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An Act supplementary to an act entitled An Act to Incorporate the Town of Carthage 1853 102 (1853.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0067 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER LIX. An Act Supplementary to an act entitled An Act to Incorpo- rate the Town of Carthage, in Panola county, approved January 1, 1852. Sr1-jloN 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the Mayor of said corporation shall receive a Commission and be qunalified as a Justice of the Peace of said county, having jurisdiction orsy within the corporate limits of said town ; lie shall be entitled to the same fees as are allowed by law to Justices of the Peace, and to such additional coin- l)ensation as a maijor:ty of the Board of Aldermen may deem proper ; li shall liohl' his courts on the second Saturday in each month ; provided, nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent said Mayor from lioldi ng a court at any other time for tei trial and ipunishment of otenders against the by-laws or ordinances of said town. SEc. 2. That the Constable of said town shall be qualified in every respect as a Constale for said county ; lie shall have the same jurisdiction and be entitled to the same fees ; be shall execute and return all writs directed to him by the Mayor and shall perform all other duties required of hinmby the cr- rz'ate Council of said town. Siac. 3. That the Mayor and Board of Aldeimen shall have power to levy a tax on all property, real and personal, within the limits of said corporation, riot to exceed one per cent, ad valom'm, and may collect the same ; they shall have power to levy and collect a license tax upon all tippling-houses, billiard tables, nine or ten pin alleys, and on all nercantile and grocery establishments of said town ; said tax, when collected, shall be applied to the improvement of said town ; they shall have power to prescribe the nanner of collecting and assessing the taxes due said corporation, and shall have and exercise a gen- oral control over the linancial affairs, alleys, streets, the public works and buildings within the limits of said town. SEe. 4. That all free males between the ages of eighteen and forty.five years, and all male slavus between the ages ol six- teen and sixty years, shatll be liable to work on the streits of said town not more than ten days in each year, and for a failure or refusal so to do when warned in accordance with the laws of the State, they shall be liE Ae to the same penalties prescribed by law for a failure to work on roads; they shall be

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