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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Clarksville 1865 254 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0269 and id is 1 raw text is: TOWNS AND CITIES. TOWNS AND CITIES: CLARKSVILLE. AN ACT to amend an act entitled Ian act to incorporate the town of Clarksville?' ap- proved February 21th, 1853. ( 1. Council may levy by ordinance a poll § 2. Act, when to take effect. tax; may appoint overseer of streets. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows : § 1. That sections 12 and 15 are hereby repealed and the following inserted, which shall stand as sections 12 and 15: Section 12. The Coun- cil shall have power by ordinance to levy and collect a poll tax, not to exceed one dollar in any one year, on all male inhabitants of the city over the age of twenty-one years, to levy and collect taxes on all real and per- sonal property within the city not to exceed one per cent. upon the assessed value thereof. Section 15. The Council shall have power to ap- point one overseer of the streets, and to cause all able bodied male in- habitants of said city, between the age of eighteen and forty-five, to work on the streets any number of days not exceeding four in each year, and shall be exempt from working roads outside of the city. But the City Council shall have power to become stockholders in, loan the credit of the city to, or appropriate money for the use of, companies organized for im- provement of roads leading to the city or to the ferry landing opposite the city in the State of Illinois, after first having obtained the consent of the inhabitants, as required by the Constitution of the State. § 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 12th, 18i6. TOWNS AND CITIES: HANNIBAL. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled an act amendatory of the several acts ilcorpo- rating the city of Hannibal, approved February 10th, 1865. * 1. City Council may fund the debt of the § 4. Compensation of cammission. city and issue bonds for that pur- 5. Additional powers conferred upon the pose. City Council. 2. City Council shall designate, by ordi- 6. Npw bonds to be receivable, for what. nance, the manner the new bonds 7. Provisions in the charter of the city, in- shall be issued. consistent with this act, are repealed. 8. City Council may appoint a commis- 8. Act, when to take effect. sion, and for what purpose; agree- ments of commission to be binding on the city. 254

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