The record-union., 1897-05-06

city Boards of Trustees, was amended
so as to read as follows
Section ST.. The Board of Trustees
of said city shall have power:
/. To pass ordinances not in con-
fiict with the Constitution and laws OF
this State or of the United States.
,. To purchase, lease, or receive
such real estate and personal property
as may be necessary or proper Tor mu-
nicipal purposes, and to control dis
pose of, and convey the same for the
benefit of the city or town; provided,
they shall not have power TO sell or
convey any portion of any water front.
3. To contract for supplying the
city or town with water for municipal
purposes, or to acquire, construct, re-
pair, and manage pumps, aqueducts,
reservoirs, or other works, necessary or
proper for supplying water for the use
of such city or its inhabitants, or for
irrigating purposes therein.
4. To establish, build, and repair
bridges; to establish, lay out, alter,
keep open, improve, and repair streets,
sidewalks, alleys, squares, and other
public highways and places within the
and light the same to remove all OBJ
structions therefrom; to establish the
grades thereof; to grade, pave, macad-
amize, gravel and curb the same, in
whole or in part, and to construct gut
ters, culverts, sidewalks, and cross
walks therein, or on any part thereof;
to cause to be planted, set out and
cultivated, shade trees therein; and
generally to manage and control all
such highways and places.
.. To construct, establish, and
maintain drains and sewers.
6. To provide fire engines and all
other necessary or proper apparatus for
the prevention and extinguishment of
fires.
{. To impose on and collect from
every male inhabitant, between the
ages of twenty-one and sixty years, an
annual street poll tax, not exceeding
two dollars; and no other road poll tax
shall be collected within the limits Of
the city.
s. To impose and collect an annual
license not exceeding two dollars on
every male dog and four dollars on
every female dog owned or harbored
within the limits of the city.
.. To levy and collect annually a
property tax which shall not exceed
seventy-five cents on each one hundred
dollars
I'D. To license, for the purpose of
revenue and regulation, all and every
Kind of business authorized by law and
transacted and carried on in such city
or town, and all shows, exhibitions, and
lawful games carried on therein; to fix
the rates of license tax upon the same,
and to provide for the collection of
the same by suit or otherwise; pro-
vided, that any license taxes collected
under a city ordinance shall be collect
paid into the city or town treasury for
the use of the city or town in which it
is collected.
IL. To improve the rivers and
streams flowing through such city, or
adjoining the same; to widen, straight
en-, and deepen the channels thereof,
and remove distractions thereform; to
improve the water front Of the city;
to construct and maintain embank-
ments and other works to protect such
city from overflow and to acquire own,
construct, maintain, and operate on
any lands bordering on any navigable
bay, lake, inlet river, creek, slough,
or arm of the sea within the corpor-
ate limits of such city, or contiguous
thereto wharves, chutes, piers, break
waters, lighthouses, and life saving
stations.