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An Act to incorporate the Town of Fort Smith. 1842-1843 177 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0053 and id is 1 raw text is: 177 An Act to incorporate the Town of Fort Smith. SECTION 1. Town of Fort Smith incorporated. 2. Trustees appointed for 1843. 3. Trustees to survey and lay off the town. 4. Provides for the annual election of 5 trustees. 5. Qualifications of trustees. 6. Form of oath to be taken by trustees. 7. Failure to hold election, how reme. died. 8. Meeting of trustees, and appointment of officers. 9. Trustees to appoint assessor, and his duties. 10. General powers of trustees. 11. Limits of jurisdiction. 12. Powers of president of the board of trustees. 13. Penalties, forfeitures, or fines impos- ed by corporation, may be plead in SECTION bar to any action on the part of the State. 14. Trustees to appoint town sergeant, and his duties. 15. Trustees to fix amount of penalties, and to determine fees of president. 16. President of board to keep docket. 17. Town sergeant allowed same fees as township constables. . 18. This act not to prevent justice of the peace or constable from being eli. gible to offices ofpresident and town sergeant. 19. Manner of holding elections. 20. Vacancies, how filled. 21. Trustees not to contract singly. 22. Corporation not to issue any change tickets, and penalty for so doing- 23. When to take effect. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the town of Fort Smith, in the county of Crawford, shall be, and the same is hereby incorporated. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That John Rodgers, Charles A. Birnie, Joseph H. Heard, Joseph Bennett, and Samuel Edmonson, are hereby constituted and appointed trustees for said town, who shall continue in oflice for the term of twelve months from and after -the first day of January next, (1843,) any three of whom may form a quorum to do business. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That thesaid trustees may fix the metes and bounds of said town, and have the same surveyed and platted, if the same has not been previously done, and laid out in streets and alleys, and cross streets, as they may direct; which plats of the survey of said town shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the Crawford county court, within three months after the passage of this act. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the free male inhabitants of said town of Fort Smith, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who are entitled to vote for county representatives, and all other male persons who have attained the aforesaid age, (negroes, mulattoes, and Indians excepted,) who own a town lot or lots in said town, to meet at some convenieqt house in said town, on the first Monday of January, 1844, and every year thereafter, and elect five trustees for said town, to serve for one year thereafter, and until their successors are elected and qualified. SEc. 5. Be it further enactcI, That no person shall be elected a trustee, or qualified to act as such, unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and reside within the limits of said town, and be owner of real property in the said town. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the trustees appointed by this act, and their successors hereafter to be elected, before they act as such, 23

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