The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-08-02
An Act to amend an

An Act TO amend an ACT to incorporate the Town
Of Pulaski, in the County of Giles.
SECTION l. Be It enacted By tie General Asseab5y
oftbe State Of Tennessee That the town of Pulaski
and the inhabitants thereof be, and they here
by constituted a body corporate, by the name and
style .aforosaid, shall have perpetual succession,
and may have and use q common seal, and may,
blythe name and style aforesaid, sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded; may have and hold and
purchase property, whether real, personal, mix
ed may grant, sell and dispose Of the same for the
use and benefit of the said Corporation.
SEC. 2. The Corporation aforesaid shall have full
power and authority to enact all such Bylaws
| and Ordinances, as may bo necessary and proper,
preserve the health, peace, quiet and good order
ofthe said town to prevent and remove nuisan-
oes, to establish night watches and patrols; to
punish breaches Of the peace and good order COM
mitted within the limits of the corporation, wheth
/ er by day or by night; to ascertain and declare
and re-establish when necessary, the true bounda-
ries Of streets and alleys of the town to provide
/ for the licensing and regulating and taxing
tions secure aud regulate and tax all theatrical
and other houses and exhibitions for amusement
/ to pass Bylaws to pave and improve streets and
! sidewalks to establish and regulate markets and
inspections; to provide for, to regulate and estab-
lish fire companies, and to erect wells and cisterns,
and erect pumps the streets and public grounds ;
impose and collect fines and forfeitures for vio-
lation of Bylaws and Ordinances of said corpora
ton to lay off and collect taxes upon all property
and privileges and polls within the limits of said
corporation, which are taxed by the laws of Ten
nessoe or which may hereafter be made taxable by
tho laws of tho State to tax bowling and nine
and ten-Pin alleys and billiard tables to erect
market house and regulate the same TO provide
for having the square and streets lighted to regu-
late sewers and cutters within the corporate lim-
its, at the expense of owners or occupants to re-
strain and prevent cattle and hogs and horses from
ranging at large the public square aud streets
| within the corporate limits to provide for and
/ regulate and improve all public grounds belonging
to the town to regulate, license and tax all Gro
! GERS Merchants, Retail Taverns, Brokers, Coffee
Houses, Confectionaries, Retailers of Liquors, Ped
Iers, Hawkers, Livery Stable keepers and Negro
Traders to regulate and restrain and prevent all
disorderIy and bawdy houses to provide for the
arrest and confinement, until trial, Of all disor-
derby and riOtous persons.within the limits of the
corporation, either by day night to authorize
the arrest of all free negroes and slaves found VIC
lating any Of the Laws Ordinances of the corpo-
ration, and TO regulate the time which free negroes
and slaves may be absent from their owners and
respective abodes, and to direct the punishment
for violating the Ordinances to prevent, by Pecu-
MARY penalties all breaches of tho peace, noise,
disturbances disorderly or riotous assemblies in
any street, alley house within the corporate lin
its, either by day or by night, and to pass Bylaws
and Ordinances necessary TO suppress and prevent
all and any species Of disorder and immortality
within the limits of said corporation. Provided
such Bylaws and Ordinances shall not be incon-
sstent with TIC Constitution Of the United States
or the State of Tennessee.
SEC. 3. All fines and forfeitures imposed by tho
Bylaws ond Ordinances of said corporation, nc;
exceeding fifty dollars, shall be liable and recovera
ble before the Mayor Of said corporation, any
Justice the Peace Of said county of Giles.
ssc. f. On the second Saturday in Japurry, 1850
and 10 each eveTy year thereafter, the Sheriff Of
Giles County by himself or deputy, shall open and
hold election at the Court House in the tewn Of
Pulaski, after having gwen ten days notice Of the
time aud place Ct the same; for seven Aldermen