6. That the mayor shall be elected by the voters of the city, and shall hold his office for the term of one year and until his successor be duly elected and qualified.

7. That the mayor shall be at least thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States, shall have resided within the city for at least two years next preceding his election, and shall possess a freehold estate within the limits of the city.

8. That no person shall be mayor who, at the time of his election, shall hold any office of honor, trust, or profit, under

the United States.

9. That if the mayor, during his continuance in office, shall receive any office of honor, trust, or profit, under the United States, his office of mayor shall thereby immediately become vacated.

10. That the board of aldermen shall, at all times, consist of three members from each ward of the city.

11. That the aldermen shall be chosen by the voters of each ward, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors be duly elected and qualified.

12. That each alderman shall be at least twenty-one years of age, a citizen of the United States, an inhabitant of the city for the term of one year next preceding his election, and shall possess a freehold estate within the limits of the city.

13. That if the mayor or any alderman, during his continuance in office, shall cease to possess a freehold estate within the limits of the city, his office shall immediately thereby become vacated.

14. That the mayor, aldermen, and all other officers of the city, shall, during their continuance in office, reside within. the limits of the city.

15. That if the mayor, any alderman, or other officer of the corporation, shall cease to reside within the limits of the city, his office shall thereby immediately become vacated.

16. That where two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes for the office of mayor, the board of aldermen shall determine, by lot, which of such persons shall be

mayor.

17. That whenever there shall be a tie in the election of aldermen, the judges of election of the ward in which it shall happen, shall determine the same by lot.

18. That whenever any election for mayor or aldermen shall be contested, it shall be determined by the board of aldermen.

19. That all vacancies that shall occur in the board of aldermen shall be filled by election, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance.

20. That whenever any vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor, it shall be filled by election, in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance.

21. That the mayor may be removed from office for any misdemeanor in office, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the board of aldermen elected.

22. That the mayor shall have power to nominate, and, with the concurrence of the board of aldermen, to appoint all city officers not ordered by law or ordinance to be otherwise appointed; he shall take care that the laws of the State and the ordinances of the city are duly enforced, respected and observed within the city; he may remit fines, forfeitures and penalties, accruing or flowing from the violation of any ordinance of the city; he may fill all vacancies which shall happen in any office other that of alderman, until the end of the session of the board of aldermen, which shall next happen after the vacancy shall have occurred; he shall, from time to time, give the board of aldermen information relative to the state of the city, and shall recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall deem expedient.

23. That the board of aldermen shall elect one of their own number to be president of the board; they shall appoint all such officers, servants and agents of the board as they shall deem necessary for the transaction of business; they shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of members of the board; they shall make rules and regulations for the government of their own proceedings; they shall have power to compel the attendance of absent members on the meetings of the board; to punish members for disorderly conduct, and, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected, to expel a member, but not a second time for the same offense; they shall cause a true and faithful record to be kept of all the acts and proceedings of the board, and, at the desire of any member, shall cause the yeas and nays on any question to be entered therein.

24. That there shall be four stated meetings of the board of aldermen in every year, the times and places of which shall be prescribed by resolution or ordinance of the board.

25. That, in all meetings of the board of aldermen, a majority of the whole number of members elected shall constitute a quorum to do business, but any smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members.

26. That at all meetings of the board of aldermen, they may adjourn and meet upon such adjournment.

27. That the mayor, or any five members of the board of aldermen, may call special meetings of the board of aldermen, by giving one day's notice thereof, in writing, to the members of the board.

28. That whenever a special meeting of the board of aldermen shall be called by the mayor, he shall state to them, when assembled, the cause for which they have been assembled.

29. That the mayor and aldermen shall be conservators of the peace throughout the city, and shall have therein all the powers and jurisdiction now vested in justices of the peace in matters of a criminal nature, and shall exercise all powers and perform all the duties which may be vested in or required of them by ordinance.

30. That the mayor, aldermen, and each justice of the peace within the city, shall have jurisdiction of all cases arising under this act and under all ordinances of the city, subject, however, to an appeal in all cases to the circuit court of St. Louis county, and every such appeal shall be granted and taken in the same manner as appeals are granted by and taken from justices of the peace to the circuit court, under the general law of the State.

31. That whenever any vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor, the president of the board of aldermen shall exercise the duties and receive the compensation of mayor until such vacancy shall be filled.

22. That the mayor and board of aldermen shall have power within the city to levy and collect taxes, not exceeding one-half of one per centum, upon all property and persons made taxable by law for State purposes; to make regulations. to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same within ten miles of the city; they shall have power by ordinance, within the city, to establish hospitals; to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants of the city; to prevent and remove nuisances; to divide the city into wards; to establish night watches and patrols; to erect lamps in the streets; to provide the city with water; to erect hydrants and pumps in the streets, for the convenience of the inhabitants; to open and keep in repair streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, drains and sewers, and keep the same clean; to regulate, pave and improve the streets, avenues, lanes, and alleys, within the city; and to establish, open, widen and extend all such streets, avenues, lanes and alleys; to establish and repair bridges; to establish and regulate markets; to improve and preserve the navigation of the

Mississippi river within the city; to erect, repair, and regulate public wharves and docks; to regulate the erecting of private wharves, and the rates of wharfage at the same; to regulate the stationing, anchorage and mooring of vessels within the city; to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to organize and establish fire companies; to establish standard weights and measures, and regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city, thereby in all cases not otherwise provided for by law; to regulate the size of bricks to be made and used within the city; to regulate and order partition and parapet walls and partition fences; to regulate the cleaning of chimneys, and fix the fees therefor; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, cotton and other combustible materials; to regulate the police of the city; to license, tax and regulate auctioneers, merchants, retailers, grocers, ordinaries, taverns, coffee-houses, pawnbrokers, money-changers, hawkers, peddlers, wagons, carts, drays, theatrical and other shows and amusements; to restrain, prohibit, or tax tippling-houses; to restrain or prohibit bawdy and other disorderly houses; the right to suppress gaming and gaming houses; the exclusive right to license, regulate, and restrain the keeping of ferries; the exclusive right to license, regulate, restrain or suppress the keeping of billiard tables; to regulate the weight, quality and price of bread; to provide for the inspection of lumber and other building materials to be sold. or used in the city; to regulate the inspection of butter, lard, and other provisions; to provide for the inspection, weighing and measuring of hay, stone coal and wood, and to regulate the sale of the same; to regulate the inspection of beef, pork, flour, corn, meal and whiskey, in barrels; the exclusive right to provide for the inspection of tobacco; to regulate the elections of city officers; to remove from office any person holding an office created by ordinance; to fix the compensation and fees of all city officers; to fix the fees of jurors, witnesses, and others, for services rendered under this act, or any ordinance of the city; to provide for the payment of all expenses incurred in the performance of duties required by this act, or any ordinance of the city; to impose fines and forfeitures for the breach of any ordinance of the city, and provide for the collection and appropriation thereof; to provide for taking the census and enumeration of the inhabitants of the city; to appoint all officers, servants and agents necessary to carry into effect the powers hereby granted.

63. Every ordinance which the board of aldermen shall pass, before it becomes a law, shall be presented to the mayor for his approbation.

34. If the mayor shall not approve an ordinance presented to him for approbation, he shall return it to the board of aldermen with his objections; and the board shall re-consider the ordinance so returned, and if, after such re-consideration, a majority of the whole number of alermen elected shall pass the ordinance, it shall become a law.

35. If any ordinance shall nov be returned to the board of aldermen within three days after it shall have been delivered to the mayor for his approbation, it shall become a law in the same manner as if he had approved it.

36. The style of the ordinances of the city shall be, "Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the City of St. Louis."

37. All ordinances passed by the board of aldermen shall, within one mouth after they have become a law, be published in some newspaper published in the city.

38. All ordinances of the city may be proved by the seal of the corporation, and when printed and published in book form, and purporting to be so printed by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

39. When it shall be necessary to take private property for opening, widening or altering any public street, lane or avenue, the corporation shall make a just compensation therefor to the person whose property is taken; and, if the amount of such compensation cannot be agreed on, the mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of disinterested freeholders of the city.

40. In opening, widening, or altering alleys through the blocks or squares of the city, the same proceedings shall be had as in the case of opening, widening or altering public streets, lanes or avenues, with this addition, that the jury shall ascertain the amount of benefit that will accrue to the person whose property is taken, or to those who may have petitioned for the opening, widening or altering of such alley.

41. When the owners of all the property where a street, lane, avenue or alley proposed to be opened, widened or altered, shall petition therefor, the mayor and board of aldermen may open, widen or alter such street, lane, avenue or alley upon conditions to be prescribed by them; but no compensation shall be made to those whose property shall be taken for the opening, widening or altering such street, låne, avenue or alley, nor shall there be any assessment of the