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Proposed Amendments to Village
BY Laws.

Section 1.-Section /, of present
by laws to remain as at present.
Section 2.-Section l, To be
known and numbered Section 2, and
amended to read as follows
The trustees shall hold meetings
monthly, at some convenient place.
on the evening of the first Tuesday
in each month, for the transaction
of the business of the village and
the payment of its bills.
Section 3.-Section 2, To be
known and numbered Section 8, and
amended to read as follows:-
The duties of the trustees shall be
those specified and enumerated in
the act of incorporation now in
force; they shall regulate the loca-
ton. construction and use OF hay
scales. markets, slaughter houses,
blacksmith shops, victualing saloons,
billiard saloons and bowling alleys,
and the erection of dwelling houses
and other buildings, so as best TO
provide for the safety of the village
and the prevention of fires and the
preservation of health; they shall
restrain, remove or abate nuisances
Except such as may be removed and
abated by the board of health, at
tend to the cleaning, building, con
structing, maintaining. grading and
repairing of the streets, highways,
walks. alleys and lanes of the village
and light the same, restrain horses,
cattle, sheep, swine and other am
mails from going at large; PROVIDE
for the planting and preserving OF
shade and other trees, and Tor the
care, preservation, and improve
ment of public grounds and parks;
and may arrange for band concerts;
and shall appoint not more than
seven police officers, one of whom
they shall designate as chief.
Section 4-Section 8, To be
known and numbered Section 4.
Section 5.-Section 4, To be known
and numbered Section 5, and be
amended to read as follows
It shall be the duty of the corpor-
alton attorney to prosecute to final
Judgment all violations of the act of
incorporation, bylaws. rules, or ordi-
MANAGES of said village unless set
tied as hereinafter provided. This
bylaw shall not be prohibitory OF
any person other than the corpora
ton attorney prosecuting for said
violation, provided that such person
before any such prosecution is com
menced, shall give sufficient securi-
ty to the trustees or the corporation
attorney by bond to idemnify said
village against any and all costs
that may be recovered against said
village in such prosecution.
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known and numbered Section 6, and
be amended to read as follows:
A majority of the trustees or the
corporation attorney shall have pow
er to settle any violation of the act
of incorporation, bylaws and ordi-
nances, excepting those relating to
the public system of water works or
relating to the Henry w. PutnaI.
Memorial Hospital, and for violation
by said trustees or corporation at
torney, for less sum than the pen
alties annexed thereto, whenever in
their opinion a respect for the laws
can be maintained and the circum-
stances of the case may warrant it;
and it shall be their duty to account
to the treasurer for all sums receiv-
ed by them respectively for any vio-
lation of any of the by laws or ordi-
nances and any penalties incurred
by, the charter under the provisions
of this section.
Section 7.-Section 6, To be
known and numbered Section Z, and
amended to read as follows
Said trustees at the first regular
meeting succeeding their annual
election, or at any succeeding meet
ing, may appoint and remove a,
pleasure a street commissioner, or
they may employ expert assistance,
said expert assistance need not
necessarily be a resident of said
village, who shall have in charge the
building and repairing of all the
streets, sidewalks, culverts, sew
ers and drains in said village, and
the purchasing of materials, and pro-
curing labor for the same, under the
direction of the trustees, and he
shall keep a correct account of all
material and labor furnished, price
paid for each and where expended,
and he shall at all times have the
books ready for inspection by the
trustees or any one of them, said
account and book shall show in full
all expenditures made by him, where
when and for what expended, to
whom all moneys are paid, how
much to each individual, naming
him, and for what purpose. Said
street commissioner or expert as
sistance shall give such bond for the
faithful performance of his duties
and the moneys entrusted to his
care for the weekly payment Of the
employees on the streets and sewers
as the trustees may direct. The
trustees shall allow no account of
said street commissioner or expert
assistance unless kept as herein pre-
scribed, nor unless verified by the
oath of such commissioner or ex-
pert assistant.
Section Z, is hereby repealed.
Section s, is hereby repealed.
Section 9.-Shall be known and
numbered Section and be amended
TO read as follows:-
II shall be the duty of the trustees
OF said village to regulate and con-
troll the location. Inspection, mater
ials, construction, alteration, remov-
al, repair and use of buildings and
other structures, excepting such as
are owned by the United States, or
by the State, and bridges, quays and
wharves, within the limits of the