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AN ACT to incorporate the city of Carondelet.
ARTICLE I.
o 1. Town of Carondclet incorporated, its wards.
ame and style. 4. How additions to the city may be made.
2. Boundaries of the corporal ion defined. 5. Powers of the city prescribed.
3. Trustees to divide the city into threc
Be it enacted by the General ./ssembly of the Stale oJ .Alissouri, as follows:
§ 1. The inhabitants of the town of Carondelet, in the county of St.
Louis, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name
and style of the city of Carondelet, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they
may change at pleasure.
§ 2. All that district of country contained within the following limits,
to-wit: Beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the
Mississippi river, due cast of the north-cast corner of the late survey,
purporting to be the corner of the Carondelet commons; thence, in a
rilit line to the north-cast corner of said commons, according to the
fore-mentioned survey ; thence along the north line of said commons,
according to said survey, to the west side of the highway, known as the
Stringtown road ; thence, in a line to the north line of survey, No. 2
of the Caroudelet commons, north of the river Des Peres, made by
Zeno Mackey, at the north-%% est corner of block No. 15, in said survey;
thence along the west line of blocks numbered 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19
of said survey, No. 2, to the north line of survey No. 4, of said Caron-
delet commons; thence westwardly along the north line of said survey
No. 4, to the north-west corner of block [No.] 5, in said survey No. 4
thence southwardly along the western limits of blocks numbered 5, 12,
21, 23, 31, 32, 38, 41 and 44, in said sutvey No. 4, to the middle of the
river Des Peres ; thence down the said river on thme middle line of the
same to its jnction with the river Mississippi ; thence due east to the
middle of the main channel of said river ; thence up the Mississippi
river, along the middle of its main channel, to the place of beginning:
provi let, howevpr. That the city council hereinafter created, shall have
the power to contract with William M. McPherson, for the exemption
of all that part of block [No.] 6, situate at the north-cast corner of the
boundaries herein describe(], which, said McPherson acquired by deed,
from Alexander andI I lenry Kayser ; and upon any such contract to ex-
eipt being entered into, the line of said city shall be established by
said city coincil, excluding said McPhar.on's land from the corporate
limits.
§ 3. The present board of trustees of the town of Carondelet shall,
on or before the first Monday of May next, divide the said town into
three wards, particularly describing the boundaries thereof, and as near-
ly equal in population as may be practicable : provided, that said di-
vision be prescribed by ordinance.
§ 4. 'hat whenever any tract of land adjoining the city of Caronde-
let shall be laid off as a town, into streets and lots, and a petition shall
be presented to the city council of the city, by the owners of the great-
er parts of such tract of land, praying that the same may be annexed to
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