The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-05-29

iNo'o oltail NANHNh NilN NhiIAf on edfll one
hundred dollars valuation of taxable
A. To establish and maintain a public
school in and for said corporation, and
.or This purpose to levy and collect taxes
On all property, real, mixed and personal,
polls and privileges taxable by the laws
Of the State; Provided, that no levy for
school purposes shall exceed sixty 900
cents on the one hundred dollars yalua-
ton Of taxable property, and provided,
fur l. that all taxes levied upon polls
shall be applied to the maintenance oi
the public school Of said corporation.
8. To appropriate money and provide
for the debts and expenses Of the town.
6. To open, alter, abolish, widen, ex-
tend, establish, grade, pave or otherwise
improve, clean and keep in repairstreets,
alleys and sidewalks in said
corporate limits, or to have the samedone
also to erect and keep in repair bridges,
sewers and culyerts.
Z, To provide for the erection Of all
buildings necessary for the use of the
town, and to organize a work-house in or
near said town, and provide for commit
ting and working in said work-house, on
the public streets or town works any per-
son who shall fail to pay or secure any
fine or cost assessed against them for the
violation of any ordinance, or who for
such violation may be sentenced to said
work-house, and provide for the manage
ment and control Of the same.
8. To license and tax all privileges tax
able by the laws Of the State.
9. To regulate and suppress gaming
and gambling houses, disorderly houses,
bawdy houses and houses of iI-fame, or
assignation houses, and all houses where
one or more men and women meet for
lewd purposes, or prostitution, or adul-
ferrous cohabitation and they shall have
the power to declare all such places nui-
sances and abate them as such.
10. To prevent and suppress the carry
ing or sale of all concealed weapons as
defined by the laws Of the estate.
IL. To regulate the storage, sale or use
of rfrecrackers and all other fireworks
and toy pistols, toy guns and explosives
and combustibles.
u. To impose fines, forfeitures and
penalties for the breach Of ordinances
adopted under this Act, and to provide
for their recovery, and the arrest Of any
party or parties preaching said ordinan.
ces, and provide for sentence Of impris
onment in the town work1house to secure
such fines; Provided that no fine sAal
exceed fifty $500 dollars,
13. To regulate or prohibit therunning
at large in the streets of!horses, cattle
hogs goats and dogs and other animals
IA. To designate in said town certain
districts as fire limits, and provide TO,
the character Of houses that'may be bull
in said limits, and to regulate the same
Is. To pass all ordinances necessary
for the health, peace, safety. eonvenienc,
protection of property and good order o
the town and for the suppression ant
prohibition of any and all acts and thing
made criminal by the laws Of the State
and to provide a punishment for tn
breach of the same; Provided, that il
cases amounting to ielonies, the ofeRde
shall be bound over to the'Circuit Oour
of Benton County.
16 To tax, regulate or restrain theat
ricai or other public amusements, Show
and exhibitions within the limits of salt
town.
II. To restrain, prohibit or regulat
horse swapping upon the public squar
or streets of said town, OF the congregat
| ing Of people for that purpose.
| Is. To prepare and have published
| digest or compilation Of all the ordinance
of a public nature, in force within 81.
months after this Act takes effect, and
like digest as often as may be necessary
10. TO judge the qualification, electio.
and returns Of its own members, to pre-
scribe rules for the determination of cor
tested elections, to determine how vacar
cies shall be filled and to determine al
questions in case of ties in any electio
and to prescribe rules for thegovernmer
OF the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Sec. Z. Be it further enacted, that tn
first election for Mayor and Board Of A
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