The Osceola times., 1883-03-31

offensive or unhealthy, and to cause
any nuisance TO be abate within the
jurisdiction given to the board of
health in section six (6), to regulate
the transportation and keeping of
gunpowdcr, dynamite and other com
bustibles and to provide or license
magazines for the same; to prevent
and punish fast or immoderate riding
of horses, or the driving or propelling
of vehicles through the streets; to es-
tablish and regulate markets; to pro-
vide for the measuring or weighing
of hay, wood, or any other article for
sale; to regulate the transportation
of articles throughout the streets,
and to prevent injury to the streets
from overloaded vehicles; to prevent
cruelty to animals; to prevent any
riot, noise, disturbance or disorderly
assemblages; to license, regulate, tax
or suppress ordinaries, hawkers, ped
dlers, brokers, pawn-brokers, money
changers, intelligence officers, public
masqueradcs, balls, street exhibitions
sparring exhibition, dance houses,
fortune tellers, pistol galleries, corn
doctors, lock and private and vene-
real hospitals, museums and menag-
cries, equestrian performances, horo-
scopic views, lung testers, muscle
developers, magnihing glasses, bill
lard tables or instruments used for
gaming, theatrical or other exhibi-
tions, shows and amusements, tipling
houses and dram shops; also to regu-
late drumming or soliciting persons
who arrive or trains or otherwise for
hotels, boarding houses, bath houses
or doctors, to license such drummers,
and to provide that each shall wear
a badge plainly exposed to view
showing for whom and for what he is
drumming or soliciting patronage,
and punish by fines any violation of
this provision. Provided the city or
town council shall not grant a license
to any tippling house, dram shop or
saloon, or permit such houses, shops
or saloons to carry on such business
in any ward Of the city, or any incor-
porated town, where at a previous
election majority Of the votes cast
were against license in such ward
of a city or incorporated town, or
where an order prohibiting the sale
or giving away of any vinous, spirit
uous or intoxicating liquors of any
kind, or alcohol, or any compound or
preparation thereof commonly called
tonics or bitters, has been made in
accordance with the provisions of an
act entitled an act to amend section
four az of an act entitled an act pro-
viding for the prohibition of the sale
or giving away of vinous, spirituous
or intoxicating liquors of any kind
within three (3) miles of any acade-
my, college, university, or other in
stitution of learning, or Of any church
house in this state, approved March
twentyfrst (2lst), eighteen hundred
and eighty-one )lSSI), passed at the
present session Of the general assem-
bly,, and approved February twenti-
eth (20th), eighteen hundred and
eighty-three; or any gift enterprises,
to suppress prize fighting, dog fights,
chicken cock fights, gaming or gam
bling houses, and to regulate or sup
press bawdy or disorderly houses,
houses Of ill-fame or assignation.
Sec.N2 That section forty-eight
(4S) be\amended so as to read as
follows: y
Sect. as. The qualified voters of
the cities of the second class shall on
the first (lst) Tuesday in April, in
the year eighteen hundred and eighty
five QSSo), and every year therea!f-
ter, elect one mayor and two alder
men from each ward as members of
the city council. The mayor of cit
les of the second class shall have
within the limits Of the same all the
jurisdiction and power of a justice of
the peace in all matters civil or Grim
inal arising under the laws of this
state, to all intents and purposes
whatever, and for crimes and offences
committed within the limits of the
corporation, his jurisdiction shall e
co-extensive with the county; he
shall give bond and security in any
amount to be determined and approx
ed by the city council; he shall have
exclusive jurisdiction for all prosecu-
tions for violation Of any ordinance
ofthe city; he may award and issue
any process or writs that may be
necessary to enforce the administra-
ton Of justice throughout the city,
and for the lawful exercise of his ju-
risdiction according to the uses and
principles of law, and he shall, in the
discharge of the duties of Justice
of the peace, receive the same fees
and compensation as may be allow
ed them by law. The city council of
all cities of the second class now
having one or more wards, may di-
vide such city into such number of
wards as said council may determine,
not exceeding five (5), before the
time of the first election, provided
for by this act, and each of said
wards shall at such first election be