The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-05

ated, improved and kept in order a. places for
the internent of The dead, or AZ places for city
grounds, or as places for gas works, or water
works, or the pipes, futures and other things
connected herewith, and may regulate and
charge for the use Of ground in said places OF
internenf, md the use OF light and water
The council shall have power to prevent inJu-
~ to any Of said places, pipes fixtures or other
things, and prevent thewater with which citl
zers are to be supplied. from being polluted
either in the river or otherwise; and for these
purposes. shall have jurisdiction over the ter
ritory af winch the court of huslings has juris-
diciion under the third section.
25. The council may, from their own body,
or from among the citizens, appoint trustees
of the Richmond Lancasterian school, and
make regulations for the government of the
trustees and of the school. They may also
establish other schools. and regulate the sys
TEN of education therein: may provide or aid
in the support of public libraries, TO which the
citizens may resort, and may establish an athe-
naum or lyceum for the diffusion of knowledge
by lectures or otherwise.
90. The council may open or extend, widen
or narrow, lay suit and graduate, pave and
otherwise improve the streets and public alleys
in the city, and have them Pre- pery lighted
and keptin good order, and they shall have
over any street or alley in the city, which has
been or may be seded to the city, like author
ity as over other streets and alleys.
81. The council may establish, construct,
and keep in order, and may taller or remove
landings, wharves aud docks on land belong
ing TO the city; and may lay and collect rea-
sonable duty on vessels coming to and using
the same, and may regulate the manner OF
using other wharves and landings within the
corporate limits. They may also appoint port
wardens for the port OF said city, prescribe
thair 1ntiac aud ffy their nr
ten.
%. The council may prescribe the duties OF
the surveyor, and regulate his compensation or
fees of office; and his surveys and acts shall
have the like validity and effect as surveys
and acts made or done by u surveyor of a
county.
%. If any land in the city be subject to be
covered by stagnant water, or if tho owner or
occupier thereof permit any offensive or un-
wholesome substance TO remain or accumulate
thereon, the council, after giving reasonable
notice TO the owner or occupier in the manner
prescribed by chapter l67 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, may cause such land to be filled up, raj
sed or drained, or such substance to be covered
or removed and may collect the expense of so
doing from the owner or occupier in like man:
ner as taxes due from him TO the city would be
collected.
80. The council may prevent hogs, dogs and
OtuSI HUM iuuHfbS al tiIC
corporate limits. and may subject the same to
such regulations and taxes as they deem pro-
per. They may prohibit negroes from raising
hogs or keeping dogs within said limits. And
| they may prevent the riding or driving of hor-
ses or other animals or the running of steam
| engines at an improper speed within said Ii
| mis. or exclude said engines, provided no
contract be thereby violated.
81. The council may require spirituOus Ii
quors, wine, oil, molasses, vinegar and spirits
of turpentne, in casks to be guaged and in
| spected, and may make such provision for the
| weighing of hay, fodder, oats, shucks or other
| long forage as will not be in conflict with the
| act passed the 22d of March, 1S47, to prevent
| the authorities of said city from laying and
collecting tax upon the bales of hay sent by
the farmers of the State TO said city, They
may also provide for measuring corn, oats,
grain, coal, stone, wood, lumber, boards, pola-
toes and other articles for sale or barter.
80. The council may require owners or EN-
| ployers of negroes in said city, to provide
them with board and lodg ing, and may impose
penalties on said owners and employers fof
failing TO make such provision. They may
declare what in said city shall be an unlawful
assembly of negroes, and may empower their
officers of police 10 enter the place of such as
sembly and seize such negroes, and may pre-
scribe the punishment of such negroes, and the
! fine to be imposed on a person permitting
| such nnlawfu assembly on his lot or tene.
ment.
| 33. The council may adopt measures to
suppress riots, gaming and tipping houses,
and upon persons who unlawfully sell by re-
tail, wine, ardent spirits, OF a mixture thereof
| may impose fines in addition TO those prescri
| bed by The laws of the state. They may also
| adopt measures TO prevent lewd, indecent OF
| disorderlv conduct in the city, and to expel
| therefrom persons guilty of such conduct who
shall not have resided therein as much as one
year.
"a. The council may provide work houses,
houses of refuge, or houses of correction, pre-
scribe for what conduct, for what time, and in
what manner persons may be confined or en-
| poyed at or in said houses, and may enforce
such confinement; and may prescribe disci-
| pline for said houses and persons.
30. The council may, on the petition of the
| owner or owners OF not less than two-thirds oil
the ground in any square of said city, prohibit
| the erection IN such square of any building,
or of any addition TO any building more than
| ten feet high, unless the outer walls thereof
| be made of brick and mortar or stone and NOR.
tar, and provld' for the removal of any build
ing or addition, which shall be erected contra
| ry TO such prohibition, al the expense of the
| builder or builders, owner or owners thereof.
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principal Of loans contracted, and for the execution
of any of its powers, the council may tax real pro-
pertyin said city in proportion 10 its value, which
shall be ascertainedin such manner the council
may prescribe, They ay also tax slaves in The
city above the age of twelve years, and such other
personal property therein they may deem pro-
per. They may levy tax occupieis of houses
and on free male persons IA the city above the age
Of sixteen years, and they may tax lot adjoining
street which paving is done. or curbstone put
down. [whether the sidewalk or carriage way
not exceeding twothrds OF the expense OF the curb
stone. paving that half of the street opposite
such lot.
n. the collector of the city taxes may distrain
and sell Their for like manner as sheriff NAV
dstrain and sell for state taxes and shall have ID
other respects like powers to enforce the collection
/ thereof.
30 There shall b. a lien real estate for the city
taxes assessed thereon from the commencement Of
/ the year for which they are assessed The council
may require real estate in the city delinquent foI
the nonpayment of taxes. to be sold fer said taxes
with interest thereon, and such per centum as they
may prescribe Tor charges and they may regulate
the terms which real estate SO delinquent may
| be rateenlod.