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[No. 1'71.] AN ACT
To alter and amend the several acts incorporating the Town of
Greensboro', in the County of Greene.
Section 1. Be it entacted by the Senate and Houseof Re.
presentatives of the Sate of .Alabama, in General .daem.
bly convened, That from and after the passage of this act, the
corporate authorities of the said town of Greensboro', shallEnumeration
have full power'and authority'to pass all such by-laws and ordi-of Powersto
niances, not conflicting With the Constitution and laws of thisbe exercised
State, as may be necessary to restrain and prohibit nightly or by the corpo-
other meetihgs, or disorderly assemblies of slaves in said town; ate autl.
to restrain and prohibit slaves from keeping a shop, or other .
establishment, or from going at large or trading on their own
account within the corporate limits of said'town, and to punish
slaves for a violation of any of the ordinances of said town,
with any number of stripes not exceeding thirty-nine; to re-
btrair and prohibit white persons from dealing, contracting, or
trading with slaves, or from permitting more than three slaves,
not his or her own, to be, or remain on his lot at any one time,
with his or her knowledge or consent; to provide for regula-
ting and licensing hawkers, pedlers a:1d retailers of spirituous
liquors, within the corporate limits of the said town, and to
have the exclusive right of granting such license, to fix the
.sum to be paid for the same, and to provide for annulling and pro-
hibiting the same upon good and sufficient complaint being made
against any person or persons holding the same, reserving how.
ever to the State and county in all cases where the intendant
and council may choose to grant license, the taxes by the laws
of the State imposed to be collected from such hawkers, ped-
lers or retailers, as the said corpiorate authorities may think pro-
per to license; to impose and enforce the collection of fines or penal-
ties for all riots, routs,affrays, assailts and batteries, or other disor-
derly conducteommitted withinthe limnitsof the corporation,or for
obstructing the streets and avenues of said town, or peddling or
retailing without license, within the same, and in general to im-
pose, cnforce, and collect appropriate fines, forfeitures and pe-
nalties, not exceeding in any case, the sum of twenty dollars,
for the violation of their ordinances, or any of them, or such
fines, forfeitures and penalties, to be sued for in the name of the
intendant and council of said town, and applied to the use of
the corporation.
See. 2. And be itfurther enacted, That the said intendant
and council shall have full power and authority to coase all va-Powe roi re-
grants, idle or disorderly persons, and all persons of ill fame or grants and
evil life, as are found begging or drunk, in and about the streets, idle persons.
or loitering in and about tippling houses,'and all such as have
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