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An Act to authorize the chairman and commissioners of the town of Louisville, to tax free persons of color, retailers of spirituous liquors, billiard tables, ten pin allies [sic], showmen itinerant traders, hawkers, peddlers, etc., to impose a tax upon citizens of the town; to sell whole or parts of streets; to prescribe the time of holding elections for Chairman and Commissioners of the town and in the event of there being no election, to authorize the old Board to continue in office, and to give them municipal authority over the Academy building in said town, to alter and amend an act to incorporate the town of Waresborough. 1859 182 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0497 and id is 1 raw text is: 182 LOOAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.-4mBS AND TOWNS. Louisville. # LOUISVILLE. SEC. 1. Chairman and Commissioners au* thorized to imposo a tax on all free negroes &c. In said town, not to exceed $100, to be collect. ed by execution, under which the negroes may be sold. t 9. Power to grant license vested in Chairman and Commissioners, 11 conse not to exceed $50, 3. Chairman and Conmissioners may impose tax on Billiard Tables. &c., in said town. 4. Also to tax nil showmen, traders. &e., in said town, not to exceed twenty-five dollars per day. 5. All property in sanid town made liable to be taxed, not to exceed I of 1 per cent, proviso. 0 6. Chairman and Commissioners may sell all useless streets, &c., in said town. SEC. 7. Election for 5 Commissioners to be held on 3d Saturday in Janu- ry in each year, in case of failure to elect on that day. new election to be held on 3d Saturday in Feb. next thereafter, &c. 8. Chairman and Commissioners im- powered to pass all ordinances no. cessary for the protection of the Academy Building, punishments for defacing it, &c. 9. Persons retailing without license liable to flue, not exceeding $100. 10. 4th section of Act incorporating town of Waresborough repealed. 11. Latter clause of 1tth sectiou of said Act repealed. 12. All oflicial acts &c., of council of said town made valid. (No. 196.) An Act to authorizc the chairman und commissioners of the town of Louis- ville#, to tax free pcrsons of color, retailers of spirituous liquors, bliard tables, ten pin allics, showzomen itincrant traders, hawkers, pcddlers, <je., to impose a tax upon citizens of the town; to sell whole or parts of strcets; to prescribe the time of holding clections for Chairman and Com- missioners of the town and in the event of there being no clection, to au- thorize the old Board to continue in ofice, and to give them municipal authority over the Acadeny building in said town, to alter and awnd an act to incorporate the town of Waresborough. Orwaremboro 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted, <j., That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the chairman and com- a',*,se.otiiromissioners of the town of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson, to ithomplt oimpose and collect an annual tax upon all free negroes or free per- ao,'.f ne;;sons of color, living or working within the corporate limits of said uld town. town, of whatever age or sex, in such amount as may, by them, Not toexcemd Seeu proper, not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars up)on iixcee. each and every of said free negroes or free persons of color, so liv- ing or working within the corporate limits of said town ; and upon the refusal or fhilure of any such free negro or free person or color, ro li rolle.to pay the tax thus imposed; then an execution to issue as may be td byexlou'. directed by said chairman and commissioners, and such free negroes tnder whih Or frCe persons of color, to be levied on and sold at the place of pub- the negroe. ,nay s l ic sales in said town for such tie as will be requi-ed to pay said tax. Pow fenno 2. EC.II. And be itfurther enacted, That the authority to li- InCilieu U cense the retailing of any, and all kinds of spirituous liquors, with- coi'r in the corporate limits of said town, be and is hereby vested in the *For Acts in relation to Lauisville prior to 1851, sae Cobb's Digest 1178, Chairman and Commissioners authorized to sell streets, &c., l8a., pain. 250.

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