The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-05-16
Proceedings of the Board of Trustees

May u, 1866.
At a meeting of the Mayor and Trustees Of the ctv
of Shreveport required by the charter of tbe civ
the following members were present: His honor Alcct
Boarmant Mayor; M@ssrs. Jones, Linman Eberstad
Kelly, Head Irid Dickinson, Trustees
The meeting having been called to order and il boip,
resolved hatt election Of officers to serve for tb e
suing term By gone into the following gentlemen were
ballotted for aid duly elected, to wit
!, A. LEONARD, ..+... Controller;
G. ". SHEREoD Chief Marshal;
A. kMBHE. ..,..,..... Street Commissioner;
F. 7. LEAYENwoRru. Engineer;
J. W. jonas .....,... Attorney;
G. c. CATLErT .,.... Health Officer;
A. ARCH BALD ....SextOn.
The following OF dInances, introduced, separately by
Trustee Head, were adopted So
Be 1t 0rdaidet byHe Mayor and Trustees of tie oy Of
Shreveport, That the Chief Marshal of the city shag
have authority to select and appoint subject to the an
proval of the Mayor and Trustees two assistant mar
shas fer each ward whose salaries shall be sixty dol
lars per month"; each and that such assistant marshas
shall be subject to and under the control of the Chief
Marshal and snail make fher reports to him, and the
Chief Marshal shall have authority to order said assist
ant marshals 20 duty in HBy part of the city. The
Chief Marshal shall have his Office at the Mayors office
Be 1t 0rdQnea 6yts H9pr and Trustees Of tie city of
Shreveport, That the Street Commissioner be required
give bond of two thousand dollars for the faithful
performance Of his duties, and shall draw money only
by order of the, Mayor:
The Commissioner shall be empowered to make any
necessary repairs upon the streets alleys &c. of the
city that does not exceed in fifty dollars and in
of improvements or repairs greater in amount
than fifty doa!s the matter Shall be under tho control
of the street dommittec
The following amendment to section o. article Nv
police regulations, introduced by Trustee Jones, was
adopted
No privy shall be within less than five feet of any
street alley ct the city, and the city marshals re-
CURED to notify all persons having privies situated
within less th five feet of said streets and alleys to
have the same removed within ten days, they shall
be destroyed DIS nuisantes.
On motion If Trustee Dickinson the ordinance
passed Decent g. 1851, defining the fire limits Of the
city, be so amPhdcd as to include in said fire limits
block thirty tive.
The following ordinance, introduced by Trustee
Head, was adopted;
Be it ordqined By tie Mayor and Trustees Of the eifg of
ShreUePoT, That the Mayor be authorised to advertise
for ten days lip the official journal, for sealed propo-
sails for the LEASE Of the market house of this city for
term of one yar from such day, to the highest bidder
the city rcserHg tine right of rejecting any or all of The
The lessee tb give his her notes. with approved
security, for the amount, payable quarterly. The les
see will not DE. permitted TO occupy more than two
stalls, nor to ret 70 any other person than the
same number and for any violation of this provision
he shall be subject 10 line of hundred dollars for
the first ofenFe and two hundred dollars for every
such otense thereafter. Tie lessee shall pay all OK
penses of the market shall be responsible for the car
rylng out and Execution of all ordinances aud regua-
tons concerning the government of the markethOuse
now IN eXisence and III of any oyercharge in the
renting of stalls Se tha said lessee shall be subuctto
fine of fifty dollars.
! BY Trustee lEheTstadts
Be 1t ordaiadi5y tie Mayor and Trustees Of the city Of
Sh1tvP0r, THAT the of the ordinary sidewalks
of the city which have heretofore been required to b
made of brick, lie notified by the Controller to repair
their sidewalks in sixty days otherwise the same win
be repaired byAe corporation, at the expense Of the
owners. Adopted
! By Trustee Johcs:
| Be ii orlianFJ, That there be appropriated to the
building of fence around the ten-acre lot known as
the Shreveport graveyard and lodge for the Sexton
twenty-five hundred dollars proUided that a sufficient
amount beIraIsed BIZ private subscription to com
pete said work and that the said work be let to the
lowest bidder by sealed proposals. after thirty days
notice in the official journal Of the city, the said work
to be done accOnng the plan and specifications now
on file at the Mayor Office and that r. Jones be ap
pointed coInnitee solicit the subscriptions from
the citizens aad that the Mayor and Trustees have
the power of rdceiyng rejecting the proposals. for
the building of said WORK. Adopted,
/ BY Trustee Head
BE it oraaine7 That the legal advertising and pro
ceedings of meetings be given TO the lowest bidder,
and that sealed BIDS be received from the different pro-
Prletors Of newspapers who are to be notified by the
Controller. Adopted.
i BY Trustee Head
! Be ii ordained, That the floor Of the old market be
raised to the suhg height and paved in the
that of the new market and that the Mayor be
authorised to receive sealed proposals. and to let out
said contract TO tc lowest bidder after ten days notice
/ in the official journal. Adopted.
On motion of Trustee Head il was resolved that the
of $3.50 be appropriated for fitting up the MAYORS
I office providing Stationery, &c.
4 The ControeI was directed to pay city bond No T.
| of date September % 1850, i'll favor of Baldwin
McDonough, for $500, with one-haf of the interest
! thereon.
/ His honor heMayor then announced the following
standing committees:
/ Fiauace-Messrs. Jones Eberstadt and Thatcher.
/ Claims = Dickinson, Kelly and Lnman.
! Streets - Thatcher Head and Linman
! The reports of Nv j. Sturgess of market fees for
March and APRIL 1866 and the account of j. Rigdoa
for S27 So were referred to the committee on claims
| The Board then adjourned.
ALECK B0ARMAN, Mayor
| F. A. LEONARD Controller