Section 1. That the act incorporating the City
of Chillicothe, and the acts amendatory thereto, be and the same are
hereby amended as follows:
Section 2. All that district of country in
Livingston County and State of Missouri contained in the following
limits, to-wit:
Beginning eight hundred and seventy-two (872) feet north of
the (SE) southeast corner of the (SE) southeast one-fourth (1/4) of
the (NE) northeast one-fourth (1/4) of Section thirty-six (36), Township
fifty-eight (58), Range twenty-four (24), on the range line dividing
ranges twenty-three (23) and twenty-four (24); thence south along
said range line to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of
Section one (1), Township fifty-seven (57), Range twenty-four (24);
thence west along the quarter section line to the southwest corner
of the southeast one-fourth (1/4) of the northeast one-fourth (1/4)
of Section two (2), Township fifty-seven (57), Range twenty-four (24);
thence north along the quarter section line to a point eight hundred
and seventy-two (872) feet north of the southwest corner of the southeast
quarter (1/4) of the northeast quarter (1/4) of section thirty-five
(35), Township fifty-eight (58), Range twenty-four (24); thence east
to the place of beginning.
Section 3. The inhabitants of the City of Chillicothe
as the same is defined by the provisions of Section two (2) of this
article shall be and they and their successors forever are hereby
constituted a corporation and body politic, in fact and in law, by
the name and style of the City of Chillicothe, and by said name and
style shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, may plead
and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and
equity, and in all actions whatsoever; may purchase, receive and hold
property, real, personal, and mixed, within said city, and may also
purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property beyond the limits
of said city, to be used for the burial of the dead, for the erection
of water works to supply said city with water, for a workhouse or
a house of correction, and for such other purposes of the corporation
as may be required within or without the limits aforesaid; and may
improve, sell, lease, and dispose of the property for the benefit
of the city, and to do all such things in relation thereto as natural
persons; and may receive bequests, gifts and donations of all kinds
of property within and without the city for charitable or other purposes;
they shall also have and use a common seal and may change the same
and make a new seal at pleasure, and by ordinance duly ordained and
established, make all needful laws and regulations for the government
of said city, not inconsistent with this act or the constitution of
this state.
Section 4. The said city shall be divided into
not less than four wards, the boundaries of which shall be fixed by
city ordinance, and shall be so established that the population of
the several wards shall as near as practicable be equal.
Additions may at any time be made to said city of land adjoining
the boundaries thereof, by the owner or owners making a plat of such
proposed addition, and recording the same in the office of recorder
of Livingston County, after the same shall have been approved by the
city council, which shall have the power to require that the streets,
avenues, alleys, lots and blocks shall be so arranged as not to injure
the symmetry of the city, or interfere with the convenience of the
public, and from the time such addition or additions shall have been
approved and recorded as aforesaid, they shall become to all intents
and purposes part and parcel of said city.
