New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-10

/ benefit, and TO DulI0 Guy WOTkuOuSo :
fourth, to establish a quarantine for the
protection of the city against contag e
l 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 Natchitoohes 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 inn
pose an annual license tax on trades, pro-
/ fessiOns and callings, said license to expire
on the thirty-hrst day of December in the
year in which it was obtained, and which
I 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-
:, Gent cause any of the appointees or officers
| Elected by themselves, and to define the du-
| tbs of all such officers and apDOintees;
NTH, to survey and lay out streets, public
| squ'res, to regulate and make improve
menu to the streets and squares and other
pu9llc property, and provide for lighting
anu wagering the same; to construct
| wharf within the corporate limits, and fix
the Wharfage dues thereon; to order and
dlreet the dil@hng, filing, opening, widen
ing anu continuing of any of the streets,
! ana II Ior the above or other public pur-
| poses the lanu It any private person or
| BODY corporate Is necessary to be had, to
purchase the same ct a reasonable price,
or TO cause the saInt to be appropriated
| according to the mOd> and formalities
| prescribed By, existing lays upon the sub
| ject, to regulate the PROPORTIONS and to
make and repair all common drains. public
roads, levces, causewaYs ana BRIDGES to
determine the completion and Pavement of
the streets, to fix the squaring, ard to pre-
vent eneTOachment 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 he its
value, which may incumber the said places
or prevent and embarass the free use OF tbe
same, to be removed or sold for whom T.
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 DISTRACTED 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,
no 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
the sale of said animals, after three
days notice in newspaper, Or by posting;
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OF llI-fame, and cause the arrest and pun
ishment of Migrants; thirteenth, 20 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 a fine upon all |
persons who shall conduct any business or |
pursue any occupation for which license |
is to be collected, whenever such persons |
shall eoUduct 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-
tePtalnment, 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 drays, carria GEES, ON
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. IL. Be it further enacted, etc. That
the mayor and city.eouncil of Natchitoches
shall succeed to, and be invested with, all
the rights, property and possessions of the
town Vi NatchitOches, as previously incor-
Dorated.
Sec. l2 Be it further enacted, ETC., That
he. mayor and four cOuncilmen, and no
ess number, shall constitute quorum to
transact business, but to levy any tax, toll
II lmpost or to fix any license, or to make
my appropriation, it shall require vote of
he majority of the cOuncilmen and mayer,
md the affirmative and negative of each
tote shall be recorded on the minutes
SEC. 3D. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
whenever the owner of the property in !
ront of which a sidewalk, banquette or
Itch shall have been ordered to be made,
lied up, cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
o do so in the time required by the laws |
md ordinances of the corporation, the
nay or and city council shall cause it
o be done at the expense of the |
wner of the property, and the said
shall have a special privi-
eye on said property to secure the
ayment so due, which privilege shall hold |
JllII LHe corporation De PAID; ana IN case
UGH owner shall be absent from or have no
uthorzed agent living in the corporation or
arlsh of Natchitoches, or be unknown, the
orporatlon shall have the right to proceed
rem against the property in the manner
Ointed out by article 1872 and seq, of the
ode of Practice; and the corporation shall I
entitled to eight per cent interest upon
he. amount paid.
SEC. IA. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
case Of the absence or inability of the
Iayor to attend, the city council shall elect 7
ne OF their number mayor pro tempOre t
SEC. 10. be 1t further enacted, etc, That y
le treasurer shall be ex-oficiO secre- q
Try Of the city council, and as such he shall :
eep minutes of the proceedings of each =
letting, 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- (
'rd them IN separate book, and certified q
pies of said bonds and Of all laws and or
nances shall be evidence in all courts of
lis State; he shall furnish, free of costs, to | u
70 mayor OF the city certified copies of all | 81
WIS and ordinances which impose a fine or Z
,nalty, or both, for their infraction, and y
shall do and perform such other duties fo
may De imposed upon him by the Ordi-
Lnces of the city.
SEC. l6. Be it further enacted, etc., That
treasurer he shall keep correct | ~
count Of all moneys received and
sbursed, he shall keep separate and apart
pm each other all moneys received by tax
ION on real and personal estates, licenses, q
les and forfeitures, and he shall exhibit =
) account whenever required to do SO by lei
e mayor and city council. y
SEC. IL. Be it further enacted. etc. That -
shall be the duty of the assessor and col SD