Elections.

Officers.

Comp. Stat., 84.

nine (49), fifty-four (54), fifty-five (55), fifty-seven (57), and
sixty-nine (69), of said act,” approved May 23, 1882, and to
repeal said sections forty-two (42), fifty-four (54), and fifty-
five (55) as mended by said sections nine (9), fourteen (14),
and fifteen (15), and also to repeal sections fifty-seven
(57), of said first-named act, as amended by section sixteen
(16) of said last-named act, and to amend sections thirty-
one (31), thirty-four (34), and one hundred and two (102) of
said act, approved March 1, 1881," approved February 19,
A. D. 1883; also to amend section one hundred and two
(102) of said original act, as amended by section six (6) of
said amendatory act, approved February 19, A. D. 1883;
also to repeal said sections herein amended as heretofore
existing, and also to repeal an act entitled "An act to
amend section fifteen (15) of an act entitled "An act to
incorporate cities of the first class, and regulating their
duties, powers, and government, approved May 23, 1882,"
approved February 21, A. D. 1883.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That section eleven (11) of said 13 Neb., 275. original act, approved March 1st 1881, be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 11. The general city election in all cities governed by this act shall be held on the first Tuesday in April, 1885, and every two years thereinafter, for the election of the following named officers, to wit: Mayor, police judge, treasurer and auditor.

Each of such officers shall be elected by a plurality of votes, for the term of two years, commencing on the first Tuesday succeeding their election, and they shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified,

At the first meeting of the council after its organization, they shall elect a city clerk who

shall hold office for the term of one year and until his successor is elected and qualified.

A city marshal, a city engineer, a city attorney, a street commissioner and chief of the fire department shall be appointed, and may be removed by the mayor by and with consent of a majority of the entire council.

SEC. 2. That section twelve (12) of said original act, approved March 1, 1881, be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 12. The council of each city governed councilmen. Qualifications. by this act shall consist of twelve members Bonds. who shall be qualified electors of said city, and shall be actual and bona fide owners of real estate therein. Each councilman hereafter elected, before entering upon the duties of his office, and each councilman elected at the annual city election held in 1884, shall be required to give a bond to the city, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, who shall each justify that he is worth at least two thousand dollars over and above all debts and exemptions.

bond.

Such bond shall be in the sum of two thous- Liability on and dollars and shall be conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of the conucilman giving the same, and shall be further conditioned that if such councilman shall vote for any expenditures or appropriation of money, or the creation of any liability in excess of the amount allowed by law, that such councilman and the sureties signing said bond shall be liable thereon.

Such bond shall be filed with and approved by the mayor.

Powers of council.

1882, 7:33.

1883, 89.

5 Neb., 540.

SEC. 3. That section fifteen (15) of said original act, approved March 1, 1881, as amended by section one (1) of said amendatory act, approved May 23d, a. d. 1882, be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 15. The mayor and council of each Comp. Stat.,85. city created or governed by this act, shall have the care, management and control of the city, its property and finances, and shall have power to pass any and all ordinances not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, and such ordinances to alter, modify, or repeal, and shall have power.

License.

Travelers.

Disorderly houses.

1st. To levy and collect a license tax on runners, hawkers, peddlers, liquor sellers, pawn brokers, shows, theatres, and exhibitions for pay, billiard tables, ball and ten pin alleys, without regard to the number of pins used, hacks, drays or other vehicles used for pay within the city, and may prescribe the compensation for the use of such hacks, drays and other vehicles..

2nd. To adopt all such measures as they may deem necessary for the accommodation and protection of strangers and the traveling public in person and property.

3rd. To restrain, prohibit and suppress tippling shops, houses of prostitution, opium joints or dens, and the disorderly houses and practices, all games and gambling; and desecration of the Sabbath, (commonly called Sunday), and all kinds of indecencies; also to regulate and license, or prohibit the keeping and use of billiard tables, ten pin or ball alleys, shooting galleries, and other similar places of

diseases.

amusements, and to prohibit and suppress, by ordinance, all lotteries and gift enterpises of all kinds under whatsoever name carried on. 4th. They shall have power to make regula- Contagious tions to prevent the introduction of contagious, infectious or malignant disease into the city; to create a board of health; to make quarantine laws and enforce the same within the corporate limits, or within three miles thereof.

Public

5th. To erect, establish, maintain and regu-Buildings. late hospitals, work houses, houses of correction, jails, station houses, and other necessary buildings.

Health,

6th. To make regulations to secure the gen- nuisances. eral health of the city, to provide for the prevention, abatement and removal of nuisances, to make and prescribe regulations for the location construction and keeping in order all slaughter houses, stock yards, ware houses, stables, or other places where offensive matter is kept or is liable to accumulate, whether within the corporate limits or within three miles. thereof.

7th. To establish, regulate, and support Police. night watch and police and to define the duties

thereof.

8th. To provide for the lighting of streets, Light streets. laying down of gas pipes and erection of lampposts, and to regulate the sale and use of gas and electric lights, the charge for electric light and the rent of gas-metres within the city, and to require the removal from the streets, avenues and alleys, and the placing under ground of all telegraph, electric and telephone wires.

Weights and

measures.

Public ibrary.

Markets.

Protect property.

Streams.

Submission to vote.

9th. To regulate the weighing and measuring of hay, wood, and other articles exposed for sale, and of all coal sold or delivered within the city.

10th. To establish and maintain public libraries and reading rooms, to purchase books, papers, maps and manuscripts therefor, and to receive donations and bequests of money property for the same in trust or otherwise.

or

They may also pass necessary by-laws and regulations for the protection and government of the same.

11th. To erect and establish market houses, and make market places, and to provide for the erection of all other useful and necessary buildings for the use of the city, and for the protection and safety of all property owned by the city, and they may locate such market houses and market places, and buildings aforesaid on any streets, alleys, or public grounds, or on any land purchased for such purpose; to provide for the safety and protection of private property where damages are likely to occur by the action of the elements or through the carelessness and negligence of any servant or officer of the city; and to establish, alter and change the channels of streams and water courses within the city, and bridge the same; Provided, That any such improvement costing in the aggregate a sum greater than five thousand dollars shall not be authorized until the ordinance providing therefor shall be first submitted to, and ratified by a majority of the legal voters of such city voting thereon.