Section 43. It was formerly the practice to create municipal corporations by a special act of the legislature granting a charter, but this custom has been quite generally superseded by the enactment of general laws by the legislatures of most of the states providing for their uniform incorporation by general acts.

The constitutions of many of the states contain provisions expressly forbidding the creation of municipal corporations by special act and require the enactment of a uniform method by general acts.

6 McCullough vs. Maryland, 4 Wheat., 316.