Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-28
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURES.
Published by Authority. ]

AN ACT amending an act to incorporate
Union City, in the county of Obion, and
for other purposes, chapter Al, passed
Dec. II, 1867.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the general
assembly of the State of Tennessee, That
an act entitled An act to incorporate Union
CITY in the county of ObiOn. and for other
purposes. passed Dec. II, 1861" be so
amended as to provide as follows LIST, the
town of Union City, in ObiOn county, Zen
nessee, and the inhabitants thereof, within
the limits hereinafter specified by the name
and stvle of the mayor and aldermen OF
Union City, shall have perpetual succession;
NAV sue and be sued; plead and be Implicated
in ali the courts of law and equity, and in
all actions whatever; may purchase, hold
and receive real, personal and mixed prop
erty within without said town, and sell,
lease or otherwise dispose of the same for
any purpose beneficial to said town: may
have. subscribe and hold stock, property
and interest III plank, corduroy, rail or
other road built in the county of ObiOn and
running into or through said town, and sell
or otherwise dispose of the same or any part
| thereof may borrow money and give securi-
| ty for its payment and do all other acts con-
| nected with the purposes OF their organlza-
| ton. Just as natural persons may do; may
| have and use common seal and change the
| same at pleasure; may enact all such bylaws
| and ordinances as may be necessary and prop
En- to preserve the health, quiet, safety and
Good order of the town; to prevent and re
move nrisances: to establish night watches
or patrols and day police; to punish breaches
of good order within its jurisdiction to
ascertain and declare, when necessary,
the boundaries of streets and
alleys; to establish new streets
and alleys, &c; to grant privileges in the
use and enjoyment Of the same; to pro-
vide for the paving of Streets alleys and
| sidewalks; to sell or dispose of them if
deemed eXpedient; to provide for licensing
regulating and taxing of auctions, theatrl-
calls and other shows and exhibitions; to
prohibit indecent exhibitions; to regulate,
restrain and suppress bawdy houses and
houses Of ill-fame and disOrdery houses and
assemblies. Bawdy houses or houses of i'll
fame or disorderly houses may be suppressed
by the city marshal upon the order of the
mayor, in the same manner that bawdy
houses and other nulSanceS are suppressed
or abated by the State, upon conviction OF
its inmate or inmates; any room Or set of
rooms kept for purposes of public prOstitu-
ton, by one or more persons, being hereby
declared to be a bawdy house within the
meaning of this act To establish and regrl-
late markets and inspectlOns to provide for
the Organization of fire companies and the
sweeping of chimneys; to dig wells and
clstern5: to erect pumps on the streets OF
public grounds to impose and collect fines
and fOrfeitures for breaches and violation oil
It's ordinances; to levy and collect taxes
upon all property, privileges and poll,
within its limits, which are or shall be taxa
bic by the laws of the State; to tax ball
nine-pins and ten-pin alleys; to erect hos
pitfalls market houses warehouses, &c, and tC
open, alter, abolish widen or extend es.
tablish. grade prove OR otherwise improve
clear and repair streets and alleys
to declare and determine what streets shall
be opened and graded: what sidewalks and
pavements shall be built; the width and
quality of the same; Provided, That rea-
sonable compensation shall be paid to such
persons whose ground may be taken in
widening, or extending, or establishing
streets and payements, and such ground
shall not be taken and used for the purpose
aforesaid unless by the consent of the
owner unless such compensation has been
paid the owner or secured or offered to be
paid or secured, and said damages are re
fused by the owner, when the mayor anC
aldermen shall appoint freeholders not ex
ceeding seven in number, who, after being
. the damages and report the same to tn
h mayor and aldermen, which report shall b.
!, entered upon the corporation minute-bool
: on payment of said damages, into the Offic
. | of the recorder. for the benefit of tn
owner of the land. The mayor and alder
Inen may have the street, alley or common
opened; Provided, That any such person
aggreved by such order opening a street, o
alley or common may appeal to the Law
court of Union City, if then i'll existence
if not then to the circuit court of Obio1
county. to provide for the prevention anC
eXtIngUishment of fires: to organize fire
hook and ladder companies; to regulate ant
restrain or prohibit the erection of woodel
buildings in any part of the town, and t.
order the removal and refitting of the same
to regulate and prevent carrying on of man
ufactures, such as mills bakeries and a
other sorts Of business regarded as danger
Gus or likely to cause fires and explosions
to regulate the storing Of gunpowder an
other cOmbustables, and the use of light
and StOvepipes in all stables, shops ant
other places, and to provide for the cleaning
sweeping and burning of chimneys AM
iues; to restrain and prohibit gamin
and gaming houses and suppress
the same; to regulate and restrai
tipplng- houses; to impose fines, forfeiture
and penalties for breach of any laws or ord
n0nces of the town, and for all violation O
the criminal laws of the State within sal
town, and to provide for the arrest and con
hnemcnt, until trial, of all persons violating
5'dd laws and ordinances; to establish a work
mouse or house of correction III or near tn
Town, ana any person who shall fail or re
I19e 10 pay any fines and costs. or to secllr
the same, which may be imposed under tn
laws or ordinances of the town may be com
united to the work-house until said fines an
costs shall be paid and secured and fo
such time as shall be adludged, and an
person SO committed shall work fc
the town at such labor as his or he
health may permit within or withor
such work house, not exceeding te
hours a day, and for such work shall b
allowed exclusive of board, as credit upo
such fines and costs, seventy-fve cents eac
day of work, until the whole is discharged
= Provided, that no person shall be compelle
= to work longer than one month for any on
offense, or any person who shall fail or IT
fuse to pay or secure the fine and costs in
posed under the laws or ordinances of tn
town may be committed to the jail, calf
boose or lookup until such fine and costs b
paid or secured; Provided, that no perso
, shall be SO confined for more than one mont
Tor any one offense, said fine and costs ma
be secured by some solvent person acknow
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