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.4n the late parish therein or thereat, and by the deed of the president of said police
Of stjury to make a valid and legal conveyance thereof
art.
[Signed] PRESTON W. FARRAR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
[Signed] TRASIMON LANDRY,
Lieutenant.Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 28th April, 1847.
[Signed] ISAAC JOHNSON,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 171.] AN ACT
Supplementary to an act entitled, An act to incorporate the Borough of Freeport, approved May
twonty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
Amendment to the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That the first sec.
oft,aceni- tion of the act entitled, An act to incorporate the Borough of Freeport,
An actto approved May twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which is in
Boeogh of the following words, to wit: That from and after the passage of this act,
F-'*4* aP- the free white male inhabitants of all that portion of the parish of Jefferson
twen r a situated within the upper limit of the city of Lafayette, and the upper limit
and fo- of Bloomingdale, on the left bank of the river Mississippi, descending, and
sir. as far back from said river as is now or may hereafter be settled within
said lines, shall form a corporation and a body politic, by the name of the
Borough of Freeport, and by that name they, and their successors shall be
known in law, and be capable to contract, sue and be sued, defend and be
defended, in any court whatever, and to hold, purchase, receive, possess and
retain to them and their successors, all and every kind of property whatso-
ever, which may be necessary for municipal purposes, and the same to
alien, transfer, lease, farm and dispose of, and may have and use a common
seal, and may alter and change the same at pleasure, be, and the same is
orcma n hereby amended so as to read as follows, to wit: That from and after the
otFreeport. passage of this act the free white male inhabitants of all that portion of
t lain o the parish of Jefferson situated within the upper limit of the city of Lafay.
ette and the lower limit of Hurtsville on the left bank of the river Missis-
sippi, descending, and as far back from said river as is now or may here.
after be settled within said lines, shall form a corporation and a body poli.
tic, by the name of the Borough of Freeport, and by that name they, and
Powersgranted their successors shall be known in law, and be capable to contract, sue and
toulad corpora-
nion. be sued, defend and be defended, in any court whatever, and to hold, pur.
chase, receive, possess, and retain to them and their successors, all and
every kind of property whatsoever, which may be necessary for municipal
purposes, and the same to alien, transfer, lease, farm, and dispose of, and
may have and use a common seal, and may alter and change the same at
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