New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-18

who shall violate the laws and ordinances
of the city, until said city shall have Ell ected
| a city prison. ..-ses--.-,-
| Fourth-To establish p quarantine for the
protection of the city against contagious
diseases and epidemics.
| Fifth-TO levy and collect such annual
and special taxes on the real and personal,
movable and immOvable property of the
| city of Monroe as shall be deemed neces-
sary by them; provided, that such taxes
shall be assessed equally and uniformly on
all property subject to taxation by the laws
of the State, and ON no other.
Sixth-TO levy, assess, and collect an an
nual license and tax on all the persons,
| trades, professions and occupations licensed
or taxed by the State of louisiana pro
vided, that each and every member of a
commercial partnership, whether he resides
permanently or temporarily out of the city,
| shall pay the same license or tax as his
| resident partner
| Seventh-To fix the amount of bonds to
be given by the officers of the city from
whom bonds are required.
Eighth-To organize, appoint, uniform,
and commission police force, and to APP
| poiut as many police officers as may he
necessary; to fix the salaries and compensa-
| ton of all officers and others appointed o.
elected by them; to remove, for sufficient
cause, any of such appOintees or officers
| ele cted by themselves, and to define the du-
ties of all such officers and appointees.
Ninth-To survey and lay out streets; to
regulate and make improvements to the
| streets, public squares and other public
| property, and provide for lighting and
watering the same; to construct wharf
| within the corporate limits, and fix the
wharfage dues thereon; to order and direct
the ditching, filling, opening, widening and
continuing of any of the streets; and if for
the above or other public purposes the land
| of any private person or body corporate is
! necessary to be had, to purchase the same
at reasonable price or cause the same to
be appropriated, according to the mode and
| fOrmalities prescribed by existing laws upon
the subject; to regulate the proportions and
| to make and repair all common drains,
| public roads levees, causeways and bridges,
Notwithstanding any superintendent which
may be set up by any corporation or indi-
Vlduals over such works; to determine the
completion and pavements of the streets; to
fix the squaring and to prevent any en-
croachments upon or the stopping and OBJ
structing of the streets, public squares,
sidewalks, levees, public roads or river
any object, whatever may be its value,
which may cucumber the said places or
prevent and embarrass the free use of
the same, to be removed or sold for whom
it may concern, in the same manner and
after such advertisement as shall be re-
quired by ordinance.
Tenth-TO clean the banks of the Ouach-
ita river or other streams within the limits
of the city, and reopen such ancient natural
drains as have been DISTRACTED by the own
ers of adjacent lands.
Eleventh-TO determine what animals
shall run at large within the corporate lin
its and prohibit Others from doing so; to
impound all animals running at large in
violation of the laws or ordinances. of the
city; to fix the penalties and fines which
the owners thereof shall pay Before the ami
mails so impounded shall be delivered up,
and to pass laws and ordinances for the
sale of said animals after three days no.
tice in newspaper, or by posting.
Tweltth-To abate nuisances, suppress
houses of ill-fame, and to cause the arrest
and punishment of Migrants.
Thirteenth--TO enact laws and ordinances
and make appropriations for the purpose OF
building a wOrkhouse and providing for the
government of the same.
Fourteenth-TO cause persons sentenced
to fine and Imprisonment, or either, to be
placed at work upon the streets and other
public works of said corporation. in the
event of the failure of said persons so SEN
fenced to pay the said fines and costs, until
the same shall be paid by the labor of said
person or persons so sentenced, as afOre-
said at one dollar per day, and to let and
hire out by contract the labor of the per
sons so sentenced, and failing to pay their
fines and costs, under such rules and regu-
lations as may be fixed by ordinance: pro-
vided, that no charge shall be made for the
board or food of any person sentenced to
labor in default of paying fines and costs by
said corporation or contractor during the
term for which he may be sentenced to la
Dor; and provided, further, that all persons
sentenced TO labor to pay the amount of
their fines and costs shall be treated hu-
namely.
Fifteenth-To pass laws and ordinances
imposing fine upon all persons who shall
conduct any business sr pursue any occu-
patton for which license is to be collected.
whenever such persons shall conduct said
business or pursue said occupation without
previously obtaining such license.
Sixteenth-To provide the means and
make regulations for preventing and ex-
tingulshing cOntagrations; to make such
regulations for the building of party and
fire walls as they may deem necessary for
that purpose, and to regulate the service of
persons employed in working fire engines.
Seventeenth-To determine in what part
of the city wooden buildings shall not be
allowed to be erected, and to prevent per-
sons from reconstructing in wood old and
deGayed wooden houses, under pretense of
repairing the same, in those parts of the
city where it is lawful to build only in brick
and stone.
Eighteenth-To regulate the police of
theatres, public balls, taverns, places for
shows and exhibitions, places of public enter
tainment, and saloons and shops for retail
ing liquors, and to order the same 80 be
closed whenever the public safety and tran
quillity shall require it, and to impose such
duties and regulations upon persons keeping
such places as they may deem necessary
and proper.
Nineteenth-TO regulate the proper gov
eminent of carts, drays, carriages, omni-
buses, and other vehicles of every descrip-
ton.
Twentieth-To establish market places
and farm out the same.
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, etc. That
the Mayor and City Council of Monroe
shall succeed to and be invested with all the
rights, property and possession of the town
OF Monroe, as previously incorporated
SEC. III. Be it further enacted, etc. That
the Mayor and four Councilmen, and no less
shall constitute a quorum to trans
act business; but to lay any tax, toll or i'm
post or to fix any license, or to make any
it shall require vote of the
majority of all the Councilmen, and the
affirmative and negative of such vote shall
be recorded on the minutes
SEC. II Be it further enacted, etc. That
the Mayor and the City Council shall in no
case pass any law or ordinance wherein a
fine exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars