Chap. 119.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Sections 2,8 and 13 of an
Act Entitled an Act to Incorporate the Town of Goodson in the county
of Washington.

Approved March 4, 1871.

1, Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections two,
eight and thirteen of an act incorporating the town of Good-
son in the county of Washington, approved June seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows :

Ҥ2. The officers of said town shall consist of a mayor,
seven councilmen, a recorder and sergeant, who shall be elected
by those qualified to vote for members of the general assembly,
and no other persons.”

Ҥ 8. The council shall have power and authority whenever
they deem it expedient to establish new streets, to extend and
alter any street that has been or may hereafter be established,
to have the sidewalks and gutters along any street within said
town of such width as they may prescribe, properly paved or
otherwise improved, repaired and altered at the proper cost
and expense of the owner and occupier of the lands or lots
along the front or sides of which such sidewalks or other im-
provements extend and to levy and collect a special tax sufh-
cient for the purpose on each of such lots or pieces of lands,
which special tax shall be collected by the sergeant of said
town as other taxes on real estate within said town are directed
to be collected. And the mayor shall have power to suspend
and the council shall have power to remove all other town ofii-
cers, whether they be elected or appointed, for misconduct in
office or neglect of duty, to be specified in the order of sus-
pension or removal, but no such removal shall be made with-
out reasonable notice to the officer complained of, and an op-
portunity afforded him to be heard in his defence.”

Ҥ 13. That the mayor and common council of said town
be and they are hereby authorized to subscribe for, on behalf
of said town, and upon such terms and conditions as they may
agree and stipulate, a sum, not exceeding twenty-five thousand
dollars, for the purpose of purchasing suitable grounds within
the limits of the town for a public square, improving the same,
and building a town hall; and also for the purpose of pur-
chasing a part or all of the land and lots now belonging to
Joseph Johnston, within the corporate limits of said town—all,
when purchased, to be divided into lots, and sold or disposed
of to the best interests of the corporation: provided, that no
subscription shall be made until the expediency thereof be
submitted to the vote of those persons qualified to vote at the
election of said mayor and council, and shall receive the assent
of three-fifths of the votes actually polled, after thirty days’ no-
tice of the time and place of opening the polls for that purpose:
and provided further, the land when purchased, shall not be
sold for purposes of speculation, but shall be sold by the coun-
cil, and for purposes of improvement-only; the character of
the improvements to be put upon the said lots, and the time
in which the improvements shall be made by the purchaser
after the purchase, shall be regulated by the common council:
and provided further, that the lands and lots so purchased shall
be conveyed to the mayor to be held by him and his succes-
sors for the benefit of the said town of Goodson: and provided
further, that when said lands or any part of them shall be so
purchased and conveyed, the mayor shall execute bonds there-
for to the vendor according to the terms of the contract or
contracts, which shall bind said corporation of Goodson, and
when any of said lands or lots are sold by the common council,
the mayor of the town shall make in his official capacity all
necessary conveyances to the purchaser or purchasers.”
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.