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Timestamp: 2019-09-16 09:27:39
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 11', '§ 12', '§ 13', '§ 11', '§ 12', '§ 13']

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MISSOURI. 297
shall cause a new election to be held, giving ten days notice thereof by proclamation.
§ 11. The mayor and board of councilmen shall have power, by ordinance,
to levy and collect taxes upon real and personal property, within the city, not
exceeding one half of one per centum upon the assessed value thereof, except
as hereinafter excepted ; to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same
within the corporation limits of the city; to make regulations to secure the
general health of the inhabitants; to prevent and remove nuisances; to establish night watches and patroles; erect lamps in the streets, and lighting the
same; to improve and preserve the navigation of the Missouri, within the city;
to erect, repair and regulate public wharves and docks; to regulate the erecting and the rates of wharfage at private wharves ; to regulate the stationing,
anchoring and mooring of vessels; to provide for licensing, taxing and regulating auctions, retailers, ordinances, and taverns, billiard tables, hackney carnages, wagons, carts, drays, pawn brokers, vendors of lottery tickets, money
changers, hawkers and pedlars, theatrical and other shows and amusements ; to
restrain and prohibit tipling houses, gaming, gaming houses, bawdy houses, and
other disorderly houses; to establish and repair bridges; to establish and regulate markets; to open and keep in repair streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, drains
and sewers, and keep the same cleared; to provide the city with water; to provide for safe keeping standard weights and measures, to be used in said city; to
regulate the cleaning and of chimneys, and fix the fees therefor; to provide for
the prevention and. extinguishment of fires; to regulate the size of brick to be
made and used within the city; to provide for the inspection of lumber and
other building materials, to be sold or used therein; to regulate and order partition and parapet walls, and partition fences; to regulate the inspection of
butter, lard, wood, and the weight and quality of bread, the storage of gun
powder, tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, cotton and other combustible materials: to erect
pumps in the streets for the convenience of the inhabitants; to regulate the
police of the city; to regulate the election of city officers, and fix their
compensation;. and from time to time to pass such" ordinances to carry into
effect the objects of this act, and the powers hereby granted, as the good of
the inhabitants may require; and to impose and appropriate fines and forfeitures for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the collection thereof:
Provided, that no tax shall be laid on the wearing apparel, or necessary tools
or implements of any person used in carrying on'his trade, nor shall the same
be subject to distress or sale for tax.
§ 12. Upon the application of the holders of two thirds of the front of the
lots on any street or part of a street,, it shall be lawful for the mayor and councilmen to levy and collect a special tax on the holders of lots on said street, or
part of a street, according to the assessed value of their respective fronts exclusive of improvements, for the purpose of grading and paving such street or
part of a street; and, upon a similar application, to levy a tax in the same manner for the purpose of lighting the streets or erecting,lamps therein.
§ 13. That the mayor and councilmen shall have power to regulate, pave
and improve the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, within the limits of the city;
and to extend, open and widen streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, making the
person or persons injured thereby adequate compensation therefor, to ascertain
which, the mayor shall, in all such cases, cause to be summoned twelve good
and lawful men, freeholders, inhabitants of said city, not directlv interested,
who (being first duly sworn for that purpose) shall enquire into, and take into
consideration, as well the benefit, as the inconveniences which mav accrue, and
estimate and assess the damages which would be sustained bv reason of the
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Transcript MISSOURI. 297 shall cause a new election to be held, giving ten days notice thereof by proclamation. § 11. The mayor and board of councilmen shall have power, by ordinance, to levy and collect taxes upon real and personal property, within the city, not exceeding one half of one per centum upon the assessed value thereof, except as hereinafter excepted ; to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same within the corporation limits of the city; to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants; to prevent and remove nuisances; to establish night watches and patroles; erect lamps in the streets, and lighting the same; to improve and preserve the navigation of the Missouri, within the city; to erect, repair and regulate public wharves and docks; to regulate the erecting and the rates of wharfage at private wharves ; to regulate the stationing, anchoring and mooring of vessels; to provide for licensing, taxing and regulating auctions, retailers, ordinances, and taverns, billiard tables, hackney carnages, wagons, carts, drays, pawn brokers, vendors of lottery tickets, money changers, hawkers and pedlars, theatrical and other shows and amusements ; to restrain and prohibit tipling houses, gaming, gaming houses, bawdy houses, and other disorderly houses; to establish and repair bridges; to establish and regulate markets; to open and keep in repair streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, drains and sewers, and keep the same cleared; to provide the city with water; to provide for safe keeping standard weights and measures, to be used in said city; to regulate the cleaning and of chimneys, and fix the fees therefor; to provide for the prevention and. extinguishment of fires; to regulate the size of brick to be made and used within the city; to provide for the inspection of lumber and other building materials, to be sold or used therein; to regulate and order partition and parapet walls, and partition fences; to regulate the inspection of butter, lard, wood, and the weight and quality of bread, the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, cotton and other combustible materials: to erect pumps in the streets for the convenience of the inhabitants; to regulate the police of the city; to regulate the election of city officers, and fix their compensation;. and from time to time to pass such" ordinances to carry into effect the objects of this act, and the powers hereby granted, as the good of the inhabitants may require; and to impose and appropriate fines and forfeitures for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the collection thereof: Provided, that no tax shall be laid on the wearing apparel, or necessary tools or implements of any person used in carrying on'his trade, nor shall the same be subject to distress or sale for tax. § 12. Upon the application of the holders of two thirds of the front of the lots on any street or part of a street,, it shall be lawful for the mayor and councilmen to levy and collect a special tax on the holders of lots on said street, or part of a street, according to the assessed value of their respective fronts exclusive of improvements, for the purpose of grading and paving such street or part of a street; and, upon a similar application, to levy a tax in the same manner for the purpose of lighting the streets or erecting,lamps therein. § 13. That the mayor and councilmen shall have power to regulate, pave and improve the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, within the limits of the city; and to extend, open and widen streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, making the person or persons injured thereby adequate compensation therefor, to ascertain which, the mayor shall, in all such cases, cause to be summoned twelve good and lawful men, freeholders, inhabitants of said city, not directlv interested, who (being first duly sworn for that purpose) shall enquire into, and take into consideration, as well the benefit, as the inconveniences which mav accrue, and estimate and assess the damages which would be sustained bv reason of the 38