New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-13

power 20 examine and commit in all cases
arising under the laws of the State, for all
crimes, oftenses and misdemeanors against
the State in the same manner and to the
same extent as justices OF the peace now
or hereafter may do. He is hereby
authorized and empowered to examine.
try and sentence persons for violation
of the laws aud 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, I'M
til three o'clock P NJ, or longer if neCes-
sary. Ali 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. Z. 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
the city council, which shall be neither in
creased nor diminished during the term OF
office in which it shall be established.
SEC. s. 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
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city incorporation, and shall receive the
same fees for such services as are by law
allowed to cOnstables, to be paid by the
city of Natchitoches.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, etc, That
thaC the mayor anu clGy council anu tHe1I
duly elected anu quaLhed successors IN
once, snaj1 nave perpetual succession tLaI
| Jney snail De capaDie OF IhSIdtut!uS allu oe-
IPndng Sults "a az courts oI tHla 2ldLE' III,
DER tne tltie OF ne mayor anu Wy Coun,
Gil OF Natchltoches' ana th@I CITATIONS anu
other legal process shaA De StFFtd Oh the
mayor.
SEC. TO- Be it further enacted, etc, That
the mayor and city council shall have tUll
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
salubrilY, in a manner not inconsistent
with the laws of this State: second 70 adopt
and use P common seal; third, to Iurchase,
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 tire engine houses. aud such
other buildings as may be for the public
benefit, and TO build a city workhOUse ;
fourth, to establish 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 and immovable
pp0perty of the city of Natcbitoches as
| shall he 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 wear for which the
assessment of taxes is made; sixth, to i'm
nosn an annual license tax on trades pro-
LESSONS and callings. said license to expire
| on the thirty-frst dav of December in the
wear in which it was obtained, and which
license fax shall be due and PAYABLE at the
office Of the city treasurer from the first
dav 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
reouired: 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
pansatiOn Of all officers and others appoint
| cd or elected by them; to remove for sutf-
ciant caUse anV of the aDpOintees or officers
| elected by themselves, and to define the du-
ties of all such officers and apDOntees;
NINTH to survey and Law 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 8
wharf within the corporate limits, and fix
the wharfage dues thereon; to order and
direct the ditching filing, opening, widen
inc 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
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