§ 2. All the privileges and powers conferred by the original act of which this is amendatory, be and are hereby revived and made perpetual. § 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. AN ACT To incorporate the Beaver Creek Road and Bridge company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That John Coleman, John Anthony and John A. Nye and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Beaver Creek Road and Bridge company, and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and shall have a common seal, and shall have perpetual succession. § 2. Said corporation shall have power to construct a road from the mouth of Beaver creek where it empties into the Platte river, westwardly to where it will intersect the road called the Beaver creek and Denver city road, and to make all the bridges necessary to be made in order to make it a good passable road at all seasons. § 3. After the corporation shall have constructed said road and built said bridges as specified in the foregoing section of this act, it shall be authorized to put up toll gates on said road, and to demand and receive toll of all persons travelling thereon, as follows: For one wagon with one team attached, 50 cents; for each additional head of cattle, horse or mule 5 cents. § 2. This act shall take effect from the day of its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. AN ACT To incorporate Western Star Lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Wyllys C. Ransom, Lee P. Gillette, Daniel H. Warren, H. C. Blackman, Charles F. Holly, J. L. Gibbs, George W. Bailey and H. N. Cornell, trustees, their associates, assigns and successors, are hereby created, constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of Western Star Lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons at Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory. § 2. The above named persons are hereby appointed trustees of said Western Star Lodge No. 2, and shall continue in office until the regular election held in pursuance of the by-laws of said lodge. 1 § 3. That by the said name and style said corporation may have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of suing and of being sued, in all courts of law and equity, may have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure and may be capable in law of acquiring, holding and conveying property, real, personal and mixed for the purpose of erecting a masonic hall in Nebraska City, and to further the interests of said lodge. § 4. Said corporation shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations for the government of the same: Provided they do not conflict with the laws of the United States and this territory. § 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. 1 TOWNS. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to consolidate the corporations of Nebraska city, South Nebraska city and Kearney city, and to incorporate Nebraska city. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the city council of Nebraska city, to divide said city into three wards, to be composed of contiguous territory, and as near as practicable containing an equal number of inhabitants. § 2. The boundaries of said wards shall be fixed by ordinance, which shall be published in some newspaper printed in Nebraska city, at least twenty days previous to the next city election; The boundaries of the wards may be subsequently changed by the city council, for the purpose of equalizing as nearly as practicable the number of inhabitants in each. § 3. The legislative authority of said city is hereby vested in a mayor and three aldermen, one of whom shall be a resident of, and elected by each ward. § 4. The council may hold a meeting for the transaction of city business, one day in each month, for which each member present shall be entitled to receive the sum of two dollars to be paid out of the city treasury. § 5. The council may provide by ordinance for calling special meetings, but the members shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for their services at such special meetings. § 6. The offices of street commissioners, city engineer, and city solicitor are hereby abolished; but the city council may employ a civil engineer, or an attorney to perform any special service required by the city, who shall be allowed such sum as may be agreed upon at the time of making the contract as compensation for their services. § 7. The city council is authorized to establish the rates, and provide for the collection of wharfage and charges for the use of the wharf or levee, and shall provide that the net proceeds of all moneys so collected shall be applied to and expended for the improvement of the wharf, and for no other purpose whatever. § 8. All acts and laws conflicting with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. § 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Nebraska City News; Provided however, that all persons now holding office under the city charter, may continue to hold the same till the next regular city election. Approved December 22d, 1859 AN ACT To incorporate the town of Table Rock. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That all the territory included in the geographical limits of the town of Table Rock, together with all additions which may hereafter be made thereunto according to law, is hereby declared to be a town by the name of Table Rock. § 2. The legislative authority of said town shall be vested in a mayor and three aldermen, who shall be known as the town council. § 3. Said town is made a body corporate and politic and vested with all the powers and attributes of a municipal incorporation. § 4. Any legal voter of this territory who shall have been a resident of said town twenty days next preceding an election, is hereby declared a citizen of said town, and is entitled to vote at the elections thereof. § 5. All legal voters shall be eligible to any of the elective offices mentioned in this act. § 6. The election of town officers shall be conducted in the same manner as township elections as near as the nature of the case permits. § 7. The qualified voters of said town shall meet on the first Monday in May, 1860; annually thereafter on a day fixed by the council, and elect a mayor and three aldermen; and said officers, when duly qualified, shall constitute the town council, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall be elected for the term of one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. § 8. Said council shall be the judges of the qualifications and election of its own members, may determine the rules of its own proceedings, enact such ordinances as they shall deem proper, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and of this territory, which shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the recorder, and published in a newspaper, if there be any published in the town, if not, they shall be posted at least two weeks in three public places in said town, before taking effect. § 9. The town council shall have authority to appoint a treasurer, a recorder, an assessor and marshal, and each of them shall give such bonds, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, as may be required of them by ordinances, and said bonds shall be approved by the mayor and filed with him. § 10. The probate judge of Pawnee county shall appoint judges and clerks of the election provided for in section seven of this act, and in case he fails so to do, the electors, when assembled on the day specified, shall elect by ballot their own judges, and the judges so elected shall appoint the clerks. § 11. The town council shall have power to regulate the keeping of gun powder within the town limits, and exclusive authority to prohibit all exhibitions, shows, theatrical performances, billiard tables, ball alleys and other bowling saloons, together with all games of chance and skill: Provided, that this act shall not be so understood as to prohibit any exhibitions of a purely scientific or moral character. Also to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks as a beverage, and to provide for their sale for mechanical, medicinal and sacramental purposes. § 12. Sec. 10, sec. 11, sec. 13, sec. 14, sec. 15, sec. 17, sec. 18, sec. 19, sec. 20, sec. 21, sec. 23, sec. 24, sec. 25, sec. 26, sec. 27, sec. 28, sec. 29, and sec. 30 of an act entitled "An act to incorporate Elk Horn City," passed and approved January 22d, 1856, by the legislature of this territory, be, and hereby are constituted the remainder of this act. § 13. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 4th, 1860. AN ACT To incorporate Kearney City, in Kearney county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That all the territory within the geographical limits of Kearney City, in Kearney county, Nebraska territory, as the same is designated upon the plat of said town, together with all the additions that may be hereafter made thereto according to law, is hereby declared to be a town by the name of Kearney City. § 2. The qualified electors of said town shall, on the first Monday of February, 1860, and annually thereafter, elect a mayor and three aldermen, a recorder, treasurer and marshal, who shall serve for the term of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. 3. The said town of Kearney City is hereby made a body corporate, and is hereby invested with the same powers and corporate rights and privileges as are granted in an act entitled "An act to incorporate Nebraska City," approved March 2d, 1855. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 4th, 1860. AN ACT To incorporate the city of Arago. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the following described territory being the whole fractional section one, the whole fractional section twelve, the south-east quarter of section eleven, the north-east quarter of the south |