The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-27

/ into the Guy: To make Quarantine laws tor thA
purpose, and enforcs the sams within five mife
Of the city To establish bospitas and max e reg
uia,ions for tho government Of the same: II
make regrintioIls to secure the generalhealth 81
the inhabitants; 70 declare what shall BE- nui
sAnce, and to prcven: remove or nbate the same
To tax dogs orprevent them from going 1t large
To provide the city with water, to erect hy dranti
and pumps in the streets for the convenience 81
the iahabtants To openj alter, abolish, widen
prove and keep in repair, strcetr, avenues, lanes
and alleys: To csfablisby erect and keep in re.
par bridges: t. divide the city into Wards, al
ter the boundaries thereof, and erect additional
Wards, as the occasion may require TOprovide
forlighfing the streets and erecting lamp posts
t. establish, support and regulate night watches
To erect market houses, establish markets and
and regulation thereof: To provide for the erec-
tioh Of oil ncedful buildings for tho nse Of the
city: To provide for the enclosing, improving
and regulating al public grounds Belonging to
the city: To improve and preserve the navigation
Of the Mississippi river within the limits Of the
city: To erect, tepaitand regulate public wharvea
and docks-to regulate the erection and repair
Of private wharves and the rates Of wharfape
ther6at: Tolicense, tax and regulate auctione,
transient merchants, retailers and grocers, tav-
err s. ordinaries, hawkers, pedlars, brokers, pa
brokers and nsoney-changcrs: To license, tax
and requisite hackney carriages, wagons, carts
and draye, and fix the rat to be charged Tor the
carfisge Of persons and for the wsgonage and
carriage and drayage, Of property: To license and
regulate porters and fix tho rates Of porierage :
To license, tax and regulate theatrical md other
exhibitions, shows and amusensnis: To tax hill
lizard fabief; RESTRAIN, prohibit and suppress tip-
ping hodscs; dram shops and gaming housea and
hawdy and other disorderly houses: To provide
for the prevention and extnguishment Of fires,
and 10 organize and establish FIRE companies: r,
regulate or prohibit the erection Of wooden huid-
ings in any part OF city: To regulate :he fixing
of chimneys, fix the hues thereof: To regulate
the storage OF eurpowder, tar. pitch, rosin, and
other conbustible matcfia1s: To regulate and or
der parapet wallis and partition fences: To csiab.
lish standard weights and measures, and to reg
ulnie the weights and measures to be used in the
cry, in ali cases not Otherwise provided for BY
law: To provide for the inspection and measu-
ring of lumber and other building materials, and
for the measurement: of all kinds OF fmechanical
work: To provide for the inspection and weigh
ing Of hay and stone coal, the measuring Of char.
coal, 6rewood, and other fuel TO be sold or used
in the city: To provide for and regulate inspcc-
tion Of tobacco, beef, pork, -four, meal aud wi,is
key, in barrels: To regulate che weight, quality
and price Of bread to be sold in the CITY: Topro-
vide for inking the enumeration ofsthe inhabi.
tan,s Of the city: To reeua,ethe election Of city
ice any person holding an Office created by ordi-
nance: To fix the compensation Of oil city OFF,
Gers. and regulate the fees Of Jurors and witness
ses and others tor services rendered under II, Is
acs or any ordinance: To prohibi: the diseharg-
ing OF frc-arms, and the racing or immode rate
running or driving Of Horses. drnys, chrfs, cnf-
riages. wagons. or other vehicles in said ciiys To
regulate the police Of the CITY: 70 impose fines,
folfeiures and penalties for the breach oieany orr
dinancc and provide for the recovery and appre-
priation az such fines and forfeiiures and the en-
forcement ofssuch penalties, and the licensing
and regulating retailers Of spirisuous and vinous
liquors in said city. The city council ehal have
power 10 mike all ordinances which shall be me-
cessary dnd proper for carrying into execution
the pow ers specified in this act, so thar such or
dinances be not repugnsnt e or tinconsisteRt
with tile Constitution Of the United States and
Of the State of Iowa. The STYLE Of the ordinan-
cesof tho c;ty shall be "Bsit enacted BY the city
council Of the city of Davenport" All prdinaE--
ccs passed by the city council shall within one
monih aftcrthey shall have been passed, he puts
lished in some newspaper Pubis ed in1said city,
or 4 certified copy thereof signed by the Clerk,
nes,ed up al one or more puhlic places ia each
Ward of said city, and shall not take effect until
len davs after ruch publication or posting up as
above: provided for. Al sordinances, bt-laws,
rules and regulations, shall be recorded t,y the
Clerk tire ci,vina book TO Re KEEP, for that pur-
pose, with cert Gcato to each shat the same HAS
been published il seme newspaper published IL
st;tl city Or = copy thereof posted in'each Ward
thercora and that tire same ID correct copy of the
original as Iassed BY The city council, and ;ihe
said book ,Sor copy ~ any bylaw, ordinance,
rule or re gulaiinn, with the certificate Of the
Clerk oithe publication aforcsaid, certified b. the
said Cserk; to be afrue copy Of such be.'nw, or
dinance rule or regulation, shall be sufficient au-
,hentcaton TO allow the same 10 be read OF re-
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