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An Act to incorporate the city of Fernandina. 1824 298 (1824)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0042 and id is 1 raw text is: -298 Sec. 5. And 6e itfurther enacted ,That this act shall be in force from and after the first day of October next. JOSEPH M. HERNANDEZ. President of the Legislative Council. SAML. FRY, Clerk. (Appliroved January lot 1825.) WM. P. DUVAL. Governor of the Territory of Florila. AN ACT To incorporate the city of Frcrnandina. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative C'oun. cil ot the Territory of Florida, That all the free white inhabitants of that part of Amclia Island, known by the name ofFarnandina, and comprehended with- in a line beginning at a point onl the east bautk of A- ielia river, and due west ofthe centre of the old re- doubt or w'ater battery of said citk,, thence southward- outdafic5. ly along the eastern bank of the said Amelia river fourteen hundred yards, thence along a section of a circle, whote radius is fourtcen hundred yards distant from the said point of beginning to a point on the eastern bank of the said Amelia river, and thence southwardly along tlue eas'ern bank of the said Ante- lia river to the point of beginning, and their sue- cessors, be and remain for the term of eight years, a body corporate by the name and style of the city of Fernandina, and by their corporate name they may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and do all other acts, as natural persons, and nay purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property, or dispose of the same for the benefit of the said city. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the'overn- ment of the said city shall be vested in a city council to be composed of a Mayor and five Aldermen, each Governteit. of whom shall have the qualiifcation, or having resi- ded six months within the limits aforesaid in order to fill either, of the said offices. Sec. 3. Be It further enacted, That the Mayor shall Mayor's fet. have and exercise all the duties anti may receive the fees of a justice of the peace. Se -. 4. Be it/itrther enacted, That the sald city coo- ,til h W1 hAve full power Lt wutlthority to prevci~t itull.

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