The inhabitants of the City of Jonesburg, as its limits now
are or may hereafter be defined by law, shall be and continue a body
corporate by the name of "The City of Jonesburg" and as such shall
have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded,
defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity and in all
actions whatever; may receive and hold property, both real and personal,
within such City and may purchase, receive and hold real estate within
or without such City for the burial of the dead; and may purchase,
hold, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of any property, real or personal,
it now owns or may hereafter acquire; may receive bequests, gifts
and donations of all kinds of property; and may have and hold one
(1) common Seal and may break, change or alter the same at pleasure;
and may do any act, exercise any power and render any service which
contributes to the general welfare, and all courts of this State shall
take judicial notice thereof.
[R.O. 1994 §100.040; CC 1955 Ch. 1 §1]
A. The inhabitants of the Village of Jonesburg, were incorporated under
Article VI, Chapter 30, of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for 1889,
and all acts amendatory thereto, by the County Court of Montgomery
County, Missouri, at the May term 1897, embracing the above territory.
B. Under the provisions of Section 72.050, RSMo., 1949, the Village
of Jonesburg, by a special election on June 28, 1955, voted to become
a City of the Fourth Class. On July 11, 1955, at 9:00 A.M. the Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Jonesburg, Missouri, issued
his/her proclamation declaring the Village of Jonesburg, Missouri,
as a result of the special election, to be a City of the Fourth Class
under the name of the City of Jonesburg, Missouri.