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An Act to amend and reduce into one the act incorporating the city of Natchez and the several acts amendatory thereto. 1854 263 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0299 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISStPPI,

CHAPTER 136.'
AN ACT to amend and reduce into one the not incorporating the
city of Natchez and the several acts amendatory thereto.
SECTrON 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Bounda-
the State of Mississippi, That all that tract ofrses
country contained within the following boundaries
shall hereafter be designated by the name of the
city of Natchez, to-wit: assuming for a central
point the site of the door of the old Roman Catho-
lic chapel, formerly on Commerce street, and run-
ning thence in opposite directions on said street-
north thirty degrees east, and south thirty degrees
west, one mile in each direction, thereby giving a
right line altogether two miles in length, at the ex-
tremities of which line two points will be given,
one in the upper and one in the lower boundary of
said city, thence from each of said points, at right
angles with said line and parallel with Main street,
in said city, and south sixty degrees, east one mile,
at the extremities of which last mentioned line two
other points will be given, thence from 'either of
said two last mentioned points in a right line to the
other, thereby giving the rear or south-eastern boun-
dary of said city, thence returning and extending
said upper and lower boundaries, north sixty de-
grees west, and parallel with said Main street, to
the middle of the Mississippi river, and thence from
either to the other of the two points thus obtained
along the middle of said river, thereby completing
the limits of said city.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted, That the inhabi- Incorpora-,
tants of said city, as above laid out and defined, tion.
and their successors forever, are hereby constituted
a corporation and body politic in fact and in law,
by the name and style of the city of Natchez, and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, de-
fend and be defended, in all courts of law and
equity, and in all actions whatsover; may purchase,
receive and hold property, real and personal, within
said city, and may purchase, receive and hold pro-
perty, real and personal, beyond the limits of the
city, to be used for the burial of the dead of the
city, for hospital and other buildings for the recep.

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