1901-153-1
SECTION 1. That Section sixty-seven of an act entitled "An act to
incorporate the town of Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana," approved
January 22, 1851, be and the same is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 67. The Mayor and Common Council of said town, in the
improvements of the streets, alleys and sidewalks thereof shall have the
powers delegated to the Common Councils of cities and the Board of
Trustees of towns of this State in, be governed by the provisions of, and
follow the procedure prescribed by "An act concerning powers and
duties of cities and incorporated towns, and their Common Councils
and Board of Trustees, and providing the mode and manner of making
street and alley improvements and building sewers, and providing for
the mode and manner of enforcing the payment of the cost of street and
alley improvements and building sewers, and permitting cities and
incorporated towns to issue street and sewer improvement bonds, and
repealing all conflicting laws and declaring an emergency," approved
March 8, 1889, Acts of 1889, page 237, commonly known as the
Barrett law, and the general laws amendatory thereof and supplemental
thereto, applicable to cities and towns generally, in force in this State;
said act and laws being sections 4288 to and including Section 4298 of
Burns' R. S. 1894; Section 1 of the act of Feb. 17, 1899, Acts of 1899,
page 63, and sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the act of Feb. 22, 1899, Acts of
1899, page 88, which sections are hereby made applicable to said town
of Vernon so far as the same are practicable.