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Mississippi Supreme Court
OCTOBER TERM, 1857.	27
Martin v. O'Brien et al.
That by various acta of the legislature, the town of Shields-borough was incorporated, and by the Act of 1848, its limits were enlarged to the extent of about five miles along the coast, and the municipal authorities of the town were empowered to grant licenses within its corporate limits for the erection of wharves, for such length of time, under such regulations, and upon such terms as they might think fit, which act was repealed by the Act of 1850, and a new act then passed conferring upon the corporate authorities the same powers in relation to wharves as the Act of 1848; that on the 1st March, 1854, a new act of incorporation was passed, incorporating the town as a city, and providing for its municipal government and officers to consist of a mayor and aldermen, having jurisdiction over the same territory as was embraced in the preceding acts; and