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An Act to incorporate the town of Miami in Saline county. 1859 332 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0206 and id is 1 raw text is: 332 CORPORATION. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Miami in Saline county. # 1. The inhabitants of the town of Miami rights and privileges enjoyed under incorporated. former town charter preserved under 2. Boundaries of corporation. this incorporation. 3. Provisions in reference to additions l 6. All official acts to be in conformity with that may be made to said corpora- ordinances ; to be signed by Mayor, tion. and recorded. 4. General corporate powers; may receive, 7. Style of ordinances. hold, lease, and convey property, 8. Ordinances in force at the passage of real and personal, for the use of said this act to continue in force. corporate body. 9. All suits, engagements, etc., in existence 5. Said corporation authorized to pass all at the passage of this act, how con- necessary laws for the government of cluded. said city, and for enforcing them; 10. Qualification of voters. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. The inhabitants of the town of Miami, included within the limits hereinafter described, in the county of Saline and State of Missouri, are hereby declared and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the city of Miami; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, which they may chaage and alter at pleasure. § 2. The corporate limits of said city of Miami shall embrace the terri- tory bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the main channel of the Missouri river opposite the mouth of Rockbridge branch ; thence up said branch to where Edmond Brown's north line crosses it; thence west with said Brown's line to the north-east corner of Win. M. Bell's land ; thence south along Wm. M. Bell's line one fourth of a mile ; thence west on line of regu- lar survey to the branch between Miami and Victoria ; thence down said branch to the main channel of the Missouri river ; thence with said channel to the point of beginning. § 3. The City Council of the city of Miami shall have power to extend the corporate limits of the city over any addition to said city not included in the present limits, whenever a majority of the inhabitants of said addition shall petition to the City Council for that purpose: Provided, however, That it shall first be submitted to a majority of the citizens of the city, and if the majority be in favor of receiving said addition, then the same shall become annexed to the city, form a part of the corporate limits thereof, and the inhabitants and the property thereon shall thereafter be entitled to all the rights and benefits of other inhabitants and property within the city, and shall also be liable to assessment and taxation for city purposes, as if such territory were originally included. § 4. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be de- fended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever; to pur- chase, receive, and hold property, real and personal, within the city limits, and beyond the corporate limits, for burial grounds and other publicpurpos- es, for the use of the inhabitants of said city, and again to improve, lease, or sell the same for the use of the inhabitants aforesaid and the geieral prosperity of the city; to hypothecate and improve all public grounds and land- ings on the river; to protect or mortgage any real estate of the city, and borrow money on the public faith thereof; and to do and perform all such matters and things in relation to the property of the city as natural persons could lawfully do.

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