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An Act to incorporate the Town of Tipton, in Moniteau County, Missouri. 1859 354 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0210 and id is 1 raw text is: CORPORATION. AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Tipton, in Moniteau County, Missouri. § 1. The inhabitants of the town of Tipton incorporated. 2. Limits of the corporation. 3. Corporate powers vested in a Board of Councilmen; how chosen; their pow- ers; as to their organization and pro- ceedings. 4. Term of office of Councilmen; quali- fications. 5. Council to appoint Clerk; Clerk's du- ties. 6. Councilmen to take oath; when to as- semble. 7. Council shall fix their time and place of meeting; may have called meet- ings; how called; style of ordinan- ces. 8. Power of Council as to taxation. 9. Power of Council as to preserving or- der, etc. 10. Power of Council as to fines and im- prisonment. 11. Council may appoint Street Overseer; who shall work streets ; powers and duties of Council as to improving streets and sidewalks. 12. As to the collection of taxes; author- ized to enforce the same. § 13. Council to appoint certain'officers, and prescribe their duties, and fix fees; may require officers to give bond. 14. Council to supply town with water; borrow money; remit fines. 15. Who first Board of Councilmen; when regular election of Councilmen to be held ; as to mode of conducting elec- tions; how vacancies in Councilmen filled. 16. Real estate sold for taxes, may be re- deemed ; how. 17. Tipton to be and remain a part of Wil- low Fork township. 18. As to the dismissal of suits brought be- fore Justices of the Peace in said township or town. 19. Additional Justice of the Peace to be commissioned in said township. 20. Jurisdiction of said Justice. 21. Constable to be elected in the town of Tipton; term of his office; his pow- ers, and duties, and jurisdiction. 22. Citizens of said town exempted from working roads. 23. The General Assembly may alter, re- peal, or amend this acts 24. Secretary of State to forward a copy of this act to Clerk of County Court. Be it enacted by the General .Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. The inhabitants of the town of Tipton included in the limits here- inafter described, in the county of Moniteau, in the State of Missouri, are hereby declared and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the town of Tipton ; and by that name the inhabitants thereof and their successors shall be known in law, and have perpetual succession; and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, in all matters ; may purchase, receive, and hold property, real and personal, within the limits of said town as shall be necessary for said town in the exercise of her corporate powers; and may lease, sell, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said town ; may have a common seal and alter the same. § 2. The corporate limits of the town of Tipton shall include the south half of section fifteen, township forty-five, range seventeen, and that por- tion of land lying east of the Osage Valley and Southern Kansas Railroad, known as Fowler's Addition ; also Stephen Adair's lot lying between said road and the Pacific Railroad. § 3. The corporate powers of said town shall be vested in a Board of Councilmen, to consist of seven members, to be chosen by the qualified vo- ters of said town, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members; they shall judge of the qualifications and returns of their own members ; determine contested elec- tions; make rules and by-laws for their government; may punish any mem- ber or other person for disorderly behavior in their presence, while sitting as a Board; and may expel any member after he has had a due hearing in de- fense, but not twice for the same offense. 354

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