shall be raised by tax as other taxes in said village, and may be added to the annual tax list. 15. The police constable that the trustees of said village Police conare by this act authorised to appoint, shall have the same stable. powers and his duties shall be the same as constables of the town of Mentz; and he shall be subject to the same liabilities and must give security in the same manner, to be approved by the trustees and filed with the clerk of the village. It is his especial duty to see that the police regulations of the village are observed, and discover and report to the president and trustees all violations thereof; he shall have the power, without process, to arrest and bring before the police justice, persons guilty, in his presence, of violating the public peace, or any village ordinance for the preservation of public order and decorum; and he may likewise take into custody any person intoxicated and keep him in a proper place, provided by the trustees, until provided for by his friends, or able to go about his business; and every such arrest must be immediately reported to the president or the police justice in writing, stating the cause of arrest. The police constable is entitled to the same fees as other constables are for similar services; deputy police constables may be appointed by the trustees for any special service or occasion, to have no fees, but to be paid a stated sum for each day's service, but to serve no civil process. TITLE THIRD. Of the board of trustees. §1. The board of trustees shall meet at such place and Meetings. at such times as they shall by resolution direct. 2. The president, when present, shall preside at the President. meetings of the board of trustees, and shall have, on all questions, a casting vote or ballot only. In his absence, any one of the trustees may be appointed chairman for the time. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Powers. 3. The said trustees shall have the management and con- General trol of the finances of all the property, real and personal, belonging to said corporation, and shall have power, within said village, to make, establish, publish, and modify, amend and repeal rules and regulations and by-laws for the follow ing purposes: H 1. To prevent vice and immorality, to preserve peace and good order, to prevent and quell riots and disorderly assemblages. 2. To regulate the police of said village. 3. To restrain and suppress disorderly and gaming houses, all instruments and devices used for gaming, and to prohibit all gaming and fraudulent devices within the said village. 4. To prohibit the selling or giving away to be drunk, any intoxicating liquors to any child or youth under sixteen years of age, without the consent of his or her parent or guardian. 5. To prohibit, restrain and regulate all exhibitions of any natural or artificial curiosities, caravans of animals, theatrical and other shows and exhibitions, circuses, or other performances for money, and to authorise the same on such terms as the trustees shall deem expedient. 6. To repress and restrain disorderly houses or houses of ill fame, billiard tables, bowling allies and pistol galleries. 7. To compel the owner or occupant of any tallow chandler shop, soap factory, tanning stall, privy or sewer or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same, from time to time, as often as in the opinion of the trustees the same may be necessary for the health and comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of said village. 8. To direct the location of all slaughter houses, markets, and houses for storing gunpowder and other dangerous materials, and the use of candles and lights in barns and stables and other buildings. 9. To prevent horse racing, immoderate driving in the streets of said village, and to authorise the stopping of any one who shall be guilty of immoderate riding or driving in said streets by any person, and to prevent the flying of kites, rolling of hoops and playing ball in any of the streets of said village. 10. To prevent the encumbering of the streets, squares, sidewalks, crosswalks, lanes and alleys with teams, carriages, carts, sleighs, sleds, wheelbarrows, boxes, lumber, timber, fire wood, or any other substance or material what ever. 11. To regulate and determine, or prohibit, the time and places of bathing and swimming in all waters in said village. 2 12. To restrain the running at large of cattle, horses and swine, and to authorize the distraining and empounding and sale of the same for the penalty and costs of keeping and proceedings. 13. To prohibit any person from bringing and depositing within the limits of said village, any dead carcass or other unwholesome substance, and to require the removal or destruction by any person who shall leave on or upon his premises any such substance, or any putrid meats, fish, hides, or skins of any kind, and on his default, the removal or destruction thereof by some officer of the village. 14. To compel all persons to keep snow and dirt from and off the sidewalks in front of the premises owned or occupied by them. 15. To regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells and the crying of goods, wares and merchandise or other commodity in said village. 16. To prevent and regulate the running at large of dogs owned by persons residing in said village. 17. To require the removal, from said village, of all persons having infectious or pestilential diseases, and to authorise any officers of said village to remove such person. 18. To direct the keeping and returning of bills of mortality. 19. To establish, regulate, make and guard public reservoirs, pumps and wells, and to prevent unnecessary waste of water. 20. To appoint one or more examiners of weights and measures. 21. To prescribe the powers and duties of watchmen. 22. To establish and regulate public pounds. 23. To restrain and regulate hawking and peddling in the streets. 24. Concerning the abatement and removal of nuisances. 25. Concerning the lighting of the streets of the village, and the protection and safety of the public lamps. the trustees, and their compensation. 26. Concerning the duties of all officers appointed by 27. To establish and organize a fire department, to be composed of one or more fire and hook and ladder companies, in said village; the members of which company or companies not to exceed fifty to each engine or hose cart, and to regulate the management, use and protection of the engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, belonging to said Arrest of disorderly persons village; to prescribe the powers and duties of the fire, hose, and hook and ladder companies, and all members thereof, in every particular, the members of which shall always be subject to removal by the trustees. 28. Concerning the public buildings, the markets, and the proper regulation of the sales of fish, meat and vegetables, in said village. 29. Concerning the exhibition of fireworks, explosion of gunpowder, and the discharge of fire arms, in said village. 30. To protect property, both real and personal, of individuals, at times of fires, and to appoint guards for the protection of the same, and to prescribe their powers and duties and compensation. 31. To appoint one or more persons to enter, at reasonable times, and examine all houses, stores, chimney pipes and ovens, yards and out buildings, to ascertain if they are in a dangerous state in regard to fires, and direct and compel the owner or occupant to put the same in a safe condition, and in default, to appoint any person to do the same. 32. To compel the occupants of buildings where fire is kept, to keep two fire buckets. § 2. The trustees of said village, and each of them, and the president thereof, shall have power, at any and all times, to cause to be arrested by any person, and without process, any and all disorderly persons, drunkards and common prostitutes, found in the streets of said village, and also to cause to be entered by any person, without process, any building or place within said village, and arrest all disorderly persons, drunkards, rioters and common prostitutes, and cause them to be taken before the police justice in said village, to be by him required to enter into sureties for their future good behavior, and shall have power to cause such individuals to be detained until the police justice can be found to attend to the hearing thereof; and he shall have power, at any and all times, to command assistance from any inhabitant of said village, to quell all disturbances, riots or routs, and shall have at all times, in cases of fire in said village, the power to command the assistance of any individual not connected with the fire department, for the protection of property from the destruction thereof by fire or otherwise; and are authorized to cause to be arrested all suspicious appearing individuals present at the occurrence of fires, and a refusal by any individual to comply with any reasonable direction of the said president or trustees, or either of them, under any how §3. The said trustees shall have power to enforce all Penalties. provisions of this act, by ordering penalties to be incurred uw prosefor each and every violation of the same, not exceeding fifty dollars for any one offence, to be recovered with costs in an action in the name of said village, in any court having cognizance thereof; and no person shall be deemed incompetent either as a justice, juror or witness, by reason of his being an inhabitant of said village, upon any trial arising under the said act, or either of them: Every such ordinance or by-law imposing any penalty or forfeiture for a violation of its provisions, shall, after the passage thereof, take effect at such time as said trustees shall direct, and the same shall be published at least two weeks successively in a public newspaper published or posted in three public places in said village, and proof of such publication by the affidavits of the publisher, taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths, shall be filed with the clerk in said village, and a copy thereof, certified by said clerk, or any other competent proof of such publication, shall be conclusive evidence of the legal promulgation of such ordinance, or by-law, in all courts and places, in any action brought to recover any penalty or forfeitu re incurred under said acts or ordinances, by-laws or public before any justice of the peace, may be commenced by regulations, made in pursuance of it, that shall be brought warrant; all expenses incurred in prosecuting for any penalty or forfeiture, shall be defrayed by the corporation, and all penalties and forfeitures when collected, shall be paid to the treasurer for the use of the village. and streets. §4. The trustees of said village shall have power to Side-walks cause the sidewalks on the streets and highways in said village to be levelled, raised, graveled, flagged, repaired and ornamented with trees, and to compel the owners or occupants of any land or lots adjoining such sidewalks, to make such improvements upon the sidewalks as aforesaid, in front of said land or lots, and to determine and prescribe the manner of doing the same and the materials to be used thereon, and the quality of such materials, and in case the owner or Occupant of such land or lots shall neglect or refuse to |