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CHAP. XX.] lots number two, three, and four, in section number thirteen, in township number ninety-three, north of range fifty-nine west, be, and the same is hereby, created a town corporate, by the name of Bon Homme, and shall have and enjoy all the powers, privileges, and responsibilities usually enjoyed by municipal corporations.

. 2. That for the good order and government of said town, it shall be lawful, and there shall be established a president, recorder, and three trustees, who shall constitute the town council of said town, and shall be known as “The Town Council of Bon Homme," and any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

. 3. Reuben Wallace as president, and Daniel C. Gifford as recorder, and Edward Gifford, George M. Pinney, and Jonathan Brown, shall be known and are hereby constituted the town council of said town, who shall hold their respective offices for one year, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, and who shall have full power and authority to make and establish all needful rules and regulations for the government of the said town.

. 4. It shall be the duty of the president, with the consent of the town council of said town corporate, to enter so much land within the corporate limits of said town as can be entered under the provisions of the act of congress, entitled “An Act for the relief of citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States, under certain circumstances," approved May 23, 1854.

. 5. It shall be the duty of the town council, as soon as the title to said lands shall be obtained pursuant to the third section of this act, to ascertain the number of persons entitled, legally or equitably, to lots or squares within said town, and to deed, under the hand of the president and seal of the corporation, to every such person entitled as aforesaid: Provided, That any person or persons to whom lots or squares shall be so deeded, shall previously have paid the sum of one dollar for each deed and acknowledgment so required to be made.

. 6. If any vacancy should occur in any of the offices of the town council aforesaid, a quorum of said town council, duly assembled, shall at any time fill the vacancy.