II. To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gaming and fraudulent devices and practices, and all playing of cards, dice, or other games of chance for the purpose of gaming in said city.

III. To prevent any riots, noise, disturbance, or disorderly assemblages, suppress and restrain disorderly houses or groceries, houses of ill fame, billiard tables, nine or ten pin alleys or tables, shows and exhibitions, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for the purpose of gaming.

IV. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandler 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 deemed necessary for the health, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of said city.

V. To direct the location and management of all slaughter houses and markets, to establish rates for and license venders of gunpowder, and regulate the storage, keeping and conveying of gunpowder or other combustible materials.

VI. To prevent the incumbering of the streets, sidewalks, lanes, or alleys with carriages, carts, wagons, sleighs, sleds, boxes, lumber, fire wood, or any other materials or substances whatever.

VII. To prevent horse racing, immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and regulate the places of bathing and swimming in the waters within the limits of said city.

VIII. To restrain the running at large of cattle, swine, sheep, poultry, and geese, and to authorize the distraining and sale of the same.

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

X. To prevent any person from bringing, depositing, or having within said city, any putrid carcass, or any unwholesome substance, and to require the removal of the same by any person who shall have upon his premises any such substance or putrid or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides, or skins of any kind; and on default, to authorize the removal thereof by some competent officer, at the expense of such person or persons.

XI. To make and establish public pounds, pumps, wells, cisterns, and reservoirs, and to provide for the erection of water works for the supply of water to the inhabitants of said city or any ward therein, to erect lamps, and regulate and license hacks, cabs, drays, carts, and the charges of hackmen, cabmen, draymen, and cartmen within the city.

XII. To establish and regulate boards of health, provide hospitals and cemetery grounds, regulate the burial of the dead and the return of the bills of mortality, and to exempt burying grounds and grounds set apart for the public use, from taxation.

"XIII. To regulate the procuring of fire buckets and the purchase of fire engines, and to preserve said city from injuries by fire, and to prescribe and regulate the materials of which houses may be built within the fire limits, and the manner of erecting and securing chimneys, and to provide for removing chimneys which may be deemed dangerous, and to require and provide for the building of new chimneys where deemed necessary, at the expense of the owners or occupants of buildings when the same may be required.

XIV. To regulate the assize and weight of bread, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary thereto.

XV. To establish fire limits.

XVI. To regulate the building of wharves, bridges, mill races, and canals, and provide for the security and protection of the same.

XVII. To prevent all persons riding or driving any horse, ox, mule, cattle, or other animal on the sidewalks in said city, or in any way doing any damage to such sidewalks.

XVIII. To prevent the shooting of firearms or crackers, 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 any citizen. thereof.

XIX. To restrain drunkards, immoderate drinking, or obscenity in the streets or public places, and provide for arresting, removing, and punishing any person or persons who may be guilty of the same.

XX. To restrain and regulate runners or solicitors for boats, vessels, stages, public houses, or other establishments; to regulate the police of the city, to appoint watchmen and firemen, prescribe their duties, and to punish their delinquencies.

XXI. To establish public markets 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.

XXII. To license and regulate butchers' stalls, shops and stands for the sale of game, poultry, butcher's meat, butter, fish, and other provisions.

XXIII. To regulate the place and manner of weighing and selling of hay, or measuring and selling of fuel and lime, and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same.

XXIV. To compel the owner or occupant of any building or ground to remove the snow, dirt, or rubbish from the sidewalk, 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.

PENALTIES,

SEC. 25. In all cases in relation to which, by the provisions of this act, the common council have power to enact or pass ordinances or by-laws in relation to any subject; they may prescribe any penalty for the violation of such ordinance or by-law not exceeding fifty dollars, for any one offcence in the violation or non-observance thereof; and may also provide that in default of payment of any judgment rendered for such violation or non-observance, the offender shall be imprisoned for such term as they inay by such ordinance direct, not exceeding thirty days, for which purpose the said city shall have the the jail of Milwaukee county, for the imprisonment of any person liable to be imprisoned, and all persons committed to said jail by the marshal or any other officer, shall be under the charge of the sheriff of said county: Provided, said city shall pay the expense of keeping and maintaining such prisoners.

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SEC. 26. Every execution issued upon judgment for the violation of any ordinance or by-law of the city, shall contain a clause directing, in the event of the non-payment of the jndgment, the imprisonment of the defendant in the county jail, for such term as shall have been provided by the ordinance under which the judgment shall have been rendered.

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WARDS..

SEC. 27. Each ward in said city shall constitute and be a separate township or town, under the laws regulating town and county government; and as such, shall have and enjoy all the rights, privileges, and powers of towns in the county of Milwaukee; and the three aldermen of each ward shall be and hereby are declared ex-officio supervisors of such towns, and as such, they are hereby empowered to act for all town purposes; and one of their number shall annually be appointed by themselves, who shall be the chairman of supervisors, to meet with and act in the county board of supervisors, in the same manner and with the same rights and powers as is or may by law be prescribed and exercised by other members of said county board.

SCHOOLS.

SEC. 28. Each ward in said city shall constitute one school district; and the office of school commissioner shall be merged in that of alderman; and they shall exercise all the powers and duties which by law are or may be conferred or imposed on boards of school commissioners; and further, that the other town officers which are or may be provided by law to be elected annually in the towns, be and the same are hereby declared to be inapplicable to the several town governments in the said wards; the same being merged in and superceded by the powers of local government, which by this act are conferred on the city authorities, or on the aldermen as supervisors of the wards; and so much of the township or town of Milwaukee as falls within the aforesaid city limits, be and the same is hereby excluded from the and the remainder of said town as now organized, same; shall be and constitute a town as heretofore, by the name of the town of Milwaukee, for all purposes of town and county government,*

*This section repealed. See school law. Feb. 3, 1843, Sec. 12.