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An Act to amend the charter of the City of Helena, and for other purposes. 1858-1859 10 (1858)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0150 and id is 1 raw text is: 10 SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the clerks aforementioned, shall be allowed such compensation for their services as the county court of Desha county shall deem just and reasonable. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That this act be in force and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED, 22d November, 1858. No. 7. AN ACT to amend the charter of the City of Helena, and for other purposes. SECTION ISECTION 1. Mayor of the city of Helena to hold 2. Additional powers granted to the city a court to be called the City Court council. of Helena, the terms, officers, and 3. Inhabitants and property of the city fees thereof to be stated by the exempted from taxation for county council-of said city. Said court to purposes, when a certain amount of have a seal, to bea court of record, city tax is levied. to take cognizances of offences 4. Conflicting acts and parts of acts re- against the city charter and ordi- pealed; this act declared a public nances, and have concurrent juris- one, and to be in force from its pas- diction with justices of the peace, sage. and with power to punish for con- tempt. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, That the mayor of the city of Helena, in the county of Phillips, and State of Arkansas, shall hold a court in said city, called the city coprt of Helena, under such regula- tions as to the times and places of holding the same, and as to duration of the terms thereof, and as to the process and proce- dure, and as to the number, duties and fees of the' officers, as' may be made by the ordinanc e of the council of said city. Said city court shall be a court of record, and shall have and use a seal as such; said city court shall have such jurisdiction of offences against the charter of said city, or any part thereof, and of offences agtinst the ordinances of said council, or any of them, and of offences punishable as such, as may at any time be conferred by ordinance of said council, and such fur- ther powers and jurisdiction in criminal matters, as may at any time belong to justices of the peace in said county, with full power to issue and enforce all process necessary for executing its decrees, judgments and orders, or any of them as against any person or persons, and any and all property, whether real, personal, or mixed, in said city, and full power also to impose fines for contempts, not more than one hundred dollars, and to imprison until such fines and all costs are paid.

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