New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-17

OIher buildings as may De Tor the public
| benefit and 20 build a city Horkhouse
! 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
! property of the city of Natchitoches as
shall be deemed necessary by them; pro-
| yided, that SAID taxes shall in no one wear
| exceed two per centum on the assessed
| value of the real and personal estate within
! said city fer the year for which the
| assessment of taxes is made; sixth to i'm
/ pose an annual license tax on trades pro-
| fessiOns and Callings, said license to expire
| on the thirty-fiTst day of December in the
| year in which il 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 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-
Gent cause any OF the appOintees or officers
elected by themselves, and 10 define the du-
ties OF all such officers and appOntees:
ninth, to survey and lay ont 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 ditehing, 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 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 Tx the squaring, and to pre-
vent encrOaChment HpOn the stopping and I
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 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 |
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days notice in newspaper, or by posting: |
twelfth, to abate nuisanCes, suppress houses !
of uI-fame, and cause the arrest and pun |
lshment Of Migrants; thirteenth, to enact |
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
prlatlOns for the purpose Of building a 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 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-
saloons and shops for retailing
liquors, and to order the same to be closed
whenever the public safety and tranquility
shall require 1t, 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 draws, carriages ON
libuses and other vehicles of every descrip-
ion; seventeenth, to establish market
places, and adopt regulations by ordinances
governing said market houses and places.
SEC. IL. Be it further enacted, etc That
he mayor ard city council of NatchitOches
hall succeed TO, ard be invested with. all
llp RIGHTS Il Of
own Of NatchitOches, as previously incor-
lOrated,
SEC, II. Be it further enacted, etc, That
he mayor and four councilmcn, and no
ess number, shall constitute a quorum to
transact business, but to levy any tax, toll
II impOst, or to fix any license, or to make !
ny appropriation it shall require vote of
he majority Of the c0uncilmCn and mayer,
nd the affirmative and negative of each |
-ote shall be recorded on the minutes.
SEC. IL. 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,
He'd up, cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
0 do so in the time required by the laws /
nd ordinances of the corporation, the
nay or and city council shall cause it
D be done at the expense of the
wner of the property, and the said
VI pO4 dIlNu SNAIL nave Il special DTlNl-
sge on said property to secure the
ayment so due, which privilege shall hold
ntll the corporation be paid; and in case
lch owner shall be absent from or have no
agent living in the corporation or
arlsh of NatchitOches, or be unknown, the
DrDOratiOn shall have the right to proceed
rem against the property in the manner
Onted out by article 292 and seq, of the
ode of Practice; and the corporation shall
entitled to eiTlt Der cent interest y1non |
le amount paid.
SEC. H. BE il further enacted ETC., That |
case Of the absence or inability of the q
aYOr to attend the city council shall elect q
le OF their number mayor pro tempore. a
SEC. 10. BE 1t further enacted, etc, That | a
70 treasurer shall be ex-OtficiO secre-
ry Of the city council, and as such he shall 7
sep minutes Of the proceedings of each i
Getting. and he shall read all laws, Ordi- I
tnces and resolutions, and all other pro- L
edings Of the city council; he shall file all d
e bonds of the officers of the city and re-
Td 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 -
IS State; he shall furnish, free Of costs, to a
Q mayor OF the city certified copies Of all y
WIS and ordinances which impose a fine or '
nalty, or both, for their infraction, and .
shall do and perform such other duties =
may be imposed upon him by the Ordi- =
noes of the city.
SEC. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That 7
treasurer he shall keep a correct q
count of all moneys received and | q
50ursed, he shall keep separate and apart
I'M each other all moneys received by tax n
ION on real and personal estates, licenses. ! If
es and torteitures, and he shall exhibit
J account whenever required tozdo 40 bv
g mayor and city council