New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-21

other buildings as may be for the public
| benefit, and TO build a city wOrkhouse !;
| fourth, to establish 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 NatchitOches as
shall be deemed necessary by them; pro-
vided, that SAID taxes shall in no one year
exceed two per centum on the assessed
value of the real and personal estate within
said city for the year for which the
assessment of taxes Is made; sixth, to i'm
pose an annual license tax on trades, pro-
tessions and caIlings, said license to expire
on the thirty-tirst day of December in the
year in which it was obtained and which
license tax shall be due and payable at the
office of the city treasurer from the first
day OF January to the twenty-eighth day
of February inclusive; seventh, to
fix the amount of bonds to be given
by the city officers from whom bonds are
required; eighth, to organize, appoint and
uniform and commission police force, and
to appoint as many police officers as may
be necessary; to fix their salaries and COM
pensation Of all officers and others appoint
ed or elected by them; to remove for sutti-
Cient cause any of the appOintees or officers
elected by themselves, and to define the du-
ties of all such officers and appOintees;
ninth, TO survey and lay out streets, public
squares, TO regulate and make improve
ments TO the streets and squares and other
public property, and provide for lighting
and watering the same; to construct Il
wharf within the corporate limits, and fix
the wharfage dues thereon: to order and
direct the ditching, filling, opening, widen
ing and continuing OF amy of the streets,
and if for the above or other public pur-
poses the land Of any private person or
body corporate is necessary to be had, to
purchase the same ut Il reasonable price.
or to cause the same to be appropriated
according TO the mode and tormalities
prescribed by existing laws upon the sub
ject, to regulate the proportions and TO
make and repair all common drains, public
roads, leyees, causeways and bridges, to
determine the completion and pavement OF
the streets, to fix the squaring, and to pre-
vent encrOachmeut upon the stopping and
Obstructing OF the streets, public squares,
sidewalks, levees, public roads or river
banks of the city of NatchitOChes, and to
order any object, whatsoever may be it's
value, which may incumber the SAID places
or prevent and embarass the free use of the
same, to be removed or sold f6T 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 Cane river, or Other streams
within the limits of the city, and reopen
such ancient and natural drains as have
been INSTRUCTED by the owners Of adjacent
land; eleventh, to determine what animals
shall run at large within the corporate
limits, and prohibit others from doing so,
to impOUnd all animals running at large in
violation of the laws and ordinances of the
city, to fix the penalties and fines which
the owners thereof shall pay before the
animal so impOundcd snail be delivered
up, and to pass laws and ordinances for
the sale OF said animals, after three
days notice in a newspaper, or by posting;
twelfth, to abate nuisanCes, suppress houses
of illtame, and cause the arrest and pun
ishmGnt Of Migrants; thirteenth TO enact
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
priations for the purpose of building a city
wOrkhOuse, and providing for the govern
ment OF the same; fourteenth, to pass laws
and. ordinances imposing q line upon all
persons who shall conduct any business or
pursue any occupation for which a license
is to be collected, whenever such persons
shall couduct such business OF pursue said
occupation without previously obtaining
such license; fifteenth, to regulate the police
of theatres, public balls, taverns, places for
shows and exhibitions, houses Of public en-
tertainment, saloons and shops Tor retailing
liquors. and to order the same to be closed
whenever the public safety and tranquility
shall require it, and impose such duties and
equations upon persons keeping such
tdCtb DIS Iutg may u6Clil IlttC6Sul anu
pOper; sixteenth, to regulate the proper gov
Eminent of carts and drays, carriages, ON
.nILIses and other vehicles Of every descrip-
ton seventeenth, to establish market
placs. and adopt regulations by ordinances
govel1ing said market houses and places.
Sect. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the maOr ard city council of NarchitOChes
shalI succeed to, and be invested with, all
the right, property and possessions of the
a N IL rI
pOrated
SEC. II. lie it further enacted, etc, That
the mayor and four counCilmeu and no
less number, shall constitute a quorum to
transact busln SIS, but to levy any tax, toll
or lmpOst, or tofX any license, or to make
any appropriate, it shall require vote of
the majority OF TIL councilmen and mayer,
and the attlTmatlY. and negative Of each
vote shall be TecOrdd on the minutes.
SEC. l3. Be it furth,r enacted, etc, That
whenever the owner of the property in
front of which a sidewalk, bauquette or
ditch shall have been OTjered to be made,
filled up, cleaned out or rpaired, shall fail
to do so in the time required by the laws
and ordinances of the corporation, the
mayor and city council sail cause it
to be done at the expe1se of the
owner Of the property, and the said
corporation shall have a special privi-
lege on said property to sec1re the
payment so due, which privilege shall hold
until the corporation be paid; and in case
such owner shalt be absent from or have no
authorized agent living in the corporation or
parish Of NatChitOchcs, or be unknown, the
corporation shall have the right to proceed
IN rem against the property in the manner
pointed out by article 292 and sea- of the
Code Of Practice; and the corporation shall
be entitled to eight per cent interest upon
the amount paid.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted, etc. That
in case of the absence or inability Of the
mayor to attend, the city council shall elect
one OF their number mayor pro temp0Te.
SEC. -. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the treasurer shall he ex-ofici0 secre-
tary of the city council, and as such he shall
keep minutes of the proceedings Of each
meeting, and he shall read all laws, ordi-
nances and resolutions, and all other pro-
ceedings Of the city council; he shall file all
the bonds of the officers Of the city and re-
cord them in separate book, and certified
copies of said bonds and of All laws and or
dinances shall be evidence ID all courts Of
this State; he shall furnish, free of costs, TO
the mayor Of the city certified copies Of all
laws and ordinances which impose q fine or
penalty, or both, tor their InfractiOn and
he shall do and perform such other duties
as may be imposed upon him by the OTdi-
nances Of the city
SEC. Is. BE it u,torr enacted, etc That
as treasurer he shall keep d correct
account OF all moneys received and
disbursed, he shall keep separate and apart
from each Othcrall moneys received by tax
alton on real and personal estates, licenses,
fines and fOrfcitures, and he shall exhibit
his account whenever required to 90 70 by
the MAYOR and city council