The status of the city was elevated to a municipal district in 1938.
The legislature also sipulated the salaries of officers; requiring periodic reports by the court clerk to the bureau of internal revenue and by the police chief to the circuit court; and extending the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court in this district only to include: examination of all criminal cases above the justice of peace level; all revenue cases; sanitation violations; and violations of municipal ordinances.
The Union Lodge No. 4463, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, received one town lot in the city for the purpose of erecting thereon a temple.
Footnote: Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1938, pp. 5-7; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1938, p. 17.
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