SEC. 38. Such sale must be at auction and there must be thirty days notice prior to the sale given as above provided for notifying of the assessment and tax. In such sale he who bids to pay the amount due for the least quantity of land will be the highest bidder, and the manner of ascertaining the least portion bid for shall be determined by ordinance of the city council.

SEC. 39. The marshal shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed running in the name of the Territory which shall have the same force and effect as the deed of the proper county officer in like circumstances on sale for county taxes,

SEC. 40. The council have the control of the streets and alleys and public grounds of the city, and may cause sidewalks to be paved in the same, and to this end may require owners of lots to pave or repair the same contiguous to their respective lots, and in case of neglect after a reasonable time named in the order the same may be done by the city and the same assessed on the contiguous lots, which shall have the same force and effect of a tax levied thereon, and the same may be sold therefor as for a tax, subject to the same right of redemption.

SEC. 41. The council are authorized to borrow money for any object in their discretion if at a regular notified meeting under a notice stating distinctly the nature and object of the loan and the amount thereof as nearly as practicable, the voters of the city may determine in favor of the loan by a majority of two-thirds of the legal voters at the said election and the said loan can in no case be diverted from the specific object.

SEC. 42. All road tax which may be paid upon any property in the said City of St. John in lieu of labor or otherwise shall be paid to the proper authorities of said city for the improvements of the streets thereof.

SEC. 43. Any person being a resident of said city, subject by the laws of the Territory to do work upon roads and highways, shall be required to do and perform or cause the same to be done under the direction of the proper authorities upon streets of said city or public roads and highways leading thereto as said authorities may direct. The city council shall supercede the supervisor in all jurisdiction within the corporate limits.

SEC. 44. On the passage of this act there shall be an election held on the first Monday in August, A. D. 1857, at the usual place of holding elections in the said city, and conducted in all respects as county elections regulated by law, and in the event a majority of all the legal votes polled at said election are in favor of said charter then it shall be the duty of the proper county authorities to order an election at as early a day as convenient for mayor, recorder, treasurer, marshal, assessor, and three aldermen, which elections as to the manner of conducting the same and making the returns thereof shall be conducted in all respects as in county and township elections; and it shall be the duty of the said county authorities to notify the persons elected to the respective offices, named in this section, who shall enter upon their duties by giving bonds and taking the oath of office before the said county authorities within thirty days from the day of their election.

SEC. 45. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

Approved February 13, 1857

AN ACT

To incorporate the town of Cuming City, Washington county, Nebraska Territory.

SECTION 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 the town of Cuming City, together with all additions that may be made thereto is hereby declared a town by the name of Cuming City.

SEC. 2. The said town is hereby made a body corporate and politic, 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. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 10th, 1857,

AN ACT

To incorporate the town of Salem in Richardson county, N. T.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the town site claimed by the Salem Town Company upon which the town of Salem is located, together with all additions that may be hereafter made thereto according to law, is hereby declared to be a town by the name and style of the "Town of Salem."

SEC. 2. That said town is hereby made a body corporate and is invested with all the privileges and attributes of a municipal corporation, and may elect such officers, pass such laws, ordinances and rules for the benefit and government of said town as shall, from time to time, be deemed expedient and proper, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of the United States and the laws of this Territory.

SEC. 3. All citizens of said towns entitled to vote at county elections may vote at any election of officer or officers to be elected for the government of said town.

SEC. 4. Whenever eight of the resident house holders of said town shall petition the county clerk of said Richardson county asking for an organization of said municipal government, the said clerk shall fix the time for a munici pal election which shall not be more than twenty days after the petition is presented to him, and shall appoint three judges of said election, and shall give notice thereof by posting up notices in three public places in said town, and the said election shall be held in accordance with the general election law, and the returns shall be made to said clerk, and he shall give to the persons having the highest number of votes certificates of their election.

SEC. 5. At the aforesaid election the legal voters shall elect a Town Council consisting of five, who shall possess the qualifications of electors: Provided, That [the] person receiving the highest number of votes shall be president until otherwise provided for by law, also a town clerk and marshal, which election shall be the first organization of the said town, and thereafter such offices may be abolished or new offices created as may be prescribed by

ordinance, or as a majority of legal voters may, from time to time, direct by their vote at any town election to be held thereafter,

SEC. 6. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 10, 1857.

AN ACT

To incorporate the town of Dayton in Clay county, Nebraska Territory.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of tthe Territory of Nebraska, That all the territory within the geographical limits of the town of Dayton, together with all additions that may be hereafter made thereto according to law, is hereby declared to be a town by the name of Dayton.

SEC. 2. The said town is hereby made a body corporate and politic, and is hereby invested with the same powers and corporate rights and privileges as are granted in an act entitled an act to incorporate Elk Horn City. SEC. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 13, 1857.

AN ACT

To incorporate the City of Louisville in Cass county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the south-west fractional quarter of section fourteen, the north-west quarter of section twenty-three, the east half of the north-east quarter of section twenty-two, and the east half of the south-east fractional quarter of section fifteen, in township twelve north of range eleven east of the sixth principal meridian, together with all additions that may hereafter be made thereto, by law, is hereby declared to be a city by the name and style of the City of Louisville.

SEC. 2. The said City of Louisville is hereby made a body corporate, and is hereby invested with the same powers and corporate rights and privileges as are granted to the city of Plattsmouth by an act entitled "An act to incorporate the City of Plattsmouth" approved March 14, 1855.

SEC. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 13, 1857.

AN ACT

To incorporate Delaware City, Otoe county, N. T.

SECTION 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 Delaware City as designated upon the recorded plat of said city, together with all additions that may be hereafter made thereto according to

the general survey and according to law, is hereby declared to be a city by the name of Delaware City.

SEC. 2. The said city is hereby made a body corporate and politic, and is hereby invested with the same powers and corporate rights and privileges as are granted in an act to incorporate Kearny City.

SEC. 3.

its passage.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after the date of

Approved February 13th, 1857.

AN ACT

To incorporate the town of Jacksonville in Pawnee county.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the town site claimed by the Jacksonville town company is hereby declared to be a town by the name and style of the town of Jacksonville.

SEC. 2. The said town is hereby made a body corporate and politic, and is invested with all the privileges and attributes which are granted in an act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Salem in Richardson county. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 13, 1857.

AN ACT

To incorporate the town of Wyoming.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the town site of Wyoming, as recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Otoe county in book A. on page 405 on the 26th day of August 1856, with all additions that may hereafter be made thereto according to law, is hereby declared to be a town by the name and style of the town of Wyoming.

SEC. 2. The said town is hereby made a body corporate and politic, and is hereby invested with the same power and corporate rights and privileges as are granted in an act entitled an act to incorporate Nebraska City and the supplement thereto.

SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved February 13, 1857.

AN ACT

Supplementory to an act entitled an act to incorporate South Nebraska City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That as much of section eight (8) of an act entitled an act to incorporate South Nebraska City as relates to the election of city officers on the first Monday of April A. D. 1855 and annually on the same day thereafter, and such other parts of said act inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. That the first election for officers of said city shall take place on the first Monday of May, A. D. 1857, and annually on the first Monday of May thereafter.

SEC. 3. That all and every part of an act entitled an act to incorporate South Nebraska City that does not conflict with this act shall and is hereby declared to remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 4. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved February 13, 1857.

AN ACT

To incorporate the town of Leman in Gage county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the town site claimed by the Leman Company, upon which the town of Leman is located, in Gage county, together with all additions that may be hereafter made according to law, is hereby declared to be a town by the name and style of the town of Leman.

SEC. 2. That said town is hereby made a body corporate, and is invested with all the privileges and attributes of a municipal corporation, and may elect such officers, pass such laws, ordinances and rules, for the benefit and government of said town as shall be deemed expedient and proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States and the laws of this Territory:

SEC. 3. Whenever a majority of the legal voters of said town shall signify in writing to the Judge of Probate of said county, that they desire an organization and an election of town officers, the said judge shall, within ten days thereafter, give a written or printed notice, which he shall cause to be posted in at least three of the most public places in said town, giving ten days notice of a meeting of the legal voters of the town and stating the object of the meeting.

SEC. 4. The said Judge of Probate shall preside at the said meeting, at which time and place such officers as shall be deemed necessary and proper, for the government of said town, shall be elected by the majority of the legal voters aforesaid, and said meeting may adjourn from time to time until said object shall be effected.

SEC. 5. Immediately after the signification of the legal voters as provided in section three, the said Judge of Probate shall give notice, to be posted as provided in section three of this act, for the election of such officers as are