New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-13


property of the city of NatchitOches as
shall be deemed necessary by them; pro-
| yided, 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 Ofstaxes is made; sixth, to i'm
pose an annual license tax on trades, pro-
| LESSONS and callings, said license to expire
on the thirty-frs day of December in the
year in whichit 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 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 a
| 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 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 at a reasonable price,
or to cause the same to be appropriated
according to the mode and fOrmalities
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
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 !
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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 lll-fame, and cause the arrest and pun |
lshment of vagrantS thirteenth, to enact |
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
priatiOns for the purpose of building city /
wOrkhOuse, 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-a 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-
tertalnment, saloons and shops for retailing
liquors, and to order the same to be closed
whenever the public safety andtPanguillity |
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 drays, carriages, ON
nibQses and other vehicles of every descrip-
ton; seventeenth, to establish market
places, and adopt regulations by ordinances
governing said market houses and places.
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the mayor ard city council of Natchit0ches
shall succeed to, and be invested with, all
tie rights, property and possessions OF the
town of NatchitOcles, as previously incOr-
pOrated.
SEC. Il. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the mayor and four COunCiimen, 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
ErIf &c
the majority of the cOuncilmen and mayer,
and the affirmative and negative of each
vote shall be recorded on the minutes.
SEC. ID. Be it further enacted, etc. That
whenever the owner of the property in
front of which a sidewalk, banquette or
ditch shall have been ordered. to be made,
filled up. cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
to do so in the time required by the laws
and ordinances of the corporation, the
may or and city council shall cause it
to bee done at the expense of the
owner of the property, and the said
corporation shall have special priyi-
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
agent living in the corporation or
parish of Natchitoches, or be unknown, the
shall have the right to proceed
III 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. ID. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the treasurer shall be ex-OtticiO 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-
of the city council; he shall file all
the bonds 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
dinances 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
be shall do and perform such other duties
as may be imposed upon him by the Ordi-
nances of the city.
SEC. 16. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
as treasurer he shall keep q correct
account of all moneys received and |
disbursed, he shall keep separate and apart
from each Otherall moneys received by tax
alton on real and personal estates licenses, |
fines and fOrEeitures, 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
It shall be the duty of the assessor and col
ectOr to ASSESS the taxes on real and per-
sOnal estate in the city, in the manner
pointed out by the laws and ordinances of
The city, and to collect the same.