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An Act to repeal the acts heretofore passed, incorporating the town of Woodville, and to define the boundaries and re-incorporate said town. 1836 357 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0152 and id is 1 raw text is: TOWN OF WOODVILLE. AN ACT to repeal the acts heretofore passed, incorporating the town of Woodville, and to define the boundaries and re-incor- porate said town. § 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state Former of Mississippi, That all acts heretofore passed, ifoel.on incorporating the town of Woodville, in the of wood- n ville re-mn- county of Wilkinson, be, and the same are here- comorated. by repealed; and that said town be, and the noundaries same is hereby re-incorporated, under the pro- visions hereinafter expressed, with the following boundaries and limits, that is to say; one'milo square, assuming the court house in said town, as the centre thereof, and the corporate authori- ties of said town, shall, as soon as convenient, designate and make boundaries thereof. § 2. Be it further enacted, That all the free 1Mayor and aldermn. white male inhabitants of said town, of the age iode of of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens Z tor n ~duration of of the United States, and being qualified electors otice. by the constitution of this state, and residents of said town, shall be entitled to vote at such elec- tions; and the said voters shall, on the first Monday in January, in each year, or within thirty days thereafter, meet at the court house in said town, or at such place as may be ap- pointed therein, and elect by ballot, a mayor and four aldermen, to serve until the next regular annual election, or until their successors are duly qualified, and notice of all such elections, shall be given and published at least ten days previous to the time of holding the same, and shall be opened and held from ten o'clock, A. M., until two o'clock, P. M., of said day, under the superintendence of the sheriff of the county of Wilkinson, and two freeholders of said town, or a justice of the peace, and two freeholders 357

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