ances and exhibitions for money, except exhibitions of agriculture or educational societies or associations ;

Fifth. To abate or remove nuisances of every kind, and to compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, tallow chandler shop, butcher's stall, slaughter-house, glue, starch or soap factory, establishments for rendering tallow, lard or oil, and all establishments where any nauseous, offensive or unwholesome business may be carried on, blacksmiths', coopers', cabinet makers', carpenters and joiners' shops and all buildings, business and establishments of any kind usually classed as extra hazardous in respect to fire, tannery, stable, privy, hog-pen, sewer, or any other offensive or unwholesome house or place to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time to time, as often as for the health, comfort and convenience or safety of the inhabitants of said city may require;

Sixth. To direct the location of all slaughter-houses, markets and buildings for storing gunpowder or other combustible or explosive substances;

Seventh. To regulate the buying, carrying, selling and using gunpowder, fire crackers or fire works, manufactured or prepared therefrom, and other combustible materials, and the exhibitions of fire-works and the discharge of fire arms, and the lights in barns, stables and other buildings, and to restrain the making of bonfires in streets and yards;

Eighth. To prevent the incumbering of streets, sidewalks, cross-walks, lanes, alleys, bridges or aqueducts, drains or ditches in any manner whatever;

Ninth. To prevent and punish horse-racing and immoderate driving or riding in any street, or over any bridge, and to authorize the stopping and detaining any person who shall be guilty of immoderate driving or riding in any street or over any bridge in said city;

Tenth. To authorize any railroad in said city to determine and designate the route and grades of any railroad to be laid in said city, and to restrain and regulate the use of locomotives, engines and cars upon the railroads within the city;

Eleventh. To prohibit or regulate bathing in any public water, or in any open or conspicuous place, or any indecent exposure of the person in the city, and to provide for the cleansing of the river Huron and other streams in said city;

Twelfth. To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, mendicants, street beggars and persons soliciting alms or subscriptions for any purpose whatever;

Thirteenth. To establish and regulate one or more pounds, and to restrain and regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, swine and other animals, geese and poultry, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the costs of keeping and impounding;

Fourteenth. To prevent and regulate the running at large of dogs, and to impose taxes on the owners of dogs, and to prevent dog fights in the streets;

Fifteenth. To prohibit any person from bringing or depositing within the limits of said city and dead carcasses or other unwholesome or offensive substances, and to require the removal or destruction thereof. If any person shall have on his premises such substances, or any putrid meats, fish, hides or skins, of any kind, and on his default, to authorize the removal or destruction thereof, as a public nuisance, by some officer of the city;

Sixteenth. To compel all persons to keep sidewalks in front of premises owned or occupied by them, clear from snow, ice, dirt, wood or obstructions;

Seventeenth. To regulate the ringing of bells, and the crying of goods and other commodities for sale at auction or otherwise, and to prevent disturbing noises in the streets;

Eighteenth. To appoint and prescribe the powers and duties of watchmen, and the fines and penalties for their delinquencies;

Nineteenth. To prohibit, restrain or regulate within such parts of the city as they may deem expedient, and prescribe the building, rebuilding, enlarging, repairing or placing of wooden buildings therein, to regulate and establish the line upon which buildings may be erected upon any street, lane or alley in said

city, and to compel such buildings to be erected upon such line, by fine upon the owner or builder thereof, not to exceed five hundred dollars;

Twentieth. To provide for obtaining, holding, regulating and managing burial grounds, within or without the city, when established for the benefit thereof; to regulate the burial of the dead, and to compel the keeping and return of bills of mortality;

Twenty-first. To establish, order and regulate the markets; to regulate the vending of wood, hay, meat, vegetables, fruits, fish, and provisions of all kinds, and prescribe the time and place of selling the same, and the fees to be paid by butchers for license; to prohibit the sale of unwholesome meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, or other articles of food or provisions; impure, spurious or adulterated wine, spirituous liquors or beer, or knowingly keeping or offering the same for sale: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the common council to restrict in any way the sale of fresh and wholesome meats by the quarter, within the limits of the city;

Twenty-second. To establish, regulate and preserve public reservoirs, wells, penstocks and pumps, and to prevent the waste of water; to authorize and empower, under such regulations and upon such terms and conditions as they may choose, the laying of water-pipes in the streets and alleys of the city for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of said city with water; to grant such exclusive privileges as they may deem expedient, to any company for that purpose, and to regulate the supply and use of the water;

Twenty-third. To regulate sextons and undertakers for burying the dead; cartmen and their carts, hackney carriages and their drivers, omnibuses and their drivers, scavengers, porters and chimney sweeps, and their fees and compensation; and to make regulations for preventing auctions, peddling, pawnbrokerage, or using for hire, carts, drays, cabs, hacks or any kind of carriage or vehicle, or opening or keeping any tavern, hotel, victualing house, saloon, or other house or place for furnishing meals, food or drink, or billiard-tables or ball alleys,

without first obtaining from the common council license therefor; for licensing and regulating carts, drays, cabs, hacks, and all carriages or vehicles kept or used for hire; auctioneers, peddlers, pawn-brokers, auctions, peddling, pawn-brokerage, taverns, hotels, victualing houses, saloons, and other houses or places for furnishing meals, food or drink, and keepers of billiard tables and ball alleys, not used for gaming;

Twenty-fourth. To prevent runners, stage drivers and others, from soliciting passengers and others to travel or ride in any stage, omnibus, or upon any railroad, or to go to any hotel or otherwhere;

Twenty-fifth. To make regulations for the lighting of the streets and alleys, and the protection and safety of public lamps;

Twenty-sixth. To provide for and regulate the numbering of the buildings upon the streets or alleys, and to compel the owners or occupants of buildings to affix numbers on the

same;

Twenty-seventh. To prescribe the duties of all officers appointed by the common council, and their compensation and the penalty or penalties for failing to perform such duties; and to prescribe the bonds and sureties to be given by the officers of the city for the discharge of their duties, and the time for executing the same, in cases not otherwise provided for by law;

Twenty-eighth. To preserve the salubrity of the waters of the Huron river, or other streams within the limits of the city; to fill up low grounds or lots covered, or partially covered with water, or to drain the same, as they may deem expedient;

Twenty-ninth. To prescribe and designate the stands for carriages of all kinds, which carry persons for hire, and carts and carters, and to prescribe the rates of fare and charges, and the stand or stands for wood, hay and produce exposed for sale in said city;

Thirtieth. To provide for taking a census of the inhabitants of said city, whenever they may see fit, and to direct and regulate the same;

Thirty-first. To establish a grade for streets and sidewalks, and cause the sidewalks to be constructed in accordance with the same;

Thirty-second. To prescribe the duties of sealer of weights and measures, and the penalty for using false weights and measures, and all the laws of this State in relation to the sealing of weights and measures, shall apply to said city, except as herein otherwise provided.

SEC. 3. The common council may ascertain, establish and settle the boundaries of all streets and alleys in the said city, and prevent and remove all encroachments thereon, and exercise all other powers conferred on them by this act in relation to highways, the prevention of fires, the preservation of the public health, the levying of taxes, the supplying the city with water, and all other subjects of municipal regulations herein expressly provided for.

SEC. 4. Where by the provisions of this act the common council have authority to pass ordinances on any subject, they may prescribe a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars (unless a greater penalty be herein otherwise provided,) for a violation thereof, or that the offender be imprisoned in the county jail or house of correction for a term not exceeding ninety days; or the common council may, in such by-law or ordinance, direct that the offender shall be punished by fine or imprisonment (within the limits aforesaid) in the discretion of the justice who shall try the offender.

SEC. 5. No ordinance of the common council imposing a fine or imprisonment shall take effect until the same shall have been published for two weeks successively in a newspaper published in said city.

SEC. 6. A record or entry made by the recorder of said city, or a copy of such record or entry duly certified by him, shall be prima facie evidence of the time of such first publication, and all laws, regulations and ordinances of the common council may be read in evidence in all courts of justice, and in all proceedings before any officer, body or board in which it shall be necessary to refer thereto, either