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An Act to incorporate the town of Starkville, in Oktibbeha county, and to repeal all other acts heretofore passed respecting the same. 1852 444 (1852.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0287 and id is 1 raw text is: the sixteenth section, township thirteen, of range eight east, in Attala county, shall be as valid and effectual to vest title in the purchaser as if all the formalities of law had been complied with. SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That the sale of the sixteenth section in township eighteen, range six- teen east, in the Columbus Land District Choctaw Cession, Lowndes county, sold by the Trustees of school lands in said township, on the sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall not be void for any irregularity in said sale, but is hereby ratified, confirmed and declared to be valid. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 28, 1852. CHAPTER 335. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Starkville, in Oktibbeha county, and to repeal all other acts heretofore passed respect- ing the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That the town of Stark- ville, in Oktibbeha county, be, and the same is hereby incorporated, and the corporate limits of Corporate said town shall run to the four cardinal points, limits. and form one mile square, to be laid off in such manner as that the centre of the public square, or the block upon which the court house is situated, shall form the centre of the corporate limits of said town of Starkville. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the qualified Qualified electors, who are eligible to vote for members of votersmay the Legislature, residing in the town of Starkville, cers. may elect one Justice of the Peace, to be styled Mayor, one Constable, and five Selectmen, who shall be freeholders of said town, and the persons so elected, shall hold their offices two years, and un- til their successors shall be elected and qualified; a majority of said Selectmen shall constitute a quorum to transact business, and they shall have power at their first meeting, and thereafter at their pleasure, to appoint an assessor and collector from the citizens of said town, to continue in office at the will of said Justice and Selectmen. That .444 LAWS OF MISSISSIPPr.

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