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An Act to incorporate the town of Monticello, in Jefferson county. 1831 41 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0086 and id is 1 raw text is: on ;. and that they shall -be entitled ,to'reeve at the.. said ferry toll at such ratis', and shall be subjecito such regultios, as may be established by the county court of the county of Alachua and the legislative couiqil. Pa~scd, Fcb. 1I, 1831. CAPPROYED, Feb. 13, 1831 An ACT io incorporate the town of Monticello, in Jefferson county. , .Sec. 1. Be it enacted by. the Goternor and the Legislative Council of the e'rritory,(o/' Florida, That all the free white male inhabitants of the age of twenty one years, and over, corn- corporate prehended within the west half of north west quarter of section r -d thirty, township two, range five, north and east, and their snc- cessors, be, and remain for the term of five years, a body cor- porate, by the name and style of the Town of Monticelloj and by their corporate' name, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and do all other acts as natural persons, and may pur- chase and hold real, personal, and mixed property, or dispose of the same for the benefit of the said Town. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the government of said Town, shall be vested in' an intendant and five cotincil-men, 'each Duties, &A of whom shall have the qualification of having resided three men months within the limits aforesaid, in orde to fill either of said ofrices. . Sec. 3. Berit further enacted, That the intendant shalil have Powersot the power, and exercise all the duties, and may receive the fees intondant,' of ajustice of the peace within the said corporation. Sec. 4. Bc it jurther enacted, That the said intendant and town council shall have full power and authority, to prevent and remove nuisances, to license and regulate retailers ot goods and liquors and.taverns; to restrain or prohibit all -sorts of'gaming, B.lw*4 to license and regulate public amusements, to establish and re- gulate markets, to direct the safe keeping of the standard of w ights and, measures, appointed by Congress, folregulate burial grounds, to sink wells, and take care ot' the same, to erect and repair pumps,, in the streets and public squares, to erect and re- pair market houses, and public scales within the aforesaid limits, to establish And regulate patrols, to regulate the storing of gun- powder, to restrain and prohibit tipling houses and lotteries, to provide for the establishment of public schools, and superintend- ance of the same, to restrain and punish vagabonds, and disor- derly persons, to keep in repair all necessary streets, to restrain and punish the, disorderly conduct and oflences committed by negroes and mulattoes, to lay and impose taxes, and provide for the collection of the same, to impose and appropriate fines, and penalties, aid forfeitures, for breach of their ordinances and. bye-'

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