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An Act to amend and alter the Charter of the City of Columbus. 1865-1866 273 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0566 and id is 1 raw text is: PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS-CITIES AND TOWNS. '27 Columbus. place of them, the words one thousand dollars, so that the May- or and City Council shall, and will be authorized, to charge a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, for a license to retail spirituous liquors. SEC. III. That all able bodied male pers6ns. between the ages of sixteen and forty-five years, residing within the corporate limits of the city of Brunswick, shall be liable to work, not to exceed fifteen red towork days in each year, on the streets, public squares, and drains, in said city, and the Mayor and Council thereof, shall have power to inflict fines, not to exceed two dollars per day, on all persons so liable to work, who shall fail, or refuse, to perform such duty when Eraror required to doso by the Mayor and Council of said city, which finesfailure. may be collected by execution, under the hand and seal of the Feah Treasurer of said city, unless the person so fined can render a good and sufficient excuse for the-non-performance of the duties required of him by this Act. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved 6th March, 1866. (No. 292.) An Act to amend and alter the Charter of the city of Columbus. SEC. I. The Mayor and Council of the city of Columbus are hereby vested with full power and authority to make such assess- ments -and lay such taxes on the inhabitants of said city, both black and white,, and those who hold taxable property within the same, and those who transact or offer to transact any kind of busi- ness or to do any kind of labor therein, as said cot porate authorities Power oftax. may deem expedient for the safety, benefit, convenience and advan-mon. tage of said city, and may enforce the payment of suc;h assessments and taxes, in such manner as said Mayor and Council may pre- scribe: Besides real and personal property, the said Mayor and Council may tax capital invested in said city stocks in money, cor- porations, choses in action, income and commissions derived from the pursuit of any profession, faculty, trade or calling, dividends, bank, insurance, express and other agencies, and all other property ,or sources of profit not expressly prohibited or exempt by State law or competent authority of the United States. SEC. 11. They are also heieby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to charge such rates of wharfage upon goods delivered at the citynRatesof wharf or upon the river bank within the corporate limits of said where. city, and postduties upon steamboats, barges and boxes for carry-Poset dntle ing freight, arriving or leaving said city, as said corporate authori-Va2iep;ses, ties may deem expedient- for the safety, benefit, convenience and advantage of said city, and may enforce the payment of such as- sessments, duties and tolls,in such manner as said Mayor an'd Coun- cil may prescribe. 18

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