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the city, and performs the other usual |
| functions.
| Chapter H. Council-Regular meet
| ings once a month: are authorized to
/ pass ordinances for ievying taxes not ex-
! ceeding l per cent on the valuation, open
and improve streets, sidewalks, sewers,
etc. issue bonds under certain restric-
lions, make provision for the redemption
and perform such other local legislative
duties as. are usual.
/ For the opening, widening and grading
of streets. etc, and for building bridges,
sewers and crosswalks, all the property
within the city IS taxed; expenses for
sidewalks are assessable only against the
property they front; paving, curblng,
guttering and grading, after having once
been brought to grade and fer the i'm
Lprovement of squares and areas formed
by the crossing of streets, the expense is
to be assessed on the property ado
on the basis of ground assessment with
out regard to improvements. Adjoining
rrc perty is defined to. be property within
9n0 feet of the actual improvements. City
bonds may not bear more than Z per
cent interest. There are the usual provi-
stors for taking up these bonds as they
mature
Taxes and assessments are certified ~
the County Clerk: taxes collected hv the
County Treasurer and turned over to
the City Treasurer four times 2 year
and oftener if required by Council The
Council is required TO publish quarterly
financial statements in a newspaper of
It's city; they have authority to impose
poll tax; license tax on auctioneers,
contractors, druggists, peddlers, bankers,
brokers merchants of all kinds, restau-
rants butchers, hotels and like estab-
lishments, liquor sellers wholesale and
retail, billiards and other gambling ia
bles," drays, hacks and other vehicles
used for pay, hay scales, lumber, furni-
ture or harness dealers, stationers, jew
elers liveries, real estate agents, express,
life insurance, telegraph and other COM
panies or agencies shows, theaters of
all kinds for pay. Scientific lectures and
entertainments are exempt also "all
concerts or musicales or other entertain
ments given exclusively by citizens OF
the city, 0he latter clause evidently re-
fers to "dances').
The Council may establish public libra
ries at the city's expense. They elect a
president of the Council to preside in
! the Mayors absence. A city may held
and pay for eighty acres outside of its
limits for a cemetery, pay for the ex-
pense of improving same.
Chapter Is. Police Judge and Police
: Force-The Police Judge is ex-officio
| Justice of the Peace In case of va
cancy the Council shall appoint another
: Justice of the Peace as Police Judge;
his warrants shall be served by the City
Marshal, County Sheriff or any City Con-
stable. Appeal from his decision lies TO
5 the District Court in certain instances
Marshal of the city shall be Chief of
Police and shall be subject to the orders
of the Mayor only; both Mayor and
Marshal have authority over the police
men. Policemen may be removed by the
| Council for sundry specified reasons.
Chapter is. cellaneous-Provides for
the consolidation of adjacent municipal
corporations and for the extension of
city limits.
All ordinances must be published in
some newspaper in the city, or if there
be no paper. then in some paper general
ly circulated therein, ''or by ten written
} or printed hand bills posted up at as
many public places or in pamphlet form
to be distributed or sold" The usual
! provision for ayes and noes on the final
, passage of an ordinance; the City Clerk
Is required to keep an ordinance book.
TOWNS.
Chapter II. The organization of town
requires the petition of one-third of the
qualified voters therein resident. The
County Commissioners on receipt of the
petition are required to investigate thor
I. oughly before incorporating the town; no
two towns In the Territory to have the
4 same name; Incorporation is by town
meeting, open from 8 In the morning I'M
e til in the afternoon: they first elect
] inspectors and then vote for or against
S corporation-the majority deciding. After
2 Incorporation inspectors are to divide
: the town into from three to seven dis
i. trcts; town elections are to be held the
4 first Monday in May; each town elects
= one Trustee for each district: also a
/, Clerk Assessor. Treasurer, Marshal and
10 of bn IN
1 office for one year, but the Clerk, Treas
] urer and Marshal may all be one per-
I son; vacancies are filled by the Board of
f Trustees who shall choose their own
: President; they are given power to have
e a seal, purchase and dispose of real es-
: tate, organize fire and hook and ladder
= companies, to appoint one more Fire
r Wardens, to construct and preserve res
e ervoirs, wells, water works, etc, and
5 regulate their use, also the same powers
= that are possessed by City Council for
: the general government of moral we'll
2 being of the community; license various
2 establishments, including saloons; estab-
= lish markets, to appoint Street Commits
2 sioners and Fire Wardens, purchase and
Y lay out cemeteries, to levy taxes, not ex-
ceeding one-half of / per cent; to grant
t or refuse permits to sell alcoholic and
other liquors; such regulation to extend
| two miles from the outer corporate linn
e its
Justices of the Peace have exclusive
e jurisdiction in the matter of violation of
: town ordinances, and the usual jurisdic-
= ton of other Justices in civil and GRIM
inal matters. A defendant may demand
D a jury trial before a Justice of the
= Peace. There are twelve jurors who re-
4 ceive fifty cents each.
D Section 50 of this chapter shows the
( code from which this law was written,
parts of it reading "any town incorpor-
ated under the laws of the State of Me-
= braska."
, Chapter IS. Relates to appeals and
criminal proceedings.
Chapter 10. Schools-Each county has
Superintendent of Public instruction
to be appointed or elected may be
provided. and to hold office for two
years, under bond Of $1,000 He IS re-
quired to visit every school In his coun-
, ty every six months. make suggestions
/, to the teachers, and report to the Dis
trict School Board suggestions for the
Improvement of the grounds and build
ings; examine the records of the District
, officers: form teachers associations, to
attend the meetings of the same and also
the Normal held In his county making
daily inspection of such Institutes while
, in session; hold a public meeting in each