ing the amount allowed county or township officers for similar services.

SEC. 23. The council may hold its meetings as it sees fit, having fixed stated times, or provide the manner of calling them by ordinance, and its meetings shall be public.

ficers.

SEC. 24. The council may appoint in such manner as it Subordinate ofdetermines, during its pleasure, street commissioners, a clerk of the market, city supervisor, health oflicers, and such other officers as it may deem advisable, and may prescribe their duties, powers and qualifications, and may provide for the election of any such officers by the citizens.

SEC. 25. When a vacancy occurs in any of the elective Vacancy. city offices, the council may fill the vacancy by appointment of record until the next election, and the qualification of the

successor.

SEC. 26. The city council is invested with authority to City council, make ordinances to secure the inhabitants against fire, against violations of the law and the public peace, to suppress riots, gambling and drunkenness, and indecent or disorderly conduct, and to punish lewd behavior in public places, and in general to provide for the safety and prosperity and good order of the city, and the health, morals, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants, and to impose penalties for the violation of its ordinances, not exceeding one hundred dol lars for each offence, which may be recovered in a civil action in the name of the city, or by complaint before a justice of the peace, and the laws of the State relating to carrying into effect a judgment of a justice of the peace imposing a fine, shall be applied to judgments in the above cases, but the charges thereof must be borne by the city.

SEC. 27. The council is authorized to establish and or- Fire companies ganize fire companies, and provide them with fire engines,

hose, and other apparatus.

SEC. 28. The council may regulate the keeping and sale Gunpowder. of gunpowder within the city.

SEC. 29. The council shall have the exclusive author- Licenses.

ity to provide for the license and prohibition of all exhibitions, shows, and theatrical performances, billiard tables, ball alleys or other bowling saloons, ten pin or other alleys, and place where games of skill or chance are played; but the above authority extends to no exhibition of a purely

Nuisances.

Cartage and drayage.

disburs'm'ts.

literary or scientific character. When the laws of the State permit or require license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, that matter shall be within the exclusive authority of said council, and it may at all times prohibit the retail of such liquors unless such prohibition would be inconsistent with the laws of the State; and no license shall be granted for less than one hundred dollars each for that purpose.

Src. 30. The council may make all necessary ordinances in relation to the cleanliness and health of the city, and may require the owners of lots on which water becomes stagnant to drain or fill up the same; and in default thereof, after reasonable notice, may cause the same to be done at the expense of the city, and assess the cost thereof on the specific lots, and cause them to be sold by the city collector, as in case of taxes, and the owner may redeem from such sale, as in case of a sale for tax.

SEC. 31. Said council may regulate the system of cartage, drayage, hacks and omnibuses, within the city, and may issuc license therefor; and may prohibit hogs and other animals from running at large within the limits of said city. Receipts and SEC. 32. The council shall provide by ordinance for the keeping of the public money of the city, and the manner of disbursing the same, and shall cause all claims against the city to be audited, and all city officers are accountable to said city council in such manner as it directs. Said council shall publish annually a particular statement of receipts and expenditures of the city, and of all debts owing to and by the same.

Grade streets.

Imprisonment.

Taxes.

SEC. 33. Said council shall have exclusive authority to establish the grades of all streets and alleys in the city, and may change the same upon the petition of the owners of two-thirds in value of the real property on both sides of the street, when it is desired to be changed.

SEC. 34. Imprisonment for the violation of any ordi nance shall not exceed fifteen days, and the county jail be the place of imprisonment, but at the expense of the city.

SEC. 35. The city council is authorized to levy and collect taxes, not exceeding one-half of one per cent., on all property within the city which is liable for State or county taxes, including such improvements on such property; and it

may exempt such improvements when it is so determined by a vote of the voters of the city; but when such exemption takes place the rate of tax on personal poroperty shall not exceed that above named, and the rate on realty shall not exceed one and one-half per cent on the valuation. Said council may also tax and prohibit dogs from running at large in the city: Provided, that the tax thus levied and collected when the improvements are included shall not exceed one-fourth of one per cent, and when improvements are exempt as above named, one-fourth per cent on personal property, and one per cent on real property, until otherwise determined by the qualified electors of the city, at an annual election or special election held for that purpose.

SEC. 36. The marshal shall be collector, or in case of his Collector. absence or disability, such person as the council may appoint in his stead shall be the collector of taxes, and before proceeding to collect the same, shall give thirty days' notice of the assessment and levy of the tax and rate thereof in general terms, without the name or description of the property, in a newspaper printed in the city if there be one, if not then by three months' notice in the most public places in each ward.

ment.

SEC. 37. During the thirty days any person aggrieved Correct assessby the assessment or taxation may appear before the council, which may correct the same if found erroneous.

Suc. 38. The marshal may distrain upon personal prop-Sale. erty liable to taxation, and sell the same for payment, if not paid in reasonable time after demand, as constables may sell personal property on execution.

SEC. 39. Taxes on real property shall be a lien thereon, Lien. and it may be sold therefor when the taxes remain unpaid for six months after posting the notices of the tax.

SEC. 40. Such sale must be at auction, and there must Notice be thirty days' notice prior to the sale given as above provided, for notifying the assessment and tax. On such sale he who bids to pay the amount due for the least quantity of land will be the highest bidder, and the manner of ascertaining the portion bid for shall be as in the State revenue law.

Tax deed.

Pavements.

Loans.

Road tax.

Work on roads

Submit charter to vote.

SEC. 41. The marshal shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed running in the name of the State, which shall have the same force and effect as the deed of the treasurer of the county, in like circumstances, on sales for county and state taxes.

SEC. 42. The council have the control of the streets and alleys and public ground of the city of Sioux City, and may cause side walks to be paved in the same, and to this end it may require the owners of lots to pave or repair the same contiguous to their respective lots; and in case of neglect after reasonable time named in the order, the same may be done by the city, and the expense of the same assessed on the contiguous lots, which shall have the same effect of a tax levied thereon, and the same may be sold therefor, as a tax, subject to the same right of redemption.

SEC. 43. The council are authorized to borrow money for any object in its discretion, if, at a regular notified meeting under a notice stating distinctly the nature and object of the loan and the amount thereof as nearly as practicable, the voters of the city may determine in favor of the loan by a majority of two-thirds of the votes given at the election: and such loan can in no case be diverted from the specified object.

SEC. 44. All road tax which may hereafter be paid upon any property in the city of Sioux City in lieu of labor, shall be paid to the proper authorities of said city for the improvement of the streets thereof.

SEC. 45. Any person being a resident of said city, subject by the laws of this State to do work upon roads and highways, shall be required to do and perform, or cause the same to be done under the direction of the proper authorities upon the streets of said city, or public roads and highways leading thereto, as said authorities may direct. The city council shall supercede the road supervisor in all jurisdiction within the corporate limits, and shall perform all of their duties.

SEC. 46. On the passage of this act the county Judge of Woodbury county shall order an election for the purpose of submitting this charter to the citizens of said city, which

election shall take place on the first Monday in April, A. D. 1857, and shall be conducted in all respects as now provided by law, and returns thereof made to the county Judge of said county, and in the event that a majority of all the votes polled are in favor of said charter, then it shall be the duty of the said Judge to order an election in each ward in said city, to be held at such places in each ward as he may think proper, for the election of mayor, recorder, treasurer, marshal, assessor, and three aldermen from each ward, which election shall be held on the first Monday in August, A. D. 1857, and conducted in all respects as now provided by law, and returns thereof made to the county Judge, whose duty it shall be to notify the persons elected to the respective offices named in this section, who shall enter upon their duties by taking the oath of office prescribed in this act.

SEC. 47. This act to take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa Capital Reporter and Council Bluffs Bugle; Provided, said publication be done without any expense to the State.

Approved January 16th, 1857.

CHAPTER 45.

CONN'S ADDITION.

AN ACT to vacate a sub-divison of lands by C. F. Conn, in Lee county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, That Curtis F. Conn's sub-division of the south-west quarter of section No. 23, in township No. 65, north of range 5, west, in Lee county, a plat of which was filed for record in the plat book of said county, be and the same is hereby declared vacated.

SEc. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its publication in the Keokuk Daily Evening Times, and Daily

Vacated.