Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-08

and void. If the change of grade be
recommended by said board of public
works, the common council shall proceed
to complete said change OF grade and
assessment as now provided by law, after
the recommendation of said board;
PROVIDED, however, That the change OF
grade of any street hereinbefore ordered
by the common council without the same
first having been recommended by
the board of public works, where the
assessment has been made, shall be legal
and valid to all intents and purposes as
if recommended by said board of public
works, and the same are hereby ratified
and legalized.
Sec. IL. That it is hereby made the
duty of the treasurer of the county OF
Ramsey, in the collection of taxes, to
keep set of books, so as to show at all
times the exact amount of money re-
ceived or collected for the city of ST. Paul,
and for the board of education of the city
of St. Paul, and that all taxes received
by said county treasurer for the city
of St. Paul and the board of education Of
the city of ST. Paul shall be distributed
as collected on the books of said county
treasurer to the credit of said city of st.
Paul and the board of education of the
city of Paul, and fifty (50) per cent. OF
all penalties received by the county
treasurer for delinquent taxes shall be-
long to and shall be paid to the treasurer
of the city of st. Paul for the use of said
city, by said county treasurer, and the
said county treasurer shall on the first
(lst) week day of each and every onmth or
so soon thereafter as the same may be de-
manded, pay over to the city treasurer of
the city Of st. Paul all moneys, and pen
alties collected the previous month for
said city, as well as all moneys col
lected for the board of education of said
city as shown by the county treasurer's
book or books.
Sec. Is. The common council of the
city of St. Paul shall have authority oil
cense and regulate the exhibition of COM
mon showmen and shows of all kinds, and
the exhibition of caravans, circuses, con-
certs and theatrical performances, and
also license and regulate all auction
GERS, billiard tables, pigeon hole tables,
nine and ten-pin alleys, bowling saloons,
butcher shops and butcher stalls, and
vendors of butcher meats, hucksters,
vendors or dealers in fruits or vegetables,
stock yards, pawnbrokers, insurance Off
ces and insurance agents, taverns, lager
beer saloons, victualing houses, and all
persons vending, dealing in or disposing
of spirituous, malt or fermented liquors.
Sec. IA. That whenever in the city
charter or any of the amendments thereto
the words ''first Wednesday of May is
fixed as the expiration of the term OF any
CITY officer, the same shall be stricken out,
and the words ''the first Tuesday Of June"
inserted in lieu thereof.
Sec. Is. The common council of the
city of St. Paul shall have authority to
erect and maintain market houses, cstab-
lish markets and market places, to restrain
and prohibit during market hours the sale
at any other places than in the public
markets or market places, meats, poultry,
wild game, fruits or vegetables, or other
articles except by regular licensed dealers,
and by them only at their regular places
of business, and for which place they
shall have license; and to restrain and
prohibit the purchase by any grocer or
other dealers in vegetables, poultry or
other provisions, any meats. poultry,
wild game, fruits, berries, vegetables, or
any other article in any public market or
market place during market hours, ex-
cept for the use of his or her family; Pro-
pided, hoaoeoer, That nothing in this Sec
ton shall be construed to prohibit the
sale of vegetables, country produce or
poultry upon the public streets, lanes or
alleys Of said city after the hours of twelve
12) O'Clock noon of each day
Sec. 16. The common council OF the
CITY of st. Paul, in addition to its other
powers, is hereby authorized to ordain
such other and further ordinances, not
| inconsistent with the laws of the State,
which shall be deemed expedient for the
coed government of the city, the protec-
ton of its property, the preservation OF
peace and good order, the suppression OF
vice, the benefit of trade and commerce,
the preservation of health, the proven
| ton and extinguishment Of fires, and to
prescribe limits within which neither
wood, lumber, lath, single or hay can be
piled or stored, or lumber yards estab-
lished or maintained within said city.
Sec IT, The common council of the
city of St. Paul shall have power to pur-
chase real estate for the use of said cOrpo-
ration, or to aid in the purchase of real
estate for sSch public purposes as the
common council may deem proper, by a
unanimous vote of all the members thereof
elect, and by a like vote to sell
and convey such real estate as the
city may own, and which are
not needed for municipal purposes,
and all conveyances heretofore made and
executed by said corporation are hereby
legalized and ratified; and propide, that
said common council shall never contract
or increased any Indebtedness for the
purchase of real estate without special au-
thority first obtained from the legislature.
Sec. IS. The salary of the city comp
troller shall be twenty-five hundred
z, SOY dollars per annum. The salary
of the city engineer shall be twenty-five
hundred z, 500) dollars per annum. The
salary of the city treasurer shall be twen-
ty-nine hundred $4,000 dollars per an
mum and fees. The salary of the city
attorney shall be twenty-five hundred
dollars ($2, 500) per annum, besides clerk
hire, which shall not exceed six hundred
(600) dollars per annum, and there is
hereby appropriated out of the city treas
ury the sum of twelve hundred Il ,200) dol
lars for money paid and expended for clerk
hire during his present term of office.
The salary for the clerk Of the board of
public works shall be eighteen hundred
1,S00) dollars per annum, which shall
include clerk hire The salary of the
chief of the fire department to be such
sum as may be fixed by the common coun-
eli, not to exceed fifteen hundred 1,500)
dollars per annum; Provided, That said