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AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF SILVER CITY IN THE COUNTY OF GRANT, APPROVED FEBRUARY
15, 1878.
Section 1[1].
All that section of country lying and being in the county of Grant, and embraced within
the following limits, to wit: An area of two miles square conforming to the points
of the compass, north, east, south and west, measuring from the point intersecting
at right angles Broadway and Main Streets, which point shall be the center of the
corporate limits in the town site of Silver City, is hereby declared to be within
the corporate limits of the Town of Silver City.
Section 2[2].
The inhabitants of said area of two miles square be and they are hereby constituted
a body politic and corporate, and by the name and style of the Town of Silver City,
and by that name they shall have a perpetual succession; and may have and use a common
seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.
Section 3[3].
The inhabitants of the town aforesaid, by the name and style aforesaid, shall have
power to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended against
in all courts of law and equity and in all actions whatsoever; to purchase, receive
and hold property, real, personal and mixed, in said town, beyond the limits of said
town, for burial grounds and for other public purposes, for the use of the inhabitants
of said town; to sell, lease, convey and dispose of the property owned and held by
said town, for the benefit of said town; and to improve and protect all property owned
and held by said town, and to do all such things in relation thereto as natural persons.
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