Powell v. City of Parkersburg

Woods, Judge :

The legislature by an act passed on' the 5th day of November, 1868, extended the corporate limits of the city of Park-ersburg so as to include a large portion of land not theretofore included therein, and by the second section thereof, declared that the land so annexed, and the inhabitants thereof, were thereby made subject to the jurisdiction of the council of said city as fully as the present town and its inhabitants were then subject thereto; and should be governed by all the provisions of the original charter of said town and the acts amendatory thereof so far as the same…