Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-07-12


on, which interest coupons shall he made
noyabIe at any place or places which the
aid .mayor and council may direct. semi
annually, on the first day of January and
JULY of each year, and as they become due
shall be receivable in payment of city tax
es and licenses; and the proceeds Of, the SAFE
of these bonds shall constitute and be set
apart by the treasurer Of said city as a
special fund, for the building of wharf, of
town hall, of a recorders Officel and city
Jail and market house, the purchase of a
steam engine, and the cleaning out of
Young's bayou, to secure the proper drain
age of the city; and for the payment of the
interest and principal CT said bonds as they
become due it shall be the imperative duty
of the said mayor and city council, and
they are hereby required, in the ordinance
providing for the issue of said bonds, to pro-
vide, first, than an annual tax shall be
levied upon the real and personal estate of
the corporation of said city, according to
existing or future State laws in such cases
made and provided, which ordinance shall
be irrepealable till the redemption of said
bonds; second, that none of these bonds
shall become due and payable until the ex-
piratlon of five years from the date of their
issue; third, that on the first day of Janua-
ry of each year, after said period of five
NCshio OHC-tNCHllCip OI Unt amount Oh Ile
principal of said bonds shall become due
and payable; and forth, that the terms and
conditions of the retirement and cancella-
ton of said bonds and the payment of the
payment OF the interest coupons upon
those outstanding shall be fully and srec-
hcaily provided for in the ordinance author
iZilig their issue.
Sec. z. BE it further enacted, etc, That
section nineteen of the aforementioned act
shall be so amended aud re-enacted as to
read as follows: That all fines collected by
the said recorders court, or by any execu-
tive officers acting under the authority of
the same, and under its decree, shall be
paid to the recorder, an exact account of
which shall be kept by him, the amount of
which fines shall be paid over by him to
the city treasurer for each month, within
the first five days of the succeeding month,
and the treasurer's receipt taken thereof.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc, that
, section twenty of the aforementioned act
shall be so amended and re-enacted as to
read as follows: That said recorder shall
hold his court open at place provided by
the mayor and council, for the dispatch of
business daily; that he shall receive such
salary, not (to] be less than four hundred
dollars per annum, as may by ordinance be
fixed by the city council /; and he shall, in
addition to said salary, be authorized to
charge and receive, as a committing magis-
trate, and from the accused, in cases of
conviction for violation of the city ordI-
nancesN such fees as are now or may here
after be allowed to justices of the peace in
criminal matters, and he shall be entitled
to collect said fees in the same manner as
justices of the peace now collect their fees
in criminal cases.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the twenty first section of the aforemen-
toned act shall be SO amended and re-en-
acted as to read as follows: That the jjuris-
diction OF said recorder shall not extend
beyond the corporate limits of the city of
Monroe, in any cases, that he shall hold his
Office for the term of two years, or until
his successor shall have been duly appoint
ed aud qualified: provided, that the Gov
ernor shall, Immediately upon the passage
of this act, appoint and commission under |
this Amended act, competent resident of !
.ne city OF Monroe as recorder thereof,
Whose term Of Office shall expire on the
first day Of June, 1873.
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
section twenty-eight of The aforementioned
act be so amended and re-enacted as to
read as.follows: That the mayor of the city
ot Monroe shall give notice for the space of
forr weeks preceding any city election of
s=,id election in the journals of said city, or
ifthere are no journals published therein
r.; posting in three public places in each
ward. to be established as hereinafter pro-
,+f"d for. ard that the commissioners OF
election for each ward, after having count
sd the votes and returned them to the box,
shall make returns therenf, together with
tho box, to the mayor and city council, and
-haIl deposit for safe keeping and verifica:
tion of said returns a duplicate and
certified copy thereof with the clerk of
the district in and for the parish of Ouaehi-
Ia.
Sec. IL. Be it further enacted, etc., That
all real and personal property within the
corporation Of the city of Monroe, and all
persons, firms and corporations within the
said corporation be and the same arc here
by exempted from all taxes and licenses
levied by the parish of Ouachita, from and
after the first day of January, 1S73; pro-
Viled, that the city of Monroe shall be liza
bic for the expenses in all criminal cases
originating within its corporate limits and
the clcrk of the district court ard the sher
if of the parish of Ouachita shall collect
their fees in such cases from the corporate
authorities of the city of Monroe, and not
from those of the parish of Ouachita.
Sec. II. Be it further enacted. etc, That |
all laws and parts laws in conflict with the
provisions of this act and on the same sub
-ject matter except the general laws of the
State relative to municipal corporations,
be and the same are hereby repealed, and
that this act take effect from and after its
passage
(Signed) o. II. BREWSTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) Z. b. S. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.