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tion which may be considered by the Council dangerous to the city, or any property therein, or annoying any citizen thereof.

Sixteenth-To prevent open or notorious drunkenness and obscenity in the streets or public places of said city, and to provide for the arrest and punishment of all persons who shall be guilty of the same.

Seventeenth-To restrain and regulate porters; and also runners, agents and solicitors for boats, vessels, stages, cars, public-houses, or other establishments.

Eighteenth-To establish public markets and other public buildings and make rules and regulations for the government of the same, to appoint suitable officers for overseeing and regulating such markets, and to restrain all persons from interrupting or interfering with the due observance of such rules and regulations.

Nineteenth-To license and regulate butchers' stall-shops and stands for the sale of game, poultry, butchers meat, butter, fish and other provisions.

Twentieth-To regulate the place and manner of weighing hay and selling the same, and the measuring and selling of firewood, coal and lime, and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same.

Powers of the

Twenty-First-To compel the owner or occupant of build-council ings or grounds to remove snow, dirt, or rubbish from the side-walk, 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 thereof, by some officer of the city, at the expense of such owner or occupant.

Twenty-Second-To control and regulate the construction of piers or wharves, or grading said wharves into the Mississippi River within the corporate limits of said city, and to prescribe and control the prices to be charged for pierage or wharfage thereon, and to prevent and remove all obstructions in the water of said river. And to prescribe and regulate rates of wharfage and pierage to be charged to any boat or vessel landing or mooring at any landing, wharf or pier, within the limits of said city, and paid to said city; and to regulate the landings, levee, wharves and piers within the limits of said city, and boats and vessels landing and mooring at the same.

Twenty-Third--To regulate, control and prevent the land-, ing of persons from boats or vessels whereon are contagious or infectious diseaaes or disorders, and to make such dispo-t sition of such persons as to preserve the health of said city. Twenty-Fourth-To regulate the time, manner and place of holding public auctions or vendues.

Twenty-Fifth-To provide for watchmen, and to prescribe their number and duties and regulate the same; and to create

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and establish the police of said city, and to prescribe the number of police officers and their duties, and to regulate the

same.

Twenty-Sixth-To provide by ordinance for a standard of weights and measures; for the appointment of a City Sealer, and to require all weights and measures to be sealed by the City Sealer, and to provide for the punishment of the use of false weights and measures.

Twenty-Seventh-To regulate the inspection of flour, pork, beef, fish, salt, whiskey, and other liquors and provisions. Twenty-Eighth-To regulate the measurement and inspection of lumber, shingles, timber and building materials.

Twenty-Ninth To appoint inspectors, weighers and guagers; to regulate their duties and prescribe their compensation.

Thirtieth-To direct and regulate the planting and preserv ing of ornamental trees in the streets and public grounds.

Thirty-First-To remove and abate any nuisance, obstruction or encroachment upon the streets, alleys, public grounds, and highways of the city.

Thirty-Second-To remove and abate any nuisance injurious to the public health, and to provide for the punishment of all persons who shall cause or maintain such nuisances.

Thirty-Third-To do all acts and make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the preservation of health and the suppression of disease, and to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city; and to make quarantine laws and enforce the same within the city.

Thirty-Fourth-To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street-beggars and prostitutes.

Thirty-Fifth-Fines, penalties and punishments imposed by the Common Council for the breach of any ordinance, bylaw or regulation of said city may extend to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and imprisonment in the city prison and county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, and to be fed on bread and water at the discretion of the City Justice; and offenders against the same may be requir ed to give security for their good behavior, and to keep the peace for a period not exceeding six months, and in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars

Thirty-Sixth-The Common Council shall have power to establish a work-house in said city, and may provide by ordinance. that any one convicted of an offense before the City Justice and committed upon non-payment of fine imposed, shall be committed to the work-house and be required to work out the amount of his fine under such regulations, and in such manner as the Common Council may prescribe. And the said Common Council, for the purpose of providing for the erection of such work-house, may issue the bonds of said city, not exceeding the amount of ten thousand dollars,

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for a time not exceeding ten years, and bearing interest not Powers of the exceeding twelve per cent. per annum, in such form and Council amounts and under such regulations as the Common Council may prescribe. The Common Council shall also have power, in lieu of punishment by imprisonment provided by this Act, to provide that the offender may be committed to the work. house, and set to work not exceeding thirty days, under such regulations and in such manner as the Common Council may ordain.

may be

SEC. 4. All ordinances, regulations, resolutions and bylaws shall be passed by an affirmative vote of a majority of How ordinanthe members of the Common Council present, by ayes and ces noes, and published in the official paper, before the same passed. shall be in force, and shall be admitted as evidence in any Court in the State, without further proof; they shall be recorded by the City Clerk in books to be provided for that purpose. No appropriation shall be made without a vote of a majority of the members of the Common Council present in its favor, which shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered among the proceedings of the Council.

SEC. 5. The powers conferred upon the Common Council

to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances shall Additional not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings in the powers, Courts according to law. Depots, houses or buildings of any kind wherein more than twenty-five pounds of gunpowder are deposited, stored or kept at any one time; gambling houses, houses of ill-fame, disorderly taverns, and houses or places where spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors are sold without license required therefor, within the limits of said city, are hereby declared and shall be deemed public or common nuisances.

examine ac

SEC. 6. The Council shall examine, audit and adjust the accounts of the Clerk, Treasurer, Street Commissioner of each Ward, City Justice, Wharf Master, and all other officers Council to and agents of the city, at such times as they may deem prop-counts er, and also at the end of each year, and before the term for which the officers of said city were elected or appointed shall have expired. And the Common Council shall require each and every such officer and agent to exhibit his books, accounts, and vouchers for such examination and settlement; and if any such officer or agent shall refuse to comply with the orders of said Council in the discharge of their said duties, in pursuance of this Section, or shall neglect or refuse to render his accounts or present his books and vouchers to said Council, or a Committee thereof, it shall be the duty of the Common Council to declare the office of such person vacant. And the Common Council shall order suits and proceedings at law against any officer and agent of said city, who may be found delinquent or defaulting in his accounts, or in the discharge of his official duties; and shall make a full record of all such settlements and adjustments.

sue bonds

SEC. 7. The Common Council may, during any fiscal year, by a vote of two-thirds, issue the bonds of said city, bearing interest not exceeding twelve per cent. per annum, and for a Power to is- time not exceeding one year, in such amounts and under such regulations as the Common Council may prescribe in anticipation of the taxes and revenues of such fiscal year: Previded, That the amount of such bonds outstanding shall not at any one time exceed one-third of such taxes and revenues: And provided, That such bonds, or the proceeds thereof, shall be applied to the same purposes as the taxes and revenues in anticipation whereof they may be issued.

Bonds for water works]

SEC. 8. The Common Council may, for the purpose of providing for the erection and construction of water works for supplying said city and the inhabitants thereof with water, and for the purpose of providing the necessary pipes, conduits and apparatus for introducing and distributing the same, and also for the purpose of providing fire-engines and apparatus for extinguishing fires,-by a vote of two-thirds, issue the bonds of said city bearing interest not exceeding twelve per cent. per annum, and for a time not exceeding twenty years nor less than five years, in such amounts and under such regulations as the Common Council may prescribe: Provided, That the amount of bonds issued under this section shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; and that all revenues and water rents collected from such water-works shall be applied to the necessary expenses thereof, and to the payment of the interest of the bonds issued for such purposes, and for providing a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof. And the Common Council shall provide for the payment of the interest and the ultimate payment of the principal of any city bonds which shall be issued under this section, and for that purpose is authorized, if need be, to assess and collect annually a special tax on the real and personal property of said city, as other taxes are levied and collected in said city, not exceeding one-half per cent. per annum : And provided further, That a proposition to issue bonds for the purposes aforesaid (except to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars for fire-engines) shall be first submitted to a vote of the qualified voters of said city, at any annual election or at a special election held for that purpose, in such manner and at such time as the Common Council may prescribe, for their approval or rejection; and in case such water-works are provided by the city, the Common Council shall have power to establish and ordain all needful regulations and ordinances in relation thereto, and to assess and establish such water rents and charges for the use of the water, to be paid by the persons using the same, as the said Common Council may deem expedient; and the said Common Council shall have power to regulate the use of the water, and provide for and regulate the collection of the water rents and charges for the use thereof, and to appoint

all needful officers for the purposes aforesaid and to prescribe their duties and compensation.

CHAPTER V.-FINANCES AND TAXATION.

Funds under

SEC. 1. All funds in the Treasury, except State, School and County Funds, shall be under the control of the Common Council, and be drawn out upon the order of the Mayor and the control of Clerk, and countersigned by the Comptroller, duly authorized the council by a vote of the Common Council; and all orders drawn upon the Treasurer shall specify the purpose for which they were drawn, and shall be payable generally out of any funds in the treasury belonging to the city; and all such orders shall be received in payment for any tax or assessment levied by authority of the city. All orders shall be payable to the order of the person in whose favor they may be drawn, and may be transferred by endorsement.

Tax for city

SEC. 2. The said Council shall have power to annually levy a tax upon all the property in said city subject to taxation, not ex-expenses ceeding one-half per cent. per annum, to defray the current expenses of the city.

SEC. 3. The Common Council shall also annually levy upon For ward exthe property liable to taxation in each ward a tax, not ex-penses ceeding one-half per centum per annum, to defray the current expenses of such ward.

SEC. 4. It shall and may be lawful for the Common Council of the said city, at any meeting, to levy a corporation or poll tax upon every qualified voter in said city: Provided, That the said tax shall not in any one year exceed the sum of one dollar on each person so taxed.

CHAPTER VI.-OPENING STREETS, ALLEYS, ETC.

Levy poll tax

trol streets

SEC. 1. The Common Council shall have the care, supervison and control of all public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares and grounds within the limits of said Council to concity, and shall cause all streets which may have been opened and graded to be kept open and in repair and free from nuisances. No street or alley which shall hereafter be dedicated to public use by the proprietor or proprietors of grounds within said city, shall be recognized as a public street or alley of said city, unless the Common Council shall first approve the plat thereof, or accept such dedication, or afterwards confirm the same by an ordinance specially passed for such purpose.

SEC. 2. The Common Council shall have power to lay out, open, alter and vacate public squares, streets, grounds, high-Council to con ways and alleys, and to widen and straighten the same: trol streets Provided, That whenever it shall be required to take private

lands or property for the purposes aforesaid, the Common Council shall not have power to act thereon except as follows: