New Orleans Republican., 1872-08-28

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 gut, grant or
inheritance of property for public or
charitable purposes, to erect schOOi,
market and fire engine houses, anu such
other buildings as may be for the puOHc
benefit, and 10 build a city Worknouse
fourth to establish quarantine Tor the
protection of the city against contagious
diseases and epidemics; fifth, to levy ana
collect such annual and special taxes on the
real and personal, movable and lmmOyable
propertv of. the city OF NatchitOches as
shafP 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 realand personal estate within
said city for the year for which the
assessment of taxes is made; sixth, to I'M
nose an annual license tax on trades, pro
LESSONS and callings, said license to expire
on the thirty-tirst day of December in the
wear 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 police force, ana
to appoint as many police officers as may
be necessary; to fix their salaries and COM
pensati0n of all officers and Others appoint
ed or elected by them; to remove for sutt-
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
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 pur-
poses the land of any private person or
body corporate is necessary to be had, to
purchase the same at reasonable price,
or to cause the same to be appropriated
according to the mode and tOTmalities
prescribed by existing laws upon the sub
ject, 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 squaring, and to pre-
vent encrOaChment upon the stopping and
Obstructing of the streets, public squares,
sidewalks. levees. public roads or river
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order any object, whatsoever may be it's
value, which may incumber the said places
or prevent and embaTass the free use of the
same, to be removed or sold for whom 1t
may concern, in the same manner and
after sucn 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 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 impOund all animals running at large in
violation Of the laws and ordinances OF the
city, to fix the penalties and'hnes 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 ll-fame, and cause the arrest and pun
ishment Of vagrants; thirteenth, to enact
laws and ordinances, and to make apprO-
priatOns for the purpose of building city
wOrkhOuse, and providing for the govern
ment OF the same; fourteenth, to pass laws
and ordinances imposing fine upon all
persons 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, taEcrns, 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, 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
nibuses and other vehicles of every descrip-
ton; seventeenth, to establish market
places, and adopt regulations by ordinances
governing said market houses and places.
SEC, II. Bel further enacted, etc, That
the mayor ard city council of Natchltoches
shall succeed to, and be invested with, all
the rights, property and possessions of the
town of NatchitOChes, as previously lncor-
pOrated.
SEC. u. 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 a 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, banquettc or
ditch shall have been ordered to be made,
filled up cleaned out or repaired, shall fail
to do so in the time required by the laws
and ordinances of the corporation, the
mayor and city council shall cause it
to be done at the expense of the
owner of the property, and the said
corporation shall have a special priVi-
lege en- 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 NatchitOches, or be unknown, the
corporation shall have the right to proceed
IN rem against the property in the manner
pointed out by article 292 and seq, of the
Code of Practice; and the corporation shall
be entitled to eight per cent interest upon
the amount paid.
SEC. II. Be it 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. IS. Be it further enacted, etc. That
the treasurer shall be ex-oficiO 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-
ceedings of the city council; he shall file all
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
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 q fine or
penalty, or both, for their infraction, and
he shall do and perform such otter duties
as may be imposed upon him by the Ordi-
nances of the city.
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