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An Act to provide more fully for the incorporation of the City of Fort Smith. 1854-1855 50 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0115 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 50 AN ACT to provide more fully for the incorporation of the City of Fort Smith. SECTION I. The inhabitants of Ft. Smith incorpo- rated-limits of the corporation de- fined; corporate powers and privile- Cgs granted. 2. Oficers provided for. 3. City council-how and by whom cho- sen-term of office. 4. Qualifications of city officers-powers of city council. 5. City council to appoint certain officers. 6. Vacancies in city council-how filled. 7. Council to have power to collect taxes -provide for the general health-pre- vent nuisances, establish night watch- es, erect wharfs, grant licences, re- strain tippling and other disorderly houses, establish markets, open and repair streets, inspect lumber and weights and measures, establish a fire company, regulate storage of powder, etc., etc., etc. 8. Power to regulate the police of slaves, etc.; free negroes. 9. Power to punish breaches of the peace. 10. The election of mayor. 11. Mayor to be chief judicial officer of the city; his powers. 12. Mayor to be a conservator of the peace; 18. Mayor to have same powers as justices of the peace. his powers and jurisdiction as such. 14. To be governed by the laws governing justices ofthepeaccin Criminal matters. 15. Further powers of the mayor. 16. Mayor to have power to issue writs. 17. Contested elections to be provided for. 18. Officers to take an oath of office. 19. Mayor to be president of city council. 20. Ma or to be keeper of the seal. 21. Style of the ordinances; ordinances to be published. 22. Recorder to be appointed; to give bond. 28. Constable to be elected; to give bond; his powers and duties. 24. A treasurer and assessor to be appoint- SECTION ed; to give bond. 25. Real property to be sold for taxes not paid; provision to be made for its re- demption; personal property to be sold for non-payment of taxes. 26. Power to appoint street commissioner. 27. Power to provide for the pavement of street walks. 28. Duties of the recorder in relation to the city records. 29. When the mayor to be governed by the laws of the btate. 80. This act to be a public act. 81. Power of committing to jail granted. 52. Power of removing city officers. 33. City elections to be held annually; fail- ure to hold an election not to work a forfeiture of this act. 84. City council to prescribe the mode of holding city elections. 85. Abstract of votes polled for mayor to be forwarded to Secretary of State. 86. Proceeds of all fines, etc., to inure to the benefit of said city. 87. Appropriations; how made; duty of re- corder. 88. City council to grant all licenses. 39. Citizens to be exempt from road duty; a street tax may be levied. 40. Certain exclusive powers of licensing granted to the mayor and aldermen. 41. Power to tax ferry privileges, to levy a poll tax, and auction duties. 42. Powers in relation to collection of re- venue; fire companies; fees of office; safe keeping of powder; free negroes; patrols; making firemen and patrols conservators of the peace; salaries of city officers; fire; vagrants. 48. Temporary appointment of city offi- cers made. 44. Conflicting laws repealed; all suits and prosecutions pending under old char- ter to cease; this act to take effect from its passage. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That all the district of country contained within the following limits, to wit: Beginning in the middle of the main channel of the Arkansas river, upon the line between the Indian country and the State of Avkansas, running thence southwardly along said line to the south bank of said river, where the said line strikes the lands belonging to the United States,occupied as a military post, thence along down the bank.of said river, as far as said lands belonging to the United States extend, thence in a direction south of east, along the line of said lands, on the north- eastern side of the same to a point where the same strikes the west line of section sixteen, in township eight north, of range thirty- two west, thence north along said line to the north-west corner of said section number sixteen; thence east along the north side

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