The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-03

thorize or prohibit the use OF electricity at IN or
upon any OF said streets or Tor other purposes.
and 10 prescribe the terms and conditions upon
which the same may be SO used and 10 regulate
the use thereof.
Eighth-To change the grade OF any street.
highway or alley within its corporate limits
and to provide for the payment of damages to
any abutting owner or owners who shall have
built or made other improvements upon such
street, highway alley at any point opposite to
the point where such change shall be made in
such grade.
Ninrh-To authorize or prohibit the locating
and constructing of any railroad or street rail
road in any street. alley or public place of said
city and TO prescribe the terms and conditions
upon which any such railroad or street railroad
shall be located, operated or constructed; TO
provide for the alteration. change OF grade or re-
moval thereof: 10 regulate the moving and
operation of railroad and street railroad trains.
cars and locomotives within the corporate
limits of said city, and 10 provide for the pro-
lection of all persons and property against In
jury in the use of any such railroad or street
railroad.
Tenth-To provide for making local improve
meEts and 10 levy and collect special assess
ments on properly benefited thereby, and for
paying for the same or any portion thereof.
Eleventh-To acquire by purchase or by exer-
else of the right of eminent domain or other.
the limits of said city and to improve the same.
Twelfth--To construct and keep in repair
bridges, viadHcts and tunnels. and to regulate
the use thereof
Thirteenth-To determine what work shall be
done or improvements made at the expense in
whole or in part OF the owners of the adjoining
contiguous or proximate property. or others
especially benefited thereby, and to provide for
the manner of making and collecting assess
ments therefor.
Fourteenth-To provide for erecting. purchas-
ing or otherwise acquiring water-works within
or without the corporate limits of the city; to
supply said city aud its inhabitants with water,
and to authorize the constru ction of the same
by others when deemed for the best interests of
the city and its inhabitants, and to fix, alter,
regulate and control the use and price OF the
water so supplied.
Fifteenth-To provide for lighting the streets
and all public places, and for furnishing the in
habtants thereof with gas or other lights and
to provide for the erection or other acquisition
and maintenance of the same or to autht rize
the erection and maintenance of such works as
may be necessary and convenient therefor and
TO charge and collect for the use OF such light,
and to regulate the use and price OF the light so
supplied either by the city or Others.
Sixteenth-To establish and regulate markets,
and TO provide for the weighing, measuring and
inspection of all articles of food drink offered
for sale thereat or any other place within the
limits of the city, by proper penalties, and to en-
force the keeping OF proper legal weights and
measures by all vendors in the city, ana to pro-
vide for the inspection OF such weights and
measures.
seventeenth-To erect and establish hospitals
and pesthouses, and to control and regulate the
same.
Eighteenth-To erect and establish work
houses and jails and to control and regulate the
same. and to provide for the working of prison
ers confined therein; provided that no prisoner
shall be required to perform any labor until he
shall have been duly convicted of some offense
punishable by imprisonment, and duly sen-
fenced thereto.
Nineteenth--To provide for establishing and
maintaining reform or training schools for
juvenile offenders.
Twentieth-To provide for the establishment
and maintenance of public library or libraries
and to appropriate annually such percentum of
ali moneys collected for fines, penalties and
licenses shall be prescribed by this charter
for the support of city library which shall.
under such regulations as shall be prescribed by
ordinance, be open for use by the public.
Twenty. frst-To regulate the burial of the
dead, and to establish and regulate cemeteries
within or without the corporate limits. and to
acquire land therefor by purchase or condemna-
ton or otherwise; to cause cemeteries to be re-
moved beyond the limits of the corporation snd
TO prohibit the establishment of any cemetery
within two miles of the boundaries of the city.
Twenty secOnd-TO direct the location aud
construction of all buildings in which any trade
occupation offensive to the senses or deleteri-
GUS to the public health or safety shall be car
ried on, and to regulate the management
thereof; and to prohibit the erection and main
tenance of such buildings or structures or the
carrying on of such trades or occupations
within the limits of said city or within the dis.
lance of two miles beyond the boundaries
thereof.
Twenty-third-To make regulations for the
prevention of accidents by fire, to organize and
establish a fire department. to provide fire en-
gines aud other apparatus, and to provide for
the prevention and extinguishment of fires and
to regulate or prohibit the transportation, keep
ing or storage of all combustible or explosive
materials within Incorporate limits of the city
and to restrain and Regulate or prohibit the use
of fireworks.
Twenty-fourth-Toe establish fire limits and en-
large the same as circumstances may require
and make all such regulations for the erection
and maintenance OF buildings or other struc-
ures within the corporate limits as the safety of
persons or property may require, and TO cause
ali such buildings and places as may from any
cause be in dangerous state to be put in safe
condition, and 10 prohibit the erection or con-
siruction within such fire limits of any building
or structure or any addition 10 any building or
structure unless such building, structure or ad-
dition be constructed of such material aud in
conformity to such rules, regulations and con-
ditions as the city council shall have provided;
and to provide Tor the removal of any building
or structure any addition to any building or
structure erected contrary 10 such prohibition
Twenty fifth-To regulate the manner in
which stone, brick and other buildings, party
walls and partition fences shall be constructed
and maintained.
Twenty -sixth-To provide for the deepening,
widening. docking, covering, walling, altering
or changing the channels of WATERWAYS and
water-courses, and TO provide for the construc-
ton and maintenance Of canals, slips public
landing places, wharves, docks and levees and
all such work as may be required for the &C
commodation of commerce, AID to control and
regulate the use thereof.
And further, to provide for the condemnation
of all sucn work or works by the city and for its
use and benefit; and for the construction and
maintenance AID ownership of the same by the
city.
Twenty -seventh-To control, regulate or pro-
hbit the anchorage. mOorage and landing OF all
water crafts and their csrgces within the juris-
diction of the corporation.
Twenty -eighth-To fix the rates of wharfage
storage and dockage, and TO provide for the col
ection thereof ana TO provide for the imposi-
ton and collection OF such harbor fees as NAV
be consistent with the laws of the United States
Twenty-nin THO license, regulate control
or restrain wharf boats, tugs and other boats
used about the harbor or within the Jurisdiction
of the city.
Thirtieth-To require the owners OF public
halls or other buildings to provide suitable
means of exit; TO provide for the prevention
and abatement Of nuisaEces; Tor the cleaning
and publication of wa,ercou and canals.
for the draining and filling ug OF ponds on mi
vate property within its limits when the same
shall be offensive to tie senses or dangerous to
health to regulate and control, and provide for
the prevention and nuuishmrnt ~ ,t., 49,