New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-11
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AN ACT
To amend and reenact sections ten. seven
teen and eighteen of act No. SO of session
of 1877, entitled an act to incorporate the
city OF Natchitoches and provide for the
government OF the same, approved July S,
1872; and providing for the submitting of
the tax levied to the legal voters OF said
city In certain cases.
SECTION l. Be it enacted BY the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vened, That section ten Of act No. 90 be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as
follows: That the mayor and city council
shall have full power and authority to
make and pass such laws and ordinances
as are necessary and proper.
Flrst-T0 regulate and preserve the peace
and good order OF the city, and provide for
and maintain its cleanliness and salubrity
in manner not inconsistent with the laws
of the State.
Second-To adopt and use a common SEAL
Third-TO purchase, hold and convey,
alternate any estate, real or personal, to ac-
cept any gift, grant or inheritance of prop.
erty for public or charitable purposes, to
erect school, market and fire engine houses,
and such other buildings as may be for the
pubic benefit, and to build city WORK
house.
Jul VH-Io tetdOllsu d quarantine Tor
the protection of the city against conta gious
diseases and epidemics.
Fifth-TO levy and collect such annual
and special taxes on the real and personal,
movable and immOvable property of the
city of NatchitOches as shall be deemed ne
cessary by them; provided, that said taxes
shall IN no one year exceed the sum of
$4,000 on the assessed value of the real and
personal estate within said city for the
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made; provided further, that should a
greater amount be levied by said city coun-
Gil, the ordinance making such levy shall
be submitted to the legal qualified electors
OF said city for their approval or rejection
Sixth-To impose an annual license tax
on trades, professions and callngs, said
license to expire on the thirty first day of
December in the year in which it was OBJ
tanned. and which license tax shall be due
and payable at the office of the city treas
urer from the first day of January to the
twenty-eighth day 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 and uni.
form and commission police force, and to
appoint as many police officers as may be
necessary; to fix the salaries and compensa-
ton of all officers and others appointed or
cause any of the appointees or officers
elected by themselves, and to define the
duties Of all such officers and appOintees
Ninth-T0 survey and lay out streets,
public squares; to regulate and make i'm
prOvements to the streets and squares and
other public property, and provide for
lighting and watering the same; to CON
struct a wharf within the corporate limits,
and fix the wharfage dues thereon; to order
and direct the dir ohIpy fiIl;un
widening and continuing of any of the
streets, and if for the above or other public
purposes 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 &C.
cording to the mode and formalites pre-
scribed by existing laws upon the sub
lect; to regulate tho proportions and
to make and repair all common drains,
public roads, levees, causeways and bridges;
to determine the completion and pavement
of the streets; to fix the squarng, and to
prevent 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 its
value, which may incumber the said places
or prevent apd embarrass the free use of
the same, to BE removed or sold for whom it
may concern in the same manner and after
such advertisement as shall be required 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 DISTRACTED BY the |
owners of adjacent lands.
Eleventh-To determine what animals
shall run at large within the corporate lin
it's, and prohibit others from doing SO; to
impound all animals running at large in
OF the laws and ordinances of the |
city; to fix tho penalties and fines which |
the owners thereof shall paw before the an
mal SO impounded shall be delivered I'D,
and to pass laws and ordinances for the |
sale of said animals, after three DAYS notice
IN q newspaper OF by posting.
Twelfth-ro abate nuisances, suppress
houses of ill-fame, and cause the arrest and |
punishment of Migrants.
Thirteenth-To enact laws and ordi.
nances, and to make appropriations for the |
purpose of building city workho and
providing for the government of the same.
FOurteenth-To pass laws and ordinances |
imposing fine upon all persons who shall |
conduct any business, or pursue any occu- |
patton tor which license is to be collected.
whenever such person shall conduct suoh |
business. or pursue said occupation without |
previously obtaining such license.
Fifteenth-To regulate the police of tho |
atres, public balls, tayerps places for shows |