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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0681 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 292.] AN ACT
To amend the charter of the city of Montgomery, and
the various laws heretofore passed amending the said
charter.
Acts o 1837. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ala-
bama, That an act entitled An act to incorporate the city
of Montgomery, approved the 23d of December, 1837,
Sec..1 recited. which reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by
the Senate and House of Representatives of the State
of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the
town of Montgomery, in said State, shall hereafter be
called the city of Montgomery, and that the said town
or city shall include within its its corporate limits frac-
tional section twelve, in township sixteen and range
seventeen, east of the Alabama river, and so much of
the north-east quarter of section thirteen, in township
sixteen and range seventeen, as has been heretofore sur-
veyed and laid out into lots of a size less than one acre;
and so much of the north-west quarter of section seven,
in the last named township and range, as has been here-
tofore surveyed and laid out into lots of a size less than
one acre; the inhabitants whereof shall be a body cor-
porate, and that the mayor and aldermen of said city,
when elected and qualified as hereinafter directed, shall
be named and styledThe City Council of Montgomery,
and by that name may purchase, receive, hold or let,
sell, grant, alien, or assure property, real and personal,
and sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and to do
and perform any other acts incident to bodies corporate,
to have a common seal which may be changed at pleas-
ure, and that thejurisdiction shall extend to and include
all the lands above described, and all the Alabama river
opposite to said fractional section twelve. Sec. 2. And
be it further enacted, That the said city shall be divided
Sec. 2 recited. into three wards, as follows, to-wit : All that part of
said city lying westwardly of Commerce street and
Court street, continued south to the southern limits of
said city, shall form the first ward ; all that part of said
city lying east of Court street, continued to said south-
ern limit and south of Market street and Line creek
road, shall form the second ward; and all that part of
said city lying north of Market street and Line creek
road, and eastwardly from Commerce .street form the
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