Improve public grounds. Require reports from officers. Regulate riding and driving in streets. Regulate keeping of combustibles. Regulate street transportation. Appropriate private property. Punish disturbances of the peace. Punish vagrants, etc. Call elections to fill official vacancies. 29th. To hold and improve public grounds and parks within or without the limits of the city, and provide for the protection and preservation of the same. 30th. To require from any officer of the city, at any time, a report in detail of the transactions in his office or of any matter connected therewith. 31st. To prevent horse racing and immoderate driving or riding in the streets, and to compel persons to fasten their horses, or other animals, attached to vehicles, while standing in the streets. 32d. To regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder and other combustible and explosive articles. 33d. To regulate the transportation of articles through the streets, and prevent injuries to the streets from overloaded vehicles. 34th. To appropriate private property for the use of the city. 35th. To provide for the punishment of persons disturbing the peace and good order of the city by clamor and noise, by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting, or using obscene or profane language in the streets, or other public places, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent and disorderly conduct, or by lewd or lascivious behavior. 36th. To provide for the punishment of vagrants, common street beggars, common prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, burglars, thieves, watch stuffers, ball game players, persons who practice any game, trick, or device with intent to swindle, persons who abuse their families, and suspicious persons who can give no reasonable account of themselves. 37th. To provide for filling such vacancies as may occur in the office of councilman, or other elective office of the city, by calling special elections for that, pur pose. 38th. To provide for the planting and protection of Provide for shade or ornamental and useful trees. planting of trees. weights and 39th. To provide for the inspection of weights and Regulate use of measures, and prohibit the use of any imperfect weights measures. or measures, or weighing apparatus. depots, and 40th. To regulate levees, depots, depot grounds, and Regulate levees places for storing freights and goods, and to provide for railway pasand regulate the passage of railways through the streets and public grounds of the city. sage ways. ning of rail 41st. To regulate the crossing of railway tracks, to Regulate runregulate the running of railway engines, cars, and trucks ways. within the limits of the city, and to make other and further rules and restrictions to prevent accidents at crossings and on the tracks of railroads, and to prevent fires from engines. weapons and 42d. To punish and prevent the carrying of concealed Regulate use of weapons, the discharge of fire-arms or fire-works of any fire-works. description in any of the streets, alleys, or public grounds, or about or in the vicinity of buildings. wholesome 43d. To prevent any person from bringing, deposit- Regulate uning, having or leaving upon or near his premises or substances. elsewhere within the city any dead carcass, and putrid beef, pork, fish, hides, or skins of any kind, or any other unwholesome substance, and to compel the removal of the same. Approved February 27th, A.D. 1879. tional contracts. and filed. Affidavit attached. AN ACT To amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the fraudulent transfer of property," approved, February 19, 1877. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: SECTION 1. That an act entitled an act to prevent the fraudulent transfer of personal property, approved, February 19, 1877, be amended to read as follows: "Section 1. That no sale, contract or lease, wherein the transfer of title or ownership of personal property is made to depend upon any condition, shall be valid against any When condi- purchaser or judgment creditor of the vendee or lessee to be in writing in actual possession, obtained in pursuance of such sale, contract or lease without notice, unless the same be in writing, signed by the vendee or lessee, and a copy. thereof filed in the office of the clerk of the county, within which such vendee or lessee resides; said copy shall have attached thereto an affidavit of such vendor or lessor, or his agent or attorney, which shall set forth the names of the vendor and vendee or lessor or lessee, or description of the property transferred and the full and true interest of the vendor or lessor therein. All such sales and transfers shall cease to be valid against purchasers in good faith or judgment or attaching creditors without notice at the expiration of five years, unless such vendor or lessor, shall, within thirty days, prior to the expiration of the five years from the date of such sale or transfer, file a copy thereof verified as aforesaid in the office of said clerk, and the said vendor or lessor may preserve the validity of his said sale or transfer of personal property by an annual refiling in the manner as aforesaid of such copy." "Sec. 2. The county clerk, on presentation, shall file such copy in his Renewal. County clerk to Fee. 1877, 170. SEC. 2. An act entitled, "An act to prevent the fraud- Act repealed. ulent transfer of personal property, approved February 19, 1877, is hereby repealed. Approved, February 27, A.D. 1879. AN ACT To amend section 7 of an act entitled "An aet prescribing and defining the powers and duties of the governor of the state," approved, June 24, 1867. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: : SECTION 1. That section seven of an act entitled "An act prescribing and defining the powers and duties of governor of the state," approved, June 24, 1867, be amended to read as follows: SEC. 7. The governor Private secretashall appoint a private secretary to serve during the continuance of his term of office, who shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, payable in the same manner as the salaries of state officers. ry of governor. Act repealed. Gen. Stat. 100. SEC. 2. Section seven of an act entitled "An act prescribing and defining the powers and duties of the gov-1867, 100. ernor of the state," approved, June 24, 1867, as now existing is hereby repealed. Approved, February 27, A.D. 1879. Surveyor shall make all surveys in his county. Record books of surveyor. To amend chapter 13, title "Surveyor," of the general statutes of SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: That sections one, two, three, four and five of chapter thirteen, title "Surveyor," of the general statutes, be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the county surveyors within their respective counties, to make any and all surveys that may be required of them, within reasonable time after application is made for that purpose, either in person or by deputy properly deputized and competent to perform the same, upon tender of lawful fees in advance for each day, and of mileage, going and coming: Provided, that they shall not be required to make official surveys within the limits of any city in which a city surveyor or civil engineer is by law elected or appointed. SEC. 2. The county commissioners of each county shall provide suitable books for the use of, and which shall be kept by, the county surveyor, in which he shall truly enter and record all surveys made by him, and all other matters pertaining to his official duties, within twenty days after such surveys shall be made or acts done, and he shall, at the expiration of his term of office, deliver all books and papers pertaining to his office to his successor, or to the county clerk of the proper county. |