Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-06-23


and the purchaser, on The payment OF
the whole amount of The purchase mo.
Dey, shall receive a title to the said lot
or lots, in fee simple, from the Mayor,
under bis hand, and the seal OF his office,
which shall be deemed good and valid
in law and equity.
Sec. 2. ind be il further enacted, That
the Common Council oil Alexandria
shall have power to provide for the es-
adjustment, maintenance, and supern-
tendence of public schools, and for the
registering Of births, marriages, aud
deaths, and shall have power TO preserve
the navigation of the Potomac river,
within their jurisdiction to erect, re-
pair and regulate public wharves, deep
en- docks and basins, and to limit the ex-
tension OF private wbarves, into the bar
Dor; to authorize, with the appreciation
Of the President of the y Siates,the draw
ing of lotteries, for efiecting any impor-
,ant improvement in and to the town,
which the ordinary funds and revenue
thereof Will not accomplish; to restrain
and prohibit the drawing of other lotle-
ries, the keeping of tipping houses, and
all kinds OF gaming; to provide for The
licensing, taxing, and regulating auc-
lions; theatrical, and public shows and
amusements, and vendors of lottery tick
els; to appoint gusgers of casks, ipspec-
tors OF domestic spirits, measurers and
inspectors of wood, lumber, and bark,
grain, coal, beef, pork, fish, butter, and
lard; weighers Of hay, fodder and straw
and to regulate, by law, the inspection,
measurement and weighing, of the articles
aforesaid; to regulate party and o her walls
and fences End tot -termine BY whom they
shall be kept in repair; to direct in what
part of the town buildings OF wood shall
not be erected, and to regulate the size
OF bricks to be made or used end shall
have power to restrain and prohibit the
nightly, and other dsordefly meetings
of slaves, free negroes and mulauoes,
and TO punish such. slaves, by whipping,
moi exceeding forty stripes, or, at the OPP
ton of the owner Of such slave, by fine
or confinement to labor, no, exceeding
three months for every one offence and
to punish such free negroes and mu,at-
Toes for such offences, by fixed penalties,
no, exceeding twenty dollars for one Of
fence; and in case OF the failure of such
free negro and mulatto 10 pay and salts
ly such penalty and costs, to cause such
tree negro or mulatto to be confined to
labor tor any time, not exceeding six
he Tar aGa
and provide for the removal Of all such
paupers, Migrants, and other persons, as
may not be legally entitled to residence
within the said corporation: to punish
by fine or penalty, any minor or appren-
tice, guilty of any breach of any law of
the corporation, and unless such fine or
penalty, with the costs Of prosecution,
be paid by the parent, guardian, or mas
ter OF such minor or apprentice, by con-
iinemsnt to labor for limited time, not
exceeding three months for any one Of
fence.
Sec. 5. .And be 1t further enacted, Tha,
he SAID Common Council shall have
power 10 subscribe to the stock of The
| turnpike road, which is aut orzed TO be
made by an act OF the General Assem-
bly, OF Virginia, PISSED 'he fanrteenth
day of February, one Thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act
Incorporating company to establish
turnpike road from Wiley's Tavern, in
the county OF Fairfax, 10 point of inter-
section on the Liule River turnpike road,
or on The line of the Dls,ric, of Colum-
bla," and to any turnpike road or o.
iher improvement, which has been, or
osy be, authorized by an act of Con-
gress, leading to the town of Alexan-
! dra; and the said Common Council
may lay any tax on the property in the
said town, to promote any public i'm
provement for the benefit of the said
town, when, in the opinion OF the said
Common Council, it may be expedient,
which said taxes may be collected as
all other taxes are or may be directed to
oe collected.
Sec. 4. .And be it further enacted, Thai
SO much Of an act, passed the twenty
sixth of May, eighteen hundred and
twenty -four, entitled IAN act supple
mentary to the act to incorporate the in
habitants Of the City OF Washington.
passed the fifteenth of May, one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty, and for
o'her purposes" as relses to the town
of Alexandria, be, and The same is here.
by repealed.
| JOHN w. TAYLOR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
! JOHN c. CALHOUN,
| Vice President of the United States, and