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An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski in the county of Giles. 1849-1850 202 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0151 and id is 1 raw text is: 202 CHAPTER LXV. An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski in the county of Giles. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the -ncorporation. State of Tennessee, That the town of Pulaski and the inhabitants thereof, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name and style of the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Pulaski; and by the name and style aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and may have and use a common seal, and may by the name and style aforesaid, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, may have and hold and purchase pro- perty, whether real, personal, or mixed, and may grant sell and dispose of the same for the use and bene- fit of the said corporation. SEc. 2. The corporation aforesaid shall have full senera powers. power and authority to enact all such by-laws and or- dinances as may be necessary and proper to preserve the health, peace, quiet and good order of the said town, to prevent and remove nuisances, to establish night watches and patrols, to punish breaches of the peace, and good order committed within the limits of the corporation, whether by day or night. To ascer- tain and declare and re-establish when necessary the true boundaries of streets and alleys of the town; to provide for the licensing and regulating and taxing auctions; to licence and regulate and tax all theatrical and. other houses and exhibitions for amusement; to pass by-laws to pave and improve streets and side walks; to establish and regulate markets and inspec- tions; to provide for, regulate and establish fire com- panies, and to erect wells and cisterns, and erect pumps on the streets and public grounds; to impose and collect fines and forfeitures for violation of by-laws and ordinances of said corporation; to lay off and col- lect taxes upon all property and privileges and polls within the limits of said corporation, which are taxed by the laws of Tennessee or which may hereafter be made taxable by the laws of this State; to tax bowling and nine and ten pine alleys, and billiard tables; to erect a market house and regulate the same; to provide for having the square and streets lighted; to regulate sewers, gutters, within the corporate limits at the ex- pense of owners or occupants; to restrain and prevent cattle and hogs and horses from ranging at large on the Public Square and streets within the corporate limits; to provide for and regulate and improve all pub-

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