New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-16

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
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-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
pensatlOn OF all officers and others appoint
ed or electeu 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 apDOintees;
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 II tor 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 fOrmalities
prescribed by existing laws upon the sub
ject. to regulate the proportions and to
make and repair all common drains, public
roads, levees, cause ways and bridges, to
determine the completion and pavement of
the streets, to fix the squaTing, and to pre-
vent enCrOachment upon the stopping and
Obstructing OF the streets, public squares,
leVees, 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 lmpOund 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
hn q 10 Of caiI oil
days notice in a newspaper, or by posting; |
twelfth, to .abate nuisances, suppress houses !
Of ill-fame, and cause the arrest and pun
shment of Migrants; thirteenth, to enact !
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO- |
Driations for the purpose of building a city |
and providing for the govern |
ment OF the same; fourteenth, to pass laws |
and ordinances imposing a fine upon all |
persons who shall conduct any business or |
pursue any occupation for which license |
) to be collected, whenever such persons |
hall Conduct such business or pursue said |
occupation without previously obtaining |
3uch license; fifteenth, to regulate the police |
If theatres, public balls, taverns, 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 |
hall require 1t, and impose such duties and |
/
Ilaces as they may deem necessary and |
proper; sixteenth, to regulate the proper gov
rnment of carts and dTays, carriages, ON
libuses and other vehicles Of every descrip-
ion; seventeenth, to establish market
'laces, and adopt regulations by ordinances
said market houses and places.
SEC. IL. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
he mayor ard city council of NatchitOches
hall succeed to, and be invested with, all
In
own of NatchitOches, as previously incOr-
,Orated.
SEC II. Be it further enacted, etc, That
he mayor and four cOuncilmen, and no
ess number, shall constitute a quorum to
ransaCt business, but to levy any tax, toll
r impOst, or to fix any license or to make !
ny appropriation, it shall require a vote of
he majority of the cOuncilmen and MAYER,
nd the affirmative and negative of each
Ote shall be recorded on the minutes.
SEC. l3. Be it further enacted, etc. That
whenever the owner of the property in
rOnt of which sidewalk, banquette or
itch shall have been ordered to be made,
He'd up, cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
D do so in the time required by the laws
nd ordinances of the corporation, the
layO or and city council shall cause it
D be done at the expense Of the
wner OF the property, and the said
OLpOEdtlOu sudll nave Bpecldl prlVl- |
9ge on said property to secure the
ayment so due, which privilege shall hold
ntll the corporation he paid; and in case
UGH owner shall De absent from or have no
agent living in the corporation or
arlsh of NatchitOches, or be unknown, the
shall have the right to proceed
4 rem against the property in the manner
OintGd out by article 292 and seq, of the
ode of Practice; and the corporation shall
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le amount paid.
SEC. Il. Be it further enacted. etc, That
case Of the absence or inability of the
aYor 10 attend, the city council shall elect
ne OF their number mayor pro tempore.
SEC. -. Be it further enacted. etc, That
10 treasurer shall be eX-OfficiO secre-
Try Of the city council, and as such he shall
eep minutes Of the proceedings Of each !
eetng, and he shall read all laws, ordi-
ances and resolutions, and all other pro-
ceilings OF the city council; he shall file all
lie bonds of the officers of the city and re-
Ird them in a.separate book, and certified |
)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 |
le mayor of the city certified copies of all !
WIS and ordinances which impose fine or
5nalty, OF both, for their infraction, and |
2 shall do and perform such other duties
} may DC imposed upon him by the ordi-
ances Of the city.
SEC. I6. Be it further enacted, etc, That
treasurer he shall keep q correct |
count of all moneys received and |
sbur5ed, he shall keep separate and apart
ON each other all moneys received by tax
ion on real and personal estates, licenses,
hes and fOrfeitures, and he shall exhibit |
) account whenever required to do so by
e mayor and city council.
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