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An Act to incorporate the town of Westport, in Jackson county. 1856 373 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0163 and id is 1 raw text is: COUNTIES. - JACKSON - INCORPORATIONS. be signed and carried on without the presence of the Board of Directors, by its officers, assistants, or agents. § 13.-Married women and minors may, in their own names, and without their husbands' or guardians' consent, deposit money with said in- stitution, and receive certificates therefor in their own names, and which. deposits shall be subject to the owners only. § 14.- Sections seven, thirteen, and fourteen, of the first article of the act concerning corporations, approved November 23, 1855, or any act in relation to corporations hereafter passed, shall not be applicable to this corporation. § 15.-This act shall be, and is hereby, declared to be a public act, and the same shall be construed as such, and the same shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and no longer. Approved February 11, 1857. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Westport, in Jackson county. 1. Town of Westport incorporated; its boundaries defined. 2. Corporate powers; in whom vested. 3. Mayor, how chosen; term of office; his qualifications. 4. Town, how laid off. 5. Term of office of Councilmen; their qualifications. 6. Town Council; how constituted; Presi- dent; how chosen. 7. Clerk; how appointed; his duties. 8. Stated meetings; how called. 9. Style of the laws; how and when di- gested. 10. Quorum; how constituted. 11. Tax may be levied. 12. General powers and duties of the Coun- cil. 18. Police regulations. 14. Streets and sidewalks; how paved. 15. Collection of taxes; how regulated. 16. Officers; how appointed; their com- pensation. 17. Duties of the Mayor. 18. President, pro tempore, to act as Mayor; when. 19. Powers and duties of the Mayor. 20. Constable; how chosen; term of office; his powers and duties. 21. Assessor; how chosen; term of office; powers and duties prescribed by Council. 22. General election; when held. 23. Officers shall take oath. 24. Additions to town; how made. 25. Declared a public act; made evidence. 26. Exempt from road service. 27. This act to take effect; when. 28. Trustees of town named. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follow.: § 1. - All that district of country within the following limits, to-wit: all that portion of the south-east quarter of section (19) nineteen, and the south-west quarter of section (20) twenty, in township number (49) forty- nine, of range (33) thirty-three, in the county of Jackson, in the State of Missouri, and bounded as follows: commencing at the south-east corner of section nineteen, and south-west corner of section twenty, running west two thousand six hundred feet; thence north two thousand nine hundred feet; thence east four thousand feet; thence south two thousand nine hundred feet; thence west one thousand four hundred feet, to the place of beginning, shall be, and is hereby, incorporated, erected, and established as a town, by the name of the town of Westport; and by that name shall 373

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