1822 - Edocs

sad &c. &c.
harves, kc. kc.
ihcers.
xtending or ai-
ring:
lorrow mone)
'roviso.
J oor, &c. &.C.
Taxeh.
Proviso.
Fines 8c forfeitures.
Negroes &. people
of colour.
Proviso.
Fines penalties 8tc
How recoverable,
so
States, to regulate the weight and quality of bread, to tax
and license hawkers and pedlars, to restrain or prohibit
tipling houses, and lotteries, to preserve the navigation of
the harbor, and bay adjoining the City, to erect, repair
and regulate public wharves, and to deepen docks and basins,
to provide for the establishment and superintendance
of public schools, to regulate and license ordinary keepers,
retailers and ferries, to provide for the appointment
of all such officers as may be necessary to execute the
laws of the corporation and to affix their compensation,
provided that no law or ordinance shall be passed granting
a salary, per diem allowance of fees, to the members
of the board of Aldermen, to open, extend, alter, regulate
and pave the streets within the limits of the said City,
and to remove all
therein— Provided,
old and decayed buildings
they make to the person or
or ruins
persons
who may be injured by such extension or alteration of the
streets or by the removal of such buildings or ruins, just
and adequate compensation out of the funds of the corporation
to be ascertained by the verdict of an impartial
jury, to be summoned for that purpose, to borrow money
for the use of the city— provided the sum borrowed shall
not in any year exceed five thousand dollars, nor a greater
rate of annual interest be paid therefor than six pet
cent, to provide for the support of the poor, infirm, diseased
and insane of the City, to lay and impose taxes and
provide for the collection thereof— provided that no ta>:
shall be imposed on real property in the City, at any
higher rate than three quarters of one per centum on the
assessment valuation of such property, to impose and
appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for breach of
their ordinances, to restrain and punish offences committed
by negroes and people of colour, and to pass all ordinances
necessary to give effect and operation to all the
powers vested in the corporation— provided that the byelaws
or ordinances of the corporation shall be in no wiseobligatory
upon the persons of non-residents of said City,
unless in cases of intentional violations of the bye-laws or
ordinances previously promulgated, and provided further
that no law or ordinance shall be passed by said corporation
repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United
States or the laws of this Territory.
7. Be it further enacted* That, all fines, penalties, for-
feitures and taxes imposed by the corporation if not exceeding
twenty dollars shall be recoverable before a
single justice of the peace, and if such fines penalties oi
forfeitures exceed the sum oi twenty dollars, the sanv
shall be recoverable by action of debt before any court oi
record in the county of Escambia in the tame of the co? •
^oration and for the use of the City, and if the person o