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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0510 and id is 1 raw text is: ficers when elected; they shall also have power to remove
from office the said clerk, treasurer, and constable, upon
satisfactory reasons, and appoint others, and shall fix the
salaries of such officers and the intendant, as in their judg-
ment they may deem sufficient, and if by them thought ad-
visable, take bonds from the clerk, treasurer, and constable,
for the faithful performance of duty.
APPROVED, February 2, 1858.
[No. 174.] AN ACT
To incorporate the town of Columbiana, in the county of
'Shelby.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bep
resentatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly Con- Inoorporated.
vened, That the town of Columbiana, in the counly of Shelby,
be, and the same is hereby incorporated; and the bounds
of said corporation shall be three-fourths of a mile every
way from the court house in said town.
SEC. 2. Be itfurther enacted, That an election shall be held
at the court house in said town, on the second Monday in
March next, and annually thereafter; the polls to be opened
at 11 o'clock, and close at 2 o'clock in the evening, for the Election.
purpose of electing, by ballot, five councillors, inhabitants
of said town, who shall serve for the term of one year after
they shall have been elected, and until their successors are
qualified. The first election shall be managed by J. T.
Leeper, B. F. Sawyer, D. W. Caldwell, H. V. Kaleors, John
Harkins, and D. N. McClanahan, or any two of them; and
all subsequent elections shall be managed by two of the
councilors, to be appointed by the board for that purpose;
and the said councilors shall, on the next day after their
election in each year, meet and elect, by a majority of votes,
from their own body, an intendant, whose duty it shall be Intendant.
to preside and keep order at all meetings of the said coun-
cilors; and in his absence, any other member may be called
to the chair. And the said intendant and council shall be,
and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the
name and style of the Intendant and Council of the town
of Columbiana, and by that name, they and their successors
shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, of plead-
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