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An Act to incorporate the Town of Yellville. 1854-1855 92 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0118 and id is 1 raw text is: 92 AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Yellville. SzoTIOw SECTION 1. Town of Yellville incorporated. blished. 2. Mayor, five Councilmen, a Recorder 10. recorder to be Treasurer; Constable and a Constable to be elected. to be assessor and tax-collector; May- 8. Qualifications of voters. or to be commissioned by the Gov- 4. Qualifications of officers. ernor, 5. Town officers to take oath ofoffice. 11. Time and mode of holding elections. 6. Mayor to preside over town council- 12. Vacancies-how filled. three members to constitute a quo- 13. Recorder-his duties. rum. 14. Citizens of Yellville exempt from road 7. Town council to have succession for duty. ninety-nine years; its powers and 15. Mayor to have the same sdiction privileges. as Justices of the Peace;is powers 8. Further powers of Town Council for and duties. providing for the government and 16. Right of appeal from the Mayor's collecting taxes of Yellville. court-Town Council to fix fees of 9. Ordinances to be signed by Mayor and town officers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkans(,s, That. the town of Yellville, in the county of Marion, in the State of Arkansas, extending five hundred yards east, five hundred yards west, five hundred yards north, and to the chan- nel of Crooked Creek south, from the court house, be, and the same is hereby incorporated. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That for the preservation of or- der, and the good government of the inhabitants of the corpora- tion of Yellville, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of said corporation, on the first Monday in March, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and on the first Monday in January, in each and every year thereafter, one mayor and five councilmen, ho shall be styled the c town council, and likewise one re- corder and one constable, who shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and be endowed with the power and authority herein- after conferred. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the same qualifications ne- cessary to entitle an elector to vote in the general election of this State, shall berequired to entitle any citizen of the corporation of the town of Yellville, to vote for officers thereof SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligible to the office of mayor, councilman, recorder or constable of said incorporation, who is not a qualified voter within the same. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the officers, whose elections are provided for in the foregoing section, shall each, before en- tering upon the dischage of the duties thereof, take and sub- scribe an oath, before some officer authorized to administer oaths, to support the constitution of the United States, and of the State 'of Arkansas, and faithfully to demean himself in office. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That at all meetings of the town council, the mayor shall preside and shall preserve order, sub- ject to such rules and regulations as may be established by ordi- nance, and in his absence, any other member of the council may be appointed for that purpose, and any three members of the

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