Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-30
THE HERALD.
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streets or other places In the SAID
village, and to provide for the ar,
resting, removing and Furnishing any
person or persons who may be guilty
of the same.
18th. To prevent the shooting Of
fire arms or the exhibition of any
fireworks in any place which they
may consider dangerous to the vii,
lage or any property therein, or an.
noying to any person thereof.
18th, TO regulate the police Of
the village; to regulate the place
and manner of selling and weighing
bay and measuring and selling fuel
either wood or coal, and to appoint
suitable persons to superintend and
conduct the same.
10Th. To establish public markets
and make rules and regulations for
the government of the same, to ap,
point suitable officers for overseeing
and regulating such markets, and to
punish or restrain for interrupting or
interfering with the due observance
of such rules and regulations to IL
cense and regulate butchers stalls.
shops and stands for the sale OF
game, poultry, meats, fish and other
provisions.
10th. To regulate, suppress or IL
cense hawkers aud peddlers who
travel from place to place to sell
goods, wares and merchandise with>
in said village, and to license trans,
lent dealers and traders to sell the
same.
21st. To compel the owners OF
buildings or grounds or the occu
pants when the same are occupied.
TO remove snow, dirt or rubbish from
sidewalks, streets or alleys opposite
thereto, and to compel such owner
or occupant to remove from the lot
owned or occupied by him, all such
substances as the board of health
shall direct, and in default, to au-
thorize the removal or destruction of
the objectional substances by some
officer OF the village, at the expense
of such owner or occupant.
ia. ~ regulate to time, ssplace
and manner of holding public auc-
tons and vendues.
3d. To appoint watchmen and
prescribe their duties.
Oath. To provide by ordinances
for a standard of weights and meas
ures, and for the punishment OF false
weights and measures.
25th. They shall have power to
require the.owner Of any lots of
grounds in the village to set out
ornamental trees in the street or
streets fronting the same, and in de-
fault thereof to cause the same TO be
done, and to lay special tax upon
such lot or grounds to pay the ex-
pense of the same.
Goth. To make, open, keep in re-
pair, grade, improve, lay out, alter,
widen, vacate or discontinue streets,
avenues, lanes, alleys, sewers, and
sidew alks, to keep them free from
membranes, and to protect them
from injury in said village,
9th. TO tax every male resident
Of said village above the age to TWEEN.
ty-one years and under the age of
fifty years, one days labor, or in
lieu thereof one dollar, to be appro-
piiated to improving the roads and
streets of said village under the di-
rection of such person as they may
appoint.
2Sth. Upon the application of the
owners Of two>thirds Of the lots on
any street or part of street, or on
one side Of any block, to levy and
collect a special tax on the owners
of the lots on such street or part of
streets according to their respective
parts, for the purpose of making a
side walk along the same, or grading
paving and improving the street
along the same.
Sec. %. The trustees shall have
power to appoint and at their pleas>
ure to remove, the following officers.
to-wit one chief engineer of the fire
department, two fire wardens and as
many assistant wardens as they
shall from time to time deem neces-
sary, one seaier of weights and meas
ures, sexton and Keepers Of burial
grounds and q street commissioner,
and prescribe their duties and fix
their compensation under the pro-
visions of this act, and to impose and
enforcein law such penalties as to
the said trustees may seem proper
for any malfeasance or improper con-
duct of any Of said officers, and to
require bonds for the faithful per,
Torrance of the duties of any or such
of them as may be deemed expedient
and necessary by the trustees.
Sec. "a. The president and trus,
tees shall, at such time as they may
deem proper, establish the grade o.
all streets, alleys and sidewalks in
said village, and shall cause accurate
profiles thereof to be made, which
shall be filed with the clerk.
Sec 25. Whenever the trustees shall
levy any tax for the purpose of grad,
ing, paving. or otherwise improving
any street, or for the building or re-
pairing of any sidewalk, or any Other
special purpose, they shall make out
and deliver to the street commission
er such tax to be collected and ex-
pended, list of persons and des-
cription of the property taxed, and
thereupon the street commissions
shall notify the persons named il
such tax list, by publishing a motto,
in three or more of the most conspic
uous places in said village or in som,
public newspaper printed therein
and shall specify in such notice /.
time not less than twenty days no
more than thirty days from the dat,
thereof, when persons charged will
taxes in such list may pay their take
in labor, materials or money; and tn
persons charged with such tax MAJ
within such time and at such plac,
as may be required by such stree
commissioner, pay their taxes in la
Dor or materials provided, the labo
and materials offered in payment 70
such taxes are suitable and such a