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ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS 
 
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 PERMANENT < vIMVERS 
 
 CITY OF CARROLLTON, LA.. 
 
 IT.CU THE DATE OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE CITY 
 
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 To TP ry lOtlx, 18GI3.. 
 
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.MENTAL TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE 
 •ITY OF OARROLLTON," APPROVED MARCH SEVENTEENTH, 
 HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 
 i' Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That all taxes 
 ■ Mayor and Council of the city of CarroUton, accord- 
 iall be due and payable in the office of the collector of 
 sain -ity, tVi in the first of January in each year, and the said city 
 special lien and privilege on all property assessed, to 
 ivnient of the taxes, with the interest and costs due, to 
 bi pi m. by preference before any mortgage or claim whatever on 
 id voperty, from the moment of recording the tax bill in the 
 lice of the parish of Jefferson. When the controlled 
 tax l>i' : my year have been placed in the city collector's hands, 
 
 he - notice in the official journal of said city, notify the tax 
 
 pay< he\ are due and payable in his office, and if not paid, 
 
 will be recorded on the first Monday in May ensuing, at the costs 
 of delinquents. On the first Monday in May of each year the col- 
 aiid over (<> Recorder of Mortgages for the parish of 
 a all unpaid bills for taxes of the previous year, to be re- 
 corded, audit shall be the duty of the Recorder to enter them in 
 his books without delay, and return them to the collector, with a 
 (1, and his cost marked on each bill. The recorded 
 bi tr interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum 
 trow the lay they were due, and the collector shall collect the m- 
 • I sts from the tax payer. When the said Mayor ami 
 •uncilfind it necessary to sue delinquent tax payers, or to sue for 
 unpaid bills for public works, the collector shall file the bills in the 
 jurisdiction, and the justice of the peace or cleric 
 of the court, 'as the case may be, shall, by an advertisement pub- 
 lish) ifficial journal of said city, cite all the delinquents to 
 ap] i twenty days from the first insertion of said adver- 
 tise- answerto the demand contained in the bill tiled. No 
 
 be necessary, lmt the bill filed shall he considered a 
 
 'the advertisement shall be considered a citation, and 
 ice of citation shall he necessary. The advertisement 
 tin name of the court, the names of all defaulters, and 
 ait 1 from each. All other proceedings in the suits 
 
 ir and according to law nd each defaulter shall pay 
 twenl uts for costs of the cil u by advertisement, and all 
 
 '■ ' tin suit, toeetlier with the fees of the attorney em- 
 Council to attend to the suits. 
 
 it further enacted, <!<■.. That recording and noting tax 
 
 or public works due said city, the Recorder shall be 
 
 nty-tive cents for each bill recorded, and no more. 
 collection, by the officer m cuarge oi it. 
 
 Si,. 3. Beit further enacted, etc., That section firs! of Baid sup- 
 plemental act, approved March 21, 18(56, be a m< nd< d ai 1 re-, nacted 
 
 to read: ^B^g» i i i" 
 
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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, <(■<-., That, all Sheriffs, Notaries and 
 other persons are forbidden to pass or execute any act for the sale, 
 transfer, exchange or mortgage of any real estate or other property 
 ktuated within said city, unless the State and city taxes due on the 
 • same be first paid, to be shown by the Collector's receipt or certifi- 
 cate to that purpose; and the Sheriff, Notary or other person vio- 
 lating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, 
 be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hun- 
 dred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by the P ate for the 
 use of the public schools of said citx , before any competent tribunal. 
 "Sec. 4. Be it fuiiher enacted, &c, That the Mayor, councilmen 
 and officers of said city shall continue in office until their succes- 
 sors have been elected and qualified according to law. 
 ' Sec, 5. Be it further enacted, &C, That sections sixteen and sev- 
 enteen of an Act entitled "an Act to incorporate the city of Car- 
 rolltoh, approved March seventeen, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, 
 ami all other laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions 
 of this Act. l>e and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. G. Be it further enacted, dV., That this Act shall take effect 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 (Signed) J- B. EL AM, 
 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 ( Signed) ALBERT VOORHIES, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate. 
 Approved March 21, 1866. 
 
 (Signed) J. MADISON WELLS, 
 
 Governor of the State of Louisiana. 
 A true copy: 
 
 J. H. Hardy, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 POlTCOn, tne COUector H11H41 luucn Bnmn 
 
 journal of the corporation, or by posting as required in b< 
 
 nl, within twenty .lays, notifying such owner or owners that 
 unit ss pa\ menl is made within thirty days fron the date "f the first 
 insertion of Buch notice, thai the -aid property will lie proc 
 
 i-t in the same manner is i- pres cribed in tin foregoing 
 tion for the V covery of taxes due said corporation; and all 
 advertising, recording or otherwise shaU be added to the bill for 
 collection, by the offie< r m charge of it." 
 
 :\. Be it further enacted, etc., I I of said 
 
 plemental act, approved March 21, 1 SCO, 1 led I In 
 
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* No. 98.] AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act entitled " an Act to Incorporate the city "i Carrollton," approved March 17. 
 1869, ami ilie supplemental act tlurct>>. approved Marcli 21, 186C>. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enactedby ///<■ Senate and House of Representatives 
 of the State of Louisiana, in breheral Assembly convened, That sec- 
 tion ten of said act of incorporation be amended and re-enacted 
 80 as to read: 
 
 f" Sec. 10. Be\ it further enacted, etc. That the roads, streets, 
 levees, wharves, public places and thoroughfares in said city, shall 
 be under the entire control of said mayor and council, and they 
 shall pass such ordinances for the regulation thereof as they n i : i \ 
 deem expedient: Provided, That no ordinance in relation to thos< 
 places or the levees shall interfere with the rights of the public 
 thereto as laid down in the Civil Code and laws of this State, They 
 are hereby vested with the power to repair, alter or enlarge said 
 levees; and if necessary for the safety of the inhabitants, to make a 
 new levee in front of :iu\ part of said city, in such places ami 
 manner as the exigency of til" case, in their discretion, may require; 
 and six of the conncihnen concurring, are empowered to levy ami 
 collect a special tax on the real estate and personal property in said 
 city to pay all expenses and costs arising therefrom; they are 
 empowered io curl), gutter, grade, pave, shell, or plank sidewalks, 
 streets and public thoroughfares, and charge the front owners on 
 such places the whole costs for sidewalks, including the curbs and 
 gutters, and one-third of the whole cost for streets; and they ar< 
 emp. >\\i red to make wharves, plant tie posts, and regulate the port 
 of said city; also, to cause vacant lots to be fenced and tilled up t( 
 the gra 1'of the city, at the expense of the owners, when necessary. 
 
 Sec. 2. t?<' it furtlvr fnact'-tl, etc.. That section eighteen of said 
 act of incorporation be amended and re-enacted so as to read: 
 
 "Sec is. Be it further enacted, etc., That whenever the owner 
 of any property in front of which paving of any description what- 
 ever, Bide walks, banquettes or other walks shall be done within tin 
 limits of said corporation, by order of said mayor and council, oi 
 whenever the owner of any property which has been rilled up wit! 
 earth, or enclosed or fenced in, by order of said mayor and council, 
 shall fail to pay the amount for which said property may be liable. 
 the said corporation or contractor performing the work shall hav< 
 a special lieu and privilege upon said property, to secure the pay- 
 ment i if the amount so due, with eight per cut. per annum interesl 
 from the date on which the same ought to have been paid, to h< 
 paid by preference over am mortgage or claim whatever upon said 
 property: Provided, Thai such privilege shall not extend beyond th< 
 period of six months from the completion of said v/ovks, unless the 
 hill for tile same, duly certified by the controller and surveyor oi 
 said corporation, has been recorded in the offic< of the recorder of 
 mortgages of the pariah of Jefferson: Provided further, Thai in 
 case such owner shall be unknown, or reside out of the city of Car- 
 roliton, the collector shall insert a notice three times in the official 
 journal of the corporation, or l>\ posting ;is required in section 
 second, within twenty days, notifying such owner or owm ra that 
 unh -s pa\ iii'iit is made within thirty days fron the date of the first 
 insertion of such notice, thai the said property will lie proceeded 
 
 I linst in the same manner is is pres cribed in the foregoing sec- 
 tion tor the recover} of taxes due --aid corporation: and all costs for 
 advertising, recording or otherwise shall be add. d to the bill for 
 collection, by the officer in charge of it." 
 
 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That Bection first of said sup- 
 plemental act, approved March 21, 1m',<;. he am. ml. d acted 
 to read: 
 
 
 
 
" Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represt ntatives 
 of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly convened, That all 
 taxes levied by the mayor and council of the city of Carrolltou 
 according- to law, shall be due and payable in the office of the col- 
 lector of said cit^y from the first of January in each year, and the 
 said city shall have a special lien and privilege on all property 
 assessed to secure the payment of the taxes with the interest and 
 cost due, to be paid by preference before any mortgage or claim 
 whatever on said property, from the moment of recording the tax 
 bill in tin' mortgage office of the parish of Jefferson. When the 
 controlled tax bills for any year have been placed in the city collec- 
 tor's hands, he shall, by notice in the official journal of said city, 
 notify the tax payers that they are due and payable in his office, and 
 if not paid will be recorded ou the first Monday in July ensuing, at 
 the cost of delinquents. On the first Monday in July of each year 
 the collector shall hand over to the recorder of mortgages, for the 
 parish of Jefferson, all unpaid bills for taxes of the previous year to 
 be recorded; and it shall be the duty of the recorder to enter them 
 in his books without delay, and return them to the collector with a 
 note of record and his cost marked on each bill. The recorded 
 bills shall bear interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum 
 from tlie day they were due, ami the collector shall collect the inter- 
 est and costs from the tax payer. When the said mayor and coun- 
 cil find it necessary to sueAlehuquent taxpayers, or to sue for unpaid 
 bills for public works, t lie collector shall rile the bills in the COUTt 
 having jurisdiction, and the justice of the peace or the clerk of the 
 court, as the case may be, shall, by an advertisement published in 
 the official journal of said city, cite ad the delinquents to appeal 
 within twenty days from the first insertion of said advertisement, 
 and answer to the demand contained in the bill tiled. No petition 
 shall be necessary, but the bill filed shall be considered a petition, 
 and the advertisement shall be considered a citation, and no other 
 service of citation shall be necessary. The advertisement shall con- 
 tain the name of the court, the names of all defaulters, and tin 
 amount claimed from each. All other proceedings in the suits 
 Shall be regular and according to law. and each default) r shall pay 
 
 twenty-five (cuts for cost of the citation by advertisement, and all 
 other costs in the suit, together with the fees of the attorney em- 
 ploy* d by the council to attend to the suits." 
 
 Signed) DUNCAN 8. CAGE, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 (Signed- ALBERT VOORHEES, 
 
 Lieut-Governor ami President of the Senat* . 
 Approved March ii:;. 1867. 
 
 Signed) .T. MADISON WELLS, 
 
 « iov. rnor of tlie State of Louisiana. 
 
 A true copy: 
 
 • I. H. HaKI'Y. 
 
 Secretary of Stat- 
 
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I N" D E X . 
 
 ANIMALS. 
 
 Hogs running at large to be Bhot and Bold 11 
 
 Dogs without muzzles to be poisoned, .when and how II 
 
 < 'attic horses and mules to !><• branded, when, and charge for II 
 
 Cattle, horses and mules taken up, when, and how deall with 12 
 
 Hogs proliibited from running at large 12 
 
 Cattle brand to be provided 
 
 Animals of Jefferson Parish permitted to graze, on condition, etc 12 
 
 (Joats not to run at Large, or fastened in the Btn 1 
 
 Stray animals to be impounded 
 
 Dead animals to be removed by owners ol property 
 
 ! ,1 animals not to lie thrown in the Rtreet 52 
 
 ASSESSORS. 
 
 lluw and when elected 49 
 
 Dow they must lie opposed ■"» 
 
 Duties of 
 
 Principal to make book of plans, and continue it 
 
 ATTORNEY. 
 
 I low and When elected 
 
 To sue and defend for the city 13 
 
 Po examine titles and contracts. *14 
 
 To institute suits for breaches of ordinances 
 
 To keep a register of all suits, and make reports 1-1 
 
 Compensation for collecting money 51 
 
 Is the legal adviser ol the Mayor. Council and officers 
 
 Must attend to all suits, pro and con 13 
 
 Mn-t report amounts due and in suit at the end of his term 14 
 
 : 'enalty for neglect of duty 
 
 To record privileges, when and how 
 
 Office hours for business 
 
 AWNINGS. 
 
 Persons may erect, on banquettes, alter obtaining lines fromsui 
 
 Size of posts, and manner of erection 
 
 Additional plank to be used, etc 
 
 Fixed Beats against posts prohibited 16 
 
 Penalty for contravention 
 
 Posts not to be leas than five feet from corners id" banquette I 
 
 BALLS. 
 
 \,'.,t to be given without license. and penal tj is 
 
 Commissary to attend, and keep order. . 
 
 Liquors and refreshments ma] be sold at ''■ 
 
 \\ v i ETTES. 
 
 Penalty for driving or riding on, . 
 
 Width of, generally 
 # w idth of, "u Canal Avenne 
 
 Width of, on First Street 
 
 Mode of constructing paved i 
 
 i in, balfof cost of mal Ing U hi 
 
 Plan of plank banquettes or walks 
 
 Awnings may lie made over, and how 
 
. 
 
 . and council to p 18 
 
 j be pirated on, and now 
 
 ami a indow -. on, iiral 
 ■ rloa from -jo 
 
 ling on, must I"- 1 
 : when paved 
 
 more tlian one allowed under one license il 
 
 !N<;. 
 Prohibited in day time, und 
 Parents and gue 
 BATT1 
 
 ■ 
 Surveyor to point out. and give ]>•-.. 14 
 
 ii:\ for hauling sand witlin-.it permit 
 v for moving sand oul <•!' limit? 
 fDS OF OFFICERS. 
 All officers to give bond 
 What kind "t Mcurity required 
 
 When security musi be gli en 
 
 y .iv 
 
 BOOK OF PL \ 
 
 Principal assessor to make 1.: 
 
 \ .ii RECORDS 1 
 . ged with the - 
 permit them i" i>" taken from 1 
 Ma\ L'ii e certified transcrii 1 \8 
 
 Materials and dimensions of bi • II 
 
 and dimensions of the JAt enue 
 
 Po be" made and repaired with cypre >in< 19 
 
 td timber to be used. 
 
 Mad< . 
 
 HERS, 
 
 daughter in houses ... 
 
 oxne sudden mean- 7.; 
 
 To pay stall rent and meal tax to tanner of market 1 ; 
 
 •ject to penalty for selling bad meal 45 
 
 Musi keep clean in market 
 
 ■ .-lean b tails 
 
 BUILDING 
 
 Buildings t>> bo . . . . 
 
 ind to be raised before build 1 80 
 
 Buil walls on the front line, 
 
 im banquette "jo 
 
 Distance for stepB, door and window banquette 20 
 
 tened, « lien 
 er 
 
 be reported -l 
 
 20 
 
 Ifustl 
 
 Penaltj for drii .22 
 
 l'ri\ B 
 
 on, if duly 
 
 23 
 
 ;.:; 
 
 i I not be driven 1 .". t 
 
('ANAL AVENUE. 
 
 Size of bridges on, and modeol constructing i;i 
 
 Size of roadways on 
 
 Size of banquettes on ' 17 ,;'_-, 
 
 Line of, Axed . Cs 
 
 CEMETERY. 
 
 Square No. 7 ! established for cemetery 
 
 Ity fur interring dead elsewhere. , , 23 
 
 l>c]iih of graves •'■; 
 
 Price of interment 23 28 
 
 Cemetery musl be kepi in good order by Sexton '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'." 24 h 
 
 Penalty for false representation as to col< 24 
 
 Penally for negled of duty by Bexton ... .... . 24 
 
 Manner of making tombs j J 
 
 Commissary to visit and inspect cemeter , "i 
 
 of vaults 
 
 imes and trading in, forbidden WWW. 27 
 
 corpse to be buried within forty-eighl hours . . . . . ...... 27 
 
 A corpse may be disinterred and removed, how \\\ 27 
 
 Prices to be paid for coffins '' '•< 
 
 Manner of effecting interments ".-, 
 
 Price to be pai arer "/-, 
 
 ipt, with burial certificate, to be delivered to sexton ! W, 
 
 d particulars 25 
 
 Pri if tomb lots and vaults V- ~>\. 
 
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 ly for burial of the dead 26 
 
 Lots to be forfeited, when, and p 2 C 
 
 Vaults may be rented from the city one year » " 26 
 
 The poor to be gratuitously buried . ' .'' 26 
 
 Vault- musl be>kepl closed 27 
 
 Vaults, tombs and -rave.-' opened on order of mayor or comptroller 27 
 Vaults and tombs kept in good order 
 
 charivari 
 
 Penalty for engaging in 
 
 coFPn 
 
 Amount allowed for those furnished b oa 
 
 COLLECTOR. 
 
 How and when elected *a 
 
 Musi lake oath, ami give bond 'WW. 49 
 
 To eollect and receipt fur moneys 
 
 To pay over weekly to treasurer, ami file receipt with comptroller 
 
 To enter hi? lulls in a register 
 
 To enter date of payment in register 
 
 To credii warrant- with amount of taxes due fn 
 
 r l <■ record privili 
 
 < tlliee ho -', 
 
 COMMISSARY. 
 
 How and when 1 lei ■ <1 *q 
 
 Must take oath ami give bond .... in 
 
 de in tin- city" '.WW. 
 
 ling liquors without li< 1 n • 
 To arresl peddlers fo "„j 
 
 la 
 
 Reward f< 1 
 
 property to 
 
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VI 
 
 90, M 
 
 .■I in:; 
 
 
 
 en< - 
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 . lings ob 20 
 
 - rveyor ft persons making improvements 
 
 
 
 \ of noticea .... ..... 
 
 To take census yearly, ana compensation therefor 31, 1 
 
 porf monthly the work <lmi i streets and 81 
 
 -l t :iml Bell hogs II 
 
 in poii in dogs, lmw and when 11 
 
 'I o repoi I all offendei - i 
 
 i .. impound L'ont- l- 
 
 To take account of timber, and report to comptroller 
 
 To remove and abate nuisances and offences, and arrest offenders. . . . 55 
 
 To brand cattle, and charge for 11 
 
 'in preserve order al balls i<> 
 
 uperintend the making of ditches :m 
 
 'I'., demand license from peddlers, and seize, and how in proceed 
 
 Empowered t" collect boat tax for jelling 
 
 ollect timber ta- .' 
 
 To ■ dy ni' weights ; *. » i ■ 1 measures 
 
 Not t" remote dirt from one place t" another. without instruction 
 
 Tn \ isil ami inspect market 45 
 
 Tn enter public houses, and report disorder i<> mayoi i" 
 
 in \ i.-ii mid inspect cemetery, ami report in mayor -' I 
 
 COMMITTEES. 
 
 Manner of appointing Btanding < "i Ittees, and their duties, 
 
 tides 9 ami 'J7. Rule 8, 0, I 
 
 Time to meet for business. : 'i 
 
 COUNCILMEN. 
 
 Division lor long and Bhoxi term .■*:'• 
 
 Shall not in- security or contract 8 
 
 COMPTROLLER. 
 
 How ami when elected M 
 
 'In take oath ami give i I *9 
 
 Vacancy, how filled :; 
 
 examine claims ^ 
 
 'I'.. countersign warrants 88 
 
 To take charge of real estate 
 
 To keep a el oi I !■.-! 38 
 
 To examine, enter ami certify bills against city :i- 
 
 To make oul and coun tersign receipts ami bills * :;:i 
 
 Tn make yearly statement of revenue and expenditure S3 
 
 . rman <<\ Finance to appro; e acci Is, and when :; - ; 
 
 To make monthly report of licenses taken 83 
 
 To make yearly delinqnenf tax list 83 
 
 Office boars for business 80 
 
 Penaltj '•» 
 
 DITCH 
 
 Made at expense of the cltj '' ,( 
 
 ■ -i. ' 84 
 
 Penalty tor filling or itopping ■'•'-'■ •• ' 
 
 Those without muzzlei to be poisoned, how and when 11 
 
 Vicious ami noisy not large 83 
 
VII 
 
 ELECTIONS. 
 
 Mayor ami Council, QOW elected 2 
 
 Notice to be given of elections (Art. 31, Rules) '-'. 10 
 
 KERRY. 
 
 Parties to. and limits :;."> 
 
 To be Bold tor two years, and terms :!■"> 
 
 Keeper to have Bign-board, etc 35 
 
 Hours of travel :iii 
 
 Rates of fere 'M'< 
 
 FENCES. 
 
 What is a legal fence . . 21 
 
 How repaired :.'l 
 
 FIRING GUNS. 
 . Penalty for 52, .".I 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Lot purchased for use ol ' took and Ladder < !o. No. l 37 
 
 Lot appropriated for use of Fire < Jo. No. 1 37 
 
 Money appropriations on conditione 
 
 FREE PEOPLE I I lLOR. 
 
 (See Blaves) 7:' 
 
 FIRST STREET. 
 
 Size of banquettes and roadways on 65 
 
 Pari of, widened by X. I >. and Carrollton Railroad Co 6G 
 
 i BOATS. 
 
 Landing for, regulated how VI 
 
 Tax on 
 
 Commissary empowered to collect tax 67 
 
 (.OATS. 
 
 Xoi to nil or be Fastened in street- 
 
 GUN POWDER. 
 
 Vendors noi to keep more than 30 lbs 37 
 
 Other persons not m ire than 5 lbs 
 
 HOGS. 
 
 To be shot and sold II 
 
 JAIL OB WATCH-HOI 
 
 Prisoner- not to be kepi more than twenty-four hour-. 
 
 Fees for prisoners lived 59 
 
 Mayor to keep in order and supplied 
 
 LANDING (seePort). 
 
 Boats may sell at and tax for 
 
 Commissary to collect the tax 
 
 1 Charge for lying there 
 
 LAW SUITS. ♦ 
 
 1 !oste in certaii i 
 
 Id A 
 
 Penalty lor riding or driving on • 
 
 Commissan ; i 'dear it 
 LICENSES. 
 
 Liquor licenst ■ 
 
 Mayo,- to grant, upon bond given 
 
 Number of license to be on door 
 
 ' lannol be transferee 1 
 
 Mayor may withdraw, in < 
 
 Liquor not to be old to soldi, r 
 
 be Iml .ii 10 o'clock 
 
 Liquor not (.> be sold without license, nn 
 
 Liquor not to bo sold or traded t<> i 
 
 Commissary to enter public houses, and 
 nisi lie obtained for certain nth 
 required 
 
 No liquor to be sold " 
 
VIII 
 
 LICl 
 
 ;. under penalty 
 
 i. i:t 
 be kcjii and 1 1 
 
 43 
 
 Market] 41 
 
 rent and i 
 
 :i Ifil. on si'!' 11 
 
 Appli • da i" be m 
 
 Applicants to Bwear 
 
 otto transfer stal 
 
 Whi forfeited 14 
 
 ling bad meatt . .... 
 
 i throw bad i :■•..' into i 
 
 musl be < lean . ....... .4/ 
 
 ■ -.'II in. nnde ■ i en ilty 
 Com 
 Farmer to 
 
 Farmer to 
 aertofurni 
 :••: aol to carry on b 
 
 ICU fu V.'ili: 1.'» 
 
 ... . IT 
 ir to i.inn out; ' 
 
 • not to be ' ,: 
 
 Penalty for nuisance in. and vulga 
 ilty for refn 
 M \\ni;. 
 
 I - President of Com 
 
 When to vote. 
 
 Duties and salary Bxed 3 
 
 '!'•> reporl Coiincllmen and ol 
 
 Shall keep ;i \" 
 
 
 
 
 
 To draw warrants for salaries when due 
 
 Chairman of Finance to Bigo warrant 
 
 To order prin lone i>y ant ' ' 
 
 To advert! . 
 
 [ fei 35 
 
 ittend i" police j ill . 
 lirect police oflBci i 
 
 olice 
 
 aw warrai 
 Draw warrants for po 
 
 To h&\ B I 
 
 irtei .3 
 
 lo 
 
 Uitb< i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 To draw wa I '_" 
 
 TS >1 
 
 ictor , .... 8 
 
IX 
 
 MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
 
 When and bow elected ] 
 
 Mayor to preside over % 
 
 Number to form a. quorum •_> 
 
 ( .'eneral powers of ;;, { - 
 
 Number required to lay a tax or license, and amount :; 
 
 When to elect officers and fix their salaries, etc ...3, 
 
 To decide on qualifications of 
 
 How to fill vacancies 
 
 Duties of Mayor 3 
 
 Shall not lie security or contractor • ... 3 
 
 Exempt from giving security I 
 
 May impose lines, seize ami arrest 
 
 Required to establish public Bchools | 
 
 Number of Directors ami quorum fixed 1 
 
 To receive school fund from State, etc i 
 
 What they shall require of the officers I 
 
 Oath of office, who may administer 
 
 When to fix the rate of taxes 
 
 Power to make public works, etc 
 
 How to open, widen or improve public Btreets, etc. i; 
 
 How to contest their election 
 
 What officers they shall elect :; 
 
 To hold property only for municipal and school purposes I 
 
 Penalty for interfering with election of ...'. 7 
 
 Rules for business. . :i. in 
 
 Power over levi and public places. 
 
 NEW ORLEANS. 
 
 Carts, etc.. of. to pass free 
 
 NOI8 
 
 Penally for making in street- 
 Mti-: be prohibited in liquor houses 
 
 NUISANCES (SeeOflbi' 
 
 Commissary to remove 
 
 Penalty for 30, 5 I 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 nl duties must be fixed b< 
 
 To be elected in October 
 
 How they must give, security * 47 
 
 1 security to be gh en 
 
 Salaries to be paid when due 
 
 We voters of the city, ami rei ide therein. 
 
 Mast be sworn and give bond 
 
 Penalty for neglect of duty 
 
 Duties in reaped to 1 , <i by them 
 
 Where to 1. 
 
 tion 
 
 Must look ' 
 
 ' I' 
 
 ad index book- 
 
 To deliver all a- 
 
 How to notify all per,,,. 
 
 To mark and number | 
 
 talty for interfering with 
 
 appoint depute 
 In case of death, vacancy filled by new 1 
 
 1 
 Con;; 
 
■rnit them to be taken from B 
 
 pies, nnd charge therefor. . . 
 
 r public * B 
 
 AND Nl 
 . in« buildings, walls, etc 61 
 
 i 
 Firing guns and burning n 
 
 lml< . lewdness, eh .vj 
 
 re 'of naked person . 
 
 • offal in the streets 
 
 ..; dead animals in the 
 Keeping offal or dead animals on premises 62 
 
 r, etc, and stopping drains 
 iloving earth or sail.. . S3 
 
 DisfLg ivemento, walks, roads, eb 68 
 
 Animals on sidewalks, levi S3 
 
 Obstructing crossing 
 
 Vicious, diseased and deformed animals 53 
 
 Wild and •">:; 
 
 ■ ial and pa 
 
 ..nd immoral exhibitions. . 58 
 
 mdalous prints and picture! 
 
 and adulterated food and drink ...... 
 
 Pilling lots and square- , r »=l 
 
 ovens, Btanlee, wells and priviei 
 
 Chimneys of smith shops, etc 64 
 
 at obstruct] 1 
 
 Officers and employees nol to be interfered with ;,-t 
 
 Batture sand ... 
 
 md driving on Btreets and railroads 54 
 
 Pent ommltting 54 
 
 • v and police tu denounce and report 
 
 ,.i \ ami police to nders 
 
 Parents of minora responsible 
 
 irs of slave- responsible 54 
 
 Img and infuriating animala (see slaughter T.t 
 
 Inflating meat 7.'5 
 
 Slaughtering in open air 12 
 
 PEIVTLEG 
 
 Por taxes and works to be recorded 7s 
 
 Attorney i ' tor to do it 78 
 
 PEDDLEB 
 
 have License, and exhibit it to Commissary on demand v> 
 
 .-lave- Belling tor masters, must be named in license 
 
 :' >• to do notify and seize, when, and how to pr id , . . 
 
 Mt. 
 
 bed 
 
 < lhargee for the admission of animals ,'it; 
 
 Amount paid to persons delivering Btraya at pound 56 
 
 Charges for maintaining animals ."><; 
 
 All charges, with costs of advertising, to be paid i»y claimants of ani- 
 mals 56 
 
 per to enter description of all animals in honk :>C, 
 
 56 
 
 ■i to Bell 5fi 
 
 • i be recorded 5G 
 
 Is to Treasurer, after deducting oosts and charges. c>r> 
 
 • r entitled to receive remainder of proceed-, less "lie-tenth . r >7 
 
 ■ make monthly report 57 
 
XI 
 
 PRINTER. 
 
 How and when elected, and duties of 60 
 
 Must publish in French, when 60 
 
 His work to be done by another, when 60 
 
 Must furnish twelve copies of each paper containing published pro- 
 ceedings 60 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL. 
 
 Must be established and maintained I 
 
 Board of Directors, how and when elected I. 60 
 
 Duties of Board, and powers 61 
 
 Must meet once a month 61 
 
 Vacancies in, how filled 61 
 
 To report quarterly to the Council 61 
 
 Bills of, paid when approved by three Directors 
 
 Forfeit membership, by absence 
 
 Children of non-residents, how admitted 
 
 Children of transient residents, *how admitted 62 
 
 School money received from State, specially appropriated to use i 
 
 schools 
 
 Directors to be sworn 61 
 
 Duties of Secretary to Board 61 
 
 Means and mode of payment 
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. . 
 
 Who compose it. and their duties 
 
 Mayor to regulate and appoint special police "i!i 
 
 Police jail to be kept in order 
 
 Prison fees, etc 
 
 PORT OR LANDING. 
 
 Commissary to regulate . r >7 
 
 Commissary to collect charges 67 
 
 jela charged $10 , f >8 
 
 Vessels charged $5 58 
 
 When to be sued 
 
 Boats may sell there 
 
 Commissary to collect tax 
 
 Rafts of timber, etc 
 
 PUBLIC WORKS. 
 
 Councilmen and officers not to contract for (Charter) :; 
 
 ROADS AND STREETS. 
 
 Plight of way granted to Jefferson and Pontcharlnun Railroad, o I cer- 
 tain conditions 
 
 Single track through Levee street granted. 
 Company to fill and grade Levee street ....... 
 
 May run locomotives, on conditions. 
 
 I "pper Line street to be widened I 
 
 Double track through Upper Line street 
 
 turc of right to run locomotives on I 1" be declared 
 
 and enforced, when 64 
 
 New streets not to be laid out in the city, unless a plan 
 
 approved by Council 
 Brown <y Co.. Railroad priviic-^ 
 Line of Canal avenue fixed 
 Line of First street ehanped 
 
 ■ ; bands to be paid monthly 
 Plum and Mary streets extended 
 Snort and Zimpei streets • 
 
 • >■! line changed. 
 Railroad on Hampi 
 
 Kai-<T's railroad privilege 
 Width of banquette- and road 
 Width of banquettes on ot 
 
XII 
 
 Kir ranted to N. 0. A ('. Railroad I to 
 
 • tin ( onditions anil restricts 
 \\ "iilth of new Bl 
 
 San. •! 
 
 ■ expense i 
 •1 granted to cul trees on ti 
 Dirt not 1 ?ed from place to place without Instructions, J I I 
 
 i 
 
 Those of office; month] \ . 
 
 ■ (OL. 
 
 I ool. 
 
 .iTAKY. 
 
 Who to be appointed, and duties ' . . L, 
 
 Musi keep record of proa ii 
 
 t send copies of ordinal iquired to execute th< 
 
 1. H 
 
 When to order elections 
 
 Authorized to administer oatii 
 
 :ITY. 
 
 5, 49 
 
 ive security 47 
 
 When to furnish • 
 
 • iking license to Bell liquor must give 
 
 i'ur, 
 
 Parmer of mai ' 
 
 Lien on reveni 
 
 . 
 Animals must be slaughtered In 78 
 
 Musi )"• kept clean 
 
 • permitted within certain limits 78 
 
 Anii killed by some sudden meai 78 
 
 Penalty for killing animal infuriated 78 
 
 menting of animals forbidden ~ :; 
 
 : OADS. 
 
 Drown & Co. have a temporary privilege 
 
 Caiser J. has a privilege through HampBon str< S 
 
 i ompleted In 2 yean 
 
 action prescribed 
 
 Not to be used for any other line 83 
 
 and how drawn 
 
 Time fixed for running, and fare. ... ' 
 
 irity and penalty 
 
 Bow and when the contracl annulled • 8f» 
 
 How the property will pa .85 
 
 roR. 
 
 
 
 « >ffli and how tilled 
 
 . in oilier, how filled . 
 
 lint deputy, when 
 
 office in the city. . 
 
 i I, and take oath 
 
 building i, etc.... 
 
 raperintend public work *8 
 
 . md record public « ork £ :; 
 
 Ive pei mil ig batture saud. - • ' 
 
 • • ' ' 
 
 < (fflce hours 
 
 Jli- ■ 
 
XIII 
 
 SURVEYOR, Continubd. 
 
 Required to run certain linos, and make measurements, and report 
 
 diagram of same to Council 
 
 riiia and report approved 
 
 Certain surplus land ordered to be embodied in certain squares. . H7. 7f. 
 
 Report of commit! in surveys 76 
 
 Mayor directed to have plan homologated 77 
 
 Surveyor to give awning linos 15 
 
 To give banquette lines 17 
 
 TARGET SHOOTING. 
 
 Prohibited, except in pi itection alleys 78 
 
 Mode of constructing protection alleys 78 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 What is subject to taxation '■'. 
 
 Batture lets not to be taxed 19 
 
 On vessels at the landing - r >!' 
 
 Timber and lumber tax l!" 
 
 On boats selling at landing 
 
 Tax on cord WOO "9. 80 
 
 TIMBER. 
 
 Tax on, and amounts 7!). .so 
 
 Commissary to report timber to comptroller, and to collect tax. .79, 80 
 Eat'ts. lumber, wood, etc., to pav tax 79, 80 
 
 TOMB LO 
 
 Price of 25 
 
 Mayor authorized to sell 25 
 
 Ificate of Comptroller and Mayor, a sufficient deed 'J.*> 
 
 Lots not to be transferred without consent of Council 2*1 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 ted annually 49 
 
 To take oath and give bond 49 
 
 Duties generally 
 
 To exhibit books to Comptroller 80 
 
 Make quarterly report 
 
 To report at regular meetings of Council 
 
 To pay out no money without resolution of the Council 
 
 To report >'ipts to comptroller 
 
 To take certain receipts as cash 29 
 
 Where to keep office 50 
 
 Power to sue. and responsible for neglect 81 
 
 Form of books 
 
 Rooks and account Bubject to inspection at all times 
 
 When to cancel and tile vouchers 
 
 Bank account 8] 
 
 TREASURER AND I OR. 
 
 Collector, and give bond according! 
 . 
 
 VACA 
 
 Oft! 
 
 Not appi 
 VAGRANTS. 
 
 To be 
 warm; A NTS. 
 
 . 
 
 GHTS AND 
 
 To 1: 
 
-A.I>T ACT 
 
 TO INCORPORATE Tin: 'MTV OF CARROLLTON. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by 
 of Low I, that the territory and inhabitants 
 
 within the following limits, to-wrl : Beginning at the Mississippi River, "ii the 
 lower line of the town of Carrollton, in the pariBh of Jefferson, following 
 line extended to the line of the city or New Orleans; thence following said city 
 line to the northern limits of said town of Carrollton; thence following the rear 
 line of said town, as laid down on the original plan thereof, to the extreme 
 north-west point formed by the junction of north and south line street; thence 
 along the west side of south line street to upper line street; thence alon) 
 the upper line of upper line street to tin- River Mississippi; thence to the point 
 of beginning, and not exceeding the limits assigned to -aid town per the original 
 plan thereof, by C. F. /impel, dated April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and 
 thirty-three, and deposited in the office ofG. R. Stringer, then Notary Public in 
 New Orleans, shall continue to be a corporation ami body politic, with per- 
 petual succession, by the name of the ••city oi Carrollton." 
 
 .2. />'' Uj </.<(•<•.. That the affairs of said City of Carrollton shall 
 
 iie administered by a Mayor and eight Councilmen, ami in ami by the name of 
 
 r and Council of the i rollton, the said corporation shall be. and 
 
 is hereby made capable in law. to sue and be sued., plead and he impleaded, 
 answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in any court or court 
 
 other place whatever: but in all judicial proceedings, 
 where, by existing laws, bond and security is required from litigants, the City 
 of Carrollton shall be dispensed from furnishing bond or security: also to have. 
 hold, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain to them and their 
 all and every kind and finality of property whatever: provided, the same lie for 
 municipal and public school purposes; and the same to sell, transfer, alien and 
 lease, farm out ami dispose of: and may have and rise a i i al. which 
 
 they may alter and change at ; .: id they shall Lai 
 
 duty it shall be to keep a correct record of all their doings, and make public 
 the same, by posting them up in two or more public pla- »r to 
 
 see them published in any paper thai may be printed therein: and shall perform 
 such other duties pertaining to the office of a s I Coun- 
 
 cil may prescribe. The first election shall be held onthefi \pril. 
 
 teen hundred and fifty-nine, from ten o'clock A. M., 1 
 and all subsequent elections on (he first Monday in from 
 
 the hour ot kA. M.. tq the hour of four o'clock P. M.. ng in 
 
 een hundred and sixty; and no person shall be allowed to vote for Mayor 
 
 luncUmen, unle duly qualified v< ■ the 
 
 islature of Louisiana, under the Constitutio i 
 dent in said city: and no person shall be eligibl mn- 
 
 oilman, unl bovc requi 
 
 city for t! ■ hall 
 
 be elected annually, and shall hold hi 
 
 I until the first Monday 
 
 ber, eighteen hundred am I iy in 
 
 I 
 the fl t 
 
 i -nieni timi ' 
 
 the p 
 
forthwith n< ' ceived the highest number" of votes of their 
 
 election; and In \ otee, the Sheriff shall order another election, to 
 
 [ne between (hose who were tied at the first election, and so on until a 
 quorum, as hereinafter provided, is obtained; and when the Mayor and Council 
 thus elected have organized, the Sheriff shall deliver to them the returns of all 
 elections ordered by him, to be filed with the archives of the city. 
 
 ; . <iv.. That said Mayor and Council shall, at some 
 convenient time previous to each annual election, appoint three suitable persons 
 fVnin among tine qualified voters of said city, as Commissioners to hold said elec- 
 tion, at such place as shall be prescribed by said Mayor and Council, and for 
 th«' purpose of filling vaoanoies in their body; the Mayor and Council shall fix 
 
 [me and place for holding the election, and appoint three Commissioners, 
 
 as in the case of the annual election; provided, that no election shall lie held in 
 
 any house where a liar is kepi fur the sale or distribution "i liquors; and in all 
 
 . ten days' notice shall be given before any election is held. The Commis- 
 
 ers of said elections shall be sworn to faithfully and impartially bold and 
 conduct the said elections, previous to presiding at the same: and In case an] 
 one of the Commissioners, duly appointed as aforesaid, should fail to attend at 
 the hour fixed to open the polls at any election, then the Commissioners present 
 shall till the vacancy; and if hut one Commissioner is present at the hour fixed 
 
 for the election, he shall select another, and the two shall select the third, and 
 
 worn one Bhatl swear tl thers: and in case n on.' of "the ( lommissioners ap- 
 pointed by the Council shall attend, at die hour fixed to open the polls and hold 
 said election, it shall he tin- duty of the .Mayor of said city to appoint two persons 
 
 rve as Commissioners, and those two shall select a third; and in ease of the 
 
 absence or inability of the Mayor, the Secretary of the said Mayor and Coun- 
 cil shall perform the duty herein above assigned the Mayor. Ami it shall he 
 the duty of the Commissioners to certify in writing the result of all the elections 
 held by them, showing the number of votes polled, and the number for each 
 
 person voted for. and deliver the same with the li-t of voters taken, and the bal- 
 lot box and ..ithin twenty-four hours after closing of the polls, to the 
 etaryoftbe Mayor and Council, who shall forthwith notify, the person or 
 •us who have received the highest number of votes, of their election, and 
 file the papers returned in the archive; of the city. The Commissioners of all 
 
 elections held under this charter are hereby rested with full power, and it is 
 hereby made their duty to order the arrest and commit to jail until the election 
 is over and the hallots are counted ; any person who may interfere with them in 
 the discharge of their duty, or dii turb the peace and quiet >'\' the neighborhood 
 around the polls; and it is he, I ' the dutj of :>il the Sheriffs, Deputy 
 
 Sheriffs, Constables and police officers of the parish of Jefferson or City of 
 Carrollton; ami in default of an offii citizen of the city, to exesute all 
 
 ordei ied by any bwo of said Commissioners, and deliver the of- 
 
 fender to the city or parish jailor, at (he jail: but oo person thus arrested shall 
 
 be deprived Of his vote, [f he he a voter' and desire to vote. In the event id' 
 
 the resignation or refusal to serve, of the Mayor and all the Councilmen, or of 
 the resignation or refusal I aoh number of them so as to leave no quo- 
 
 rum to do business, it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary (d' the Council 
 to appoint three Cup,. . and order an election to till the vacancies thus 
 
 made, and which election shall he conducted as in case of the annual election; 
 
 and in the event of the Mayor and Council neglecting to provide for the holding 
 of the annual election, it -hall he the duty of the Secretary to appoint Commis- 
 
 !fl and order said election. 
 
 c. I. Beit) ■ c, That within five days after their election, the 
 -aid Mayor and Councilmen shall meet; and the said Mayor shall preside over 
 thai ami all subsequent meetings, and the Mayor and five Councilmen shall form 
 a quorum to trai hall not proceed to business until they 
 have been duly sworn and qualified, in the absence of (lie Mayor, six Council- 
 men shall fomi a quorum to do business, 01 f whom Bhall I leoted by them- 
 selves as President, pro tern., to act in the place of the Mayor for the time being, 
 fhe President, .whether it bo ft or 01 Councilman, shall have a casting 
 
 id in election or appoints I r-. and when the Council 
 
 by ballot. 
 
 That the said Mayor and Council, when duly 
 
organized are empowered to ordain, establish and cause to be carried into effi 
 
 and execution, all such by-laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules, and regulations as , ) 
 
 they may deem expedient for the good government of said corporatiomj^cl^are , {/ ■ w 
 not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this State or of l lie ^MjtlflMMtHtqp 
 They are empowered and authorized to levy and COllecl taxes and ehai-geTiiTsUcl 
 manner as they may deem expedient on all steamboats, ships, flatboats, rafts, and 
 water-crafts of every description, landing at the levee, batturo or wharves in fronl 
 of said city; also, upon all carnages, omnibusses, carts, drays, wagons, timber 
 wheels and any other vehicle, of whatever kind, williin said city. They are author- 
 ized and empowered to lay and collect an annual tax upon all kinds of property, 
 real or personal, and slaves, which shall not exceed one per cent, of their value; 
 
 and upon stores, trades? professions or occupations, to such amount as the j 
 may deem expedient; provided, that in the imposition, assessment and collec- 
 tion of any of said taxes or charges, equality .-hall be observed, and that the im- 
 position thereof is not contrary to law; and provided further, that a majority of 
 all the members composing the Mayor and Council concur therein. They are 
 empowered to pass ordinances fur tie. 1 abatement of nuisances and the arrest of 
 offenders, and to dispose of vagrants. The first Mayor and Council elected un- 
 der this act are hereby authorized to assess and collect the annual tax of 
 eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, (which the present Council failed to do,) and 
 also the licenses on trades, occupations and professions for the year eight 
 hundred and fifty-nine; said assessment to be coi or before the fii 
 
 June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. 
 
 Sec. 6. /■■ id Mayor and Council shall annually 
 
 eleet. under the provisions of an ordinance to be binding in the premises, one 
 Comptroller, who may act as Secretary to the Mayor and Council, if (hey so or- 
 dain; one Treasurer, who may act as Collector of Taxes; one Surveyor, one 
 Commissary, three Assessors and such oth< as they may deem a< 
 
 sary for the government of the city; and the term of all ollieers 
 
 shall commence on the fi] November of each year. The duties and 
 
 compensations of all officers shall be prescribed and fixed by the Mayor and 
 Council, previous to the election of the officers, and no person shall be eli- 
 gible as an officer unless he be a voter of said city and ident therein: 
 provided, that the term of service of the officers first elected, under thi 
 lion, shall begin on the tirst of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and ex- 
 pire on the first of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, 
 
 SEC. 7. \) m Ac., That the Mayor and Council shall decide 
 
 upon the (dection and qualifications Of its own members, and of the officers 
 elected under this act: and incase of the incapacity, negligence or malfeasance 
 in office of any Councilman or officer 80 elected, said Mayor and Council 
 shall declare the office vacant: provided, five of the whole number ot Coun- 
 cilmen agiee thereto; and provided further, that when any vacancy thu 
 curs, or happens by any other means, it shall be the duty ol r and 
 
 Council to una order a new (dection to till the unexpired term <<\' 
 
 said officer or Councilman, according to the rules hereinbefore laid down; 
 and in case of incapacity, negligence or malfeasance in office of the Mayor 
 so elected, the Council shall d ler a now ■ 
 
 : provided, that six, of the whole number of Count il eto. 
 
 Sec. 8. I ial in addition to other duties herein laid 
 
 down, the Mayor of said city shall superintend the police (hereof, see that the 
 ordinances of, the city are faithfully executed, report to the .Mayor and Coun- 
 cil, in writing, any Cowneilmanor officer of tic city who may be incapable, 
 negligent or guilty of - nnlfoa<aM| in office, and perform any other dutii 
 signed him by the Mayor and^Hucil. not derogatory to the dignity of ; 
 
 Bee; and the Mayor shall v<-c^B ol three hundred dollars per annum. 
 
 The Mayor. < 'ouncilnicn. .-nyl^ aid city shall not contract for any 
 
 public work or wop except with the consent of the whole bod;. 
 
 of the Mayor and Council; and they shall not be r any offlCt 
 
 contractor of said city: and the Mayor and <"ouneilmon 
 
 for twelve months alter the expiration of their term, to any office - 
 of which the emoluments have been increased, while be v '•■ ol 
 
 tyor shall specially c< 
 
• • him 
 
 .. That th 
 
 lyo^a^MN^Hpr ■• M:r yor and ' 'ouncil ;il least h'ii ■ nuul 
 
 re, and shall not be increased daring the term for which 
 Lcepl in cases where extraordinary d jed on 
 
 them, which shall be deoided by the whole vote of the Mayor and Council. 
 
 dec., That the roads, Btri pub- 
 
 lic places and thorongh&n cily shall be under the entire control of 
 
 said Mayor and Council, and they shall pass such ordinances For the 
 thereof as they may deem expedient: provided, that no ordinance in 
 
 shall interfere with (he d public the 
 
 as laid down in the Civil Code and la' 
 
 with the pov Br to repair, alter or enlasge the said levees, and, i 
 the safety of the inhabitan In front of any part of said 
 
 city, In Bach places and manner as tl -.-. in their discretion, 
 
 require; and six of the Councilmen, concurring, are empowei 
 
 • ollect asp 
 
 city, to pay all expe I irefrom; they are empowered to 
 
 shell, or plans ' ' public thoroughfares, and charge the 
 
 1 v are empowered to 
 make wharves, plant fie posts, and regulate the port oi said city; also, to cause 
 vacant lots to bi ' the city, at 
 
 the owners, when 
 
 id Mayor and ' !< uncil are hereby 
 empowered to impose lines and penalties for the viol rdinances, 
 
 not exceeding one hundred dollars for each contravention; to sue for and collect 
 
 • -MH-: and they are he owered, through their < y and Po- 
 
 ain and provisionally seize all ci omni- 
 
 busses, timber wheels, or other vehich 
 flatboats, ships, rafts, produce, goods, and ether moveable property upon h 
 
 or liable to a line 
 
 '• property h«\ i 1 contrary to or 
 
 in violation of any ordinance or resolt incil; and 
 
 are empowered to arrest and detain any slave which may lie found contravening 
 
 their or the laws of the State, until the owner of such slave can be 
 
 notified, and satisfies the penalty and pays expe i 
 
 Si .v.. '1'hat the said Maj i 
 
 orized and required to establish, maintain and support one or more public 
 ols for the gratuitous education of white children, permam lent in 
 
 said city: which Bchools Bhall in all respects, excepl the i int. mainte- 
 
 nance and support thereof, be under the control and man. I i Board of 
 
 .-even Directors, who shall be annual] by said Mayor and Council, and 
 
 who shall possess all the powers ... tors of 
 
 publii l 9jto ' the State. Said poin^aPresi- 
 
 dent from mBJjbers, and th ., incil shall 
 
 aid Board, and any four members shall constitute a 
 
 i|iionim. Said Directors shall establish r;iLg$ for • jjfo nient; and 
 
 hall report quarterly to the Mayor a^fflMju&ti ^4* .ditioii of the 
 
 schools, and their report Bhall be pubii-hen^'! .le^Mrrffiv' - and Council shall 
 
 lie entitled to receive all public school moneys due to said rany laws 
 
 of the State, and the current expen » . mols shall be paid by said 
 
 iM-il, upon (hi; reipiest, of saidjfcal 11. h I'urm as 
 
 maybe d by ordinance of (lie Mayo^Ml < 'oimh-'iI. 
 
 Sec. 13. Be^itfurth , &c'., That the B^HMayor and ( ouncil shall cause 
 
 their officers tti Keep complete and necessary bo^P^with ind lie records 
 
 and accounts of their business done in their respective offices; 1 pics of which 
 books, certified by the Mayor and the officer who kept'th md stamped 
 
 with the city seal. Bhall Berve as sufficient evidence of the contents of said books 
 in a court, of justice or record, or elsewhere; and in no case Bhall the officer be 
 ipelled to carry or send his book or books, maps or papers, out of his office., 
 . court or elsewhere, for evidence; provided, this shall nol operate as a ba 
 to the said Mayor and Council to examine the books and papers of their offloer 
 
, aytamejoi t< them to be laid before them atanyol siona. 
 
 The Mayor and Council shall require good ami sufficient bom! and securityfrom 
 
 X 
 
 their officers, either real or personal, and cause the bond to be executed before 
 a Notarv Public, and to be recorded in the m 'f the parish of Jef- 
 
 ferson— : these lie Bame effect as in o 
 
 Sec. 14. Beitfurtkeri r of said city and the Secretary 
 
 of said Mayor and Council are hereby vested with full power to administer the 
 oath of office to the .Mayor. Councilmen ami officers of said lie Com- 
 
 missioners authorized by thi : recfltd of the same. 
 
 Sec. i.">. B( U the three A elected ac- \ 
 
 cording to the provisions of thi • nated by sa I or ami 
 
 Council, as principal ; and it shall be his duty to make out 
 
 ;iii accurate and distincl assessment roll of the landed property, buildin 
 and other property in said i tion. The other two '• 
 
 shall be designated a- Assistant ' , . and shall assist the said 
 
 principal Assessor in obtaining rma ion. ownership, and description of all ( , 
 e property: and when the asset menl roll is so far made as to show I 
 n of all taxabl 
 principal A*ssessor in th are herebyves- ' 
 
 ted with all the powi iall commence 
 
 their andte minate the \ 
 
 Monday In ;- : ' ; t shaU, so soon astermi- 
 
 omptrolfer of said corpora- 
 tion; and shall cause to be inserted, during twenl toftae in the English 
 language, in the arnal of the corporation, or by posting as required in 
 !i end, as many til nal may be published within said 
 
 , sub- 
 
 ein; and during 
 
 weidy days, any one who mi reby, Bhall have 
 
 '.ads 
 of said opposition, and og with the pre lendments i 
 
 mav deem proper; thai ai the expi days, said Assessors 
 
 Bhall meet and examin 
 
 Offered in SUppC I ! '- any alteration oughi to 
 
 be made, make the same according in ir judgment may authorize; ^ 
 
 and any person who . made opp ition may 
 
 have been in whole or in*] within five 
 
 days after said rejection and opinion o ii<i opposi- 
 
 tion to the District Court within whose jurisdiction said ssitu- 
 
 where said opposition shall be tried in the most summary manner, and by 
 preference, without a jury; provided, that in case no ■ has been tiled 
 
 within the specified time, said ' or a. majority of them, shall make a 
 
 written declaration a1 the foot > oil, that the finally 
 
 I: or, in ca e is finally 
 
 opposed; and th or the collection of taxes due said corpo- 
 
 ration, nent roll shall b • taken and received 
 
 as conclusive proof. After the at roll has been thus (dosed, the ,\s- 
 
 irs shall report the am tJ Council, who 
 
 shall, within thii hereafter, fi: ir thai year on the 
 
 property thus assessed; and within twi 
 thus fixed, the princi] 
 
 the roll, and c which Bhall 
 
 .hew :!i" val on the list, i Hint 
 
 ^ Hie owner or owners 
 
 of the property. JM. 
 
 office of th ■ 
 
 July i ' journal. 
 
 or by ippear at 
 
 :■ the p yn ■ -day of Jul 
 
 e Col bin.. 
 
 panicd b; 
 of the Peace, that he has 1 
 
G 
 
 and on the ii'l unpaid tax bills, ii shall be d attorney 
 
 immediately to put m suit all such unpaid bills for taxes. It shall be the duly of 
 
 ! of the Peace and 1' Conns in whicb suits may be 
 
 brought, by an advertisement published in tin- official newspaper of the city, 
 
 required in tne section second, to cite all said delinquent tax 
 
 payers to appear in tv< from the date of the iir.-i insertion ol said ad- 
 
 rertisement, before the respective courts in which .-aid bills are put in suit, and 
 
 r in the demand contained in said tax bill. No petition shall be n< 
 
 , hill shall be considered a ion, and tin- advertisement 
 
 shall be considered as a citation, and no otb i or citation shall bo ne 
 
 ; said advertisement shall contain the name of the Court, the names of all 
 the defaulting tax payers, and the amount claimed from each. Each defaulting 
 :ver shall pay twenty-live cents for the costs of the citation by advertise- 
 ment, together with such subsequent costs as maj accrue in the -nit. As soon 
 as the delay for answering, expressed in said advertisement, shall have expired, 
 then the further proc »id suit shall be conduct ing to exist- 
 
 ing laws. All tax hills shall hoar eight per cent per annum in, i the 
 
 first .M<inday"i' -Inly, in the year in which they are payable. The provisions 
 inn shall qi : unpaid t< 
 
 Sbc. ]7. hat the attorney of said city shall cause 
 
 10 lie recorded i corder of Mortgages let' the parish, all tax 
 
 hdls which remain unpaid a1 the end of the d< lay for answering, as aforesaid; 
 provided, thai for each bill si. recorded the Recorder of Mo tall receive 
 
 twent ad the further sum of twent Lling and giving 
 
 the same: which \'''<^ for recording and cancelling shall tie 
 taxed as costs in all hi upon ad said corporation 
 
 shall have a special lien and p] ■■!. to secure the 
 
 payment of the taxes thus i with the interest due, to be paid by prefe- 
 
 e before an; ' property, and shall exist 
 
 ithout being recorded, from the final uent rolls. 
 
 That whenever the owner of any property 
 in tront of which paving of any description whatever, sidewalks, banquettes, 
 : et walks shall be done within the limit* of said ion, by order of 
 
 -aid Mayor and Council, or whenever the owner of any property which has 
 filled up with earth, or enclosed, or fenced in by order of said Council. 
 shall fail to pay the proportion or amount tor which said property may be 
 liab';< n shall have a special lien and privilege upon said 
 
 property, to secure the payment of the amount so due. with eight par cent, per 
 annum interest, from the date on which the same ought to have been paid, to 
 be paid by preference over any mor claim whatever upon said prop- 
 
 erty; provided, that such privilege shall ne. • eriod of six 
 
 months from the completion of said works, unless ihei.il] for the same, duly 
 certified by the Controller and Colhv : corporation, has been recorded 
 
 i n ii,,. office of the Recorder of Mortgages of the parish of Jefferson; provided, 
 further, that in case such owner shall be unknown, or reside out, of the city of 
 Carroliton, the Collector skill insert a notice three times in the official journal 
 of the corporation, or by posting as required in scond, within twenty 
 
 days, aotifying such owner of Owners that, unless payment for said work is made 
 
 within thirty days from the dale of the first in ', thai the 
 
 said property will be proceeded against in the same manner as is prescribed in 
 the foregoing section, for the recovery of taxes due said corporation; and all 
 costs for advertising, re< ording or otherwise, shall be added to the bill, for col- 
 lection by the <. nicer in charge of it. 
 
 Sec. L9. Be U further ■ meted, &c., Thai whenever the Mayor and Council of 
 corporation shall consider il •advisable to open, widen. 
 
 straighten, extend or improve any struct or pnwlie place, or to enclose any 
 square or public place, and to expropriate private property for any of said pur- 
 poses, they shall have power to order the aforesaid improvements, and the 
 ■ sary expropriation of property for said purposes to be, made, under and 
 in accordance with the laws of the State upon ^wA\ subjOi t, 1 >0D ftined in the 
 Civil Code of the Slate. 
 
 BBC, 20. Bettfurtkei dkc., That the certificate of surveys of the Sur- 
 
 veyor of said city shall be admitted as evidence, on the same footing as the 
 parish Surveyor's certificate, so tar as regards the said City of Carroliton. 
 
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 Sec. 21. Be itfurtlwr enacted, &c., That in addition to the powers herein con- 
 ferred, the said Mayor and Council, when organized, are hereby vested with 
 all other rights, powers, privileges and immunities incident to a municipal cor- 
 poration and necessary for the proper government of the same, as are not con- 
 trary to the provisions of this act, and have their foundation in law; and all 
 the powers, rights, privileges and immunities possessed and enjoyed by the 
 Mayor and Council of the city of Carrollton, under the charter of eighteen hun- 
 dred and forty-five, and the amended charter of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, 
 shall cease and terminate, and be vested in the Mayor and Council, as estab- 
 lished in this act; provided, that the said .Mayor and Council, and the officers 
 under said charter of eighteen hundred and forty-five, and the amended char- 
 ier of eighteen hundred and Bfty-four, shall continue to discharge the duties of 
 their respective offices until superseded by the operation of this act; and that 
 the ordinances now in force in said City of Carrollton shall remain in full force 
 and vigor, except so far as modified and repealed by this act, or by the ordi- 
 nances of the Mayor an 
 
 SEC 22. Be Ufurth thai the election of Mayor and Councilmen. 
 
 or either of them, may be contested by any defeated candidate for said Office, 
 Or by any five citizens: provided, the contestant files his petition in the District 
 Court of the parish of Jefferson, within iive days after the election, and give 
 bond and security in the sum of one thousand dollars, that the suit is not insti- 
 tuted to delay the public business, or fpr annoyance and vexation to defendant. 
 and to secure the costs of suit: and if any election shall beset aside or annulled 
 by decree ot said Court, on the petition of citizens not being candidates; and 
 if the number of vacancies thus created shall be so great thai there remains not 
 a quorum for the transaction of business, the Court shall have power in such 
 case to order and appoint an election, in accordance with the provisions of this 
 act, for filling the vacancies so created. 
 
 Sec. 23. Beit further enacted, die, That for any interference with the Com- 
 missioners of Election appointed under this act; for any disturbance at the polls 
 or elsewhere, with a view to intimidate voters, to change their rotes or to pre- 
 vent them from voting, for any coercion or force, to make a person vote, 
 whether a voter or not. for any tumult, riot, bribery, or attempt at bribery, 
 with a view to change the result of any of the elections held, or attempted to be 
 held, under the provisions of this act. each person offending shall, on convic- 
 tion, be imprisoned, not exceeding six months, and be fined not exceeding- 
 live hundred dollars, at the discretion of the Court, for any refusal or neglecl 
 
 of the Commissioners of Election to perform any of their duties, as prescribed 
 
 in section third of this act: for any refusal or neglect of any of the officers, or 
 of any citizen, to perform the duties prescribed in said section third, in execu- 
 tion of orders of arrest issued by the Commissioners, the person SO refusing or 
 neglecting shall, on conviction, be imprisoned, not, exceeding three months, 
 and lined not exceeding one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the Court. 
 
 Sec. 2-1. Be Ufurth etc., That nothing i in this act shall be 
 
 so construed to deprive the State of Louisiana of its right of preference over the 
 City of Carrollton. for the payment of taxes which may be or become due to 
 the State, on anv property within the limits of said City of Carrollton, but the 
 privilege thereon hereby granted to the said cily for the payment of taxes 
 authorized to be imposed by this act, by said city. .-Iiull take rank after those 
 due. or to become due. to the State lor Stat 
 
 Sec. 25. Beitfurthei shall take 
 
 it- passage. ■ . 
 
 WM. Vv. 1TGI1. 
 Speaker of the Bouse of Represents 
 WM. F. GRIFFIN, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Approved March 1 ,". 
 
 KOBERT C. WICK LI IT K. 
 rnor of the state of Louiai 
 A true ( 
 Andrew £ 
 
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RULES J^ISTJD REGULATIONS 
 
 tOLT.TON 
 
 ,. 1. The Council shall 1 Wednesday, al ~ 
 
 o'clock I'. M. 
 
 Abt. 2. At the stated hour of the Council, the President shall 
 
 laid- the chair, and there being a quorum, tin- ' !ouncfl shall proceed t<> but ii 
 
 Whenever the I !l deem i; . they may adjourn to 
 
 any other day of the week, and to any other hour; and in i h adjourn- 
 
 ment, it shall be the duty of the notice 
 
 thereof to the members who were no! present, when the bbj . ed for, ami 
 
 -hall be served i -aid members on the 
 
 day immediately preceding the extraordinary sitiinir. 
 
 President of the Council Bhall pres mm: 
 
 may Bpeak to points of order in ] >to other members, rising for thai 
 
 order, subject to an appeal nncil 
 
 by any two members, on which appeal there shall be no discussion; ami in all 
 srly conduct in the hall, he, or the Chairman of the Committee 
 of the Whole, i.: tared. 
 
 \ ;. 5. In c snce of the M , tinted by ballot, 
 
 bya majo mg the members present, a President jpro tempore, 
 
 ami his function in on the rising of the Bitting for 
 
 which In 1 was appointed, or when the President shall makeJus appearance. 
 
 Am. 6. Tin' President mncil shall cause the proceedings of the 
 
 preceding sitting tb be read, to the cud that any mistake may he corrected 
 that shall have been mad''. Aft .' the journal, the order of bnsi- 
 
 diall he as follows: 
 
 !. Communications from officers of the corporation on public busin 
 *_'. Petitions. 
 
 :;. Reports from standing commits 
 I. Repoi . eial commit 
 
 .">. Unfinished business of the preceding mei 
 P. 7. The io put- tin' question, but lie may -late ii 
 
 siltin.LT. The question shall he put distinctly in the following manner: " \- 
 tnany pf yon as are of the opinion that, (as the question ma; 
 and when the votes have been taken i:; the affirmative: "As many of you as 
 are of a contrary opinion, saj nat." Should the President have any doubt, or 
 should one or more members desire a division, that is, that Hie rotes he taken 
 by rising and sitting, the Council mall divide. Those members who vote in 
 favor of the question Bhall rise first, and after they are seated, those who 
 against ii. The Pre ; ill then declare to the Council the result of the 
 
 ion. 
 Art. 8. The President Bhall not make any. motion.; he shall w rt in 
 
 anj debate; nor shall he Lei i ohair, except when the Council forms in the 
 Committee ol the Whole; then, and in al! cases of ballot, he shall he entitled 
 Io vote; hut in all other cases he shall only have the casting vote. 
 
 Art. 9. All the committees shall he appointed by the Presidett, unless other- 
 wise ordained h\ a. majority of the Council, when thej Bhall be appointed by 
 ballot. 
 
 Abt. 1". Whe mber is about to speak, he shall rise from his seal 
 
 and respectfully address himself to the President, and Bhall confine himself to 
 the subject umier debate, carefully avoiding personality. 
 
 Art. 11. If any member, in Bpeaking or otb is the nil 
 
 the Council, tic- LI bim to order. The 
 
 member thus called io order Bhall immediately si; down, unless he be per- 
 mitted to explain, and the Council, ! . to, shall decide, but, without 
 debate, [f no appeal! h Council, the dec ion of the President 
 shall be final. 
 
Art. 12. Two or more members rising at the same time, the President shall 
 decide which shall speak first. 
 
 Art. 13. No member shall speak more than twice on the same question 
 without leave of the Council. No member shall leave the Council chamber 
 without permission: and while a member is making a motion, all the Others 
 shall refrain from private conversation, and from passing across the chamber. 
 
 Art. 14. No member shall vote on any question, in the decision of which he. 
 is immediately and particularly interested, nor incase of his not having beeb 
 present when the question was submitted to the Council. «.■ 
 
 Art. 15. Every member present in the Council at the time that any question-'. 
 is submitted to it, shall vote on said question, unless exempted from that obli- 
 gation by virtue of the preceding rule. 
 
 Art. 16. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be explained by (hi* 
 President; and at his. or the requesl of any member, it shall be committed tyS 
 writing by the mover, and Bhall be delivered to the Secretary, who shall read* 
 it distinctly and in an audible voice, previously to its being debated 
 
 Art. IT. When a motion has been explained bj the President or read by 
 the Secretary, it shall lie considered as being before the Council, but it may be 
 withdrawn at any time before a decision or an amendment. 
 
 Art. is When a question is under debate, no motion shall be ret eived, but 
 to adjourn, to lay on the (aide, to postpone indefinitely, postpone to a certain 
 day. to commit or amend, which several motions shall have precedence in the 
 order they are arranged, and the motion for adjournment shall always be in or- 
 der and decided without debate. 
 
 Art. 19. Every member has the right to call for a division of the question, 
 when it is susceptible of being divided. 
 
 A::t. 20. While a motion to commit is under consideration, no amendment 
 can be proposed on the principal question. 
 
 Art. 21. When a motion has been once made and derided, it shall be in 
 order for any member who had voted with the majority, to make, during the 
 session, or at the next meeting at latest, a motion to reconsider; such motion 
 shall be seconded be. ore putting the question, and shall be considered as carried, 
 when voted for by a majority of the members present. 
 
 Ai;t. 22. Whenever any member calls for the reading of any document, 
 and the reading of the same is opposed, the Council shall decide whether said, 
 document shall be read. 
 
 Art. 23. Whenever the Council is about to deliberate on matters, that, in 
 its opinion, should be secret, all persons shall be requested to withdraw, nor 
 shall any person be admitted during the discussion or reading of such matter, 
 unless a majority of the Council shall otherwise ordain. 
 
 Art. 24. Every member may decline serving on a committee immediately on 
 his being proposed, if he is then a member of two other commit; 
 
 Art. 25. The report of a committee must be signed by a majority of its 
 members, but the minority may also report. 
 
 Art. 26. No motion calling for the yeas and nays shall be received, unless 
 made and seconded after the entire decision of the question, and at the same 
 sitting. 
 
 Art. 27. There shall be appointed in the month of October of each year two 
 standing committees of four members each, viz.: 1. Committee on Finance and 
 Claims; 2. Committee on Streets and Landings: which committees shall be 
 changed as often as the Council shall determine. 
 
 Art. 28. The Committee on Finance and claims shall take into considera- 
 tion the reports and accounts of the Comptroller and Treasurer, and all mat- 
 ters connected with the revenue, expenditure or public debts of the corpo- 
 ration that may be referred to them uncD, and particularly into the 
 appropriations of monies, and to report whether the monies have boon dis- 
 bursed in conformity with the ordinances, and shall also, From time to time. 
 est to the Council the best means to promote the ■ i the ad- 
 ministration, and the accountability of the officers of the corporation. Thej 
 shall also take into consideration all petitions, or other papers relative to 
 
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 claims or demands against the corporation. as they may be presented to the 
 Council, and said committee dial] report to the Council their opinions there- 
 on, with such proposals as may appear to them to be proper. 
 
 Aut. '2'.'. The Committee on Streets, Landings and Police shall be charged 
 with the consideration of all subjects connected with the poring, opening or 
 widening the streets, and in any manner tending to their improvement; also, 
 with all matters connected •with the Improvement of the port, and shall re- 
 port therein! to the Council. All communications and reports from the Street 
 t tommissi tries and Surveyor shall be referred to this committee; and all ac- 
 counts of expenditures made for paving, opening, widening, or otherwise 
 improving the streets, or for the improvement of the port, mast be examined 
 and certified to by this committee; and they shall .be charged with all matters 
 in relation to the police. 
 / Akt. o0. No resolution, regulation, or ordinance shall be adopted by the 
 Council, until a bill for the same shall have undergone at least two readings 
 at two different sittings, between which there shall be an interval of at least 
 three days. 
 
 Aut. 31. At all elections of officers of the city there shall be a previous 
 notice given at least one week before the election. 
 
 Akt. 32. All mattors'within the competency of the Council may he debated 
 in the exraordinary sittings regularly convened. 
 
 Akt. ::.;. Two-thirds of the members present may at any time suspend these 
 rule-; but they shall not be repealed, or altered, unless by a majority of all 
 
 the members elected, and after one week's previous notice. 
 
 vVAi.i'. :U. The Mayor shall specially convene the Council whenever, in his 
 
 liilion, the public interest may require it. or upon the written request of 
 
 two of the members thereof, they stating their reasons for such request In 
 
 BUCh a case, the Mayor shall direct the Secret try to give a written notice of 
 
 ! i meeting to each member at least twenty-four hours previous thereto. 
 
 except in case of great emergency, when the Mayor may convene the Council 
 
 forthwith) by giving each member verbal notice to that effect. And in case 
 
 of absence or inability or refusal of the Mayor when a called meeting is 
 
 necessary, the Secretary shall convene the Council at the written request of 
 
 three members of the Council. 
 
ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, AND PERMANENT ORDERS. 
 
 ANIMALS. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING HOGS RUNNING AT LARGE. 
 
 Adopted November 19, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the Commissary, 
 after ten days' public notice, to shoot down all hogs that may be 
 found running at large in the city: the hogs shot to be sold for the 
 use of the city by the Commissary, after three hours' public notice; 
 provided, the owner does not claim the property and pay one 
 dollar fine. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING DOGS. 
 
 Adopted July 29, 1846. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That the Commissary be and he is hereby 
 required to procure at the expense of the city, such quantities of 
 poisoned sausages, from time to time, as may be required for the 
 purpose of destroying all dogs found running at large without 
 good and sufficient muzzles. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That this ordinance shall be in full 
 force from the 30th day of May of the present year, until the 1st day 
 of October, and from the 1st day of Ma} T to the 1st day of October of 
 each subsequent year, aud at all times when the Council may 
 deem it necessary. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING ANIMALS TURNED OUT TO GRAZE. 
 
 Adopted February 10, 1841. 
 
 Art. 1. Beit Ordained, That all cattle, horses and mules belonging 
 to residents of this city, which they may turn out to graze, shall 
 be branded on the right thigh with the cattle brand of this 
 corporation. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to brand all cattle belonging to residents of this city 
 that may be brought to him for that purpose, for which he may 
 charge ten cents for each head as a compensation. 
 
 Art. :j. J'f it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to give notice that he will, between the hoars of 12 
 and 1 o'clock, on some day of each week, brand all cattle which 
 may be brought to some convenient place within the limits of the 
 city, to be by him designated. 
 
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 Art. 4. Be. if further Ordained, That it eliall be the duty 01 the 
 Commissary, and the right of any person, to take up and impound 
 all or any cattle found at Large within t lie limits of this city, which 
 may not be marked with the brand bf this corporation; and the 
 same shall be considered as stray cattle, to be dealt with accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That all hogs are unconditionally 
 prohibited from being at large within the limits of this city, and 
 it is hereby made the duty 01 the Commissary, and the right of 
 any citizen to impound the same as strays. 
 
 Thai the Commissary is authorized, and he is hereby 
 required to procure at the expense of the city a cattle brand, to 
 mars an lal letter C, of three inches in diameter, with a 
 
 perpendicular line joining the top and bottom of said letter; the said 
 brand to be called the "Cattle brand of the city of Carrollto 
 
 ORDINANCE CONCERNING ANIMALS OF TIIE PARISH OF JEFFERSON, 
 
 LEFT BANK. 
 
 Adopted August 24, 1859. 
 
 'i Ordained, c)-c, That the cattle and other animals enumerated 
 in the ordinances of this city relative to strays, and belonging to 
 the of that portion of the parish of Jefferson under the 
 
 Police Jury of the Left Bank, be, and the same are allowed to 
 graze and pasture within the limits of this city without being 
 subjected to be impounded: provided, that all such animals be 
 previously branded with the brand established by said Police Jury, 
 and known by the letters P. J.; and provided that the cattle and 
 other animals of the residents of this city, branded with the city 
 brand C, shall be allowed to graze within the limits of the juris- 
 diction of said Police Jury for the Left Bank without being subject 
 to be impounded. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING GOATS. 
 
 Adopted December 10, 1851. 
 
 Be it Ordained, That ten days after the passage of this ordinance, 
 it shall not be lawful for any goat to run at large within the limits 
 of this city; and il is hereby made the right of any citizen, and 
 
 the duty of the Commissary, to take up and impound any goat 
 found at large after {hat time; and when impounded they shall be 
 subject to the same charges as hogs, and the Pound Keeper is 
 hereby authorized to proceed with them as with other animals 
 in advertising and selling. 
 
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 ASSESSOR. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE MAKING OP A BOOK OF 
 
 PLANS. &c. 
 
 Adopted December 10, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That the sketch of a plan for making an 
 exhibit of the property in this cityin a book submitted by the 
 Principal Assessor be adopted, and it shall be the duty of said 
 Principal Assessor to draw a sketch or plan of each and every 
 square of ground. (with the suit-divisions [so far as practicable] 
 thereof marked) in this city, in a book provided for that purpose. 
 Each square to be drawn on a Beparate page, and to have the names 
 of the owner or owners thereof placed on the same page with the 
 sketch, with the portion belonging to each set opposite to the name; 
 said book to be denominated "Book of Plans, &c, of Carrollton, La." 
 
 Art. 2,. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Principal Assessor from year to year to continue the entries in said 
 "Book of Plans, &c," and to perpetuate the same according to the 
 best of his abilities. 
 
 ATTORNEY. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE DUTIES OF THE CITY ATTORNEY. 
 
 Adopted June 12, 1861. 
 
 Be it Ordained, by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrollton, 
 That the Attorney shall be the legal adviser of the Mayor and 
 Council, and of any officer of the city, upon all matters which may 
 be submitted to him for his opinion, and when requested shall give 
 his opinion in writing, with as little delay as possible. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of said 
 Attorney to represent the corporation in all judicial proceedings, 
 suits, actions or contestations in which the city may have an 
 interest; he shall prosecute and defend all actions which may be 
 brought by or against the city or any officer thereof, for and by 
 reason of any matter or duty connected with or growing out of 
 their respective offices, or in which the corporation is interested in 
 any court in this State; and shall institute all suits against de- 
 faulting tax payers in the manner and time and with the formalities 
 required by law, all suits for the recovery of license-tax or other 
 dues immediately after receiving tin- bill or claim from the proper 
 officer; and all suits for the violation of any ordinance or section 
 of the charter of the city, upon the complaint of any officer of the 
 city, or direction of the Mayor and Council. 
 
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 3. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of said Attor- 
 ney to examine, previous to being executed, all leases, contracts, 
 accounts, titles or bonds to be made by or for the corporation, and 
 shall require that the interest of the city be protected therein by 
 proper and fitting conditions and specifications; aud when required 
 by the Mayor and Council or any officer of the city, shall prepare 
 any bond, contract or other document required; be shall examine 
 all bills for costs which the corporation has been condemned to 
 pay by the several courts, and when made according to law, to 
 approve the same; and he shall draft such ordinances or resolutions 
 as may be required of him by the Mayor and. Council, or any 
 committee thereof. 
 
 4. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of said 
 Attorney to keep in proper books, paged and indexed, a record of 
 all suits for or against the city, and all actions prosecuted or 
 defended by him, and all proceedings had therein; his record must 
 be written up within three days after proceedings had in any suit 
 or action, and his books shall be open at all times to the inspection 
 of the Mayor and Councilmen, and to the Comptroller; and he shall 
 make a monthly report to the Mayor aud Council of the condition 
 of business entrusted to his care, and a special report forthwith, 
 whenever a judgment is given against the corporation. He shall 
 also furnish a certified or transcript copy of such decisions as the 
 Supreme Court may render for or against the city. 
 
 5. Be it further Ordained, That the said Attorney shall, immedi- 
 ately upon the recovery of any debt due the corporation, forthwith 
 pay the amount thereof into the city treasury, stating the nature 
 of the debt, the person against whom, and the amount and time of 
 recovery; he shall take the Treasurer's receipt therefor, and forth- 
 with file the same with the Comptroller, to be entered in his books. 
 
 Art. 6. Be it further Ordained; That it shall be the duty of said 
 Attorney, upon the expiration of his term of office, or resignation 
 thereof, or removal therefrom, to report forthwith to the Mayor and 
 Council the titles, nature and amounts in detail, of all suits and 
 actions in his hands prosecuted and defended by him, and then 
 pending ami undetermined, which report shall, if possible, be certi- 
 fied correct by the judge or clerk of the court in which the suits 
 are pending. 
 
 Adopted July 29, 1857. 
 
 Resolved, That the Attorney be required to keep his register in 
 the Treasurer's Office of the City of Carrollton. 
 
 Adopted August 21, 1861. . 
 
 Resolved, That the Attorney is directed to take the necessary steps 
 to secure the costs in all criminal cases hereafter brought in the 
 several courts of this parish. 
 
 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING BILLS TO BE SUED. 
 
 Adopted March 19, 1851. 
 Be it Resolved, That hereafter, when bills or claims of this 
 
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 corporation are placed in the hands of the Attorney for collection, 
 a detailed account of them shall be filed with the Comptroller, who 
 shall charge them to the Attorney, and when collected and returned, 
 credit him with the amount. 
 
 AWNINGS. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CON- 
 STRUCTION OF AWNINGS OVER THE SIDEWALKS. 
 
 Adopted May 29, 1850. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That any person may erect over tin 1 side- 
 walk in front of his property, a canvas or permanent awning, at 
 right angles with the front lines thereof, upon his obtaining a 
 certificate from the Surveyor, that the lines for the same have been 
 designated and marked; and the Surveyor is hereby authorized to 
 charge and receive one dollar for the same. 
 
 Art. 2 fie it further Ordained, That all awning posts hereafter 
 erected, shall not be more nor less than nine feet high above the 
 top of the curb, and that the top rail shall be even with the top of 
 the post, the post shall not be less than five nor more than six inches 
 square.* 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That all awning posts shall be 
 placed close to the banquette side of the curb, plank or stone; and 
 where foot planks arc laid, the same shall be neatly fitted thereto, 
 and an additional plank of at least twelve inches in width shall be 
 laid on the inside, by any person who may erect an awning. 
 
 Akt. 4. Be it further Ordained, That fixed seats shall not be 
 placed against any awning post, nor any other obstruction allowed 
 on the sidewalks of this city. 
 
 Art 5. Be it further Ordained, That a fine of ten dollars shall be, 
 and the same is hereby imposed upon any person contravening this 
 ordinance, to be recovered before any competent court, for the use 
 of the city; and it is hereby made the duty of the Surveyor and 
 Commissaries of Streets to see this ordinance enforced, and 
 remove any awning erected contrary to the provisions hereof. 
 
 ♦The remainder of the original Article, from the word "Square," was repealed September 10, 1860. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING AWNING POSTS. 
 
 Adopted November 27, 1850. 
 
 Be it Ordained, That hereafter no awning post shall be placed 
 nearer the corners of the banquettes in this city than five feet. 
 
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 It VI, I. K. 
 
 ORDINAL BALLS, [NOLUDING BOB 
 
 Ql I NDMENT. 
 
 Adopted May 81, L845. 
 ad after the p F this 
 
 ordinance, it shall nol be lawful foranypers m or pen ..• a 
 
 public, subscripti siety ball within the limits of this city, 
 
 without first having obtained permission in writing from tl 
 nnder penalty of B fine of nol less than ten dollars, nor more than 
 
 twenty d r each contravt rable before any conrl 
 
 of competenl jurisdiction^ for tfa 
 
 _'. Be it furl Thai for i thus 
 
 delivered, there Bhall be paid the 1 
 
 relative to the price of lip I 
 
 i shall be paid 
 to the City Treasurer, and no permission shall be I by the 
 
 ill ih" production to him of the Treas- 
 ure r"s receipj for said tax. 
 
 Art. t. /;■ ?' furth [ I >rder mu I 
 
 and it shall he the duty - 1' the I 
 
 that the ived, and that no ball , without 
 
 permission aforesaid: am! i any infraction of this ordinal 
 
 or disorderly conduct, the ' may withdraw his permission, 
 
 and prohibit the continuance of the same, or enforce the penalty 
 for the contravention of the firsl article of this ordinal 
 
 Article ■'. ;■ ■ \. 
 
 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF LIQUORS, a., at 
 PUBLIC BALLS, 
 
 Adopted February 10, L85 . 
 
 Resolv,*/, That i" iving public halls in this city, and 
 
 paying a license therefor, be and are hereby authorized to retail 
 liquors and other refreshments to persons attending said halls, 
 
 during the time of the ball, and in the house where the hall takes 
 without paying any other license than the license for the 
 hall, any ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 BANQUETTES. 
 \\ ORDINANCE FIXING Till-: WIDTH OP BANQUETTES. 
 
 Adopted December l, 184T. 
 Art. 1. B ' davned, Thai all banquettes within the limits of 
 
 this city, not otherwise specified, shall he of the width following, 
 
 to-wit: On all streets of sixty-lour feet and over in width, twelve 
 feet; on all streets of fifty-four feet and over in width, ten feet; 
 on all streets of forty-eight feet and over in width, nine feet. 
 
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 AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE WIDTII OF BANQUETTES ON CANAL 
 
 AVENUE. 
 
 Adopted March 21, 1853. 
 
 Be it Ordained, That the sidewalks or banquettes on Canal 
 Avenue shall be fifteen feet wide. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF BANQUETTES. 
 
 Adopted October 3, 1849. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That whenever one-third of the owners 
 of property, and a majority of the residents thereon, on any side 
 of any street, shall petition to have a paved banquette made on 
 their side of the street, according to either of the modes described 
 in this ordinance, the same shall be ordered to be made as far as 
 the end of each square in which any of the petitioners may own 
 property. Banquettes shall also be ordered to be made wherever 
 the Council may deem that the convenience of iho public may 
 require them; * and permission is hereby granted to any person or 
 persons individually, to make a paved banquette in front of their 
 property, provided, the same be made in accordance with the require- 
 ments of this ordinance, and to the satisfaction of the Surveyor. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That the tops of the curbs of all 
 banquettes on the streets running- back from the river, within the 
 limits of this city, shall be laid on the level of the grades adopted 
 by this Council, and the gutters on the cross streets shall rise from 
 each corner toward the center of the square at the rate of one 
 inch in twenty-five feet, and the banquettes or sidewalks shall rise 
 from the curb toward the side of the street at the rate of one-half 
 inch to the foot; the depth of the gutters below t lie top of the curb at 
 the corner of Levee street sliall betcn inches, which shall be increased 
 one inch for every six. hundred and fifty feet toward the swamp. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That all paved banquettes or side- 
 walks within the limits of this city shall be either of good flag 
 stone, or lake paving brick, supported by * irb stone, 
 
 or by a good brick curb wall with a top plank at 1< as1 three inches 
 by ten inches, and a o itter timber, at least three 
 
 inches thick, and six inches wide, laid flat-wise and well secured, 
 and nailed to stakes driven down al 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further On ha1 it is hereby made the duty of 
 
 the Surveyor to give the lines and !! banquettes and 
 
 gutters to be made under this ordinance, without delay; also, to 
 see the same done according to the pn 
 
 and upon his approval of any work coi ive the con- 
 
 tractor his certificate to thai efl 
 
 Art. r>. Beit further Ordaii ne-half fof the whole costof 
 
 any banquette made under this ordinance, excepting thai portion 
 
1- 
 
 at ti . walks, shall 
 
 be reimbursed to the city by t! ■ I rtiea in front 
 
 of trhicfa ill bave b< i □ made; and the said cost shall 
 
 sollectable . on the rc«<-i j >t by the Comptroller of the 
 
 ili.ii the work baa been duly completed. 
 
 further Ordained, Thai all plank banquet! 
 
 I within the limits of this city shall 
 
 be made in the following manner: They shall c 
 
 placed side by aide, nol lesa than two feet from the d I gut- 
 
 . laid clear of the ground, and BUpported on blocks or sills, and 
 
 firmly nailed to the Bame. The planks shall be laid to a uniform 
 
 level through each square, which level shall be obtained on rising 
 
 ind, by sinking the Cross blocks below the Burface, or by cut- 
 
 ing through the ridge as may I ind on falling ground, 
 
 by placing the blocks one upon an ither to the required height; on 
 
 i ground of a proper heigh 1 one block onlytobeused, imbeded 
 
 in the surface. These blocks shall be secured by Btakes driven at 
 
 each end firmly into the ground, and naili h block* 
 
 mi .tliiT change* mmli' in tlio let, 3d 
 ;iU'l M!i nrt:rli -. Mfpflng tin in U 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE BEPAIB OF BANQUETTES. 
 
 lopted May 28, 1861, 
 
 l by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrottton* 
 That whenever it becomes accessary to repair any of the paved or 
 planked sidewalks < I this city, made according to law, it shall be 
 and is hereby made the duty of the Commissary to notify the o* aer 
 of the property fronting such places to repair the same in such 
 manner as he, the Commissary, shall designate in bis notice, within 
 ten days alter notice, the fact and date of service of such notice 
 shall be duly recorded in his diary, and in cases of doubt, he shall 
 consull the and Landings Committee, and follow their 
 
 directions in the premises. 
 
 ( Ji-flninrti, That whenever the froril owner, nol 
 in accordance with article l of this ordinance, shall and does repair 
 
 any of the paved or planked sidewalks in the manner and time 
 
 required by the Commissary, the Mayor and Council Bhal] and will 
 reimburse the oneJjalf of the cost to such owner, on presentation 
 of a bill for the amount approved by the Commissary. 
 
 /;. -' ftnth.r Ordained, That for refusing or neglecting to comply 
 
 with the directions of the Commissary when duly and properly 
 
 notified as aforesaid, the fronl owner shall be liable to a fine of 
 $10 for each offence; andfor oeglecl to notify the front owners 
 when repairs art iry, the Commissary shall be liable to a fine 
 
 Of ^10 for each oiTenee. 
 
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 HATTURE. 
 
 RESOLUTION CONCERNING BATTURE LOTS. 
 
 Adopted October 7, 1846, 
 
 Resolved, That the taxes on the batture lots yet unpaid be and 
 the same are hereby cancelled, and that hereafter no batture lots 
 shall be assessed; provided, that the buildings and other improve- 
 ments now on the batture by suffrancc of the Council, be assessed 
 and taxed according to their value. 
 
 BRIDGES. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE STREETS, DITCHES AND BRIDGES. 
 
 Adopted June 10, 1840. 
 
 • Article 1 and article 2 are obsolete. 
 
 Art. 3. Beit further Ordained, That all bridges shall be at Least 
 twenty inches wide and nine inches deep, clear water way, made in 
 a good and substantial manner, so as to prevent the sides from 
 being pressed in. The top shall be of good cypress or pine plank, 
 at least two inches thick, and shall be supported by a cross piece 
 at least every three and a half feet ; said bridges shall be extended 
 across each street or road to within two feet of the banquette. 
 
 RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE SIZE, &c., OF BRIDGES ON CANAL 
 
 AVENUE. 
 
 Adopted Novembe'r i. 1.846. 
 
 Resolved, That the bridges on the two centre ditches on Canal 
 Avenue shall Vie made of good white pine or cypress, at least three 
 feet wide, and fourteen inches deep, clear water way; they shall 
 be at Least thii ty feel long; the Bides and tops to 1 ist two 
 
 inches thick, and the latter to be supported by < three 
 
 inches thick every three feet; the whole to be well made and put 
 down by the level to be given by the Surveyor. 
 
 AN ORDINAL 
 
 ted Oct 347. 
 
 Art. l. Bti ' ', 'fh.it hereafter all* bri 
 
 of tin's city shall be repaired with and mad f i, pine 
 
 or cedar lumber. 
 
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 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING BRIDGE TIMBER. 
 
 Adopted February 12, 1851. 
 
 Be it Resolved, That the Surveyor be and lie is hereby ordered 
 to receive nothing but good sound limber for any bridges to be 
 made in this citv. 
 
 BUILDINGS .AJVD FENCES. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING BUILDINGS, AND FENCES. 
 
 Adopted August 7, 1861. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrollton, 
 That no building shall be erected within the limits of this city 
 until the ground to be covered by the building be raised to a level 
 with the established grade of the sidewalk, the lines and level to 
 be obtained from the Surveyor. All persona violating this article 
 shall be fined not less than $25, and $10 a month until the ground 
 so occupied be filled as herein required. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That no person shall erect, rebuild or 
 enlarge any building or wall fronting on any street or public way 
 without first obtaining the lines thereof from, the City Surveyor 
 under a penalty of not less than $25 for every offence, and $5 for 
 each day said works may be continued after notice from the Com- 
 missary. 
 
 3. Be it further Ordained, That all persons arc forbidden to 
 construct, or cause to be constructed, any gallery or verandah 
 projecting in front of their building over the sidewalk at a less 
 distance than 10 feet above the sidewalk. All persons are forbidden 
 to extend the steps in front of their building more than 24 inches 
 on the sidewalk. All persons are forbidden to construct any door 
 or window projecting more than 12 inches on the sidewalk in front 
 of their building. All persons are required to hook or otherwise 
 secure the shutters of the doors and windows of their buildiugs 
 that open on the street, so as to prevent accidents, and not to 
 obstruct the passage on the sidewalk. Every person who violates 
 the provisions of this article shall be fined not less than $10 for each 
 offence, and $5 for every day the offence shall continue after notice. 
 
 4. Be it farther Ordained, That the roof of every building fronting 
 the street shall be provided by the owner with gutters and leaders 
 to collect and convey the rain water so as to prevent its falling on 
 and running over the sidewalk, and any person who violates this 
 article shall be fined not less than $10 for each offence, and $5 for 
 every day the offence continues after notice. 
 
 5. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the Sur- 
 veyor, the Commissary and all police officers to inquire concerning 
 all houses or other buildings that may be in a ruinous condition; as 
 
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 also about whatever might, by falling, impair the security of pas- 
 sage through the public way, or give occasion to any accident, and 
 report the same to the Mayor and Council forthwith. 
 
 6. Be it further Ordained, That in all cases where banquettes or 
 sidewalks are paved in front of any lot or lots of ground in this 
 city, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of^such lots to 
 cause the same to be fenced with good substantial pickets or plank 
 fences, so as to protect said sidewalk. The Commissary shall 
 notify the owner ov agent, in writing, tQ comply with the provisions 
 of this article within ten days after notice, and for neglecting to 
 Comply with said notice, the owner or agent shall be fined $10, 
 and $10 additional, for eveiy subsequent ten days' neglect to comply, 
 until the fence is made cither by the owner or the Council at his 
 expense, and all damage to the pavement caused by such neglect 
 shall be repaired at the expense of the said owner. 
 
 7. Be it further Ordained, That all partition fences made in the 
 manner -herein below set forth, shall be considered legal fences 
 when placed on the line which separates contiguous estates, and 
 for which the adjoining proprietors may be liable under article 
 682 of the Civil Code of "this State, to-wit: 
 
 1. All substantial fences at least 7 feet high above the estab- 
 lished grade of the city, made of sound new cypress pickets placed 
 upright close together, and sunk in the ground at least eighteen 
 inches below the grade, well nailed to a 1| inch cross strip, and 
 pointed. 
 
 2. All substantial fences at least 7 feet high above the grade, 
 made of new sound cypress pickets, pr cypress or pine inch planks 
 placed close together upright from the ground, or a strong base 
 plank, and well nailed on to a frame made of sound new cypress, 
 cedar or pine posts sunk into the ground at least 30 inches below 
 the grade, with a top and bottom pine or cypress strip two inches 
 thick, of new and sound luafber. , 
 
 3. All fences made in accordance with an agreement or under- 
 standing between the parties interested. 
 
 8. Be it further Ordained, That the necessity for rebuilding, and 
 the necessity for and manner of repairing a fence held in common 
 when the proprietors cannot agree, shall be determined by a jury 
 of three resident freeholders, summoned and sworn by the Judge 
 having jurisdiction, at the request of one or both the proprietors 
 interested. The decision of the jury shall be binding, and the 
 party who refuses and neglects to abide by and comply with the 
 decision of said jury shall be fined $2.3, and $5 additional for every 
 week he so neglects to comply, and shall pay all damages caused 
 by his neglect. 
 
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 x C ARTS, DRAYS, &c. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING CABTS, DBAYB, A.-. 
 
 Adopted May 21, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Bj it (he rnial. That no person shall cause in run within 
 the limits o^^( r « l rriy of Caxrplltori, any coach gig, hackney coach, 
 cart, dray, "timber carriage, or other carriage to I" 1 let for hire for 
 the transportation of persons;, produce, effects, merchandise or other 
 
 objects whatever, unless he has obtained :i license lor each of the 
 above said vehicles; and that any person running a dray, cart, 
 wagon, or other vehicle herein designated; in violation of this 
 ordinance, shall be liable to pay a tine of slu f. .1- gaoh ami every 
 contravention, to be sued for and recovered before any court 6f 
 competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That the Mayor shall cause to be 
 inscribed, in a book kept for that purpose, the names ami christian 
 names of each proprietor of vehicles above designated, the pi 
 of his residence, number of £ach license which shall he delivered, 
 and the designation of each species of vehicles for- which the said 
 license shall be delivered. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordaiwd, That the drays, carls, wagons, 
 
 carriages, &c., designated in this ordinance, must have the number 
 
 of tin ir respective licenses painted on a tin or ipon plate 6n a 
 conspicuous part of each vehicle, and .**ich of the figures and 
 cyphers must beat least two inches high; and* every person in 
 
 contravention of this article' shall pay -a tine of fo besides being 
 liable to a fine of $1 per day I'.ir each day he ,-hall continue io keep for 
 hire, each and every vehicle without the same being thus numbered. 
 
 Art. 4. Beit further Ordained, That no person shall have the 
 right to claim or receive any payment or compensation for the trans- 
 portation of.any produce, lumber, bricks, or other materials, unless 
 his vehicle has been numbered and duly registered as before 
 prescribed. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That it is expressly forbidden to 
 the drivers of the vehicles hereinbefore designated, as well as all 
 others of what nature or kind soever, to drive said vehicle in the 
 streets of this city with such rapidity as may endanger the safely 
 of the passengers in the streets, under the penalty "fa line of not 
 less than $5 nor more than s_v> lor each offence: and il the driver be 
 a slave, who shall violate this article, he shall suffer the penalty 
 of ten lashes, unless his master prefer to pay said line. 
 
 Art. 6. Be it further Ordained, That the line imposed by this ordi- 
 nance shall be sued for before any court of competent jurisdiction; 
 and such line, when recovered, shall be put to the use of the city. 
 
 Art. 7. Be it further Ordained, That all >>w dots of private carts,, 
 drays and wagons, shall be compelled to take out a number, as 
 provided for by the ordinance fixing the prices of licenses, under 
 penalty of a fine of $5 fin - each and every violation of this article. 
 
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 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE FREE PASSAGE OF CARRIAGES, 
 CARTS AND OTHER VEHICLES OF NEW ORLEANS IN THE CITY 
 OF CARROLLTON.* 
 
 Adopted May 20, 1846. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That any carriage, cart or other vehicle, 
 the owner of -which may have taken a number- or license for the 
 same in the City .of Now Orleans, Jefferson City or the Parish of 
 Jefferson, shall pass through or in this city free; provided the 
 authorities of New Orleans, Jefferson City and the Parish of Jefferson 
 extend fhe same privilege to any carriage, cart or other vehicle, the 
 owner of which may have taken out a number or license for the 
 same in the city of Carrollton; and provided further, that this 
 ordinance shall not be construed so that vehicles licensed in New 
 Orleans, Jefferson City and the Parish of Jefferson, may ply regularly 
 in this city, but only as regards the passage in and through the same. 
 
 * The privilege of this ordinance was extended to Jefferson City and the Parish of Jefferson, 
 by amendment of February q, 1865. 
 
 CEMETERY. 
 .NX ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE CARROLLTON CEMETERY. 
 
 Adopted June 28, 1848. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it. Ordained, That all square No. 74, lately bought 
 from Mr. L. Millaudon by the corporation, is hereby established 
 as the Carrollton Cemetery. 
 
 ' Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That from and after the passage 
 bfithis ordinance it shall be unlawful to inter dead bodies any where 
 else in the limits of tins' cit}- than in said cemetery; and any per- 
 son contravening this ordinance shall pay a fine of not less than 
 ten dollars to the corporation for each offence, and pay the expense 
 of removing the same besides; the whole amount-to be recovera- 
 ble before any court of competent jurisdiction in the premises. 
 
 Art. '.'>. As amended by Article 1st, of the ordinance on the duties of 
 Sexton: Be i> further Ordained, That graves shall not be less than 
 four i'eei deep, and shall be dug on the spot dosignatcd'by the 
 Surveyor, or according to the plan of the Cemetery, under a pen- 
 alty of one dollar, to be paid by the Sextoa for each default. 
 
 Akt. 4. Be it further Ordained, That the price of interment shall 
 be for free grown persona five dollars, and for slaves four dollars, 
 and for children under twelve years half the above sums. 
 
 Arts. 5, 6, 7 and 8 repealed. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE ON THE DUTIES OF THE SEXTON. 
 
 Adopted April IS, 1849. 
 
 Article 1. Be it Ordained, That the resolution passed by tho 
 former Council at their sitting of June 28, 1848, be amended as 
 
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 follows: That Art. 3 be amended so as to read: That all graves 
 shall not be less than four feet deep, and shall be dug- on the spot 
 designated by the Surveyor, or according to the plan of the ceme- 
 tery, under the penalty of a fine of one dollar, to be paid by the 
 Sexton, for each default. 
 
 Art. 2. Repealed. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Sexton, or keeper of the burying ground, to keep it in good order; 
 and he shall not allow horses, or any other kind of stock, to run 
 within said ground; and when he neglects keeping said ground 
 in the order prescribed above, or allows stock to trespass upon it, 
 he shall be liable to a fine of 5 to 10 dollars for each offence, for 
 the use of the city. 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further Ordained., That any person who shall bring 
 to the cemetery any corpse for interment, and make a false repre- 
 sentation to the Sexton or keeper, of the color of the deceased, 
 shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars, rocQverable before any 
 court of competent jurisdiction, one-half for the use of the city, 
 and the other half for the person giving information thereof; and 
 should any person contravene the rules of the cemetery, by caus- 
 ing the interment of a deeeased person in a place prohibited by 
 said rules, the person so contravening shall cause the corpse to be 
 removed, at his own expense, within twenty-four hours after being 
 notified thereof. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That whenever the Keeper or 
 Sexton shall permit, through negligence or otherwise, the interment 
 of any corpse in a part of the cemetery not allotcd for the deceased, 
 he shall become liable to the payment of twenty-five dollars for 
 each offence, recoverable as aforesaid, and shall also cause said 
 corpse to be removed at his own expense. 
 
 Art. G. Be it further Ordained, That all tombs hereafter to be 
 constructed in said cemetery, shall be well and sufficiently plas- 
 tered inside, and the walls of said tombs shall not be less than 
 nine inches in thickness. 
 
 Art. 7. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to visit and examine the condition of the cemetery as 
 often as possible, and see that all the ordinances relating to the 
 police of said establishment be faithfully executed, and to report 
 immediately to the Mayor any infraction, or neglect of the ordi- 
 nances on that subject by the Sexton, that the same may be 
 remedied. 
 
 Art. 8. Repealed, June 12, 1861. 
 
 A RESOLUTION ON THE PRICE OF COFFINS. 
 
 Adopted April 18, 1849. 
 
 Resolved, That for all coffins furnished to the corporation, a sum 
 not exceeding three dollars for a large one, and two dollars for a 
 small one, shall be paid. 
 
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 AN ORDINANCE TO CHANGE THE MODE OF EFFECTING INTERMENTS 
 IN THE CEMETERY, AND FOR RECORDING THE SAME. 
 
 Adopted July 26, 1850. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That hereafter, when a person wishes to 
 have a corpse interred in the Carrollton Cemetery, he *or she shall 
 pay the price fixed, or that may be fixed by the Mayor and Coun- 
 cil, for the grave, vault or tomb, to the City Treasurer, who shall 
 give a receipt for the .same, which receipt shall be carried to the 
 Sexton of said cemetery, accompanied with a certificate express- 
 ing the name, age, color and condition,. (bond or free,) time and 
 cause of death of the person to be interred, signed by. a licensed 
 physician, the Coroner, or by 'two respectable and well-known citi- 
 zens of the city, or by a licensed midwife, in case the corpse is that 
 of a child born dead. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That when a person, wishing to 
 have a corpse interred, has complied with the foregoing article, it 
 shalb be, and is hereby made the duly of the Sexton to inter the 
 corpse in such part of the cemetery as may be lawful. The Sex- 
 ton snail also enter in a book kept by him for that purpose all the 
 particulars contained in said certificate, and on each day of the 
 regular session of the Mayor and Council, he shall return to the 
 Comptroller of this city, before four o'clock, P. M., all the. Treasur- 
 er's receipts for burial fees, and the certificates of deaths which 
 may have come into his possession, to be by the Comptroller filed 
 and charged. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That fche*book in which the Sex- 
 ton enters the particulars of deaths shall, be the property of the 
 the corporation, and at all times subject to the inspection of the 
 Mayor, Councilmeu and officers of the city; and tire Sexton 
 shall at all times give such information* as may be in said book at 
 the request of any person. 
 
 Article 4 repeals articles 1 and 8 of the ordinance establishing 
 the cemetery, adopted June 28, 1848. 
 
 A RESOLUTION FIXING THE PRICE OF TOMB LOTS. 
 
 Adopted S<pt. 20, 1848. 
 
 Resolved, That the price of tomb lots shall be fifteen dollars; and 
 that all sales not complied with within fifteen days shaJl be null 
 and void. 
 
 Resolved further, That the Mayor is hereby authorized to sell any 
 person or persons tomb lot.., designating the square and number 
 of said lots. 
 
 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING DEEDS FOB TOMB LOTS. 
 
 Adopted October 10, 1848. 
 
 Resolved, That the certificate of the Comptroller, countersigned 
 by the Mayor, shall be a sufficient deed for said lots. 
 
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 RESOLUTION FIXING THE THICK OP VAULTS. 
 
 Adopted October 24, 1855. 
 
 Resolved, That the *um of thirty dollars bo and is hereby fixed as 
 the price for each of the small vaults, and the sum of thirty-five 
 dollars be and is hereby fixed as the price for each of the larger 
 vaults in the Carrollton Cemetery, belonging to the corporation. 
 
 ORDINANCE RELATING TO TOMB LOTS. 
 
 Adopted October 24, 1855. 
 
 1. Be it Ordained, That any title to any lot or lots in the Carroll- 
 ton Cemetery, issued by the Comptroller and countersigned by the 
 Mayor, shall contain a printed clause expressly forbidding the pur- 
 chaser or purchasers to re-sell or transfer said lot or lots without 
 the consent of the Council, and expressly declaring the nullity of 
 said sale in case the purchaser or purchasers re-sell, transfer or 
 rent said lot or lots, or any improvements thereon, without said 
 consent. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That said purchaser or purchasers shall 
 not use the said lot or lots for any other purpose than the con- 
 struction of such works as are intended and employed for the 
 burial of the dead, and they shall bear no inscription of a jesting, 
 an immoral or an indecent character. 
 
 3. Be it further Ordained, That in addition to .the forfeiture of 
 said lot or lots for the violations aforesaid, the party or parties 
 violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject 
 to an additional penalty of fifty dollars; one-half of which shall be 
 paid to the informer. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING TOMBS, VAULTS. ETC. IN THE CAR- 
 ROLLTON CEMETERY. 
 
 Adopted July 25,' 1860. 
 
 1. /;. it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the Cidj of Carrollton, 
 That the. Mayor is authorized to grant permission in writing, on 
 application to him in writing, for the temporary use of a cemetery 
 vault for any period less than one year; provided, the applicant 
 exhibit to him the Treasurer's receipt for ten dollars paid for such 
 
 !;->■. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That the Mayor is authorized to grant 
 orders in writing to the Sexton for the gratuitous interment of the 
 corpse of any iudij Lever it shall be shown to him, 
 by a certificate Bigried l>y two i v more citizens, that the deceased 
 was really poor and left nothing wherewith to pay the burial fees. 
 
 :;. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the Sex- 
 
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 ton to close and keep the cemetery vaults closed up with bricks 
 and mortaf, and to preserve the numbers on the vaults as much 
 as possible, and renew them when necessary. ■ 
 
 4. Be it further Ordained, That the Mayor is authorized to grant 
 permission in writing, on application in writing-, to any properly 
 interested person, to open any vault or tomb in the Carroll ton 
 Cemetery for the purpose of burying a corpse, or for the purpose 
 of removing the remains of a corpse, or for any other proper 
 purpose. 
 
 5. Beit further Ordained, That any person who shall place a 
 corpse in any city vault in the cemetery without the proper author- 
 ity, shall bo liable for a line of $25, and any person who shall open 
 without authority, or break on a tomb or vault in the ceme- 
 tery, shall be liable for a fine of $25 — said fines to be recovered 
 before any court of competent jurisdiction; one-half for the informer 
 and the other half for the cilv. 
 
 6. Be it further Ordained, That in the absence or inability of the 
 Mayor, the Comptroller is authorized to issue the orders and per- 
 mits provided for in this ordinance. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE CEMETERY. 
 
 Adopted June 12, 18G1. 
 
 1. Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Car roll ton, 
 That all tombs and vaults in the cemetery must be kept in good 
 order, and clear of weeds and grass, and it shall be the duty of the 
 Sexton or keeper to notify the owners thereof to have them repaired 
 and cleared when necessary; otherwise it shall he done by the city 
 at the expense of the owners, who shall be fined in a sum no1 
 exceeding $25 for each, neglect after notice. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That violators of the cemetery ordi- 
 nances and regulations shall be fined $25 for each offence; and for 
 burying a corpse without proper authority and direction, the offen- 
 der shall be fined $25, and liable I" a criminal proi ecution for tres- 
 pass. For injuring or breaking the trees or Bhrubbery%lanted in 
 the cemetery, the enclosures <•!' graves, or the f< oce around the 
 cemetery, the oneafer shaJU be lined $10; and for committing any 
 nuisance or u^ing rndecenf langua re on the cemeten grounds, the 
 offender shall be fined $10 for each ' irbiddea to 
 sell cakes, beer, candies or any merchandize in the i emetery, or'to 
 carry on any kind of games or amusements therein, under a penalty 
 of %\% for each offence. 
 
 o. lie it further Ordained, Thai it shall be the duty of every per- 
 son afrwhose domicil anypers m shall have died to cause the same 
 .to be buried within forty-eight hours after the death; any pen 
 offending in this particular shall pay a fine not exceeding $100. 
 
 4. Be it farther Ordained, 'lint the Mayor and the Comptroller are 
 authorized on wrii|gj^p5licatioii to grant written orders and per- 
 
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 mits t«> disinter and remove the remains of any corpse which Ihis 
 been buried in the cemetery, and for any false representations to 
 procure tin- removal of the* remains, or for disinterring or removing 
 
 the remains of any corpse without proper authority, or for any 
 .•ration of a grave, tomb, or vault, the offender shall be fined 
 not exa eding $100. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO CEMETERY FEES. 
 
 Adopted July -21, 1861. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Covmcil of the Citi/ of Currollton, 
 That the Sexton is authorized and required to charge and collect 
 the fees named below, to- wit: for burying an adull in a private 
 
 tomb-lot, si oil; for burying the body of a child under ten years 
 of age, in private tomb-lot, Si ; for attending to the burial of a body 
 
 in a tomb or vault, $1. 
 
 For attending the opening of a tomb or vault for the removal of 
 remains or otherwise, one dollar. 
 
 For opening a grave and taking up the remains lor removal or 
 otherwise, three dollars. 
 
 The foregoing fees Shall be paid to the Treasurer at the same 
 time the Sexton makes his regular return of papers, and receipt 
 therefor filed with the Comptroller. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That ii shall he the duty of tho Sexton 
 to procure the necessary material and workmen for opening and 
 closing vaults and tombs at the expense and cost of the owner of 
 the vault or tomb, and lie shall see that the same are paid for. 
 
 AX ORDINANCE DEFINING THK DUTIES OF THE COLLECTOR! 
 
 pled December 11, 1846. ■ 
 
 Am. 1. Beit Ordained, Thai il shall be the duty of the Collect- 
 or of this city to collect and receipt for all bills for taxes on real 
 • •state, ai£) such other accounts and bills duo to this corporation, 
 as the Comptroller may from lime to time place in his hands for 
 collection, and shall receipt to the Comptroller for the same. 
 
 Akt. -J. Be it further Ordained , That the Collector shall have full 
 power to institute suits in the name or the corporation for the 
 recovery of such bills as may be placed in his hands for collection 
 and which may be duo; and he shall be held responsible for all 
 deficiencies that may arise in the revenues from taxes and rents, 
 from delay in prosecuting for the sain • 
 
 Art. ::. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty pf the 
 Collector to pay into the hands of the er on every Satur-. 
 
 day, the amount collected by him during the week; he must take 
 the Treasurer's receipt for the same, and file it with the Comptroller 
 on the same day. «A^* 
 
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 'Art. 4.. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Collector to keep a book in which he shall enter under their proper 
 heads, alphabetically, the names of all persons against whom he 
 may have claims, with the amount due by each individual 'set oppo- 
 site to his name, and to note carefully and minutely in said book, 
 opposite -to the names aforesaid, the date of payments.* 
 
 *Thal portion of the original Avt. 2 allowing the Attorney 10 per cent ; all the Words after 
 "payments," in Art. 4, and all of Art. 6, struck out and repealed, A*ug. 7. 1861. 
 
 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING COLLECTOR TO CREDIT WARRANTS IX 
 
 CERTAIN CASES. 
 
 * 4-— - . led October 10, 1848. 
 
 Be it Resolved, That when persons who hold warrants against 
 this corporation may owe licenses or taxes to this corporation, the 
 Collector shall credit said warrant with the amount due., and the 
 said person holding such warrant shall give receipt as having 
 received. so much cash on account of his warrant, which receipt 
 shall be taken from the Collector by the Treasurer as so much cash 
 received, and the Treasurer shall give such receipt when the war- 
 rant is presented, as so much cash parti towards such warrant. 
 
 COMMISSARY. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE OFFICE OF COMMISSARY AND 
 DEFINING HIS DUTIES. 
 4^ Adopted May 1, 1845. 
 
 Article 4. Be it Ordained, That it shall be the duty of 
 Commissary to examine and attend to all the levees, roads, streets 
 and ditches within the limits of tin' city, and to report in writing 
 to the Council, at lea* a month, the condition of the said 
 
 levees, roads, streets and ditches, and as oft< n as any amelioration 
 or repairs may hi' necessary to any pf' them, and in case of any 
 urgent necessity i i regard to the levee, he shall report forthwith 
 to th«' Mayor. 
 
 Art. 5. Be ii fwrtker Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to report in writing to the Mayor the' name ami place 
 of any person who may he selling liquors, beer, soda-water, or 
 keeping any kind of store in the city without a license; also, to 
 arrest and cause to he prosecuted, any peddler who may be ped- 
 dling or Belling within the limits of the city without being licensed 
 according to the ordinances in thai ide and provided; also, 
 
 io detain any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, which may not he 
 branded or numbered, or in regard to which the owners may not 
 have complied with the ordinances relative thereto. 
 
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 Art. (I. B, it further Ordained,, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to suppress riots, or disturbances of the public pear.', 
 and to take tli«' offenders before the .Mayor, or other magistrate, 
 and also to examine all vaj lto, and such others as. 
 
 should come under the description of idle or disorderly persons, as 
 i" the mode they pursue of acquiring a livelihood, their place of 
 residence, &c, and upon refusal, or impossibility, on the part of 
 said individuals, to give satisfactory ace unit the, 'Oivhend 
 
 and carry such persons before the Mayor, or' some other magistrate 
 within the limits of the city, to be deall with according to law; and 
 moreover, it shall be the duty of the said Gommissaty to stop run- 
 away slaves within the city, and bring them before the Mayor, or 
 other magistrate, to be dealt with according, to law, and the reward 
 allowed by law for arresting runaway slaves shall be paid to the 
 said Commissary. 
 
 Art. 7. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to notify all owners, possessors, agents or tenants of 
 property, whereon any dead animal, or other nuisance may be 
 found, to remove the same within such reasonable time, as from the 
 nature of the nuisance it may appear expedient to the Commissary, 
 that the same ought to be.rcmoved; and should said nuisance not 
 be removed within the time prescribed, the Commissary shall cause 
 the same to be removed at the expense'of such delinquents, who 
 shall likewise be fined in a sum of not less than five dollars, nor 
 exceeding twenty-five, to be prosecuted for by the Commissary 
 before any competent magistrate, for the use of the city. 
 
 Art. 8. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to be present at each si: I ing of the Council, to execute 
 such orders as may delivered to him by the proper officers, and 
 to enforce order in the Council Room; also, to see that all ordi- 
 nances relative to his department and the'general police of the city 
 be executed, and to give information to the' proper authorities of 
 all violations of the same that may come to his knowledge, together 
 with the names of the offenders and witnesses, in order that they 
 may be dealt with according to law; and for any neglect of duty 
 or non-attendance, except in case of sickness, or other sufficient 
 cause, the Commissary shall, at the discretion of the Mayor and 
 Council, be fined in a- sum not less than five, nor exceeding ten 
 dollars; and further, be liable to be removed from office by a 
 majority of the Council. 
 
 Art. ( .i. Be it further Ordained, That any person or persons, who 
 shall hinder, molest, insult, or do anything tending to prevent the 
 Commissary from executing his duties as prescribed in the ordi- 
 nances of the Council, and all persons aiding or abetting in such 
 contravention, shall be fined in a sum of not less than twenty-five, 
 nor exceec i i n •-;• one hundred dollars; to be recovered for the use of 
 the city before any competent magistrate. 
 
 Art. 10. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary, whenever a new fence or building fronting on any 
 
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 street of the city, shall be erected, to request the person putting 
 up such fence or building to produce a certificate of the city 
 Surveyor, showing 1 that the lot on which the new work is made, or 
 being made, has been surveyed; and in case such certificate shall 
 not be produced, it shall be the duty of said Commissary to give 
 notice to such person not to progress any more in said work, and 
 to report on the whole *to the Council at their next meeting; and 
 further, that he shall notify those persons who have placed their 
 fences so as to encroach on the streets to remove the same, and to 
 obtain the proper lines from the City Surveyor. 
 
 Art. 11. Beit fwrther Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissaiy to keep a diary or reeprd of his proceedings, in a 
 book to be furnished by the Council, and which book shall be 
 accessible at all times to the Mayor and Council of the city; in it 
 he shall insert from day to day, the rounds he may have made in the 
 city, the naines and residences <>!' all poisons lie may find in con- 
 travention of existing ordinances, and the means he has taken to 
 enforce their observance; also, a copy of all notices given by him, 
 together with all other matters touching the execution of his office.* 
 
 *Articles 1, 2, 3, 12, repealed, and all after " office " in article 11 struck out August 7, 1861. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE TAKING OF A CENSUS OF 
 THE INHABITANTS OF CARROLLTON. 
 
 Adopted March 11, 1846. 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the Com- 
 missary of this city, immediately after the publication of this 
 ordinance, and between the 1st and 15th of October* of each year 
 thereafter, to take a census of the inhabitants and occupations or 
 professions of this city, and that said census shall show the number 
 of persons under the age of three years; over three and under six; 
 fover six and under ten; over ten aud under sixteen; over sixteen 
 and under twenty-one; and all over twenty-one years of age, 
 in separate Columns, with the occupation or profession of each 
 person set opposite to the name. And he shall designate those 
 entitled to vote, and the names, &c, of the males and females shall 
 be put in separate column's, the whole 'to be arranged alphabeti- 
 cally. He shall return the same to the Secretary of the Council, 
 who shall file it in the archives of the corporation, after it shall 
 have been submitted to and approved by the Council. 
 
 *The wards "between the 1st and 15th of October," put instead ef "in the month of Jan'y," 
 
 in 1857. Article 2, repealed August 7. ' 
 
 fTho words "six" and "sixteen,'' substituted for "five" and "fifteen," February 9, 1855. 
 
 RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE COMMISSARY. 
 
 Adopted February '.', 1848. 
 Resolved, That the Commissary shall be, and be ta hereby repaired 
 
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 to report t<> this Council, on the first meetin b month, the 
 
 amount of work done on the streets and levee under his superin- 
 tendence, describing the particular place 'where the said work has 
 • me. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE DEFDHNG- ADDITIONAL DUTIES OP THE COMMISSARY. 
 
 Adopted October 19, l 
 
 1. Be it Ordained, fyc, That it shall be duty of the Commissary 
 of this city to cuter in the record book which be is required to keep 
 by article 11 of the ordinance denning his duties, a correct list and 
 account of all the tools and public property in bis hands or under 
 his control, and to add to his account all .such tools as may come 
 into his hands from time to time; also, to make a note or entry in 
 his book of the loss or destruction t>f all such tools and property 
 as may occur; and for all such tools and property as may come 
 into his hands, he shall file a receipt with the Comptroller forthwith, 
 alter their reception. 
 
 COMPTROLLER. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER AND 
 DEFINING HIS DUTIES. 
 
 Adopted May 1, 1845. 
 
 Ai:t. 2. Ik it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Comptroller to examine and liquidate all claims, and to accredit 
 all accounts against the corporation, and to report the same with 
 a statement of facts, and his opinion thereon, if he shall deem it 
 proper, to the Council, at their next regular meeting, for their action 
 thereon; to countersign all warrants drawn on the Treasurer, in 
 virtue of any resolution or ordinance of the Council, for the pay- 
 ment of money; to examine, adjust and settle the accounts of all 
 ons indebted to the corporation; to take charge of all their real 
 estate; to superintend the collection of the revenues and debts due, 
 and to take charge of all title deeds belonging to the corporation. 
 
 Art. :;. Be it further Ordained, That if shall be the duty of the 
 Comptroller to keep a complete set of books, wherdin shall be stated 
 
 the appropriations for each distinct object of expenditures, to the 
 end that whenever appropriations for the specific object shall have 
 been expended, he shall communicate the same to the Coupcil. The 
 Comptroller shall also receive all bills and accounts of persons 
 having demands against the corporation, to examine them in detail, 
 and if correct, to eider them in his books, in such manner as the 
 Committee on Finance may direct, and shall certify the same; and 
 shall also keep an. account of all the debts due by and to them, as 
 well as an account of all the property and claims of said Mayor 
 
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 and Council; and it shall bo the duty of said Comptroller to perform 
 any services from time to time, that the Council may require. 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further Ordained^ That it -shall be the duty of the 
 Comptroller to make out and * countersign all receipts for taxes on 
 real estate and slaves; all bills for ground rents, or receipts for 
 wharfage and other revenue, and deliver the same to the proper 
 officers for collection, charging the officer with the amount thereof, 
 f and he shall, on or before the 15th day of November of each year, 
 make out and lay before the Council, a full and detailed statement 
 of the revenue and expenditure Up to the 31st of October, with such 
 suggestions on the fiscal affairs of the corporation as he may deem 
 advisable.^ 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That in case of vacancy of the 
 office of Comptroller, or hia absence, or inability to perform his 
 duties, the Chairman of the Finance Committee is hereby authorized 
 to.approvc of all accounts due by the corporation, in virtue of any 
 ordinance or resolution of the Council. 
 
 *The words "make out and" wore inserted by amendment of April 12, 1854, 
 tThe remainder of the 4th article is an amendment, adopted February 2, 1853. 
 JA11 tho words after advisable struck out and repealed, August 7th, 1861. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING ADDITIONAL DUTIES OP THE COMP- 
 TROLLER. 
 
 Adopted August*!, 1861. 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the Citv of 
 Carrollton, That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of "the 
 Comptroller to report monthly to the Council for publication, the 
 names of persons to whom licenses have been issued during 
 the month, what kind of licenses were issued to them, and the 
 amount paid the Treasurer therefor. He shall also, in the month of 
 July of each year, enter in the tableau of the previous year, the 
 names of all delinquent tax payers of that year, and the amount 
 due by each, to be taken from a certified list furnished by the Col- 
 lector, and placed in- alphabetical order. 
 
 COUNCIL. 
 
 DIVISION OF COUNCILMEX FOR LONG AND SHORT TERM. 
 
 Adopted October 19, 1859. 
 On motion of Mr. Gogrcvc, seconded by .Mr. Fischer, the Council 
 proceeded to determine by lot among themselves, in accordance 
 with section 2 of the act to incorporate the City of Carrollton, which 
 fourof them shall retire on the first Monday in October, 1800. Four 
 pieces of paper marked "long," and four pieces marked "short" 
 were placed in a hat by the Secretary, and the members each drew 
 out a piece, with the understanding that the members who drew tin' 
 
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 papers marked ".short'' arc to retire from the Council on the first 
 Monday in October, 1800; and those who drew the papers marked 
 "long" are to continue as Councilmen until the election on the first 
 Monday in Oct ber, 1861.. 
 
 Messrs. Fischer, Davenport, Schuler and Mayo, dr. iw cadi a ])aper 
 marked "long," and Messrs. Berrle, Hutchison, Brookes and Go- 
 greve drew each a paper marked "short." 
 
 The President thereupon declared Messrs. Herrle; Hutchison, 
 Brookes and G igreve, duly chosen For the snort term, and Messrs. 
 Fischer, Davenport, Schuler and Mayo, duly chosen for the long 
 term .if Councilmen. 
 
 Adopted December 14, 1859. 
 
 Resolved, That itshall be the duty of the Streets and Landing Com- 
 mittee and the Finance Committee of this Council, to meet for the 
 transaction of public business, at the Council Hall, at one o'clock 
 P. M., on Monday h week. 
 
 DITCHES. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING ROADS. STREETS, DITCHES & BRIDGES'. 
 
 Adopted January 13, 1847. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it ' That the roads, streets, ditches and 
 
 bridges of this city shall be made, cleaned and repaired at the 
 expense and cost of the city, under the superintendence of the 
 Commissary. 
 
 Art. 2. Be if further Ordained, That all ditches on the streets, 
 at right angles with Canal Avenue, shall be three feet wide on top, 
 one foot deep below the general level of the land, and one foot wide 
 on the bottom. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That the ditches on the streets 
 leading to the woods shall gradually increase in size; commencing, 
 from the" public road to Levee Street, with, two feet Avidth on the 
 top, one foot depth, and one foot wide on the bottom; then to 
 increase each square, or every three hundred and fifty feet in length, 
 six inches in breadth, until they arc three feet wide on the top, and 
 eighteen inches wide on the bottom; then they shall be dug three 
 inches deeper in eaeli square, till they are two feet deep, when the 
 said ditches shall again be dug three inches wider for every square 
 ■ L - to the woods, till they are four (feet wide on the top, two 
 and a half feet wide on the bottom, and two feel deep. 
 
 Aur. -1. Be it further Ordained, That the dirt taken out of the 
 ditches shall be thrown into the middle of the streets and leveled off; 
 ♦but the Commissary may order dirt taken from the ditches thrown 
 into low places on the banquettes. 
 
 le 5 repealed, and article 4 amended, by adding all the words after '-off" Aug. 7, 1861. . 
 
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 FERRY. 
 
 AH. ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE FERRY, &c, TO PLY BETWEEN 
 CARROLLTON AND THE OITOSITE SIDE OF THE RIVER MIS- 
 SISSIPPI. 
 
 Adopted October 8, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. . Be it Ordained, That the following; terms and agreement 
 entered into by the joint Committee of the Police Jury of the Parish 
 of Jefferson, and of the Mayor and Council of the Town of Carrollton, 
 be and same is hereby adopted as :i standing" ordinance of said 
 Town of Carrollton. 
 
 It is mutually agreed: . 1. That a ferry for the transportation of 
 persons, horses, carriages, Sec, shall be established between the 
 town of Carrollton and the opposite bank of the Mississippi river, 
 to embrace within its privilege the entire front of said town, and 
 the front of the river included between the lower line of Camilla 
 Zeringue's plantation, and the lower line of L. Labranche's planta- 
 tion on the opposite shore; the lauding place on the Carrollton side 
 to be located somewhere between Madison and Jefferson streets in 
 said town, and that on the other shore to be located at any point 
 within three arpents above or below the Glass House, that may be 
 selected by the persou who shall 'purchase the right of the ferry. 
 
 2. That the exclusive privilege of keeping said ferry for two 
 years shall be disposed of at public auction to the highest bidder, 
 in the of Town Carrollton, on the 10th day of October, 1845, under 
 the superintendence of the Mayor of the Town of Carrollton, and the 
 President of the Police Jury; the purchase money payable one-half 
 cash, and the other half in twelve months from Hie date of adjudi- 
 cation, in two notes of equal amount, and satisfactorily endorsed: 
 the proceeds of said sale to be equally divided between the Parish 
 of Jefferson and the Town of Carrollton; the privilege not to be 
 vested in the purchaser until the terms of sale are complied with; 
 and if the same shall not be complied with after the' lapse of live 
 days from the day of sale, another sale shall take 1 place within ten 
 days thereafter, to be conducted as above set forth. 
 
 3. That any person or persons violating the privilege hereby 
 created, after the same shall have bee"n duly sold and transit 
 
 as above set forth, shall, for each offence, be an a tine of 
 
 ten dollars, recoverable by said purchaser for his own benefit before 
 any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 4. The keeper of the ferry shall erect at each landing a 
 conspicuous sign board to designate the same, and shall ah'. 
 keep said landings in as g iod - i condition as practicable; 
 he shall always keep ready for public di e, al leasl two good ami 
 skiffs, not less than nineteen feel in length, to be provided each with 
 
 Suitable oars, and steady a: id able boa linen, one of whom, with his 
 skiff, shall remain during the nighl on one shore, and the other on 
 the opposite shore; and thej shall be so arranged that all the akitfs 
 shall at no time (night or i Dgether on the same side of the 
 
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 river. The regular hours of crossing shall be From half past four 
 o'clock, A. M., until half-past eight o'clock, P. M., *cvery half hour; 
 and (the keeper ofthcferry shall post up, mi each landing place-, a 
 copy of the above time;) but the said purchaser shall, during 1 the 
 whole period of the privilege, cause to be ferried across the river, 
 any person wishing the same, at any time other than between the 
 hours above mentioned, and he may demand and receive for each 
 person so conveyed, four times the price hereafter fixed for ferriage 
 during the regular hours. The purchaser may. at his. option, keep, 
 in addition to the skiffs, (but not to interrupt the regular and con- 
 stant running of the same,) a flat or barge, sufficiently manned 
 and furnished for the transportation of horses, carriages, &c. 
 
 5. The keeper of the ferry shall be entitled to demand and 
 receive the following rates of fare, for crossing during the regular 
 hours hereinbefore mentioned, viz: 
 
 For each passenger over 10 years of age 10 
 
 For each passenger over 5 and not over 10 5 
 
 For each trunk, box or package weighing over»20 pounds, 
 
 and under 100 pounds 5 
 
 For each box, package or barrel weighing over 100 pounds, 
 
 and under 250 pounds 10 
 
 For each dog 10 
 
 For a horse and rider r 75 
 
 For a gig, horse and rider 1 00 
 
 For a four wheeled carriage, one horse and driver 1 25 
 
 For a four wheeled carriage, two horses and driver 1 50 
 
 For a pedlar's cart or wagon, one horse and driver 2 50 
 
 For a pedlar's cart or wagon, two horses and driver 3 00 
 
 For a planter's cart, one horse, or two horses and driver 1 00 
 
 For each horse, mule or kine, not exceeding two 50 
 
 For three, each 40 
 
 For four, each 30 
 
 For any number over four, each 25 
 
 For each sheep or hog, not less than eight A 10 
 
 For any number less than eight, for the whole 15 
 
 All persons accompanjdng any vehicle, other than the driver, to 
 be charged as passengers. In all articles not enumerated, the 
 charge shall be in proportion to the foregoing rates, and any exor- 
 bitant charges proved against the ferryman shall be deemed a 
 contravention. 
 
 6, For any non-compliance with, or contravention of the fore- 
 going provisions, the keeper of the ferry shall be fined in a sum 
 not less than ten dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, 
 recoverable by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Carrollton, 
 before any court of competent jurisdiction, for the joint benefit of 
 the Town and Parish. 
 
 *Tho words "every half hour," are added hy Article 1 of an ordinance of February 4, 1852. 
 The clauso included in bracket*, is an interpolation of article 2, entire, of said ordinanco of 
 February 4, 1862. 
 
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 CARROLLTON FIRE CO. No. # 1. 
 
 February 25, 18.50. 
 
 The Council appropriated five hundred dollars to purchase an 
 engine, on the proposition of the Company, that it shouid be the 
 property of the corporation when the Company dissolved, unless 
 the money was refunded. 
 
 February 4, 1852. 
 
 The Council appropriated for the use of said Company, as long 
 as it lawfully exists, a lot of ground on Dublin Street, next to the 
 jail, 35 feet front, by 120 feet deep, on which to erect an engine 
 house. 
 
 March 24, 1852. 
 
 The Council appropriated five hundred dollars towards building 
 the engine house, and endorsed three notes of three hundred and 
 eighty seven and a half dollars each 
 
 August 27, 1856. 
 
 The Council appropriated six hundred dollars to purchase an 
 engine, on condition, that the engine reverts to the corporation 
 when the Company disbands. 
 
 Other appropriations have been made from time to time, to both 
 Companies, but without conditions. 
 
 Adopted September 24, 1856. 
 
 Resolved, That the Mayor be, and is hereby authorized and 
 instructed to purchase from Geo. Reichcrt, in the name of the 
 corporation, a certain lot of ground on Madison Street, for the sum 
 of three hundred dollars, to be paid in six mouths from date of sale, 
 and that said lot be appropriated for the use of Star Hook and 
 Ladder Co. No. 1, so long as said Company exists as a corporate 
 body. 
 
 GUNPOWDER. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO GUNPOWDER. 
 
 Adopted July 24, 1801. 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrallton, 
 That the merchants of Carrollton who have been or may be licensed 
 to sell gunpowder shall not be permitted to have on hand at any 
 one time a greater quantity of gunpowder than thirty pounds, and 
 that shall be kept in a suitable tin or copper canister, to be 
 labeled powder, in large letters, and placed in sight, within conveni- 
 ent distance of the main entrance of the store. Vendors <>f gunpowder, 
 or all others arc forbidden to sell or give gunpowder to minors or 
 
slaves, without a written order from parents of owner; and every 
 person violating this article shall be fined not less than twenty five 
 dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Akt. 'l. Be it furi . That every person is forbidden 
 
 to keep or allow to remain on or in his or her bouse, room, apartment 
 or premises, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding five pounds; and 
 for every violation of this article-, the offender shall he fined 
 twenty-five dollars for each offence; provided, this article does not 
 apply to persons who are licensed to sell powder. 
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 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING BOATS SELLING AT THE LANDING. 
 
 Adopted June 12, 1SG1. 
 
 Be it Ordained, by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrollton, 
 That owners or agents of fiatboats or other water crafts lying at 
 the landing and laden with merchandise, provisions or grain, shall 
 have the privilege of o for sale and of selling such goods at 
 
 the landing or on their boat, on the payment of a tax of five dollars 
 per week in advance; provided, that spirituous or malt liquors, or 
 wine shall not be retailed from such boat at the landing. The tax 
 may be paid to the Commissary or to the Treasurer; but any one 
 offering for sale, or selling goods as aforesaid, without paying the 
 tax, and any one retailing spirituous or malt liquors, or wines at 
 the landing or on the boat, shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five 
 dollars for each offence. 
 
 Be it fur/her Ordained, That it is hereby made the duty of the 
 Commissary to collect the tax imposed by this ordinance with 
 comptrolled bills, and to report each and evei^ violation of this 
 ordinance to the City Attorney for suit; and he is authorized to 
 arrest any offender, to be dealt with according to law. 
 
 LAWSUITS. 
 
 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF COSTS IN LAWSUITS. 
 
 Adopted August 22, 1850. 
 
 Resolved, That the Mayor is hereby authorized, at the instituting 
 of any suit or suits, on [he part of the Mayor and Council of this 
 city, by the Attorney, to draw a warrant on the Treasurer for the 
 amount of the Justice's and Constable's fees, required by law to 
 be paid in advance. 
 
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 LICENSES — LIQUOR. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING LIQUOR LICENSES. 
 
 Adopted'May 14, 1845. 
 
 Art- 1. Be it Ordained, That any person wishing to keep a house 
 for the retail of spirituous liquors by any measure less than a 
 gallon, must obtain from the Mayor a License for that purpose. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That every person applying to 
 obtain licenses as aforesaid, shall subscribe a bond, with such 
 security as the Mayor may require, conditioned to secure the pay- 
 ment of the costs of the license, and the payment of any fine, which 
 the person taking- said license might incur, for any offence against 
 the present ordinance; said bond and security shall remain in force 
 during the whole year for which it shall have been furnished, and 
 till all the conditions o\' said bond shall be complied with. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it fur/La- Ordained, That every person who shall 
 have obtained a license as afer< said, shall be hound to have on his 
 door, or on the wall of his house, a sign, on which shall be; inscribed 
 in large characters, his name and number of his license; and every 
 person contravening this provision, shall pay a fine of five dollars 
 for every eight days he shall refuse to comply with the same. 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further Ordained, That all persons who have 
 obtained a license to sell spirituous liquors by the pint, are prohib- 
 ited to sell liquors in smaller quantities; and every person in contra- 
 vention, shall, for each offence, pay a fine from twenty-five to fifty 
 dollars, one-half to the city, and the other half to the informer. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That any person who, after having 
 obtained one or move licenses for the purposes specified in this 
 ordinance, and who shall make over or sell the same to others, shall, 
 on conviction thereof, be lined fifty dollars for. each of the licenses 
 so made over or sold; as shall also the person or persons who may 
 have received the said license in such manner; and said license 
 may be withdrawn by the Mayor, in case the holder shall be guilty 
 of repeated contraventions of the present ordinance. Any person 
 who shall continue in the before mentioned occupation after the 
 .Mayor shall have withdrawn his license, shall be liable to a fine 
 of twenty-five dollars for every week I"- shall so continue; one-half 
 of said fine to the use of the city, and the other half to the informer. 
 
 Art. 6. Be it further Ordained, That all tavern keepers and other 
 persons are prohibited fron spirituous or fermented liquors 
 
 of any kind to any soldier in *service, unless such soldier shall be 
 the bearer of a written permission from his officer, on penalty of 
 the vendor paying for every such offence a fine of twenty dollars: 
 one-half of said line to the City, the other half to the informer. 
 
 Art. 7. Be- it further Ordained, Thai ivern keeper, coffee- 
 
 house keeper or retailer of Bpil [UOrS, is forbidden to keep 
 
 the house open after ten o'clock in the evening; and he is required 
 to prevent the persons who may be in said house after ten o'clock, 
 
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 from disturbing by cries, Bongs, noise or otherwise, the peace and 
 tranquility of the neighborhood; and ahoold he tolerate such 
 
 disorder in his house, after the aforesaid hour, he shall be liable to 
 
 a fine "I" ten dollars for each contravention. 
 
 Art. 8. Be it f Wither Ordained, That any person who shall sell 
 spirituous liqnora by retail, without having obtained a license 
 therefor, as herein provided, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable 
 
 line of one hundred dollars for every otlenee; one-half of said 
 
 fine to the city, and the other half to the informer. 
 
 Am. 9. Beit fori --'.That all tavern, grogshop, coffee- 
 
 house keepers, and other persons, who shall sell or give any 
 spirituous liiiuors to slaves, without a written permission from their 
 masters, shall, for every offence, pay a tine of not less than ten, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars; and every tavern, coffee-house 
 keeper or other person who shall furnish or sell intoxicating liquors 
 aves, in exchange for goods, effects, produce or other merchan- 
 dise, shall be liable to a line of not less than twenty, nor more 
 than one hundred dollars; and besides be liable for all damages 
 toward any person entitled to the same. Tavern keepers and 
 retailers of spirituous liquors arc responsible for the acts of all 
 persons in their employment who shall be guilty of any offence 
 mentioned in this article; and they shall be liable to the fine herein 
 specified, as if the offence had been committed by themselves. 
 
 Art. 10. Be it- further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Commissary to enter inns, taverns, coffeediouscs, or other public 
 houses, in order to take cognizance of the disorders and offences 
 thai may be committed therein, and he shall report to the Mayor 
 the offences he may have discovered. 
 
 Abt. 11. Be it further Ordained, That no person shall sell liquors 
 at more than one place, unless he shall have obtained a license 
 for each. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING LICENSES. 
 
 Adopted June 4, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That all persons wishing to keep a 
 tenpin alley, public billiard table, a house for the retail of beer and 
 Other drinks, (excluding spirituous liquors,) a §oda shop, cigar 
 shop, dry goods or clothing store, a boarding house in which there 
 are iive or more boarders, a dry goods and grocery store, (not 
 selling spirituous liquors,) a general dry goods, clothing, hardware, 
 china and glassware, and grocery store, in which is sold spirituous 
 liquors by the pint and upwards, a baker's cart, and non-residentmilk 
 seller, or any other calling, trade, profession or occupation, must 
 obtain licenses from the Mayor for that purpose, in accordance 
 with the ordinance fixing; the rate of licenses. 
 
 *"0r any other calling, trade, profession or occupation," added June 26, 1851. 
 
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 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That every person who shall 
 obtain a license as aforesaid, shall bo bound to have on his door 
 or wall, in a conspicuous place, a sign, with his name inscribed 
 thereon in large characters; and every person contravening this 
 provision shall pay a fine of five dollars for every eight days he 
 may refuse to comply with the same. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordoined, That every person who has 
 obtained licenses as aforesaid, for the selling of beer, soda water 
 and lemonade, is hereby prohibited from selling spirituous or vinous 
 liquors, under penalty of from twenty-five to fifty dollars; one-half 
 to the use of the city, and the other half to the informer. 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further Ordained, That all persons who have 
 obtained one or more licenses as aforesaid, are forbidden, under 
 a penalty of fifty dollars, from transferring or selling the same to 
 others; and the receiver of said license shall be subject to the same 
 penalty, and said license may be withdrawn by the Mayor, in case 
 of repeated contraventions of this article. And any person who 
 shall continue in the before-mentioned occupation, after the Mayor 
 shall have withdrawn said license, shall be liable to a fine of twenty- 
 five dollars for every week he shall so continue; one-half to the 
 use of the city, and the other half to the informer. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That every person who shall not 
 comply with article 1 of this ordinance, shall be liable to a penalty 
 of not less than twenty-five, nor more than fifty dollars, for each 
 and every contravention. 
 
 Art. 6. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of a 
 person, keeping public billiard tables and tenpin alleys, to prevent 
 all persons in his house from disturbing by cries, songs or other- 
 wise, the peace and tranquility of the neighborhood. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING MORE THAN ONE BAR UNDER ONE 
 
 LICENSE. 
 
 Adopted March 18, 1846. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That not more than one bar for the retail 
 of spirituous liquors can be kept under one license, except in 
 rooms that are contiguous, and only separated by a partition. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A UNIFORM RATE OF LICENSES ON 
 PROFESSIONS, CALLINGS AND OTHER BUHN1.SS. PUBLIC AND 
 PRIVATE VEHICLES, &r. 
 
 Adopted December 11, 1861. 
 Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Covncil of the City of Carrollton, 
 
 That from and after the first day of January, 1862, the licenses 
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 professions, callings and other business, throughout the. City 
 of Oarrollton, shall be fixed, assessed and collected annually, at 
 the rates and sums specially set forth in the following sections, 
 and subject to the conditions hereinafter named: 
 
 Sec. 1. Every tavern or coffee-house keeper, or retailer of liquors 
 and wines by the drink, shall pay slOO. 
 
 Sec. 2. Every general store, selling- spirituous or malt liquors, or 
 wines, not less than one pint, not to be drank on the premises, $100. 
 
 Sec. 3. Every g-cneral store, excluding spirituous and malt 
 liquors, and wines, $50, 
 
 Sec. 4. Every grocery store, excluding spirituous and mall 
 liquors, and wines, $20; and with liquors and wines, to be sold in 
 quantities not less than a pint, $10. 
 
 , Sec 5. Every dry goods, feed, hardware, glass or crockery store, 
 $20. 
 
 Sec 6. Every clothing and shoe store, selling clothing and shoes, 
 not their own manufacture, $20. 
 
 Sec T. Every public billiard table, tenpin alley, pool table, pistol 
 gallery, or owner thereof, shall pay $10. 
 
 Sec 8. Every public, subscription or society ball, $10. 
 
 Sec !>. Every theatre, shuw, eircus or other amusement, for each 
 performanee, $10. 
 
 Sec 10. Every public cart, carriage, cab, ear, buggy, wagon or 
 dray, drawn by one or more horses or kine, $10. 
 
 Sec. 11. Every private wagon, cart or dray, drawn by one or 
 more horses or kine, $3. 
 
 Sec 12. Every resident peddler or hawker, $25. 
 
 Sec 13. Every non-resident peddler or hawker, $50. 
 
 Sec 14. Every soda and mineral water shop; every cigar shop; 
 every fruit stand or shop; every cake stand or shop, shall pay $5. 
 
 Sec 15. Every oyster shop, excluding liquors and wines, $5. 
 
 Sec 1G. Every livery stable, including carriages, and excluding 
 carts and wagons, shall pay $50. 
 
 Sec IT. Every auctioneer or auction store, $10. 
 
 Sec. 18. Every beer-house selling wines and malt liquors, $40. 
 I 9. Every drug and apothecary store, shall pay $20. 
 
 Sec. 20. Every beer bottler, or other person selling beer, wines 
 or cordials in this city, away from his premises, shall pay $40. 
 
 21. Every coal yard, every saw mill, every brick yard, 
 $50; every lumber yard, $25. 
 
 Sec 22. Every street musician or singer, $10. 
 
 Sec '2'-',. Every physician, lawyer or dentist, $10. 
 
 24. Every non-resident mineral or soda water seller, shall 
 pay $50. 
 
 Sec 25. Every soap cart, selling a box of soap of not less than 
 twenty-five pounds, S20. 
 
 Sec 26. Every non-resident beer bottler, or other person, selling 
 beer, wines nr cordials, $50. 
 
 Sec 27. Every rfon-rcsident seller of crackers, cakes or candy, $20. 
 
 Ski'. 28. Every dairy for sale of milk, containing from five to' 
 
ten cows, $5; from ten to fifteen cows, S10; and over fifteen 
 •cows, $25.* 
 
 Sec. 29. Every furniture store, $10. 
 
 Sec. 30. Every retail store not enumerated above, $20. 
 
 Sec 31. Every wholesale store, $50. 
 
 Sec 32. Every charcoal peddler, $5 a year for residents, end°$10 
 a year for non-residents. 
 
 Be it Ordained, Sfc. } That any person requiting any of the above 
 licenses, for purposes therein specified, and failing to take out the 
 same before the 1Mb of January, of each year, except those for 
 one day and night, shall pay a line of not less than $10, nor more 
 than $25; and all laws or parts of laws, conflicting with this 
 ordinance, be, and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Be it Ordained, l\-c, That the price of all licenses must be paid 
 in advance, except those over $50, of which the first half must be 
 paid in cash, and the balance in a note due on the 1st July, next 
 ensuing 1 , and endorsed to the satisfaction of the Mayor; and on 
 the production of the Treasurer's receipt for the payment, as afore- 
 said, the Comptroller shall issue a license; and licenses taken on 
 or after the 1st of July, shall bo paid entirely in cash. 
 
 Be it Ordained, fye., That persons taking- out a license for the 
 sale of spirituous or malt liquors and wines, shall give bond and 
 security in the sum of $250. That all licenses shall date from the 
 1st of January, except those required for any business opened or 
 commenced after January, which shall date from the 1st of the 
 month in which the business was opened, and only the pro rata of 
 the yearly price shall be required for licenses taken after January, 
 calculating from the 1st of the month in which the business was 
 commenced, or in which the license should be taken, except those 
 given for one day and night, and those the price of which is $10, 
 and under; and no license shall be tranferred. 
 
 *Sec. 28 amended, February 5, 1862, to read thus: Every keeper of a dairy, shall pay $2Q. 
 
 MARKKT. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE IX RELATION TO THE MARKET. 
 
 . May :!, is is. 
 
 Amended December 8, 1854, and February 9, i 
 
 Ai;t. 1. Beit Ordained, That a market for the Bale of butchers' 
 meat, and also for vegetables, is established from and after the 
 11th day of May. 1 18, in the market-house erected in Dublin 
 street, by the corporal ion. 
 
 2. Beit further Ordained, That ad the butchers' meat, including 
 beef, veal, mutton and pork, and all les, musl be brought 
 
 to said market to he sold; and every person selling or exposing for 
 sale, any butchers' meat or vegetables in the street, i C el < where 
 
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 in this city, during- the hours mentioned in Article 3, shall pay a 
 fine for each violation, of five dollars, if a free person; and if a 
 slave, the master shall pay the fine. 
 
 Art. 3. as amended December 3, 1856. Be it further Ordained, 
 "That said market shall be opened on week daj's at throe o'clock, 
 A. M., and closed at twelve, M.; and on Sundays, said market shall 
 be opened at two o'clock, A. M., and closed at twelve, M.; and for 
 the convenience of butchers and others renting stalls, the farmer 
 shall keep said market open from the 1st of May to the 1st of 
 September, from six to eight o'clock, P. M. ; from the 1st of Sep- 
 tember to the 1st of May, from five to seven o'clock, P. M., under 
 a fine of $5 for each day he so neglects to do." 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further Ordained, That during market hours, the 
 butchers shall occupy their respective stalls in said market. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That butchers shall pay to the 
 farmer of the market, or to a collector appointed by the Mayor and 
 Council, for the rent of the stands, eight feet, respectively occupied 
 by them, fifty cents, and for every head of horned cattle, whether of 
 fresh or salt meat, fifty cents; and for every head of veal, mutton, 
 pork or venison, twenty cents; provided, that whenever a fore- 
 quarter of veal shall weigh more than forty pounds, the farmer 
 or collector of the corporation may exact fifty cents for the head 
 of veal. And every sausage, vegetable, fish, game or coffee stand, 
 not occupying more than eight feet of the outside walls, inside of 
 the market, shall pay twenty cents per day. 
 
 Art. 6. Beit further Ordained, That the Mayor is authorized to 
 rent out stands of eight feet each, in space, on the outside walls, 
 inside of the market, at the rate of twenty cents per day, during 
 market hours, to retailers of vegetables, eggs, indian corn, poultry, 
 and all other provisions, such as are sold on the footway of other 
 markets. 
 
 Art. 7. Be it further Ordained, That any person wishing to 
 obtain a stall or stand in said market, shall apply in writing, to 
 the Mayor of the city. Said application shall be duly sworn to before 
 a magistrate, or any other person duly authorized to administer 
 oaths, that the stall he applies for is for his own individual use, 
 and that he is not applying for any other person, either directly 
 or indirectly, and the written permission or certificate obtained, 
 shall specify the number of the same; and said person shall have 
 the right to occupy said stall or stalls, so long as he continues to 
 pay the rent or fees for the same, or which may be fixed by the 
 Mayor and Council, or otherwise complies with the ordinances 
 governing said market. No person can hold more than two stalls, 
 neither shall he transfer, or dispose of the same, without a previous 
 notice to, and consent of the Mayor, aforesaid. The Comptroller 
 shall keep a book containing the names of those persons renting 
 stalls, and in which an entry of all transfers shall be made. 
 
 Art. 8. Be it further Ordained, That any person suffering his 
 stall to remain unoccupied for two days, and who neglects or 
 refuses to pay the rent thereof, shall forfeit his right to said stall. 
 
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 Art. 9. Be it further Ordained, That any butcher or other person 
 selling, or exposing for sale, the meat of any animal that died of 
 a distemper, or which is tainted or unfit for use, shall pay a fine 
 of from twenty-five to one hundred dollars; and the Commissary 
 shall cause such meat to be thrown into the river. 
 
 Art. 10. Be it further Ordained, That within the half hour imme- 
 diately after closing the market, each butcher or occupant of 
 stalls shall cause them to be scraped and cleansed, together with 
 the closets and drawers attached, under a penalty of five dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 Art. 11. Beit further Ordained, That all persons selling meat 
 at said market shall be cleanly dressed, under a penalty of three 
 dollars for each offence. 
 
 Art. 12, Be it further Ordained, That all persons are forbidden 
 to stand, sit or lie upon the stalls or tables in said market, under 
 a penalty of five dollars for each offence. 
 
 Art. 13. Be it further Ordained, That it is forbidden to all hawkers 
 or peddlers, to sell goods or merchandise in said market, or on the 
 footways thereof, under a penalty of five dollars for each offence. 
 
 Art. 14. Be. it further Ordained, That the Mayor and Council 
 shall appoint an inspector, (the Commissary,) whose duty it shall 
 be to see the regulations established, or to be established, for the 
 government of the same, adhered to; and it shall also be his duty 
 to have in said market, weights of the legal standard, to be used 
 by any person who may think they have been cheated in their 
 purchases, and when such is the fact, the vendor shall pay a fine 
 of $5 for each offence. 
 
 Art. 15. Be it further Ordained, That the farmer or lessee shall, 
 within three days after the adjudication, furnish his own promis- 
 sory notes, endorsed to the satisfaction of the Mayor, or neglecting 
 which, a new adjudication shall be ordered by the Mayor, at the 
 risk of the first bidder, 
 
 Art. 16. Beit further Ordained, That for the better security and 
 payment of said notes, a lien shall be retained on the revenues of 
 said market, and in default of the payment of any of the aforesaid 
 notes, the corporation may receive said revenue; and the Mayor 
 shall take measures so to do, three days after the protest of 
 said notes. 
 
 Art. It. Be il further Ordained, That the farmer or lessee of said 
 market shall not be entitled to receive any other fees than those 
 hereby established; and said farmer shall, at his own expense,. 
 furnish the necessary implements for cleansing and sweeping said 
 market; and it shall be his duty to cause it to be completely 
 cleansed each day, immediately after market hours, under a fine 
 of $10 for each day he neglects so to do. 
 
 Art. IS. Be it further Ordained, That the Mayor and Council 
 shall cause the said market-house and the walls and pillars thereof, 
 internally, as well as externally, to be annually whitewashed or 
 painted. 
 
 Art. 19. Be it further Ordained, That the farmer or lessee of the 
 
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 market shall not carry on, directly or indirectly, any business, 
 nor occupy any stall or stand in said market, daring the term of 
 his lease, under any pretext whatever; should the lessee or farmer 
 violate the said condition, the Council may declare Jhe lease for- 
 feited, and order the unexpired term of the said lease to be sold 
 on account, and at the risk of the farmer or lessee thus violating. 
 
 AX ORDINANCE .SUPPLEMENTAL TO AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION 
 TO THE MARKET, ADOPTED MAY 3d, 1848, AND RE-ADOPTED 
 MARCH 19th, 1855. 
 
 Adopted December 12, 1800. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of 
 Carrollton; That when application is made to the Maj'or, in accord- 
 ance with article 7, of the original ordinance for the use of 
 a stall or stand in the market, the oath of the applicant shall 
 contain a declaration that the applicant is not the lessee of the 
 market, and is in no way interested, either directly or indirectly, 
 in the lease or revenues of the market. 
 
 Art. 2. Beit further Ordained, That the lease of the market, and 
 the collection of the revenues thereof, .shall not be transferred 
 without the consent of the Mayor and Council, previously obtained, 
 under a penalty of $50. t 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That all persons are forbidden 
 to commit any nuisance, or acts offensive to decency inside the 
 market house, or deposit any offensive, tainted or decayed meats, 
 vegetables or other matter therein, under a penalty of $5 for each 
 offence. All persons a-re forbidden to make use of and give utterance 
 to oaths and obscene and vulgar language and noises in said 
 market, under a penalty of $5 for each offence; all vendors in said 
 market-house are required to be clean in person and dress, and 
 civil and polite to purchasers and others visiting the market; they 
 shall not refuse to supply meats, vegetables or other articles 
 not sold, to persons who will pay for them, under a penalty of $5 
 for each offence ; and on due proof being made to the Mayor of 
 the violation of this article, in any one particular, by any vendor 
 in said market, the Mayor shall withdraw the permission or 
 certificate granted in accordance with article 7, of the original 
 ordinance, and such person shall not be allowed the use of any 
 stall or stand in said market, at any time afterwards. The fines 
 imposed by this ordinance are recoverable before an}- competent 
 magistrate, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting" 
 herewith, are hereby repealed. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE SALE OF THE MARKET. 
 
 Adopted December 3, 1856. 
 Be it Ordained, That said market shall hereafter be sold by the- 
 
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 Mayor, on the first Monday in December, of each year, and he shall 
 give ten days' previous notice of such sale, l>y advertisements in 
 the official journal of the city, or by posting in three public places. 
 
 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING VEGETABLES. 
 
 Adopted September 8, 1852. 
 
 Resolved, Thai hereafter, no vegetables shall be sold on any of 
 the butchers' stalls in the market of Carrollton. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO SECURITIES OF OFFICERS UNDER THE 
 
 CORPORATION. 
 
 Adopted May 1, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That in all cases wherein security is 
 required for the faithful performance of the duties of any office 
 which may exist under the authority of the Council, the person 
 elected shall either give his own bond, with mortgage on his own 
 property, unincumbered, to the amount of the security required, or 
 shall give his own bond, with one or more good solvent sureties, 
 who shall be owners of real estate in the Parish of Jefferson, 
 unincumbered, to the amount of the bond, and on a vote of a 
 majority of the Council to that effect, new sureties shall be furnished, 
 within the time the Council shall determine, in default of which, 
 a new election shall be held. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN 
 DUTIES OF THE MAYOR, IN CASE OF HIS INABILITY OR ABSENCE. 
 
 Adopted July 1, 184G. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That in case of absence or inability of 
 the Mayor, to sign warrants for the payment of salaries or other 
 claims against this corporation, duly authenticated, the chairman 
 of the Finance Committee be, and he is hereby authorized to sign 
 the same. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE BOOKS & RECORDS OF OFFICERS. 
 
 Adopted May 12, 1852. 
 Ant. 1. Be it Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the officers 
 
• i this * ity. • -.ifi-ly, ami from injury, all the Is and 
 
 that may appertain t.> their respective 
 (ifl'uvs, and they are hereby prohibited from taking or aUowin 
 be taken, any of the said books or tec irdi onl of (heir respective 
 . without the special order or consent of the Oonncil. 
 
 . That the officers 6f this city may 
 
 pies of any part of their books or records, t < » 
 
 quiring the same for legal purposes; and the Secretary 
 
 .ni'l Comptroller shall countersign the same, and attach the seal 
 
 of the city, for which be may charge twenty->fn . and the 
 
 Doers may charge the same fees that are allowed by 
 
 law to Notaries Public for copies of their records. 
 
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 AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE To IXDEXKS AND BOOKS OF OFFIOl 
 
 Adopted August 12, 1861. 
 
 Ai;T. L. B ' ' > I led by the Miiyar and Council of the City of 
 , That it shall be, and is hereby made the duty 01 the 
 
 tary of this Council, t<> number the pages, and place plain 
 intelligible marginal notes ton each page of the journal of the 
 
 iii>- Mayor and Council, which he is bound to k 
 rding to law. 
 
 further Ordained, That it shall l"' and is hereby 
 made the duty of every officer under this Council, having a I 
 
 or books t<> keep, t<> annex a plain and distinct index to each of 
 . books, which index must he made in alphabetical cider, and 
 
 show the number of the page on which the information sought can 
 
 he found; and each and every officer shall make a note on the hack of 
 each and every report he may send to the Council, and on each 
 and every paper, and bundle of papers, h«' may hie away in the 
 archives of his office, to show wiiat are the contents of such paper 
 and bundles, and on what page of his hook it is entered. 
 
 ' further Ordained, That all the hooks, indexes, sta- 
 tionery and blanks, necessary for the performance of the duties of 
 the officers of this city, shall he furnished by the .Mayor and Council, 
 at their own cost and expense, and shall be Considered the property 
 of the Mayor and Council, Subject t" their inspection at all tit 
 aid any officer or other person who shall take away, destroy 01 
 
 mutilate any of the records, maps, plans or indexes of the city, 
 
 shall pay a line of $50, and be bound to replace- the same, at his 
 
 own expi 
 
 AN ORDINANCE OONCEENING OFFICERS. 
 
 Adopted June 12, 1861. 
 
 Be it Ordained by tin- Mayor and Council of the City of Carrollton, 
 That the Mayor and Council shall annually elect in the month of 
 
October, the following named officers^of tiro corporation, to be 
 chosen from the qualified voters of . lo-wit: 
 
 A Comptroller, who shall also acl as Seci the Mayor and 
 
 Council, and as Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Public 
 Schools. 
 
 A Treasurer, who shall also acl as Collector of Taxes. 
 
 A Commissary, who shall also act as Sexton. 
 
 A Surveyor; a Printer; an Attorney; a Pound Keeper. 
 
 Three' Assessors; one Principal and two Assistants; and such 
 other officers as may be determined on, previous to the day of 
 election. 
 
 2, Be it further Ordained, Thai the term oi of all the 
 
 officers of the corporation shall commence on <''■.■' firs! day of 
 November of each year; they shall look to the charter and the 
 ordinances of the city for their duties; and previous to entering 
 upon them, shall be sworn before a proper officer, and shall 
 bond and security in the manner and amount named by the .\i 
 and Council: ami failing to thus qualify within five days after 
 election, the person failing, shall be considered as having declined 
 
 the office, 
 
 Be it further Ordained, That the salaries and CO 
 d and paid to the officers of the corporation, shall be in full 
 compensation for all services rendered to the corporation in their 
 official capacities, and no fee or extra compensation shall in any 
 be paid to any officer for the performance ofdutii s appertaining 
 to his office, except in cases wh( lutics are imp 
 
 on them, which shall be decided by the wh< I . f the Mayor 
 
 and Council present in session; neither shall the salary oi 
 officer be diminished during liis term. 
 
 4 . Be if fa rfher Orda i ne&, That ev< i 
 
 shall, upon the expiration of his term oJ office, rom, 
 
 or resignation thereof, forthwith, on demand, deliver to hi 
 BOr in office all money, hooks, pap. . ants 
 
 ore\ of debt in his hands, and all property in hi ion, 
 
 belonging to or delivered to him by any city, or 
 
 by the : 
 
 pertaining to c all which, he shall taJ 
 
 pt, and tile tint s. bh with with the Compt 
 
 entered in his bo< ks. tn 
 
 the time . Kail 
 
 he tunic! the Com| 
 
 5. Be it fwither ( > 
 
 cribed by this ordina tc< . tli in or out 
 
 office, shall 1 !00, 
 
 and U'm less than 
 
 6. 
 or di 
 
 had according 
 officer for bis 
 
I 
 ": be at 
 approba- 
 
 i :' bis 
 
 ill f;iil to v. .1 .!.>]>- 
 
 inert, 
 ball ima brm, 
 
 ■ tli«" 
 officer in ■ the time 
 
 lie d 
 
 who Bhall 
 rform an ' [ayor 
 
 and duties, shall I 
 
 That in 
 
 itify any 
 
 in writing, and shall fully 
 
 lution or law on 
 
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 law. and a recorded minui 
 
 Iii 1 1 icilma; 
 
 if Hi-- Ii: expiration of 
 
 the duties of 
 rthwith, ami a new election shall be ordered and held 
 
 :;s mafic vacant. 
 
 AX ORD] DONG 01 
 
 i J u ■ 26, L861. 
 
 f Car <>U ton, 
 ion of lip- city, and the c 
 
 venience of the people, it shall be and is hei tho duty of 
 
 to keep liii-ii- i' and 
 
 rami 
 
 ptrollerand Treasurer, from 1". ' . ' lock P. If. 
 
 Commissary, Surveyor and Mayor, from 11 o'clock A. M. t<> \1 
 o'clock M. 
 
 •..nicy, from '.' o'clock A. M. to 1<> i 'clo •' A. 
 
 '.: TlMUM' INTHLT. 
 
 A<! ' 1,1861, 
 
 That the f the Mayor, the . lolicemen 
 
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 and watchmen shall be payable monthly, and the -Mayor is author- 
 ized to draw and issue his warrants for such salaries as they 
 respectively fall due; provided, that this shall not apply to the 
 paymenl of • claimed by or due to any officer, until 
 
 such claims have been approved by the Council. 
 
 AX ORDINANCE FIXING Cl I] : ')\ OF OFFICERS FOR CERTAIN 
 
 DUTIES. 
 
 Adopted October 16, I 
 
 Be it Ordained by the Mayor < 7 of the City of Carrolllon, 
 
 That for taking the census the Commissary shall be paid the sum 
 of $25, each year: and for collecting and paying over timber and 
 boat taxes or charges, he shall he paid five per cent, on the amounl 
 paid into the treasury. For collecting and pa;. r to the 
 
 Treasurer, taxes, lines or other claims of the city, the Attorney 
 shall he paid two and a half per cent, on the an 
 For all duties performed as Secretary of the Board of Fir 
 Public Schools, the y shall be paid $50 per annum. 
 
 lie it further <■ all cla.i; ust be 
 
 approved^By the Council before bei I, and in i hall 
 
 an officer of this city retain the money collected by him i'<r 
 payment of b as or salaries due him. Any officer violating 
 
 the provisions of this hall be liable to a 
 
 125 for each offence, and ice. 
 
 IRDINANCE RELATIVE TO BONDS AND SECURn ERS. 
 
 Adopted October 30, 1 
 
 He it Ordained by the Mayor avid Council of th • 
 That in all cases where bond and i curil 
 elccled to office by the Mayor and Council, it shall be the dufr 
 the Mayor •<> approve and ac iich bond 
 
 shall come within the meaning of the ordinance ur.'- 
 
 ties of officers, and a! the next meeting thereafter, report the same 
 to the Council for record. 
 
 OFFENC] D NUISANC1 
 
 ORDINANi 
 
 Ad..]. led di; ■ d. 
 
 Be it cnadrd by > ' ' 
 
 Thai in prevent d . and to provide for Ihe pi 
 
 public • and </u : 
 
I. N i shall deface or injure any building or buildings, 
 
 wall, fen . awning-post, sign or othei property, private or 
 
 public, in this city, by cutting, breaking, daubing with paint, 
 marking, writing, or in any other v. 
 
 B, No person shall post up any baud-bill, writing, advertisement, 
 
 notice, paper or cloth, board or other article whatsoever, on any 
 
 house or building, shed, awning, wall, Bign or fence, without the 
 
 »ent of the owner previously given ; and no consent shall be 
 
 implied. 
 
 ::. No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, 
 cannon or fire anus, within the improved limits of the city, or set 
 fire to, discharge or throw any fire brand, cracker, rocket, Bquib, 
 hi or other ignited or combusible material, or set fire to any 
 piles of wood or lumber, within Baid limits, without the license of 
 1 iouncil previously obtained; provided, nothing herein contained 
 shall apply to military reviews or parades, or b> the lawful use of 
 weaj 
 
 4. It shall not be lawful for any person to neat a drum, blow 
 a horn or sound :i trumpet, make a false alarm of lire, ring bells, 
 beat kettles or pans, or make any noise to alarm or annoy residents 
 or others, in the streets or public places; provided, that this pro- 
 
 .11 not apply to any militia, or to any peaceable procession, 
 
 til ■ ■ ■ cases in which auctioneers are permitted to beat drums. 
 ! is unlawful to abuse, provoke or disturb any person; to 
 
 , '. or to appear masked or disguised, in the street 
 or any public place; or to use indecent or vulgar language or 
 Bigns; or to commit any nuisance offensive to public decency; or 
 commit any lewdness on any street or levee, cemetery, public 
 squareor other public place, in any open lot, on, or under any wharf 
 or landing, or in any open house exposed to public view. 
 
 <i. All persons are forbidden to bathe in the river or ponds in 
 front of the city or elsewhere, publicly, within the limits of the 
 city during the daylight; and all persons are forbidden to strip or 
 expose the naked person or body in any portion of the city, on the 
 banks of the river, or in the river or ponds. 
 
 7. All persons are forbidden, and arc prohibited from throwing 
 or depositing any dead animal, offal, blood, filth, manure, feculent 
 mat:, r, C >ri upt or putrid water or any matter of any kind which 
 
 may be offensive to the sight or smell, or injurious to the health, on 
 any banquette, street, alley, wharf or any public place, in any 
 gutter, drain or canal, within the improved limits of the city; and 
 no person shall be allowed to keep or let remain on their premises 
 within their yards or private alleys any of the articles or things 
 mentioned in this section more than twenty-four hours. 
 
 Ml persons are forbidden to throw Hour, water, or any other 
 
 substance, on any person passing along the street or any public 
 
 place; and all persons are forbidden to obstruct the passage or 
 flow of water of any gutter, ditch, pipe or drain in this city, or in 
 any manner dam the same. 
 9i It shall not he lawful to move or cause to be carried away, 
 
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 any earth or sand from any street, square, walk or commons, or 
 from the levee; and all persons arc forbidden to cut, break, 
 destroy or move any of the plank-walks, bridges or roads, signs, 
 pavements, whether of brick or stone, shell roads, dirt roads or rail 
 roads in this city; and all persons arc forbidden to destroy, injure 
 or move any of the trees, planted in the streets or public squares, 
 or on the sidewalks of this city, according to law. 
 
 10. All persons arc forbidden to ride, lead or drive a horse or 
 other animal on the sidewalks, promenades, levees or public squares 
 of this city, and all persons are forbidden to hitch or fasten any 
 horse or any other animal on or to any of said places, or in such 
 a manner and at such place's thai it may gel on those places; or 
 to obstruct the sidewalks or streel crossings wjth any cart, carriage 
 or other vehicle; provided this does not apply to persons crossing 
 the levee at the end of streets, or the banquettes to and from their 
 
 • premises. 
 11. No person shall keep or permit to run at large any dog or 
 other animal, which shall by barking, biting, running after persons, 
 howling, or in any other way or manner disturb the comfort or 
 quiet of any person or persons whomsoever; and no owner of any 
 deformed animal, or animal affected with the glanders, or other 
 contagious distemper, shall suffer the same to roam at large on 
 any street or levee, on the commons or in the woods, and it shall 
 not be lawful for any goat to roam at large, or to be fastened on the 
 streets, levees or public places. 
 ./ 12. No wild and ferocious animal shall be kept within the 
 ' limits of this city, on the premises of individuals, or in menageries, 
 unless such animal be under the charge of an armed guard, day ami 
 night; and all persons are forbidden to let loose or permit any wild 
 or any ferocious or vicious animal to go at large. 
 
 13. No person shall exhibit or cause to be exhibited in this 
 city any bull or bear fight, or any dog tight, or pugilistic contest, 
 or make any immoral exhibition, or form processions for the purpose 
 of attending such exhibitions, or any immoral or unlawful purpose; 
 and no person shall keep a cock pit, or any place for any immoral 
 exhibition, or for any animal tights or contests. 
 
 14. All persons are forbidden to expose, circulate, offer for sale, 
 sell or distribute, any obscene, scandalous or libelous book, print, 
 newspaper, pamphlet, circular or periodical, caricature, picture, 
 drawing, statue or other object whatever, of any immoral or scan- 
 dalous nature, or calculated to excite scandal, immorality or 
 disturbance of the public peace or tranquility. 
 
 15. No person shall sell or oner for sale, or keep exposed in 
 any public place, any blown, stale, imperfect or unwholesome provi- 
 sion, or tainted meat or fish, or vegetable, or any animal which lias 
 died of disease, or any impure or unsound food whatever; and no 
 person shall fraudulently adulterate for the purpose of sale, any 
 substance intended for food; or any liquor intended for drink; or 
 any drug or medicine, with any sabstance in any manner injurious 
 to health. And all i" forbidden to keep within the limits 
 
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 of tii or dams iny 
 
 putrefaction; :ui<! no 
 i land or • any such articles a< 
 
 the landing, or oq theriver, or brii ich into 
 
 the city fr 
 
 16. In lilli 
 
 as ; ■ to run oil' on th< . :ni.l nol on the 
 
 :u1 j.t I ii shall , partly (ill H|> 
 
 any lol with manure or oth 
 
 1 7. ( kvens, stables, well i and privie Bhall no1 be placed within 
 three feel of any publi nor within three feet 
 of the line of adjoining pro] hall not have an issue on 
 
 ■ reel or public way, nor propriel »r. 
 
 18. The flues or chii ries, 
 smith Bhops, foun I . shall b the 
 highesl adjoini i, within of two hundred feel from 
 
 lid establi jhmenl 
 
 19. All persons a place any stationary or 
 permam i • of any of the public 
 
 :•■ lev< ;• public squ 
 
 of t! nd all )>( rsons arc forbidden to leave any car, ran i 
 
 bide, or any other article so as to obstruct 
 passage in t ion of the streets, public places or lev< 
 
 hut this planted 
 
 according tu law. 
 
 Ail persons arc forbidden to interfere with, obstruct, or 
 prevent any officer or em y in the discharge or 
 
 of his duty. 
 
 21. All persons are i take sand or dirt from the 
 batture, without a permit previously obtained from the Surveyor or 
 
 acil; and it shall nol 1": lawful to move sand or dirt from the 
 batture, to b limits of OarrolU »n. 
 
 22. AM per e forbidden to ride or drive any horse or other 
 animal through th< i, at a furious rate of sp 
 
 or so as to endanger tl. ty person; all persons are 
 
 forbidden to run, drivi locomotive, car, cart, carriage 
 
 or other vehi the rail roads, side walks, 
 
 levees or public places of this c Bpeed than the 
 
 law all.... ; to endanger the safety of any person. 
 
 • further ( . That any person or persons committing 
 
 any of the off r violatin ' the provisions of the above 
 
 aaticle named, shall be fined D |5, nor more than $100 
 
 for each offence; and in every case where minors or slaves \ iolate 
 an ordinance of this or guardians of the minors, 
 
 and the of the she. pprentices shall i isible 
 
 for the line. All fines are recoverable Melon- anycourt of competent 
 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 t further Or ' • y made the duty of the 
 
 Commissary, and the police offi city I i report and 
 
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 denounce, and it" is the duly of the City Attorney to prosecute 
 persons charged with violations of this ordinance. In all 
 cases in this ordinance where an act Or dei lared 
 
 unlawful, its continuance, after notice from the proper officer, shall 
 be deemed an additional i and the offender shall be fined 
 
 not less than $5, nor more than $25 for hall continue 
 
 to violate the provisions of this ordinam 
 
 Ik, if further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the Commissary 
 and all police officers of this city to .take cognizance of the offe; 
 and omissions named in this and all ether ordinances, and take 
 the necessary steps forthwith, to abate the nuisance or offence, by 
 giving notice, and reporting the offender, and if need be, to arrest 
 the offender; and all lings in such cases shall be entered 
 
 in the police records of the city, or the Comi ' diary or 
 
 record. It is also made their special duly to" arrest all runaway 
 negroes, beggars and vagrants, J o> he dealt with according to law. 
 
 AX ORDINANCE CONCERNING HAWKERS OH PEDDLERS. 
 
 Adopted May .11. I- '.:,. 
 
 Art. 1. BeiiO >. - about, or cause 
 
 in be hawk( d al i in any manner whatever, 
 
 within the limits of the city of Carrollton, any produce, provisi 
 or merchandise generally, wit! ing a license from 
 
 the Mayor, speci! name of the person to if shall 
 
 have been delivered, under penalty of' a fine not under ten, nor 
 exceeding - twenty dollars 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further ' I no slave shall be permitted 
 
 to hold such license; but any tree person having- the intention to 
 
 •e merchandise to be hawked aboul or exposed for sale as above 
 said, by one or mi- claration 
 
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 license or lie. : therein the name or nai 
 
 Buch slavi peddle and hawk about the 
 
 said merqhand i who shall h 
 
 obtained sucl ever 
 
 peddling and hawking, a li 
 
 further < he the duly of the 
 
 Commissary, and he is hen I andof all peddlers 
 
 and hawkers, the licei se in ■■ '■] within 
 
 limits of the city, and 
 the said offic ir i - au1 mcrchan 
 
 mch peddl 
 and said peddler shall 
 
 • All the w. i . .' UUned," itrv 
 
and the merchand tained in virtue of iliis ordinance, shall 
 
 be placed under the protection of any justice of the peace in the 
 city, and remain tisfy all judgments which may 
 
 be pronounced against the owner of the same, as well for the fine 
 as for amount of the tax and lie. • 
 
 POUND. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING BTRAYS. 
 
 Adopted June 11, L851. 
 
 Art. J. Be it Ordained, That a pound for strays be. and is hereby 
 
 red to be established in this city, to be called the city pound 
 of Carrollton. 
 
 2. That there shall be annually elected a suitable person for 
 pound kei per, whose duty i; shall be to receive all strays brought 
 
 . for which he shall be entitled I i charge as follows: 
 
 For each horse, mule or ass sO 7") 
 
 For each cow or horned animal 50 
 
 For each hog 2T> 
 
 3. One-half of the above charges shall be paid by the said 
 keeper to the person that may deliver to him a stray, and further, 
 it shall be the duty of said keeper to see all strays fed, watered, 
 and provided with sheds in hot or inclement weather, for which he 
 may charge as follows: 
 
 For each horse, mule or ass $0 25 per day. 
 
 For each cow or horned animal 20 " 
 
 Foreachhog 10 
 
 The above to be paid to him by the owners of said strays, on 
 claiming the same, in addition to the costs of advertising the same. 
 •1 It shall likewise be the duty of the keeper of the pound to 
 enter in a bode to be kept for that purpose, the day on which he 
 may receive any stray, with a full description of the same, which 
 book shall on every week day remain open for the inspection of 
 the public. It shall be the duty of said keeper of the pound to 
 advertise weekly in a newspaper published in this city or parish, 
 according to law, all strays thai may be in his possession, giving 
 a full description of the same, and stating that unless the same be 
 claimed, and all charges paid within ten days from dale of adver- 
 tisement, the same will be sold by him at the pound at public auction, 
 to the highest bidder, to defray the cost and charges, and in case 
 of such sale, the keeper shall note down carefully in his book, 
 opposite to the desi riptionofthe animal, what amount the animal 
 sold for, and to whom; and after deducting the amount of cost 
 and charges that he is entitled to charge, he shall pay the remainder, 
 if any, to the Treasurer, within twenty-four hours after the sale, 
 taking a receipt tor the same, which shall be delivered to the 
 Comptroller as soon as possible. 
 
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 5. The residue of the profits of the sale of any animal, if any, 
 shall be paid to the owner of the same, less one-tenth upon the 
 exhibition to this Council, of satisfactory proof of ownership, and 
 in case of a majority of this Council concurring' in any complaint 
 made against the keeper of the pound for contravening* this ordi- 
 nance, or for abuse or f any animal in his possession, he 
 shall be fined in a sum i ot less than $5, nor more than §50, or be 
 removed from office. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING CERTAIN DUTIES OF THE POUND 
 
 KEEPER. 
 
 Adopted December 10, 1851. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the pound 
 keeper of this city to make a detailed monthly report of the strays 
 received and disposed of during the month, by him, being particular 
 to describe the animal, and specify the costs and proceeds of sale, 
 and amount paid over to Treasurer. 
 
 PORT OE LANDIIvG. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE PORT OR LANDING OF THE 
 CITY OF CARROLLTON. 
 Adopted June 13, 18G0, and amended August 7, 1861. 
 
 Original. 
 
 1. Be it Ordained 'by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrotlton, 
 That art. 1 of the ordinance to regulate thi landing, be 
 
 amended so as to read: 
 
 That it shall be and is hereby made the duty of the Commi 
 to supervise and regulate the port or lauding of this city, plant 
 tie posts, direct steamboats and other vessels, and all water crafi 
 where to land and tie up, and require them to be well and securely 
 fastened with chains, when they are to remain at the landing for 
 any period over twenty-four hours. He shall direct and regul 
 their landing and lyin to interfere with other boats, 
 
 or with the busin occupying t\io batture, with the 
 
 consent of the Council; and he shall collect the charges hereinafter 
 ed on all such 
 
 Be it furtherOrdain rt. 2 of said ordinance be 
 
 so as to read: 
 
 each steamboat, each steamship, and each sail vessel; ship, 
 brig, schoonor or sloop, lying at the landing-, shall pay the city 
 ten dollars per mouth: h flatboat, keelboat or other small 
 
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 water craft, Lying at the landing, Bhall pay the city five dollars 
 per month; provided, that this Bection shall not apply to any boat, 
 •1 or water craft making a temporary landing-, for reception or 
 discharge of passengers, or freight or other purposes; and provided, 
 it does not apply to boats to be broken up on the batture, within 
 ten days after they are tied up there, by any t rrollton. 
 
 :'.. Br U furl her Ordained, That the charges imposed by the 2d sec- 
 tion of this ordinance shall ' . •. and t<> facilitate 
 tin- matter, lite Comptroller shall counl deliver to the 
 Commissary, and charge him with a requisite number of blanks, 
 for the collection of which, the Commissary shall be responsible: 
 and forthwith, after the collection of an}- of said bills, he shall pay 
 over the amount collected to the City Treasurer, and file the 
 hirer's receipt therefor with the Comptroller. 
 
 4. Be it further Ordained, That for any interference with the Com- 
 missary in the discharge of his duty as laid down in this ordinance, 
 and for any neglect or refusal to comply with the directions of the 
 Commissary, as expressed in section first of this ordinance, the 
 person offending shall be liable for and pay a fine of $25; recover- 
 able before any court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 ■ >. Be i' further Ordained, That in cases of neglect or refusal to 
 I he charges imposed by this ordinance, within twenty-four hours 
 after demand, and in cases of fines incurred as per section 4, the 
 I 'ommissary is directed to place a bill for the same in the hands 
 of the City Attorney, for collection by suit, and file the Attorney's 
 receipt for such bill forthwith, with the Comptroller. 
 
 6. Be it furl her Ordained, That article G of the ordinance to regu- 
 late the port or landing be amended, so as to read: 
 
 That when vessels or water craft leave the landing before the 
 
 •i ration of the month for which they have paid, the Mayor is 
 
 authorized to draw a warrant for a return of the pro-rata of the 
 
 monthly charge so paid on application in writing to him of the party 
 
 interested.* 
 
 •Artiolo 6 amend"') October 10, 1861. 
 
 POLICE AND CITY .JAIL. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE POLICE AND THE CITY JAIL. 
 
 Adopted July 24, 1861. 
 
 1. Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrollton, 
 That the department of police of tlie City of Carrollton, shall 
 consist of the Commissary, and such other police officers, policemen 
 and watchmen as the Mayor and Council may from time to time 
 appoint, or such as may be appointed by their authority. 
 
 * 2. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of all members 
 of the police department to prevent or stop all disturbances of the 
 peace, and all violations of the state laws, and the city ordinances, 
 
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 and if need be, to arrest the offender, to be dealt with according 
 to law. They are authorized to arrest and lock up in the city jail, 
 all intoxicated or noisy persons, and all slaves found in contraven- 
 tion of the law and ordinances, but in no case shall they keep 
 any person, bond or free, in said city jail longer than twenty-four 
 hours. 
 
 3. Be it further Ordained, That the -Mayor is authorized, and it 
 is hereby made his duty, to appoint special policemen or watchmen, 
 in cases of urgent necessity, for a period not exceeding one week. 
 and the distribution, management and control of all police officers, 
 policemen and watchmen, and all their operations shall be. 
 
 are hereby placed in the hands of the Mayor of the city. He is 
 authorized to suspend auy of them for cause, and employ others, 
 but he shall keep the Council advised regularly, by written reports, 
 made every two weeks, of the changes and appointments mad 
 hiin by virtue of this article, and the reasons therefor; provided, 
 that this article shall not bo construed as applicable I ! >tn- 
 
 missary. 
 
 4. Be it further Ordained, That every member of the poiice 
 department shall be a citizen of Louisiana, and resident of Carroll- 
 ton, and must be sworn to the faithful performance of his duties, 
 and give bond and security according to !;;-, 'i sum as the 
 Mayor and Council may direct. 
 
 5. Be it further Ordained, That a police record shall be kept by 
 the Mayor at the Council Hall, subject to the inspection of all 
 persons interested, in which every member of the police department 
 shall enter daily, over his own signature, a detailed account of 
 arrests, and disposition of_ persons arrested, and oilier duties 
 performed by him the day and night betore, and a detailed account 
 of all violations of law that may have come to his knowledge. 
 
 6. Be it further Ordained, That the city jail fees are herebj' fixed 
 as follows: For the entering of a prisoner, $1; for the going out of a 
 prisoner, 50 cents, which fees shall be demanded and received by 
 the officer, policeman or watchman who locked up or discharged 
 the prisoner; and all fees thus received, shall be paid to the Treas- 
 urer daily, and the receipt of the Treasure' therefor filed 
 forthwith with the Comptroller, by the officer, policeman or watch- 
 man, who received and paid in the money. 
 
 7. Beit further Ordained, That the Ma; paired to have 
 the city or police jail kept clean and in order, repaired when 
 necessary, and furnished with blankets and water. 
 
 print fc::n. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOB THE ELECTION OF a PRINTER, 
 AND DEFINING ID- DUTD 
 
 ■ luly 1, It 
 Akt. 1. , Thai this city shall be 
 
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 elected annually, agreeably to the rules concerning t!ic election 
 of i ut' the corporation, whose duty il ■ to print 
 
 and issue all tl gs, ordinances, not ; iseinents 
 
 of the Council, and the notices or adv< nblic 
 
 ..I of this city, in a public newe 
 
 1 fctober 19, 1859. That it shall ■ duty 
 
 of the Printer to publish within three days al .'the 
 
 Mayor and Council, a certified copy of the proccedin id Mayor 
 
 and Council, which shall be furnished him : From 
 
 the records. 
 
 Art. 3. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the dnl 
 Printer to publish all the ordihan ited by the Council, at 
 
 least twice after the publication of the proceedings; also, to publish 
 all regulations, notia Ivertisements of whatever nature, 
 
 emanating from the Council, its officers, and the pul 
 this city or its officers, as often as may be required It shall also 
 be his duty to do all job work, such as printing blank receipts for 
 taxes, blank licenses, bonds, &c , &c, for the Council, and blank 
 tickets, certificates, &c, &c, for the use of the public school, as 
 requited; and he, shall print the ordinances ; f the 
 
 Council, in an octavo pamphlt as there may be matter 
 
 !-h, and furnish all materials required in the performance of 
 his duties. All publications to be made in the English langu; 
 and in the French Language when the law require 
 
 Art. 4. Be.it further Ordained, That it: case of i or 
 
 refusal on the paiv oi said Printer to perform any of the duties 
 imposed upon him by this ordinance, the Mayor shall order the 
 work so refused or neglected to be done, to be performed by 
 another Printer, and the cost thereof shall be charged to him and 
 his securities. 
 
 PRINTER TO FURNISH ! 
 
 Adopted April 21, 1847. 
 
 Resolved, That the Printer of this city shall furnish the Council 
 with twelve copies of his i idings of any 
 
 meeting are published. 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE I CHOOLS. 
 
 1 June 12, 1861. 
 
 1 . Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carrollton, 
 That in obedience to the 12th section of the act to incorporate the 
 city of Carrollton, there shall be elected by the Mayor and Council 
 in the month of April, annually, a Board of seven directors, to 
 control and manage the public schools of this city; the term of 
 the Board thus elected shall commence on the 1st of May, and 
 
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 continue until their successors are elected and qualified, and the 
 failure to elect in April shall not work a dissolution of the Board, 
 iancies in the Boavd caused iation or otherwise. 
 
 shall be filled by the Com.. , as may be, after notice. Each 
 
 Director shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his di 
 as a Director, and any four Directors form a quorum accordinj 
 law. 
 
 Be it further Ordained, That the Board of Directors is authorized 
 to establish as many schools and departme i ay be required 
 
 tuitous education to all white children permanently 
 resident in this ci their duty to report quarterly to 
 
 the Council, the condition of the schools, shpwing the 1 numb 
 pupils » n their progress, and such oilier facts and 
 
 suggestions in r< be school- play 
 
 grounds, I ;ary and - shall, at least. 
 
 once a ir, report the number and class of teachers employed, 
 and tiie amount of salaries paid them in detail, according to rank- 
 all which reports shall be published. They shall not purchase any 
 horn nor build or enlarge any school-house without the 
 
 ous consent of the 
 3- Be !, That in obedience to said 12th section, 
 
 umcil wil ans required over ami 
 
 above the State appropriations for the legitimate support and 
 maintenance of the public schools, and all bills for the current 
 expenses of the sail be paid when approved and signed 
 
 by thiee member.- i d. The teacher's salaries shall be 
 
 I on their sim. pts, at the end of each month of service; 
 
 the Mayor is hereby authorized to draw warrants on the City 
 
 all bills duly approved and receipted as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 4. Be it further Ordaim ioard of Directors shall hold 
 
 their meetings in the Council Hall, and shall meet at least on. 
 month, for the transaction of business. The Secretary of the 
 Council being ex-officio Seer-vary of the Board, shall attend their 
 meeth record of their proceedings, and file all their 
 
 papers among the archives of the city, and the records and papers 
 shall be subject to the inspection and proper use of the Mayor, and 
 members of the Council at all times. Any member of the Board 
 who has neglected to attend three success of the Board, 
 
 whether regular or called n .shallbec dining 
 
 rve in the Board, and shall lie reported to the Council by the 
 Secretary, in order that his place maybe filled by the Council; 
 provided, this shall not apply to members who were unavoidably 
 absent from the meetings of the Board. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING TIT, ;, !:Ni 
 CHILDREN TO ' ' iOOL. 
 
 Adopted Februa 146. 
 
 Akt. 1. Be it Ordained, Thai any person not a citizen of this 
 
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 who may wi i of sending his or her 
 
 child or children 1 ( !. public school, may secnre the 
 
 same by payin each child, the annual 
 
 sum of thirty dolli 
 
 . Tint upon the delivery of the 
 
 Treasurer's receipt for one quarter's advance, the Comptroller shall 
 
 a certificate of the same, the delivery ^f which to the Directors 
 
 lie school, shall authorize them to admit such h'nt 
 
 children. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE ADMISSION OF TB \ 
 
 RES] : ., ETC. 
 
 Adopted September 9, 18 
 
 it. 1. Be it Ordained, That the children of transient residents, 
 may not be tax payers of This city, or children whose parents 
 do not reside herein, shall doI ted in the public school of 
 
 this city, unless on compliance with the ordinance concerning 
 non-resident children, adopted 25th February, 1846; and the Board 
 of Directors are hereby authorized to rei sh admission, 
 
 under the conditions herein expressed. 
 
 A RESOLUTIONTN RELATION TO SCHOOL MONEY RECEIVED FROM 
 
 STATE. 
 i 
 
 Adopted January 23, 1854. 
 
 Resolved, That, the money received from the State on account of 
 the public school, shall be specially iriated to the payment 
 
 of the expenses of the public school, and that the Treasurer 
 reserve all such money Tor thai purp 
 
 ROADIS ^lTVD STREETS. 
 
 RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING THE JEFFERSON AND LAKE I'ONTCHAR- 
 TIIAIN RAILROAD. 
 
 Adopted May 29, 1850. 
 
 Wherea8,The Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad Company 
 has presented a memorial to this Council, asking the grant of the 
 right of way for a railroad from the present terminus i^i' the New 
 Orleans and Carrolltou Railroad through Levee street, to the upper 
 line of the city, thence through Upper Line street to the limits oi 
 the corporation, and also praying for the widening of Upper Line 
 
street, proposing- to pay the damages thai may be assessed accord- 
 ing- to law, in widening said street; and whereas, it is the opinion 
 of this Council, that it is expedient to grant the said privileges on 
 ,the terms and for the considerations proposed; therefore, 
 
 1. Beit Resolved, That said proposition be, and the same is 
 hereby accepted. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad 
 Company shall have the right of way through Levee and Upper 
 Line streets, until March, 188:.)-. provided, that it is not contrary 
 to the constitution and laws of this State; and provided further, 
 that if it should become necessary for this corporation to occupy 
 Levee street for a levee, before the expiration of said term, no 
 damages shall fall on the corporation for loss to the company. 
 
 3. Resolved, That said company is hereby invested with the 
 privilege of making and using, until March, 1883, a single track 
 railway though the center of Levee street,, from the end of the 
 New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad to Upper Line street, with 
 necessary turn outs at each end of said railroad on Levee 
 street; provided, that said company shall fill up said Levee street 
 to the grade as they proceed in their work; and provided further, 
 that said company shall make two good and substantial culverts, 
 of the width and depth required by the ordinances regulating 
 street bridges at each street leading from the river; and shall plank 
 or pave the said railroad tracks at each of said streets, so as to 
 make the crossing at said streets convenient and safe; and the 
 said company shall also accommodate the grade of their said rail- 
 road to the grade of said streets, as the same may be fixed by the 
 proper officers of the city from time to time. 
 
 4. Resolved, That said company shall have the right to run 
 locomotives on said line of railroad; provided, that they do not 
 put them to a greater speed than five miles an hour through Levee 
 street. 
 
 5. Beit further Resolved, That the Council* does hereby authorize 
 the Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad Company, to take 
 the proper and legal measures to increase the width of Upper 
 Line Street, through its entire length, from Levee street to the 
 limits of the corporation, fifty feet beyond its present width; said 
 fifty feet to be taken from the eastern side of said street; and that 
 said Upper Line street, as soon as it shall have been so widened, 
 shall be divided into two road ways, leaving through the center 
 for the entire length of said street as aforesaid, a space or track 
 of twenty-six feet in width; and that said company shall be invested 
 with the right and privilege, during the term of its charter, of 
 constructing and using a double track railway on said space of 
 twenty-six feet in width, together wilh the proper and neces^ 
 turn-outs and appurtenances; and said company shall dig a clear 
 wide ditch on each side of said center space in the said Upper Line 
 street, throughout the entire length they occupy; provided, that 
 the privileges herein contained arc granted on the conditions that 
 thr> said company shall, in the | i stead of this corporation, 
 
of land to 
 rod Bhall ay all 
 
 lawful an ning 
 
 the same; and provided further, all commi 
 
 the c ion of s:-iid rail) 
 
 ber, 1850, and shall corapl< • le Lake, 
 
 within th From the 
 
 •Resolution 5 ml amend* Council empowering the 
 
 instead of engaging to act themselves, in widening I 
 
 A RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE PRIVILEGE GRANTED TO THE 
 JEFFERSON AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN RAILRl i.\D Ci IMPANT, TO 
 
 RUN !."■ 
 
 Adopted May 10, 1854. 
 
 Whereas, The Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad have 
 ■ i. of way throu , with a privilege to 
 
 run 1 ves on the same, p 
 
 of five miles per hour; and wh inhabitai treet, 
 
 and the public generally are constantly complaining, and have 
 
 tioned the Council, in r< rousrate 
 
 al which the locomotives are driven, which the rate 
 
 provided forinthe resolution granting said privilege; and whereas. 
 the S through Levee street, from 
 
 its intersection with Upper Lin (street, Madison 
 
 street, to be two thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven feet, and 
 time required to run the said distance to be six minutes and forty 
 seconds, being at the rate of fiv- •■ Q hour; then i 
 
 Be it Resolved, That whenever it comes to the kno of the 
 
 ncil, by information fro 
 that the Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad Company's 
 Locomotives have been driven through L al a rate 
 
 ceding five miles per hour; thai is, if th 1 etween the 
 
 intei F said i 
 
 ., is run in less time than six minutes and 
 forty , the Council will declare the rson 
 
 and Lake Pi . tin Railroad Compel a on 
 
 said Levee street, I, andwil teps 
 
 to enfoi 'lie. 
 
 • CIVE TO N ETS. 
 
 Adopted December 1, 1847. 
 
 Art. 1. Be il ', That no new streets or public thorough- 
 
 fares shall be laid out or opened within the limits of this city, 
 
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 without a plan of the same, including the property fronting thereon, 
 being first submitted to and approved of by the Mayor and Council 
 of this city. 
 
 RESOLUTION ABOUT RAILROAD OF BROWN A" CO. 
 
 ipted October 31, 1860. 
 
 Resolved, That S. II. Brown & Co. be and are hereby authorized 
 to lay a R. R. track across the upper side of Upper Line Btreet, at 
 a point opposite Plum street, so as to form a connection with the 
 Jefferson and Lake R. R., and the R. R. which they will construct 
 in street of New Carrollton; provided, they lay the said 
 
 track to the city grade, till up the street in which it is laid to the 
 grade, dig and keep open the ditches required around and about it. 
 make and keep in good repair the bridges over which it may pass, and 
 plank the space between the rails of said track, and twelve inches 
 on each side of it; and when required by the Council, they shall 
 remove said R. R. track at their own expense. 
 
 AX ORDINANCE CONCERNING CANAL AVENUE AND FIRST STREET 
 
 Adopted March 8, 1848. 
 
 Art. 1. Be UOrdained, That in addition to a banquette of fifteen 
 feet in width, on each side of Canal Avenue, there shall be a road- 
 way on each side of thirty* feet clear width, thus leaving a space 
 in the center of sixty feet in width; and that tho said center space 
 shall be called the promenade; provided, that this ordinance shall 
 not be so construed as to prevent the use of said center space for 
 a public road. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That the banquettes on Firs! 
 street be fixed at nine feet in width, and that the roadway on each 
 side of the railroad be fixed at twenty-seven . ■ width, that 
 
 is, clear of the curbs. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE FOR WIDENING A PART OF FIRST STREET, GIVING 
 TO THE N.O. AND CARROLLTON RAILROAD < OMPANY THE RIGHT 
 OF WIDENING Til! SOUSE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOS1 3. 
 
 Adopted dune 13, 1849. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That the proposition i ■ >.v Orleans 
 
 and Carrollton Railroad Company to dedicate to public use, on 
 certain conditions as herein exp pound of eighteen 
 
 •Originally 12 anl 
 
 9 
 
G6 
 
 feet in width, running from Canal Avenue to Lei 
 
 lo of First st: i widening the same,) be, end 
 
 I npi m said conditiona 
 
 B I further Ordttt -hall, 
 
 within six months, Laj i le and put in rd< r, a sti 
 
 thirty-eight f< the width of the w exietii 
 
 fn»m ''anal A adjoining the garden and hotel 
 
 lot, as the aame will be when the fence shall be i . that the 
 
 . . ill also within the Baid pei tod, lay good plank banquet- 
 id both sides of the street ao laid off, the Bame to be ich 
 width aa directed by the Oonnoil; and that Baid company 
 
 ;d street .shall be paved, keep the same in good order, and 
 repair the same from time to time, under the direction of the proper 
 officers of the Council. 
 
 Am. ">. Be U further Onli'med, That in consideration of the 
 premises, the railroad company shall have the privilege of widening 
 and extending their car-house, on the side a< bob I, to the 
 
 extent of eighteen feel beyond its presenl line, and bIuiII have and 
 enj.y the privilege of using for all the purposes of the company, 
 the space between the Baid streel so to be laid out, and the rail- 
 road as now existing, from said Canal Avenue to Levee street, 
 luding that portion opposite to Dublin street. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE NAMES OP STREETS. 
 
 Adopted September 1, 1854. 
 
 Aw. l. Be it Ordained, That all streets hereafter laidontby 
 property holders in Carrollton, snb-dividing the original double 
 squares, shall be not less than fifty feet wide, and shall equally 
 
 divide said original squares. 
 
 Art. - />' it further Ordained, That the names General Scott, 
 Millaudon, Biliary, Burdette, Short, Dublin, Carobronne, Leonidas, 
 Mary, Holy-Grove; Laurel-Grove, Live-Oak, Highland, Blackberry 
 and Philip, be established as the names of the streets running'from 
 
 the liver to the roar corporation line, intermediate between the 
 streets projected <m the original plan; thai the names, Hamp 
 Burthe, Zimple, Plum, Jeanetto, Green, Cohn, Cypress, Napoleon 
 A \ ■■iiuc, Nelson, Belfast, Pritchard, Collappissa, Porshey, Edinburgh, 
 Strelitz, Dixon, Marks and Beaton, be established as the names of 
 the cross streets, intermediate between the BtreetS projected on the 
 
 original plan, from First street to the rear corporation Hue; and 
 that the names 1'eail, Commercial, Macarty, l>e Armas, Ann. Esth ir, 
 
 Wall and Oliver, be established as the names of the cross streets. 
 
 lying between Pirsl street and Levee Btreet 
 Art. o. Be ii further Ordained, That the ordinance adopted 
 
 February 3d, 1850, fixing the names of certain streets be, and the 
 same is hereby repealed. 
 
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 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CUTTING OF TREES IN THE 
 
 STREETS. 
 
 Adopted October 3, 1851. 
 
 Resolved, That permission be granted to any person or persons 
 to cut or clear away the wood and trees on the roads or streets 
 laid out in the rear of the city of Carrollton. 
 
 RESOLUTION TO PAY STREET HANDS MONTHLY. 
 
 Adopted May 2, 1860. 
 
 Resolved, That hereafter, the Commissary's street hands be paid 
 for their services on the first of each month, according to the 
 Commissary's pay roll, and the Mayor is hereby authorized to draw 
 his warrants in favor of the persons named, and for the amounts 
 specified therein; provided, that there is no greater number of 
 hands on the roll than has been authorized by the Council to be 
 employed; and provided, the roll is certified to by a majority of 
 the Streets and Landings Committee as correct. 
 
 ORDINANCE CONCERNING SHADE TREES. 
 
 Adopted October 21, 1857. 
 
 1. Be if Ordained, That hereafter, no tree shall be planted 
 or set out in the streets or on the banquettes of this city, unless 
 they be planted on the banquette, within eighteen inehes of the 
 outer or street edge of the banquette, and any one violating this 
 ordinance shall be liable to a tine of $5 for each offence. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That any one destroying a tree placed 
 on the banquette, according to the existing ordinance — himself, his 
 child, servant, cow, horse, gnat or other animal, shall be liable to 
 a fine of $1"; and any one injuring a tree so placed, shall lie liable 
 to a fine of s."> for each offence. 
 
 Ik it further Ordained, Thai fifteen cents per tree shall be 
 paid by the Mayor and Council to any residt at who may plain 
 properly, according to ordinance, any number of oak trees, between 
 the months of November and M I less than twenty-live nor 
 
 more than thirty feel i r 18, 1857). 
 
 AX ORDINANCE TO \NI>. 
 
 A<\ " rcb T, 1- 
 
 L Who ented thai the distance as found by mens* 
 
 urementon Canal Avenue, from First street to Eleventh 91 
 
-aid Btreeta arc now located, is such that alter allowing- the surplus 
 measure of one foot to each square, in accordance with existing 
 ordinance, there still remains an excess of measure over the 
 distance called for by private titles, and by the orig-inal plan of 
 Carrollton. 
 
 '2. Nbv> therefore be it Ordained, That all locations hereafter made 
 between First and Tenth streets, shall be made from First street; 
 and that all locations between Eleventh and Tenth streets shall 
 he made from Eleventh street, a surplus of one foot being added 
 to each square: and that the measure of six hundred and fifty-two 
 feet being allowed to the lands below Ninth and Tenth streets; any 
 Burplns land thereafter remaining shall be placed in Tenth street. 
 
 '.). Be it fv/rther Ordained, That all locations between Eleventh 
 and Thirteen streets shall be made in conformity with those streets 
 as already located, and any surplus land found to exist between 
 those streets shall be equally divided between the squares. 
 
 4. Be if further Ordained, That all locations made between 
 Thirteenth street and the New Orleans shellroad, shall be made 
 from Thirteenth street, a surplus of one foot being added to each 
 square, and any excess of land thereafter remaining, shall be 
 placed in the last square at the termination of Canal Avenue. 
 
 5. Be it further Ordained, That the south corner of Canal Avenue 
 and First street, and the east corner of Canal Avenue and Eleventh 
 street, as said corners are 7iow located, shall be taken as fixing 
 the line of Canal Avenue. 
 
 \\ ORDINANCE DEDICATING CERTAIN LAND* TO PUBLIC USE. 
 
 Adopted May 15, 1861. 
 
 1. Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Councilofthe City of Carrollton, 
 That all that portion of square. 56 in Carrollton, purchased by the 
 Mayor and Council from Mrs. M. A. E. Hampson, by act passed 
 before C. C. Porter, Notary Public, on the 11th of June, 1860, be, 
 and the same is hereby appropriated and dedicated to public 
 use, as portions of Mary and Plum streets; say, that portion 
 from the upper part of the square to Mary street, and that portion 
 from the center of the square to Plum street. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That all that portion of square 38 in 
 Carrollton, purchased by the Mayor and Council from Michael Bock, 
 by act passed before C. C. Porter, Notary Public, on the 13th of 
 November, 1860, be, and the same is hereby appropriated and ded- 
 icated to public use, as portions of Short and Zimple streets; say, 
 that portion from the upper part of the square, to Short street; and 
 that portion from the center of the square, to Zimple street. 
 
 3. Be it fmthcr Ordained, That all that portion of square Sixteen, 
 in Carrollton, ceded and transferred by the N. 0. & C. R. R. Co., to 
 tli<) Mayor and Council, by act passed before C. C. Porter, Notary 
 
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 Public, on the 6th day of May, 1861, be, and the same is hereby 
 dedicated to public use, as part of Levee street. 
 
 4. Be it further Ordained, That the surveyor of Carrollton is 
 authorized and directed to fix the lines of the several streets 
 named, in the localities named, in conformity with the several acts 
 mentioned above. 
 
 A RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO MOVING DIRT FROM STREETS. 
 
 Adopted August 4, 1852. 
 Resolved, That the Commissary is hereby forbidden to move the 
 dirt or earth from one place to another, in the streets of this city, 
 unless previously instructed so to do by the Mayor and Council; 
 and when instructed or authorized by the Mayor and Council to 
 remove any dirt, it shall not be taken or cut down below the grade 
 of the street. 
 
 A RESOLUTION GRANTING TO THE JACKSON AND GREAT NORTHERN 
 RAILROAD COMPANY. THE RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH THE STREETS 
 OF CARROLLTON. 
 
 Adopted May 11, 1853. 
 Resolved, That the right of way through the streets of Carrollton 
 as designated by this map, * be, and is hereby granted; provided, 
 that the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad 
 Company will make the necessary culverts for draining the city, 
 as they may be required at times by the Mayor and Council of this 
 city; nor shall said railroad company extend their railroad nearer 
 to the river than 12th street, nor further towards the canal than 
 16th street. . 
 
 SECRETARY. 
 
 ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COUNCIL. 
 
 Adopted April 24, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That a suitable and discreet person shall 
 be appointed Secretary of the Council, whose duty it shall be to 
 attend on all its deliberations, and of such committees as from 
 time to time maybe appointed; to keep a correct account and 
 record of the deliberations of the Council, and enter the same in 
 a clear and correct manner on the journal; to perform all duties 
 that may be required of him by the Council, and carefully preserve 
 
 *A mnp delineating the route of the railrond through Carrollton, furnished by tbo Company 
 ww presented with the abovo resoluticn. ' 
 
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 in the archives thereof, all documents, records and papers, that may 
 belong- to the Council. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Secretay, within two days after any ordinance or resolution becomes 
 a law, to transmit a certified copy of the same to the officer whose 
 special duty it may be to carry the same i 1 1 1 • » effect; it shall like- 
 wise be his duty to write up the journal of the proceedings within 
 twenty- four hours after the adjournment of the Council, and not 
 to permit any report of committee or other paper, to be taken out 
 of the Council Chamber, that properly belongs to the archives of 
 the Council. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE RELATIVE TO SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF 
 
 COLOR. 
 
 Adopted June 26, 1861. 
 
 1. Beit Ordained, by the Mayor and Council of IhcCity of Carwllton, 
 That it shall not be lawful for 'any slave to lodge or sleep in any 
 house or premises other than that of his or her owner or master, 
 or that of his or her owner's agent, or of the person to whom he or 
 she may be hired, without special authority in writing to do so; 
 which authority or permit shall specify the length of time for which 
 it may be given. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, That all persons be, and are hereby 
 forbidden to let or hire by the month, week, day or any time, an}' 
 house, room, apartment, closet or place whatever, within the limits 
 of this city,, to any slave, even with the permission or authority 
 of his or her owner ov owners; and all persons are forbidden to hire 
 or employ any slave for any time without the consent of the owner. 
 
 3. Be it further Ordained, That it shall not be lawful for slaves 
 to assemble in any of the streets, roads, public squares, railroad 
 depots, markets, or in any house, cabaret, grocery or coffee-house, 
 or on the levee or batture, or on any vessel or boat, or any 
 other place whatsoever, in this city; provided, that nothing herein 
 contained shall be so construed as to prohibitslaves from assembling, 
 with their owner's consent, in a church, during the hours conse- 
 crated to divine service, nor from attending funerals; and provided, 
 it shall not apply to small parties of slaves seeking pleasure or 
 promenading on Sunday, with their owner's consent. 
 
 4. Be it further Ordained, That all slaves are forbidden to assemble 
 with free persons of color at any place whatever, and shall not be 
 permitted to attend anj r ball given by free persons of color, or 
 wherein such persons are admitted; and any free person of color 
 found assembling with slaves, or permitting slaves to mingle with 
 them in balls or elsewhere, shall be liable to a fine of $25 for each 
 offence. 
 
 5. Be it further Ordained, That all slaves, except the blind and 
 
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 infirm, are forbidden to be armed with a cane or stick; all slaves 
 are forbidden to fight, wres'tlc, quarrel, curse or sing obscene songs, 
 or in any wise to disturb the public peace, or to gamble or play 
 cards or games of any kind iu the streets, roads or other places, 
 or on the levee or lauding, or on vessels or boats moored at the 
 landing, or on the premises of any person, whether public or private. 
 G. Beit further Ordained, That all slaves are forbidden to travel 
 or take passage in any carriage, cab, or other public vehicle whatev- 
 er; in any steamboat, shin or other vessel, or craft whatsoever, with- 
 out the written permission of his or her owner or the owner's agent. 
 
 7. Be it further Ordained, That whenever the owner of one or 
 more slaves be desirous of permitting his or her slaves to give a 
 ball or dance at the dwelling or residence of such owner, it shall 
 be the duty of such owner to obtain a written or printed permit 
 to that effect from the Mayor; but said permit shall expire at 12 
 o'clock, P. M., and the owner shall have a white person present 
 at the ball or dance" to keep order, and to prevent the use of spir- 
 ituous liquors among the slaves present. 
 
 8. Be it further Ordained, That it shall not be lawful for any 
 slave to walk or appear on the streets, levee or public places of 
 this city intoxicated or drunk, and all slaves are forbidden to enter 
 any cabaret, grog-shop, grocery, coffee-house or other premises for 
 the purpose of drinking spirituous liquors, or for the purpose of 
 obtaining such liquors. 
 
 9. Be it further Ordained, That every slave found in contravention 
 of any of the foregoing articles of this ordinance, shall receive 
 not less than ten, nor more than twenty-five lashes for each offence, 
 unless his owner pays a fine of $5 for each offence; and if any free 
 person, white or colored, shall aid, abet or force any slave to a 
 contravention of any of said articles, such free person shall be 
 liable to a fine of $25 for each offence. It shall be the duty 
 of any police officer, and the right of any free person, white 
 or colored, to arrest any slave found in contravention of any of 
 said articles, and put such slave in jail to be dealt with according 
 to law. To make such arrests, all police officers and others are 
 authorized to enter such house or premises as may be necessary 
 It shall also be the duty of all police officers to file information 
 with the Attorney, of violations of this ordinance by free persons, 
 white or colored, that he ma}' prosecute them according to law. 
 
 10. Be it further Ordained, That every slave found on the levee, 
 or in the streets or highways, or public places within the limits of 
 this city after 8| o'clock, P. ML, from 22d September to 22d March, 
 and after 9J o'clock, P. M-, from 92d March to 21st September, 
 without a legal pass or permit specifying the time such slave ia 
 allowed to remain out after said hour, shall be arrested and locked 
 up in the police jail. If a of Carrollton, the owner shall 
 be notified by the officer making the arrest, early next morning. 
 to come forward, pay jail fees, and $1 to the officer who made the 
 arrest, and take his slave away; and the owner failing to comply 
 
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 with the notice before noon that day, the slave shall be treated as 
 B runaway. If the owner of a Blave arrested as aforesaid, during 
 tin- night, is a non-resident, the slave shall bo treated as a runaway 
 according to law. 
 
 11. Be it further Ordained, That all persons bringing into this 
 city, slaves from other States or territories, shall, within twenty-four 
 hours after their arrival in the city, make a declaration under oath 
 before a justice of the peace or other proper officer, and file the 
 same with the Mayor, of the number of Blaves brought by them, 
 their sex, name and age, the place from which they were brought, and 
 the name of the town or county where they last resided. Every 
 person shall be fined not less than slO for every slave brought into 
 the city in violation of the provisions of this section. 
 
 12. Beit further Ordained, That it shall be the duly of every free 
 person of color who may move or come into this city to reside, to 
 report himself or herself and family in detail to the Mayor, and 
 exhibit to him the proof or evidence of their right to reside in this 
 State; all of which shall be recorded by the Mayor, in a book kept 
 for that purpose. If any free person of color refuse or neglect to 
 comply with the provisions of this article, he or she shall be liable 
 to a fine of $10 for each day they may so neglect, and be arrested 
 for trial, on the charge of being in the State in contravention of 
 law. All hotel or boarding house keepers, or other persons harboring 
 or keeping in their houses or premises, renting houses to or 
 employing any free person of color being in the city in contraven- 
 tion of law, snail be fined not less than $25 for every offence. 
 
 13. Be it further Ordained, That it shall not be lawful for any 
 person to leave their house or premises entirely in charge and 
 possession of slaves for any time over twenty-four hours, and any 
 person violating this section shall be fined not less than $10 for 
 each offence, and the slave thus left in charge shall be arrested 
 and dealt with as a runaway. 
 
 SLAUGHTER HOUSES, &c. 
 
 ORDINANCE CONCERNING VENDORS OF FRESH MEAT, SLAUGHTER 
 HOUSES AND NUISANCES. 
 
 Adopted June is, 1845. 
 
 Articles 1, 2, and 3, repealecl.* 
 
 Art. 4. Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of every 
 butcher or other person, who shall slaughter, or cause any animal 
 to be slaughtered within the limits of this city, to do the same in 
 a slaughter house, and not in the open air; and it shall be his duty 
 to keep said slaughter house, and the lot in which il may be 
 situated, clean. 
 
 ♦Articles 1, 2 and .1, related to private stands of batchers, before the establishment of the 
 rnaiket, repealed Juno 2, 1848. 
 
 Articles 5 and 7, repealed August 7. 1861. 
 
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 AX ORDINANCE CONCERNING SLAUGHTER HOUSES, 
 
 Adopted January 21, L852. 
 
 Am'. 1. Ik it Ordained, Thai there shall be no slaughter houses 
 to slaughter beeves, calves, ho^s, sheep or other animals, in front of 
 Third street, below Adams street, and in fronl of Fifth street, above 
 Adams street: and any butcher or other person slaughtering any 
 beeves, calves, hogs, sheep or oilier animals, between said streets 
 and the river, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $10 for the 
 first offence, and $20 for any subsequent often 
 
 Art. ■_'. Be it further ', That it: shall be the duty of every 
 
 butcher or other person slaughtering animals, to kill the same by" 
 some sudden means, and to bleed them thoroughly immediately 
 after falling; and if any person shall slaughter any animal for 
 market immediately after being heated or infuriated by driving 
 or beating, or goading, he or they shall, upon co\ ictibn thereof, be 
 fined in a sum not less than $10 nor more than $50 for the first 
 offence, and one hundred dollai ■•■;> mbseqi ice; the 
 
 informer to receive one-half of the line. 
 
 Articles 3 and -1, repealed August .', ! 
 
 Art'. 5. Be it further Ordained, That, all persons are forbidden to 
 goad, beat, torment, worry with do ifuriate by any means, 
 
 any animal that is intended for slaughter or no ir in the streets, 
 
 yards, lots or houses in the limits of this city; and are forbidden 
 to blow up or inflate with air. n ■ be offered for sale in 
 
 the market of this city: and for each offence hall be liable to a 
 fine of §10, recoverable before nu\ iuct, one-half for 
 
 the informer, and the other half for the city. 
 
 8URVEYOK AND SUItVEYH. 
 
 ANORDINANI G THE OFFU OR AND DEFINING 
 
 TITE DUTIES OF TH V\ OFFK 
 
 ; \ a -list 6, 1845. 
 
 Articles I ai 561. 
 
 \i;r. 3. Be it further Ordained, Thar it shall hi the duty of the 
 Surveyor to give the lineatiou of ail Btreets, banquettes or .side- 
 walks, for all buildings that may be erected on the line ol any 
 street or road, and and. when called up m for thai 
 
 purpose; h< shall make all mi, and, superintend 
 
 the execution of all improvements and public works within the 
 limits of the city, which tin' ordi ribe; and b- 
 
 shall careful'; rve in his office all plats, maps ur pla 
 
 mates and specificati works projected < 
 
 nperintendence by order of said corporation, which will form the 
 
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 records of said department; they Bhall be the property of the cor- 
 poration, and shall at all times he accessible to the Mayor and 
 Councilmen, and they shall he transferred from time to time to the 
 custody of the incumbents of Baid office; he shall also keep a 
 book wherein shall be recorded the*quantity and valuation of all 
 paving and sidewalks done under his superintendence pursuant to 
 the city ordinances, exhibiting a pli ><\ the d 
 
 nation of the several lots of ground in front of which said paving 
 has been done, together with the number of yards, and the 
 proportion thereof chargeable to each l"i i f ground, which said 
 book and plans shall, in like manner, ho preserved as public records 
 belonging to said department, a I be open to th ction 
 
 of all persons interested, and shall he transferred (<> ilie custody 
 of the city Surveyor for the time being; and said Surveyor shall, 
 at the request of any individual, furnish certified extracts from 
 said hook, upon being paid by the person applying for the sa 
 
 Articles 1 and c, obsolete. 
 
 Art. 6. Be it further Ordained, That the Surveyor shall point out 
 to the citizens the place or places on the batture from whence they 
 may take batture, sand or earth, for the purpose of building- or 
 tilling- up lots or streets, within the limits of this city; and he 
 shall prescribe the manner in which the said sand or earth shall he 
 taken off the batture, also the quantity; he shall also give a permit 
 in writing- to all proper applicants for that purpose. 
 
 Art. 7. Be it further Ordained, That the Surveyor shall, as soon 
 as possible after entering upon the duties of his office, ascertain 
 the relative level of the surface of the city nexi to the river, 
 compared with that of the high water mark of the Mississippi; also, 
 compared with the level of the water in the Lake Fontchartrain 
 or New Canal, at its ordinary stage; also, the surface of the land 
 between the New Canal and the river, on a line running parallel to 
 the streets, leading from the river to the said New Canal, and shall 
 make profiles of the same, to the end that a regular and proper grade 
 may be established for the running of water toward the said canal; 
 and as soon as the grade and level of the streets is established, 
 he shall cause to be placed at the river end of each of said 
 streets, a permanent stone level mark, from wdieuce the grade of 
 the said streets may be commenced; and he shall enter on the 
 records of his office the relative level, and fall or grade of each 
 street. 
 
 RESOLUTION FIXING THE SURVEYOR'S ClIARGIJS. 
 
 Adopted '.pril 21, 1847. 
 
 Resolved, That from and after the passage hereof, the compensation 
 of the Surveyor, for giving the Hneation of lots of ground, when 
 
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 the numbei I ! does not exceed three hundred in any one survey, 
 
 shall be 1| cents per running foot, and for every foot exceeding- 
 three hundred feet, the sum of $ of a cent per foot. 
 
 IN ORDINANCE REQUIRING CERTAIN DUTIES OF THE SURVEYOR. 
 
 Adopted November 19, 1845. 
 
 Art. 1. Ik it Ordained, That previously to making' a general 
 plan of the city, it shall be the duty of the Surveyor, as soon as 
 possible, to proceed to mark the line of Fourth street at a right 
 angle with Canal Avenue; said Canal Avenue to be located by the 
 old existing boundaries, or first surveys; and in locating Fourth 
 street, he shall likewise be governed by the old existing boundaries 
 or first surveys, as far as practicable; he shall then ascertain 
 accurately the distance on Canal Avenue from First to Fourth street, 
 to the end, that if there be any more land than is called for by the 
 ■ veral acts of sale, and the width of the streets, the same may be 
 apportioned by the Council according to law; he shall also ascertain 
 the dimensions on the lower side of Fourth street, between the 
 lower and upper line of the city, tracing and marking the said 
 lower and upper line by the original boundaries; it shall be his duty 
 also to ascertain the exact measurement between Fourth and Levee 
 streets on the several streets running from the river, all of said 
 streets to be located according to the old boundaries or first surveys, 
 where they exist, and where they do not, he shall be governed by 
 the dimensions marked on the original plan of the city. The 
 existing buildings and fences on the lower side of Levee street, 
 where they occur on the corners, shall be the points from which 
 the last measurement shall be taken, in order that the Council may 
 fix definitely the line of said Levee street; he shall also, with the 
 least possible delay, prepare a plan of all that portion of the city 
 comprised between Fifth street and the river, with the dimensions 
 ascertained as above, distinctly marked thereon, and shall submit 
 the same to the Council. 
 
 RESOLUTION CONCERNING SURVEYOR'S REPORT, Sac ' 
 
 Adopted September 2, 1X40. 
 
 1. I ived. That tin; plan and rep.uu of Surveyor, made 
 
 agreeably to the ordinance I November 19, 1^45, specifying 
 
 •The Surveyor's report here alluded to, i- in r< latton 1" the duties required by the preceding 
 
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 • particularly the duties of the Surveyor, be, and the same are 
 
 hereby adopted, and that the said re; eluded in the minu: 
 
 and thai the recommendations of the Surveyor in regard to the 
 
 ition of th.' Btreeta and the disposition of the surplus land found 
 
 within the lines "i his survey, be, and the same are ueroby adopted, 
 
 and fixed as a standard for all future surveys in this city. 
 
 -. lie it further Resolved. Thai the Surveyor be and he is hereby 
 required to embody the Location of the street and th'' disposition 
 of the surplus land referred to in the foregoing resolution, in the 
 plan of this city, called for by Article 5 of th" ordinance, creating 
 tin- office of Surveyor, &c, adopted August •'>, 184i 
 
 REPORT ON SURVEYS, WITH RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 Ad • ptember 7. 1*49. 
 
 The Committee on Streets and Landings beg leave to report 
 
 upon the surveys of Oarrollton : 
 
 1. That the whole history of the surveys of the town shows tiiat 
 the original surveys of Zimpel, laying out the town, were exceed- 
 ingly defective and inconsistent with the dimensions given on the 
 map by which the town was laid out and sold, dated April 16, 1S33. 
 
 2. That the locations made by Zimpel himself at that time and 
 afterwards, show his recognition of error generally excessive in 
 
 surement, and that the excess which saidZimpefs surveys gave 
 in certain localities, have, in a large majority of localities, by sub- 
 sequent surveys been followed. 
 
 3. That the private map kept by Zimpel himself, of his surveys 
 in Oarrollton, has been before your Committee, and that said map 
 shows the excess found by Zimpel in his own surveys are not uni- 
 form, but the squares have double the excess above Canal Avenue, 
 that they have below between the streets parallel to the avenue. 
 
 '. Thai (rom April L6, 1833, to March 10, 1845, a period of 12 
 years, the surveys of the town have been made by a number of sur- 
 veyors, bavin icert with each other; some admitting, and 
 others not, an excess in each property; that after the incorpora- 
 tion of Oarrollton, and the election of a Surveyor, who alone 
 should make future surveys, an attempl was made to determine 
 thee:.' claimed by some, and denied by others, to exist; that 
 on the 2d day of September, 1846, the Council adopted a report 
 made by Heaton, Surveyor, based on certain measurements he had 
 mad' i nizing an excess of two feet in every double square of 
 the town above the Avenue, and pro rata for fractional squares 
 above ('anal .'■ mal Avenue this excess was not al. 
 
 lutiona were repealed July 26, 1848, but were revived by resolution September 
 
 ;. '■ - 1 ■ , and resolution on surveys. 
 
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 lowed unly in depth toward the swamp, while no excess was ad- 
 mitted at right angles to the avenue below it. 
 
 5. That this was the guide of the Surveyor up to July 26 1848 
 when, upon a report of Mithoff, Surveyor, the Council repealed the 
 ordinance of September 2, 1846, and adopted another in lieu there- 
 of, denying the existence of any excess, and requiring the surveyors 
 to make locations of lots and streets exactly in accordance with the 
 written lac ■ of the plan by Zimpel, of April 16, 1833; that this or- 
 draance was acted npon, and the streets, bridges, -utters and ban- 
 quettes as well as lots and sqii under this incum- 
 bent, and located from Canal Avenue as a basia withoui any ex- 
 cess; this presents the utmost confusion of locations, and has already 
 begun to produce law suits and contention among neighbors- that 
 from the resignation of Mithoff, February 23, 1849, to the 3d day 
 of May. the Surveyor, Heaton, made his locations giving an excess 
 though contrary to the existing ordinance known as Mithoff with- 
 out reviving the former or »f 1846; and thus we are without 
 any other guide than the Surveyor's option in the location of prop- 
 ■ y ' Btreets and public improvements; 
 
 6. That the public dissatisfaction is such as to justify and re- 
 quire ot the Council the promptest measures of settling thoroughly 
 the controversies as to surveys; and, in the opinion of this cornmit- 
 the expense will be cheerfully borne by the citizi 
 «. That, believing, as your committee do believe, after the 
 maturest reflection, that there can be no validity given to any sur- 
 vey made exparte under the orders of the Council, and that the 
 question of boundary con only be settled by a judgment of court 
 we recommend to the Council, at once to have the plan adopted 
 by the Council on the 2d of September, 1846, laid before the Dis- 
 trict Oourt, so as to be forever free from future disturbance. In 
 accordance with the above views, the committee pi Mow- 
 
 ing resolution : 
 
 Be if Resolved, That the -Mayor he, and he is hereby instructed to 
 jate the necessary steps to. have the plan of surveys adopted on 
 the 2d of September, 1846, homologated by the competent authori- 
 ty; and that in the meantime, the surveyor be and he is hereby re- 
 quired to make all surveys hereafter in a e therewith. 
 
 I . W. MUNCASTEE 
 B. MASON, 
 S. X. CANN< 
 
 ORDINANCETO provide FOR RECORDING PRIVILEGES LN] 
 
 Adopt* d July IT. 1860. 
 
 Tl L , .fi "' !' aril of the City of < 'arroUton 
 
 Lnat it is the duty of the At- • .,,,-,1 be js dereby 
 
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 directed, in accordance with Section IT of the Act to incorporate 
 
 the <"ity of Carroll ton, to cause to be recorded in the Mortgage Of 
 ficc of the Parisli of Jefferson, all tax bills which remain unpaid al 
 the end of the delay oi' 20 days, for answering as fixed by section 
 10 of said act; and to that end and for that purpose, it is hereby 
 made his duty to prepare a list showing the nami debtors, 
 
 the amount due by each, the year for which it is due, and the de- 
 scription of the property, as found on the bill, on which the tax 
 is due: which list shall be made and signed by him forthwith after 
 the expiration of said delay of 20 days and filed with the Recorder 
 in the least possible delay, in be entered on his books according t" 
 law. The Attorney shall take judgments by default against all 
 persons who have not answered, and then stay law pjoceedings, on 
 all unanswered tax suits until further orders of the Council, in 
 all answered suits he shall proceed according to law. 
 
 2. Be it further Ordained, Thixt all bills for paving or other work 
 done OB the streets and sidewalks and for which the front owners 
 are liable according to law, ami all bills for work lawfully done on 
 private property and for which the owner is liable, shall be record- 
 ed in the Mortgage Office by the Collector previous to being put in 
 the hands < if the Attorney for suit. 
 
 TARGET SHOOTING. 
 
 AX ORDINANCE CONCERNING TARGET SHOOTING. 
 
 Adopted July 29, 1846. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That all target shooting be and is 
 hereby prohibited within the limits of this corporation, under a 
 penalty of twenty dollars for each and every contravention hereof, 
 to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction, for the 
 use of the city, except where a good and sufficient protection or 
 shooting alley may be erected, and then on permission of the Coun- 
 cil only. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That any barricade, or protection, 
 in which musket or rifle target shooting may be permitted by the 
 Council, shall be made as follows: The bulkhead shall be at 
 least fourteen feet high and twenty feet wide, and of sufficient 
 thickness to prevent the passage of balls; the sides to be protected 
 by an oak plank fence, at least one and a half inches thick and 
 nine feet high, extended from the bulkhead to within ten feet of the 
 shooting stand, the whole to be well and securely made, and to be 
 approved of by the Council, before permission is granted for target 
 shooting thereon. 
 
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 TIMBER. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING A TAX ON TIMBER CUT DT ON THEBAT- 
 TURE, Ac 
 
 Adopted April 1, 1846. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, Thai from and after the promulgation 
 
 of this ordinance, all rafts now lying at the landing in front of the 
 incorporated limits of the City of Carrollton, and all that shall here- 
 after be landed within said limits, for the purpose of being conver- 
 ted into cord wood, shingles, pickets, laths, clapboards, &c.,onthe 
 batture on said front, shall pay a tax of three cents pin- tierfo/ 
 each and every tier of ash or other timber to he converted into cord 
 wood, and fiN for each and every tier of cypn or other 
 
 timber to be converted into lumber. * 
 
 Art. 2. Beit further Ordained, That all persons using the bat- 
 ture for the purpose of selling cord wood, shingles, laths, pickets, 
 clapboards, &c, in accordance with this ordin: II, in no case, 
 
 place obstructions at the terminations of the streets leading- to the 
 river. 
 
 Art. 3. Be ii further Ordained, That all persons bringing and 
 exposing for sale on the batture from the woods, or elsewhere, cord 
 wood, shall pay three cents for each and every cord so exposed. 
 
 Art. 4 repealed June 13, 1860. 
 
 Art. 5. Be it further Ordained, That it shall hi- tho duty of the 
 Commissary, immediately after the promulgation of this ordinance, 
 to take an account oi' all the timber and other objects now lying 
 within the limits of the front of the city, and all which may be 
 hereafter landed within the said limits and subject to the opera- 
 tion of this ordinance, and make return of the same to the Comp- 
 troller, whose duty it shall be to issue a receipt for the amount 
 of the tax imposed thereon, which, on being signed by the 
 Commissary and countersigned by the Comptroller, shall be collec- 
 ted by said Commissary, and paid into tho treasury within ten days 
 from the issuing- of said receipt. y 
 
 Art. 6. Beit farther Ordained, That any person or persons refus- 
 ing to pay the amount of tax imposed by this ordinance, within ten 
 days alter demand, shall be subject to a fine often dollars for each 
 every contravention 
 
 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING RAFTS 01 TIMBER, LUMBER AND WOOD. 
 
 Adopted July 24, 1861. 
 
 J . Be it Ordained by the Mayor a nd don nci! of the City of Cai r 
 That every raft of timber, lumber or wood lying at the landing oi 
 
 -.Ml ,-ificr ilir- word lumber In d" original ;irti< le l wot itrui k out ai>'i repealed Julj 
 
 tArtirio 5 was repealed by the operation of an ordinani f A] 'Hi 31 ,1862; bn1 waa re-tiutatof! 
 
 anil owndpil February '■'. ISiSS. 
 
on tlif ba 
 
 a tax of five dollars; allrt ing shall 
 
 : ail 
 
 rafts : of five 
 
 (•«■): ; aud all ! 
 
 ild at the lauding shall s of two 
 Id, and I very 
 '.I Bold : pn>\ : :1c shall a ap- 
 ply to Midi timber as may hav< icle 1 
 dinance concerning timbei • battan 
 
 i 
 2 Beit fur 
 
 te the landing ami to in- 
 
 terfere with hunts, ami it is hereby made Ins duty I i collect the 
 charges imposed by ai I icl • l , comptn 
 
 t timber taxes, from th< 
 of the raft, lu'i ->■ where the bill 
 
 is qoI paid withii tall place it in the 
 
 for suit. The Commie ■'! be re i] 
 
 e for and ■ ] i'i; 1 • - :1 in 
 
 tin- premi with the G emis- 
 
 sary iii the dif f bis dui >wn in this ordinance, ami 
 
 ry person who he hill a I within 
 
 . it is n II be liable I • n fine i each 
 
 ■ 
 
 Adopted i l . I. 1846. 
 
 ', That ii luty of tln-Tiv 
 
 of this city to i and other evidences of debl 
 
 due this corporation, and to k< ■• I of the same; be 
 
 lia.ll, <>n tlic demand * • t' the 
 Comptroller, exhibil to him such ad documents be- 
 
 longing to his office, as he ma;. Droasurer shall, every 
 
 three months, make a report to I acil of the amount 
 
 moneys, notes, and ob .- d during 
 
 that time, specifying the different sources of revenue from which 
 the same may h;.-. received, stating also the amounl of 
 
 ■ in dui in . for what purpo $c oi 
 
 ind shall dep 'fl with the Comp- 
 
 ler, who shall cancel and file them in his the Treasurer 
 
 ! acil, at its r< gular meetings, a - uccint I 
 at of the receipts and expenditures since its last regular 
 . showing the balance on hand at the time; uo money shall 
 aid by the Treasurer, in thorized by a resolution or ordi 
 
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 nance of the Council, drawn for by the President of the Council, 
 and certified by the Comptroller. 
 
 Art. 2. Be it furt/ier Ordained, That the Treasurer shall have 
 full power to institute suits in the name of the corporation, for the 
 recovery of all sums of money that may be due on the notes, or 
 other evidences of debt in his hands; and he shall be held respon- 
 sible for all deficiencies in the revenue from such sources from de- 
 lay in prosecuting for the same. 
 
 Art. 3 Be it further Ordained, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Treasurer, on the payment of any money into his hands from any 
 casual source, to make memorandum of the same, and after sign- 
 ing it, file said memorandum forthwith with the Comptroller. * 
 
 AN ORDINANCE COMBINING TIIE OFFICES OF TREASURER AND COL- 
 LECTOR. 
 
 Adopted April 21, 1852. 
 
 Art. 1. Be it Ordained, That the Treasurer of this city, in ad- 
 dition to his duties as such, shall perform the duties of Collector 
 of this city, agreeably to the ordinance concerning the office of 
 Collector, and shall give bond according to the ordinance in the 
 joint sum of that required for each separate office."]" . 
 
 Art. 2. Be it further Ordained, That the Treasurer and Collector 
 shall keep his office open and attend therein,! for the receipt and 
 expenditure of the funds of the city, and shall hold his books ready 
 for the inspection of any committee of the Council, the Mayor and 
 Comptroller. 
 
 SUPPLEMENTAL ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE TREASURER. 
 
 Adopted August 7, 1861. 
 
 1 . Be it urdaiited by t/ie Mayor a nd Council of the City of Carrotttun, 
 That the Treasurer shall keep the books prescribed and in the form 
 prescribed by the Comptroller and the chairman of the Finance 
 Committee of the Council, and nil books kept by him, including* his 
 check-book, bank-book, cash bonk and all returned checks and war- 
 rants and evidences of claim against the city, paid by him, and all 
 receipts taken by him, shall be at all times subject to the inspec 
 tion of the Mayor, the Comptroller and the chairman and members 
 of the Finance Committee of the Council. He shall cancel daily 
 all warrants and evidences of claim- against the city which shall 
 
 ' ; Artif !<• 4 rap Bled, nil tlr l1 pari Of article 2 allowing nttornry ton per cent nrnnml— Imi, r „ . 
 p<-dl<d August 7, 1861. v 
 
 +The amount of thro.- thomand dollars «ru Ikk- addad; bnt thin la rapercaded by ilio venrl» 
 Mtion of tho Council. 
 
 {TheoflW hour* on- now from in \ W. to 3 P.M. 
 
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 have been paid by turn, and shall weekly deposit all such paid war- 
 rants and evidences of claims with the Comptroller, to be entered 
 to the credit of the. Treasurer and hied as vouchers. He shall bal- 
 ance his accounts with the Comptroller as often as may be imposed 
 on him by tin; Council. He shall deposit the funds of the city, and 
 open and keep an account with such bank as the council may direct, 
 
 ^\ QRDINAN) i. RE-ENACTING CERTAIN ORDINANI 
 
 Adopted August 21, 1861. 
 
 Whereas, A new compilation and digest of the existing- ordinances, 
 resolutions and permanent orders of the City of Carrollton, has 
 been made by C. C. Porter, under the instruction of the Mayor and 
 Council of Carrollton, and has been submitted by him to the said 
 Vfayor and Council for examination; 
 
 And Whereas, The said Mayor and Council have enacted certain 
 amendments, alterations anil repeals, in relation to divers ordi- 
 nances, resolutions and orders, contained in said compilation, all 
 which amendments, alterations and repeals arc duly set forth in 
 the record of the proceeding-s of said Mayor and Council. Now, 
 therefore, 
 
 Beit Ordained, That the aforesaid compilation and digest of Or- 
 dinances, Resolutions and Permanent Orders, as revised, altered 
 and amended by said Mayor and Council, be and is hereby ap- 
 proved and adopted as a whole, and that all and singular 'the or- 
 dinances, resolutions and orders therein contained, be and the same 
 are hereby re-adopted and rc-affirmed; and further, that all ordi- 
 nances, resolutions or orders or parts thereof, that may be in con- 
 flict therewith, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
AN ORDINANCE TO GRANT THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR A STREET RAIL- 
 ROAD ON HAMPSON STREET, IN THE CITY OF CARROLLTON. 
 
 Adopted January 14, 1862. 
 
 Article 1. Be it Ordained, That the right of way and privilege 
 be and are hereby granted to Joseph Kaiser and his successors, to 
 lay a double-track railroad through Hampson street from Lower 
 Line Street to Dublin street, with the necessary turn-outs, switches 
 and turn-tables; and that said right of way and privilege are 
 grunted on the following terms and conditions: 
 
 Art. 2. The said railroad shall be commenced and completed 
 within two years from and after the passage of this Ordinance. 
 
 Art. 3. The said Joseph Kaiser shall be bound to cover the 
 slopes of the road on both sides of the double-track with ballast 
 or shells to a sufficient depth and to the width of three led, and 
 to make and maintain the same up to the level of the tracks' and 
 to keep the same in good order for the travel of vehicles. ' The 
 spaces between the tracks and within the rails of each track shall 
 be planked and made in the same manner as the railroad on Maga- 
 zine street, between Washington and Ninth streets, in the City of 
 New Orleans. Said planking to be kept in good and perfect order 
 for the travel of vehicles; and said Kaiser shall also be bound to 
 construct and keep in good order all the bridges necessary across 
 said street during the term of this privilege; the City of Carrollton 
 hereby reserving the right of ordering the said street, or any por- 
 tion thereof to be paved; and in such case, the said Kaiser shall be 
 bound to pave the spaces between the track and within the rails 
 and to the width of three feet on each side; and to keep and main- 
 tain such pavement in good order and repair during the form of 
 his privilege; and in the case of failure on the part of said Kai 
 to construct said road and bridges and keep the same in complete 
 repair, the City of Carrollton shall have the right to cause the 
 same to be constructed and repaired at the expense of said Kaiser 
 the cost of any such work to be recoverable before any courl of 
 competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Art. 4. The right of way through said Hampson Btreei being 
 granted for the continuation of the Prytania and Magasine street 
 lines of railroads through the City of Jefferson, connected by rail- 
 roads the right of way for which was granted by the Police Jury 
 Left Bank, of the Parish of Jefferson, by Ordinance passed Decem- 
 ber 2, 1861, the said Kaiser shall not use, nor allow to bo used 
 the railroads on said streets for any other line of nods than llic^e 
 herein mentioned. 
 
 Art. , f >. The said railroad shall be laid in the middle of the 
 street, and shall be constructed with the same pattern of rails and 
 with the .same guage as the street Railroads heretofore construcl 
 in the City of New Orleans; all materials used in the construction' 
 nd road shall beof the bes1 qualify, and the ti ' belaid 
 
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 in accordance with lines and levels given by the Surveyor of the 
 City of Carrollton, at the expense of said Kaiser. But the plan or 
 mode of construction and the specifications therefor, may be such 
 as said Kaiser may adopt, provided the same be in accordance 
 with the best customs, and approved by the Surveyor and the 
 Council. 
 
 Art. 6. The cars used on said railroad shall be of the same 
 style of construction as those used on the Street Railroads of New 
 Orleans, and shall be drawn only by horses or mules. They shall 
 be run at intervals of not more than thirty minutes from 5 o'clock 
 A. M., to 10 o'clock, P. M., and not more than 30 minutes from 10 
 o'clock, P. M., Vo 12 o'clock, at night All Cars running between 
 sundown and daylight shall be furnished with head and rear lights 
 of ample size, and set in conspicuous places; and for any violation 
 by the said Kaiser, or his successors, or by the officers or employ- 
 ees of said road, of this rule, or any other rule contained in this 
 Ordinance or in any other Ordinance hereafter enacted, said Kaiser 
 or his successors shall be liable to a fine of from ten dollars ($10) 
 to twenty-five dollars ($25) for each offence, recoverable before 
 any competent court, for the benefit of the City of Carrollton. 
 
 Art. 7. The fare on said railroad, between Dublin Street, in this 
 City, and Joseph Street shall not exceed five (5) cents per passen- 
 ger either way, for the first ten years; after the expiration of which 
 time tickets in packages of ten shall be issued to persons demand- 
 ing them, at the rate of three cents per ticket. 
 
 Art. 8. The said Kaiser shall furnish good and solvent security 
 in the sum of seven thousand dollars for commencement and com- 
 pletion of said road, and for the faithful observance of all the rules 
 and conditions contained in this Ordinance. 
 
 Art. 9. This privilege is granted to said Kaiser for the term of 
 twenty-five years, but with the understanding that it shall expire 
 on the same day with the privilege adjudicated to him by the City 
 of Jefferson, and granted to him by the Police Jury of the Parish 
 of Jefferson, Left Bank, each within its own limits. 
 
 Art. 10. At the expiration of the aforesaid term, the said rail- 
 road tracks shall pass to the ownership and possession of the City 
 of Carrollton, upon an appraisement made thereon by three compe- 
 tent and disinterested persons, one to be chosen by said Kaiser or 
 his successors, one by the Mayor and Council of Carrollton, and 
 the third by the other two; but in case of disagreement by those 
 two in the choice of the third, then cither or both of the first two 
 shall notify the district judge presiding in the Parish of Jefferson, 
 who shall appoint the third. The appraisement shall be based 
 upon the actual value of the materials and labor existing in the 
 tracks, and the amount of the appraisement shall be paid to said 
 Kaiser by the City of Carrollton in equal installments, in one, two 
 and three years, with interest at six per cent, per annum. 
 
 Art. 11. In case of the failure of said Kaiser either to com- 
 
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 mence or complete said railroad within the period herein prescribed 
 the Council shall have the right to annul the contract and privilege 
 herein granted, without putting said Kaiser or his successors'"., 
 default in the manner indicated in article 1,905 of the Civil Code 
 and without applying to a Court of Justice to annul the same and 
 without indemnity; and in case said Kaiser shall at any time aban- 
 don said work, or fail or refuse to furnish and complete the sara" 
 in conformity with this Ordinance and his contract, he shall forfeit 
 all claim for indemnity for the work done bvhim up to the date of 
 abandonment, and the City of Carrollto^ shall be discharged from 
 
 nnv nnrl nil linliilifir +1-./-,..,-.^.. 
 
 any and all liability therefor. 
 
 Adopted January 22, 1862. 
 Resolved, That the Streets and Landings Committee be and are 
 hereby empowered to direct the Commissary to open ditches 
 and build bridges when and where, in their opinion, it is necessary 
 
 AX ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE FIXING THE PRICES OF 
 
 LICENSES. 
 
 Adopted February 5, 1862. 
 r Beit Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Carroll! on 
 That Section 28 in Article 1 of "An Ordinance to establish a uni- 
 form rate of Licenses on Professions, Callings and other business, 
 and on public and private vehicles," adopted December 11, 18fil,' 
 be and the same is hereby amended so as to read : 
 Sec. 28. Every keeper of a Dairy shall pay $20. 
 
 Adopted February 19, 1862. 
 Be it Ordained, That the Council may, in their discretion, order 
 paved walks to be constructed in the middle of the banquettes'of any 
 street, in lieu of paving the entire width of the banquette, and In 
 such case said paved walks shall be no.t less than three feet wide, 
 and shall be laid not less than three feet from the line of the 
 ditches or gutters, and shall, in other respects, be constructed in 
 accordance with the first, second and third articles of the ordi- 
 nance concerning the construction of banquettes, adopted October 
 3d, 1849. 
 
o 
 
 GHABTEll 0£ THE 
 •til $i garoUtou. 
 
 Jfo 2 -AN -ACT 
 
 To amend an act entitled an act to in 
 corporate the city of Carrollton 
 approved March 17, 1859, and a< 
 supplementary thereto. 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by tin 
 Senate and House of Representatives 
 of the State of Louisiana in G-eneral 
 Assembly convened. That the hist 
 Bection of an act entitled an act 
 to incorporate fnfc city of Carrolltor 
 be and the same is hereby amended 
 ho as to read : 
 
 "Section 1. Be it enacted by tin 
 Senate and House of Representative oi 
 the State of Louisiana in General As- 
 sembly convened. That the territory 
 and inhabitants within the following 
 limits, to wit : Beginning at the Mis 
 sissippi river, on the present uppe] 
 line of the city of New Orleans, of tin 
 lower line of "Lowerline street, of Car- 
 rollton,. following tin u} p« r line of th< 
 city of New Orleans to the northeri 
 limit of the parish of Jefferson, ai < ! fch 
 boundry of said parish, with tin pari! 
 and city of Mew Orleans, to the la 
 bane road, thence along the centre • . 
 said road to the J* ississippi river, them c 
 f olio wing -4he river bank to the place 
 of beginning, shall be a corporate and 
 body politie, with perpetual succession, 
 by the name of the City of Carrollton." 
 Sec 2. Be it enacted, etc., That 
 section five of said act be and the stone 
 is so amended and re-enacted, as to 
 read : 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., 
 That the said Mayor and Council, when 
 duly organized, are empowered to or- 
 dain, establish and cause to be carried 
 into effect and execution all such by- 
 laws, ordinances, resolutions, rules and 
 regulations as they may deem expedient 
 for the good government of said cor- 
 poration which are not contrary to the 
 constitution of the State or the United 
 States. They are empowered and 
 authorized to levy and collect taxes 
 and charges in such manner as they 
 may deem expedient on all steamboats, 
 ships, flatboat, rafts, and watercraft oi 
 every description landing at the levee, 
 batture or wharves in front of said city ; 
 also upon all carriages, omnibuses, c 
 carts, drays, wagons, timber wheel and 
 every other vehicle of whatsoever kind 
 within said city. They are authorized 
 and empowered to lay and collect an 
 annual tax upon all kinds of property, 
 real or personal,and upon stores,trades, 
 
 as they may deem expeclient";pro 
 that in the imposition, assessment an " 
 collection of any of the said taxes o, 
 charges equality shall be observed, ant 
 that the imposition thereof is not con- 
 11 trary to law; and provided further, 
 ; a majority of all the member! 
 composing the Mayor and Council 
 » ■.( ,i i cur therein: They are empowered 
 to pass ordinances for the abatemerdj 
 of nuisances and the arrest of offenders? 
 and to dispose of vagrants. The pi 
 sent Mayor and Council are authorize^ 
 and empowered to fund the outstand- 
 ing debis'and obligations of the said 
 city of Carrollton, created for the 
 wharves, streets, gas and other im- 
 provements of said city, by issuing 
 bonds of said city in such sums as said 
 Council may deem advisable, running 
 for thirty years, with interest at eight 
 per cent, payable semi-annnally ; pro- 
 vided, that any ordinance porvidingfor 
 the issuance of bonds shall provide for 
 die payment of the principal and in- 
 terests' oi such bonds, by levying such 
 ..ni.ual tax as will provide a sufficient 
 sumto pay the interest of said bonjjjs 
 as the same may come due, and pro 
 Meed a sufficient sinning fund to meet 
 .tin principal at maturity ; and pro- 
 pitied further, that the Mayor shall 
 Loive the power to veto any ordinance 
 or lesoluuon, or any specific appro- 
 priation not required by the law of the 
 . tare, by giving in writing at or before 
 . e lirst regular meeting of the ( oun- 
 cil [hereafter, Ins reason against me 
 me, otherwise he shad sign all oft 
 uinances and resolution pi ■ in du«J 
 o.im by the Council; and such 
 .nance- and re; olution shalhthere- 
 :,. have the force of iaw : and jsix 
 members] members of the Council 
 volmg.ior any vetoed ordinance, r< 
 joiution or appropriation shall pasa 
 the same, the objection of the Mavot 
 notwithstanding. 
 
 Sec 3. Be it further enacted, etc., 
 That section ten of said act be and tin 
 same is amended and re-enacted so as 
 to read : 
 
 "Sec. 10. Beit i'urther enacted, etc. 
 That the roads, st rets, We< s, wharves 
 and public places and thorougbfai es in 
 said city shall be under the entire 
 •ontrol of said, Mayor and Council, ami 
 they may and shall pass such la\ *> and 
 ordinances for the regulation thereof 
 as they may deem expedient : pro- 
 vided, that no ordinances in relation 
 to those places or the levees shall in- 
 terfere with the rights of the public 
 
thereto, as laid down in the Civil Code 
 and laws of this State. They arehere- 
 by vested wiih the power to repair, 
 alter or enlarge said levees, and. il 
 < ssary for the safety of the inhabit- 
 ants, to make a new levee in front of 
 any part of said city, in such places and 
 manner as the exigency of the case, in 
 their discretion, may require, and two- 
 thirds of the said Mayor and Council 
 concurring, are empowered to levy and 
 collect a Bpecial fox on the Real Estah 
 and persona] property in said city to 
 pay all expenses and costs arising 
 therefrom. They are empowered to 
 curb, gutter, grade, pave, shell or plank 
 sidewalks, streets and public thorough- 
 i'ares,a])dThar-ethe front, owners on 
 snch places the one-half cost for side- 
 walks including curbs and gutters, and 
 one-hall qfthe whole costs for streets 
 except crossing; and to pay fortheoW 
 third of the whole costs fox streets, and • 
 the crossings and corners. They are 
 ■uthonzed and empowered to issue 
 
 I improvement bonds, running for ten 
 twenty or thirty years, bearingunterest 
 atnot exceeding eight per cent per 
 annum ; provided, that all improve- 
 ment of struts shall be done under 
 contract, upon terms to be made bythe 
 said Mayor and Council: and said 
 flavor ami Council are empowered to 
 make wharves, plant tie-post, and 
 regulate the port of said city, and also 
 to cause vacant Jots to he fenced and 
 failed up to the grade of the city, at the 
 expenses of the owners AvhoYi necessary." 
 Sec 4. Be it further enacted, etc., 
 ,, '; it ^e pesent Mayor and members 
 l! "" Council shall serve the term for 
 ^uch they weivt o respectively ; elect- 
 
 The above amended Charter wag 
 ed at the office of the Secretary, 
 of State, on the 12th of February, 1872, 
 md it having been presented to the 
 [governor of the State for his approval, 
 and not having been returned by him 
 to the House of the Gem ral Astembly 
 in which it originated within the time 
 prescribed ^y the constitution of the 
 State 1 of Louisiana, has become a law 
 without his approval. 
 
 
 *ttd provided further, that anyvacan- 
 eycausecl^y death, resignation, or other 
 wise the Governor shall have full 
 lower I o till said vacancy for the un- 
 expired ten,, of said office. 
 
 S&ned) O. H. BKEWSTER 
 Speaker of the House of Kopresenta- 
 
 (S^ed) P. n.s. PINCHBACK. 
 Lieutenant Governor and President 
 
 >I the Senate. 
 
 A true copy : 
 
 b. J. Hebron, 
 Secret: 
 
 AN ACT No. 28 
 
 To amend an act entitled an act to incorpo- 
 rate the city of Carrollton, approved March 
 17, 1859, and acts supplementary thereto. 
 Suction 1. Be it resolved bj the Seuate 
 | and House of Jtcprosentafives of Hie State 
 ofLonisiana in (General Assembly convened, 
 ['hat in addition to the duties already ioi 
 posed upon the mayor ofthe citv of Carroll- 
 ton. the .said mayor shall be ox-offlcin justice 
 ofthe ptiace,and vested with the same power*, 
 duties and jurisdiction as shall l><> a ,. 
 atof of the peace, and shall i scrciseaud per- 
 forui all the duties of committing magistrate 
 in and for the city of Carrollton, and impose 
 all penalties for violation of the city ordin- 
 ances of said city of Carrollton, the same as 
 are now vested in recorders ofthe i 
 New Oilcans. He shall receive a Kalarybi b\v« 
 thouaaud dollars per annum, payable niouthlj 
 on his own warrant, in lien of tics i,, criminal 
 eases as commit Ling magi^wte, and no foe* 
 shall be allow.,! in criminal proceedings 1.. 
 committing magistrate iu«aid city of Carroll- 
 ton. 
 
 Sec. 3. Beit further ena . rhai 
 
 the mayor shall, subject to the approval of 
 the Council of said city of (anollton, ap- 
 point one clerk ofthe court tor the term of 
 the oiliee of said mayor, as specified in section 
 three ofthisact, whoshall give bond, as the 
 Council may determine, tor the faithful 
 formanee of his duties. The salary of said 
 elerk shall be eighteen hundred dollars per 
 annum, payable by said city of Carrollton 
 monthly, on his own warrant. . Ele shall keep 
 proceedings of all the business of said 
 court, and a record of all criminal proceed- 
 ings as required by law, andin bookaprovided 
 by the city Council for that purpose. He 
 shad make weekly report of all fines imposed 
 and collected, and forfeiture of all bonds in 
 ciiminal proceedings. And all money re- 
 ceived shall be paid over by the mayor of 
 said city to the city treasurer each and even 
 week on snch day as the Council may deter 
 nun.-. The mayor of the city hhal keep his 
 office and hold his court in snch place 
 shall be provided by the City Council ofthe 
 city of Carrollton. Anditshall be thedutv 
 of an officer of the Metropolitan force to 
 attend upon the court during the examination 
 
 • d'all cases and i<> preserve order therein. 
 All arrests by tie- police in said city of Carroll- 
 ton shall be reported to the mayor. All 
 warrants for arrests issued by the mayor of 
 said city in criminal cases, for violation of 
 city ordinances, and all writs, subpoenas for 
 witnesses, notices of trials, etc,: in all casps 
 shall be executed j> m l .served bythe police of 
 said city. 
 
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