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

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| real estate Belonging to the corporation, or
| which shall be sold for taxes or assessments,
| or to be the surety of any person having
| work, contract or business with said city.
for the performance of which security may
be required, nor shall he be a surety ON the
official bond to be given by any other adj
ministrator of department. Any admins
traitor offending against the provisions of
this article shall be liable to both actual
| and exemplary damages, recoverable upon
| his bond, and against him and his sureties
| in solido, and he and they shall also be so
| liable to both actual and exemplary dam
! aces for any other malfeasance or cOrrup-
| ton in office of which he may while in Office
be guilty, and which may be aseertained by
! the Judgment of any court of competent
| civil jurisdiction in suit upon said bond
against such administrator and his sureties,
| in the name and on behalf of the city of
| Shreveport.
| SEC 90 Be it further enacted, etc., That
| the council shall hold regular meeting on
some stated day of every week. Their SEES
| sions shall be public; their proceedings
| shall be duly recorded, and shall be pub
lished in an official journal selected by
them; three members shall be requisite to
constitute a quorum for doing BUSINESS; no
ordinance levying tax, making an appro-
priation over five hundred tSoOO) dollars, or
providing for the purchase or sale OF real
estate, shall be passed except by majority
OF the council, nor shall final vote on
the same be taken except at regular meet
ing, subsequent to previous regular meet
ing, at which the same shall have been in
trOduced ans passed to its second reading,
and the said ordinance, together with the
vote ON the same and the names of the
members voting yea or nay, shall be pub
lished in the official journal except in case
of invasion, instruction, pestilence or mum
dation.
Be it further enacted, etc, That no adj
Illustrator of department shall be qualified
to take his seat or to exercise the functions
of the office to which he shall have been
elected or appointed until he shall have given
bond in the sum of five thousand dollars with
solvent and sufficient silreties resident
in the State of Louisiana for the
faithful performance of his duties, the
solvency and sntiiciency of which bond
and sureties shallsbe determined in the
manner herein provided, to wit: That
within thirty days after receiving his
certificate of appointment or election said
member of Council shall appear before a
Judge of any court of record in this State
with his bonds and sureties, and it shall
be the duty of the judge of said court to
examine and question under oath the sure
ties SO offered, and the said judge shall de-
eide as to the sufheiency and solveney of
the sureties, and approve or decline to APP
prove the bond rendered. These pro-
ceedings shall have preference over all
other business before the court. They shall
be public, and be entered upon the min
utes of the court, and the clerk shall fur
nish certified copy of the same under the
seal of the court, for which he shall be en-
titled to charge two dollars; a copy of
said proceeding shall be recorded in the
office of the recorder of mortgages of the
parish where the bond is given, and the in
scHption shall operate as judicial mort
gage against all the property of the
principal for the amount for which
he is bound, and in default of said
member furnishing said bond, and the APP
prevail thereof by said court, and his under
taking notwithstanding to perform any func-
tions of said office, he shall be considered
guilty of misdemeanOr, punishable by fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars, and
all acts done by him under color of said
Office shall be absolutely null and void.
Should any of the administrators appointed
or elected fail to qualify as herein provided
for, the Mayor shall immediately order an
election, in the manner as provided for in
this act, to fill the vacancy vacancies
thus created, except in such cases as are
herein provided to be filed by appointment.
Be it further enacted, etc, That at the
first meeting of the Council, or as soon
thereafter as practicable they shall elect,
viva voce, one of the banks of the city as
fiscal agent of the city of Shreveport, in
which shall be deposited daily by the adj
ministrator of finance all moneys, bonds
and notes collected by him ON account of
the city, who shall open and keep special
accounts as the Council NAV prescribe, and
shall pay from the funds so deposited all
checks which may be drawn by the admin
istrator of the department of finance, and
shall make weekly reports to the Council of
the amounts deposited to the credit of the
said several accounts, the amount paid out
from each, and the balance remaining on
hand. The Council may change its fiscal
agent whenever the public interests may
warrant.
SEC. 81. Be it further enacted, ETC., That it
shall be the duty of the Council, at its first
regular meeting after its induction into of
fee, or as soon thereafter as practicable, to
elect secretary, whose duty it shall be
to keep correct record of all proceedings
of the Council; to certify to the Mayor all
ordinances and resolutions passed BY the
Council, and to perform such other
duties as may be prescribed by the
Council, who shall hold his office for one
year, unless sooner removed, as is provided
Tor In this act, and who shall receive a
salary to be fixed by the Council, not to
exceed five hundred dollars per anpum;
also city attorney, learned in the law,
who shall be the legal adviser of the cor
poratlon In all matters in which legal adj
may oO hocOoSdty, anu SUdll represent
the corporation in all judicial proceedings
and actions to which it may be party, or
IN which it may have an interest; and shall
in all cases, when required by the Mayor or
any administrator of department. fur
nish written opinion of the legality
or constitutionality of any law or
ordinances to be submitted to or pending
before the Council, or as to any questions
involved in the discharge of their respective
duties. He shall hold his office for a term of
one year unless sooner removed, as provided
for IN this act, and shall receive a salary to
be fixed by the Common Council, not to ex-
coed twelve hundred dollars per annum: he
shall be allowed no extra fee or eompensa-
ton, nor shall any other attorney be APP
pointed to assist him, unless by vote of
majority of the members of the Council. and
shall be empowered to employ one or more
clerks, as the Council may deem necessary
and allow. Also, city surveyor whose
duty it shall be to furnish the Council or
any administrator of department with all
plans, estimates and other information per-
tanning to the protection, repair construc-
ton of any public works or improvements,
and. after completion of the same to report
the manner i'll which the same shall have
been executed, and shall perform such
other duties as may be assigned to him by
the Council; he shall hold his office for one
year, unless sooner removed as provided in
this act, and shall receive salary not to
exceed five dollars per day when actually
to be fixed by the Council
Be it further enacted, ETC.. That in all
judicial proceedings whereby law bond and
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