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An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski in the county of Giles. 1849-1850 202 (1849)

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CHAPTER LXV.
An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski in the county of
Giles.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
-ncorporation. State of Tennessee, That the town of Pulaski and the
inhabitants thereof, be and they are hereby constituted
a body corporate by the name and style of the Mayor
and Aldermen of the town of Pulaski; and by the name
and style aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and
may have and use a common seal, and may by the
name and style aforesaid, sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, may have and hold and purchase pro-
perty, whether real, personal, or mixed, and may
grant sell and dispose of the same for the use and bene-
fit of the said corporation.
SEc. 2. The corporation aforesaid shall have full
senera powers. power and authority to enact all such by-laws and or-
dinances as may be necessary and proper to preserve
the health, peace, quiet and good order of the said
town, to prevent and remove nuisances, to establish
night watches and patrols, to punish breaches of the
peace, and good order committed within the limits of
the corporation, whether by day or night. To ascer-
tain and declare and re-establish when necessary the
true boundaries of streets and alleys of the town; to
provide for the licensing and regulating and taxing
auctions; to licence and regulate and tax all theatrical
and. other houses and exhibitions for amusement; to
pass by-laws to pave and improve streets and side
walks; to establish and regulate markets and inspec-
tions; to provide for, regulate and establish fire com-
panies, and to erect wells and cisterns, and erect
pumps on the streets and public grounds; to impose
and collect fines and forfeitures for violation of by-laws
and ordinances of said corporation; to lay off and col-
lect taxes upon all property and privileges and polls
within the limits of said corporation, which are taxed
by the laws of Tennessee or which may hereafter be
made taxable by the laws of this State; to tax bowling
and nine and ten pine alleys, and billiard tables; to
erect a market house and regulate the same; to provide
for having the square and streets lighted; to regulate
sewers, gutters, within the corporate limits at the ex-
pense of owners or occupants; to restrain and prevent
cattle and hogs and horses from ranging at large on
the Public Square and streets within the corporate
limits; to provide for and regulate and improve all pub-

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