The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-11

DeSRarS;
XXI. To establish a board of health.
define its powers and duties and provide
for the protection and maintenance of
the health Of the city; J.,
which all contracts for performing work
or fnrnishingmaterials for the city shall
be made and executed;
XXIN. To abateA and remove nuisances
of every kind, n to require the Aown-
er or occupant of any grocery, cellar.
tallow ~ehandler,s shop, butchers stall
pen, sewer or other offensive or UNI
wholesome house or place., lot or. in
closure, toeleanse or remove or abate
the same OF in a summary manner, to
cause the same to be done at the ex-
pense of the owner or occupant thereof;
* To regulate the burial Of the
limits as II may, prescribe, purchaselands
for public burial places, direct the keep
ingsand returneof bills of mortality and
to establish such regulations for con-
Veyfng. the dead through the streets of
said city as the health, quiet and good
order of the city may, in their opinion,
XVII To license and regulate cartlnen,
pcrters, hacks, cars, omnibuses, stages,
and all other carriages and vehicles used
for the transportation of passengers, bag
| gage, merchandise and goods and chat
tells of any kind, and the ownersand dri-
vers of vehicles and means of transpor-
tatlon also auctioneers, common criefs,
hawkers peddlers, pawnbrokers, junk
shop keepers, keepers OF bath' houses,
4 UOdTQlnR houses ana nGWSSIaflQS, sweeps,
scavengers, travelling and other shows,
circuses, theatrical performances, plays,
exhibitions, concerts, skating Kinks, tier
Grant vendors of merchandise, medicines
and remedies, and also the place or pla-
ees or tpTemises In which or at which the
different kinds of business or occupation
mentioned herein are to be carried on or
conducted; and to fix the rates of COM
penSation to be paid therefor, and to pro-
hibit all persons and places, n all We
hicles unlicensed, from acting, nsing, or
4 hnfp o. tTcnA- fn Gold nnnnnifinG and ! FOR
such use and purposes; and to fix and
prescribe penalties for the violation of
such ordinance or ana .f q
revenue provided. that no person or per-
sons shah be required to take out a IL
cense in order to sell any product OF his
XVII. To regulate the ringing of
bells and the crying of goods and other
commodities for sale at auction or other
wise, and to prevent disturbing noises IN
XVIII. To regulate or prohibit swim
ming or bathing in the waters OF or
xxx. To regulate weights and meas
ures in conformity with the standard of
weights and measures established by
law, and to require every merchant, re-
taller. trader and dealer in merchandise
or property of any description which is
sold by measure or weight, to cause
their weights and measures to be seal
ed by the city sealer and to be subject
to his inspection.
XXX. To establish, regulate and con
trol q DAY and \ t night police, ana to nix
XXI. To establish, regulate and
control a fire department.; to regulate
and define the manner of the appoint
ment and removal of the officers and
members of the fire department, their
duties and their compensation; to pro-
vide fire engines and other apparatus
and engine houses and other places for
keeping and preserving the same, and to
provide water for extinguishing fires;
XXXII. To regulate and control the
manner of building dwelling houses and
other buildings, and to prohibit within
certain limits, to be from time to time
prescribed by ordinance, the building or
stable or other building of wood or other
combustible material; to regulate the
construction of chimneys n to compel
the sweepings thereof; to prevent the set
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any streets or alleys of the city; to au-
thoriZe any city officer, or person or per-
sons whom they may designate for that
purpose to enter upon and inspect any
place or places for the purpose af ascer-
tanning whether the anne is or are
in safe condition, and, if not, to direct
or cause h same to be made SO; to regu-
late or prohibit the carrying on of manu-
factories dangerous in causing, or pro-
noting firesSlto regulate or prohibit the
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the use of firearms in said city; TO regu-
late or prohibit the keeping or conveying
gunpowder, camphene, benzine, naptha,
gasoline, coal oil, spirit gas. petroleum,
and other dangerous materials and the
use of candles and lights in barns, sta
bles and other buildings; to raise or de-
molish any building or erection which by
reason of fire, ~contagion, or any cause
may be dangerous to human life or
health or tend to extend -con1agration, to
require all such further or other acts to
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the doing of all such further or other
acts as they may deem proper to
prevent their occurrence and provide for
the extinguishment of fires in said city;
XXXIII. To adopt legal and requisite
measures for levying and collecting all
taxes, fines, penalties and all assess
XxxIV. 10 prescribe. and define the
duties of city and ware officers when
not otherwise prescribed by law, and fix
and determine their compensation and
the penalty or penalties for failure to
perform their duties, and to prescribe
the bonds and s~ureties to be given by
of their duties, and the time for execut-
ms the same in cases not otherwise, pro-
Led by law; to appoin from time to
time such subordinate officers as may
be deemed necessary to carry into eff
feot the owe and duties hereby Gre
ated or otherwise conferred or imposed;
XxXV. To fix and determine a reason
able COMPENSATION to be paid to any Of
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ployed by them for any service required
" ptni by this act OF by any ordinance or
resolution passed by them for which no
sDcrlles fee or compensation is provided
to be paid by the person or persons irv
whom such service shall be performed;
XXXVI. To supply the city and its
inhabitants with water; to regulate the
YIN of water mains through the streets
of the city, and to direct their extension
the entire city and to tax
all lots on the streets where such pipes
are laid in an equitable, lawful and Just
ratio for the expense of laying such
mains in front of such lots, whenever a
majority of the owners of lots sfrontins.
on any street petition for the laying of
such, pipe in ~suchsstreet, hut inano case
shaif the tax herein authorized to- be
ing aofoursinch main and to prescribe
by o~rdinancesthe 1nanner in which water
/ bills shall be credited to the persons nav
Ing ugh tax, until the whole amount nf
tax,5so paid shall be refunded by such
| credit. -
H. And be it enacted, That the common
council snail have power to make and
establish such other ordinances, rules,
the laws9o of this State or of the Tinted
states, as they may deem necessary to
carry into effect the powers and duties
| conferred and imposed on them by this
act, or by any other avs of this state
and such also as they may deem neces-
sary and proper for the good govern
! property, and for the preservation of the
public health and prosperity of said city
| ana its inhabitants, and the same to al
ter, amend and repeal.
'f18. And be it enacted, That in all cases
where, by the provisions of this act, the