City not to subscribe for stock in any corporation unless under certain conditions. City may purchase plank roads under or to the City of St. Louis, shall be vested in, and prosecuted for, by the corporation hereby created. (a) VIII. The city shall not, at any time, become a subscriber for any stock in any corporation: Provided, however, that the city shall have power to subscribe any amount of stock she may deem proper to any railroad to be constructed within the State of Missouri; and may issue her bonds to pay her subscriptions, for such length of time, and upon such terms and conditions, as she may deem proper, and take all steps she may think proper to protect her interest in any railroad to which she may or has subscribed any stock. (b) IX. The City of St. Louis shall purchase of the joint certain conditions. stock companies so much of the several plank roads included within the boundaries of the extended new limits as are owned by said companies, at such prices as may be agreed upon between the city council and the directors of said companies, and, if they cannot agree, the value of said interest shall be assessed as other property taken for public use: Provided, however, that so much of said roads, or any of them as are owned by the County of St. Louis, is hereby vested in the City of St. Louis free of charge. (c) X. All overseers, sextons, or other persons, who may have port of interments, control of public graveyards in, adjoining, or within four miles of the City of St. Louis, shall make a weekly report to the clerk of the board of health of the City of St. Louis, of all interments during the week in the graveyard whereof they are such overseer or sexton, respectively. Said report shall specify the names and ages of the persons interred, and also the diseases of which said persons died, sex, color, and if slave or free. (d) Sextons of ceme teries to maks re when, and to whom. Penalty for sexton permitting inter XI. If any overseer, sexton, or other person, having conments without a trol of a graveyard, shall permit any person to be interred in said graveyard without a certificate stating the name, physician's certificate. (b) Sec. 13, act March 3, 1851, p. 165, as amended by sec. 9, act February 23, 1853, p. 175. (c) Sec. 17, act December 5, 1855, p. 196. (d) Sec. 1, 2, 3 & 4, act February 25, 1843, p. 111 & 112. age, sex, color, and if free or slave, together with the disease of which said person died, which certificate shall be signed by the physician who attended said person, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for every such neglect, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, in the name and to the use of the City of St. Louis, at the instance of the clerk of the board of health of St. Louis. (d) failing to report interments. XII. If any overseer, sexton, or other person, fail or neg- Penalty for sexton lect to make to the clerk of the board of health such report of weekly interments, he shall forfeit and pay five dollars for every such failure, to be recovered as above. (d) XIII. For the purpose of carrying the above into effect, every physician who may practice medicine in St. Louis and suburbs, shall, when a patient dies under his care, make out a certificate, stating the name, age, sex, color, and if slave or free, together with the name of the disease of which said person died; and if any physician, on application, refuse to make out such certificate, he shall forfeit and pay five dollars to the use of the City of St. Louis, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of St. Louis county, at the instance of the clerk of the board of health. (d) XIV. The inhabitants of St. Louis are hereby exempted from working upon any road beyond the limits of the city, and from paying any tax to procure laborers to work upon the same. (e) XV. There shall be a digest of the ordinances of the city, which are of a general nature, published within six months after the passage of this act, and a like digest within every period of three years thereafter. (ƒ) XVI. The City of St. Louis shall have power to direct to be built, at the expense of the city, any main sewer necessary to carry out the general system of sewers adopted; and to borrow money for the purpose of making any public provement that may be deemed necessary for the city, or (d) Sec. 1, 2, 3 & 4, act February 25, 1843, p. 111 & 112. (e) Sec. 12, act March 3, 1851, p. 165. (A) Sec. 16, act March 3, 1851, p. 166. Physicians to deaths, &c.; pen make certificate of alty for failing to do so. Inhabitants of St. Louis exempted from working on county roads. Digest of ordinan ces to be publish ed. City may borrow public improve ordinance author money for any ment, provided the izing the loan shall be approved by the people at an elec im of tion held to test the same. City may hold property in trust poses. acquiring any property for the public use of the city, and may, if necessary to accomplish the object, issue the bonds of the city, having not more than thirty years to run; but the authority hereby given shall not be exercised unless a majority of the members elect to the board of common council shall pass an ordinance for the purpose, which shall be approved by the mayor; the sense of the qualified voters shall be taken at an election to be held for the purpose, after giving ten days' notice, in all the daily newspapers printed in the city of St. Louis, of the amount proposed to be borrowed, for what length of time, and for what purpose; and if a majority of those voting shall decide against making the loan, it shall not be made. (g) XVII. The City of St. Louis is hereby declared to be for charitable pur- capable of taking and holding property real and personal, both within and without the city limits, given or to be given to charitable purposes, and of executing all such charity trusts in like manner as natural persons are. (h) Tax deeds under sales by the city as State tax deeds. XVIII. All tax deeds for lot or lots of land sold under to have same force ordinances of the City of St. Louis for the non-payment of taxes due said city, shall be received in like manner, and shall have the same force and effect when recorded as State tax deeds in this particular provided for. (i) Township school how. XIX. All money, bonds, notes and other evidences of fund to be divided, debt belonging to the school fund of fractional township fortyfive north, range seven east, shall be divided between the board of president and directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, as trustees of the general school fund of the city hereby established, and between the county court of St. Louis county for the benefit of said fractional township outside of the city hereby established, namely, on the following basis: One-half of the funds, according to the ratio of population, and the other half according to the ratio of ter (g) Sec. 10, act February 23, 1853, p. 175. (h) Sec. 1, act March 12, 1859, p. 210. (i) Sec. 43, art. 5, of " Act to provide for the levying, assessing and collecting the revenue," approved November 23, 1857, p. 208. ritory, namely, of said fractional township included in the extended new limits of said city and of the township outside of the same, to be determined by two commissioners, who shall be appointed, one by each of the said parties, sharers in the funds, who, failing to agree, shall appoint an umpire to be chosen from the county outside of said city and township. The further management and sale of section. sixteen of said fractional township shall remain with said county court in accordance with the act of the general assembly of this State, approved March 3, 1851, entitled "An act to authorize the sale of fractional section sixteen, township forty-five north, range seven east ;" and after each sale of any unsold portion of said section, the fund arising therefrom shall be divided between the two parties sharers in accordance with the ratio which shall have been determined according to the succeeding provisions of this section, the county court of St. Louis county first paying all costs of management and sale of the lands, at all times to reserve a sufficient sum to pay expenses relating thereto. (j) School fund shall be for the benefit of the whole city. 2d municipality. XX. The funds belonging to the board of president and directors of the board of public schools, before the passage of this act, shall be a common fund for the use and benefit of the whole city as hereby established. (j) XXI. The property of the present City of Bremen, and Bremen and the of the second municipality, shall be vested in the City of St. Louis, and the latter shall assume the indebtedness of Bremen, not exceeding five hundred dollars, and of the second municipality, not exceeding one hundred dollars, and shall receive all sums of money that may be due to said Bremen and to said second municipality for taxes or otherwise. (j) XXII. The separate incorporations of the City of Bremen and second municipality are hereby vacated and abolished. () XXIII. The city counselor of the City of St. Louis in order to enable the city of St. Louis to avail itself of the (j) Secs. 9, 10, 11 & 13, act December 5, 1855, p. 195 & 196. Bremen and the abolished. 2d municipality Counselor to ashave escheated to certain if any lands State. Title to lands es cheated to State, provisions of the second section of an act entitled "An act about swamp lands in St. Louis county," be and he is hereby authorized in the name of the State of Missouri to proceed in the same manner as the attorney general is required to do by the provisions of an act entitled "An act concerning escheats," approved January 8, 1845, to ascertain whether any real estate has escheated to the State of Missouri, and said proceedings shall in all things be conducted in the manner and form prescribed in said act concerning escheats. (k) XXIV. The title of the State to all lands which shall apvested in the city. pear to have escheated to the State of Missouri before March 3, 1851, by any proceeding commenced and prosecuted under the provisions of this act, shall from and after judgment be rendered in favor of the State, pass to and vest in the City of St. Louis. (k) No officer to con tract for greater XXV. No officer of the city authorized to make contracts amount than sum on behalf of the city for work, or materials, shall make any such contract which shall require the expenditure of any appropriated. greater sum than the amount actually appropriated by exist ing ordinance for such work or materials. (1) (k) Sec. 1 & 2, act December 13, 1855, p. 202. (1) Sec. 11, act March 13, 1861, p. 243. |