mon council, at the close of each official year, a condensed report of all his doings as such officer during such year, which report shall be published in such manner and to such extent as may be provided by ordinance; and he shall, with all reasonable dispatch, make such other reports, and at such times as the common council may require.

SEC. 10. That the treasurer be the depository of all moneys belonging to the said corporation. He shall from such moneys pay upon presentation all orders therefor, drawn by the recorder and countersigned by the president. Provided, that no order shall be paid by him unless first endorsed in writing thereon, with the name of the payee thereon, and the party receiving the money、 therefor.

SEC. 11. The justice of the peace provided for and elected under the provisions of this act, shall have and possess all the powers and jurisdiction of justices of the peace provided for and elected under the general laws of the State, and in addition thereto shall have cognizance and jurisdiction of all suits, prosecutions or proceedings for the recovery of any fine, forfeiture or penalty, under any by-law, ordinance or regulation of said corporation, or under this act, or for any breach or violation of any such by-law, ordinance or regulation. Suit shall be commenced in the name of the village of Janesville, and the same proceedings shall be had in all civil and criminal suits or prosecutions before said justice, when not otherwise herein directed, as are established and required to be had in civil and criminal actions, by the general laws of the State, before justices of the peace, except that no change of venue shall be taken. All fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by, or recovered before said justice of the peace, in any suit, prosecution or proceeding had and commenced in the name of the said village, shall be promptly paid by said justice of the peace to the recorder of said corporation, for the use thereof. The justice of the peace shall take judicial notice of the by-laws, ordinances or regulations of said corporation, and it shall not be necessary in any action, civil or criminal, before said justice of the peace, to plead or refer to the same in any manner whatsoever, in any pleading or complaint, but said by-laws, ordinances and regulations shall in said justice's court be held and deemed to be public law. The justice of the peace shall, at least once in three months, make to the common council a full report of all moneys received by him for tines, for feitures and penalties, and shall pay the same into the hands of the recorder, taking his receipt therefor. Any justice of the peace elected or appointed in the towns of Alton and Janesville, Waseca county, under the general laws of the State, and residing within the limits of the corporation, upon filing the bond and oath of of fice herein before described for the justices of the peace, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the justice of the peace elected under the provisions of this act, and be subject to the same liabilities and restrictions. In case of prosecutions for a breach or violation of an ordinance, by-law or regulation of said corporation, or of this act, or for an assault, battery or affray, not indictable, committed

within the limits of said corporation, no appeal shall be allowed when the judgment or fiue imposed, exclusive of costs, is less than ten (10) dollars. The fees of the justice of the peace shall be the same as allowed and fixed by the general laws of the State for justices of the peace. All warrants, writs and process of every nature, issued by such justice, shall be directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county of Waseca, and may be executed or served by the constable elected under the provisions of this act, or by the sheriff, or any constable of said county, and for such purpose said sheriff and constables shall have and possess the power and authority which by the general laws of the State they have and possess in the execution or service of warrants, writs and other process issued by justices of the peace elected under the general laws.

SEC. 12. The constables elected under the provisions of this act, shall be the ministerial officers of the council, and shall have and possess all the powers belonging to the constables elected under the general laws of the State, and his compensation, except as in this act is otherwise provided, shall, be fixed by the ordinance of the council; and said constable shall within the county in which he resides, also have and exercise all the powers, and perform all the duties of, and when acting as such, receive the same compensation as constables elected under the general laws of the State. He shall also be chief of the police force of the village, but as such shall be subordinate to the president.

SEC. 13. There shall be an annual election for elective officers, herein provided for, on the first Tuesday in April, in each and every year, and the polls shall be kept open from ten (10) o'clock in the forenoon until four (4) o'clock in the afternoon, and ten (10) days previous notice shall be given by the common council of the time and place of holding such election, and the officers to be elected, by posting notices thereof in three (3) of the most pub. lic places in the village. At the said election, the councilors, or any two of them, shall act as judges of election, and the recorder as clerk of election; and in case of the inability or non-attendance of any of said officers, the vacancies shall be filled by an appointment made by those officers present. At the close of the polls the votes shall be counted, and a true statement thereof be proclaimed to the voters present by one of the judges, and the recorder shall make a true record thereof, and, within three (3) days thereafter he shall give notice in writing to the persons so elected of their election. The first election under the provisions of this act shall be held on the first Tuesday in April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven (1877), and shall be conducted by the present trustees, who shall be judges of said election, and the clerk of the village of East Janesville, who shall be clerk of said election, and shall give notice of said election as herein before required. The laws of the State applicable to elections generally shall apply as far as consistency will admit, and the oath of a voter shall be the same as at town meetings.

SEC. 14. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any elective or appointive office, and whenever any elected or appointed officer

fails to qualify within the time herein provided for, the office shall be considered vacant, the common council shall fill such vacancy by appointment, and such officer shall hold his office for the unexpired term.

SEC. 15. The common council shall have the management and control of the finances, and all the property of the corporation, and shall also, in addition to the power herein vested in them, have full power and authority to make, enact, ordain, establish, publish, enforce, alter, modify, amend, and repeal all such ordinances, rules, by-laws, and regulations for government and good order of the village, for the suppression of vice and intemperance, and for the prevention of crime, as they shall deem expedient. The common council shall have full power and authority to declare and impose fines, penalties and punishments, and to enforce the same against any person or persons who may violate any of the . provisions of any ordinance, rules, by-laws, or regulations passed and ordained by them; and all such ordinances, rules, by-laws, and regulations are hereby declared to be and have the full force of the law. Provided, that they be not repugnant to the constitution of the United States or of this State; and for those purposes shall have authority by ordinances, rules, by-laws and regulations.

First.-To license and regulate the exhibitions of common showmen, and shows of all kinds, or the exhibitions of caravans, circuses, concerts or theatrical performances, billiard tables, uine or ten pin alleys, bowling saloons, to grant licenses and regulate auctions and auctioneers, groceries, taverns, victualing houses, and all persons vending or dealing in spiritouus, vinous, or fermented liquors.

Second.-To restrain and prohibit all description of gambling and fraudulent devices and practices, and all playing of cards, dice, or other games of chance, for the purpose of gaming, in said village; and to restrain any persons from vending, giving, or dealing in spirituous or fermented or vinous liquors, unless duly licensed by the common council,

Third. To prevent any riots, noise, or disturbance, and any disorderly assemblage in said village, and to provide for the arrest of and punishment of any person or persons who shall be guilty of the same; to suppress disorderly houses or groceries, and houses of ill-fame, and to provide for the arrest and punishment of all keepers thereof, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for the purpose of gaming.

Fourth.-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 may be deemed necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of said village.

Fifth. To direct the location and management of slaughterhouses and markets, breweries, distilleries and pawnbrokers.

Sixth. To prevent the encumbering of streets, sidewalks, lanes, alleys or public grounds with carriages, carts, wagons,

sleighs, boxes, lumber, firewood, posts, awnings, or any other materials or substance whatsoever.

Seventh. To prevent and punish horse racing, immoderate riding or driving in the streets, to compel persons to fasten their horses or other animals attached to vehicles or otherwise, while standing in the streets, and to regulate the places of bathing and swimming in the waters within the limits of this village.

Eighth. To restrain the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, poultry and geese, and to authorize the distraining and sale of the same, and to impose penalties on the owners of such animals for the violation of the ordinance.

Ninth. To prevent the running at large of dogs, and may impose a tax on the same, and to authorize the destruction of the same in a summary manner when at large contrary to the ordi

nance.

Tenth. To prevent any person from bringing or depositing, or having within said village, 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 substance, or putrid or unsound beef, pork, fish, hides or skins of any kind, and in default to authorize the removal thereof by some competent officers, at the expense of such person or persons.

Eleventh.—To make and establish public [grounds,] pounds, pumps, wells, cisterns, hydrants, and reservoirs, and to provide for and control the erection of water works for the supply of water to the inhabitants.

Twelfth.-To establish and regulate boards of health, and to provide hospitals and hospital grounds.

Thirteenth. To prevent the carrying of concealed weapons; 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 town or any property therein, or annoying any citizen thereof.

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

Fifteenth.-To prevent the dangerous construction or placing of chimneys, fireplaces or stovepipes, or any pipe or instruments, for the construction of fire, heat or smoke, open boilers or appurte nances, and to cause the same to be made secure or removed, and to prosecute for the deposit of ashes in any unsafe place, and to regulate the carrying on of manufactories, dangerous in causing or promoting fires, and to require the owners of buildings to provide and keep suitable ladders and fire buckets, which are hereby declared appurtenances to the real estate, and exempt from seizure, distress or sale in any manner; and if the owners shall refuse to procure suitable ladders or fire buckets, after reasonable notice, the council may procure and deliver the same to him, and in default thereof, may recover of such owner the value of such ladder or fire buckets, or both, with costs of suit.

Sixteenth. They may erect or rent suitable buildings for village purposes, and keep the same in repairs.

Seventeenth. They shall have the power to purchase fire engines and fire apparatus, to organize fire, hose, hook and ladder companies, and [to] provide for the support and regulation thereof. And to order such companies to be discharged and the apparatus to be delivered to the common council for their authorized agents; they may appoint a chief engineer to take charge of the fire department, fire wardens to inspect chimneys and all places dangerous on account of fire, and to perform such duties as may be prescribed by law, firemen and other officers of said companies; and they shall have power individually to compel citizens to work at fires, and make and regulate fines for refusing to work at such fires; and members of all hook and ladder, engine and fire companies shall be exempt from serving on juries so long as they shall continue active members of such companies.

Eighteenth. To prevent open notorious drunkenness and obscenity in the streets or public places of said village, and to provide for the arrest and punishment of all persons guilty of the

same.

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

Twentieth.-To regulate the place and manner of weighing hay and selling the same, and measuring of and selling firewood, coal and lime, and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and conduct the same.

Twenty-first.-To compel the owner or occupant of buildings or grounds to remove snow, dirt or rubbish from the sidewalk, street or 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 village, at the expense of such owner or occupant.

Twenty-second.-To provide watchmen, and to prescribe their numbers and duties, and to regulate the same, and to prescribe the number of police officers and their duties, and to regulate the same, and to proqide special police for special occasions.

Twenty-third.-To provide by ordinance for a standard of weights and measures, for appointment of a village sealer, and to require all weights and measures to be sealed by the village sealer, and to provide for the punishment of the use of faise weights and

measures.

Twenty-fourth.-To direct and regulate the planting and preservation of ornamental trees, on the streets and public grounds.

Twenty-fifth.-To remove and abate any public nuisance injurious to the public health, and to provide for the punishment of all persons who shall cause or maintain such nuisances.

Twenty-sixth.-To remove and abate any nuisance, obstruction, encroachment upon the streets, alleys, or public grounds and highways of the village.

Twenty-seventh.-To do all acts and make all regulations which