Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-28


fIn;;sd States. but without the District OF Co.
Iumbia: and six weeks, when the property is as
sessed TO persons residing within the District OF
Columbia: in which notice shall be stated the
street mr. streets on which such lots lie; the streets
Inv which the square in which they lie Is bound
Cd. the name of the person or persons to whom
thev have been last assessed, on the books OF the
Assessors. and the amount of the taxes, assess
ments. or charges, due thereon: find prortded,
further. That the purchaser or purchasers snail
not be obliged to pay, at the time OF such saie'
more than the taxes, assessments, or charges DUE
and the expenses of sale; and that. 1t, within
two years from the day of sale, the proprietor or
nropretors of such lot, his, her, or their heirs,
REPRESENTATIVES, or agents, shall repay to such
purchaser, or to the mayor. the money paid Tor
such taxes, assessments, or charges and expenses,
as aforesaid, with ten per centum per annum, as
interest thereon, or make a tender OF the same,
he or she shall be renstated IN his. her, or their
original title; but it no such tender be made,
within two wears next after such sale, then the
purchaser shall pay the balance OF the purchase
money of such lot or lots, into the Treasury OF
the Common Council, where 1t shall remain, SUBJ
ect to the order Of the proprietor or pfopretors,
or his or their legal representatives; and the Pur
chaser, on the payment of the whole amount OF
the purchase money, shall receive title to the
said lot or lots. in fee simple. from the Mayor.
under his hand, and the seal of his Office, which
shall be deemed good and valid in law aud equity.
Sec. 9. find be ii further enacted, That the
Common Council of Alexandria shall have pow
err to provide for the establishment. maintenance
and superintendent of public ichools, and for
the registering Of births, marriages and DEATHS
and shall have power TO preserve the navigation
of the Potomac river, within their jurisdiction;
to erect, repair and regulate public wharvcs,
deepen docks and basins, and to limit the extent
of private wharves, into the harbor; to authorize,
with the appreciation of the President OF the
United States, the drawing OF lotteries, for ef-
fecting anv important Improvement in and to the
town. which the ordinary funds and revenue
thereof will not accomplish; to restrain and pro-
blbit the drawing of other lotteries, the keeping
of tippling houses, and all kinds of gaming; to
provide for the licensing, taxing and regulating
auctions, theatrical, and public shows and amuse
ments, and vendors of lottery tickets; to appoint
gaugers 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 regu.
late, by law, the inspection, measurement and
weighing of the articles aforesaid; to regulate
party aud other walls and fences, and to deter
mine 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 power
to restrain and prohibit the nightly, and other
dsorderly, meetings of slaves. free negroes, or
muattoes, and to punish such slaves by whipping,
not exceeding forty stripes, or at the option of the
owner of such slaves, by fine, or confinement to
labor. not 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,
fined to labor, for any time not exceeding SIX
vide for the removal of all such paupers. va
grants, and other persons. as may not be legally
entitled 10 residence within the said corporation;
to punish, bv fine or penalty, any minor or aP-
prentice. guilty of any breach of any law OF the
CORPORATION, and unless such fine penalty, with
the costs of prosecution, be paid by the parent,
guardian. or master of such minor orapprentce,
by confinement to labor for limited time, not ex-
ceeding three months, for any one offence.
SEC. 8. find be ii further enacted That the
said Common Council shall have power to sub
scribe to the stock of the turnpike road, which is
authorized to be made by an act of the General
Assembly of Virginia. passed the fourteenth day
of February, one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen, entitled "An act Incorporating com
pany to establish turnpike road from Wiley's
Tavern, in the county Of Fairfax, to point OF
intersection on the Little River Turnpike Road,
or on the line of the District Of Columbia" aud
to any turnpike road, or other public improve
ment, which has been, or may be, authorised by
any act of Congress, leading to the Town of
Alexandria; and the said Common Council may
lay any tax on the property IN the said town, to
promote any public Improvement for the benefit
of the said town, when, in the opinion of the
said Common Council, it may be expedient. which
said taxes may be collected as all other taxes are,
or may be directed to be collected.
SEC. a. find be it further enacted, That so
much of an act passed the twenty sixth Of May,
eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled An
act supplementary to the &C. to incorporate the
inhabitants of the City Of Washington, passed
the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred
Enr 9TH