Fayette Incorporation Act ordinance (§ 100.020)

All that section of County within the following limits, to wit: within three-quarters (3/4) of a mile square — the courthouse in the City of Fayette and County of Howard, and the State of Missouri, being the center thereof, and running parallel with the squares of said courthouse — shall be, and the same is hereby incorporated by the name of the "City of Fayette," and the inhabitants thereof are hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "the Mayor, Councilmen, and citizens of the City of Fayette," and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law, have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity, and may have a common seal, and break and alter the same at pleasure. (Approved March 9, 1872)