tration of voters,) not inconsistent with the provisions of this GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 27, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. Corporate name. Dispose of estate. Stock, shares. CHAPTER XLIII. AN ACT to incorporate the Beach Valley Town Company. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the SECTION 1. That A. Beach, A. J. Beach, A. I. Baker, Samuel Shaff, and such other persons as now are or hereafter may be associated with them, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Beach Valley Town Company, and by that name shall be competent to make contracts, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all matters and courts whatsoever; said company is hereby authorized to have and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. Said company shall be authorized to purchase and hold, to dispose of, convey by deed or otherwise, any quantity of land not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres, where the town of Beach Valley is now located, and to lay the same off into blocks, lots, streets, and parks, and also shall be authorized to receive, hold, sell, and convey any other property, real, personal, or mixed, that may be devised or given to said company. SEC. 3. The stock of said company shall be deemed personal property, and may be divided into such number of shares as said company may determine; and the said company may, from time to time, prescribe and enact such rules and by-laws for the issuing and transferring of said stock, and for the government and management of the affairs of said company, as they may deem necessary and requisite. SEC. 4. The said company shall have power to pass bylaws for the election of officers at such time as may be neces sary, to carry out the business of said company, and all deeds Conveyance. for the conveyance of real estate of said company shall be signed by the said officers of said company, as the by-laws of the said company shall designate, which deeds shall be duly signed, sealed, and acknowledged as other conveyance of real estate, and when so signed and acknowledged, shall be deemed Authentication. and held sufficient execution and authentication of said deeds, in all courts in this territory or elsewhere. SEC. 5. Said company shall have power to erect buildings Improvements. for dwellings, manufactures, and machinery, and such other improvements as may tend to promote the interests of the company and the general prosperity of the town, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or this territory. SEC. 6. The stock of the same shall be deemed personal property, and the said company may, by by-laws, prescribe for the issuing of said stock, and transferring of the same, by each individual stockholder. SEC. 7. Said company shall have the power to assess the stock of said company to pay for land, or any part thereof, or the erection of such buildings as they may determine to erect; and if said assessment is not paid within thirty days after the party shall have been duly notified according to the by-laws of said company, the officers of said company may proceed immediately to sell such stock for the payment of such assess ment or tax. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Approved February 23, 1860. S. MEDARY, Governor. President of the Council. Issue stock. Assessments. Location. Name. Leavenworth city, charter to apply. Proviso. Election. CHAPTER XLIV. AN ACT to incorporate the City of Bellemont, in Doniphan county, Kansas Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the SECTION 1. All that district of country described as fol- SEC. 2. All the powers, privileges, rights, and provisions of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the City of Leavenworth," passed anno domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, not locally inapplicable and in conflict with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby conferred upon the said city of Bellemont; and the said city of Bellemont is hereby authorized and empowered to proceed under the provisions of said charter as fully and absolutely as if the same had been in the same act specially applied to the said city of Bellemont; Provided, that the board of councilmen shall consist of four members only instead of nine, as stated in said act. SEC. 3. Thomas M. O'Brien, E. Badger and John H. Whitehead, are hereby appointed judges of election to hold the first election for mayor and board of councilmen and a marshal, who shall hold their office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. Such judges shall hold such election on the first day of March, A. D., 1860, or as soon thereafter as they may deem practicable; Provided, that such election shall be held on or before the first day of April, A. D., 1860. ! SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said judges to give at least Duties of judges. three days notice of said election, by five either written or printed handbills put up at five public places in said city, and before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such to take and subscribe an oath before some one authorized to administer oaths to faithfully and impartially discharge their duties as judges of said election, which shall be certified by the officer administering the same to, and filed with the clerk of the county tribunal of the county in which said city is situated. election. SEC. 5. Said judges shall appoint their own clerks, and How conduct the election herein provided for shall be conducted in all respects conformable to the law regulating general elections in this territory. They shall also give certificates of election to the persons entitled thereto so soon as the event [result] of said election is ascertained, and file duplicates thereof in the office of the county clerk. SEC. 6. If any of said judges shall from any cause fail to attend said election, the judges or judge attending shall supply such vacancy from the qualified voters of said city. Vacancy. Improve streets, &c. SEC. 7. The mayor and board of councilmen shall have the exclusive power of opening and improving streets, avenues, alleys and public parks; also of all levee or river improvements within the limits of said city, making, however, to all persons whose property may be taken for opening streets or alleys or widening the same, adequate compensation therefor, to be determined by the assessment of three disinterested arbitrators to be chosen by each party selecting one, of [and] Arbitrators. the two chosen selecting the third, who shall before entering upon their duties as such take and subscribe an oath before the mayor or any other person authorized to administer the same, that they will view and impartially assess the damages sustained by the owner of said property by reason of said improvement, which oath, together with the certificate of the amount of assessed damages, shall be by them filed with the city register. SEC. 8. No real or personal property within the corporate limits of said city shall be subject to taxation except by city ordinance and the revenue laws of the territory, in such case made and provided. How to tax. Tax not exceed. Special tax. Levee. SEC. 9. The tax on real or personal property within this city, for the purpose of a general city revenue, shall not exceed two per centum per annum of the assessed value thereof. SEC. 10. The mayor and board of councilmen shall have power to levy and collect a special tax on lots composing the adjacent half blocks on any streets, avenue, alley or lane, for the purpose of having the same graded, macadamized, curbed or guttered, or any other improvement necessary to the public convenience of the same; and the lots so assessed shall be liable in proportion to their relative values, which valuation shall be determined by three disinterested appraisers to be appointed by the mayor. The provisions of this section shall not apply to improvements made upon that portion of the city known as the levee reservation; but all improvement made on said reservation by order of the city council, or board of councilmen, shall be paid out of the general fund of the city. SEC. 11. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. W. W. UPDEGRAFF, Approved February 18, 1860. Governor. President of the Council. Corporators Powers. CHAPTER XLV. AN ACT to incorporate the New Brighton Town Company. SECTION 1. That Jason Whinery, Aaron Foster, Nathan Brown, N. C. Boydson, J. F. Boydson, T. J. Anderson, Joseph Cook, W. H. Hitchcock and Ephraim Moore, and their asso ciates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the "New Brighton Town Company," and by that name shall be competent to make contracts, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all matters whatsoever, in any and all courts of law or equity. That said company is authorized to have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; and |