The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-07-04

clause of all ordinances shall be, BE it or
dained by the common council OF the city
Oh" Inserting herein the name of the
city in which this act shall take effect.)
10. And be II enacted, That the council men
of any city in the state duly elected by the
several wards thereof shall constitute and be
called The common council of the city of
-. inserting herein the name of the
city in which this act shall take effecD.
| It, Aud be it enacted, That the common
council OF all cities in this state shall have
power within the said city to make, establish,
publish. modify, amend or repeal ordinan-
ces rules, regulations and bylaws for the
following purposes:
L. To manage. regulate and control the fl
nances and property, real and personal of
the city; to borrow money and negotiate
temporary loans, in anticipation of taxes or
other revenues for any current year. and
Tor payment of any public improvement,
not exceeding the amount of the specified
assessment for such Improvement;
Ill. To prevent vice, drunkenness and i'm
morality; to preserve public peace and good
order; to prevent and quell riots disturb
ances and disorderly assemblages;
Ill. To restrain and suppress disorderly
and gaming houses and houses of ill-fame;
all instruments and devices for gaming and
to prohibit all gaming and fraudulent de-
| vices;
! ~. To icence and regulate restaurants
victualing-houses or cellars ale and lager
beer saloons and gardens. billiard tables and
bowling alleys, and to prohibit the keeping
OF the same, except by people duly licensed !;
| V. To prohibit, restrain, regulate and Ii
cense all sports, exhibitions of natural or
artlhclal curJosities, caravans of animals
theatrical exhibitions circuseS or other pub
lie performances and exhibitions for money
and fix the sums to be paid for such licenc s
to the city>treasurer;
vi. To ascertain and establish the boun-
DIARIES of all streets, avenues highways
lanes and alleys and public places in said city,
and prevent and remove all encroachments
upon said streets avenues, highways, lanes
alleys and public places;
VII. To regulate, clean and keep in repair
the streets, highways, avenues. lanes, alleys.
lnDas IL In.
such city, and to prevent and remove obstruc
tons and membranes in and upon all
streets, highways sidewalks, crosswalks,
bridges, sewers, drains, aqueducts water
courses. wharves docks and other public
places in any manner whatever; TO prescribe
the manner in which corporations or persons
shall exercise any privileges granted to them
IN me use OF any street, avenue, highway or
alley i'll said city, or in digging up any street,
avenue, highway or alley for the purpose of
laying down pipes or any other purpose
Whatever, and to prohibit and prevent any
such use or work at such times and seasons
OF the year as they may designate; to direct
and regulate the planting, rearing. trim
ming ana preserving of ornamental shade
trees in the streets avenues, parks and
grounds of the city. and to authorize or pro
hlbit the removal or destruction of such
shade fees, and to enforce the removal of
snow, ice or dirt from the sidewalks and gut
tiers by the owners or occupants of the prem
Uses fronting thereon;
VIII. To open streets and TO grade, pave or
otherwise improve the same; to widen, level,
Rruue, nay OF euro or feCurD, gutter
or regutter, pave or repave or gravel the
sidewalks and cutters; to lay drains or con-
Struct sewers in any streets avenue. high
way or section thereof; to prescribe the man
ner in which any such work shall be per-
formed, and the mode in which the costs
damages and expense thereof shall be ascer-
tanned, and TO cause such costs. damages and
expense. or any proportion thereof to be as
sessed i'll just and equitable proportions on
the owners OF the property, whether improv-
ed or unimproved. receiving benefit from
improvements N he
time and manner in which such assessments
shall be collected;
TX. To d'rect the digging down, draining
hlling up or fencing of lots pieces or par
GELS pt ground in SAID city which shall be
deemed dangerous or unwholesome. or nee
essary to carry out any Improvement auth
orized by this act; to prescribe the manner
in which the said work shall be performed,
and to cause the expense thereof to be as
sessed in just and equitable proportions, on
the lots or pieces or parcels of ground,
whether improved or unimproved, benefited
thereby to the extent of the peculiar bene
fits conferred and to determine the time
and manner in which such assessment shall
be collected;
X. To prevent or regulate the erection or
construction of any stoop, step, plat form,
bay window, cellar door, area, descent into
a cellar or basement, sign or any post or
erection, or any projection or otherwise, in.
over upon any street or avenue and to re-
move the same, where already erected, ut
the expense of the owner or occupant OF
the premises.
and immoderate driving or riding in any
street, highway or public place. and to au
thorize the stopping and OBTAINING any per-
son who shall be guilty of immodCrate driv-
ing or riding in any street, highway or public
place, and to regulate the speed and running
of locomotive engines and railroad cars,
motor, electric or other cars through said
city. and designate the crossing at which
any railroad company shall be required by
the common council to station fagmen or
signals to warn travellers OF the approach of
XII. To prohibit the driving any drove or
droves OF cattle through any of the streets of
the city on the first day of the week. com
monty called Sunday. and to regulate the
same at other times;
XIII. To regulate. protect and improve the
parks. public burial grounds and other pub |
lie grounds in said city:
XIV. To provide lamps, gas fixtures and
other means OF illumination, and to light
the streets, parks and public places of every
description In said city;
XIV. To make and regulate W, lis, pumps. |
aqueducts and cisterns in the public streets; |
XVI. To establish ana regulate one or
more pounds. and to restrain and regulate |
the running at large of horses swine and
other animals, geese and other poultry, and
to authorize the impounding and sale of the
same for the penalty incurred and the cost of
keeping and impounding and sale;
,XVll To regulate and prevent the run
ming at large of dogs. to authorize the de-
structfon of dogs running at large and to
impose taxes on the owners of dogs;
XVIII. To locate regulate and remove
slaug hter houses est ablsh and regulate |
public markets. license and regulate butch |
ers, designate the places and manner of sell |
ing meats. fish, fruits aud vegetables and to
prohibit persons from selling such articles
without license; to provide for the removal |
and disposition of offal. garbage and all re-
fuse matter winch may may, become DANGER
ize and empower the local board OF health |
established or 10 be established in said city |
OF to provide therefor, and in case such
boards are given such power and authority, |
they are hereby authorized to accept the
same and given power SO remove and dis |
pose of such refuse matter
XIX. To prescribe and regulate the places
of vending or exposing for sale wood, hay, |
straw and other articles from wagons and
other vehicles;
Xxx. To regulate or prohibit any practice
having tendancy to frighten animals or to |
annoy persons passing In the streets or on the
of said city;
XXI. To restrain and punish drunkards, |
Migrants, mendicants and street beggars;
XXI. To establish board of health, de |
fine its powers and duties and provide for
the protection and maintenance of the
health of the city;
XIII 10 prescribe the manner in which |
all contracts for performing work or fur
nishing materials for the city shall be made
and executed;
every kind. and to require the owner oftoc- |
cupant of any grocery, cellar tallow-chand- |
ler's shop, butchers stall. soap factory, tan |
merry, stable, priVy, hog. pen, sewer or other |
offensive or unwholesome house or place lot
or Enclosure, to cleanse or remove or abate
the same, or, in summary manner. to cause
the same to be done at the expense of the
owner or occupant thereof;
ky. To regulate the burial of the dead.
prohibit interment within such limits as II
may prescribe purchase lands for public
burial places, direct the keeping and return
orb lis of mortality and to establish such
regulations for conveying the dead through
the streets of said city as the health, quiet
and good order of the city may, in their
opinion, require;
XVI. To license and regulate cartmen,
portcrs, hacks cars Omnibuses. stages and
all other carriages and vehicles used for the
of passengers. baggage. mer
chandise and goods and chattels of any kind,
and the owners and drivers of vehicles and
means of transportation; also auctioneers,
common criers, hawkers, peddlers, pawn
brokers' junkshop keepers. keepers of bath
houses, boarding houses and news-stands.
sweeps, scavengers travelling and other
shows, circuses, theatrical performances,
plays exhibitions. concerts, skating Kinks,
itinerant vendors of merchandise, medicines
and remedies, and also the place or places OF
premises 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 compensation to be paid
therefor, and to prohibit ali persons and
places and all vehicles unlicened, from act
ing using or being used in said capacities,