Council of the Town of Ab- erfoil, and by that name, they and their successors in bflice shall he capable in law, of suing and being sued, pleading and being implea- ded in all manner ofsuits, either in law or equity. Also to have and to'keep a commoi seal, andi the same to alter at pleasure, and in geri- eral to do all acts which are incident to-bodies corporate, and to-pur- else; hold and dispose of, foi the henefit of said Town, real, persbn- al and mixed property to the amount of live thousand dollArs. Seie.. 3 .And be ii further enacted, That the said mcorporation, shall hdve'power to pass all. sneh ordinances, and iesolutionis,.and To pass make all suich regulations, as may by. them he deemed necessary for laws. tlhe good oriler and government of said corporation, to tax, restrain or prohibit all shows aid exhibitionsafor amusements, to prohibitdi. ery apexiei of ganibling and excetite penalties end.inflict punishments byconfinemehts inthh stocksj not excebdingsix hotrs for drunken. ness.profane sweaHngaild obsene language,and for all and every oth- er imimoral and disorderly conduct. To regulate patrols when.ne-

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