New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-19

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the MAYOR and councilmen shall meet anC
organize themselves into body to be known
as the "mayor and council of Natchitoches,
and shall proceed to elect one suitable per
son to be assessor and collector Of the CITY
taxes and licenses, and to elect treasurer
of the city Of Natchiteches, who shall BE-
ex otficio secretary of the city council.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted etc, That
| the Mayor shall preside at all meetings Of
city council shall call meetings of the cOun
Gil when he deems necessary, shall approve
! all laws, ordinances and resolutions OF
the city council, shall vote as other
members of the council upon all ques
| tions, and shall be- vested with the
| same powers as are now exercised by the
| recorders of the city of New Orleans. He
| shall be committing magistrate, with full
power to examine and commit in all cases
| arising under the laws of the State, for all
crimes, Otfenses and misdemeanors against
| the State IN the same manner and to the
same extent as justices of the peace now
| or hereafter may do. lie Is hereby
authorized and empowered to examine.
! try and sentence persons Tor violation
| of the laws and ordinances Of the cor
poration of the city of Natchitoches, and
| otfenses against the same; and shall hold
his court daily, from nine o'clock A. M, IN
! til three o'clock p. NJ. or longer if neces-
| sary. All fines collected by said mayors
court under the provisions Of this act, shall
| be paid into the treasury Of the city of
NatchitOches monthly.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, etc, That
! the mayor shall hold his office for the term
| of one year from the first Monday in May,
| eighteen hundred and seventy-two, or until
| his successor shall have been elected and
| duly qualified, and he shall be entitled to
| and receive an annual salary to be fixed by
| bn os+ oh sbai1 no
creased nor diminished during the term of
| Office in which it shall be established.
SEC g. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
! the mayor of the city of Natchitoches is
! hereby authorized to appoint one court
| officer, who shall be at all times subject to
| the orders of the mayor; and said court
| officer shall be empowered and authorized
| to serve warrants, summons, search war
| rants, attachments and mittimus issued by
| the mayor in ofienses against the State and
| city incorporation, and shall receive the
| same fees for such services as are Dy law
| allowed to cOnstables, to be paid BY the
| city of Natchitoches.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc, That
that the mayor and city council, and their
duly elected and qualified successors in
office, shall have perpetual succession; that
they shall be capable of instituting and de-
Tending suits in all courts of this State, I'M
der the title Of ''The Mayor and City Coun-
ell Of Natchitoches, and that citations and
other legal process shall be served on the
mayor.
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, etc, That
tile mayor and city council shall have full
power and authority to make and pass such
laws and ordinances as are necessary and
proper; first, to regulate and preserve the
peace and good order of the city, and pro-
vide for and maintain its cleanliness and
salubrity, IN a manner not inconsistent
with the laws Of this State; second TO adopt
and use a common seal; third, to purchase,
hold and convey, ALLEVIATE any estate, real
or personal, to accept any gift, grant or
inheritance of property for public or
charitable purposes, to erect school,
market and fire engine houses, and such
other buildings as may be for the public
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 levy and
collect such annual and special taxes on the
real and personal, movable aud immoyable
property OF the city OF Natchitoches as
shall be deemed necessary by them; pro-
Vided, that SAID taxes shall III 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 all dDAudl iiCCHSt INK Oil LEGuSBy 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 gwen
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 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 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, filing, 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 reasonable price. |
ur 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, |
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 sucn advertisement as shall be re- |
CURED 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 |
M and to pass laws and ordinances for