The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-03
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF
SEATTIE-Couffnue

or car thereof.
Tenth-To provide for making local I'm,
provemerts and 10 levy and collect speciaa
assessments on property benefited there
BIZ. and for paying for the same or any
portion thereof.
F.Ieventh-To acquire by purchase or by
exercise OF the right OF eminent domain OF
otherwise lands for public parks. WITHIN
or without the limits or said city, ana 10
Twelfth-To construct and keep in repair
bridges. vfaduots and tunnels. and TO reg
uiate the use thereof.
Thirteenth-To determine what WORK
shall be done or improvements made al
the expense In whole or in part or the own
ers OF the adjoining. contiguous or proxl-
mate property, or Others especially oene-
atsd thereby and TO proviae for the man
ner OF making and collecting assessments
therefor.
Fourteenth-To provide for erecting. pur-
chasing or otherwise acquiring, as the sole
and exclusive property OF the city, water
works within or without the corporate nm
it's Of the city, TO supply said city and It's
Inhabitants with water for any and ali pur,
poses, and TO NIX, alter, REGULATE ana controi
the use and price OF the water as suppheu:
provided, however. that the city council
snail not enter into any contract or agree
n1ent whatever with any person, company
or corporation for its water supply or dis
tribution, or for the joint or entire use or
the whole or any part OF the city water
supply or distributing plant. including con-
Quits. mains and reservoirs, without nrst
submitting such proposed contract or
tors of the city at a general election, or
special election called for that purpose.
end unless a majority of said electors yot-
ing al said election shall vote THEREFOR;
provided further. that nothing herein con-
tanned shah be so construed as to prevent
the city from selling 10 any consumer wa
ter for power or other uses, or the power
manufactured from water, upon terms open
10 all consumers.
Fifteenth-To provide for lighting the
streets and all public places of the city,
furnishing inhabitants
city with gas, electric or other hght, and
for the ownership, purchase or other ac-
QUESTION. construction and maintenance or
such works as may be necessary or conven-
lent therefor: TO charge and collect for the
use or such light, and to regulate the use
and price of such light whether supplied
by the city or other person or corporation:
Drovided, however, that no purchase OF any
such light plant shall be made without first
submitting. the question of such purchase
to the electors of the city.
Sixteenth-To establish and regulate mar
kets, and TO provide, by proper penalties,
for the weighing, measuring and inspec-
ton of all articles OF food or drink Offered
for sale thereat or a. any other place with
in the limits OF the city, and to enforce the
keeping of proper legal weights and meas
ureS by all vendors in the city, and 10 pro-
vide for the inspection OF such weights and
measures.
Seventeenth-To erect and establish hos
pitfalls and peSt-houseS, and TO control and
regulate the same.
Eighteenth-To erect and establish work
houses and jails, and 10 control and regu-
late the same, and TO provide for the work
ing of prisoners confined therein; provided,
that no prisoner shall be required to ner-
form any labor until he shall have been
duly convicted of some offense punishable
by imprisonment. and duly sentenced there
TO.
Nineteenth-To provide for establishing
and maintaining reform or training schools
for juvenile offenders.
Twentieth-To provide for the establish
ment and maintenance OF a public library
or libraries, and to appropriate annually
such per centum of all moneys collected
for fines, penalties and licenses as shall be
preScri bed by this charter for the support
OF city library which shall. under such
diSanee be op s S4 for use D BY the public.
Twenty-first-To regulate the burial OF
the dead, and to establish and regulate
cemeteries within or without the corporate
limits, and to acquire land therefor by pur-
chase or condemnation or otherwise: to
cause cemeteries TO be removed beyond the
limits OF the corporation, and to prohibit
the establishment of any cemetery within
two miles of the boundaries of the city.
Twenty-second-To direct the location
and construction Of all buildings in which
any trade or occupation offensive to the
senses or deleterious to the public health
or safety shall be carried on, and to regu-
late the management thereof: and to pro-
hlbit the erection and maintenance Of such
buildings or structures, or the carrying on
of such trades or occupations within the
limits OF the city or within the distance of
Twenty-third-To make regulations for
the prevention of accidents by fire, to or
ganiZe and establish fire department, to
provide fire engines and other apparatus
and 10 provide for the prevention and ex-
tinguishment of fires and to regulate or
prohibit the transportation, keeping or
storage OF all combustible or explosive ma
terials within the corporate limits OF the
city, and TO restrain and regulate and pro-
hihit the use of fireworks.
Twentyfourth-To establish fire limits
-.,l. thA s.fP1 f1vRa-f 70 ..,
may require, and make all such regulations
for the erection and maintenance OF build
ings or other structures within the corpor-
ate limits as the safety or persons or prop
erty may require, and TO cause all such
buildings and places as may from any
cause be in a dangerous state to be put in
a safe condition, and TO prohibit the erec-
ton or construction within such fire lim-
its OF any building or structure or any adj
ditlon TO any building or structure unless
such building structure or addition be con-
strl1cted OF such material and in conform
ity to such rules, regulations and condi-
tons as the city council shall have pro-
vided; and to provide for the removal of
any building or structure or any addition
to any building or structure erected con-
trary to such prohibition.
Twenty-fifth-To regulate the manner in
which stone. brick and other buildings,
party walls and partition fences shall be
constructed and maintained.
Twenty-sixth-To provide for the deep
ening widening, docking. covering, wall
ing altering or changing the channels OF
waterways and water-courses, and to pro-
vide for the construction and maintenance
OF canals, slips, public landing places,
wharVes, docks and levees, and all such
other work as may be required for the ac-
commodation of commerce, and TO control
and regulate the Use thereof. and further.
TO provide for the condemnation OF all such
work or works by the city and for its use
ard benefit and for the construction and
maintenance and ownership of the same by
the city.
Twenty-seventh-To control regulate
and prohibit the anchorage, moorage and
landing Of all water craft and their car
goes within the jurisdiction Of the corpora
ton.
Twenty-eighth-'To fix the rate OF wharf
age. storage and doCkage. and TO provide
for the collection thereof. and TO provide
FOR the imposition and collection OF such
harbor fees as may be consistent with the
laws OF the United states.
Tweuty-niuth-To license. regulate, con-
troll or restrain wharf-hoats, tugs and 9TH
or boats used about the harbor or within
the jurisdiction Of the city.
Thirtieth-ro REQUIRE the owners OF pub
lie halls or other buildings TO provide suit
able means OF exit, 10 provide Tor the pre-
Ventlon and abatement OF nuisances: for
the cleaning ana p9Tlhcauon OF water
courses and canals for the draining and
Hlling up of ponds on private property
within its limits. when the same shall he
offensive to the senses or dangerous 10
health: to regulate and control and provide
for the prevention and punishment OF
the defilcment or pollution OF all streams
running into or through It's corporate lfTu-
It's. ard for the distance of five miles be-
yond its corporate limits, and OF any
stream or lake from which the water supply
OF said city is or may be taken. for a dis
tance OF five miles beyond its source OF
supply: "a provide for the cleaning OF
areas. vaults and other places which NAV
he SO kept as 20 become offensive 10 the
senses or dangerous to health. and TO ma ke
all such quarantine and other regulations
as may 10 necessary for the prese rVaTtogs
of the bubble health. and 20 remove all per-
sons afflicted Win any infectious or con-
saes,,us disease 70 some Suitable placa =,