The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21

shall regulate the collection of and collect
all taxes licences and dues which may be
imposed by the council; shall prescribe the
mode and form of keeping the corporation
books and accounts IN every department.
created by this act, shall appraise and keep
the books of apprajsements open to public
inspection previous to March | in each and
every year thirty days for the correction
and adjustment of excessive and erroneous
appraisements, after which date the APP
praisements as made to stand as final; ana
he shall, before exercising any OF the duties
of his office, whether elected or appointed to
the same, execute bond in the sum of five
thousand dollars with solvent and sufficient
sIlreties for the faithful performance OF his
duties: and he shall be vested with and per-
form such other functions and duties as may
from time to time be prescribed by the eoun-
Gil, and shall exercise all other powers
heretofore vesting in the city treasurer, as
SCISSOR and collector of the city of Baton
Rouge under existing laws not inconsistent
or in conflict with this act.
Seeond-The department of improvement
and commerce shall have general superin-
tendence of all matters regulating the mar
kets, weights and measures, manufactures,
railroads, whIrves and landings; shall keep
a correct account of and collect all wharfage
which may from time to time be levied by
order of the council upon steam boats, fiat
boats or any other kind of water craft
landing at the city wharves OF landings,
and upon all goods, wares and merchandise,
lumber, coal or other material of whatever
nature which shall have been landed upon
any of the wharves, levees or landings be-
longing to the city of Baton Rouge He
shall pay such collections daily into the
treasury of the city. This department shall
also have general superintendenee of all
matters relating to streets, sidewalks, pave
ments, levees, wharyes and landings, celne-
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ing and repairing of the same, the construc-
ton, cleaning and repairing of bridges, and
the drainage of the city, the construction
and repairs of hospitals, asylums, house of
correction, school houses, houses for fire en-
gines, City Hall and all other buildings
owned by or under control of the city for its
own benefit and use, and shall be vested
with and perform such other functions and
duties as may be prescribed by the council.
Third-A department of police, charities
and correction which shall have the general
superintendent of all matters relative to
the INDECENT poor of the city, tho hospitals
and asylums of the city and house OF cor
rection, in accordance with such ordinance
and regulations as shall from time to time
be prescribed by the council, and shall be
vested with and perform such other func-
lions and duties as may be prescribed by
the council. This department shall have
general supervision of all matters relating to
the discipline and efficiency of the police,
the protection of public and private prop
erty, the preservation OF public order and
peace, of the engines and apparatus for eX-
tinguishing conflagrations, and of the work
ing force thereof, the lighting of the city
and the enforcement Of the city ordinances
relative thereto; and shall be vested with
and perform such other functions and duties
as may be prescribed from time to time by
the council. The regular police force of the
maintained, if necessary, at the rate of one
patrolman to each and every one thousand
Inhabitants thereof, exclusive of the admin
istrators of said department. The extra
police force shall be as numerous as may be
deemed necessary by the council to main
tain order and preserve the peace upon cleo
ton and other notable DAYS The term of
service of such extra police force shall not
exceed ten days upon one and the same
commission. The force shall, regular and OK
ira, be appointed by the administrator of said
department, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the council. They shall be healthy,
temperate and able bodied men, and of good
moral character. They shall be dressed in
d uniform suit of clothes, and wear Il shield,
as prescribed by the council, exposed upon
the left breast of the coat, which shall be
their commission for executing and en-
forcing their duties. They shall each
member of the force, be paid sixty dol
lars per month and one police suit of
clothes for every six months service
provided, that ii q member of the force
shall voluntarily leave the service, or is
dismissed for cause before the expiration of
said term OF SIX months service he shall
| be charged with the cost of such uniform
| suit OF clothes and amount thereof de
Quoted from his monthly pay, or he may be
| held before a competent court for the crime
OF embezzlement, and punished iii accord
/ with fhp latu Ia Il
| provided. The council shall have authority
| to pass and enforce all necessary bylaws
| for the purpose of maintaining order and
/ discipline III the force, and shall be vested
| with and perform such other duties as may
! from time to time be prescribed by the coulr
Gil.
Sec. g. Be it further enacted, etc. That
! the council shall organize the departments
established by the foregoing section, regJ-
| late the number of clerks and officers to be
| employed by each department, and the
amount of their salaries; said clerks and
! officers shall be nominated for appointment
| by the administrators of said departments
1 respectively, and be appointed by Il majority
vote of the council. They may be suspended
! by said heads of departments respect
lively, at pleasure, and, in case of such sus
! pension. 1t shall be reported to the council
at its first meeting thereafter, together with
| the cause thereof The council may remove
by vote OF nliJoflty OF Tine mem befs, any
OF said clerks or officers for ncompetency
neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, when
reported by the heads of departments, on
when the services of such officer or enpioye
be no longer necessary to the public inter
est.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the administrators of the foregoing depart
ments SHALL at the end of every month, rem
| der to the mayor a written report of the
administration of their departments during
that month; their actual and prospective
condition, and at the expiration of each fis
cal year general report of the departments
respectively, with such recommendations as
to them may seem advisable for the benefit
and prosperity of the city; the administrator
of finance shall receive an annual salary o.
fifteen hundred dollars, payable monthly
upon his own warrants, approved by The
mayor and eountersigned by the auditing
clerk, and shall not be allowed any othel
] fee or compensation whatever. The admin
istratoI OF improvements and commerce
and police correction and charities shall
each receive an annual salary of ten hun
i dred dollars, payable monthly, upon theil
own warrants, approved by the mayor anC
! rnunfprsipnpd by fine auflifino clerk anf