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| Title | Charter for the City of Houston |
| Publisher | Texas World Publishing Company |
| Date | 1897 |
| Description | A bill entitled An act to provide a charter for the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas. |
| Donor | Fuermann, George |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 1970-001, Box 6, Folder 12 |
| ArchivesSpace URI | /repositories/2/archival_objects/2673 |
| Original Collection | George Fuermann "Texas & Houston" Collection |
| Digital Collection | City of Houston, Its Development and Evolution |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/1970_001 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Page 21 |
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| File Name | uhlib_1970_001_b006_f012_001_025.jpg |
| Transcript | houses or fences shall be issued by the City Engineer and approved by Hie Mayor. Sec. 33. That the Mayor shal annually nominate and the Council confirm by ballot, one pc. son from each ward of the city, who, together with the Mayor as president thereof, shall constitute a Board of Health of the city. The City Council shall prescribe by ordinance the powers and duties of the board and its members; and the City Secretary shall be clerk of tin; Board of Health, and shall keep a record of their proceedings. That the City Council shall have power to take such measures as they deem effectual to prevent the entrance of any pestilential, contagious, or infectious disease into the city; to stop, detain, and examine for that purpose any person coming from any place infected or- b> lieved to be infected with such disease; to establish, maintain, and regulate pest houses or hospitals within the city, or not exceeding five miles from its bounds: to cause any person who shall be suspected of being infected with any contagious disease to be sent to such pest house or hospital; to remove from the city or destroy any furniture, wearing apparel, or property of any kind which shall be suspected of being tainted or infected with pestilence; to prevent persons from infected places coming into the City of Houston, and to adopt any sanitary measure whereby the health of the city may be protected and improved; but said corporation shall not have power or authority to prevent railroad trains and passengers therein from passing through the city, but may regulate the speed of such trains passing through and prevenr their stopping; and in the exercise of such duties the city shall be held as exercising governmental functions only. Sec. 34. The City of Houston shall have the right, by ordinance duly passed by the City Council, to exercise such powers as may be necessary under the State law for the following purposes: To secure the safety- and convenience of passing in the streets, sidewalks, and other places in the city. $ |