The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-05-14

members In such manner and under such
penalties as the board of trustees preyi-
ously, by ordinance may have prescribed.
SEC. o. The board Of trustees shall
judge of the qualifications, elections and
returns OF their own members, and deter
mine contested elections; they may de-
termine rules for their own proceedings,
punish any member or other person for
disorderly behaviour in their presence,
and, with the concurrence of four of the
trustees, expel any member, but not a
second time for the same cause. They
shall keep journal Of their proceedings,
and, at the desire of any member, shall
cause the yeas and nays to be taken and
entered ON the journal on any question,
resolution or ordinance, and their pro-
ceedings shall be public.
Sec. Z. Such board of trustees shall
have power to pass bylaws and ordi-
nances to prevent and remove nuisances !;
to prevent, restrain and suppress bawdy
houses, gambling houses, aud other dis
orderly houses, within the limits of such
town or any common thereto attached !;
to restrain and prohibit gambling; to pro-
vide for licensing aud regulating DRAM
shops and tippling- houses, theatrical and
| other amusements, within such town; to
prohibit the firing of firearms to pre-
vent furious and unnecessary riding or
driving of any horse or other animal with
in such town or such part thereof as they
may think proper; to establish night
watches; to erect and maintain poor
houses and hospitals; 10 prevent the in
PRODUCTION and spreading of contagious
diseases; to prevent and extipguish fires;
to establish and regulate markets to
erect and repair bridges; to erect, repair
and regulate wharves and the rates of
wharfage to regulate the landing of
steamboats,, RATS and other water craft /;
to provide for the inspection of lumber,
building materials and provisions, to be
used or offered for sale in such town, or
to be exported therefrom to borrow
money for the improvement of such town
or to supply the same with water; to open
and form public squares, avenues, drains
and sewers, and to keep the same clean
and in order; to open, clear, regulate,
graduate, pave or improve the streets and
alleys of such town to impose and ap-
propriate fines, forfeitures and penalties
for breaches of their ordinances TO levy
and collect taxes ; to regulate the inclo-
sure of any common field belonging to or
within the limits of such town and to
pass such other bylaws and ordinances
for the regulation and police ofsuch town
and commons thereto appertaining, as
they shall deem necessary, not repugnant
and contradictory to the laws of the land.
Sec. s. Such board of trustees shall
have power to appoint an assessor, collect
or, constable and such other officers, SER
wants and agents as may be necessary,
remove them from Office, prescribe their
duties and fix their compensation.
SEC. 8. Such board of trustees shall
have power to have the streets and alleys
opened and repaired, and the footways
and sidewalks of the streets paved, at the
expense of the owners or occupiers of the
adjacent lots; and, if any such owner
or occupier fail to open, repair or pave the
same as required by ordinance, such
board of trustees shall cause the same to
be done, and may recover the full ex-
pense thereof from such owner or occu-
pier, by action of debt, in the name of the
corporation, before any court of compe.
tent Jurisdiction; and, if any tenant be
required to open, repair or pave in from
of the properly occupied by him, the ex
! pense thereof shall be a good set-of
against so much of the rent due the owner
but no tenant shall be required to ex'
pend more than the rent for the term fol
which he occupied the property.
Sec. 10. If any person, who is a non
resident of such town, fail to open, repai
or pave, when required as aforesaid, sucf
board of trustees may cause such lot o.
lots to be sold to defrsy the expenses o
such Improvement, in such manner as tn,
board may, by ordinance, provide.
SEC. IL. If any person fail to pay an,
tax levied on his real or personal proper
ty, the town collector may recover tn
same by action of debt, in the name o
, the corporation, before any court Of com
petent jurisdiction and such collecto
) may, in like manner, collect the amour
, of taxes due from any nonresident from
! any tenant or debtor Of such nonresident
bnt no tenant shall be compelled to pa
: more than the rent of such property, an
| the amount thus paid by him shall be
Q good set-off against the owner OF the pro
perty; and, if such non- residents taxe
t be not otherwise paid, the property ma
s be sold to pay the same, at public sale, ]
!. such manner as the board OF trustee
shall, by ordinance, provide.
: Sec. IL. All fines, forfeitures and per
! alties, accruing to such town, may be n
E covered by action in the name Of the Co
V poration, before any justice of the peac
n subject to an appeal to the higher cour
of the Territory, and persons living
i said town shall be competent jurors an
,e witnesses, if in other respects competel
If and qualified.
s. SEC. 13. If any real estate be sold.
.e virtue Of an ordinance of such town, Il
n owner thereof may redeem the same
,e any time within two years from the d'
ID of sale, by paying the purchase mons
DC and all costs and penalties incurred, :
lg gether with the interest thereon, at Il
Ill rate Of twenty per centum per annum u
er til paid.
SEC. IA. The chairman Of esch boa
60 Of trustees shall, on the first day Of Mar
n and September in each year, make ou
te correct statement ofall moneys receiy
e. and expended on account Of their respe
to tive towns, during the six months ne
u preceding, and shall cause such stal
&C. ment, within ten days thereafter. to
hs published in some newspaper printed
al the same town, If there be any, and
AZ, not, then he shall cause copies Of 50
IL statement to be put up in six Of the M
public places in such town, within
rs days.
an SEC. Is. Il the chairman Of the BOZ
he Of trustees of any town shall, at any tin
he neglect to make and cause such statem'
e. to be published rs required by this act,
I'd shall forfeit, for every. such neglect,
ty sum Of fifty dollars, to be recovered
IN, action in any court of record, one-h
er, whereof shall be to the use Of such to'
he and the other halfto the rse Of any ?
iix SON who will sue for the same.