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Sixty-second-The city council, and the president and trustees in villages, for the purpose of guarding against the calamities of fire, shall have power to prescribe the limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected or placed or repaired, without permission, and to direct that all and any buildings within the fire limits, when the same shall have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise, to the extent of fifty per cent. of the value, shall be torn down or removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining such damage.

Sixty-third To prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fire places, hearths, stoves, stove-pipes, ovens, boilers and apparatus used in and about any building or manufactory, and to cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe condition, when considered dangerous; to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories, dangerous in causing and promoting fires; to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, and to cause all such buildings and inclosures as may be in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition.

Sixty-fourth-To erect engine houses, and provide fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, and other implements for prevention and extinguishment of fires, and provide for the use and management of the same by voluntary fire companies or otherwise.

Sixty-fifth-To regulate and prevent storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires; also to regulate and restrain the use of fire-works, fire-crackers, torpedoes, roman candles, sky-rockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.

Sixty-sixth-To regulate the police of the city or village, and pass and enforce all necessary police ordinances.

Sixty-seventh-To provide for the inspection of steam boilers. Sixty-eighth-To prescribe the duties and powers of a superintendent of police, policemen and watchmen.

Sixty-ninth-To establish and erect calabooses, bridewells, houses of correction and workhouses, for the reformation and confinement of vagrants, idle and disorderly persons, and persons convicted of violating any city or village ordinance, and make rules and regulations for the government of the same, and appoint necessary keepers and assistants.

Seventieth-To use the county jail for the confinement or punishment of offenders, subject to such conditions as are imposed by law,, and with the consent of the county board.

Seventy-first-To provide by ordinance in regard to the relation between all the officers and employes of the corporation in respect to each other, the corporation and the people.

Seventy-second To prevent and suppress riots, routs, affrays, noises, disturbances, disorderly assemblies in any public or private place.

Seventy-third To prohibit and punish cruelty to animals.

Seventy-fourth-To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants and

prostitutes.

Seventy-fifth-To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same; and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continúe or suffer nuisances to exist.

Seventy-sixth-To appoint a board of health, and prescribe its powers and duties.

Seventy-seventh-To erect and establish hospitals and medical dispensaries, and control and regulate the same.

Seventy-eighth-To do all acts, make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease.

Seventy-ninth-To establish and regulate cemeteries, within or without the corporation, and acquire lands therefor, by purchase or otherwise, and cause cemeteries to be removed, and prohibit their establishment within one mile of the corporation.

Eightieth-To regulate, restrain, and prohibit the running at arge of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, geese and dogs, and to impose a tax on dogs.

Eighty-first-To direct the location and regulate the management and construction of packing houses, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories and tanneries, within the limits of the city or village, and within the distance of one mile without the city or village limits.

Eighty-second-To direct the location and regulate the use and construction of breweries, distilleries, livery stables, blacksmith shops and founderies within the limits of the city or village.

Eighty-third To prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within, or within one mile of the limits of the corporation.

Eighty-fourth-To compel the owner of any grocery, cellar, soap or tallow chandlery, tannery, stable, pig-sty, privy, sewer or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove the same, and to regulate the location thereof.

Eighty-fifth-The city council or trustees of a village, shall have power to provide for the taking of the city or village census; but no city or village census shall be taken by authority of the council or trustees oftener than once in three years.

Eighty-sixth-To provide for the erection and care of all public buildings necessary for the use of the city or village.

Eighty-seventh-To establish ferries, toll bridges, and license and regulate the same, and, from time to time, fix tolls thereon.

Eighty-eighth-To authorize the construction of mills, mill races and feeders on, through or across the streets of the city or village, at such places and under such restrictions as they shall deem prop

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Eighty-ninth-The city council shall have power, by condemnation or otherwise, to extend any street, alley or highway over or across, or to construct any sewer under or through any railroad track, right of way, or land of any railroad company (within the corporate limits); but where no compensation is made to such railroad company, the city shall restore such railroad track, right of way or land to its former state, or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired its usefulness.

Ninetieth-The city council or board of trustees shall have no power to grant the use of, or the right to lay down, any railroad tracks in any street of the city, to any steam or horse railroad company, except upon a petition of the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street, or so much thereof as is sought to be used for railroad purposes.

Ninety-first-To tax, license and regulate auctioneers, distillers, brewers, lumber yards, livery stables, public scales, money changers and brokers.

Ninety-second-To prevent and regulate the rolling of hoops, playing of ball, flying of kites, or any other amusement or practice having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the streets, or on the sidewalks, or to frighten teams and horses.

Ninety-third To regulate and prohibit the keeping of any lumber yard, and the placing or piling or selling any lumber, timber, wood or other combustible material, within the fire limits of the city.

Ninety-fourth-To provide, by ordinance, that all the paper, printing, stationery, blanks, fuel, and all the supplies needed for the use of the city, shall be furnished by contract, let to the lowest bidder.

Ninety-fifth-To tax, license and regulate second-hand and junk stores, and to forbid their purchasing or receiving from minors, without the written consent of their parents or guardians, any article whatsoever.

Ninety-sixth-To pass all ordinances, rules, and make all regulations, proper or necessary, to carry into effect the powers granted to cities or villages, with such fines or penalties as the city council or board of trustees shall deem proper: Provided, no fine or penalty shall exceed $200, and no imprisonment shall exceed six months for one offense.

64. Style of ordinances.] $2. The style of the ordinances in cities shall be: "Be it ordained by the city council of...

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65. Publication of ordinances when take effect.] § 3. All ordinances of cities and villages imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture, or making any appropriation, shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a newspaper published in the city or village, or, if no such newspaper is published therein, by posting copies of the same in three public places in the city or village; and no such ordinance shall take effect until ten days after it is so published. And all other ordinances, orders and resolutions shall take effect from and after their passage, unless otherwise provided therein.

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66. Proof of ordinances.] §4. All ordinances, and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by the certificate of the clerk, under the seal of the corporation. And when printed in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by authority of the board of trustees or the city council, the same need not be otherwise published; and such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and legal publication of such ordinances, as of the dates mentioned in such book or pamphlet, in all courts and places without further proof.

67. Suits for violating ordinances.] § 5. All actions brought to recover any fine, or to enforce any penalty, under any ordinance of any city or village, shall be brought in the corporate name of the city or village as plaintiff; and no prosecution, recovery or acquittal, for the violation of any such ordinance, shall constitute a defense to any other prosecution of the same party for any other violation of any such ordinance, although the different causes of action existed at the same time, and, if united, would not have exceeded the jurisdiction of the court or magistrate.

68. Fines and licenses paid to treasurer.] § 6. All fines and forfeitures for the violation of ordinances, when collected, and all moneys collected for licenses or otherwise, shall be paid into the treasury of the corporation, at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.

69. Summons-affidavit—punishment.] §7. In all actions for the violation of any ordinance, the first process shall be a summons: Provided, however, that a warrant for the arrest of the offender may issue in the first instance, upon the affidavit of any person that any such ordinance has been violated, and that the person making the complaint has reasonable grounds to believe the party charged is guilty thereof; and any person arrested upon such warrant shall, without unnecessary delay, be taken before the proper officer to be tried for the alleged offense. Any person upon whom any fine or penalty shall be imposed, may, upon the order of the

court or magistrate before whom the conviction is had, be committed to the county jail or the calaboose, city prison, work-house, house of correction, or other place provided by the city or village for the incarceration of offenders, until such fine, penalty and cost shall be fully paid: Provided, that no such imprisonment shall exceed six months for any one offense. The city council or board of trustees shall have power to provide, by ordinance, that every person so committed shall be required to work for the corporation, at such labor as his or her strength will permit, within and without such prison, work-house, house of correction, or other place provided for the incarceration of such offenders, not exceeding ten hours each working day; and for such work the person so employed to be allowed, exclusive of his or her board, $2 for each day's work on account of such fine and cost.

70. Jurisdiction of Justices, etc.] § 8. Any and all justices of the peace and police magistrates shall have jurisdiction in all cases arising under the provisions of this act, or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof.

71. Constable or sheriff may serve process, etc.] §9. Any constable or sheriff of the county may serve any process, or make any arrests authorized to be made by any city officer.

72. Jurisdiction over waters-street labor.] § 10. The city or village government shall have jurisdiction upon all waters within or bordering upon the same, to the extent of three miles beyond the limits of the city or village, but not to exceed the limits of the state; and may, by ordinance, require every able-bodied male inhabitant of such city or village, above the age of twenty-one years and under the age of fifty years, (excepting paupers, idiots, lunatics, and such. others as are exempt by law,) to labor on the streets and alleys of such city or village, not more than three days in each year, but such ordinance shall provide for commutation of such labor at not more than one dollar and fifty cents per day.

ARTICLE VI.

OFFICERS-THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES.

73. Officers.] 1. There shall be elected, in all cities organized under this act, the following officers, viz: a mayor, a city council, a city clerk, city attorney, and a city treasurer.

74. Other officers duties of city marshal.] § 2. The city council may, in its discretion, from time to time, by ordinance passed by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elected, provide for the election by the legal voters of the city, or the appointment by the

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