CHARTER
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CORRY
ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA
SECTION 1
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same; that the following described territory now constituting the borough of Corry, be and the same is hereby constituted a city by the name and title of the city of Corry; and by the said name are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic with all the incidents of a corporation; to wit, all that territory embraced within the following boundaries, commencing at the south-west corner of lot fifty-one in the Township of Concord Erie County Pennsylvania thence running north to the south-west corner of fifty-three in Wayne Township County and state aforesaid; thence east on the track line to Warren County line, thence south on said county line to south-east corner of fractional lot fifty-four in Concord Township, thence west on south line of lots fifty-four, fifty-three, fifty-two and fifty-one to the place of beginning.
SECTION 2
That the said city shall be and remain divided for municipal purposes into two wards; one to be called the North, and the other the South Ward which said wards shall be bounded as follows, to wit: all of said corporation North of the Atlantic and great Western Oil Creek and Philadelphia and Erie Rails Roads shall be called the North Ward and all of said City south of said roads shall be called the South Ward which said wards may again subdivided by the select and common council as by them may be deemed for the best interest of said corporation.
SECTION 3
The inhabitants of said city entitled to vote for members of the general assembly having resided therein ten days immediately preceding the election shall on the third Friday of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six and annually thereafter on the same day which now is or may be thereafter fixed by law for township elections within this state meet at some convenient place in said city, to be designated by the present council of the borough of Corry between the hours of eight in the forenoon and five in the afternoon and elect one citizen who shall be styled a Mayor and one person to be High Constable of said city and six citizens to be as a select council and six persons to be a common council for said city two Justices of the Peace to fill vacancy that is now or may hereafter occur in the office of Justice of the Peace of said City provided that no Justice of the Peace shall be elected under this act until a vacancy shall occur in some one of the offices of Justice of the Peace within the present borough of Corry; one Constable the necessary school directors as is now provided law, for each school district in said city; one Police Justice who shall have the jurisdictions of power to try and determine all actions of fines, penalties or forfeitures imposed by the laws of this state relating to said city or imposed by any of the ordinances by-laws, rules or regulations thereof and to issue executions to one of the Constables or High Constables of said city for the collection of any judgements rendered in the premises to be collected in the same manner as judgments of Justices of the Peace founded on trespafs or trover are now by law collectable, and the Constable to whom such executions may be issued shall be liable thereon in the same manner as if founded on such judgment in trespafs or trover; and the said Police Justice shall also have power and criminal jurisdictions of Justices of the Peace in all cafus of offences whatsoever committed in the city and for the preservation of the peace thereof; and shall be entitled to the same fees as Justices of the Peace of this state for similar services and the Justices of the Peace of said City shall have concurrent jurisdiction in the co elections of fines and penalties the preservation of the peace and in the criminal matters aforesaid; said elections and all subsequent elections in said city shall be governed by the laws of the state regulating township elections and said first election shall be holden by the Judges and Inspectors of Elections last elected in the present Borough of Corry.
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