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An Act to repeal the acts heretofore passed, incorporating the town of Woodville, and to define the boundaries and re-incorporate said town. 1836 357 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0152 and id is 1 raw text is: TOWN OF WOODVILLE.

AN ACT to repeal the acts heretofore passed, incorporating the
town of Woodville, and to define the boundaries and re-incor-
porate said town.
§ 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state  Former
of Mississippi, That all acts heretofore passed, ifoel.on
incorporating the town of Woodville, in the of wood-
n                                  ville  re-mn-
county of Wilkinson, be, and the same are here- comorated.
by repealed; and that said town be, and the noundaries
same is hereby re-incorporated, under the pro-
visions hereinafter expressed, with the following
boundaries and limits, that is to say; one'milo
square, assuming the court house in said town,
as the centre thereof, and the corporate authori-
ties of said town, shall, as soon as convenient,
designate and make boundaries thereof.
§ 2. Be it further enacted, That all the free 1Mayor and
aldermn.
white male inhabitants of said town, of the age iode of
of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens Z  tor
n   ~duration of
of the United States, and being qualified electors otice.
by the constitution of this state, and residents of
said town, shall be entitled to vote at such elec-
tions; and the said voters shall, on the first
Monday in January, in each year, or within
thirty days thereafter, meet at the court house
in said town, or at such place as may be ap-
pointed therein, and elect by ballot, a mayor and
four aldermen, to serve until the next regular
annual election, or until their successors are
duly qualified, and notice of all such elections,
shall be given and published at least ten days
previous to the time of holding the same, and
shall be opened and held from    ten o'clock, A.
M., until two o'clock, P. M., of said day, under
the superintendence of the sheriff of the county
of Wilkinson, and two freeholders of said town,
or a justice of the peace, and two freeholders

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