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An Act to incorporate the City of Columbus. 1859 vol. I 501 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0804 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 310. 1860. AN ACT to incorporate the City of Columbus. ARTICLE I. 1. Boundaries of the city of Columbus. 2. Corporate powers of the city. 3. City to be divided into three wards. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwezlth of Kentucky: § 1. All that district of country contained within the Boundary of following limits, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the mid- city. die of the main channel of the Mississippi river, agreeable to the present northern boundary of the town of Colum- bus, and running with said northern boundary line to a point where the eastern boundary line of said town inter- sects or crosses said northern boundary line; thence with said eastern line to a point where said line connects with the southern boundary line of said town of Columbus; thence along said line to a point where the said line con- nects with or opposite to the present eastern line of Ken- tucky city; thence with said last named line to a point to intersect with the present southern boundary line of Ken- tucky city; and thence with said line to a point in the mid- dle of the main channel of the Mississippi river, is hereby erected into a city, by the name of the city of Columbus. * § 2. That the inhabitants of the city of Columbus, as the Body corporate same extends and is laid out above, be, and they and their and politic, and corporate pow- successors forever are hereby, constituted a corporation ers. and body politic, in fact and in law, by the name and style of the city of Columbus, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession; shall sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatever; and may purchase and hold property, personal and real, within said city; and may sell, lease, or dispose of the same for the benefit of the city; and may purchase, receive, and hold property, real and personal, beyond the city limits, to be used for the burial of the dead of the city, also for the erection of quar- antine and hospital for the reception of persons infected with contagious and other diseases; also for a poor-house, work-house, or house of correction; and may sell, lease, or dispose of such property for the benefit of the city; they shall have and use a common seal, and may break, change, alter, and make a new seal at pleasure. § 3. The city of Columbus shall be divided into three Divided into wards, the boundaries whereof shall be as laid down in this three war&e. charter, and may be by the said council changed from time to time as they shall see fit, having regard to the number of free white male inhabitants, as also to the value of real estate embraced within said wards, as near as may be to

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