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of town charges.

be presented to the board of supervisors of the county.

§ 1054. The monies necessary to defray the town charges shall be levied on the taxable pro-⚫ perty in the town in the manner prescribed in the "Fiscal Laws.”

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CHAPTER VII.

DIVISION OR ALTERATION OF BOUNDS OF TOWNS.

SECTION 1055, 1056. Meeting of officers to dispose of real property.
1057. Personal property and debts to be apportioned.
1058. Meetings of officers to apportion.

From 1 R. S., 643, §§ 4 to 10.

§ 1055. When a town owning real property is

dispose of divided, or its boundaries altered, the supervisors

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perty.

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real property.

and overseers of the poor of the several towns shall meet, as soon as may be after the first town meetings subsequently held in such towns, and make such agreement concerning the disposition of such property (excepting all cemeteries and all gospel and school lots) and the apportionment of the proceeds, as they think equitable, and take all measures and execute all conveyances which may be necessary to carry such agreement into effect.

§ 1056. If no such agreement is made within six months after the change, the supervisor and overseers of the poor of each town in which any portion of the real property lies after the change shall, as

soon as may be, sell and convey such portion; and the proceeds shall be apportioned between the several towns interested, by the supervisors and overseers of the poor of all the towns, according to the amount of taxable property in the town divided or altered, as the same existed immediately before the change, to be ascertained by the last assessment list thereof.

property and debts to

be appor

tioned.

§ 1057. When a town is divided or its bounda- Personal ries altered, the debts and all personal property belonging to the town, including monies in the hands of the town officers, shall be apportioned by the officers, and in the mode, prescribed by section 1056; and the debts shall be charged on such town according to such apportionment.

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apportion.

§ 1058. The meetings of the supervisors and Meeting of overseers of two or more towns, required by this chapter, may be called by either supervisor, by at least three days' written notice of the time and place thereof to all the officers.

TITLE V.

THE GOVERNMENT OF VILLAGES.

CHAPTER I. Incorporation of villages.

II. Village officers.

III. Taxes.

IV. Sidewalks.

V. Cemeteries.

VI. Fire companies.

VII. Pounds.

Requisite population to form a village.

CHAPTER I.

INCORPORATION OF VILLAGES.

SECTION 1059. Requisite population to form a village.
1060. Survey and map.

1061. Census.

1062. Public inspection of survey and census.

1063. Notice of application.

1064. Mode of notice.

1065. Requisites of application.

1066. The hearing.

1067. The order.

1068. Notice of submission of question to vote.

1069. Conduct of meeting.

1070. Certificate of result.

1071. Order or certificate of county judge.

1072. Incorporation.

1073. Dissolving incorporation.

1074. Certain villages may adopt provisions of this title.

§ 1059. Any part of a town or towns, not included within a city or village and containing a resident population of not less than three hundred, or if more than one square mile in extent, at the rate of three hundred for every square mile, may be incorporated as a village on the application of the residents thereof.

1 R. S., 1244, § 1. All references to the Revised Statutes are to the 4th edition except where otherwise specially indicated.

map.

§ 1060. The applicants for incorporation shall survey and cause a survey and map of the territory to be made by a practical surveyor, showing the course and distances of its bounds and the quantity of land embraced, and verified by the surveyor's oath. 1 R. S., 1244, § 2.

§ 1061. They shall also cause an accurate census Census. of the residents to be taken on a day not more than ten weeks previous to the time of presenting the application, which shall exhibit the name of every head of a family residing within the territory on that day, and the number of persons belonging to such family, and shall be verified by the oath of the person taking it.

Ib., § 3.

§ 1062. The survey, map and census, duly verified, shall be kept within the territory, at the residence or place of business of some resident, open to public examination for five weeks from the first giving of the following notice.

Ib., § 4.

Public incensus and

spection of

application.

§ 1063. The applicants shall give notice that Notice of they will, on a day specified, apply to the court of sessions of the county (or if the territory lies in more than one county, to that court in one of the counties to be named in the notice) for an order incorporating the territory as a village. The notice shall state the proposed name, the bounds of the territory by course and distance, and by speci

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Mode of notice.

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§ 1064. For six successive weeks previous to the day specified in the application, the notice shall be published at least once a week in a newspaper printed in such territory, or if there is no such paper, posted in at least ten of the most public places therein.

Ib., § 6.

§ 1065. At the time specified in the notice, or as soon thereafter as the applicants can be heard, they shall present their petition. It shall be subscribed by them, and state the bounds by course and distance, the quantity of land embraced and the population of the territory. The survey, map and census, verified, and an affidavit that they were kept open to public inspection, and a copy of the notice, with an affidavit of publishing or posting the same, as hereinbefore respectively prescribed, shall be annexed to the petition.

Ib., § 7.

§ 1066. The court shall hear all the parties interested, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time. It may direct a resurvey or a new census, or both, and may appoint persons to conduct the same. It may refer any question in respect to the application to three disinterested commissioners to ex

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