New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-09

count for the same shall have been audited
by the administrator of the department o
public accounts and be authorized by ordi
nance or resolution of the Council and thu
warrant therefor shall be duly numbered
indorsed and filed in said department; shall
keep correct account of the resources, reve
nue. and disbursements of the corporation
which shall at all times be open to the in
spection of the Mayor and members OF the
Council shall regulate the collection of all
taxes, licenses and dues which may be i'm
posed by the Council; shall prescribe the
mode and form of keeping the corporations
books and accounts in every department
created by this act, and shall be vested
with and perform such other functions and
duties as may from time to time be pre-
scribed by the Council.
Second-A department of improvements,
which shall have general superintendent
of all matters relating to the streets, side
walks, pavements and wharves and the con-
struction, cleansing and repairing the same;
| the construction and repairing of bridges
! and the drainage of the city; the superin-
tendence of the waterworks, schoolh0uses,
hospitals. asylums, markets, railroads, ca
mails, weights and measures, The fire depart
! ment and manufactures, and shall bevested
| with and perform such other functions and
duties as may from time to time be pre-
scribed by the Council
| Third-A department of public accounts,
| which shall have general superintendent
of all claims and demands against the city
of Shreveport, and of all contracts entered
into by the city, shall keep record of all
ordinances making appropriations for gen.
| eral or special claims. shall issue warrants
on the department of finance for the pay
ment of claims. the said warrants to be
| cOnsecutively numbered corresponding to
| the number of vouchers upon which they
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fund upon which they are drawn; shall, in
! the months of January and July in each
year, lay before the Council report of the
claims and accounts against the city war
! ranted for during the preceding six months,
with full detail of the names of the per
sons to whom issued, the amount thereof,
| the number of the warrant and the number
| and date of the ordinance or resolution au-
! thorizing the same. The report shall also
embrace a statement Of the Indebtedness
| of the city, showing in detail all Outstand-
| ing obligations. their date. amount, to
| whom and for what issued, when due
| and under what ordinances and reso-
buttons authorized. 1t shall also con-
tain estimates for the receipts and eXpendi
lures for the current six months. No war
rant shall be drawn by said department on
the department of finance unless there
are funds in this department to meet the
same, and the administrator of this depart
ment shall be vested with and perform such
other functions and duties as may be pre-
scribedIbysthe Council and heretofore vested
in the controller of the city of Shreveport
under existing laws not in conflict or incon-
sistent with this act.
Fourth-A department of assessments,
which shall have general superintendent
of the assessment of all property in the city
of Shreveport, real or personal for taxa
ton. of the impositions of licenses on pro-
fessions, trades and occupations. necessary
TO produce revenue sufficient to carry on the
city government and pay outstanding debts
and contingent expenses, and shall be vested
with and perform such other functions as
NAV be prescribed by the Council.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted. etc. That
the administrators of the foregoing depart
ments shall, Mt the end of every month, rem
der TO the mayor a written report of the ad
ministration of the departments during that
month, their actual and their respective con-
dition. They shall each receive an annual sal
arv of six hundred dollars, payable monthly
upon their own warrants approved by the
Mayor, and shall not be allowed any other
compensation or fee whatever. They shall
keep their offices open daily, Sundays and
legal holidays excepted, for the transaction
of business, during such hours as the Ceun-
ell shall direct
SEC. g. Be 1t further enacted, etc,
That tho Council shall organize the depart
ments established by the foregoing section.
regulate the number of clerks and officers
to be employed bv each department, and
the amount of their salaries; said clerks and
officers shall be recommended for appoint
ment by the administrators of said depart
ments respectively, and be appointed by
the Council; they may be suspended by
said heads of departments respectively. at
pleasure. sand in case of such suspension it
shall be reported to the Council at its first
meeting thereafter, together with the cause
thereof The Council may remove, by
vote of a majority of the members, any of
said clerks or officers for incompetency.
neglect of duty, malfeasance in office. and
when reported by the heads of departments.
when the services of such officer or employee
be no longer necessary to the public in
terest.
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, etc.. That
the Council shall have full power and
authority to make and pass such bylaws
and ordinances as are necessary and
proper.
First-To regulate and preserve the peace
and good order of the city, and provide
for and maintain its cleanliness and sani-
tary condition. not inconsistent with any
law relative thereto.
Second-TO regulate and make improve
ments to the streets, public squares,
wharves and other public property. and to
provide for the lighting and watering of
the same, and to order and direct the
ditehing, filling. opening, widening and
continuing of any streets, and if for such
purpose the land of any private person or
body corporate is necessary to be had, the
said City Council shall have the right and
power of purchasing the same at a reason
able price. or causing the same to be ex-
propriated according to the manner and
formalities prescribed by existing laws
upon the subject; to regulate the proper
ton and to make and repair all common
sewers, drains, canals. public roads, levees,
dykes, causeways and bridges, nothwith-
standing any superintendent which might
be set up by any corporation or indi-
vidual over such works; to determine the
completion and. dimensions of the pave
ments of the streets, to fix the squaring, and
to prevent any encroachments upon or stop
ping and Obstracting the streets, public |
squares, leyees, public roads, or any part of
the port of Shreveport, and TO order 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 con-
Germ. in the same manner and after such adj |
vertisements as shall be required by such |
Third-For cleaning the banks of the |
river or other navigable streams within the |
limits of the city; for the reopening of such |
ancient natural drains as have been OBJ
structed by the owners of the adjacent |
lands, or the filling up of any water course
which is not navigable, for the purpose of |
carrying the public highways over the
same; provided, that no injury be occasioned |
thereby to the neighboring inhabitants
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