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Timestamp: 2020-08-15 11:53:55
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§  12', '§ 13', '§ 14', '§ 12', '§ 13', '§ 14']

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308 LAWS   OF
ify or otherwise, the president of the board of aldermen for the time being
shall exercise the office of mayor until such vacancy shall be filled, and during
the time he shall so fill such office, shall receive the same compensation as tha
mayor would have been entitled to; and in case of vacancy as aforesaid, other
than temporary absence, the person exercising the office of mayor shall cause
a new election to be held, giving ten days notice thereof by proclamation.
§  12.    The mayor and board of aldermen  shall have power by ordinance,
tax as shall from time to time be necessary for the purposes of the corporation, on all property and persons made taxable  by law  for- State purposes, and
shall have power, by ordinance, to license and regulate ferries within  the city,
to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, to make
quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same   within the corporate
limits   of the city of Jefferson  or entire town  tract  of said   city of   Jefferson: to   make   regulations to secure   the general   health  of the inhabitants;
to prevent and remove nuisances;  to establish night watches  and patrols; erect
lamps in the streets and light the same; to improve and preserve the  navigation
of the Missouri river within the corporation; 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, anchorage and mooring of vessels; to
provide for licensing, taxing and regulating   auctions,   retailers, ordinaries and
taverns, billiard tables,  hackney carriages, wagons, carts, drays,  pawnbrokers,
vendors of lottery tickets, money changers, hawkers and pedlers, 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, avenues, lanes, alleys, drains and sewers, and keep  the same clean; to
provide the city with water; to provide for safe keeping  standard weights and
measures, for the regulation of weights   and measures, to be used in said city;
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 par-
. tition and parapet walls, hearth boxes 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 ImA upon 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.
§ 13. 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
aldermen to levy and collect a special tax on the holders of lots on the said
street or part of a street, according to their respective fronts, for the purpose
of paving such street or part of a street, and, upon a similar application, to levy
a tax in the same manner for lighting the streets and erecting lamps therein:
Provided, that no tax shall be levied under the provisions of this section on any
property belonging to the State,
§ 14.    The mayor and aldermen shall have power to regulate, pave and im-
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Transcript 308 LAWS OF ify or otherwise, the president of the board of aldermen for the time being shall exercise the office of mayor until such vacancy shall be filled, and during the time he shall so fill such office, shall receive the same compensation as tha mayor would have been entitled to; and in case of vacancy as aforesaid, other than temporary absence, the person exercising the office of mayor shall cause a new election to be held, giving ten days notice thereof by proclamation. § 12. The mayor and board of aldermen shall have power by ordinance, to levy and collect taxes upon real and personal property within the city, such tax as shall from time to time be necessary for the purposes of the corporation, on all property and persons made taxable by law for- State purposes, and shall have power, by ordinance, to license and regulate ferries within the city, to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same within the corporate limits of the city of Jefferson or entire town tract of said city of Jefferson: to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants; to prevent and remove nuisances; to establish night watches and patrols; erect lamps in the streets and light the same; to improve and preserve the navigation of the Missouri river within the corporation; 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, anchorage and mooring of vessels; to provide for licensing, taxing and regulating auctions, retailers, ordinaries and taverns, billiard tables, hackney carriages, wagons, carts, drays, pawnbrokers, vendors of lottery tickets, money changers, hawkers and pedlers, 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, avenues, lanes, alleys, drains and sewers, and keep the same clean; to provide the city with water; to provide for safe keeping standard weights and measures, for the regulation of weights and measures, to be used in said city; to regulate the cleaning of chimneys, and fix the fees therefor; to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to regulate the size of bricks 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 par- . tition and parapet walls, hearth boxes 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 ImA upon 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. § 13. 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 aldermen to levy and collect a special tax on the holders of lots on the said street or part of a street, according to their respective fronts, for the purpose of paving such street or part of a street, and, upon a similar application, to levy a tax in the same manner for lighting the streets and erecting lamps therein: Provided, that no tax shall be levied under the provisions of this section on any property belonging to the State, § 14. The mayor and aldermen shall have power to regulate, pave and im-