Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-08-08


States; and the weight and quality of
bread; to impose and appropriate fines,
penalties, and forfeitures, for the breach
of their laws or ordinances; and to pro-
vide for the appointment of inspectors,
constables, and such other officers, as
may be necessary to execute the laws of
the corporation.
Sec. 8. Ind be it further enacted,
That the said corporation shall have full
power and authority to lay taxes on par
ticular wards, parts, or sections, of the
city, for their particular local improve
ments; and, upon application of the
owners OF more than one half of the pro-
perty upon any portion of street, to
cause the curb stones to be set, and the
foot ways to be paved, on such portion Of
a street, and to lay tax on such proper
ty, to the amount of the expense thereof:
Providcd, That such tax shall not ex-
coed three dollars per front foot; and,
upon like application, to cause the car
riage way Off any portion ola street to be
paved, or lamps to be erected therein,
and light the same, and lay tax, not
exceeding the whole expense thereof, in
due proportion, on the lots fronting on
such portion of a street; and, also, to i'm
pose an addition or interest on the
amounts of any such taxes, not exceeding
ten per centum per annum, when the
same shall not have been paid within
thirty days after the same shall have be-
come due. The said corporation shall
also have power and authority to provide
for the establishment and superinten-
dence of public schools, and to endow the
same; to establish and erect hospitals
or pest-houses, watch, and work houses,
houses of correction, penitentiary, and
other public buildings, and TO lay and
collect taxes for the expenses thereof;
to regulate party or other walls and
fences, and 10 determine by whom the
same shall be kept in repair; to cause
cause new alleys to be opened through
the squares, and to extend those already
laid out, upon the application of the
owners Of more than one half the proper
ty in such squares: Provided, That the
damages which may accrue thereby, to
any individual or individuals, shall be
first ascertained by jury, to be sum-
moned and impannelled by the marshal
Of the District of Columbia, (and it is
hereby made his duty to summon and
impannel the same, in all such cases,
upon application to him in writing by
the mayor ofthe city, and such damages
to be paid by the corporation; the
amount thereof, and the expenses accru-
ing, shall be levied in due proportion
upon the individuals whose property on
such squares shall be benefited thereby,
and collected as other taxes are to oc-
cnpy and improve, for public purposes,
by and with the consent of the President
of the United States, any part Of the pub
lie and open spaces and squares in said
city, not interfering with any private
rights to regulate the admeasuTement
and weight by which all articles brought
into the city for sale shall be disposed
of; to provide for the appointment of
appraisers and measurers of builders
work and materials, and also of wood,
coal, grain, and lumber; to restrain and
prohibit the nightly and other disorderly
meetings of slaves, free negroes, and
muIattoes, and to punish such slaves by
whipping, not exceeding forty stripes, or
by imprisonment, not exceeding six
months, for any one offence, andto punish
such free negroes and mulattoes, by
penalties, not exceeding twenty dollars
for any one offence, and in case of the
inability of any such free negro or mu-
latto to pay any such penalty and cost
thereon, to cause him or her to be con-
fined to labor for any time not exceeding
six calendar months; to cause all va
grants, idle, or disorderly persons, all
persons of evil life or ill fame, and all
such as have no visible means of sup
port, or are likely to become chargeable
to the corporation as paupers, or are
found begging or drunk in or about the
streets, or lettering in OF about tip
pling houses, or who can shew no rea-
sonable cause ofbusincss or employment
in the city, and all suspicious persons
who have no fixed place OF residence, or
who cannot give good account cfthem-
selves; all eves-droppers ard night
walkers all who shall be guilty of open
profanity, Or grossly indecent language
or behaviour publicly in the streets; all
public prostitutes, and such as lead
VIGOROUSLY lewd or lascivious course of
life, and all such as keep public gaming
tables, or gaming houses, to give securi-
ty for their good behaviour for reason
able time, and to indemnify the city
against any charge for their support, and,