etc.

poses shall have authority by ordinance, resolution or by-law.

To grant licens- 1. To regulate groceries, taverns, victualing houses, es to groceries, saloons, gardens, and all other places within said city where spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors are sold or given away, and to license, regulate and restrain tavern keepers, groceries, keepers of saloons, victualing houses or other houses, or the places for the dealing in selling or giving away spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, and to regulate the amount to be paid for such licenses; and to restrain or prohibit any person from vending, giving or dealing in spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, unless duly licensed by authority of the common council; provided, that the amount charged for such license shall in no case be less than fifty dollars ($50.00), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) per annum. Such license shall not be granted for a longer term than one year, and shall run from the 1st day of May; provided, however, when any such license is applied for after that date, the same may be granted, to expire on the 1st day of May next following, on the applicant paying pro rata therefor.

Bowling alleys,

etc.

Shows, etc.

Gambling.

Disorderly places.

places.

2. To license, tax, regulate, suppress or prohibit billiard tables, nine or ten pin alleys, bowling saloons and ball alleys.

3. To license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit all exhibitions of common showmen, shows of any and every kind, concerts or other musical entertainments, exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, theatrical performances and all other exhibitions and amusements.

4. To restrain, prohibit and suppress all descriptions of gambling and fraudulent devices and practices, and all playing of cards, dice or other games of chance, with or without betting.

5. To prevent any riot, noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblages, suppress and restrain disorderly houses or groceries, and houses of ill fame, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for the purpose of gambling.

Uuwholesome 6. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandler's shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, barn, privy, sewer or other unwholesome nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time to time, as often as it may be necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants. of said city.

Breweries, tanneries, etc.

7. To direct the location and management of, and

regulate, breweries, tanneries and packing houses; and to direct the location, management and construction of, and regulate licenses, restrain, abate or prohibit, within the city limits and the distances of two miles therefrom, distilleries, slaughter houses, establishments for steaming or rendering lard, tallow, offal and such other substances as can or may be rendered, and all establishments or places where any nauseous, offensive or unwholesome business may be carried on.

of streets.

8. To prevent the encumbering of streets, sidewalks, Encumbering lanes or alleys with railroads, cars, locomotives, engine or engines, carriages, carts, wagons, sleighs, boxes, lumber, pine wood or any other materials or substances whatever.

driving.

9. To prevent horse racing and immoderate riding Fast riding and or driving in the streets, and to authorize any person to stop persons, immoderately riding or driving as aforesaid, to prohibit and punish the abuse of animals, and to compel persons to fasten their horses, oxen or other animals, attached to vehicles or otherwise, while standing or remaining in any street, alley or public ground.

materials.

10. To license, regulate and restrain the keeping, Combustible conveying, vending and storage of gunpowder and other combustible and dangerous material.

11. To regulate and determine the times and places Bathing. of bathing and swimming in the rivers, harbor and other waters in and adjoining said city, and to prevent any obscene or indecent exhibition, exposure or conduct.

12. To restrain, regulate or prohibit the running at Impounding of large of cattle, horses, mules, swine, sheep, goats, poul- animals. try and geese, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred, and the costs of the proceedings, and also to impose penalties on the owners of any such animals for a violation of any ordinance in relation thereto.

13. To prevent the running at large of dogs, and to Dogs. authorize the destruction of the same in a summary manner, when at large contrary to ordinance.

14. To prevent any person from bringing depositing or having within said city any putrid carcass or other unwholesome substance, and to require the removal of the same, by any person who shall have upon his premises any such substance; and to require the removal of the same by any person who shall have upon his premises any such substance, putrid or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides, skin or substance of any kind, and

Unwholesome substances.

Water supplies

Lighting of streets.

Hackmen, etc.

Runners.

Boards of health.

Cemeteries.

Pest-houses.

Contagious diseases.

Nuisances.

Markete.

on his default to authorize the removal by some competent officer, at the expense of such person or persons.

15. To make and establish public pounds, pumps, wells, cisterns, reservoirs, and to provide for the erection of water works for the supply of water to the inhabitants, and to prevent unnecessary waste of water. 16. To erect lamps and regulate the lighting thereof, and to provide for lighting streets, public grounds and public buildings with gas or otherwise.

17. To regulate licenses, and suppress omnibus drivers, hackmen, coachmen, cabmen, cartmen, draymen and all others who may pursue like occupations in this city, and to prescribe their compensation.

18. To restrain and regulate runners and solicitors for boats, vessels, cars, railroads, stages, public houses or other establishments.

19. To establish and regulate boards of health, and define their powers and duties.

20. To provide hospital and cemetery grounds, regulate the burial of the dead, and the return of the bills of mortality, and exempt burial grounds set apart for public use from taxation.

21. To erect or establish one or more pest houses, hospitals and dispensaries, and control and regulate the same.

22. To regulate, control and prevent the landing of persons from boats or vessels wherein are contagious or infectious diseases or disorders, and to make such disposition of such persons as to preserve the health of said city, and also to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, or spread therein, and to make quarantine laws or regu lations and to enforce the same within the city, and not exceeding two miles beyond the city limits.

23. To abate and remove all nuisances, under the ordinances, the laws of the state or at common law, and punish the authors thereof by penalties, fines and imprisonment, and to define and declare what shall be deemed nuisances, and authorize and direct the summary abatement thereof. But nothing in this act shall be so construed as to oust any court of its jurisdiction to abate and remove nuisances in the streets or any other part of the city or within its jurisdiction, by indictment, information or otherwise.

24. To establish public markets and make rules and regulations for the government of the same; point suitable officers for overseeing and regulating such markets, and to restrain all persons from inter

rupting or interfering with the due observance of such rules and regulations.

25. To regulate the size, weight, quality and sale of Bread. bread, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary thereto.

26. To prevent all persons riding or driving any ox, Sidewalke. mule, cattle, or other animal on the sidewalks in said.

city, or in any way doing any damage to said sidewalks.

27. To prevent the shooting of firearms or crackers, Firearme. and to prevent the exhibition of any fireworks in any situation which may be considered by the council dangerous to the city, or any property therein, or annoying to any citizen thereof.

28. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, Vagrants, prosstreet beggars and prostitutes, and to restrain drunken. titutes, etc. ness or obscenity in the streets or public places, and to provide for arresting, removing and punishing any person or persons who may be guilty of the same.

29. To regulate butchers, and to regulate and re- Sale of meats. strain the sale of game, poultry, fresh meat, vegetables, fish, butter, eggs, and other provisions in the city, and to cause the seizure and destruction of tainted or unwholesome meat, butter, vegetables, fruit or provisions.

30. To regulate the place and manner of weighing Hay, lime, and selling hay, and measuring and selling fuel and lamber, etc. lime, and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same and to appoint a fish inspector, and regulate by ordinance his duties and fees, and to regulate the measuring and inspection of lumber, shingles, timber, posts, staves and headings, and all building materials, and to appoint an inspector.

and rubbish.

31. To compel the owners and occupants of build- Removal of dirt ings and grounds to remove snow, dirt or rubbish from the sidewalks, streets or alleys opposite thereto, and to compel such owner or occupant to move 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.

wharves.

dock lines.

32. To regulate the construction of piers and wharves Piers and extending into Wolf river, within the limits of the city. 33. To establish wharf and dock lines upon the Wharf and banks of Wolf river, within said city, and to restrain and prevent encroachment upon said river, and obstructions thereto, and to construct, alter and maintain, or cause to be constructed, altered and maintained, at

Watchmen and policemen.

Auctions.

Licenses.

Trees and monuments.

Weights and

measures.

Gutters and

Bewere.

Repair and laying out of streets and alleys.

Jurisdiction of
Justices.

Police court.

the expense of the city or either ward, wharves at the foot of the streets along the bank of said river.

34. To appoint watchmen and policemen, and to establish and regulate the police of the city and prescribe their duties, such watchmen and policemen to be nominated by the aldermen of the ward in which said watchmen and policemen is required to serve. The expense of the same to be paid by the ward for which he is appointed.

35. To regulate the times, places and manner of holding public auctions and vendues.

36. To tax, license and regulate auctioneers, distilleries, brewers, and pawn brokers, and to tax, license, regulate and restrain hawkers and peddlers, and keepers or proprietors of gift bookstores, gift concerts, and other gift enterprises.

37. To protect monuments in the city, and direct and regulate the planting and preservation of ornamental trees in the streets and public grounds.

38. To provide by ordinance for a standard of weights and measures, and for the punishment of the use of false weights and measures.

39. To provide for and regulate the construction of gutters or sewers within said city.

40. To control, regulate, repair, amend and clear the streets and alleys, bridges, and side and cross walks, and to lay out, open, widen, straighten, alter and va cate streets and alleys, and establish and alter the grade thereof, and alter and change the name thereof, and prevent the encumbering of the streets and alleys in any manner, and protect the same from any encroachment or injury, or to regulate the manner of using the streets and pavements in said city, and protect the same from injury by vehicles used thereon.

41. The justice of the peace for the city at large elected under this act, shail have exclusive jurisdiction as justice of the peace for two years, or until his successor is appointed or elected, in all actions for the recovery of any penalty or fine, under all laws of said city, and all ordinances, by-laws or police regulations thereof; should any vacancy occur, or the police justice be unable for any cause to perform the duties of that office, the common council shall appoint one of the other justices to hold such office until the disability is removed or the vacancy filled by a new election.

42. The said justice shall hold a police court in said city at such place as the common council shall designate and provide.