In 1915, the Protestant Episcopal Mission led by Bishop S. D. Ferguson received from the legislature six acres in Robertsport, for a girls boarding and day school and for other industrial purposes.
In 1916, the city charter was altered, providing for a mayor, a city clerk, one city treasurer, one auditor, one solicitor, one chief of police, one health commissioner, one tax collector, one commissioner of public works, one magistrate and a seven-member council with the power to elect a chairman, sergeant-at-arms, clerk and messengers, and to collect the following taxes: a $1 poll tax on males 21 to 75 years of age; a fifty cent dog tax; and a $1 female tax.
Resident Benjamin F. Lewis was restored to citizenship, suggesting he had previously committed a crime.
Footnote: Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1915-16, pp. 24-25; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1916, pp. 21-26; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1919, p. 5.
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