New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-11

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/ fourth, to establish a quarantine for the
nroteetiOu, 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-
LESSONS and callings, said license to expire
on the thirty-frst 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 tx their salaries and com
pensatiOn of all officers and others appoint
ed or elected by them; to remove for sutfi
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
wharf within the corporate limits, and fix
the wharfage dues thereon; to order and
| direct the ditching, filling, opening, widen
| ing and continuing of any of the streets,
and if fer 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 at reasonable price,
| or to cause the same to be appropriated
| according to the mode and f0rmalities
| prescribed by existing laws upon the sub
iect, 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
obstructing of the streets, public squares,
| sidewalks leYees, public roads or river
banks of the city of NatchitOches, and to
| order any object, whatsoever may be its
| value, which may incumber 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 tor
the sale of said animals, after three
days notice in newspaper, or by posting;
twelfth, to abate nuisances, suppress houses
of hl-fame, and cause the arrest and pun
ishment of Migrants; thirteenth, to enact
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
priatiOns for the purpose of building city
| wOTkhOuse, 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
is to be collected, whenever such persons.
| shall Conduct such business or 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 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
|
nibuses and other vehicles of every descrip-
ton; seventeenth, to establish market
places and adopt regulations by ordinances
governing said market houses and places.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the mayor and city council of NatchitOches
shall succeed to- and be invested with, all
the rights, property and possessions OF the
town of NatchitOches, as previously moor
pOrated.
SEC. II. Be it further enacted ETC., That
the mayor and four cOuncilmen, and no
less number, shall constitute quorum to
transact business, but to levy any tax, toll
or impOst, or to fix any license, or to make
any appropriation, it shallrequire vote OF
the majority of the cOuncilmen and mayer,
and the affirmative and negative OF each
vote shall be recorded on the minutes
SEC. -. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
| whenever the owner of the property in
front of which sidewalk, banqUette or
ditch shall have been ordered to be made,
filled up, cleaned ont or repaired, shall fail
to do so in the time required by the laws
and ordinances of the corporation, the
mayor and city council shall cause it
to be done at the expense of the
owner of the property, and the said
corporation shall have a special prlvi-
lege on said property to secure the
payment so due, which privilege shall hold
until the corporation be paid; and in case
such owner shall be absent from or have no
authorized agent living in the corporation or
parish of NatchitOehes, or be unknown, the
J corporation shall have the right TO proceed
IN rem against the property in the manner
pointed out by article 292 and seq, Of the
Code of Practice; and-the corporation shall
be entitled to eight per cent interest upon
the amount paid.
SEC. IA. 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 tempore.
SEC I5 Be it further enacted, etc., That
the treasurer shall be ex-oficio 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-
nanees and resolutions, and all other pro-
ceedings of the city council; he shall file all
the bunds of the officers of the city and re-
cord them in a separate book, and certified
copies of said bonds and of all laws and or
dinanees shall be evidence in 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 fine or
penalty, or both for their infractiOn, and
he shall do and perform such other duties
as may be imposed upon him by the Ordi-
nances of the city.
SEC. l6. Be it further enacted, etc, That
as treasurer he shall keep a correct
account of all moneys received and
disbursed, he shall keep separate and apart
from each other all moneys received by tax
alton On real and personal estates, licenses,
fines and forfeitures, and he shall exhibit
his account whenever required to do so by
the mayor and city council.
| SEC. II. Be it further enacted, etc, That
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