The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-05-26

rated villages, or the annexation of terri
tory to any city or incorporated village, or
the consolidation d municipal corpora
tions, and he shall prepare for, and sub
NIT to the General Assembly, at each reg
ular session thereof, areport, showing the |
names, location, and limits Of such incor-
porated village, organized under this act,
previous to the time of making up said re-
port; and also the cities and Incorporated !
villages, the limits of which have been IN
creased under this act, previous to the
same time, and the limits so added.
Sec. l8. Cities or incorporated VII
lagos, organized or to be organized under
this act, be and they are hereby declared
to be bodies polite and corporate, under
the name and style of the city of --,
or the incorporated village of ----, as
the case may be; capable to sue and be
sued, to contract and be contracted with,
to acquire, hold and possess property,
real Or personal; to have a common seal,
and to change and alter the same at plea
sure; and to exercise such other powers,
and to have such other privileges, as are
incident to municipal corporations of like
character or degree, not inconsistent with
this act, or the general laws of this State.
SEC. 10. All municipal corporations
organized, or to be organized under this
act, except incorporated villages for spe-
cial purposes, shall have the general pow
ers and privileges, and be subject to the
rules and restrictions granted and pre-
scrbed in the twenty succeeding sections
Of this act.
Sec. 90. They shall have power to
prevent injury or annoyance within the
limits of the corporation, from any thing
dangerous, offensive or unhealthy, and to
cause any nuisance to be abated; to regu-
late the transportation and keeping ofgun-
powder or other combustibles, and to pro-
vide or license magazines for the same;
to prevent and punish fast Or immoderate
riding of horses, or driving or propelling
of vehicles through the streets; to estab-
lish and regulate markets; to provide for
the measuring or weighing of hay, wooc,
coal, or any other article for sale; TO regu-
late the transportation of articles through
the streets, and to prevent injuries to the
streets from over loaded vehicles; 10 pre-
vent any riots noise, disturbances, OF dis
orderly assembIages; to suppress and re-
strain diyorderly houses, houses OF Ill
fame, billiard tables, nine or ten pin al
leys or tables, and ball alleys, and to au-
thorize The destruction of all instruments
and devices used for the purpose OF gam
ing; and to protect the property OF the
municipal corporation, and its inhabitants,
and preserve peace and good order there
in.
| Sec. 2t. They shall have power to
provide for the regular building of houses;
to make regulations for the purpose OF
guarding against dangers from accidents
by fire; and on petition Of the owners OF
notices. than twothirds Of the ground in
any square, to prohibit the erection in
any such square, of any building, OF any
addition to any building, more than ten
feet high, unless the outer walls thereof
be made of brick and mortar, or Of iron,
or stone and mortar, and provide for the
removal of any buildings, or additions, c.
rected contrary to such prohibition.
SEC. 90. They shall have the power
to provide supply of water, by the con-
struction and regulation of wells, pumps,
cisterns, reservoirs, or water works; to
prevent the unnecessary waste of water,
to prevent pollution of the water, and in
iures to the water works; and for the pur-
pose of establishing or supplying water
works, any municipal corporation may SC
beyonds its territorial limits; and its juris-
diction to prevent or punish any pollution
or injury to the stream or source Of water,
or to the water works, shall extend five
miles beyond its corporate limits.
Sec. %. They shall have power tc
regulate the burial of the dead; to pro.
vide without the limits Of the corporation,
places for the nterment of the dead, and
prevent any such interments within such
limits, and to carry into effect any
prohibition against interments within the
limits ofthe corporation; may not only i'm
pose proper fines and penalties, but shall
also have power to cause any body inter
ed contrary to such prohibition, to be ta
ken up and buried without the limits o
the corporation.
SEC. "a They shall have power tt
restrain and regulate the running at large
of cattle, horses, siwne, sheep, and Other
animals, the property of any perscn resld
ing within the limits of the corporation
and to authorize the distraining, impound
and sale of the same, for the penalty in
Cured, and cost Of proceeding; to prevent
the running at large Of dogs, and injuries
and annoyance therefrom, and to autho
rize the destruction of the same, when a
large, contrary to any prohibition to that
effect
SEC. 90. They shall have power to re
gulate or prohibit all theatrical exhibi
tons or public shows, and all exhibitions
of whatever name or nature, for which
money, or any other reward, is in any
manner demanded or received; Provided
that lecturers on scientific, historical o.
literary subjects, shall not come withir
the provisions Of this section; to regulate
or prohibit the sale Of horses, orother do
mestc animals at public auction, in tbt
streets, alleys, or highways; to regulate
! all carts, wagons, drays, hackney coach
es, omnibusses, and every description o
carriages which may be kept for hire, anC
all livery stables; to regulate taycrns, anc
other houses for public entertainment
and to regulate or prohibit ale and por
i ter shops and houses, and places for sig
3 nfcant or habitual resort for dppling ant
t intemperance. @
: SEC. 26. They shall have power tt