Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-02-07

dams reservoirs, bitches, canals and
other means to supply the city and its
Inhabitants with water for the pur-
poses of domestic use and of irrigation,
and to distribute such water either in
zanjas, bitches, pipes or otherwise,
into, upon and over the lands within
the limits Of said city, or for either Of
said purposes.
5th-For the purpose of establishing,
constructing, maintaining and 0perat-
ing of gas works and distributing the
same in pipes or otherwise into and
throughout said city, or either.
6th-FOr the purpose of laying out,
opening, extending, widening or other
wise improving streets, alleys lanes,
sidewalks and crosswalks within said
city. 4 ft~@ttt
7th-FOr the purpose of laying out,
building and constructing of sewers,
drains and cesspools, or either.
Sth-For any and all other public or
municipal objects or required for the
protection, benefit and convenience of
said city and its inhabitants, and for
any or all of such purposes and objects
in this section enumerated or referred
to; the said corporation shall have the
right, and is hereby empowered, to
condemn any and all property required
to be taken therefor, in the manner
hereinafter provided.
Sec. 3. The said corporation shall
have the further power, and is hereby
further authorized through it's officers
and agents, and as hereinafter pro-
viled, or as is now or may hereafter
be prescribed by the ordinances, by
laws, resolutions, rules and regula-
tions of said city, passed and adopted
in pursuance hereof, to assess, levy
and collect each year upon all proper
ty, both real and personal, in said city
and taxable under the laws of this
State, taxes and assessments for gen.
eral municipal purposes, and for such
special objects and purposes as is now
authorized by law or by this Act or any
subsequent Act of the Legislature, may
be authorized to be imposed, levied and
collected; provided that such taxes
levied for general municipal purposes,
exclusive of such special taxes and
assessments, shall not exceed for any
one year the sum of one dollar and
fifty cents on each one hundred dollars
worth of property, both real and per-
sonal, within said city.
Sec. 4. The said corporation through
its officers and agents as hereinafter
provided or may be prescribed by
the ordinances, bylaws, resolutions.
orders, rules and regulations passed
and adopted in pursuance hereof, shall
have the further power and is hereby
authorized, subject to the resolutions,
provisions and conditions herein con-
tanned, to manage and control, to sell,
lease or otherwise, except by mort
gage or hypotheeatiOn, or as herein
provided, dispose Of any or all of the
property Of said corporation, and to
appropriate the proceeds, profits or
benefit OF said corporation.
Sec. 5. The Mayor and Common
Council, acting for and on behalf of
said corporation, shall have power and
is hereby authorized by ordinance to
provide for the licensing, regulating,
restraining, suppressing and prohib-
iting or either of any and all hawkers,
peddlers, pawn-brOkers, dance cellars,
melodeons, shows, circuses, billiard
tables, bowling and ten pin alleys,
faro banks, gaming with cards, games
of chance, gambling houses, tables or
stands, bowdy houses and any and all
noxious and offensive, immoral, in
decent or disreputable places, bust
nesses and practices or either in said
city; also, to license, tax and regulate
or either the carrying on and conduct
ing of any or all professions, trades,
callings, occupations or other business
by any person, natural or ARTIFICIAL
within the corporate limits OF said
city, to fix the amount of license, tax
thereon and to be paid by such persons
therefor at such sums respectively as
the said Mayor and Common Council
shall think equitable and just, and
may in the name and for the benefit
of said corporation enforce in such
manner as they shall see proper to
prescribe the payment of such license
taxes by suit, either with or without
attachment, in the proper. court under
the laws of this State, or by fine and
imprisonment or either, or in such
other manner as in said ordinances
may be provided.
Also to provide by ordinance for the
prevention of vagrancy within said
city, and for the punishment, confine-
ment, imprisonment and employment
or either of any and all persons having
no visible and reputable means of sup
port or lending idle and dissolute
lives.
See. 8. The said Mayor and Conn
mon Council shall have the further
power by ordinance to create the of
fees of City Tex Collector, City Sur
veyor, Superintendent of Streets, Ian.
jaro or Water Overseer and any other
offices or either, as they may think
necessary or required for the more ef.
ficient government of said corporation,
and may in such ordinances provide
for the election or appointment of any
or all of such officers as they shall
deem best, and to prescribe their res
pective powers and duties.
#ar ARTICLE III.
OF OFFICERS, ETC.
Section l. The officers of said cor
poration shall be:
A Mayor, twelve members of the