The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-07-09
TO INCORPORATE TROY
Chapter All, House Bill No. 1893,
...- Private Acts.


Private Acts.
An Act to repeal the charter of the
Town of Troy in Obion County
as same is now incorporated and
to incorporate said town and de-
fine it's privileges, powers, rights
and authority and for other pur-
poses incident thereto.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
! General Assembly of the State OF
| Tennessee, that the Charter of the
Town of Troy in Obion County as it
now exists be and the same is here
by repealed, provided that the pres
ent Board of Mayor and Aldermen of
said old incorporation of the Town
of Troy and all the officers thereof
be and they are hereby constituted
the officers respectively of the new
incorporation, later on mentioned
in section two (2) of this Act, until
their successors in office are elected
and qualified, as prescribed by this
Act; and provided also that all by
laws and ordinances of said incorpo-
ration, heretofore passed and en-
acted, and not repealed and not in
conflict with this Charter and not
in material conflict with this Act,
shall be and remain in force and eff
| feet as the bylaws and ordinances
of the new incorporation, until same
shall be amended or repealed by the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen of
the new incorporation.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
1.-THE said Town of Troy and the in
habitants thereof are hereby con-
stituted a body polite and corpo-
rate by the name and style of the
Town of Troy and shall have per-
petual succession, that by said cor
porate name and style it may sue
and be sued may contract and be
contracted with, may grant, convey,
receive, purchase and hold real,
mixed and personal property and
dispose of same for the benefit of
the said new incorporation; and II
desired, may have and use corpo-
rate seal, which may be. altered at
pleasure; that the boundaries OF the
said town, hereby Incorporated, be
and the same are as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a stake south of the
south west corner in w. A. Smith S
wood house, runs thence in apeeast-
ern direction one hundred and sixty
poles to southeast corner of the pub
lie bridge that spans Davidson Creek,
runs thence in a northern direction
seventeen poles to the northwest
corner of DR.. J. B. Havner's front
yard, as it is now fenced, runs
thence in a southeastern direction
fifty-two poles to stake, the south
east corner of the old Sanford Hanks
(cOl.) garden, thence from the San
ford Hanks (cOl.) garden in south
erly direction to the southeast cor
ner of J. r. Moffatt's tenant house,
now occupied by Story; thence in a
southeasterly direction to the south
east corner of p. w, Moffatt's Or
chard; thence in westerly direc-
tion to Howard Shores southwest
corner; thence north with Shores
and Maxwells west lines to Mrs. B.
S. MaXwells northwest corner;
thence in westerly direction to a
peach tree about seventy-tive feet
southwest of the southwest corner Of
the Joe Bright residence in the
forks of the public road; runs thence
in a nOrtherly direction to the
northwest corner of L. A. Smiths
yard and thence east to the begin
ming.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That
the assets of every nature belonging
to the old incorporation shall be the
property of the new incorporation,
by this Act created, viz: (The
Town of Troy, and that all just
liabilities owning by said incOrpo-
ration shall be and are valid debts
against the said new incorporation.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That
at each general election of officers
for the Town of Troy, Ito be held as
later on provided by this Act) there
shall be elected Mayor and five
CD Aldermen, each of which said
officers at the time of his election
be a qualified voter for members of
the General Assembly from the
county of Obion and shall also have
been bona fide resident within the
boundaries of the Town of Troy, as
by this Act defined, for six CO.
months next preceding his election; ;
and shall before entering upon the
discharge of his respective duties,
take an oath, before any officer of
Obion County authorized to admin
lister an oath, that he will support
the constitution of the United States
and the State of Tennessee; that he
will impartially, honestly and faith
fully discharge the duties of his Of
flee, but said oath need not be re-
duced to writing and each of the
said officers may be required to exc
cute bond, the conditions, terms and
amounts of which shall be fixed and
controlled by the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen, but bond shall and must
be required of each and every officer
of said incorporation charged with
the duty of collecting or disbursing
corporation revenue or funds of any
character and each of which said
officers shall hold his respective Of
fee for two years from the date of
the general election and until his
successor in office is elected and
qualified and any officer shall Vacate
and thereby vacates his office II he
removes beyond the boundaries of
said incorporation as already de-
fined, before his term of office ex-
pires; and any vacancy in the office
of Mayor, Recorder or Marshal,
whether caused by removal, resig-
nation, death or otherwise, shall be
filled by a majority of the Aldermen,
and a vacancy in the Office of Alder
men, no matter how caused shall be