The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1881-09-28
TOWN.
PETITION
FROM PROPERTY HOLDERS PRAYING FOR
CHANGE OF CHARTER or
The TOWN.

To the Mayor and Council Of the City Of
Alexandria, La.:
We, the undersigned petitioners, res
pectfully represent, that the Charter
of said City should be amended as fol-
lows, to-wit:
First Proposed Observation-Disclosures
Section One, of Act No. One Hundred
and Eleven Of the Session Of the Leg
islature of Louisiana, for the year
1868, approved September the 29th,
1868, entitled s.an Act to Incorporate
the Town of Alexandria," SO as to read
as follows:
That from and after the promuiga-
ton of an Ordinance to be passed here
under, and in conformity to an Act
No. ITO of the General Assembly of
1880, all that portion OF territory lying
on Red River, in the Parish of Rap.
ides, and within the following limits,
to-wit: Commencing at the Mouth of
Bayou Rapides, up said Bayou to
Mouth of Bayou Coulie, up Bayou
Coulie to the crossing of the New Or
leans and Pacific Railroad thereon,
along the said Railroad to the point
where Jackson street of said Town, if
continued in direct line would inter-
sect said road, thence along said line
to Tent, street, thence down Tenth
street to where it would intersect the
lane between Irvinga and Watts, if pro-
jected, thence up said lane to Red
River, and up said River to point Of
starting, shall form Il Corporation aud
body polite by the name of the city OF
Alexandra, aud as such shall have
perpetual succession, and all the in
habitants thereof shall form body
corporate under the name and style of
the Mayor and Council of the City of
Alexandria, and by that name they
and their successors shall be known in
law, and be compelled to sue aud be
sued, plead and implead, defend and
be defended in all Courts and places
whatever, and in all manner of ac-
tions and whatsoever, also to hold,
purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and
retain to them and their successors all
and every kind of property whatso-
ever. Prouided, the same be for mu-
nicipal purposes, and the same sell,
transfer, alien and lease from and dis
pose of, and may have aud use a COM
mon seal, and may alter and change
the same at pleasure.
Second Proposed Amendment
Amend Section l3 of said Act 30, as to
read rs follows, to-wit: That the May
or and Council shall have power to
provide for the punishment of va
grants and disorderly persons, who
may be found in the day or night
time disturbing the public peace by
fine not to exceed Fifty Dollars, and
by imprisonment not to exceed ten
days, and that any person incuring I'M
der the Ordinances of said City, may
be compelled to work on the streets of
said City, at the rate of One Dollar per
diem, until said fne and costs are paid.
Third Proposed Amendment
Amend Section l2iof said Act by inser
ting therein, in the fourthline of said
section, and Immediately following the
word shire" and before the word 'tbs
FORE" as therein written, the following
words: "Attorneys at law, physicians,
dentists, trades and occupations now
paying license tax under State law,
circuses, or travelling shows of any ma
ture or kind"
Therefore it is prayed that special
election be ordered, and said amend
ments be made in accordance with Act
No. 40 of 1880.