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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0255 and id is 1 raw text is: INo. so.] AN ACT
To Incorporate the Town of Macon, in Clarke County.
Section 1. Ie it enacted ly the Senate and louse of Represen-
. tatives of the State of Alabama in General .lasembly convened,
incorroration'That the town of Macon, in the county of Clarke, be, and the same
is hereby incorporated.
See. 2. And be i1/urther enacted, That on the first Monday or
March, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, and in each and every
meetion,. year thereafter, an election by ballot shall be held at the courthouse
in said town, for an Intendant, four Councilmen, and a town Mar-
shal, resident househoulders of said town, who shall serve for one
year after they have been elected : the first election shall be conduct-
etl and managed by William F. Jones, James Savage, Terrill Powers,
William Kennady, and Joseph P. Portia, or any two of them, and
all subsequent elections shall be held by two of the Councillors, to.
bie appointed by the Board for that purpose ; and the said Intendant
and Councillors shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body
Naie and corporate, by the name and style of the Intendant and Council of
tye the town of Macon ; and by that name, they and their successors in
office, shall be capable in law, of suing and being sued, pleading and
being impleaded, in all manner of suits, either in law or in equity -
also to have and to keep a common seal, and the same to break, alter
and amend at pleasure, and in general, to do all acts which are inci-
dent to bodies corporate ; and to purchase, hold, and dispose of, for
the benefit of said town, real and personal estate, or mixed property,
to the value of five thousand dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall
have power to ordain, or pass all such ordinances and resolutions, and
rlentu p.Wmake all such regula, ions, as may, by them, be deemed necessary,
*,rs. 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 mu-
seums of all kinds whatsoever, within said corporation ; to restrain
and prohibit every species of gambling, drunkenness, profane swear-
ing or other obscene or unlawful language, assaults and batteries, at d
all other breaches of the peace : appoint night watches and patrols
when necessary ; to clean and keep in repair the streets of the said
tOwn ; to remove and prohibit trespasses on the same ; to collect tax-
es on all property, both real and personal, including poll taxes with-
in said corporation, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the.
same; to grant licenses to. and tax merchants and auctioneers ; to.
prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases, within
the town ; to restrain and prohibit all nightly or disorderly meetings,
Trading with or assembly of slaves, free negroes, or moulattoes, and other knavish
Negroe. ard disorderly persons; to restrain and prevent all free persons from
trading with negroes, without an order, written or verbal, from his
or her owner, or agent, or overseer, and in general to pass such by-
laws, not contrary to the constitution of this State and the laws there-
of, as the corporation shall, from time to time, deem expedient and
necessary, to carry into effect the meaning and intention of this act,
and the same to put in execution ; to revoke and alter, as tbe said
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