New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-08

| 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 if for the above or other public puNs
| 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 formahties
| prescribed by existing laws upon the sub
| iect, to regulate the proportions and to
| make and repair all common drains, public
| roads, Ievees, causeways and bridges, to
! determine the completion and pavement OF
the streets, to- fix the squarng, and to pre-
| vent encrOachment apGn 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 be its
tFvalue, which may incumber the said places
or prevent and embarass the free use of the
same, TOT be removed or sold for whom it
may cOIEcern. in the same manner and
after sum advertisement as shall be re-
quired Wy ordinance; TENTH to clean the
banks Of Cane river or other streams
within the limits Of the city, and reopen
such ambient and natural drains as have
been obs ructed 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
up, and to pass laws and ordinances for
the sale of said animals, after three
days notice in a newspaper or by posting;
twelfth, to abate nuisances, suppress houses
of ill-fame, and cause the arrest and pun
ishment OF vagrants thirteenth, to enact
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
priatiOns for the purpose OF building city
workhOuse, and prayiding 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 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-
tertainment, saloons and shops tor 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, carriages, ON
nbuses 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 ard city council Of Natchitoches
shall succeed to, and be invested with, all
the rights, property and possessions OF the
town of NatcMtOches, as previously incor-
pOrated.
SEC. y. Be it further enacted, etc. That !
the mayor and four councilmen, and no
less number, shall constitute quorum to
transact business, but to levy any tax, toll
or impost, or to fix any license, or to make
any appropriation, it shall require vote OF |
the majority Of tie councilmen and mayer, |
and the affirmative and negative of each
vote shall be recorded on the minutes
SEC. l3. Be ito further enacted etcoo That !
whenever the owner of the property IN 1
front Of which sidewalk, banquette or J
ditch shall have been ordered to be made, |
filled up, cleaned out or repaired shall fail
to do sD i'll the time required by the laws |
and ordinances of the corporation, TIE
mayor and city council shall cause 1t |
to be done az the expense OF the
owner of the property and the SAID
corporation shall have a special prIvl- |
Iege on said property to secure the |
payment so due, which privilege shall hold
until the corporation be paid: and in case 4
such owner shall be absent from or have no
authorized agent living in the corporation or
parish of Natchitoches, or be unknown, the !
corporation shall have the right to proceed
IN rem against the property in the manner
pointed ont by article 292 and seq. of the
Code Of Practice; and the corporation shall |
be entitled to eight peg GENT interest upon
the amount paid.
SEC. IA. Be it further enacted. etce That |
in case of the absence or inability of the |
mayor to attend, the city council shall elect !
one of. their number mayor pro temp0reo
SEC. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, Eha6 4
the treasurer shall be ex-otticiO secre- |
tary Of the city council, and as such he shall |
keep minutes Of the proceedings OF each
meeting. and he shall read all laws, Ordi- |
nances and resolutions, and all other pro I
ceedings of the city council he shall file all
the bonds of the officers of the city and res |
cord them in a separate book, and certified I
copies of said bOndsand of all laws and or
dinances shall be evidence in all courts of |
this State; he shall furnish, free of costs, to |
the mayor of the city certified copies of all |
laws and ordinances which impose fine or |
penaltE or both, for their infraction, and |
he shsn DO and perform such ether duties |
as nay be imposed upon him by the ordi-
marcos of the city.
IS treasurer he shall keep correct |
account of all moneys received and |
disbursed he shall keep separate and apart
from each other all moneys received by tax
alton on real and personal estates, licenses,
fines and fOrfeitures, and he shall exhibit
his account whenever required to do so by
the mayor and city council
SEC. II. BE it further enacted, etc, That
it shall be the duty Of the assessor and col
lectOr to assess the taxes on real and per-
sonal estate in the city, in the manner
pointed out by the laws and ordinances of
the city, and to collect the same.
SEC. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That
for the purpose of levying and collecting
taxes and licenses, the mayor and city
council are hereby invested with full power
to pass all laws not inconsistent with the
of the United States or of this
State, to compel the payment, by cOmpul
sorry process, Of all taxes or licenses which
may be due, and they are hereby author
lied to confer on the assessor and collector
power sufficient to carry into effect the laws
and ordinances pertaining to the leyYing
and collecting of such taxes and licenses.
SEC. 10. BE it further enacted, etc, That
from and after the passage of this act the
powers of the police jury of the parish OF
shall cease and determine
within said city of Natchitoches, and the
mayor and the city council shall possess all
the powers within said corporation which
have been heretofore exercised by the police
jury, except so far as it relates to public
buildings and property within said city
which belong to said parish of Natchi-
tOchcs. and that the inhabitants and prop
erty within the corporate limits of said city
of Natchitoches shall be exempt from the