§ 3. Corporate power.

Be it further enacted, that from and after the passage of this act the inhabitants of the territory described in section 2 of this act, located in the County of Clayton, State of Georgia, be and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of "City of Riverdale" and said "City of Riverdale" is hereby chartered and made a city under the corporate name of "City of Riverdale" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and is hereby vested with all the rights, powers and privileges incident to municipal corporations of this state, or cities thereof, all the rights, powers, titles, property, easements and hereditaments within or without its corporate limits now belonging to said "City of Riverdale" as created by this act. And the "City of Riverdale" as created by this act may by its corporate name sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded, have and use a common seal; make and enact, through its mayor and councilmen, such ordinances, bylaws, rules, regulations, and resolutions for the transaction of its business and the welfare and proper government of said city, as to said mayor and councilmen may seem best, and which shall be consistent with the laws of the State of Georgia and the United States. And the said City of Riverdale shall have the right and power to purchase, hold, rent, lease, sell, exchange, possess and retain in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any property, estate or estates, real or personal, lands and tenements and hereditaments, and of whatever kind, and within or without the limits of said city; and, for corporate purchases said City of Riverdale created by this act shall succeed to all rights of and is hereby made responsible as a body corporate for all the legal debts, liabilities and undertakings of said City of Riverdale and its mayor and councilmen as a body corporate as heretofore incorporated.