The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-05
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOORAT FRIDAY, APRIL s. 1878

RAT, FRIDAY, APRIL s,
Council shall have full power and authority
to make and pass such bylaws and 0rdln-
ances as are necessary and proper.
PEACE. ETC.
First-To regulate and preserve the peace
and COED order of the city, and to provide FOL
and maintain cleanliness and sanitary condi-
ton.
IMPROVEMENTS, ETC.
iSecomst-To regulate and make improve
mentsto the streets. alleys, public squares
wharyes and other public property and tc
provide for the lighting and watering OF the
same, and to order and direct the ditching
filling, opening, widening and continuing Of
any streets or alleys; and IT, for such pur'
porate is necessary to be had, the said City
Council shall have the right and power of pur-
chasing the same at a reasonable price
or cause the same to be appropriated
tiles prescribed by existing laws on
the subject; to regulate the proportion
and to make and repair all common sewers,
drains, canals, public roads, levees. dykes,
causeways and bridges, notwithstanding any
superntendence which might be set up by
any corporation or individual ever such
works. To determine the completion and di-
mansions OF the pavements OF the streets, to
fix the squaring, and to prevent any encroach-
ment upon or stopping and obstrueting the
streets alleys, public squares, lerees public
roads, or any part of the landing or port OF
Shreveport, and to order any object, whatever
may be its value which may cucumber said
places or prevent and embarrass the free use
of the same, to be torn down and removed or
sold for whom it may. concern, in the same
manner and after such notices as shall be re-
qured by sMch regulations.
RIVER BANKS, ETC.
Third-For cleaning Of the banks OF the
river or other navigable streams within the
limits of the city; for the reopening OF such
amount of natural drains as have been Oh
structed by the owners of the adjacent lands,
or the opening or filling up of any water
course which is not navigable, for the pur.
pose of carrying the public highways oyer the
same; prOuided, no injury be occasoned there
by to the neighboring inhabitants.
FIRE LIMITS, ETC.
Fourth-To provide the means and make
regulations for preventing and extiDguishing
confiagrations; to determine in what part Of
the city wooden buildings shall not be erected
and to prevent persons from reconStructiDg
| in wood old and decayed wooden buildings
under pretense of repairing the same in those
parts of the city where it is lawful to builG
only in brick, stone and metal.
PUBLIC AMUSEMENT AND HOUSES.
| FIfh-To regulate the police of theatres
public balls, taverns, places for shows anC
exhibitions, houses for public entertainment
shops for retailing liquors, houses for public
prostitution, and to order the same to bt
closed whenever the public safety and tran
quiility shall require it, and to impose such
regulations and duties upon persons keeping
such places as they mayodeem proper and
necessary, and to punish Migrants.
VEHICLES
| Sirth-To regulate the proper government
of carts, drays, wagons and other vehicles o
every description; freight, locomotives, pas
senger and street cars which run in the
streets and within the limits of the city.
FERRIES AND MARKETS.
Sepeuth-To establish and regulate all maj
ket places and to farm out the same, anc
jointly with the parish of Bossier let out thu
ferry or ferries across Red river within thu
limits of said city, the revenues from the same
to be equally divided between said city anc
parish of Bossier.
LEvEE DUES AND WATER CRAFTS
Eighth-To prescribe and collect rates o
levee dues and wharfage, and to designate thu
place Tor anchoring and mooring OF steam
boats and other water crafts in the port o
Shreveport, and to regulate and maintain thu
public peace on the same while in the limits
of the city.
Ninth-To every year lay an equal and uni
form tax upon all real and personal property
for any one year one and three quarters pei
centum of the assessed value thereof. which
said taxes shall be due and payable from the
| first day of February to the twentieth Of
June, inclusive, and at it's first regular meet
ing in December, and on the same day annu
ally thereafter, impose an annual license tax
on trades, professions and callings, said Ii
cense to expire on the thirty-frst day Of De
cember, in the year in which it was obtained
and which license tax shall be due and paya
BILE from the first day Of January to the fiji
teenth day of January, inclusive; provided
that all persons engaging in business aftel
the first of July shall pay current year onl 5
one-half of said license which license shal
! In no instance exceed the license laid by tbs
State for the same time.
ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES, ETC, AND PUBLICA
TIoNs THEREOF.
SEC. 49, Be ii further enacted, etc. That thu
Council shall, once in every twelve months
before fixing and deciding upon the amour
| of taxes and licenses to be assessed and i'm
posed for the ensuing year, cause to be mad'
out q detailed estimate, exhibiting the various
items of liabilities and expenditures, iDclud
ing the requisite amount Of contingent ex
penses during said year, and shall cause thu
same to be published at least ten days in tn
official journal of the city, and such rate 0
taxation, not exceeding one dollar and sew
of valuation, shall thereafter be fixed ant
assessed as, together with other revenues o
the city, may be necessary to meet said est
mated liabilities and expenditures. Tn
adoption of said detailed estimate shall b
considered as the appropriation of thu
amount therein stated, for the purpose
therein stated, and the city Auditor Of Public
Accounts shall not audit, nor shall the asses
sor and collector pay, draw or sign any chez
upon the fiscal agent therefor, for any claims
unless an appropriation therefor has bee
duly made in accordance with this act
TAXES A LIEN.
SEC Is. Be 1t further enacted, etc, That tn
taxes assessed and levied by virtue of thi
act on property, real or personal of any pei
son or corporation, are hereby declared to b
date from the first day of August of the yea
for which they may be assessed, and an alien
alton thereof or incumbrance thereon not
withstanding, and shall follow the propert
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