New Orleans Republican., 1872-08-08

benefit. and to build a city Vyorkborse.
fourth, TO establish Quarantine for fine
pretection of the city against ooutarious
diseases and epidemics; fifth, to lew and
collect such annual and special taxes on the
real and personal, movable and immovable
property Of the city of NatchitOehes as
shall he deemed necessary by them; pro
vided, that SAID taxes shall III no one year
exceed two per eentUm on the assessed
value of the real and personal estate within
said city for the year Ior when the
assessment Of taxes is made; sixth, to I'M
nose an annual license tax on trades, pro-
fessions and'callings said license to expire
ON the thirtv-frst day of December IN the
yearin which it was obtained, an0 winch
license tax shall be due and payable at the
office of the city treasurer from the 1rst
day of January to the twenty-elghLh uay
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 ana
uniform and commission a police force, and
to appoint as many police Otlcefs as may
he necessary: to fix their salaries ana COM
pensation of all officers and others appoint
ed OF elected by them; to remove fOR sum
cient eguse any of the appOintees or officers
elected by themselves, and to dehne the uu-
ties of all such officers and apDOlnteesi
ninth to survey and lay out streets, pupllc
souares, to regulate and make improve
ments to the streets and squares and other
public property, and provide 1or lrghIlhg
and watering the satnei to construct
wharf within the corporate limits, and hX
the wharfage dues thereOni to order ana
direct the ditching, filing, opening, widen
ing and continuing of any OF the streels'
and if for the above or other pubic pur-
poses the land of any private person OF
body corporate is necessary TO De haul 20
purchase the same at @ reasonable price,
according to the mode and tOrmahhes
prescribed by existing laws upon the SUD
iect to regulate the proportions and TO
make and repair all common drains, pubic
roads, levees, causeWays and bridges, TO
determine the completion and pavement OF
the streets, to fix the sqparing, and to pre-
vent encroachment 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 be It's
value, which may ineumber the said places
/ or prevent and embarass the free use OF the
same, to be removed or sold for whom 1t
| NAV concern, in the same manner and
! after such advertisement as shall be re-
| uuired 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 nave
| been obstructed 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 imDOund all animals running at large IN
| violation of the laws and ordinances OF the
| city, to fix the penalties and fines when
! the owners thereof shall pay before the
| animal so impounded shall be- delivered
up, and to. pass laws and ordinances tor
| 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 enRcO
| laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
| DriatiOns for the purpose of building city
i workhouse, and providing for the govern
ment of the same; fourteenth, to pass laws
| and ordinances imposing q fine upon all
| uersOns who shall conduct any business or
! pursue any occupation for which license
is to be collected, whenever such persons
| shall cOuduct such business or pursue said
occupation without previously obtaining
| such license; fifteenth, to regulate the police
of theatres, public balls, tayerns, places for
| shows and exhibitions, houses of public en-
tertainment, saloons and shops for retailing
! liquors, and tO'Order the same to be closed
| whenever the public safety and tranquility
shall require it, andimpOse such duties and
! regulations upon persons keeping such
| places as they may deem necessary and
proper; sixteenth, to regulate the proper gov
| ernment of carts and drays, carriages, ON
nibuses and other vehicles of every descrip-
! tiOn 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 council of NatchitOche5
shall succeed to, and be invested with, all
the rights, property and possessions of the
town of NatchitOches, as previously incOr-
| pOrated.
Sec. 70. 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 the cOuncilmen and mayer,
and the affirmative and negative Of each
vote shall be recorded on the minutes.
SEC. l3. Be it further enacted, etc, That
whenever the owner of the property in
| front of which a sidewalk, banquette or
ditch shall have been ordered to be made,
filed up, cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
to do so in the time required by the laws
and ordinances of the corporation, toe
may or and city council shall cause it
to be- done at the expense of the
owner of the property, and the Sald
| corporation shall have a special pT%gi-
lege on said property to secure the
payment so due, which privilege shall hold
until the corporation be paid; and in case
such owner shall be absent from or have no
| authorized agent living in the corporation or
parish of Eatchitoches, or be unknown, the
corporation shall have the right to proceed
7 IN rem against the property in the manner
pointed out by article 292 and seq, of the
Code of Practice; and the corporation shall
T be entitled to eight per cent interest upon
the amount paid.
SEC IA. Be il further enacted, etc, That
in case of the absence or inability Of the
mayor to attend, the city council shall elect
one of their number mayor pro tempOre.
SEC. l5 Be it further enacted etc, That
the treasurer shall be ex-oficiO seere-
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.
ceedings Of the city council; he shall file ali
the bonds of the officers of the city and re-
| cord them in a separate book, and certified
copies of said bonds and of all laws and Or
dinanees 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 OF
! | penalty, or BOTH for their infractiOn, and
he shall do and perform such other duties
I as may be imposed upon him by the OrdI
nances of the city.
SEC. l6. Be it further enacted, etc, Thai
as treasurer he shall K6ep 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
z fines and forseitures, 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
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