Prevent incumbering of streets. Horse racing. Restrain cattle. Dogs. Putrid carcass es. Public pounds. Boards of health. Bread. Animals on sidewalks. into the waters of the rivers, lakes, ponds or sloughs. 5. To prevent the incumbering of streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, lanes or alleys with railroad cars, carriages, sleighs, boxes, lumber, firewood, or any other materials or substances what ever. 6. To prevent horse racing, immoderate driving in the streets, and to regulate the places of bathing and swimming in the waters within the limits of said city. 7. To restrain the running at large of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, poultry and geese, and to authorize the restraining, impounding and sale of the same. 8. 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. 9. To prevent persons from bringing, depositing or having within said city any putrid carcasses or unwholesome substance, and to require the removal of the same by any person who may have upon his premises any such substance or putrid or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides or skins of any kind, or on default to authorize the removal thereof, by some competent officer, at the expense of such person or persons. 10. To establish and make public pounds, pumps, wells, cisterns and reservoirs of the city, to regulate and license hacks, cabs, drays, carts, and charges of hackmen, cabmen, draymen and cartmen in the city; and to erect lamps for lighting the streets, public grounds and public buildings, with gas or otherwise. 11. To establish and regulate boards of health, 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. 12. To establish the weight and size of bread. and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary thereto. 13. To prevent all persons riding or driving any horse or mule, or any other animal on the sidewalks of said city, or in any way doing damage to sidewalks and bridges. 14. To prevent shooting of firearms or fire fire arms etc. crackers, and to prevent the exhibition of fire- Discharging works in any place or situation which may be considered by the common council dangerous to the city or any property therein, or annoying to the citizens thereof. ards. 15. To restrain drunkards, immoderate Restrain drunkdrinking or obscenity in the streets or public places, and to provide for arresting, removing and punishing any person or persons who may be guilty of the same. 16. To restrain and regulate runners and Restrain runsolicitors for stages, cars, public houses and other ners. establishments. 17. To make rules, regulations and ordin- Government of ances for the government of the police of the police. city. 18. To establish public markets, and make Public markets. rules and regulations for the government of the same; to appoint suitable officers for overseeing and regulating such markets, and to punish or restrain all persons for attempting or interfering with the due observance of such rules and regulations; to license and regulate butchers' stalls, shops, stands for the sale of game, poultry, meats, fish and other articles. 19. To regulate the place or places and man- Weighing and ner of weighing or selling hay, and measuring and selling fuel, lime, and other gross commodities, and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same. streets, side 20. To compel the owners or occupants of Cleansing buildings or grounds, when the same are occupied, walks, etc. to remove snow, dirt or rubbish from the sidewalks, streets or alleys opposite thereto, and to compel such owner or occupant to remove from the lot around or occupied by him, all such substances as the board of health shall direct; and in his or her default, to authorize the removal or destruction thereof by some officer of the city at the expense of such owner or occupant. 21. To regulate control and prevent the com- Infectious dising of persons from other places wherein are con- orders etc. tagious or infectious diseases or disorders, and to make such disposition of such persons as to best preserve the health of the city. 22. To regulate the time, place and manner of Auctions. holding public auctions and vendues. Watchmen. Weights and measures. Protect trees and monuments. Sewers. Alter high ways. Change name of streets. School district. Ordinances. Actions at law. Purchase of real estate. Special election for raising tax. Establish grades. 23. To appoint watchmen and prescribe their duties. 24. To provide by ordinance for a standard of weights and measures. 25. To protect trees and monuments in said city. 26. To prescribe and regulate the construction of sewers within said city. 27. To lay out, make, open, keep in repair, alter or discontinue any highways, streets, lanes. alleys, and to keep them free from any incumbrances and to protect them from injury. 28. To alter or change the name of any street in the city. 29. To consolidate or change the boundaries of school districts in said city under the same restrictions and with the same power as is now conferred on town boards under the general laws of this state. 30. To make, ordain, amend and repeal all such ordinances, by-laws and police regulations not contrary to the constitution of this state, necessary for the good order and government of the city, and which may be necessary or expedient to carry into effect the powers vested in the mayor and common council or any officer of said city by this act, or which may be vested in any officer of said city by any ordinance thereof. 31. To provide for the prosecution or defense of all actions or proceedings in which the city is interested, and employ council therefor. 32. To purchase real estate and provide for the erection of a city hall and engine houses. 33. To call a special election for the purpose of raising a tax, when in their opinion the amount which they are authorized to raise by the provisions of this act, is insufficient to meet the requirements. 34. To establish grades of any or all the streets in the city, to cause sidewalks, gutters and pavements to be constructed; and when a grade shall be established it shall have such gradients as shall be sufficient to carry off all surface water or other waters from whatever source, coming on the street or streets; and when a grade is so established they shall cause an accurate profile to be made thereof and filed with city clerk; and all such grades shall be worked in exact accordance with such profile and the ordinance establishing the same. ment. 35. To establish a fire department and to pro- Fire de irtvide for the due and proper support and regulation of the same, and to appoint or direct the election of such officers for such department as they shall see fit, and to define their powers and duties; to provide protection from fire by the pur chase of fire engines, and all the necessary apparatus for the extinguishing of fires, and by the erection of pumps and construction thereof, water mains, reservoirs or other water-works; to erect engine houses; to compel the inhabitants of the city to aid in the extinguishing of fires, and to pull down and raze such buildings in the vicinity of fires as shall be directed by them or any two of them, who may be present at the fire, for the purpose of preventing its spreading to other buildings; to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other dangerous materials; to require the construction of safe places for the deposit of ashes; to regulate the construction of and cleaning of chimneys; to prevent bonfires and the use of fireworks and fire-arms in the city or any part thereof; to authorize fire wardens at all reasonable times to enter into and examine all dwellings, lots, yards, inclosures and buildings of every description, in order to discover whether any of them are in a dangerous condition, and to cause such as may be dangerous to be put in a safe condition; and generally to establish such necessary measures for the prevention or extinguishing of fires as may be necessary and proper; and to declare by ordinance the punishment for violation of any such ordinance or regulation. The fire company now and heretofore existing in the territory of said city, and heretofore known as the fire department or company of Cedarburg, and its constitution, laws and by-laws, regulations and officers shall continue in full force in said city of Cedarburg, and be supported by said city, until the common council shall establish a fire department under the provisions of this act, and the proper officers of the department now existing shall in the months of May and October in each year make a report to the common council, showing an estimate of what will be necessary and required for the maintenance of said department, and also a Laws, ordinances, etc. how passed. Printing to be let to the lowest bidder. Abatement of nuisances. To audit accounts. correct statement showing for what purpose mon- SECTION 35. All laws, ordinances, regulations SECTION 36. All printing and publications required by this act, or by the common council, shall be done at the same price as now established by law for printing legal notices, and if more than one newspaper is printed in said city the printing shall be let to the lowest bidder therefor, who shall be required to give bonds, with such conditions and such sureties as the common council shall determine and require. SECTION 37. The power conferred upon said council to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances shall not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings, in the courts according to law. Gambling houses, houses of ill-fame, disorderly taverns, and houses or places where spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors are sold without the license required thereof; houses or buildings of any kind wherein more than one hundred pounds of gunpowder are deposited, stored or kept, at any one time are hereby declared and shall be deemed nuisances. SECTION 38. The common council shall examine, audit and adjust the accounts of the clerk, treasurer, street commissioner, marshal, and other officers or agents of the city, at such time as it may deem proper, also at the end of each year, and before the time for which the officers of said city are elected or appointed shall have expired; |