The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-12

and wharfage and to designate the places for
the landing OF the steamboats,, 1athoats and
} other water craft, within the limits OF the
town.
Foath.--To fix the mode OF inspecting
bread, and regulate the price and sale there
of, either in the market or other public
or private ndiydqa in said 6own
and all explosive materials from being stored
within the town in such quantities as to en-
danger the public safety, and to regulate the
manner and quantity OF storage OF the same;
prouided this shall not give the town the ex-
elusive right to the storage of gunpowder
nor the right to grant to any company, cor
poration. person or persons othe monopoly OF
the same
SLrth.-To provide means and to make reg
ulations for preventing and distinguishing con-
tlagrations.
Serenth-To determine what animals shall
not be permitted to rove in the limits of the
town, or in what cases they may be killed or
confined and sold for the benefit of whom it
may concern.
Eighh-To regulate the police of theatres
public halls, taverns, places for shows and ex-
hibitions, house OF public entertainment and
shops for retailing liquors, houses of public
prostitution. and to order the same to be
closed whenever the public safety and tran
guilty shall require it, and to impose such
duties and regulations upon persons keeping
such places as they may deem necessary and
Ninm.-To regulate the, proper govern
ment OF carts, drays, and other vehicles
require that the owners of said vehicles
shall take q license and to fix the fees anG
charges of all said carts, drays, and other
vehicles kept for hire.
Tpnth.-To establish a ferry and market
place. and farm out the same
Eteuenh.-To regulate the form and height
of Enclosures.
Trelue--T impose fines upon any person or
persons who shall maliciously reak or take
off from the door or other part of any house
within the town limits any knocker, knob,
bel-handle or other fixtures or maliciousy
destroy or deface any sign or door-pIate put
up by the owner or tenant to denote his or
their place of abode, business or occupation.
ahWteenh-To appoint or select all the su-
coordinate officers to fill the offices created by
this act, and exact and require from said Off
GERS and all the persons to whom they may
give contracts and undertakings such bonds
, and security for the faithful performance of
J their duties, as they may deem proper and
necessary. and to require evidence of the
: solvency and sufficiency of their said securi-
ties.
Fo'nteenh- impose and collect fines for
the benefit of the town against all persons
transgressing its ordinances and resolutions,
and to imprson said transgressors in the case
said fines shall not exceed twenty dollars for
each and every cont1avention, and said i'm
prisonment shall not exceed ten days.
FIfeenfh.-To levy an equal and uniform
tax, for the purposes ofo this act upon all
property real and personal in said town,
under appraisement thereof, to be made as
herein stated, and to provide for its collection.
Sirfeemh.- To impose any license tax hey
may think proper on pedllers and hawkers,
travelling exhibitions, shows and vendors OF
spirituous liquors.
SEC. IS. BE it further enactetp etc, That all
real and personal property in the town of
NapoeonvllS whether owned by individuals
or corporations, SHALL for the purposes of
this act, be liable to taxation, except such
such property as is now, or NAV be hereafter
exempted from taxation under the laws of the
State and OF the United States; that the term
real property as used in this act shall be
construed to include land g,d all buildings,
machinery and structures of any kind erected
upon and affixed to the same; that the term
personal property" shall be construed to FL
clude all household furniture, moneys, goods,
capital, chattels, notes, bonds, mortgages or
any other obligations, and any general prop
erty which is not real.
SEC. 10. BE 1t further enacted, etc, That the
Council of the town of Napoleonville shall,
meeting, in the month of December, and not
oftener in each and every year, lay an equal
and uniform tax upon all real and personal
property In said town, as prescribed, and
under the limitations imposed in this act for
due apd payable at the office of the collector
for the town, on the first of February. The
said Council shall, at its first regular meeting
in December and on the same day annually
thereafter, impose an annual license tax, as
herein prescribed; said license to expire on
the thirty-frst day of December, in the year
in which it was obtained, and which license
tax shall be due and payable at the office of
the collector for the town, from the first to
the thirty-tirs of January, inclusive; pro
rided, that the Council to be appointed by the
, Governor under the provisions of this act shall
} at its first meeting, order the assessment and
make theoappropriations for the year 1878
, tNeraa ftpr aGPbrIjnp n nj
this act.
Sec 20. Be 1t further Enacted etc, That tfS
Council shall, once in every twelve months,
before fixing and deciding upon the amount
OF taxes and licenses to be assessed for the
; ensuing year, cause to beSpade out detailed
, estimate exhibiting the Various items of LA
bilities and expenditures, including the re-
4uisite amount for contingent expenses
during the said year, and Shall cause the
same to be published for at least ten days in
[ the official journal of the town; and such rate
| OF taxation, not exceeding two and half mills
) on every dollar OF valuation, shall thereafter
3 be liked and assessed, together with other
revenues of the town, as may be necessary to
meet the said estimated liabilities and expendi-
lures. The adoption of said detailed estimate
shall be considered as the appropriation Of the
amount therein stated for the purpose, and
after said estimate and appropriation shall
be made for the year. no other appropriation
2 supplemental thereto shall be made. and no
warrant, certificate or claim against the cor
poratiOn shall be valid when drawn in excess
of said appropriation, and no warrant, certifi-
cate or claim against the corporation, not
) already drawn, shall be paid or received in
payment by the corporation unless drawn in
the manner directed by the Town Council and
asdhe law directs.
Sec. 81. Be It further enacted, etc., That the
taxes levied and assessed by virtue of this act
on the property, real and personal. of any
person or corporation, shall constitute a lien
and privilege on the propertoassessed,s ubor.
dinate Only to the lien and privilege reserved
by the State for the same purpose.
SEC 81. Be it further enacted, oetc., That all
taxes and licenses and dues imposed by the
town of Napoleonvile, or due the same, and
J not paid on the first of November Of each en-
3 suing year, shall be exigible after ten days
publication in the official journal Of the town
, in the Parish Court of the Parish of Assump-
} ton, ORE any other court of competent iuris-
5 diction and the only process necessary for the