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An Act to amend and reduce into one the act incorporating the city of Natchez and the several acts amendatory thereto. 1854 263 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0299 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISStPPI, CHAPTER 136.' AN ACT to amend and reduce into one the not incorporating the city of Natchez and the several acts amendatory thereto. SECTrON 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Bounda- the State of Mississippi, That all that tract ofrses country contained within the following boundaries shall hereafter be designated by the name of the city of Natchez, to-wit: assuming for a central point the site of the door of the old Roman Catho- lic chapel, formerly on Commerce street, and run- ning thence in opposite directions on said street- north thirty degrees east, and south thirty degrees west, one mile in each direction, thereby giving a right line altogether two miles in length, at the ex- tremities of which line two points will be given, one in the upper and one in the lower boundary of said city, thence from each of said points, at right angles with said line and parallel with Main street, in said city, and south sixty degrees, east one mile, at the extremities of which last mentioned line two other points will be given, thence from 'either of said two last mentioned points in a right line to the other, thereby giving the rear or south-eastern boun- dary of said city, thence returning and extending said upper and lower boundaries, north sixty de- grees west, and parallel with said Main street, to the middle of the Mississippi river, and thence from either to the other of the two points thus obtained along the middle of said river, thereby completing the limits of said city. SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That the inhabi- Incorpora-, tants of said city, as above laid out and defined, tion. and their successors forever, are hereby constituted a corporation and body politic in fact and in law, by the name and style of the city of Natchez, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, de- fend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsover; may purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, within said city, and may purchase, receive and hold pro- perty, real and personal, beyond the limits of the city, to be used for the burial of the dead of the city, for hospital and other buildings for the recep. 263

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