The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-07-10

disturbing noises In the street;
XVIII. To regulate or prohibit swimming
Or bathing in the waters OF or bounding the
oity
XXX. To regulate weights and measures
In conformity with the standard of weights
ana measures established By law, ana to re-
qufre every merchant, retailer, tracer and I
uealef IN meFchahulse OF property OF any ue
seription which is sold by neisu;e Or weight, /
to cause their weights and meH ures 70 be /
scale u by the city seaer and to be subject to
his In pection.
Xxx TO establish, regulate ana control "A I
day and night police, and to fix and deter |
mine their cOmpensal ion
XXI. To establish, regulate and control a /
fire department; to regulate and define the /
manner of the appointment and removal of
tho officers and members of the fire depart /
ment, their duties ana their compensation ; to
provide fire engines and other pparatus and
engine houses and other places for keeping
and preserving the same, and to provide
water for extinguishfng fires;
XXXII To regulate and control the manner
0 building dwelling houses and other build
mos and 10 nrohibif within ceIfain limits n
be from time to time prescribed by ordinance,
the building or erection ofany dwelling house,
store, stable, or other building of wood or
other cOmbustible material to regulate the
construction of chimneys and to compel the
sw eeping thereof; 70 prevent the setting up
or const ruction OF furnaces, stoves, boilers
ovens or other things in such a manner as to
be dangerous to prohibit the deposit OF ashes
in unsafe places, or in any OF the streets or ~
leys of the city: to authorize any city officer
or person or persons whom they may desg-
nate for that purpose, to enter upon and in
ascertaining whether the same is or are in safe
condition, and if not to direct or cause the
same to be made so; to regulate or prohibit
the carrying on OF manufactures dangerous
In causing or promoting fires 10 regulate or
prohibit the manufacture. sale or use of
fireworks and the use of firearms in said
city; to regulate or prohibit the keep
ing 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 stables
and other buildings: to raise or demolish 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 con
hagration, to require all such further or other
acts 70 be done and to regulate and prohibit
the doing OF all such further or other acts as
they may deem proper to prevent their oc.
currence and provide TOR the extinguishment
of fires in said city.
XXXIII To adopt all legal and requisite
measures for leNy1ng and collecting all taxes
fines, penalties and all assessments for public
improvements:
XXXIV To prescribe and define the duties
OF city ana ward officers when not otherwise
prescribed by law, and fix and determine
their compensation and the penalty or penal
ties failure to perform their duties, ana to
prescribe the bonds and sureties to be given
by the officers of the city for the discharge Of
4 their duties, and the time for executing the
same in cases not otherwise provided bV law.
I to appoint from time to time such sub ordinate
officers as may be deemed necessary to carry
/ into effect the powers and duties hereby Gre
ated or otherwise Inferred or imposed:
XXXV To fix and determine a reasonable
compensation to be paid to any officer of said
city or other person employed by them for
I any service required of him by this act or by
any ordnance or resolution passed by them
4 Tor which no specific fee compensation is
provided to be paid by the person or persons
/ for whom such service shall be performed:
\ XNXVI. To supply the city and its inhab-
! itants with water; to regulate the laying of
water mains through the streets of the city,
and to direct their extension throughout the
entire city and to tax ali lots on the streets
where such pipes are laid in 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 fronting on any
street petition tor the laying Of such pipe in
such street, but in no case shall the tax herein
authorized to be laid exceed the cost of pro
viding and laying fourinch main: and to
pre- scribe by ordinance the manner which
water bills shall be credited TO the persons
paying such tax, until the whole amount OF
tax so paid shall be refunded by such credit
II. And be it enacted. That the common
council shall have power to make and estab-
/ lish such other ordinances, rules, regulations
and bylaws not contrary to the laws of this
state or of the United States as they may
4 deem necessary to carry into effect the powers
and duties conferred and imposed on them by
I this act, or by any other laws OF this state
and such also as they may deem necessary and
proper for the good government order, pro
I lection of persons and property, ana for the
preservation OF the public health ana prosper
ity OF said city and its Inhabitants, and the
same to alter, amend and repeal.
/ is. And be it enacted, That in all cases
where by the provisions of this act the com
mon council have authority to pass ordinances
on any subject, they may prescribe penalty
/ imprisonment I'm the city or county jail not
4 exceeding thirty days, or by a fine not exceed
4 ing two hundred dollars the book of record
of the ordinances ana bylaws of the said com
mon council shall be taken ana received as
evidence of the due passage by said common
council of all ordinances and bylaws recorded
therein; and further, the volume OF ordnan-
7 ces and bylaws printed and published by au-
/ thoriiy OF the common council, shall in like
manner be taken and received as evidence OF
the ordinances and bylaws of the said com.
mon council, and the publication of the SAID
ordinances and bylaws in the public news
papers, according to law, shall in all cases be
presumed 10 have been made, until the con.
I tIary be proved
/ 10. And be it enacted, That the common
council shall have power to build and main
tain city hall, hospital and such other pub
lie buildings as they may deem necessary, and
such as may ne required for the accommodation
OF the city officers and the day and night po
lice OF the said city.
20 And be it enacted, That the comm on
council shall have power to build, establish.
keep and maintain one or more work-house or
warehouses, and one or more almsnouse oil
almshouses, and to direct or order what per-
sons shall be placed therein and for what
length OF tlme, ana the manner Of ordering,
placing and keeping persons therein and the
application and expenditure of all moneys
raised tor the maintenance and relief of the
poor of said city shall be under the govern.
melt, management and direction OF the said
common council and of the overseer of the
that purpose, constitute and appoint; and
the overseer of the poor shall possess the pow
CTS anu pcTfOTIl bDe uubleS OF the ike OIlcefS
of the townships of this state, so far as such
powers and duties shall be consistent with
the provisions of this act.
81. And be il enacted, That the sole and ex.
elusive power to grant licenses to persons to
keep inns and taverns within said city shall
be vested in the common council on such
terms and under such limitations, regula-
tions, and restrictions as The said common
council shall. by their ordinance impose.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF CITY OFFICERS
AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF
ORDINANCES.
%. And be it enacted, That the mayor shall
have the power and il shall be his duty to
recommend to the common council all such
measures connected with the security health,
cleanliness ana ornament of the city, and the
protection and improvement of its govern.
ment an 4 finances AS he shall deem expedlent;
to keep the corporate seal of the city; to cause
the laws and ordinances to be duly executed
and enforced, and to exercise q supervision
over the official acts of the subordinate officers
OF the city, and TO report any derelietion of
duty to the common council, and generally to
perform all such duties as may be required OF
him by law or the ordinances of SAID city; he
may under the direction of common council,
offer rewards tor the detection OF apprehen-
sion of the perpetrator of any Offenses against
the city ordinances, or of any high crime or
misdemeanor committed within the city, to
be paid on the conviction of the criminal.
q. And be IL enacted, That the mayor is
hereby invested with all the powers and duties
which any police justice of the city is now or
may hereafter be invested with, and for the
purpose OF quelltng instruction, riot. dis
turbance or disorderly assemblage, shall have
control of the eonstabes, watchmen or other
police force of said city, and the power to call
upon the citizens for aid in all ceses, and
when he shall deem it proper, to call out the
militia of said city and employ the same in
queling lnsurection, riot or disturbance of
the peace, and on parades or other public
gatherings, when he shall deem it necessary
to preserve the public peace and good order,
he may appoint for the occasion such SPECIAL
policemen as he may deem necessary, and the
common council shall provide for their COM
penSatiOn.
"a. And be it enacted That whenever there
shall be vacancy in the office of mayor, or
Whenever the mayor shall be prevented by
absence from the city, sickness or Their cause,
from attending to The duties OF his office the
president OF the common council, or, If he be
absent or disabled, the president to be elected
pro tempore, shall act as mayor, and possess
all the rights and powers OF mayor during the
vacancy in office caused by the absence or dis
%. And be 1t enacted, That the chosen free
holders, commissioners OF appeal in cases of
taxation, school superintendent, overseer of
the poor, constNbles ana city clerk, elected or
appointed as aforesaid, shall respectively pos
sess the powers and perform the duties of the
like officers OF any township OF this state, so
Tar as such powers and duties shall be con
sis'enb with the provisions OF this act Il; ana
powers ana perform the duties OF collectors OF
the several townships so far such powers
ana duties shall be consistent with the pro
visions of this act
20. Ana be It enacted, That the collector Of
taxes shall have power to appoint with the
consent OF the common council, one or more
deputies, who shall have power to do all ana
every act or acts which it may be lawful tor
the said collector To do, aud every warrant di-
rected to him may be executed by his deputy
or deputies, or either OF them, in as full and
complete a manner as if executed by the said
collector OF taxes; and the said deputy or dep
uties shall give such security tor the faithful
performance OF their respective offices as the
common council shall direct
81 a nd be it enacted. That the office of the said
collector of taxes shall be kept in the city hall of
said city, and he, or such deputy as he shall ap-
point shall sit at such times and places in said city
for the receipt of taxes as the common council
shall direct and il shall be the special duty of the
said collector of faxes to receive all taxes which
may be paid, and preserve in his office the dupli-
cate assessment books which shall from time to