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An Act to be entitled an act to amend an act to reduce into one the acts incorporating the town of Houston, and the several acts amendatory therein. 1856 328 (1856.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0318 and id is 1 raw text is: Sac. 11. B& .,it furtAhr t* d Tha: all laws and part bf laws: conflicting with this act be, and the ame are hereby repealed. Approved March 5, 1856.' CHAPTER 124. AN ACT to be entitled an act to amend an act to reduce into one the aets In. corporating the town of Houston, and the areral acts amendatory theruto. SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the .Legislature of the State of .iXsissippi, That that portion of land embraced within one mile square, having the court- house in the town of Houston, Chickasaw county, in its centre, shall hereafter be designated and known by the name of the town of Houston; that the inhabitants, as above defined, and their succes- sors forever, are hereby constituted a body corpor- ate and politic, in fact and law, by the name and style of the town of Houston; and by that name shall have perpetual succession; shall sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be de- fended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever; may purchase, receive and hold property, real estate and personal, within said town; and may purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, beyond the limits of the town to be used for the burial of the dead of said town; and may sell, lease or dispose of such property for the benefit of the town; and may have a common seal, and break, change, or alter and make a new seal at pleasure. SEC. 2. Be it urther enacted, That the inunici- pal government of said town shall be vested in a mayor and five selectmen, an assessor and collector of taxes, a clerk, a treasurer and a constable. The mayor, selectmen and constable shall be biennially elected by the qualified electors of the town of Houston. The assessor and collector, clerk and treasurer, and such other subordinate officers as are in this act provided for, or may be established by said mayor and selectmen, to be appointed or elect- ed, as they shall, by ordinance, direct. All free white male inhabitants of said town, twenty-one or more years of age, and citizens of the United States, who shall have resided in the State

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