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for and pay over to the City treasurer, within three months, all fines and torfeitures received by them, by vir. tue of their office, and they shall keep a docket, subject at all times to the inspection of the City Council and all other parties interested.

Src, 14. All process issued by the mayor or an alderman shall be directed to the marshal or other legal officer, and in execution thereof, he shall be governed by such rules and regulations as may be provided by City ordinance.

SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the recorder to make and keep accurate records of all ordinances made by the City Council, and all their proceedings in a corporate capacity, which record shall at all times be open to the inspection of the electors of the city and all other parties interested, and audit all accounts of said incorporation. He shall have and keep a plot of all surveys within the city, and he is hereby authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds, transfers and other instruments of writing, and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by city ordinance.

SEC. 16. The treasurer shall receive all money or funds belonging to the city, and shall keep an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures in such manner as the City Council shall direct. He shall pay all funds that may come to hand by virtue of his office upon orders signed by the Auditor of Public Accounts, and shall report to the City Council a true account of his receipts and disbursements as they may require.

SEC. 17. The City Council shall have power within the city, by ordinance to annully levy and collect taxes on the assessed value of all property in the city, made taxable by the laws of the Tertitory. for the following named purposes, to wit: not to exceed five mills. on the dollar, to open, improve and keep in repair the streets in the city, The City Council is further empowered to divide the city into school districts, provide for the election of trustees, appoint a board of school inspectors. annually assess and collect and expend the necessary tax for school purposes and for furnishing the city with water for irrigating and other purposes, and regulate

and control the same; and furthermore so far as may be necessary, control the water courses leading thereto.

SEC. 18. The City Council shall have the manage. ment and control of all the finances and property of said city.

SEC. 19. To require and it is hereby made the duty of every able bodied male resident of the city over the age of eighteen and under the age of fifty years; to labor not to exceed two days in each year upon the streets, but every person may at his option pay two dollars for the day he shall so be bound to labor; provided it be paid within five days from the time he shall be notified by the Street Supervisor. In default of payment as aforesaid the same may be collected as other taxes.

SEC. 20. The Council shall have power to borrow money for city purposes, the interest of which shall not exceed one fourth of the city revenue arising from taxes of the previous year.

SEC, 21. The City Council shall have power, by ordinance, to regulate the form of the assessment rolls. The annual assessment roll shall be returned by the assessor on or before the first Monday of June in each year; but the time may be extended or additions made thereto, by order of the City Council. On the returns thereof the City Council shall fix a day for bearing objections thereto, and any person feeling aggrieved by the assessment of his property may appear at the time specified, and make his objections, which shall be heard and determined upon by the City Council, and they shall have power to alter, add to, take from and otherwise correct and revise said assessment roll.

SEC. 22. The Collector shall be furnished within thirty days after the assessment rolls are corrected with a list of taxes to be collected, and if not paid when demanded the collector shall have power to collect said taxes with interest and cost, by suit in the corporate name, as may be provided by ordinance The assesment roll shall in all cases be evidence on the part of the corporation.

SEc. 28. To appropriate and provide for the paymant of the expenses and debts of the eity.

SEC. 24- To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws, and enforce the same within the city and around it, not exceeding ten miles next beyond the boundaries thereof.

SEC. 25. To examine licenses and regulate the prac tice of surgeons and physicians; to prohibit, prevent and punish, by fine and imprisonment, the imposition of quacks, and other medical pretenders; to establish hospitals, and infirmaries, and make regulations for the government of the same; to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants; to declare what shall be nuisances, and prevent and remove the same.

SEC. 26. To provide the city with water, to dig wells, lay pump logs, and pipes, and erect pumps in the streets for the extinguishment of fires and the convenience of the inhabitants.

SEC. 27. To direct or prohibit the location and management of houses for the storing of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, or other combustible and dangerous materials within the city, and to regulate the conveying of gunpowder.

SEC. 28. To exclusively control, regulate, repair, amend and clear the streets, alleys, bridges, side-walks, or cross-walks, and open, widen, straighten or vacate streets and alleys, and put drains or ditches and sewers therein, and prevent the encumbering of the streets in any manner, and protect the same from any encroachment and injury.

SEC. 29. To provide for the lighting of the streets and erecting lamp-posts; to erect market houses. and establish markets, and market places, and provide for the government and regulation thereof.

SEC. 30. To provide for the erection of all needful buildings for the use of the city, and for inclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds belonging to the city.

SEC. 31. To license, regulate, prohibit or restrain the manufactures, sellers, or venders of spirituous or fermented liquors, tavern keepers, dram or tippling shopkeepers, boarding, victualing or coffee houses, restau

rants, saloons or other houses or places for the selling or giving away of wines or other liquors, whether ardent, vinous or fermented.

SEC. 32. To licence, tax and regulate auctioneers, merchants, retailers, groceries, ordinaries, hawkers, pedlars, brokers, pawn-brokers, and money-changers.

SEC. 33. To regulate the selling or giving away of any ardent spirits, or other intoxicating liquors, by any shopkeeper, grocer, or trader, to be drank in any shop, store, grocery, outhouse, yard, garden or other place within the city, except by persons, or at places duly licensed; to forbid the selling or giving away of ardent spirits or other intoxicating liquors, to any child, apprentice or servant, without the consent of his or her parent, guardian, master or mistress, or to any Indian.

SEC. 34. To regulate and license or prohibit butchers, and to revoke their license for malconduct in the course of trade; and to regulate, license, and restraiu the sale of fresh meat and vegetables in the city.

SEC. 35. To license, tax, regulate, suppress or prohibit billiard tables, pin alleys, nine or ten pin alleys, or table and ball alleys; to suppress or restrain all disorderly houses and groceries; to authorize the destruction and demolition of all instruments and devices used for the purpose of gaming, and all kinds of gambling; to prevent any riot, noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblage, and to restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, treet beggars and prostitutes.

SEC. 36. To regulate, license, suppress or prohibit all exhibitions of common showmen, shows of everv kind, concerts or other musical entertainments, exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, theatrical performances, ball rooms and all other exhibitions and amusements.

SEC. 37. To license, tax and regulate hacking, carriages, wagons, carts, and drays, and fix rates to be charged for carrying of persons, and for wagonage, cartage and drayage of property, as also to license and regulate porters and fix the rate of porterage.

SEC. 38. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to regulate the fixing of chimneys

and flues thereof, and stove pipes, and to organize and establish fire companies.

SEO. 39. To regulate and order parapet walls and other partition fences.

SEO. 40. To establish standard weights and 'measures, and to regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city in all cases not provided by law.

SEC. 41. To provide for the inspecting and measuring of lumber, and other building materials, and for the measurment of all kinds of mechanical work.

SEC. 42 To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay, lime and stone coal, and the measuring of charcoal, firewood and other fuel to be sold or used within the city.

Szc. 43. To provide for, and regulate the inspection of tobacco, beef, pork, dour, meal; also beer, whisky and brandy, and all other spirituous or fermented liquors

SEC. 44. To regulate the weight and quality of bread sold and used in the city

SEC. 45. The City Council shall have exclusive power within the city, by ordinance, to license, regulate or restrain the keeping of ferries aud toll bridges.

SEC. 46. To provide for taking the enumeration of the inhabitants of the city; to regulate the burial of the dead and registration of births, and deaths; to direct the returning and keeping of bills of mortality, and to impose penalties on physicians, sextons and others for any default in the premises.

Szc. 47. To prevent horse-racing, immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and to authorize their being stopped by any person; to punish or prohibit the abuse of animals; to provide for putting up posts in front of city lots to fasten horses and other animal; to compel the fastening of horses, mules, oxen or other animals attached to vehicles whilst standing or remaining in the streets.

SEC. 48 To prevent the incumbering of the streets or side walks, lanes, alleys and public grounds with carriages, tents, wagons, carts, sleighs, horses or other ani mals; sleds, wheelbarrows, boxes, lumber, timber, fire

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