Duties of street superintendent

Duty of survey

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Common council.

Meetings. Powers of council.

state.

The assessor shall receive for his services such compensation as the common council shall determine, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars for the term for which he was elected.

DUTIES OF STREET SUPERINTENDENT.

SECTION 14. The superintendent of streets shall perform the duties, and under the restrictions and for the compensation prescribed in section seven of chapter six of this act, and such other duties as may be required of him by this act and the ordinances of said city, not inconsistent with this act.

ALL PLANS, ETC.—CITY PROPERTY.

SECTION 15. The city surveyor shall be a practical surveyor and engineer. He shall keep his office at some convenient place within said city, and the common council shall prescribe the duties and fix the fee and compensation for any service performed by him. all surveys, profiles, plans and estimates made by him for the city shall be the property of the city, and shall be carefully preserved in the office of the surveyor, open to the inspection of the parties interested, and the same, together with all the books and papers appertaining to said office, shall be delivered over by the surveyor at the expiration of his term of office, to his successor or the common council.

CHAPTER IV.

COMMON COUNCIL.

SECTION 1. The mayor and aldermen shall constitute the common council, and the style of all or dinances shall be, "The common council of the city of Madison do ordain," etc. The common council shall meet at such time and place as it by resolution shall direct. A majority of the aldermen shall constitute a quorum.

STATED AND SPECIAL MEETINGS.

SECTION 2. The common council shall hold stated meetings, and the mayor may call special meetings, by notice to each of the members, to be served personally or left at their usual places of abode. The common council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election and qualification of its own members, and have power to compel the attendance of absent members and enforce its rules; to punish by fine and imprisonment, by a vote of twothirds of its members, any member for disorderly or contemptuous conduct and by a vote of two-thirds its members may expel any member for cause.

GENERAL POWERS OF COUNCIL.

SECTION 3. The common council shall have the control and management of the finances and of all property of the city, and shall likewise, in addition to the powers herein vested in it, have full power to make, enact, ordain, establish, publish, enforce, alter, modify, amend and repeal all such ordinances, rules and by laws for the government and good order of the city, for the suppression of vice and immorality, for the prevention of crime, and for the benefit of the trade, commerce and health, as it shall deem expedient; declaring and imposing penalties, and to enforce the same against any person or persons who may violate any of the provisions of such ordinance, rule or bylaw, and such ordinances rules and by-laws are hereby declared to be and have the force of law; provided, they are not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state, and for these purposes shall have authority by ordinances, resolutions or by-laws:

LICENSE SHOWMEN, ETC.

1st. To license and regulate the exhibitions of com- Showmen. mon showmen or shows of any kind, or the exhibition of caravans, circuses, theatrical performances, billiard tables and bowling saloons, and to provide for the abatement and removal of nuisances under the ordinances or at common law, and to grant licenses for selling spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, and to regulite and license groceries, taverns, victualling houses, and all persons vending or dealing in spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, and to revoke the same for a violation thereof; provided, that the sum to be paid for any such license shall not be less than the amount fixed by the laws of the state, and that all licenses shall be granted to expire on the first day of September next following in each year.

PROHIBIT GAMING.

liquors.

2d. To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of Gaming and gaming and fraudulent devices and pr. ctices, and all playing of cards, dice, and other games of chance, for the purpose of gaming in said city, and to restrain any person from vending, giving or dealing in spirituous or vinous liquors, unless duly licensed by the common counc.1.

PREVENT RIOTS, ETC.

3d. To prevent any riots, noise, disturbances or Rio's, etc. disorderly assemblages, suppress and restrain disorderly

Abatement of nuisances.

Slaughter houses.

Grade streets.

Prevent horseracing.

Restrain cattle.

Dogs.

Putrid carcass

es, etc..

houses or groceries, and houses of ill fame, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for the purpose of gaming.

CLEANSE NAUSEOUS PLACES.

4th. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandler shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, barn, privy, sewer, or other unwholesome nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time to time, as often as it may be necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of said city.

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LOCATE SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

5th. To direct the location and management of slaughter houses and markets, and to prevent the erection of and use, or occupation of the same where the offal or filth thereof shall discharge into the waters of the lakes, and to establish rates for and license venders of gunpowder, and regulate the storage, keeping and conveying of the same or other explosive materials.

GRADE STREETS.

6th. To provide for the making, grading, improving and repairing the streets of the city of Madison, and to provide for the making, constructing and repairing gutters and sidewalks in said city, and to prevent the encumbering of the streets, sidewalks, lanes and alleys with carriages, sleighs, boxes, lumber, firewood or other materials or substance whatever.

PREVENT HORSE RACING.

7th. To prevent horse racing, immoderate riding. or driving in the streets, and to regulate the places of bathing and swimming in the waters within the limits of said city.

RESTRAIN CATTLE.

8th. To restrain the running at large of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, poultry and geese, and to authorize the restraining, inpounding and sale of the same.

DOGS.

9th. To prevent the running at large of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same in a summary manner when at large contrary to the ordinance of said city.

PUTRID CARCASSES.

10th. To prevent persons from bringing, depositing or having within said city or placing in the lakes

adjacent to the said city any putrid carcass or other unwholesome or nauseous substance, and to require the removal of the same by any person who shall have upon his premises any such substance or putrid or unsound beef, pork, hides, or skins of any kind, or on default, to authorize the removal by some competent officer, at the expense of such person or persons.

POUNDS.

11th. To make and establish public pounds, pumps, Pounds. wells, cisterns and reservoirs, and to provide for the con. struction and maintenance of water works and sewers; to regulate and to license hacks, cabs, drays, carts, and the charges of hackmen, cabmen, draymen and cartmen in the city; and to erect lamps and to provide for lighting the streets, public grounds and public highways, with gas or otherwise.

BOARD OF HEALTH.

health.

12th. To establish and regulate boards of health, Board of provide hospitals and cemetery grounds, regulate the burial of the dead, and the return of the bills of mortality, and to exempt burial grounds set apart for public use from taxation.

WEIGHT OF BREAD.

bread.

13th. To establish the assize and weight of bread, Assize of and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary thereto.

RIDING ON SIDEWALKS.

walks.

14th. To prevent all persons riding or driving any Riding on sidehorse or mule, cattle and other animals on the sidewalks in said city, or in any way doing damage to such sidewalks.

FIREARMS, ETC.,

15th. To prevent shooting off firearms or crackers Firearme. and to prevent the exhibition of fireworks in any situ ation which may be considered by the council dangerous to the city or any property therein or annoying to the citizens thereof.

RESTRAIN DRUNKENNESS.

drunkenness.

16th. To restrain drunkards, immoderate drinking Restrain or obscenity in the streets or public places, and to provide for arresting, removal and punishing any person or persons who may be guilty of the same.

REGULATE RUNNERS.

17th. To retrain and regulate runners and solicitors Regulate runfor boats, vessels, stages, cars, public houses and other ners. establishments.

Police.

Public mar

kets.

Hay, wood, etc.

To remove snow, etc.

Contagious diseases.

Auctions and auctiorecrs.

POLICE.

18th, To make rules and ordinances for the gov ernment and regulation of the police of the city.

PUBLIC MARKETS.

19th. To establish public markets, and make rules and regulations for the government of the same, to ap point suitable officers for overseeing and regulating such markets, and to punish or restrain all persons for interrupting or interfering with the due observance of such rules and regulations; to license and regulate butchers' stalis, shops and stands for the sale of game, poultry, meats, fish and other provisions.

HAY, WOOD, ETC.

20th. To regulate the place and manner of weighing and selling hay, and measuring and selling fuel, lime and other gross commodities, and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same.

REMOVE SNOW, ETC.

21st. To compel the owners of buildings or grounds, or the occupants, where the same are occupied, to remove snow, dirt or rubbish from the sidewalks, street or alley opposite thereto, and to compel such owner or occupant to remove from the lot owned or occupied by him all such substances as the board of health shall direct; and in his default, to authorize the removal or destruction of the objectionable substances by some officer of the city at the expense of such owner or occupant.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

223. To regulate, prevent and control the landing of persons from boats, cars and stages wherein are contagious and infectious diseases or disorders, and to make such dispositions of such persons as to preserve the health of said city.

AUCTIONS AND AUCTIONEERS.

23d. To regulate the time and manner of holding public auctions and vendues, and to regulate the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and other property at public auction, and to grant licenses for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and other property at public auction, and to prescribe and fix the amounts to be paid for such licenses; provided, it shall not be lawful to charge less than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for any such license for one year : and provided also, that nothing in this section shall