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An Act to incorporate the town of Bayou Sara. 1850 76 (1850)

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in said branch, and the amount which said bank may hereafter loan
State Treasurer through its branches shall not be deemed to diminish the amount of
authorized to loans to which it is limited by its charter: Provided, that the condi-
kein de   tion of said bank, shall at all times be, with respect to its liabilities,
such as is required by the first and second sections of an act to revive
the charters of the several banks located in the city of New Orleans
and for other purposes, approved February fifth, eighteen hundred
and forty-two.
E. W. MOISE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. B. PLAUCHE,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.
Approved 14th March, 1850.
JOSEPH WALKER,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
No. 109.]                  AN ACT
To incorporate the town of Bayou Sara.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa.
Incorporation of fives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That
ute town o      o the resident citizens of the United States within the following limits,
Iiayou Sara.  to wit:-Beginning on the east side of Bayou Sara at its mouth, run.
ning along said side of said bayou to its junction with Fountain
Its limit.,  bayou, thence running along the east side of Fountain bayou to its
intersection with Salsers bayou, at or near the residence of B. Bertus,
including said residence, and all on the south side of said Salsers
bayou until it joins a line to be run from the Mississippi river, a due
north course, starting from a cotton wood tree standing on the east
bank of the Mississippi river, about one hundred and sixty yards be-
low the residence of Edwin Leet, and terminating at the point desig-
nated on Salsers bayou: Shall be, and they are hereby created and
made a corporation, and body politic with perpetual succession, by
the name and style of the town of Bayou Sara.
See. 2. Be it further enacted, djc., That on the first Monday of
April, in each year between the hours of ten o'clock, A. M1. and four
Election of a  P. M., the qualified voters residing within the limits of said town, shall
oaynr and five elect by ballot a mayor, and five councilmen to administer the affairs
councilmen,  of said town, for the ensuing year, and until others are elected in their
stead, and in, and by, the name of the Mayor and Council of the
town of Bayou Sara, shall be, and are hereby made capable in law,
to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered,
Their corporate defend and be defended, in any court or courts of record, or other
powers.     place whatever; also to have, hold, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy,
and retain, to them and their successors, all and every kind and quality
of property whatsoever, and the same to alienate, transfer, farm,
lease, and dispose of, also to have and use a common seal, and the
same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, 4-c., That for all elections after the
first, for mayor and councilmen, the said mayor and council shall at
some convenient time previous to each annual election, for members
o mtionser  of their body, appoint three suitable persons, inhabitants and qualified
how appointed. voters of said town, as commissioners to hold said elections, and the
said mayor and council shall fix the mode and place for holding each
annual election, and for the purpose of filling vacancies in their body,

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