New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-20

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| benefit, and to build a city wOrkhOuse
! fourth, to establish a quarantine for the
| protection of the city against contagious
| diseases and epidemics; fifth, to lew and
| coi!ect'suc 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 wear
| 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-
| LESSONS and callIngs, said license to expire
| on the thirty-hrst 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 a police force, and
to appoint as many police officers as may
be necessary; To Tx their salaries and COM
pensadOn OF all officers and others appoint
ed or elected by them; to remove for suffi-
Gent cause any of the appOinteeS or officers
elected by themselves and to define the du-
ties OF all such officers and apDOinteCs:
ninth, to survey and lay out streets, public
squares, to regulate and make improve
ments to the streets and squares and other
pnbilc property, and provide for lighting
ana watering the same; to construct a
wharf within the corporate limits, and fix
the wharfage dues thereon; to order and
direct the dltching, filling, opening, widen
ing and continuing of any of the streets
and II tor the above or other public puT-
poses the land Of any private person or
body corporate Is necessary to be had, to
purchase the same at a 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, levees, causeways and bridges, to
determine the completion and pavement of
the streets, to fix the squaring, and to pre-
vent encrOachment upon the stopping and
Obstrucung 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 its
value, which may lnCumber the said places
or prevent and embarass 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 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 impOunded shall be delivered |
up, and to pass laws and ordinances for |
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days notice in a newspaper, or by posting:
twelfth, to abate nuisances, suppress houses |
OF lu-tame, and cause the ares and pun
lshment of Migrants; thirteenth, to enact |
laws and ordinances, and to maze apprO-
priations for the purpose Of building a city
and providing for the govern
ment OF the same; fourteenth, to pass laws /
and ordinances imposing fine upon all
persons who shall conduct any business or
pursue any occupation for which license
IA to be collected, whenever such persons
shall Conduct such business or pursue said
without previously obtaining
such license; fifteenth, to regulate the police
Of theatres, public balls, tayerns, places for
shows and exhibitions houses of public en-
saloons and shops for retailing
liquors, and to order the same to be closed
whenever the public safety and tranquility
shall require it, and impose such duties and
regulations upon persons keeping such
places as they may deem necessary and =
proper; sixteenth, TO regulate the proper gov
eminent of carts and draws, carriages, ON
libuses and other vehicles of every descrip-
ion; seventeenth, to establish market
places, and adOptTegulatiOns byOrdinances
governing said market houses and places.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted, etc, That
,he mayor ard city council Of NatchitOches
shall succeed to, and be invested with, all
.lp RIGHTS nd 1,Cs.a--in-,, ~ +I,oFl
ownQ f Natchltoches, as previously incOr-
)Orated.
SEC. y. Be it further enacted, etc, That
he mayor and four cOuncilmen, and no
ess number, shall constitute a quorum to
transact business, but to levy any tax toll
II ImpOst or to fix any license or to make
my appropriation, it shall require a vote Of
he majority of the COunCimen and MAYER,
md the affirmative and negative of each
-Ote shall be recorded on the minutes.
SEC. 3D. Be it further enacted, etc, That
whenever the owner of the property in
Tont of which a sidewalk, banquette or
itch shall have been ordered to be made,
HE'D up, cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
0 do 80 in the time required by the laws
nd ordinances Of the corporation, the
nayO and city council shall cause it
0 be done at the expense of the
wner of the property, and the said
orporatiOn shall have a special priyi-
eye on said property to secure the
aymcnt so due, which privilege shall hold
ntll the corporation be paid; and in case
UGH owner shall be absent from or have no
agent living in the corporation or
arlsh of NatchitOches or be unknown, the |
orporatiOn shall have the right to proceed !
4 1en, against the property in the manner
oInted out by article 292 and seq, of the
ode of Practice; and the corporation shall
a IN 10Th ,t.ara I
ne amount paid.
SEC. IA. Be it further enacted. etc, That
l case Of the absence or inability of the
layOr to attend, the city council shall elect ;
ne Of their number mayor pro tempore
SEC. To- Be 1t further enacted. etc, That ,
le treasurer shall be ex-Otficio secre-
Try of the city council, and as such he shall
eep minutes of the proceedings Of each
eeting, and he shall read all laws, ordi- !
ances and resolutions, and all other pro- :
sedlng5 of the city council; he shall file all
lie bonds of the officers of the city and re-
'rd them IN a separate book, and certified u,
pies Of said bonds and of all laws and or
nanCes shall be evidence in all courts of
rs State; he shall furnish, free of COSTS to .
Re mayor of the city certified copies of all
WIS and ordinances which impose fine or
'nalty, or both, for their infractiOn, and :
: shall do and perform such other duties !
may be imposed upon him by the Ordi- !
lnces of the city. .
SEC. l6. Be it further enacted, etc. That !
treasurer he shall keep a correct q
count of all moneys received and g
7bur5ed, be shall keep separate and apart
ON each other all moneys received bvtax- +
ion on real and personal estates, licenses, i
les and fOrfeitures, and he shall exhibit
S account whenever required to do so by
e mayor and city council.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted. etc. That 1