The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-04-14
THE NEW CHARTER.


An Act To Incorporate Dalles City
and to Define its Powers.
Be 1T enacted by the Legislative assembly
Of the State of Oregon:
CHAPTER ".
26. To provide for the establishment
of market houses and places, and to regu
late the location and management of
market houses, slaughter houses, wash
houses and laundries, and to provide for
their exclusion from the city limits and
to prevent the killing of animals therein.
81 To regulate the storage and sale of
gunpowder, giant powder, nitro-glycerlne
or other explosive material. and to pre-
vent their manufacture in the city; to
regulate the use of candles, lamps and
other lights in streets, stores or shops,
stables and other places, and to remove
and secure any fireplace, stove, chimney,
oven, boiler or other apparatus which
may be dangerous in causing fire, and to
prevent by all possible and proper means
danger or risks of injury or damage by
fire, arising from carelessness or other
wise.
%. To restrain and punish drunken
ness, fighting, the use of profane or OBJ
scene language, or any unlawful or indie
cent practice within the city limits, and
to define what shall constitute the same.
%. To prohibit the carrying of dan
gerous weapons in a concealed manner; !;
to regulate and prohibit the use of guns,
pistols, firearms, fire-crackers, bombs
and fireworks of all kinds and descrip-
tions within the city limits.
30. To prevent, restrain and d1sperse
any riotous assemblage, and to punish
the persons engaging or taking part
therein.
81. To tax, regulate and prohibit any
animals, including dogs, from running at
large within the city limits, and to regu-
late and prohibit the driving of any loose
animals or stock therein.
80. To compel all persons erecting
privies or cesspools within one hundred
feet of any street in which sewer has
been or way hereafter be constructed to
connect the same with such sewer; pro
Uided, that where blocks are more than
one hundred feet in width, the authority
shall extend to the center of the block,
and to punish persons who shall refuse
to so connect.
33. To provide for collecting and dis
bursting all moneys to which the city
may be entitled by law, or which may be
assessed or authorized to be collected for
city or other purposes within the limits
of the same. And the council is hereby
authorized and empowered to enforce
the collection of any general or
special tax levied in pursuance of this
act, and may authorize the issue of war
rants and levy upon both real and per-
sonal property, whether the same be ex-
empt from execution or not, of delin-
quent taxpayers within the city, and
cause the same to be sold under such
rules and regulations as the council shall
esta ablish, to satisfy such warrant and
fees of officers, and other expenses at
tending such levy and sale.
"a. To prohibit officers of the city
| from purchasing demands against the
! city, or orders drawn on the city treas
urer, for a less amount than that ex-
pressed on the face of such demand OF
order.
So. To impose, collect and appropri-
ate fines, forfeitures and penalties fol
breach of any ordinance, but no fines &C
| imposed shall excede one hundred dol
I lars, and Imprisonment shall in no case
/ be imposed for longer term than thirty
days.
36. To provide for the survey of the
I lots, blocks and streets of the city, ane
4 for making and establishing the bound
ary lines of such lots, blocks and streets
! and for the naming of the streets.
81. To establish and regulate the fee.
and compensation of all officers of the
corporation, except when otherwise pro
/ vided by law.
i 49,. To purchase, take and hold rea
4 property when sold for delinquent ia,
4 or assessment levied or imposed unde
II the authority of the city to sell and dis
pose of the same.
80. To appropriate money to pay tn,
public debts, liabilities and expenditure
of the city, or any part or item thereof
from any fund applicable thereto.
I. 40. To provide for the punishment o
of any violation of any ordinance of tn,
4 city by fine or imprisonment or both.
Al. To regulate the use of streets
roads, highways and public places TO
foot passengers, animals, vehicles, cars
street railways and locomotives; to pro
hibit more than one railway track othe
than switches on any of the publ
! streets; to regulate the transportation Q
all explosive materials through tn
streets or public places to protect tn
public from injuries from runaways, an,
to punish persons who negligently leav
horses and carriages in the streets with
out fastenings; to prescribe the width 9
tires of all vehicles.
40. To erect and construct bridg
across the Columbi river; proO5ded, tha
no bridge shall ever be built across sal
river the south end of which shall be out
side the limits of the city.
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