amend, and repeal such ordinances, by-laws, and regulations as they deem desirable within said city for the following purposes: First, To prevent vice and immortality, to preserve peace and vation of peace, good order, to regulate the police of the city, to prevent and quell riots, disturbances, and disorderly assemblages; Vice, immorality, and preser etc. Gaming houses, etc. Intoxicating liquors, etc. Auctions. Shows, etc. Nuisances. Slaughter houses, markets, etc. Firearms, fire. works, etc. Encumbering of streets, etc. Immoderate driving, etc. Railroads. Bathing. Second, To restrain and prevent disorderly and gaming houses, and houses of ill-fame, all instruments and devices used for gaming, and to prohibit all gaming and fraudulent devices, and regulate or restrain billard-tables and bowling alleys; Third, To forbid and prevent the vending or other disposition of liquors and intoxicating drinks in violation of the laws of this State, and to forbid the selling or giving to be drank any intoxicating liquors to any child or young person without the consent of his or her parent or guardian, and to prohibit, restrain, and regulate the sale of all goods, wares, and personal property at auction, except in cases of sales authorized by law, and to fix the fees to be paid by and to auctioneers; Fourth, To prohibit, restrain, license, and regulate all sports, exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans of animals, theatrical exhibitions, circuses, or other public performances and exhibitions for money; 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, soap factory, tannery, stable, privy, hog-pen, sewer, or other offensive or unwholesome house or place, to cleanse, remove, or abate the same from time to time as often as they may deem necessary for the health, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of said city; Sixth, To direct the location of all slaughter houses, markets, and buildings for storing gunpowder, or other combustible materials, and to regulate the manner of keeping the same; Seventh, To regulate, restrain, or prohibit the buying, selling, carrying, and using of firearms, weapons, gunpowder, fire-crackers, or fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, or from other combustible materials, and the exhibition of fireworks, and the discharge of fire-arms, and the lights in barns, stables, and other buildings, and to restrain and prohibit the making of bonfires in streets, yards, alleys, and public places; Eighth, To prevent the encumbering of streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, lanes, alleys, bridges, aqueducts, wharves, or slips in any manner whatever; Ninth, To prevent and punish horse-racing and immoderate riding or driving in any street, and to authorize the stopping and detaining any person who shall be guilty of immoderate riding or driving in any street; Tenth, To determine and designate the routes 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 regulate, restrain, or prohibit bathing in any public water, and to provide for cleansing Saginaw river of drift wood and other obstructions; Twelfth, To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, mendi- Drunkards, etc. cants, street beggars, and persons soliciting alms or subscriptions for any purpose whatever; Thirteenth, To establish one or more pounds, and to restrain, Pounds. regulate, or prohibit 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 regulate or prevent the running at large of dogs, Dogs, and dog to impose taxes on the owners of dogs, and to prevent and punish fights. dog fights in the streets and elsewhere in said city; Fifteenth, To prohibit any person from bringing and depositing Unwholesome within the limits of said city any dead carcass or other unwhole- substances. some or offensive substance, and to require the removal or destruction thereof if any person shall have on his premises such substance or any putrid meats, fish, hides, or skins of any kind, and on his default to authorize the removal or destruction thereof by some officer of the city; Sixteenth, To compel all persons to keep sidewalks in front of Sidewalks. premises owned or occupied by them clear from snow, dirt, wood, and all other obstructions; Seventeenth, To regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells and the Ringing of crying of goods and other commodities for sale at auction or other- bells, etc. wise, and to prevent disturbing noises in the streets and elsewhere in said city; Eighteenth, To prescribe the powers and duties of watchmen Watchmen. and the fines and penalties for their delinquencies; Nineteenth, To regulate the burial of the dead and to compel Burial of dead. the keeping and return of bills of mortality; Twentieth, To establish, order, and regulate the markets, to pro- Regulation of hibit the forestalling the same, to regulate the vending of wood, markets. meats, vegetables, fruits, fish, and provisions of all kinds, and prescribe the time and place for selling the same, and the fees to be paid by butchers for license: Provided, That nothing herein contained Proviso. 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-first, To establish, regulate, and preserve public reser- Reservoirs, voirs, fountains, wells, and pumps, and to prevent the waste of wells, etc. water; takers, lack etc. Twenty-second, To adopt rules for the regulation of sextons and Sextons, under. undertakers in burying the dead, to license and regulate solicitors men, draymen, for passengers or for baggage for the benefit of any hotel, tavern, hotel runners, public house, boat or railroad, also to license and regulate draymen, carmen, truckmen, porters, runners, drivers of cabs, coupés, hackney coaches, omnibuses, carriages, sleighs, express vehicles, and vehicles of every other description used or employed for hire, and to fix and regulate the amounts and rates of their compensation; Twenty-third, To regulate or prohibit runners, public porters, Runners, and all drivers of public conveyances for persons from soliciting porters, etc. Lighting of streets. Auctioneers, peddlers. etc. Prescribing duties of officers appointed. Preserve salubrity of waters. Stands for car. riages, etc. Docks. Harbor masters. Weights and measures. Licenses. Idem. passengers or others to travel or ride in any public conveyance, boat, or upon any railroad, or to go to any hotel or otherwheres, and to license and regulate scavengers and chimney sweeps; Twenty-fourth, Concerning the lighting of streets, alleys, and public places, and the protection and safety of public lamps and lights; Twenty-fifth, To license and regulate auctioneers, hawkers, peddlers, and pawn-brokers, to regulate auctions, hawking, peddling, and pawn-brokerage, also the peddling and hawking of fruits, nuts, cakes, refreshments, jewelry, merchandise, goods, and other property whatsoever by hand, hand-cart, show-case, show-stand, or otherwise in the public streets, also to license and regulate or suppress hucksters; Twenty-sixth, 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-seventh, To preserve the salubrity of the waters of Saginaw river, or other streams within the limits of said city, to fill up all low grounds or lots covered or partially covered with water, or to drain the same, as they may deem expedient; Twenty-eighth, To prescribe and designate the stands for carriages of all kinds which carry persons for hire, and for 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; Twenty-ninth, To prescribe the line upon which docks shall be built in Saginaw river and beyond which they shall not extend, and to enforce the same by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to regulate such docks, and to compel the owners or occupants thereof to keep the same in repair; Thirtieth, To appoint so many harbor masters as they may deem necessary, and to prescribe their powers, duties, and compensation; Thirty-first, To prescribe the duties of sealers 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; Thirty-second, To authorize the mayor to grant, issue, and revoke licenses in all cases when licenses may be granted under this act and the ordinances of the common council; Thirty-third, To prescribe the sum of money to be paid into the treasury of the city for every license which may be granted under this act and the ordinances of said city, also the time for which licenses shall be granted, to require all licenses to be countersigned by the clerk, to require of all persons applying for a license, before the issuing thereof, the execution of a bond to the city, in such sum as the common council may direct with one or more sufficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful observance of the char ter and ordinances of the city, and otherwise conditioned as the common council may prescribe; Thirty-fourth, To establish and maintain a public library, and to Public library. provide a suitable building therefor, and to aid in maintaining such other public libraries as may be established within said city by private munificence, as the common council may deem to be for the public good. SEC. 2. That section one of title four of said charter shall be Section amended so that the same shall read as follows: amended. SEC. 1. It shall be the duty of the mayor to take care that the Powers and laws of the State and the ordinances of the common council be duties of mayor. faithfully executed, to exercise a constant supervision and control over the conduct of all subordinate officers, and to receive and examine into all complaints against them for neglect of duty, to recommend to the common council such measures as he shall deem expedient, to expedite such as shall be resolved by them, and in general to maintain the peace and good order and advance the prosperity of the city; the mayor may also issue process and hear in a summary way any complaint against any person to whom a license of any description has been granted in pursuance of this act for any violation of the laws of the State or the ordinances of the common council, and may issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses on the hearing of such complaint, in the same manner as justices of the peace in the trial of civil causes, and on such hearing may annul such license or suspend it for any certain time. Every determination on such complaint shall be forth with filed with the clerk of the city, who shall serve a certified copy thereof on the person holding a license affected by such determination, either personally or by leaving the same at his or her usual place of abode, and from the time of such service such license shall be annulled or suspended, according to the tenor of such determination. SEC. 3. That section eleven of title twelve of the charter of said Section city shall be amended so that the same shall read as follows: amended. money in antici of assess sewers, etc. SEC. 11. To meet the expense of the construction of sewers in Borrowing said city, in anticipation of the collection of assessments and taxes pation of collecto defray the expense and costs thereof, the common council may not for conby resolution authorize and direct the mayor, controller, and clerk struction of of said city to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in any one year for such purpose, and to issue the bonds of said city therefor bearing interest at a rate not exceeding seven per cent per annum, and payable in four, seven, and ten years from the respective dates; said bonds to be endorsed "sewer bonds," and to be numbered consecutively; said bonds shall not be sold for less than par, and the proceeds of the same shall be paid to the city treasurer and by him placed to the credit of the sewer fund: Provided, That the total amount of the bonds which Proviso. the common council is thus authorized to issue shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars outstanding at any one time. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Proceedings legalized. Sections amended. Jurisdiction? of justices in offenses under Proceedings before justice in cases arising under. [ No. 289.] AN ACT to legalize the proceedings relative to the levy and assessment of the sewer tax in the village of Alma, Gratiot county, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the sewer tax assessed in the village of Alma, Gratiot county, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby legalized, and the assessment made on account of said sewer shall have the same force and be as binding as though a majority of the resident property owners had joined in the petition for the construction of said sewer. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 290.] AN ACT to amend section twenty-nine of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Marshall," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That section number twenty-nine of "An act to incorporate the city of Marshall," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 29. Any justice of the peace of said city is hereby authorized and empowered to inquire of, hear, try, and determine, in a ordinances, by summary manner, all the offenses which shall be committed within laws, etc., of city. the limits of said city against any of the by-laws or ordinances which shall be made by the common council, in pursuance of the powers granted by this act; to punish the offenders as by the said laws or ordinances shall be prescribed or directed; to award all processes, and take recognizances for the keeping of the peace, for the appearance of the person charged, and upon appeal, and to commit to prison, as occasion shall lawfully require. In all prosecutions for a violation of any of the by-laws or ordinances passed by the said common council, upon complaint being made upon oath before said justice, setting forth therein the substance of the offense complained of, such justice of the peace shall issue a warrant in the name of the people of the State of Michigan, for the apprehension of the offender, directed to the marshal of the city of Marshall, or any constable of the county of Calhoun, except in the case mentioned in the next succeeding section, and such process may be executed by any of said officers anywhere within the county of Calhoun, and shall be returnable the same as other similar process issued by justices of the peace; that upon bringing the person so charged before said justice of the peace, he shall plead to said complaint, and in case of his refusing to plead thereto, or standing mute, the said justice of the peace shall enter the plea of not guilty |