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An Act to incorporate the town of Sommerville in the county of Fayette. 1853-1854 63 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0172 and id is 1 raw text is: 63 CHAPTER XVII. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Sommerville in the county of Fayette. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That all that district of countrycon- tained within the following limits-viz: Beginning at a stake in the district line between the 10th and 11th surveyor's district, at the point where the north of the north marginal street of the town of Sommerville crosses said district line, running thence west 45 poles with the north side of said marginal street to a stake; thence south-west the west side of the west marglnal street of the old part of the town of Sommerville, 90 poles to a stake, in the south side of the south marginal street, of the old part of the town of Somerville; thence west and south, so as to include the ground appropriated to the grave yard, and 30 feet beyond for a marginal street; thence south to a point 30 feet south of a point 30 feet west of the south-west corner of lot No. 9, in south Somerville, now owned by Jno.' C. Waddell, and known as the va- cant lot; thence east to a stake at a point 45 poles east of the district line; thence north, and after it comes to the old part of Sommerville with the east side of east marginal street; and thence with the line given in the deed from James Brown to the commissioners of Som- merville, recorded in the Register's office of Fayette county, in book A., page 26, and 270, (the last line be- ing the north side of the north marginal street of Som- merville, to the beginning;) is hereby enacted into one towh, to be called the town of Sommerville; and that the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of the Mayor and Aldermen of the town of Sommerville, and by the same name shall have perpetual succession; shall sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever; may purchase, receive and hold property, real and per- sonal, with said town; and may sell, lease or dispose of the same for the benefit of 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 and for a hospital or poor house; and may sell, lease or dispose of such property for the benefit of the town; and do all other acts touching the same, as natural persons. They may also have and use a com- mon seal, and change it at pleasure.

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