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An Act to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore passed incorporating the town of Brandon, in the county of Rankin, and re-incorporating said town. 1852 140 (1852.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0274 and id is 1 raw text is: time to time, until the same shall be filled by elec-
tion by the Presbytery, and in the event of such
failure to elect on the) part of the Presbytery of
Chickasaw, this charter shall not be thereby for-
feited.
SEc. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its pas-
sage.
Approved, October 14, 1852.
CHAPTER 107.
AN ACT to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore passed
incorporating the town of Brandon, in the county of Rankin,
and re-incorporating said town.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Mississippi, That all acts and parts of acts
heretofore passed, incorporating the town of Bran-
Repealing don, in the county of Rankin, be, and the same are
clause. hereby repealed; and that the said town be, and
the same is hereby incorporated under the provi-
sions hereinafter expressed, with the boundaries
and limits of said town as they existed before the
passage of this act.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That, on the first
Monday in January in each and every year, at every
Election regular annual election in and for said town, the
of officers- qualified voters thereof shall elect a Mayor, four
Aldermen, and a Town Constable; the Mayor and
Aldermen to be either free-holders or house-hold-
ers, which election shall be conducted by a Justice
of the Peace or the sheriff of the county and
three free-holders thereof, and the person having
the highest rixmber of votes shall be declared duly
elected, and shall be forthwith returned by such
superintendbnt of said election, to the office of
Officers to Secretary of State, and shall be commissioned by
be corn- the Governor, and the said Mayor and Aldermen,
missioned. immediately on the receipt of their commissions,
shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the
constitution, and such person, so elected, shall re-
main in office until their successors are elected and
qualified. The polls of such election shall be open-
ed at 10 o'clock, A. 5f., and close at 4 o'clock, P. x.,
of the same day, and notice of all such elections

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LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI

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