Amador ledger., 1905-12-15

Ine clCy or Town with water TO!
municipal purposes, or to acquire
construct, repair, and manage pumps
aqueducts reservoirs or other work,
necessary or proper for supplyinl
water-for the use of such city or it.
Inhabitants, or for irrigating pur
, poses therein.
Fourth-To establish, build, anc
repair bridges; to establish, lay out
alter, keep open, open, improve, and
repair streets, sidewalks, alleys
squares, and other public highways
and places within the city or town
and to drain, sprinkle, and light the
same; to remove all obstructions
therefrom; to establish the grade:
thereof; to grade, pave, macadamize,
gravel, and curb the same, in Whole
or in part, and to construct cutters,
culverts, sidewalks, apd crosswaIks
therein, or on any part thereof; tc
cause to be planted, set out, and Guilt
vatsd, shade trees therein; and gener
ally to manage and control all suct
hlghlkys and places.
Fifth-To construct, establish, and
maintain drains and sewers.
Sixth-To provide fire engines and
all other necessary or proper ap.
paratus for the prevention and ex-
tinguishment of fires.
Seventh To impose on and col.
lect, from every male inhabitant
between the ages of twenty-one and
sixty years. an annual street poll tax,
not exceeding two dollars; and NJ
other road poll tax shall be collected
within the limits of such city.
Eighth-To impose and collect an
annual license, not exceeding two
dollars, on every dog owned or har-
bored within the limits of the city.
Ninth-To levy and collect annually
property tax, which said tax shall
be apportioned as follows: For the
general fund, which shall include the
fund for street work, not exceeding
fifty cents (amended by later en-
actment placing the maximum at
6Oc) on each one hundred dol
lars; for the sewer fund, not ex-
ceeding fifteen cents on each one hun
dred dollars. The levy for all pur-
poses, for any one year, shall not
exceed sixty five cents (since amend
ed so as to make the maximum limit
seventy y-five cents) on each one
hundred dollars of the assessed value
of all real and personal property
within such city; provided, that the
board of trustees shall have power to
transfer money from one fund to the
other whenever occasion requires.
Tenth-To license, for purposes of
regulation and revenue, all and every
kind of business authorized by law
and transacted or carried on in such
city or town, and all shows, exhibi-
tlons, 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.
Eleventh-To improve the rivers
and streams flowing through such
city, or adjoining the same; to widen,
straighten, and deepen the channels
thereof, and remove distractions
therefrom; to improve the water
front of the city, and to construct
and maintain embankments and other
works to protect such city from over
flow.
Twelfth-To erect and maintain
buildings for municipal purposes.
Thirteenth-To permit, under such
restrictions as they may deem proper,
the laying of railroad tracks and the
running of cars drawn by horses,
steam, or other power thereon, and
the laying of gas and water pipes, in
the public streets; and to construct
and maintain, and to permit the con-
structlon and maintenance, of teIe-
graph and telephone lines therein.
tourteenth-To impose fines, penal
ties, and forfeitures for any and all
violation of ordinances; and for any
breach or violation of any ordinance:
to fix the penalty by fine or i'm
prisonment, or both; but no such fine
shall exceed three hundred dollars,
nor the term of Imprisonment exceed
three months.
F1fteenth-lTo cause all persons i'm
prisoned for violation of any ordin-
ance to labor ON the streets or other
public property or works within the
city.
Sixteenth-To do and perform any
and all other acts and things pecess-
ary or proper to carry out the pro-
visions OF this chapter. (Approved
Macrh IA, 1885.
1868. The yenacting clause of all
ordinances shall be as follows: "The
board of trustees of the city (or
town. DIDO ordain as follows :"
Every ordinance shall be signed by
the president of the board of trustees,
attested by the clerk, and published
at least once in newspaper publish
ed in such city or town, or printed
and posted in at least three public
places therein.
1854. All demands against such city
or town shall be presented to and