The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-02-28
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LAKE CHARLES, La, Feb. 8, 1885.
AN oRnrNqA MOE

/ LAKE CHARLEs, La, Feb. 8, 1885.
AN ORDINANCE.
BE Il ordained by ne Board Of Aidernee
NE tsacz, Of LAKE Charles, That Il shall be Ut
lawful, and subject to fine Of Ten Dollar
for any person or persons. for remuneration
70 run any team within the corporate limit
OF the town, or carrying amy of the followin
trades, etc, until he or they shall have frs
paid to the tax collector the following Il
cense fees for the ensuing year;
For one-horse dray, hack or wagon, Fiy
For two-horse dray, hack or wagon, Tel
Dollars.
! For a two-ox wagon or cart, Ten Dollars
For wood vendors teams, otherwise thar
those risiding in town, Ten Dollars.
For vegetable peddlers, residing In or GU
OF town, Five Dollars.
| For meat, milk, vegetable, fowl and frui
peddlers, whether residing in or out of town
| Five Dollars.
For organ grinders, Five Dollars.
For all permanent or transient hueksters
OF no matter what, wherein any game o.
chance is the indueement to purchasers, If
or out of DOORS Twenty-Five Dollars.
For all peddlers of any kind, not herein
mentioned, Five Dollars
BE q further ordained, etc., That all persona
herein mentioned as using teams on the
streets, are hereby required to obtain, from
the tax collector, a tin plate with number
thereon painted, and have the same nailed
on the vehicle. in conspicuous place.
Be 1t further ordained, etc., That the same
amount Of license collected by the State OF
Louisiana, on sll other trades, professions
and occupations than the above shall be
levied and collected by the tax collector as
corporation license.
BE Il further orddi,ted, etc., That the above
shall go into effect from and after its promul-
cation.
AN ORDINANCE
Requiring Permits to Give Entertainments.
Be il ordaiaed BIZ the Torn Council Of he
tom q Lake Charles, That from and after the
adoption of this ordinance, 1t shall be unlaw-
fnl, under penalty Of twenty-five Dollars,
TO be collected by the Mayor for any person
or persons to give public or private enter
tainment, such as balls, parties, theatrical
exhibitions, of any kind or nature, on their,
or any other person or persons premises,
within the corporate limits Of said town,
without having first applied for and obtained
a permit from the Mayor to do so.
Be IL further ordained, etc., That in every
instance wherein the Mayor may grant said
permit, he shall detail a necessary police
force to attend said entertainment to keep
order, and the parties to whom said permit
has been SO granted, shall pay the Mayor
such sum as may be necessary TO defray the
EXPENSE OF tile SERVICES Oh Sa1u ponce IOfCe.
AN ORDINANCE.
Be il ordained by he Tom Council Of tie
tom Of Lake Charles That whenever one
fourth of the owners Of real property, 'front.'
ing on any unpaYed or unbanquetted street
in the town of lake Charles shall by petition
signed by the petitioner or petitioners, and
addressed to the aldermen of the town, ask
for the paving or bapquetting OF said street,
or for any portion thereof, setting forth the
character or quality of said paYements, or of
said banquetting, the Mayor shall have said
petition published, In English, in the official
journal of the town for and during four
weeks, once In each week, and If, at the ex-
piration of said publication 60 made Of said
petition, a majority of the owners of real
property fronting on said streets, or of said
portions thereof, shall not, by memorial
signed by memorislist or memorialists, and
addressed to the Town Council, object to the
same, the Town Council shall, by resolution,
or otherwise, order said paving or banquet
ting. so pettttoned for, to be made, and the
whole cost of said payements or banquettes
so made shall be borne and paid for by the
owner or owners of real property fronting on
said pavement or banquette, in equal pro-
portion, according to the running front foot,
and the cost of paving or banquetting inter
sections shall be done by the town; pfoOided,
that no petition for paving Or banquetting
shall be presented to the Board during the
months Of July, August or September,
BE IL further ordained, etc., That the above
shall go into effect from and after its promul-
cation.
To create the Office Of City Surveyor in the
Town of Lake Charles, and to define the
dnties, etc, of said officer.
WHEREAS, It has become necessary that |
good and substantial sanitary laws be en- |
forced within the town limits, and that the |
same cannot be done without proper Inca |
ment and graduation of its streets, cutters, |
Danquettes, etc, and to obtain and maintain |
said proper lineaments and gradations, a GER |
ain amount of engineering skill is called |
INTO requisition; therefore,
]. BE II 0rdaiaed by the TOM Council Of Tie |
0lgH Of Lake Charles, in regular monthly SeS- |
ZION c0RVelaed, That the Office Of City Surveyor |
S hereby created The duties of the incum- |
oent of which shall be to give all lineaments |
md grade lines for streets, banquettes and |
cutters, as well as for filing in lots, squares,
'tc., and that all Improvements which, in |
heir nature, If improperly made, would work |
to tie general welfare of the town. |
2. BE ii further ordained, etc., That the said |
,ffice Of City Surveyor shall always be filed
~ the Parish Surveyor; pr0UidGd, said officer
De a bona fde resident Of the town, and If
lot, be shall be elected by majority Of the
3oard Of Aldermen Further, That in case
~ dCatDf tSiatAOns VI Wy atiJ t1apSh
aid office should become vacant, the same
nay be filed by the said Board.
3. Be IL fiI,Iher ordained, etc., That prop
rty owners shall notify the said Surveyor Of
II new subdivisions of property to be made
" them, and he shall make said subdivision,
ways using care that the general symetry
# the town shall be maintained in doing So
further, That for each neglect to so notify
he Surveyor by the property owner, he shall
ay penalty Of Fifty Dollars. That 1t shall
e unlawful, under penalty Of Fifty Dollars
or every offence, for any person or persons
D lay any sidewalks, street railroads, or
ther improvements, such as bridges, etc,
pom the streets, sidewalks, public ways or
rounds Of the town, until the lines on levels
hereof shall have been given by the Surveyor.
A. BE Il further ordained, etc., That the
aid Surveyor shall be allowed to charge the
anne fees for his services, to- be paid BY the
erson or persons employing him, as are now
llowed by law to Parish Surveyors through
ut the State.
5. BE IT further oYddiaed, etc., That all or
lnanees, or parts Of ordinances, in conflict
erewith, are hereby repealed, and this or
nance shall take effect from and after its
doption.
VIM. MEYER, Mayor