, 1884-03-20

person or persons, company or corporation, for the pur-
poses herein mentioned
1eah-To provide for the erection and government
of all necessary buildings for the use of the city;
EeeenH-To appoint judges of all elections provided
by ordinance ana this act, for the election of city officers
and prescribing the manner of conducting the same and
the returns thereof, and for deciding contested elections,
and for holding special elections for any purpose herein
provided;
7reth-To regulate the police of the city, and to
impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach OF
any ordinance, and also for the recovery and collection
Of the same, and in default of payment, to provide for
confinement in the city prison or county Jail, or to hard
labor in the city;
elected or appointed, to give bonds and security for the
faithful performance of their duties;
Foureenh-To make contracts with and authorize any
person, company, association or corporation to erect gas
works, or electric light works, or steam heating works
and apparatus, and to give such person, company, asso-
citation or corporation the exclusive privilege of furnish
ing gas or electric lights to light the streets, lanes and
alleys of said city for any length of time not exceeding
ten years, and to grant to the same the right of way
for laying or erecting pipes, mains, wires or electrical
apparatus;
FJeenM-To establish, make and regulate public
wells, csterns, reservoirs, aqueducts and to provide for
filling the same;
,Slreenh-To regulate the running at large of cattle,
horses, hogs, mules, sheep, goats, dogs and other animals,
and to cause such as NAV be runninp at loroe 70 he
impounded and sold to discharge the costs and penalties
provided for the violation of such prohibition, and the
expense of impounding and Keeping the same, and of
such sale; to regulate and provide for taxing the owners
of dogs found at large contrary to any ordinance regu-
lating the same, and to provide for the determination of
al SUCH uoSs o WHICH II q snail not be PAID;
SeUen6enh-To provide for the erection of all needful
pens, pounds and buildings for the use of the city, within
or without the city limits, to appoint and compensate
keepers thereof, and to establish and enforce rules gov
Eghsenh-To regulate the construction of and order
the suppression and cleaning of fire places, c%himneys,
stoves, stove-pipes, ovens, boilers, kettles, FORCES or any
apparatus used in any building, mandatory or business,
which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires,
and to prescribe limits within which dangerous, obnox-
ious or offensive business may be carried on;
N1eeenh-To prescribe limits within which no build
ing shall be constructed except of stone or brick or other
lncombustible material, with hre-proof roof, and to impose
a penalty for the violation of such ordinance and to
provide the thickness, strength and manner of construct
ing stone, brick and other buildings within the fire limits
of said city, and construction of fire escapes therein, and
to provide for the proper enforcement of the same by the
imposition of a penalty for the violation of any such
provisions made by said city, and by abolishing any unau-
thorized work and declaring the same to be a nuisance,
and providing for its abatement;
TUeRteH-To procure fire engines, hooks, ladders,
buckets and other apparatus, and to organize fire engine,
hook and ladder and bucket companies, and a fire depart
ment, and to prescribe rules of duty and the government
thereof.
TCenh-frSt-To regulate depots, depot grounds and
places for storing freight and goods, and to provide for
and regulate the passage of railways through the streets
and public grounds of the city; to regulate the crossings
of railway tracks, and to provide precautions and pre-
scribe rules regulating the same; and to regulate the
running of railway engines, cars and trucks within the
limits OF said city; and to provide rules relating thereto,
and to govern the speed thereof, and to make any other
and further provisions, rules and restrictions to prevent
accidents at crossings and on the tracks of railways, and
to prevent fires from engines; to remove all Instructions
from the sidewalks, curbstones, cutters and cross-walks,
at the expense of the owners or occupiers of the grounds
fronting thereon, or at the expense of the person placing
them there and to regulate the planting and protection
of shade trees in streets; the building of bulkheads, eel
lar and casementways, stairways, railways, window and
doorways, awnings, b%utchering posts and rails, lamp
posts, awning posts and all other structures projecting i
upon or over and adjoining, and all other excavations
through and under the sidewalks of said city;
1tomty-second-To prevent and restrain riots, routs,
noises, disturbances or d%isorderly assemblies on any street,
house or place in the city; to regulate, punish and pre-
vent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fire
works or any other dangerously combustible material, in
the streets, lots, grounds, alleys, or about or in the vicin-
ity of any buildings; to regulate, prevent and punish
the carrying of concealed weapons; to arrest, regulate,
punish, fine or set at work all Migrants and persons found
in said city without visible means of support or SOM
legitimate business;
ToenW-hird-To prevent and remove all encroach-
ments into and upon all sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys
and other city property, and to prevent and punish horse
racing, fast driving or riding in the streets, highways,
alleys, bridges or places in the city, and all games, prac-
tees or amusements therein likely to result in damage
to any person or property; to regulate, prevent and pun
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