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An Act to incorporate the Village of Marion, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1854 348 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0393 and id is 1 raw text is: A'. t.8541 AN ACT To INCORPOIATR THE VILLAGE OF MARION, AND FOR OTHER No. 4194. IPURPOSES THE1RIN MENTIONED. I. Be it onactecl by the Senate and House of Reprosentatives, now met A body cor- and sitting in Gcneral Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That porate. from and after the passing of this Act, all persons, citienos of the United. States, having resided six months in the village of Marion, shall be deemed and ire hereby declared a body politic and corporate, and the said village shall be called and known by the name of Marion, and its corporate limits shall extend throo-fourths of a mile in the direction of the cardinal points from the new Court-House now being erected in the said village, as a centre and form a square : 1Poviled, That the provisions of this Act extending the limits of the corporation of Marion to an ideal line beyond the lots included. in the said village, shall not be construed to render the lands and buildings taken in by such extension any more liable to be ranked as village property, or property contiguous thereto, in the collection of public taxes, than if this act had not been passed. II. That the said village shall be governed by an Intendant and four 0oers. Wardens, (who shall always be freeholders within the limits of said village,) who shall be elected on the second Monday in January in every year, and shall continue in office until the election and qualification of their successors. The managers of the first election shall be appointed by the Clerk of the Court of the District of Marion, who shall also' designate the place of said election within the corporate limits of the said village; ten days' notice in writing being previously given; and that every succeeding election for said Intendant and Wardens shall be held at such place and by such persons as Qaliflcation the Council shall thereafter designate and appoint; and that all free white of voters. male inhabitants of the said village who have attained the age of twenty-one years; and have resided therein six months previous to the election, paupers excepted, shall be entitled to vote for said Intendant and Wardens, the elec- tion to be held front ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and when the poll shall be closed, the managers shall count the votes, proclaini the election and give notice thereof in writing:to the persons elected. That the Intendant and Wardens, before outering on the duties of their oflices, shill take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this Oath. State, and also the following oath, to wit: As Intendant or Warden of Mariop, I do soleinly swear that I am duly qualified to exercise the office to which I have boc elected, and that I will equally and impartially, to the best of my ability, exercise the trust reposed in me, and will use my best endeavors to preserve the peace, and carry into effect, according to law, the purposes of my appointment-so help me God. 949- STATUTES AT LARGR

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