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An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend and reduce into one the several acts incorporating the town of Louisiana, and to organize the same into a city 1864 422 (1864)

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or in both, as often as the city council may deem necessary, and that a like
digest of all ordinances shall be made within five years from the passage
of this amendatory act, and a like digest every ten years thereafter.
§ 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas-
sage.
Approved January 21, 1865.
LOUISIANA: AMENDING INCORPORATION ACT.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend. and reduce into one the several acts
incorporating the town of Louisiana, and to organize the same into a city,' approved
March 10, 1849.
( 1. Section two amended.             ( 8. Stock in gravel and plank roads to be
2. Poll tax.                               purchased.
3. Digest of ordinances.              9. Terms of purchase.
4. Mayor to be recorder.             10. Subscriptions by city to railroads.
5. City constable's office vacated.  11. Assessments for providing pay for
6. City marshal, duties and powers, etc.    bonds.
7. Election of marshal; bond of.
Be it enacted by the General qssembly of the State of Missouri, as
follows:
§ 1. That the words ' half of one in the following clause, not exceed-
ing one-half of one per centum, in section two of the third article of the
above recited act, be stricken therefrom.
§ 2. That the following clause in said section two of said article three,
to levy and collect poll tax, not exceeding fifty cents, upon every free white
male person over twenty-one years of age who shall have resided six
months within the city limits, be and is hereby altered to read as follows:
To levy and collect poll tax not exceeding one dollar upon every male
person over the age of twenty-one years residing within the city limits.
§ 3. That the digest of the city ordinances required to be made in
the fiscal year 1864 is hereby postponed until the year 1866, and the said
digest shall be made every ten years thereafter, but the city council may,
in their discretion, cause said digest-to be made oftener.
§ 4. The Mayor shall be ex-officio recorder from and after Monday, the
6th day of March, 1865.
§ 5. The office of city constable shall cease to exist from and after the
election and qualification of a marshal of the city of Louisiana, as here-
inafter provided.
§ 6. On and after Monday, the 6th day of March, Anno Domini 1865,
there shall be a city marshal, who shall, in addition to collecting all the
revenue from every source of the city, be subject, in every respect, to the

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