The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-07-29
FRN KFORT, KY. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1898.

occupations and professions and pro-
vide for the collection thereof.
12-To prohibit and suppress all
gambling houses and baudy houses
and the selling, displayingor exhibit
ing obscene pictures and literature.
13-To regulate, restrain or prevent
any trade, occupation, business or
mandatory offensive to the public
or dangerous to health or in causing
or producing fire; and to regulate the
sale of fire arms and to prevent the
carrying of concealed deadly weap-
ons.
14-To regulate the storage Of gun
powder, tar, pitch, resin, salt petre,
&C., or other imflamable material
and the use of lights, furnaces, &C.,
in all sorts of buildings and the sale
of fire crackers, fire works and toy
pistols.
15--To make all police regulations
looking to the general health, COM
fort, morals and safety of the public
and to suppress or remove nuisances.
16-To establish standard weights
and measures.
ITO provide for the inspection
and measuring of lumber and other
building materials.
1910 provide for the inspection
and weighing or measuring of stone,
coal, wood and fuel, hay corn and
other grain or produce.
1910 regulate the inspection of
beef, pork, flour, meal and other pro-
visions, oil, whisky and other spirits,
20-To regulate the inspection of
milk, butter, lard and other pro-
visions; the vending of meat, poultry.
fish, eggs vegetables, fruits, &c.
ALTO impose fines, forfeitures, &C.,
and terms or imprisonment and pun
ishment of all riotous and disorderly
persons or other disorderly or unlaw-
full assemblies.
23-To regulate or prohibit the
erection of wooden buildings in such
parts Of said city as may be deemed
proper.
24-To regulate the construction of
all buildings with view to safety and
adequate means OF escape in case of
fire.
25-To oblige owners, occupants
and agents of any property consider
ed dangerous to have the same re-
moved or repaired.
26-To establish, license, tax and
regulate ferries and fix ferry rates.
27-To regulate, tax, license or sup
press the keeping and going at large
of all animals within the city.
28-To provide for inclosing, inn
proving and regulating all public
grounds belonging to the city.
% To improve or reserve the nav
igation of any navigable river within
or adjoining said city.
SOTO erect, repair and regulate
public wharves, docks and landings.
31-To regulate the stationary an
chorage and mooring Of vessels or
RATS.
32-To acquire and maintain public
cemeteries, parks, squares, avenues,
promenades and fountains.
$50 close all places where ar
dent liquors are sold on election days.
34-1o grant the right of way
along, over or across the streets,
alleys and public grounds of the city
to any railway gas, water company
&C., for term not exceeding twenty
years. Before granting such fanchise
an advertisement for bids must first
be made and the franchise awarded
to the highest and best bidder. The
city shall reserve the right to make
the company conform to any change
or altered grades of said streets and
public grounds; to pay the cost of
paving or improving between the
rails and for reasonable distance on
either side, to make culberts beneath.
The city is also to reserve many
rights in regard to raising or lower
ing pipes, wires, placing them under
the ground, to control all the streets,
&C., as the public good may require.
All such grants shall expire and be-
come void unless a bona fide organi-
zation shall have taken place and
business prosecuted hereunder in
good faith within one year from the
date thereof. The provisions as to
advertisement and bids and limit of
grant to twenty years shall not apply
to the right of way of trunk rail-
way.
35-To establish board Of health.
36-To establish board of sink
ing fund commissioners to con-
sist of the Mayor and two other per-
sons, not city officers, to have the
same qualifications as councilmen and
be appointed by the Mayor and con-
firmed by the council. They shall
hold office for four years without
compensation.
37-To provide for the appointment
of a police force in each De-
cember, the number and salaries of
same. a
$50 ascertain and make the boun-
daries of the city and make map of
the same.
39-To carry out the full intent and
meaning of this act.