12th. To provide for and cause to be taken Census. an enumeration of the inhabitants of the city.

13th. To provide by ordinance for the elec- Elections. tion of city officers, and prescribe the manner of conducting the same, and the returns thereof, and the registration thereof; and for deciding contested elections in any manner not in conflict with existing laws.

officers.

14th. To provide for removing officers of the Remove city for misconduct, and to create any office or Agents. employ any agent they may deem necessary for the government and best interests of the city.

officers.

15th. To regulate the police of the city, and Fines. impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of an ordinance, and to provide for the recovery and collection thereof; and to provide, in default of payment, for the confinement in the city jail or prison, and for hard labor in the city. 16th. To prescribe and regulate the duties, Regulate powers and compensation of all officers, agents and servants of the city not herein provided for. 17th. To require of all officers or servants, Bonds. elected or appointed in pursuance of this act, to give bond and security for the faithful performance of their duties. No officer shall become security upon the official bond of another. 18th. To provide for the prevention of cruelty Cruelty to to animals. 19th. To prohibit or regulate the running at Domestic large of domestic animals, such as hogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, fowls, or animals of any kind or description, within the corporate limits, and provide for the impounding of all animals running at large, contrary to such prohibition,

animals.

animals.

Dogs.

Appropriations

Street auctions

Auctions.

Streets.

5 Neb., 540.

Fire limits.

Sewers.

and also for the forfeiture and sale of animals impounded, to pay the expenses of taking up, caring for, and selling the same, including cost of advertising and fees of officers.

20th. To regulate, license or prohibit the running at large of dogs, and guard against injuries or annoyances therefrom, and to authorize the destruction of the same when running at large contrary to the provisions of any ordi

nance.

21st. To appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city. 22d. To regulate, license or prohibit the sale of domestic animals, or of goods, wares and merchandise at public auction on the streets, alleys, highways, or any public ground within the city.

23d. To regulate or license the auctioneering of goods, wares and merchandise.

24th To care for and control, to name and rename streets, avenues, parks and squares within the city; to provide for the opening, vacating, widening and narrowing of streets, avenues and alleys within the city, under such restrictions and regulations as may be provided by law.

25th. To define fire limits, and regulate the erection of all buildings and other structures within the corporate limits, and provide for the removal of any building or structure, or addition thereto, erected contrary to such regulations.

26th. To lay off the city into suitable districts for the purpose of establishing a system of sewerage and drainage; to provide such sys

tem, and regulate the construction and repairs and use of sewers and drains, and of all proper house constructions and branches, and to provide penalties for any obstructions of, or injury to any sewer or part thereof.

27th. To erect, construct and maintain water Waterworks. works, either within or without the corporate limits of the city, and to make all needful rules and regulations concerning the use of water supplied by such water works, and do all acts necessary for the construction, completion, management and control of the same, including the appropriation of private property for the public use in the construction and operation of such water works; compensations for such appropriation to be made as is provided by this act. And the mayor and council of each city, created or governed by this act, shall have power to construct and maintain water works on such terms and under such regulations as may be agreed on.

28th. To provide for the organization and Fires. support of a fire department, and to establish regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires.

29th. To hold and improve public grounds Parks. and parks within or without the limits of the city, and provide for the protection and preservation of the same.

reports.

30th. To require from any officer of the city officers' at any time, a report in detail of the transactions in his office, or of any matters connected therewith.

31st. To prevent horse-racing and immoder- Fast driving.

Explosive substances.

Use of streets.

Eminent domain.

Public peace.

Punish wrong-doers.

Fill vacancies.

Trees.

ate 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, oils and other combustible and explosive articles.

33d. To regulate the transportation of articles through the streets, and to prevent injuries to the streets from overloaded vehicles.

34th. To appropriate private property for the use of the city for streets, alleys, avenues, sewers, parks or public squares.

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, tramps, 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 purpose.

38th. To provide for the planting and protection of shade or ornamental and useful trees.

weights and

measures.

39th. To provide for the inspection of weights Inspection of and measures, and prohibit the use of any imperfect weights or measures, or weighing apparatus.

depots.

40th. To regulate levees, depots, depot grounds, Railways, and places for storing freights and goods, and to provide for and regulate the passage of railways through the streets and public grounds of the city.

railways and

2 Neb., 319.

41st. To regulate the crossing of railway Regulate tracks, to regulate the running of railway en-crossings. gines, cars, and trucks 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, also to regulate and prescribe the time and manner of running street cars within the city, and require the heating and cleaning of such cars, and to fix and determine the fare to be charged.

Fire works

42d. To punish and prevent the carrying of Firearms. concealed weapons, the discharge of firearms or fireworks of any description in any of the streets, alleys, or public grounds, or about or in the vicinity of buildings.

nuisances.

43d. To prevent any person from bringing, Prevention of depositing, having or leaving upon or near his premises or 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.

44th. There shall be in each city of the Board of first-class a Board of Public Works which shall 1882, 15.

public works.