The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-04-03
tf1anitowoe pilot.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1879.

piling or selling of lumber, timber, wood
or other combustible material within the
fire limits of said city.
81. To regulate the measure and IN
specting of lumber, cord and fire wood,
shingles, timber, posts, slaves, headings,
and all building materials, and to appoint
inspectors and prescribe their duties.
80. To make. establish and regulate
public pounds, pumps, wells, cisterns and
reservoirs, and 70 provide for the erection
and maintenance OF water works FOR the
supply of water to the inhabitants, and
to prevent unnecessary waste of water.
80. To erect lamps and regulate the
lighting thereof, and to provide for light
ing the streets, public grounds and pub
lie buildings with gas or otherwise.
20. To require every merchant, retail
or, trader and dealer in merchandise or
property of any description, which is sold
by measure or weight, to cause his
weights ana measures to be sealed by the
city sealer, and TO be subject to his in
spection and to provide for the punish
ment of persons using false weights and
measures. The standard of such weights
and measures shall be conformable to
those established by law in this state.
Al. To prescribe and regulate the
manner of moving buildings through pub
lie streets, and to require parties moving
the same to give security for damages
which may be recovered against said city
on account of obstruction to the street.
AZ. To direct the location and man
agement of and regulate breweries, tan
neries and packing houses; and TO direct
the location, management and construct
ION of and regulate license. restrain, abate
or prohibit within the city and the dis
lance Of one mile therefron, distilleries,
Strengthening establishments, establish
ments for steaming or rendering lard, tai
low, offal and such other substances as
can or may be rendered, and all establish
ments or places where any nauseous, of
fensive or unwhOlesOme business may be
carried on.
43. To establish anG erect public mar
kets, determine their location, and make
rules aud regulations for the government
of the same; to appoint suitable officers
for overseeing and regulating such mar
kets; and to restrain all persons from ill.,
terupting or interfering with the due OBJ
servances Of snch rules and regulations.
IL TO regulate butchers and to regu-
late and restrain the sale of game, poul-
FRY, fresh meat, vegetables, fish, butter,
fruit, eggs, and other provisions IN the
city; to restrain and punish the forestall
ing Of poultry, fruit and eggs; and to
cause the seizure and destruction, or 9th
er disposition of tainted or unwholesome
meats, butter, vegetables, fruit or pro-
visions.
a. To authorize the arrest, fine or
imprisonment of all persons not having
visible means of support, and are without
employment, idly lettering or rambling
about, or staying IN groceries, drinking
saloons, houses of Ill fame, or houses of
bad repute, gambling houses, railroad
depOts or fire engine houses, or who shall
be found trespassing III the nighttime
upon the private premises Of others, or
begging or placing themselves III the
streets or other thoroughfaTes or public
places to beg or receive aims: also keep
ers, exhibitors, or visitors at any gaming
table. gambling house, house Of fortune
telling, place of cock fighting, or other
place of device; and all persons who go
about for the purpose of gambling or
watch stufiing; or who shall have i'll their
possession any article or thing used for
obtaining money under false pretenses,
or who shall disturb any place where
on week day or Sabbath, or places where
religious worship is held.
46. To let, by proposal to the lowest
bidder, all contracts FOR services, or work
and materials, and order payment for the
same, except as otherwise provided Tor
by this act
AZ. 10 make all regulations necessary
aud proper for the support OF the poor.
Section 6. The board of aldermen
shall have power to preserve the harbor,
to prevent any use of the same. or any
act in relation thereto inconsistent with
or detrimental to the public health, or
calculated to render the waters of the
same. or any part thereof, impure or Of
fegsiye, or tending IN any degree to fill
up or obstruGt the same: to prevent and
provide against the casting or depositing
therein of any earth, ashes or other filth,
piles, logs or floating matter: to prevent
and remove all distractions therein, and
to punish the authors; to regulate and
prescribe the mode and speed of entering
and leaving the harhor, and of coming to
and departing from the wharves and
streets OF the city by boats, vessels, RATS
or other crafts, and the disposition Of the
sails, yards. anchors and appurtenauces
thereof, while entering. abiding IN OF
leaving the harbOr, and to regulate and
prescribe by ordinances, or through then
harbor- master, or other authorized officer
such location of every boat, vessel OF
other craft or i0at, and such changes OF
station in, and use OF the harbOr, as may
be necessary TO promote order therln,
and the safety and equal convenience, or
as near as may be, of all such boats, YES
sells, crafts or floats, and may impose pen
altes not exceeding one hundred dollars
for any oifense against any such ordinance
and by such ordinances, charge such pen
altieS. together with such expenses as
may be incurred by the city in enforcing
this section, upon the steamboat or other
vessel, craft oY float. The haTbor of the
city shall include the piers. and SO much
of Lake Michigan as lies within the dis
lance Of one mile into the lake, and the
Manitowoc river SO far as it lies within
the limits of the city. The said board of
Aldermen shall also have power to estab-
Iish and construct, and to regulate land
ing places, wharyes, piers and basins,
ana to fix rates for landing, Wharfage and
dockage, and to use for the purpose atoss-
said. any public landing or any property
belonging 10. or under the control of the
city.
Sertion T. The board of Aldermen
shall have power to order sewers built
and make all necessary provisions for
drainage and sewerage IL said city. The
contract for building such sewers and
drains shall be let to the lowest bidder,
and the work shall be done under the sa-
perintendance of the city surveyor or 9th
er suitable persons, and upon plans pre-
pared by said surveyor. The expense Of
building such drains or sewers as pro7i
ded for by this section shall be borne by
the lots benefited by such work. and the
city clerk, upon estimates submitted to
him by the city surveyor, shall immeii
ately after such work is done, apportion
the cost of the same among the lots beue-
ftai IN nrnnort;on 10 the benefit accrneing