CITY CHARTER. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-one. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE CITY OF NEWBURYPORT. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: port to be a SECT. 1. The inhabitants of the town Newburyof Newburyport shall continue to be a city. body politic and corporate, under the name of the City of Newburyport, and as such, shall have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations now incumbent upon, and appertaining to, said town, as a municipal corporation, 1* |