Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-03-04
A BILL.

sentatiyes ofthe United States Of 4merica in Con-
press assembled. That tenements and lots of
! ground within the town Of Alexandria, on which
taxes. assessments, or charges remain due and
unpaid. to the Common Council of the said
town. for the space of two years, or shall here
after remain due and unpaid, for that space of
time. or so much of said lots as may be neceS-
sary. NAV be sold at public auction, for the
PAYMENT Of the taxes, assessments, or charges,
which are. or shall be due thereon, with the
expenses attending the sale: Provided, That be-
fore any such sale be made, an affidavit Of the
Collector of the District or Ward, in which
such lots lie, stating that no goods or chattels
! of the person or persons, charged with the
payment Of such taxes, assessments, or charges,
sufficient to satisfy the same, can be found
within the corporation, shall be lodged with the
| Clerk of the Common Council: find Provided.
That public notice of the time and place of
such sale, shall be given, by advertising in some
news paper published in the town Of Alexan-
dria, for at least six months, where the pro-
perty is assessed TO persons r.siding out of the
U. States; three months, where the property is
assessed TO persons residing within the United
States, but without the District Of Columbia;
and six weeks, when the property is assessed
to persons residing within the District of Co
lumbia; in which notice shall be stated, the
street or streets on which such lots lie, the
streets by which the square in which they
lie is bounded, the name Of the person or per-
sons to whom they have been last assessed
on the books Of the Assessors, and the a.
| mount of the taxes, assessments, or charges,
due thereon: find provided further, That the pur-
chaser or purchasers shall not be obliged TO pay,
at the time Of such sale, more than the taxes,
assessments, or charges due, and the expenses
of sale; and that, if, within two years from the
day of sale, the proprietor or proprietors Of
| such lot, his, her, or their heirs, representa-
| tives, or agents, shall repay to such purchaser,
| the money paid for such taxes, assessments, OF
charges & expenses, as aforesaid ,iwith ten per
cent. per an. as interest thereon or make tender
Of the same, he or she shall, be re-nstated in his,
her, or their original title; but if no such tender
| be made, within two years next after sue sale,
then the purchaser, shall pay the balance of
the purchase money OF such lot or lots, in
to the Treasury Of the Common Council,
where it shall remain, sub ject to the order Of
the proprietor, or proprietors, or his or their
legal representatives; and the purchaser, on The
payment Of the whole amoant of the purchase
money, shall receive title to he said lot or
lots, in fee simple, from the Mayor, under his
hand, aud the seal of his Office, which shall be
deemed COOL and valid in law and equity.
Sec. 2. md be it further enactea,, That the
Common Council Of Alexandria, shall have
power to provide for the establishment, main
tenance, and superintendent of public schools
and for the registering of births, marriages and
deaths, and shall have power TO preserve the
navigation Of the Potomac river, within their
-, 80: wi h
lie wharves, deepen docks and basins. and to
limit the extension of private wharves. into the
harbor; to authorize, with the appreciation of
the Presiden, Of the United States, the draw
| irg of lotteries, for efftcting any important
| improvement in and TO the town, which the
| ordinary funds and revenue thereof will not ac-
complsh; to restrain and prohibit the drawing
OF ,ther lotteries, the keeping Of tipping
houses, and all kinds of gaming; to provide
for the licensing, taxing and regulating auc-
lions, theatrical, and public shows and amuse-
ments, and vendors Of lottery tickets; to ap-
point guagers of casks, inspectors Of domestic
| spirits, measurers and inspectors 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,
measurement, and weighing of the articles a.
foresaid, to regulate party and other walls and
fences, and 10 determine by whom they shall
be kept in repair to direct in what part of the
town, buildings Of wood shall not be erected,
and to regulate the size Of bricks to be made
or used and shall have powerto restrain and
prohibit the nightly, and other dsorderly meet
ings of slaves, free negroes or mulattoes, and
TO punish such slaves by whipping, not ex-
cceding forty stripes, or at the option Of the
owner Of such slaves, by fine or confne-
ment to labor, Lot exceeding three months
for every one offence; and to punish such
free negroes and mulattoes, for such offences,
by fixed penalties, not exceeding twenty dollars
for one offence and in case of the failure of
such free negro or mulatto to pay and satisfy
such penalty and costs, to cause such free ne
gro or mulatto to be confined to labor for any
time, not exceeding six months for any one Of
fence; 10 cause and provide for the removal Of
all such paupers. Migrants, and other persons,
as may not be legally entitled to residence with
in the said corporation; 10 punish, by fine or
penalty, any minor or apprentice, guilty Of any
breach Of any law Of the corporation, and un-
less such fine or penalty, with the costs Of pro-
secu,ion, be paid by the parent, guardian or
master of such minor or apprentice, by con6ne-
menr to labor for limited time, not exceeding
three months for any one offence.