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2. To levy and collect taxes on all
property, real and personal, made taxa
BILE by law for State purposes, not
exceeding one per centum per annum
upon the assessed value Of such prop
erty:
3. To provide for the draining, gra-
ding, paving, improvement, repair and
lighting of the streets, and the con-
struction of sidewalks, drains and sew
ers, and keeping the same in repair,
and the cleaning of the drains and
sewers, and the prevention and re-
moval of Instructions on the side
walks
4. To provide for the prevention
and extinguIhment of fires, and tc
establish and organize fire companies
5. To regulate the storage of gun
powder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other
OK emely combustible materials:
To establish and regulate city
po',ce.
z. 70 prevent and remove nuisan-
ccs.
s. To remove from the immediate
ricinitJ Of the inhabited parts of the
tjiy, al slaughter houses, haystacks,
folges, and black 'mith shops:
8. To license and regulate auction
GERS ana taverns, bar rooms, billiard
tables, bowling alleys, theatrical and
other exhibitions, shows and amuse-
ments:
10. To license, tax, regulate, pro-
hibit and suppress tippling houses dram
shops, gaming and gambling houses,
and hawkers, pedlers, and pawn bro
kers, and to suppress disorderly houses
and houses Of ill fame:
II. To provide for the erection of
all public buildings for the use of the
city:
II. To open, alter and widen streets
and alleys:
l3. To establish City Hospital,
and provide for the support Of the in
digent sick:
IA. To borrow money upon the faith
and credit of the city but no loan shall
be made for a sum exceeding five
thousand dollars, including the amount
of any previous Indebtedness, without
the consent to such loan of the electors
of the city previously obtaiued:
Is. To appropriate money for any
item Of City expenditure, and to pro-
vide for the payments of any debts and
expenses of the city:
16. To prevent and restrain auy
riot or disorderly assemblage in any
street, house, or place of the city;
II. To impose and appropriate fines
forfeitures, and penalties, for the breach
of any ordinance, and to provide for
the punishments of breaches of the or
dinances but no fine shall be imposed
of more than five hundred dollars, and
nc offender shall be imprisoned for a
longer term than ten days:
Is. To suspend or remove any
city officer for misconduct in Office or
neglect Of duty, with the concurrence
of two thirds of the members elected.
10. To compel the attendance OF alb
sent members, to punish its members
for disorderly conduct, and to expel
members, with the concurrenc Of two
thirds of the members elected.
Sec. z. When the common council
desire to effect loan for q sum ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars, including
the amount of any previous indebted
ness, they shall submit a proposition
for such loan to the electors of the city,
and if a majority of the persons voting,
vote in favor OF such proposition, the
common council shall have authority
to effect such loan, but not otherwise
Sec. s. 1t shall be the duty of the
common council to provide for the ac-
countability of all officers, and other
persons elected by them, to whom the
receipt and expenditure of the funds
of the city shall be entrusted, by re-
quiring from them sufficient security
for the faithful performance of their
duties or trusts, which security shall
be given by them before entering upon
their respective duties; in case such
security becomes insufficient, additional
security may be required, and if not
given, the common council, by a vote
Of two thirds of the members, may de-
clare the office vacant, and elect an
other person to supply the vacancy.
Sec. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
common council to publish in a public
newspaper printed in the city, If one
be printed in the city, but if none be
printed in the city, then in one printed
in the county, one month before the
annual election of officers, in each year,
for the gen eral information of the citi-
Zens of Nevada, a full and detailed