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An Act to incorporate the Village of Abbeville. 1832 27 (1832.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0248 and id is 1 raw text is: covered before any magistrate, and applied by said Dee. 18... successor to the purchase of another and similar book. In the Senate House, the truentieth day oj December, in the year ofour Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and the fifty- seventh year of the Independence of the United States of.4merica. -IH HE 5S, President of the Senate. H1. L. PINCKNEY, Sjueaker of the Hfouse of Representatives. CHAP 6 -An ACTto incorporjte the Whige of Abbeville. SEC. 1. Be it enclted by the Senate and House of . Representatives, That the citizens of this State who coera in. may be inhabitants of the Village of Abbeville or own- ad how to ers of freeholds therein, within the limits hereinafter begovernet prescribed, are hereby declared a body coi porate: and the said village shall be called Abbeville, and governed by an Intendant and four Wardens, a njority of whom shall forn a Council, to he called the Town Council of Abbeville, and by that name have succession of mem- bers, keep a common seal, take and hold property, sue and be sued, iPiplead and be inipleaded, and enjoy every right incident to an incorporation. SEc. 2. The said Intendant and Wardens shall al- ways be persons entitled to vote for members of the Legislature in this State, who actually reside within the Quatjlica. limits aforesaid, and have so resided at least twelve tions of l8- months immediately preceding their election, and own Itd, a freehold therein worth at least two hundred dollars. how and They shall in the first instance be appointed by the de- when to be legation of Abbeville district; and on the second Mon- cted. day in September next, and of every year thereafter, an election by ballot shall be held for them at the Court House in the said Village from nine o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the aftei noon: and every citizen entitled to vote for members of the Legislature of this State, and who shall have resided within the limits aforesaid, six months immediately preceding the said election, or who not having s resided, sh i own a fraehohl within the said limits, worth at lVast two hun- dred dollars, shall be entitled to vote at the said elec- tion, of which ten days public notice shall be given, and three managers appointed, by the Intendant and Wardens for the time being, or if there should be neither Intendant nor Wardens, by the Clerk of the Court of Abbeville District: which managers having been sworn so to do, shall fairly and impartially conduct and dr- Clare the said election. P

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