Names of trustees. Authority. Acts of E. D. Ladd, as regis ors, were appointed Trustees of the City of Lawrence, at a public meeting of the citizens thereof, held in March, A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty-five; And, whereas, one William H. R. Lykins became the owner of a Wyandott float or reservation, and laid the same on the present town site of the city of Lawrence, in accordance with articles of agreement between said Lykins and the Trustees of the said city, for and in behalf of the original proprietors; And, whereas, the said Lykins appointed the above named trustees his trustees, for the purpose of transferring to the said original proprietors, their heirs or assigns, any title that he shall receive from the Government of the United States; And, whereas, the said trustees appointed one E. D. Ladd, register of deeds of transfer of lots in said city of Lawrence; Therefore, Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: SECTION 1. That the said John P. Wood, Joel Grover, G. W. Hutchinson, Samuel S. Snider and William H. R. Lykins, and their successors, be, and the same are hereby authorized and required to execute said trust, and convey any and all the title that the said William H. R. Lykins may receive from the government of the United States or others, to the said proprietors of the said town of Lawrence, or their assigns, as soon as practicable, according to their respective interest in said town lots, as shall appear on the records of said E. D. Ladd. SEC. 2. That the official acts of the said E. D. Ladd, as regter, legalized. ister as aforesaid, and the records kept by him, be, and the same are hereby legalized, and shall be evidence, in all courts of law and equity, of the transfer of titles in said city of Lawrence; and it shall be the duty of all persons to have their transfer of titles registered in the office of said register of deeds, until such time as the fee simple to said lots shall be obtained from the government of the United States or others, when said official acts and books of record shall be filed in the recorder's office of the county in which said city of Lawrence is situated, as a part of the record of said office. No preference given on ac SEC. 3. No preference shall be given to any person by reason count of prior of prior registry in said book of record, where two or more persons have deeds to the same lot, recorded previous to February 20, 1857; but those of the oldest date shall take precedence. registry. Of conveyances and transfers of SEC. 4. All conveyances and transfers heretofore made of any town lots, &c. town lots or other pieces or parcels of land in the said city of Lawrence, or other instrument of writing, whereby the same may be in any way effected in law or equity, signed by the party or parties making such conveyance or transfer, and recorded in the office of said register of deeds, shall be understood to convey to the grantee all the right, title, interest and claim which the grantor had of and in said lots, pieces or parcels of land, at the time of such conveyance, and also all the title which he or they shall subsequently acquire by virtue of a title to the town site of said city of Lawrence, issuing from the United States. SEC. 5. In case any such conveyance or other instrument in writing is not witnessed, acknowledged or proved according to law, it shall be sufficient for the conveyance of title, as above provided, to prove the genuineness of the signature to the same, by at least two disinterested witnesses, on oath, before any officer authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, a certificate of which proof, signed by such officer, shall be recorded in the office of the said register of deeds. If any such not witnessed, conveyance is proceeding. taken before a judge or clerk the peace. or justice of SEC. 6. The acknowledgment proof, by subscribing witness or Proof to be by genuineness of signature, of such conveyance, transfer, or other instrument in writing, if made out of this Territory, shall be taken by some judge or clerk of some court of record, under the seal of said court, or by some notary public or justice of the peace, certified by some such judge or clerk, under the seal of said court. 2 No dower to erty. attach to prop SEC. 7. No dower shall attach to any such property in the city of Lawrence, until the title thereto shall be obtained from the United States. Any vacancy occasioned in said board, by re- Vacancy in moval or otherwise of any or either of the said trustees, may be filled. filled by the remaining trustees of said board. SEC. 9. This Act to take effect and be in force on and after trustees, how Corporation established. Corporate lim its of said town. City council may extend limits. Proviso. Powers conferred on inhabitants of said city. CHAPTER XCIII. CITY OF WHITE CLOUD. AN ACT to Incorporate the City of White Cloud. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly [of the Territory of Kansas :] SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the town of White Cloud, included within the limits hereinafter described, in the county of Doniphan and Territory of Kansas, are hereby declared a body politic, by the name and style of the City of White Cloud, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure. SEC. 2. The following shall be the corporate limits of said town, to wit: All that portion of the town that is laid off in fractional section No. nine, in township No. one, and range No. nineteen, and known as the original town plot, and including all that portion of the Missouri river, bounding on said town plot, lying in the Territory of Kansas, SEC. 3. That the city council [of] the city of White Cloud shall have power to extend the corporate limits over any addition to said city, not included in the present limits, whenever twothirds of the inhabitants of said addition shall petition to the city council for that purpose: Provided, however, that it shall first be submitted to a majority of the citizens of the city; and if the majority be in favor of receiving said addition, then the same shall become annexed to the city, and form a part of the corporate limits thereof; and the inhabitants and the property therein shall be thereafter entitled to all the rights and benefits of the other inhabitants and property within the city, and shall be liable to assessments and taxation for city purposes, as if such territory were originally included. SEC. 4. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever; to purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, within the city limits and beyond the corporate limits, for burial grounds and other public purposes, for the use of the inhabitants of said city, and again to improve, lease or sell the same for the use of the inhabitants aforesaid and the general prosperity of the city; to protect and improve all public grounds and landings on the river; to hypothecate or mortgage any real estate of the city, and borrow money on the public faith by a vote of two-thirds of the property holders of said city thereof, and to do and perform all such matters and things in relation to the property of the city, as natural persons could lawfully do. nance estab laws, &c. SEO. 5. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style May by ordiaforesaid, shall have power to provide and establish, by ordinance, lish municipal all necessary organic and municipal laws, rules and regulations, for the government of the inhabitants, and enforcing the same; and the same again to alter, change or repeal at pleasure; and shall retain all the rights and privileges which they have hereto- . fore possessed, by virtue of the provisions of the original town charter; and particularly the right to and control over all public streets, public grounds and public landings on the river, the ferry privileges excepted, to the exclusive use of the city, and within the corporate limits, as herein set forth and described. clause of city SEC. 6. The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be "Be it Enacting ordained by the City Council of the City of White Cloud;" and ordinances. all ordinances shall be published in such manner as may be provided by ordinance prescribing the same, and no ordinance shall be enforced until published. voters. SEC. 7. All free white male citizens, who have arrived at the Competency of full age of twenty-one years, and who shall be entitled to vote for Territorial officers, and who shall have resided within the city limits at least six months next preceding any election, and, moreover, who shall have paid a city tax or license, according to ordinance, shall be eligible to vote at any ward or city election for officers of the city. [Signed,] G. W. DEITZLER, President of the Council. Approved February 12, 1858. J. W. DENVER, Acting Governor. CHAPTER CXIV. BATTLE HILL TOWN ASSOCIATION. AN ACT to Incorporate the Battle Hill Town Association. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas: SECTION 1. That Cyrus Tator, O. C. Brown, L. C. Connery, R. W. Wood and M. F. Conway, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Battle Hill Town Association, and by that name shall be capable of making contracts, suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, in all matters whatsoever, in all courts of law and equity in this Territory. Said association is authorized to have and to use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure, and to make such by-laws and regulations as, from time to time, may be deemed necessary for the government of such association and the management of its affairs. SEC. 2. That the corporation hereby created shall have power to purchase and hold, to enter by pre-emption or otherwise acquire title to any quantity of land, not to exceed six hundred and forty acres, and to lay the same off into lots, parks, streets, squares and avenues, and to sell, dispose of and convey the same, SEC. 3. That the said association shall have power to pass bylaws for the election of such officers, at such times as may be necessary to carry out the business of said association; and all deeds for the conveyance of the real estate of said association shall be signed by such officers of said association as the by-laws of said association shall designate, which deeds shall be duly executed and acknowledged, as other conveyances of real estate; and when so signed and acknowledged, shall be deemed and held a sufficient execution and authentication of such deeds, in all courts of law and equity in this Territory or elsewhere. SEC. 4. That the stock of this association shall be deemed personal property, and the said association may, by by-laws, prescribe rules for issuing and transferring the said stock, by each individual stockholder. |