Power of council as to taxes.

SEC. 7. The City Council shall have authority to levy and collect taxes for city purposes, upon all taxable property, real and personal, within the limits of the city, not exceeding one half per cent, per annum, upon the assessed value thereof; and may enforce the payment of the same, in any manner to be provided by ordinance not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, or the laws of this Territory.

SEC. 8. The City Council shall have power to appoint Recorder, trea-. surer, assessora recorder, treasurer, assessor and collector, marshal, and and collector supervisors of streets. They shall also have the power to appointed. appoint all such other officers by ordinance as may be necessary; define the duties of all city officers, and remove them from office at pleasure.

officers to give bonds.

SEC. 9. The City Council shall have power to require Council require give of all officers appointed in pursuance of this act, bonds with penalty and security, for the faithful performance of their respective duties, such as may be deemed expedient; and also to require of all officers appointed as aforesaid, to take an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices.

Power

ordinances.

SEC. 10. The City Council shall have power and auilasto mokingthority to make, ordain, establish, and execute all such ordinances, not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, or the laws of this Territory, as they may deem Recessary for the peace, benefit, good order, regulation, convenience, and cleanliness of said city; -for the protection of property therein, from destruction by fire or otherwise; and for he health and happiness thereof. They

Fill vacancies shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen by death, resignation, or removal, in any of the offices herein made elective; to fix and establish all the fees of the officers of said corporation, not herein established; to impose such fines not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence, as they may deem just, for refusing to accept of any office in or under the corporation, or for misconduct thereDivide city in in; to divide the city into wards, and specify the boundaries thereof, and create additional wards; to add to the number of Aldermen and Councilors, and apportion them among the several wards, as may be just, and most conducive to the interests of the city.

to wards.

As to schools.

SEC. 11. To establish, support, and regulate common

schools; to borrow money on the credit of the city; Pro-Provise.
vided, That no sum or sums of money be borrowed on a
greater interest than six per cent. per annum, nor shall
the interest on the aggregate of all the sums borrowed,
and outstanding, ever exceed one half of the city revenue
arising from taxes assessed on real estate within this cor-
poration.

SEC. 12. To make regulations to prevent the introduc-To prevent distion of contagious diseases into the city, to make quaran-ease. tine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same.

SEC. 13. To appropriate and provide for the payment Pay city debts. of the expenses and debts of the city.

SEC. 14. To establish hospitals, and make regulations Hospitals.. for the government of the same ; to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants; to declare what shall be nuisances, and to prevent and remove the

same.

SEC. 15. To provide the city with water, to dig wells, Water the city lay pump logs, and pipes, and erect pumps in the streets, for the extinguishment of fires, and convenience of the inhabitants,

leys.

SEC. 16. To open, alter, widen, extend, establish, Streets and algrade, pave, or otherwise improve, and keep in repair, streets, avenues, lanes, and alleys; and to establish, erect, and keep in repair aqueducts and bridges.

SEC. 17. To provide for the lighting of the streets, and erecting lamp-posts; and establish, support, and regulate night watches, night watches; to erect market-houses, establish marketsmarket houses, and market places, and provide for the government and

regulations thereof.

SEC. 18. To provide for erecting all needful buildings To erect buildfor the use of the city; and for enclosing, improving, and grounds. andings, public regulating all public grounds belonging to the city.

SEC. 19. To license, tax, and regulate auctioneers, Auctioneers. merchants, and retailers, grocers and taverns, ordinaries, hawkers, pedlers, brokers, pawn-brokers, and money changers.

Hacking.

SEC. 20. To license, tax, and regulate hacking, carriages, wagons, carts, and drays; and fix the rates to be charged for the carriage of persons, and for wagonage, cartage, and drayage of property; as also to license and regulate porters, and fix the rates of porterage.

Theatres.

SEC. 21. To license, tax, and regulate theatricals, and other exhibitions, shows, and amusements.

es.

Tippling hous- SEC. 22. To tax, restrain, prohibit, and suppress tippling-houses, dram-shops, gaming houses, baudy and other disorderly houses.

SEC. 23

Weights and measures.

Measming of lumber.

Weighing hay

Inspection of tobacco.

As to bread.

Census.

To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to regulate the fixing of chimneys, and the flues thereof, and stove pipes, and to organize and establish fire companies.

SEC. 24. To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other combustible materials.

SEC. 25. To regulate and order parapet walls, and other partition fences.

SEC. 26. To establish standard weights and measures, and regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city, in all other cases not provided for by law.

SEC. 27. To provide for the inspection and measuring of lumber, and other building materials, and for the measurement of all kinds of mechanical work.

SEC. 28. To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay. lime, and stone coal, and measuring of charcoal, fire-wood and other fuel, to be sold or used within the city.

SEC. 29. To provide for and regulate the inspection of tobacco, and of beef, pork. flour, meal; also beer, and whiskey, brandy, and all other spirituous and fermented liquors.

SEC. 30. To regulate the weight, quality, and price of bread, sold and used in the city.

SEC. 31. To provide for taking the enumeration of the inhabi ants of the city.

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SEC. 32. To fix the compensation of all city officers, Regulate fees, and regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses, and others, for services rendered, under this or any city ordinance.

SEC. 33. The City Council shall have exclusive powergaming. within the city by ordinance, to license, regulate, suppress, or restrain billiard tables, and from one to twenty pin-alleys, and every other description of gaming or gambling.

SEC. 34. The City Council shall have exclusive powerCity police. within the city by ordinance, to regulate the police of the city, to impose fines, forfeitures, and penalties, for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the recovery of such fines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of such Enforce the colpenalties, and to pass such ordinances as may be neces-lection of fines sary and proper for carrying into effect and execution, the powers specified in this act: Provided, That such ordinances are not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, or the laws of this Territory.

SEC. 35. All ordinances passed by the City Council, Ordinances to shall, within one month after they shall have been passed, be published. be published in some newspaper printed in said city, or certified copies thereof be posted up in three of the most public places in the city.

SEC. 36. All ordinances of the city may be proven byOrdinances, the seal of the corporation; and when published inhow proven book or pamphlet form, purporting to be printed or published by the authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts or places, without further proof.

SEC. 37. The Mayor and Aldermen shall be conser-Mayor and Al vators of the peace within the limits of the city, and shalldermen, pow have all the powers of Justices of the Peace therein, both in civil and criminal cases arising under the laws of the Territory. They shall, as Justices of the Peace, within the limits of said city, perform the same duties; be governed by the same laws; give the same bonds and securities as other Justices of the Peace, and be commissioned by the Gov as Justices of the Peace, in and for said city, by the Governor.

Mayor and aldermen, jurisdiction of.

taken

SEC. 38. The Mayor and Aldermen shall have jurisdiction in all cases arising under the ordinances of the corporation, and shall issue such process as may be necessary to carry said ordinances into execution and effect. Appeals may be had from any decision or judgAppeals, how ment of said Mayor or Aldermen, arising under the ordinances of said city, to the Municipal Court, under such regulations as may be prescribed by ordinance, which, court shall be composed of the Mayor as Chief Justice, and the Aldermen as Associate Justices; and from the final judgment of the Municipal Court, to the Probate Court of Millard county, in the same manner as appeals are taken from Justices of the Peace: Provided, The parties litigant shall have a right to a trial by a jury of twelve men, in all cases before the Municipal Court. The Municipal Court shall have power to grant writs of Habeas Corpus, and try the same in all cases arising under the ordinances of the City Council.

: SEC. 39. The Municipal Court may sit on the first Municipal court Monday of every month, and the City Council, at such and council, times and places as may ay be prescribed by city ordinance;

meeting of

Process direc

special meetings of which may at any time be called by the Mayor or any two Aldermen.

SEC. 40. All process issued by the Mayor, Aldermen, ted to marshal.or Municipal Court, shall be directed to the Marshal, and in the execution thereof, he shall be governed by the same laws as are, or may be prescribed for the direction and compensation of Constables in similar cases. The Marshal shall also perform such other duties as may be required of him under the ordinances of said city, and shall be the principal ministerial officer.

Duty of record-

er.

SEC. 41. It shall be the duty of the recorder, to make and keep accurate records of all ordinances made by the City Council, and of all their proceedings in their corporate capacity, which record, shall at all times be open to the inspection of the electors of said city, and shall perform all other duties as may be required of him by the ordinances of the City Council, and shall serve as clerk of the Municipal Court.

When private SEC. 42. When it shall be necessary to take private ken. property for opening, widening, or altering any public