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An Act to incorporate the town of Dardanelle, in Yell county, Arkansas. 1854-1855 153 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0123 and id is 1 raw text is: 153 laws in conflict with its provisions be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved 16th January, 1855. AN ACT supplementary to an act to aid in the construction of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, approved 1855. SECTION SECTION 1. Time given the Cairo and Fulton Rail- lands to be extended to a period of road Company to accept the grant of not exceeding six months. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the act to which this is a supplement, be, and and the same is hereby amended, so that the Cairo and Fulton railroad company may bave a period of not exceeding six months from the date of the approval of this act, within which time said company shall determine whether the said 'company will accept the grant of land referred to in the act to which this is a supple- ment, and that all laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby modified. Approved 17th January, 1855. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Dardanelle, in Yell county, Arkansas. SECTION 1. Town of Dardanelle, with specified limits, incorporated. 2. Officers of town; how elected or ap- pointed; term of office. 3. Qualifications of voters and town offi- cers. 4. Style of corporation; of alderman and councilmen; alderman to preside over council and to give casting vote. 5. Times and manner of holding elec- tions; election of alderman to e cer- tified to Governor. 6. Election of councilmen and constable to be certified to alderman; 'official oaths; constable and recorder to give otlicial bonds. 7. Alderman and council to have succes- sion as a body politic for ninety-nine years; to purchase and sell, etc., all kinds of property; to sue and be su- ed, etc. 8. Town council to pass ordinances for SECTION the government of the town. 9. Alderman to be a conservator of the peace; his powers and duties as such. 10. be manner of enforcing the collec- tion of all fines. 11. Powers of town council; to levy and collect an ad valorem tax, etc. 12. Constable to be assessor and collector of taxes; recorder to be town trea- surer. 18. Right of granting licenses. 14. Duties of town council. 15. Vacancies, and how filled. 16. Duties of recorder. 17. Constable to be overseer of streets; his duties as such. 18. Alderman and three councilmen to be a quorum. 19. This corporation not to issue change tickets; this act to take effect from passage. SECTION 1. Be it.enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the town of Dardanelle, in the county of Yell, in the State of Arkansas, extending to and embracing that por-

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