ARTICLE V.

stable.

powers.

SECTION 1. The marshal shall execute, either by himself Marshal a con. or deputy, all writs, process, or other papers issued by the recorder. He shall, also, have power and authority to serve any and all writs issued to him by any officers within the city. He is hereby declared a constable, and vested with all the rights, powers and jurisdiction by law conferred on a constable of a township, and for all services performed by him shall be entitled to the same fees as are by law allowed to constables. SEC. 2. The marshal shall perform all such duties as are, His duties and by ordinance, imposed upon him. He shall be a coLservator of the peace, shall be vigilant and active in the suppression of all riots, mobs and disorderly conduct in the city, and for this purpose may arrest suspicious or disorderly persons, even without process, and take them before the recorder for trial and examination. He shall have power to commit disorderly persons to the city prison or other place of safe keeping, until trial, examination or trial can be had, and shall be chief of the police of the city, subject to the general control and supervision of the mayor.

revenues.

SEC. 3. He shall, by virtue of his office, be collector of Be collector of taxes and all revenues within the city, and shall give such bond and security, for the performance of his duty as marshal,

as may be prescribed by ordinance.

deputies.

SEC. 4. The marshal shall have power to appoint one or May appoint more deputies, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by ordinance.

ARTICLE VI.

SECTION 1. The city council shall have power to levy and collect taxes upon all real and personal property within the limits of the city, for the purpose of the general revenue, not to exceed one-fifth of one per centum upon the assessed value thereof in each year, in any manner to be previously provided by ordinance.

Taxes.

payment of

SEC. 2. To provide for the sale of real estate for the non- sale for nonpayment of taxes due thereon, and for the time and manner taxes. of the redemption of the same: Provided, that the owner thereof may redeem the same at any time within two years, by the payment of the full amount of tax, and all taxes subsequently paid thereon by the purchaser, and all costs thereon,

Poll-tax.

License.

May restrain.

May prevent.

May erect.

Health.

Police.

Markets.

Census.

Elections.

Remove officers.

Collect fines.

together with interest at twenty-five per cent. per annum thereon.

SEC. 3. To impose a poll-tax, not exceeding twenty five cents, on all male persons over the age of twenty-one years and under the age of sixty-five years.

SEC. 4. To levy and collect a license tax on auctioneers, taverns, bankers, peddlars, dram-shops, liquor sellers, pawn brokers, shows and exhibitions for pay, billiard tables, ball and ten-pin alleys, or any number of pins the same may have, hacks, drays, wagons or other vehicles used within the city for pay, theatres and theatrical exhibitions for pay.

SEC. 5. To restrain, regulate, prohibit and suppress tippling shops, billiard tables, ten-pin alleys, ball alleys, houses of prostitution, and other disorderly houses and practices, game and gaming houses, and all kinds of public indecencies.

SEC. 6. 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 five miles of the city.

SEC. 7. To erect, establish and regulate hospitals, work houses and poor houses, and provide for the government and support of the same.

SEC. 8. To make regulations to secure the general health of the city, and to prevent and remove nuisances, and to provide the city with water.

SEC. 9. To establish, regulate and support a night watch and police, and define the duties and powers of the same.

SEC. 10. To erect and establish market houses and market places, and to regulate and govern the same, and to provide for the erection of all other useful and necessary buildings for the use of the city.

SEC. 11. To provide for and cause to be taken the enumeration of the inhabitants.

SEC. 12. To provide, by ordinance, for the election of city officers, prescribing the manner of conducting the same, and the returns thereof, and for deciding contested elections.

SEC. 13. To provide by ordinance for removing officers of this city for misconduct, and for the appointment of officers, their duty and compensation.

SEC. 14. To regulate the police of the city, and to impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and also for the recovery and collection of the same, and, in

default of payment, to provide for confinement in the city prison, or at hard labor in the city.

SEC. 15. To regulate and prescribe the duties and powers and compensation of the officers of the city.

Compensation.

SEC. 16. To require from all officers and servants elected Bonds. or appointed in pursuance of this charter, bonds and security

for the faithful discharge of their duties.

SEC. 17. To appropriate money and provide for the pay

ment of the debts and expenses of the city.

SEC. 18. To divide the city into wards, and apportion their wards. representatives in the city council according to population.

SEC. 19. All ordinances of the city shall be passed pursu- Ordinances. ant to such rules and regulations as the city council may provide; and ordinances of the city may be proved by the certificate of the clerk, under the seal of the city; and when printed or published, in pamphlet or book form, and purporting to be printed or published by authority of the city, shall be read and received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

Grading of

SEC. 20. On the application of the resident owners of more than one-half of the lots on any street or part of a street, it streets. shall be lawful for the city council to levy and collect a special tax on the owners of the lots on said street or part of a street, according to their respective fronts, for the purpose of grading, paving, planking, or otherwise improving such street or part of a street, and, upon a similar application, to levy and collect a tax, in the same manner, for the purpose of lighting the streets and erecting lamp-posts therein.

Publish finance

SEC. 21. The city council shall cause to be published, once in each year, a statement of the receipts and expenditures of report. the city, and a statement of the financial condition of the city. SEC. 22. The council may provide for the improving, ornamenting and protecting the public grounds of the city.

ARTICLE VII.

SECTION 1. All acts and parts of acts now in force, inconsistent with any of the foregoing provisions, are hereby repealed, and declared inoperative and void, so far as they apply to the inhabitants of the town of Paola.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. All ordinances and by-laws of the inhabitants of Ordinances. the town of Paola, shall be and remain in full force and effect

until the same are repealed by ordinance or otherwise, under

Officers.

City government to assume debts, etc., of town.

Duties of officers

under town chaiter.

Additions when a part of city.

Simm's Addition.

A public act.

the provisions of this act; and that all officers acting under the provisions of said incorporation, shall hold their respective offices until the officers provided for under this act are elected and qualified.

SEC. 3. All the rights, privileges and immunities accruing to the said inhabitants of the town of Paola, under their present incorporation, shall be and are hereby vested in the city of Paola, and that all debts and liabilities now due or here. after to become due against the said incorporation of the inhabitants of the town of Paola, shall be assumed and paid by the said city of Paola.

SEC. 4. Upon the election and qualification of the officers under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the officers holding office under the provisions of the act incorporating the town of Paola, to deliver to the mayor elected and qualified under the provisions of this act, all moneys, books, papers, accounts, and other property belonging to said incorporation, in their hands or under their control.

SEC. 5. All additions to the city of Paola, which may hereafter be made, shall become and be a part of said city, as soon as the owner or owners of such addition shall cause to be filed and recorded in the register's office of Lykins county, a plat of said addition or additions, and shall be liable for taxes as other city property, after the first fiscal year of said city thereafter; and the tract of thirty acres adjoining the present city tract of Paola, on the east, known as Simm's addition, shall to all intents and purposes be and become a part of the city of Paola, so soon as a plat defining the lots and streets and alleys shall be filed and recorded in the register's office of the county of Lykins, by the owner of said addition.

SEC. 6. This act is hereby declared a public act, and shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

GUSTAVUS A. COLTON, Speaker of House of Representatives. W. W. UPDEGRAFF,

Approved February 27th, 1860.

S. MEDARY,

Governor.

President of the Council.

CHAPTER LXXXII.

AN ACT to incorporate the Parkville Town Company.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the
Territory of Kansas:

Corporate name

SECTION 1. That A. Cutler, Sam F. Tappan, L. N. Tappan, W. J. King, R. Sopris, J. M. Hendry, E. M. Lee, and William G. Mathais, their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Parkville Town Company, and by that name shall be and powers. competent to make contracts, to sue and be sued, in all matters whatsoever; said company is authorized to have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and to make such by-laws as may be deemed necessary for the government of said company and the management of its affairs.

SEC. 2. The officers of said company shall consist of a Officers. president, secretary, and treasurer, who shall be elected at the first meeting of the company, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are chosen.

SEC. 3. The corporation hereby created shall have power Hold and con to purchase and hold any quantity of land in the territory of vey land. Kansas, where the town of Parkville is now located, in Arrapahoe county, not to exceed six hundred and forty acres, and to lay off the same into parks, squares, blocks, lots, streets, avenues, and alleys, and to sell, dispose of, and convey the same by deed.

Authentication.

SEC. 4. Said company shall have power to pass by-laws regulating the time for its meetings and controlling the same; and all deeds for the conveyance of the real estate of the com- Conveyance. pany shall be signed by the secretary and attested with the seal of the corporation, and when so signed, attested, and acknowledged by the secretary as his free act for and in behalf of the company, shall be deemed and held sufficient to pass all the interests of the corporation in said real estate.

SEC. 5. The зaid company may, by by-laws, prescribe Stock. rules for the transfer of stock and shares in said town, and shall have power to tax the said shares and stock for the purpose of entering the land upon which the town is located, and for other general purposes.

SEC. 6. Three members of said company shall constitute Quorum. a quorum for the transaction of business, and all acts done by them shall be binding on the corporation.