The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-06-01

Of private wharves into the harbor to au
thorise, with the appreciation of the presi-
dent of the United States, the drawing of lot
teries tor effecting any important improve
ment in and to the town, (which the ordinary
funds and revenue thereof will not accom-
plish to restrain and prohibit the drawing
Of other lotteries, the keeping of tipping
houses and all kinds of gaming to provide
for the licensing taxing and regulating auc
tions theatrical and public shows and "a
musements, and venders of lottery tick
cts; to appoint guagers of casks, inspec-
tors Of domestic spirits, measurers and in
spectors of wood, lumber, and bark, grain,
coal, beef, pork, fish, butter and lard )
weighers of hay, fodder and straw; and to
regulate, by law, the inspection, measure
ment and weighing of the articles aforesaid;
to regulate party and other walls and fences,
and to determine by whom they shall be
kept in repair to direct in what part of the
town buildings of wood shall not he erected
and to regulate the size of bricks to be made
or used !; and shall have power to restrain
and prohibit the nightly and other disorder
ly meetings of slaves, free negroes and mu-
lattoes, and to punish such slaves by whip
ping not exceeding forty stripes, or, at the
option of the owner of such slave by fine or
confinement to labor, and not exceeding
three months for every one offence; and to
punish such free negroes and mulattoes for
every such offence by fixed penalties, not
exceeding twenty dollars for one offence;
and in case of the failure of such free negro
and mulatto to pay and satisfy such penalty
and costs, to cause such free negro or mulat-
to to be confined to labor for any time, net
exceeding six months for any one oHence;
to cause and provide for the removal of all
such paupers, vagrants and other per-
sons, as may not be legally entitled to
residence within the said corporation: to
punish, by fine or penalty, any minor or
apprentice, guilty OF any breach OF any
law of the corporation, and unless such fine
or penalty, with the costs of prosecution, be
paid by the parent, guardian, or master OF
such minor or apprentice, by confinement
to labor for limited time, not exceeding
three months for any one offence.
SEC. 3. Ind be it further enacted, That
tire said common Council shall have power
to subscribe to the stock of the turnpike road
which is authorized to be made by all act o.
the General Assembly of Virginia, passed
the fourteenth day of February, one Thousand
: eight hundred and eighteen, entitled Al
Act Incorporating company TO establish {
turnpike road from Wiley's Tavern, in the
E E county of Fairfax, to point of intersection
I on the Little River Turnpike road, or on thu
line of the District of Columbia," land to any
: turnpike road, or other public improvement
p" which has been, or may be authorized by al
!, act of Congress. leading to the town OF Al
J exandria'; and the said Common Counci
may lay any tax on the property in the sale
I town, to promote any public Improvement,
for the benefit of the said town, when, in the
opinion of the said Common Council, it may
beinexpedent, which said taxes may be col
}. lected as all other taxes are or may be di,
rected to be collected.
d SEC. 4. .And be il further enacted, Tha
so much of an act, passed the Goth of May
eighteen hundred and twenty -four, entitled
"An act supplementary to the act to incol
porate the inhabitants of the city of Wash
ington, passed the fifteenth of May, on
thousand eight hundred and twenty, and 70
e other purposes" as relates to the town OF A
lexandria, be, and the same is hereby re
y pealed.
/. JOHN w. TAYLOR,
j. Speaker of the House of Representatives
n JOAN C. CALHOUN,
{ Vce-President of the United States, an
q President of the Senate.