Unlawful to retail liquer.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person to retail intoxicating drinks within one mile of the corporation of Orrville; and any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to indictment, and on conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, and be further subject to such other penalties as are by law imposed on those who retail without license.

APPROVED, February 18, 1854.

To Incorporate the Livingston Ice House Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That James Hair, Robert F. Houston, John H. SherCorporators. ard, Henry H. Hanes, David H. Trott, John F. Valy, Socrates Parkes and George Wilson, and their associates and successors be, and they are hereby made and constituted a body corporate under the style and title of the "Livingston Ice House Company," and by that name shall be, and are hereby made capable and able in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and realize to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, of whatsoever kind, nature or quality, in any amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the body corporate may deem necessary to carry all the objects of said corporation into full force and effect, and the same to sell, grant, demise, or dispose of, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended in all courts having competent jurisdiction; to make, use and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.

rate body.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said body corporate Powers of corpo- shall have power to prescribe the number of shares into which the capital stock of said corporation shall be divided, the mode in which it shall be taken, paid, transfered or assigned, and also prescribe the mode by which stockholders may vote, and the number of votes to which each share shall be entitled; Provided, nevertheless, That the rules adopted shall be uniform, equally securing the rights of each stockholder; and also to provide by ballot for the election of such officers as may be deemed necessary for the government of the affairs of said corporation; and also to ordain,

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establish and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and resolutions as they may deem necessary and expedient for the government of said corporation, not being inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State of Alabama, or of the United States.

In case of failure

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That if any subscriber shall fail to pay any instalment called for, the president of the company may sell a sufficient number of his shares at pub- to pay. lic outery, for cash, to pay all arrearages and the expense of the sale; Provided, That ten days notice shall be first given, by advertisement put up at the court house door of Sumter county, and such delinquent subscriber shall be liable to action in the name of the company to recover such arrearages.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if the officers are not elected by the stockholders of said company on the day fixed by the laws or ordinances, the corporation shall not tion. for that cause be dissolved, and it shall be lawful to hold such election on some other day, according to the rules of said corporation.

In case of no elec

To amend an act to incorporate the Town of Florence.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That in addition to the powers, authority and privileges granted to the mayor of the town of Florence by the said act of incorporation, and the several amendments thereto, heretofore adopted, he is hereby invested with the following: The inayor of said town is a conservator of the Additional pow. peace within the corporate limits thereof, and it is his right ers, &c. and duty to suppress all affrays, routs, riots, unlawful assemblies and insurrections, and all lewd, indecent, profane, boisterous, riotous, or disorderly conduct in any public place therein; to do which he may summon to his aid as many of the male inhabitants residing in the corporation as he thinks proper. He has full power to punish for contempts in the

same manner and under the same rules and
scribed by the Code of Alabama, in refer
ishments of contempt of justices of the pe:
power to try all offences against the ordin. es and by laws
of the corporation, without regard to the amount of the fine
or forfeiture, and to punish the offender both by fine and

imprisonment, in the manner prescribed by said ordinances and by-laws.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That in addition to the Additional pow-powers and authority heretofore granted by the said original era and authority charter and amendments thereto, the corporate authorities of said town shall have power to suppress houses of ill fame, to restrain, prohibit and punish every species of vice and immorality, all disorderly conduct, affrays, assaults and batteries, and all other breaches of the peace within their corporate limits; to license, restrain and regulate billiard tables, ten pin alleys, and all other tables and alleys of like kind, and to cancel and annul such, and all other licenses granted by the corporation; to have full authority and control over the Florence grave yard; to regulate, improve and enlarge the same by purchase or otherwise; to regulate interments therein and appoint a sexton therefor; to declare nuisances, and to suppress and remove them when so declared; to compel the owners of houses and lots on the streets or squares of said town to plant shade trees along the side-walks in front thereof; to restrain and prohibit racing and cock-fighting within their corporate limits; and in general to suppress, restrain, prohibit and punish all acts, assemblages or things within their corporate limits injurious to the public health or morals. They may provide for the punishinent of all persons violating any of the ordinances or by-laws of the corporation, by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding twenty days; they may also establish a tariff of fees to be paid to the officers of the corporation in cases of violation of the ordinances and by-laws by the defendants on conviction, and may enforce, by appropriate process, the collection of the same: and the patricular enumeration of powers shall not be so construed as in anywise to limit or abridge the general grants of powers in the original charter of the several amendments thereof.

Sections.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That so much of the original charter of said town as requires that the judges of the annual elections of aldermen shall be freeholders, shall be deemed directory merely, and all such elections heretofore had in substantial conformity with said charter in all other essential respects than this, are hereby legalized and made valid, and all the acts and proceedings of boards so elected, which are not contrary to the constitution and laws of this state, or to the charter of said corporation, are hereby legalized and made valid.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the constable of said corporation, in addition to the powers heretofore granted to

Additional pow

him by the said original charter and the amendments thereto, has full authority to execute all the lawful ordinances, ers of constable. resolutions and orders of the corporate authorities within their jurisdiction, and must, without warrant, arrest all offenders breaking the peace, or violating any ordinance of the town, and bring them before the mayor; and in order to the execution of his powers and duties, he may summon to his aid as many of the male inhabitants residing in the corporation, as may be necessary.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That so much of said original charter of said town as requires that the assessor thereof Assessments leshall be a freeholder, shall be deemed directory merely, and galized. all assessments heretofore made by assessors not freeholders, which are in other respects legal and proper, are hereby legalized and made valid.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the original charter of said town as requires the elections to be ized. held on the first Monday in December of each year, be so amended as to legalize elections heretofore held, or which may hereafter be holden on different days; Provided, Ten days notice be given of such electoin, in a newspaper published in Florence, or by written notice posted up at the post office, court house door, or such other public place as may be thought best.

Elections legal

To amend the charter of the Alabama and Florida Rail
Road Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the Alabama and Florida Rail Road Company Road extended. are hereby authorised to extend their road from the south boundary of Conecuh county, to such point on the waters of Mobile bay as they may deem the most eligible for a connection with the city of Mobile.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the rights and Rights and priviprivileges granted to said company, under their charter for leges extended. the construction of said road to the south boundary of Conecuh county, are hereby granted for the extension of their road to the waters of Mobile bay: Provided, That said road

shall not cross said bay or river within a half mile of the
Girard and Mobile Rail Road without the consent of the
Girard and Mobile Rail Road Company.
APPROVED, February 20, 1854.

To incorporate the Tennessee and Alabama Central Rail
Road Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly con vened, That James W. Sloss, Thomas A. Nelson, Boswell Hine, John R. Mason, James F. Sorrel, John R. Harris, W. W. Philips, Robert B. Peebles, M. C. Smith, Wm. D. Hays,

Corporators. A. Sidney Harris, J. N. S. Jones, Thomas Redus, Johnathan McDonald, John T. Tanner, B. W. Townsend, William Maillor, John D. Rather, A. A. Burleson, R. N. Walden, Henry Fennel, R. C. Mason, James Hendricks and George D. Shortridge, their associates and successors, with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, are hereby appointed, constituted and declared a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Tennessee and Alabama Central Rail Road Company, and by that name shall be capable, in law, of purchasing, holding or leasing, selling and conveying real, personal and mixed property, so far as shall be necessary for the purposes of this incorporation; and by said incorporated name, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto. in any court of law or equity of this state or elsewhere, and to have and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter or amend at pleasure; to pass such rules and ordinances for the good government of said corporation as to them may seem proper, and generally to do all things necessary to carry into effect fully and completely the object of this act.

rators.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That any five of said corPowers of corpo porators may act and do all things necessary to be done preparatory to a meeting of the stockholders in the Tennessee and Alabama Central Rail Road Company, and they shall open books of subscription for the capital stock of said company at such time and place, and with such notice, not less than thirty days, as they may think proper.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That as soon as one hundred thousand dollars shall have been raised, either by subscrip