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1851-1-2
SEC. 2. That for the purposes of organization and taxation the
bounds of said corporation shall extend only one hundred and
thirty-two feet south of South street, and to a line parallel to the same,
and to a line, parallel with and three hundred feet west of Water street.
The territory within said bounds shall be divided into five wards, by
lines running through said corporation, east and west, parallel with the
centres of Washington, Jackson, Brown and Gaines streets: the territory
south of Washington street shall constitute the first ward: from thence
to Jackson street the second ward: from thence to Brown street the third
ward: from thence to Gaines street the fourth ward: and from thence to
the north line of the corporation the fifth ward: Provided, That
whenever the mayor and council may deem it necessary, they may alter
or increase the number thereof.
1851-1-3
SEC. 3. There shall be an election holden in the court house in
Vernon on the second Monday of March, 1851, and annually thereafter,
for the purpose of electing a mayor, one councilman for each ward,
who shall be a resident therein, a recorder, a marshal, an assessor, a
treasurer, and a street commissioner for said corporation, who shall
respectively hold their offices for one year, and a until their successors
are elected and qualified, at which election each person having the
qualifications to vote for state and county officers and shall have
resided within the bounds of said corporation, for three months next
preceding any election shall be entitled to vote at the same.
1851-1-4
SEC. 4. The mayor and council shall cause ten days previous notice
of any election by publishing the same in some newspaper printed in
said town, or by putting up written notices at some public place in each
ward, designating the time and place of such election: the mayor,
councilmen and assessor shall be qualified voters and resident
free-holders within the wards of said corporation.
1851-1-5
SEC. 5. The councilman of the first ward shall, if present, be the
inspector of elections, and in his absence either of the other councilmen
may be inspector, who shall call to his assistance two qualified voters,
who shall be judges of said election, and they shall appoint two clerks,
and after having been sworn or affirmed faithfully to discharge their
duties, (which oath or affirmation may be administered by the inspector
to the judges and clerks and by one of the judges to the inspector,) they
shall proceed to receive votes, between the hours of 11 o'clock A.M.
and 4 o'clock P.M. And it shall be the duty of the inspector and judges
of said election to certify under their hands and seals to the persons
who receive the highest number of votes together with the offices to
which they were severally elected, which certificates shall be delivered
to the recorder to be by him filed and recorded and whose duty it shall
be to give to each person so elected a certificate of his election: in case
there be a tie between any persons at said election the result shall be
determined by lot to be drawn by the judges.
1851-1-6
SEC. 6. For the purpose of conducting the first election it is hereby
made the duty of the auditor of Jennings county to give the notice
required by this act, and the inspector shall be elected by the qualified
voters who may be present at the time of opening the polls, who may
call to his assistance such officers as may be necessary to constitute the
board. Said board shall in all respects, in regard to said election, be
governed by the preceding articles, and shall forthwith give to each
person elected a certificate of the same under their hands and seals.
1851-1-7
SEC. 7. Should there be a vacancy in the office of mayor, the
council shall immediately order an election to fill such vacancy and
give notice of the same. The mayor and council are authorized to fill by
appointment any vacancy which may happen in any of the other offices
until the next annual election.
1851-1-8
SEC. 8. The officers elected as above shall meet within ten days
after such election, and take an oath, faithfully, diligently, and
impartially to discharge their respective duties as such officers : and the
mayor, marshal, treasurer, and street commissioner, shall each enter
into bond with surety to be approved by the council, in such sums as
they shall direct, for the faithful performance of their duties and for the
proper application of all moneys which may come into their hands as
such officers, upon which bonds suits may be brought for the use of the
corporation or any person or persons aggrieved.
1851-1-9
(Amended by Acts 1873, c. 103, s.1.)
1851-1-10
SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the mayor to preside at the meetings
of the council and in case of a tie to give the casting vote, and in his
absence the council shall elect a president pro tem. of their own
number, to sign all laws, ordinances and decrees of a public nature,
also to sign all the by-laws and minutes of their proceedings. The
mayor shall exercise all the powers and duties of a justice of the peace
of Jennings county, both in civil and criminal cases, and he shall be
governed in the exercise of these duties in all respects by the laws of
the state regulating the duties and jurisdiction of justices of the peace.
He shall also have cognizance and jurisdiction of all violations of the
ordinances of the corporation and upon his own knowledge or upon
complaint made upon oath by any competent witness that any person
has violated any ordinance it shall be his duty to institute an action of
debt in the name of the corporation against the person accused of such
violation by issuing his warrant directed to the marshal commanding
him to bring such person before him to answer such accusation or
complaint, and if the charge shall be sustained by competent testimony
he shall render judgment against the defendant for the sum prescribed
in the ordinances of the corporation for such violation with costs, and
from such judgment an appeal may be had to the circuit court of said
county, or execution may be stayed for sixty days; and all executions
when issued shall be returnable in thirty days, and in these proceedings,
and in all other proceedings necessary to enforce such judgment the
mayor shall be governed by the laws of the state regulating the
jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace in criminal cases, and
the marshal shall be governed by the laws regulating the duties of
constables in similar cases, with the exceptions herein expressed.
1851-1-11
SEC. 11. During the absence or disability of the mayor, or in case
of a vacancy in the office of mayor, any justice of the peace of said
town may perform his judicial duties.
1851-1-12
SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the marshal to suppress all riots,
disturbances, and breaches of the peace, and to apprehend all riotous
and disorderly persons or disturbers of the peace, and forthwith convey
them before the mayor ; and, in case of resistance, it shall be lawful for
him to command the aid of any bystanders in apprehending and
conveying such offender to the mayor's office, and it shall be the duty
of the mayor forthwith to hear and determine such complaint; or the
marshal shall be authorized to arrest and commit to the jail of the
county any person or persons who may be disturbing the peace of the
town, and who shall refuse to desist from such disturbance at his
request or command; but such imprisonment shall not exceed in
duration, at any one time, more than twelve hours. It shall be the duty
of the marshal to receive and execute all process issued by the mayor,
and he shall have all the authority of a constable, and shall be governed
in his official acts by the laws of the state regulating the duties of
constables, and shall have a right to charge and collect the same fees
as are allowed to constables for similar services.
1851-1-13
SEC. 13. The recorder shall attend all meetings of the council, and
keep a record of their proceedings in a book kept for that purpose; enter
in said book all laws and ordinances passed by said council, and attest
the same; draw warrants on the treasurer for allowances made by the
council, and enter them immediately in a book to be kept for that
purpose; and perform such other duties as may be required of him by
the mayor and council.
1851-1-14
SEC. 14. The mayor and council shall make such allowances to the
assessor, recorder, treasurer, and any other officers they may appoint,
as to them shall appear just and reasonable.
1851-1-15
SEC. 15. The mayor and council shall be allowed the use of the jail
of Jennings county for the confinement of all such persons as shall be
liable to imprisonment, and all persons so imprisoned shall be in
charge of the keeper of said jail until discharged by due course of law.
1851-1-16
SEC. 16. All bonds given to the corporation, all contracts entered
into with the corporation, and all suits for or against the corporation,
shall be in the name of the town of Vernon.
1851-1-17
SEC. 17. The mayor and council may adopt such by-laws and
regulations for their own government, and impose such fine upon
members for a breach of the same as they may deem advisable, and a
majority of all the council elect may expel a member for disorderly or
improper conduct.
1851-1-18
SEC. 18. The mayor and council shall have power to levy and
collect, annually, from each male inhabitant of the corporation between
the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, a poll tax not exceeding one
dollar, and on real estate a tax not exceeding one per centum on its
valuation, and also on personal property, not exceeding one-third of
one per centum, for the use of the corporation: Provided, that no poll
tax shall be levied so long as the state law authorizes a levy for road
purposes upon polls.
1851-1-19
SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of the assessor, annually, in the month
of April, to call upon each and every person residing within the taxable
part of said corporation, for a list of his, her, or their real and personal
property within the same, the value of which he shall enter in his
assessment roll, opposite the name of the owner or person liable to be
taxed, designating in separate columns the value of the real estate, with
its appropriate description, and the aggregate value of each person's
personal property, the whole to be valued at a fair cash valuation. And
for the purpose of ascertaining the value of lands, lots or parts of lots,
with their improvements, the assessor shall, in the year 1851, and
biennially thereafter, call to his assistance two discreet resident
freeholders, who, after being sworn faithfully and impartially to
discharge their duties as such, shall, with said assessor, proceed to
value the same. And should any person neglect or refuse to give in the
value of his personal property, or the property in his possession liable
to be taxed, when so called on, the assessor shall estimate the value
thereof from the best information he can obtain, which shall be
conclusive against all residents; and when he cannot obtain the name
of the owner of any property, he shall enter the same on his book as
unknown. And said assessor shall, on or before the first Monday in
May, make return of his assessment roll to the recorder of said
corporation, which shall be a lien upon the property so assessed for the
tax of the current year, from and after the first Monday of April, until
paid.
1851-1-27
SEC. 27. The recorder shall be entitled to one dollar for making a
deed on a sale for taxes, and shall acknowledge said deed before some
person authorized to take such acknowledgment.
1851-1-28
SEC. 28. Whenever the owners of lots on any street or part of a
street not less than one block or square, shall be desirous of improving
the same by graveling or paving said street, or the side-walks thereof,
or any other improvement on said street or side-walk, the resident
owners of lots on said street or section of a street representing more
than one-half the number of feet of lots on both sides of the same, or
more than one-half of the whole number of feet on one side of any
side-walk, shall, by petition sent to the mayor and council, represent the
improvement desired, the mayor and council shall order such
improvement made under the direction of the street commissioner,
upon the best and most economical plan, and the owners of property
adjoining said improvement shall have a right to work out their share
of said improvement on said street or side-walk, if done within a
reasonable time, to be fixed by said council: Provided, That the council
may when, in their opinion, the public good may require it, cause any
such improvement to be made without petition, and assess the expenses
in the manner above stated, or may pay the whole or part thereof out of
the treasury of the corporation, as the case may require.
1851-1-29
SEC. 29. After the time limited in the foregoing section, the street
commissioners shall proceed forthwith to complete such improvement,
and make report to the recorder of all those who have made their share
of the improvement, and the amount expended to complete the
remainder. And it shall be the duty of the recorder to make out a list of
the delinquents, with the number of feet owned by each, to which shall
be added their respective proportions of said deficiency, according to
the number of feet owned, and which list, signed by the mayor and
attested by the recorder, shall be sufficient authority for the marshal to
collect the same. And if the owner of any such property shall fail to pay
such assessment within sixty days, the marshal shall collect the same
by sale of said property, or so much thereof as will pay the amount due
thereon, with costs, which the marshal is hereby authorized to tax at
five per cent. on each sum so collected.
1851-1-30
SEC. 30. In making such sale, the marshal and recorder shall be
governed in all respects by the sections in the preceding part of this act
providing for the sale of lots or lands for the collection of taxes, and all
the rights and privileges there granted to owners or purchasers are
hereby extended to all sales under this act.
1851-1-31
SEC. 31. All lands or lots which shall remain unsold for the want of
bidders, or any other cause, shall be re-offered by the marshal at any
time when so directed by the council, and to the amount due shall be
added twenty-five cents on each piece for advertising.
1851-1-32
SEC. 32. All moneys arising from taxes, fines, licenses, and other
sources, accruing under the regulations of said corporation, shall be
paid over to the treasurer, who shall give duplicate receipts for the
same, one of which shall be filed with the recorder, who will enter the
same in his register of receipts; and no moneys will be paid out by said
treasurer but by order of the mayor and council, certified by the
recorder.
1851-1-33
SEC. 33. The territory included within the bounds of said
corporation shall constitute one of the road districts of Vernon
township, which shall be under the control of the mayor and council,
to be worked by the street commissioner, who is hereby invested with
all the authority and immunities of a supervisor of roads, and shall be
subject to the same liabilities for neglect of duty; and it shall be the
duty of the auditor of Jennings county, annually, to deliver to said street
commissioner a list of hands and taxes assessed for road purposes in
said district, in like manner as he does to supervisors of roads, and the
said street commissioner shall work out the same and make like report
to the auditor as is required of supervisors.
1851-1-34
SEC. 34. It shall not be lawful to exhibit for gain, within the
corporation, or within one half mile of the limits thereof, any animal,
wax figure, or other natural or artificial curiosity, or any feats of
horsemanship, circus riding, rope or wire dancing, legerdemain,
ventriloquism, or other amusement, without first obtaining a license
from the treasurer, for which they shall pay not less than two, nor more
than twenty dollars, for each exhibition of such show, as shall be
directed by the mayor and council; and if any person shall violate the
provisions of this section, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay
a penalty of not less than five, nor more than forty dollars for such
violation, for the benefit of the corporation, to be recovered in an action
of debt.
1851-39-1
SEC. 1. That so much of the 5th section of the act above recited,
which requires the treasurer's bond to be acknowledged in the Putnam
circuit court be and the same is hereby repealed, and that in future such
acknowledgment shall be before the Marion county circuit court.
1851-92-1
SEC. 1. That the president and trustees under the provisions of this
act, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be a body politic and
corporate, by the name and style of "the President and Trustees of the
Town of Valparaiso;" and by that name and style shall be able and
capable in law and equity, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court of
competent jurisdiction; to make, use, and have, a common seal, and the
same to break, alter and renew, at pleasure; to ordain, order, establish,
and put in execution, such by-laws and rules as they shall deem proper
and necessary for the good government of said town, subject to the
restrictions and limitations hereafter provided, and not inconsistent
with the laws and constitution of this State.
1851-92-2
SEC. 2. The qualified voters of said town shall on the first Monday
in March, A. D. 1851, proceed to elect one president, five trustees, one
marshal, and one lister, for said town, for the year next ensuing
thereafter; and this act shall be deemed and taken a sufficient notice of
the time of holding said election, which said election shall be held at
the court house in said town; O. Dunham and Samuel S. Skinner, of
said town, are hereby appointed inspectors of said election. They shall
call to their assistance one other qualified elector of said town, who,
with themselves, shall be judges of said election. They shall appoint a
clerk, and after having taken an oath faithfully to discharge their duties
as judges and clerk, shall proceed to receive votes for president,
trustees, marshal and lister, between the hours of ten o'clock A. M., and
four o'clock P. M., on said day; in case of the death, resignation, or
refusal to serve, of one or both of the above named inspectors, and
judges of said electon, his or their vacancies may be supplied by a viva
voce vote of the qualified voters of said town, provided ten voters are
present.
1851-92-3
SEC. 3. On the first Monday in March, annually, there shall be an
election held at the court house, to elect by ballot, one president, five
trustees, one marshal, and one lister, at which election all free white
male citizens of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall
have lived in the State one year, and in said town three months next
preceding said election, shall be allowed to vote.
1851-92-5
SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the judges of such election, to certify
under their hands and seals the names of the persons who received the
highest number of votes for the several offices, which certificate shall
be filed, and put upon record by the clerk of the corporation, whose
duty it shall be to deliver a copy thereof to each of the officers so
elected; which certificate shall be sufficient authority for such person
to act as such officer.
1851-92-6
SEC. 6. The president and trustees elected under this act, shall meet
on the second Monday in March, and after having taken an oath
faithfully and impartially to discharge their respective duties, shall
organize, and shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be called
the clerk of the town of Valparaiso, a treasurer, attorney, street
commissioner, and such other officers as they may deem necessary, to
carry out the powers vested in them by this act.
1851-92-7
SEC. 7. The president and trustees shall constitute the common
council of the town of Valparaiso; the president shall preside at all
meetings of the common council, and shall perform all other duties
enjoined on him by law. He shall have no vote unless the common
council be equally divided, when he shall give the casting vote; four
trustees, or the president and three trustees shall constitute a quorum
to transact all business, and in the absence of the president, the said
common council shall appoint one of their own body to act as
president, pro tempore; and any vacancy in the office of president,
trustee, marshal or lister, shall be filled by appointment by the common
council, until the next annual election.
1851-92-8
SEC. 8. All officers elected under this act, shall hold their office for
the term of one year from and after the second Monday in March next
after their election, and until their successors are duly elected and
qualified, and all officers appointed by the common council, except to
fill vacancies in the office of president, trustee, marshal or lister, shall
be removable at their pleasure, and no person shall be elected or
appointed to any office unless he be a qualified voter of said town.
1851-92-9
SEC. 9. The lister, marshal and treasurer, shall each execute a bond
payable to the president and trustees of the town of Valparaiso, with
security to be approved by the common council, in such penalty as
shall be by said common council determined; the conditions of the
bonds for the lister, marshal, and treasurer, shall be for the faithful
discharge of their duties as such, and for rendering a faithful account
of all monies coming to their hands, by virtue of their offices, and for
the faithful payment of the same over to the common council or when
required by them, to their order; and every officer elected or appointed
under this act, except attorney, shall be required to take an oath before
some competent authority.
1851-92-10
SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the president to sign all laws,
ordinances and decrees of a public nature, and also to sign the records
of all the by-laws, and journals or minutes of the proceedings of the
common council.
1851-92-11
SEC. 11. The common council shall hold stated meetings at such
times and places as they shall appoint, and may hold special meetings
whenever called together by the president. They shall determine the
amount of compensation to be paid to all officers; they shall have
power to assess and collect a tax annually on real property, not to
exceed one-half per cent. on its valuation, including improvements on
such property, or any specified article or articles of personal property,
a poll tax on each qualified voter not exceeding fifty cents each, and on
all shows and exhibitions; the corporation may in addition to the above
tax, levy and collect on real property a tax not exceeding one-half per
cent. on its valuation, including improvements, for the purpose of
purchasing a fire engine.
1851-92-12
SEC. 12. The common council shall have power to pass such laws,
ordinances or decrees, as may be necessary to guard against damages
by fire, to organize fire companies, and govern the same, to regulate the
duty and conduct of the citizens of the town in relation thereto; to
regulate and govern markets; to prevent the erection of nuisances, and
to remove the same, and generally to enfore, by proper penalties, or
ordinances relative to the police, and government of said incorporated
town.
1851-92-13
1851-92-14
SEC. 14. The common council shall also have power to adopt, and
enforce, by proper penalties, public ordinances, for the following
purposes:
First, To prevent and punish forestaling and regrating, and to
prevent and restrain every kind of fraudulent device and practice.
Second, To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gaming and
fraudulent devices in said town.
Third, To prohibit the sale of any spirituous liquors by less quantity
than a quart at a time, to be drunk in the store, shop, grocery, house,
out-house, garden or yard, owned or occupied by the person selling the
same, unless licensed so to do, according to the laws in force at the
time; and to prohibit the selling or giving away of any intoxicating
liquors to any child, apprentice or servant, without the consent of his
or her parent or guardian, master or mistress, or to any Indian.
Fourth, To regulate or prohibit the exhibitions of common
showmen, and of shows of every kind, or the exhibition of natural or
artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, theatres, concerts, or feats of
legerdemain, horsemanship, tumbling, and vaulting, rope or wire
dancing, or ventriloquism.
Fifth, To prevent and punish any riot, noise, disturbance or
disorderly assemblages, to suppress and restrain disorderly houses, and
groceries, houses of ill fame, billiard tables, and ball alleys, and to
authorize the demolition and destruction of all instruments and fixtures
used or kept for the purpose of gaming.
Sixth, To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar,
tallow chandler's shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, barn, privy, sewer,
or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove
or abate the same from time to time, as often as may be necessary for
the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of said town.
Seventh, To direct the location and direction [erection] of slaughter
houses, market houses, and houses for stowing gunpowder, to regulate
the keeping and conveying gunpowder and other combustible and
dangerous materials, and the use of candles and lights in barns and
stables.
Eight, To prevent and punish any horse-racing, foot-racing, fighting,
brawling, and immoderate riding or driving in the streets or side-walks.
Ninth, To prevent the encumbering or obstructing the streets,
side-walks, cross-walks, lanes or alleys, with any article, substance, or
material whatever.
Tenth, To restrain and punish vagrants, disorderly persons,
mendicants, street beggars and common prostitutes.
1851-92-15
SEC. 15. The common council may make, ordain, publish, amend
and repeal all such ordinances, by-laws and police regulations not
contrary to the laws of this State, for the good government and order of
said town, and the trade and commerce thereof, as may be necessary to
carry out the powers given to said council by this act, and to enforce
observance of all rules, ordinances, by-laws and police regulations
made in pursuance of this act, by imposing penalties on any person
violating the same, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, for any one
offence, to be recovered with costs, in an action of debt, or any other
form of action, in any court of competent jurisdiction; every such
ordinance or by-law, imposing any penalty or forfeiture for the
violation of any of its provisions, shall, after the passage thereof, be
published for two successive weeks, in some newspaper, published in
said town, and proof of such publication, by the affidavit of the printer,
publisher, or proprietor of such newspaper, taken before any officer
authorized to administer oaths, and filed with the clerk of the
corporation, or other competent proof of such publication shall be
conclusive evidence of the legal publication and promulgation of such
ordinance, in all courts and places.
1851-92-16
SEC. 16. The common council, at their first meeting, after the
annual election in each year, or within ten days thereafter, shall
designate one newspaper, printed in said town, in which shall be
published all ordinances, by-laws, and other matters and proceedings
required by this act, or by the by-laws and ordinances of the common
council, to be published in a newspaper.
1851-92-17
SEC. 17. All actions brought to recover any penalty or forfeiture
incurred under this act, or any ordinance, by-law or police regulation
made in pursuance thereof, shall be brought in the corporate name, and
in any such action it shall be lawful to declare generally in debt for the
penalty or forfeiture, stating the section of this act, or the ordinance or
by-law, or the section or sections thereof, under which the penalty is
claimed, and to give the special matter in evidence, and the defendant
may give in evidence, under the general issue, any special matter in bar
of said action; but it shall not be necessary in any action founded on
any ordinance or by-law, to prove the passage or publication of such
ordinance or by-law, unless the same shall be denied by plea verified
by affidavit.
1851-92-18
SEC. 18. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness,
or juror, by reason of his being an inhabitant, or freeholder, or house
holder in said town, in any action or proceeding in which said town is
a party.
1851-92-19
SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of the lister, during the months of April
and May of each year, to make a fair list, in alphabetical order, of all
persons subject to a poll tax, and such personal property as the
corporation may direct him to list; also all lots and fractions of lots,
particulary noting the number, owner's name, if known, and whether
resident or non-resident; having completed such assessment, he shall
call to his assistance two freeholders, who, having been sworn
faithfully and impartially to value the real property, including
improvements, so listed, shall with the lister, proceed to value the
same, and such lister shall on or before the first day of June next
succeding, make returns to the clerk of the corporation such list and
assessment.
1851-92-20
SEC. 20. The common council, in the month of June in each year,
shall levy a tax on the property so listed, and returned by the lister, and
shall make out a fair list of all the persons chargeable with a poll tax,
with personal property, and with real property, with its valuation,
setting forth the owner's name, (if known,) the amount of tax
chargeable to each person, and the amount charged on each article, and
shall deliver the same to the marshal, [and shall certify the amount of
tax charged on such list to the treasurer; such list, so put into the hands
of the marshal,] certified by the president, and attested by the clerk,
shall be sufficient authority for the marshal to proceed to collect the
same.
1851-92-21
SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of the marshal to collect and receive the
amount of taxes due from each individual, on or before the first day of
November in each year, and in all cases where the taxes assessed are
not paid by that time by any individual, it shall be the duty of the
marshal to proceed and collect the same by distress and sale, giving ten
days' previous notice of the time and place, by setting up three
advertisements, in three of the most public places in said town.
1851-92-22
SEC. 22. That in all cases where the taxes due and owing cannot be
made out of the goods and chattels of such delinquent, it shall be the
duty of the marshal to make sale of the lots or fractions of lots,
belonging to such person, or so much thereof as will pay the taxes and
costs due, giving twenty days' notice of the time and place of such sale,
in some newspaper published in the county, if any; if not, by three
advertisements posted in three public places in said town; in which
notices he shall particularly describe the lot or lots to be sold, by their
proper number, or some other certain description, with the owner's
name, if known, or the name of the person to whom it is supposed to
belong. The marshal, on the day of sale, by proclamation shall proceed
to sell the lot or lots to the highest bidder, or to the person who shall
pay the tax and costs due for the smallest portion of said lot or lots, and
shall give to such person a certificate of such purchase, setting forth the
quantity sold, the amount paid, including tax and costs, and that such
purchaser will be entitled to receive a deed at the end of two years
thereafter, unless the owner or owners, shall redeem the same on or
before that time, by paying to said purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the
amount of the purchase money, with one hundred per cent. per annum
thereon, or deposit the sum with the clerk of the corporation.
1851-92-24
SEC. 24. The marshal may adjourn his sale of lots from day to day,
for three days, and if, at the end of that time, any lot or lots should
remain unsold for want of buyers, he shall make return thereof, and the
amount of taxes and costs, and such lot or lots shall remain as a lien on
such lot or lots, and shall be added to the next year's assessment, with
one hundred per cent. thereon. The marshall shall be allowed a fee of
fifty cents for each sale and certificate, including the costs of
advertising, unless the same be made in a newspaper, in which case a
reasonable allowance shall be made to the printer by the common
council.
1851-92-25
SEC. 25. It shall be the duty of the marshal to make return of his
proceedings, and the sales made, to the clerk of the common council,
on or before the first Monday in March, annually, and annually, at that
time pay over to the treasurer all moneys by him collected, at which
time he shall furnish a list of delinquents, for which he shall receive a
credit, if deemed correct.
1851-92-26
SEC. 26. In all bonds given to the corporation by officers, and all
contracts entered into with the corporation, said corporation shall be
named, "the President and Trustees of the town of Valparaiso," and in
all suits commenced for the benefit of the corporation, and against the
corporation, said corporation shall be styled "the President and
Trustees of the town of Valparaiso;" without setting out the name of
any member thereof.
1851-92-27
1851-92-28
SEC. 28. The common council shall have jurisdiction over the
streets, lanes, alleys, and highways within said town, and shall have
power to order the same to opened, repaired, leveled, graded or paved,
and to cause cross and side walks, drains, sewers aqueducts, and
culverts to be made in said streets, and shall cause the expenses of any
such improvements, except for side-walks, to be paid out of the
corporation treasury.
1851-92-29
SEC. 29. The common council shall have power to define the width
of all side-walks, and to cause the owners of property in said town to
level, grade, pave, repair, and keep in repair all such side-walks in front
of their property, at their own cost and charges; and on default of any
such owner, shall have power to cause any such improvement or repair
to be made in the most economical manner, and to assess the same as
a tax against the property in front of which such improvement is made,
and to collect the same in the same manner as is herein provided for the
collection of other taxes; and all taxes assessed against any property in
said town, whether under the provisions of this section or otherwise,
shall operate as a lien upon such property from the time of the
assessment thereof until the same is fully paid.
1851-92-30
SEC. 30. Whenever the real estate of any infant, insane person, or
married woman, shall be sold for taxes, by virtue of this act, every such
person shall have the right to redeem the same at any time within two
years after the removal of such disability.
1851-92-32
SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the common council to lay off the
said town into five wards, which shall be entered of record on the
corporation books; and they shall have power, from time to time, to
remove, change, and alter said wards, always having regard to the
population thereof, and making the same as nearly equal as may be;
and at all elections, after the first, one trustee, who is a resident of each
[of] said wards, shall be elected; and all vacancies in the office of
trustee, shall be filled by the appointment of a trustee who is a resident
of the ward where the vacancy occurs.
1851-92-33
SEC. 33. The marshal shall be a peace officer of said town; and in
addition to the duties herein enjoined upon him as collector of the
revenue, he shall execute and obey all the orders of the common
council, and perform all other duties that may, from time to time, by
ordinance or otherwise, be enjoined upon him by the common council.
1851-92-34
SEC. 34. It shall be the duty of the common council, once in each
year, to cause a full statement of their receipts and expenditures to be
made out, and published in the same manner as herein provided for the
publication of ordinances.
1851-226-1
SEC. 1. That the corporate limits of said town of Dublin, for the
purposes of police and taxation, be extended so as to commence
twenty-eight and a half rods north of the north-east corner of the
present limits of said town, thence west to the point of intersection with
Johnson street, thence south along said street to the alley adjoining on
the north James Vanuxon's, jr. lot, thence west to the county [road]
adjoining Paul Custer's lot on the west, thence south along said road
until it intersects Maple street, where the same shall be extended to
said road, thence east to and along said Maple street to Davis street,
thence south along said Davis street to the south line of academy lot,
thence east along said south line to Milton street, thence north to Maple
street, thence east along Maple street to Bridge street, thence north to
spring street, thence east to lot No. 15, Witt's addition, thence north to
a line running parallel with the town plat, which would intersect
Harrison street, thence west along said line to the present town plat,
thence north to the place of beginning.
1851-226-3
SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for the president and trustees of said town
to assess all the property in said town subject by law to taxation, and
levy a tax thereon upon the ad valorem principle, and may levy and
collect the same in the manner now prescribed by law, and may expend
the tax when so collected, in the improving of the streets and sidewalks
in said town, and may otherwise appropriate the same for the use of
said town as said trustees may think most for the interest of the town.
1851-281-1
SEC. 1. That the taxes heretofore assessed by the common council
of the town of Terre Haute, and remaining unpaid, whether for general
purposes, or for street grade, be and the same are hereby legalized, and
may be collected as hereinafter provided: Provided, That the common
council of said town may make such alterations in said assessment as
to the said council shall seem just.
1851-281-2
SEC. 2. That it shall and may be lawful, and the duty of the common
council of said town from time to time, to cause the proper precept to
be issued for the collection of all such delinquent taxes returned
uncollected, or which may have been heretofore returned uncollected,
which precept shall be made returnable in ninety days after the issuing
thereof, and unless the same are paid, it shall be the duty of the
collector in the life time of said precept, to levy and collect by virtue
thereof, the said taxes due and to be collected thereon, by distress and
sale of the property of the persons against whom the same are charged,
and if no goods or chattels of the said person or persons can be found,
out of which to make the taxes, the collector shall proceed to make the
same by sale of the real estate of such person, in the same manner as is
provided in the 42d section of the act to which this is an amendment,
and said sale so made shall be as valid and effectual as though the same
was made on the second Monday of November of that year.
1851-281-3
SEC. 3. If any collector shall fail or refuse to return any precept for
the collection of taxes in the return thereof, himself and securities shall
be amerced in the amount required to be collected by said precept, and
ten per cent. damages thereon to be recovered, by said town in an
action of debt on the bond of said collector, in any court having
jurisdiction thereof; and if said collector shall return any tax as
delinquent when the same might have been collected, he shall be liable
as for a false return, and himself and securities shall in like manner be
amerced in the amount of said delinquent tax, and ten per cent.
damages thereon.
1851-281-4
SEC. 4. That hereafter the common council of said town shall have
no power to order the grading of any street, or alley in said town, unless
two-thirds of the property holders, in amount of property held by them
on said street or alley proposed to be graded, shall petition the common
council, requesting the same to be done: Provided, That the cost of
grading and repairing of all side walks, shall be borne by the owners of
the property fronting thereon, and the taxes to defray the expense of the
same, shall be levied and collected, as other taxes are levied and
collected in said town, and shall be a lien on the property taxed until
the same is paid: Provided, That it shall and may be lawful for all
persons owning property fronting on any street in said town, to grade
the street and side walk fronting his or her said lot, under the direction
of said common council, and the amount thus expended for grading
such street, shall be credited to such person in any general assessment
thereafter to be made for grading said street.
1851-281-5
SEC. 5. If any person shall feel aggrieved by the grading of any
street in said town hereafter ordered to be graded, he may file his
petition before said board of common council, setting forth his
grievances and claim of damages, thereupon it shall be the duty of said
common council to appoint three discreet freeholders, not interested
in any manner, to appraise said damages, and said appraisers shall take
into consideration the benefits (if any) that said party has received by
said grade, and the amount of taxes by him paid for the same and shall
report in writing, to said board, the damages if any, sustained by said
petitioner, which amount shall be paid out of such street fund, as a part
of the expense of the grade of said street: Provided, That the petition of
no person for damages shall be entertained by the common council,
who has joined in the petition for the grade of said street: And provided
further, That the petitioner, or the said town may appeal to the circuit
court of Vigo county, from the award of said appraisers, at any time
within thirty days after the making and filing of said award, which
appeal shall be taken and tried in the same manner as appeals are taken
from justices of the peace, and if judgment be given against said town
upon said appeal, the amount and costs thereof, shall be levied and
collected from the property holders on said street, as a part of the
expense of the grade thereof.
1851-281-6
SEC. 6. In addition to the powers now possessed by the common
council of the said town of Terre Haute, it shall be lawful for said
council to prevent any riot or noise, disturbance or disorderly
assemblage in said town, and they shall have power to authorize the
Marshal of said town, with or without process, forthwith to seize and
confine in the jail of the county of Vigo, or the town prison, any person
or persons engaged therein, until an examination can be had before the
proper officer.
1851-281-7
SEC. 7. The said common council shall have power to prohibit the
erection or continuance of all ball alleys, bowling saloons, nine or ten
pin alleys, and to cause the demolition and destruction of the same.
1851-281-8
SEC. 8. The said common council shall also have power to license
public sales by auction in said town, and public auctioneers in said
town, and to prohibit the same in said town without the party shall first
have obtained license therefor: Provided, That nothing herein contained
shall authorize said common council to interfere in any manner with
the sales of executors and administrators.
1851-281-9
SEC. 9. Said common council shall further have power, to license
hawkers or peddlers to vend their wares within the town or to prohibit
the same.
1851-281-10
SEC. 10. The said common council shall further have power, to
prohibit the vending of lottery tickets, and the drawing of lotteries in
said town.
1851-336-1
SEC. 1. That John Wefel, Francis Ochlshlager, Frederick Bram, and
their successors in office, be and are hereby incorporated, by the name
and description of "The Congregation of the German Evangelical
Lutheran St. Paul's Church," in the city of Fort Wayne, in the county of
Allen and State of Indiana.
1851-336-2
SEC. 2. The said body politic and corporate is hereby invested with
all the powers, rights and privileges which are conferred by or under
the second article of the twenty-fifth chapter of the revised statutes,
passed at the twenty-seventh session of said General Assembly, upon
churches or religious societies which have or may become bodies
corporate and politic according to the provisions of said article.
1851-336-3
SEC. 3. The said corporation shall have the right and power to use
a common seal, and to alter and renew the same at pleasure, to make
and adopt such rules and by-laws as they may deem proper so that the
same are not inconsistent with the organic principles of the said church
or with the constitution of said congregation now in force and dated
February 6th, A. D. 1847, nor with the constitution or laws of the
United States or of the State of Indiana, to exercise and perform all the
functions and privileges necessary for the establishment, government,
and advancement of said congregation.
1851-336-5
SEC. 5. The fee simple of any land which has heretofore been
purchased by said congregation or conveyed to them or to any person
for their use and benefit, is hereby vested in said trustees and their
successors in office forever, for the use and benefit of said
congregation or church.
1851-336-6
SEC. 6. The said corporation, for the furtherance of the objects of
said church or congregation and the interest thereof, shall have full
power, by their trustees, to acquire, by purchase, gift or devise, real
estate, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in the aggregate, and
so much personal property as may be necessary and proper for the uses
and purposes of said church, and also to dispose of, sell, and convey all
corporate property, whether real or personal, by deed of bargain and
sale, which conveyance shall be signed and sealed by the trustees of
said corporation, and the same shall vest the said property, and all the
right, title, and interest of such church and congregation, in the
purchaser.