The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-04-20

days. No ordinance shall become law
until it shall have been read, and passed
on three different days, and shall have
received on its final passage the assent
of majority Of all the members Of the
Board. No ordinance of a general ma.
ture shall take effect until ten days after
its passage nnless the same shall provide
that it should take effect sooner.
Section s. The Board of Mayor and
Aldermen shall have control of the fl.
nances of the Town, and all the proper
ty of the corporation real, personal and
mixed, and shall have the power by or
dinance;
LIST. To levy and collect taxes upon
all property, privileges and polls in the
town of Johnson City, taxable under the
law of the State Of Tennessee.
End, To license, tax and regulate
any and all lawful occupations, privil-
eyes, business places, amusements, and
places of amusements declared to be
privileges by the law of the State, and
to fix the rate of charge for the carriage
of persons and property within the
town, and to the public works parks,
property and cemeteries Of the town, by
licensed hackmen, Omnibus men, car
riage-men, dray-men, express-men and
street Railway Companies.
3rd. To establish quarantine regula-
tons and laws and to enforce the same
within the town, and within the five
miles thereof; to prevent the introduc.
ton and Speeding of contagious diseases,
to establish, maintain and regulate hos
pitfalls and secure the general health of
the inhabitants by any necessary means,
to provide for the management and reg.
ulation of slaughter houses, to prevent
or regulate the driving Of stock through
the city; prohibit the erection of soap
factories. stockyards, slaughterhOuses,
pigpenS, w-stables, daries and other
nuisances of like character within the
prescribed limits; and to remove and
regulate the same; to regulate or pre-
vent the carrying on of any business
which may be dangerous or detrimental
to public health, OF the manufacture or
vending articles, obnoxious to the health
of the inhabitants, and to declare, pre-
vent or abate nuisances, on public or priv.
ate property and the cause thereof.
4th. Establish fire limits and make
and enforce such general regulations by
ordinance for the prevention and extin-
guishment of fires as the Board may
deem necessary, and to organize, equip,
maintain and regulate fire companies.
To regulate tue storage of illuminat-
ing oils, dynamite, gun-powder, tar
pitch, rosin, and all other explosive OF
combustible material, and to regulate OF
prohibit the use of fire arms and fire
works of all kind and to regulate, re-
strain or prohibit the carrying on Of
manufactures dangerous in causing
fires.
9th. To regulate the construction Of
suitable fire escapes in or upon build
ings, and suitable appliances for the ex-
tinguishment Of fire therein when neces
sary for the safety of the occupants.
9th. To provide the town with water
by contract or otherwise, to construc
wells, cisterns and reservoirs; to erect
pumps and hydrants; to lay pipes fol
conducting and distributing water oyel
the town; to keep the same in repair, K
acquire and own water works, OF stock
in any Water Company organized for
the purpose Of supplying the town witt
water, for domestic, irrigating, mechan
ical and other purposes, to acquire b.
purchase or condemnation proceeding
under the general laws Of this State
water rights and sites for public build
ings, and parks of the city or between
the town and the source from which
the water is to be taken, and to sucl
condemnation proceedings, the posses
sion of a franchise, shall be no bar upor
the proper and legal compensation be
ing paid to construct or purchase Water
works, for the use of the town. And t
enlarge their capacity from time to time
and to keep the same in repair, and gen
orally to do whatever may be needfHl en-
necessary to be done,by contracting wit
Water Companies or otherwise in orde
to supply the town with water for fire
irregating, domestic, mechanical an
other purposes, and regulate the price
to be charged private consumers there
for.
7th. TO provide for the Temporal
or permanent closing Of wells an
springs used by the public, wheneve
50 me are injurious to health.
Sth. To open, alter, abolish, wider
extend, establish, grade, pave, or other
wise improve and keep in repair street
avenues, alleys, side walks, drains an
sewers, and to erect, establish and re
pair bridges, culverts, and to provide 70
lighting the streets and for the plantin
and protection of shade trees upon tn
streets, avenues and parks or other pull
lie grounds and for the erection Of q
buildings necessary for the public use [
the town.
9th. To provide for enclosing; in
proving and regulating the public parl
and other public grounds Of the tow
and to make all such provisions and ref
ulations, with regard to improvement
, preservation. plating and ornamentin
any ground for cemetery or cemetel
les owned by the town, either within
v without the limits dfRtHe town. as the