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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0263 and id is 1 raw text is: 1854-'85. Oxfr.j~ -254--255. 3.
-S0. 8.1 O it fw'adkr enated, That this act -shall be, in
force from andatter its ratification . [Ra&Yeed dh 84day of
Feruary,. 1855.]
AS ATr TO ioaorRATh THE Iq19x OF JEFFERSON IN. MR 0o1r Chap. 255.
880.: 1. 3O it 4n84 &O tAd. On ?i A.880mliy Of LA &Eatd Commiseleners
No-orth-Croinhnd t is hoeb .U ented by the authority
ainel O.-Waugh and JameeW. Gentry, be appointed com-
missionhers foi*-the town of Jofferson, in the county of Ashe,
that it satb tohe duty of the sheriff of Ashe county, or
his lawful deputy) on the first M[Qnday of' January .ite each
.year, after the year- oighteen hundred anid fifty-Aye; and
after giving .ten days notice, previous to the day of eleetion,
to -oped~ polls at tihe.. couirt house, in the town of Jet'erson,
in esid- cotunty, for the election of five commissioners, who
shall continue in officeo fore one year thereafter, or until others
-are appointed.~
Sxo 850 B. e it further enatedZ, That any citizen of said Eligibility,
town of Jefferson, who is twenty-one yeassof age, and who
hapiresided -thorein fot* tivelve months, shall be .eligible as
such oommissioner, and every inihabitant who has resided
thierein.for six inonths, and who is ualified according to the
constitution, to voty for members of the: HIouse. of Commons,
shall be entitledi to vote in said election.
-BI8EC. 8. .B0 i fi@P&Ad? Oendded, IThat the said 40o11i88ssiR. To take oath.
ers withini four days aftei* their election, and-before entering
upon the duties of teir oilliee shall take an oath~ before some
justice< of thlipeace for said county faithfully and impar-
tially to perform said duties,- and thereupo,- they shall be
constituted -a body politis and csorporate, b the- name and
style of the- conmssioners of the town of Jsereon, and as
such, may sie-arid be seed, plead and be impleaded, have
arduse aC commbu-seal, aud-have perpetualeneccession.-
uSao4.'Be it -furikar onacted, That the saidicommnission. xagiatrate.
ers or a majority of them, shall have power. and authority
toe agpont'a magistr te\ of police,' a town con stable and
treasuirer', toa lay -and collect a tax on -the - inhabitaiseand
propert3*iof-said towt,- not exceedingflifty ceiits on the poll,
auditweolve ands ahalf~ cents on every hundred dollars value
'if property. and a tax- on each - store, grocery: and tavern,
nlot o xceethugi three1 dollarsI tupon: all carriages of pleasuare,
not exceeding fifty cents,- uppn all texhibitors of: natural or
artificial extlriositiesUt'not -exceeding- two' dollars, upon all
sleight of hand ;perfokmets,- not exceeding one- dollar, and
upon all hand organ grinders, not exceeding over dollar..t
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