The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-29

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ed, deposited or paid upon chance, the selling of pools on
races, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments
used for the purpose of gambling.
Obscene Literature. Sale of Pictures and Exhibitions.
(5) To restrain and punish Migrants, mendicants, lewd
persons, keepers of %disorderly and bawdy houses and pros
titutes, and to prevent the publication and sale OF obscene
literature and pictures and exhibitions, and to prevent and
punish drunkenness, fighting, assaults, batteries, prize
fights, and all offensive, immoral, indecent and disorderly
conduct, practices and performances IN the City.
Refundment of Taxes.
(5S) To order the repaying by the Treasurer of any
taxes, percentages or costs enormously or illegally col
lected.
$50 To fix the fees and charges for all official services
not otherwise provided for in this Charter.
Urgent Necessity Fund.
(6O) To provide an urgent necessity fund to be ex-
pended under the direction of the Mayor.
Purchase of Property by City.
(6D To provide for the purchase of property levied
upon, under execution in favor of the City, but the amount
bid on such purchase shall not exceed the amount OF judg-
ment and costs.
Changing Grade of Streets.
(6O To establish or change the grade OF any street or
public place.
Bouevards and Regulation of leaning Thereon.
(63) To set apart as a boulevard any street over which
there is no existing franchise for any railroad, and to regu-I
late and prevent heavy teaming thereon; and when such
street shall have been set aside as a boulevard. no franchise
for a railroad, interurban or street railway of any kind shall
ever be granted upon such boulevard, unless an ordinance
to that effect shall have been duly passed.
Construction and Maintenance and Operation of Railroad
Tracks.
(64) To regulate street railroads, their tracks and cars,
to compel the owners Of two or more such street railroads
using the same street to use the same tracks and to equita-
bly, divide the cost of construction and maintenance thereof
between them.
Keeping Streets in Repair by Railroad Company.
(65) To require every railroad company to keep the
streets i'll repair between the tracks and along and within
the distance OF one foot upon each side OF the tracks occu-
pied by the company, and to require said railroad companies
to remove snow from the streets.
Opening and Repairing bitches and Drains by Railroad
Companies.
(6o) To compel and require railroad companies to make
and keep ODen and in repair. bitches, drains, sewers, and
culverts along and under railroad tracks, so that water
cannot stand on their grounds or right of way.
Spur Tracks and Warehouses.
(67 To permit the laying of spur or side tracks and
running cars thereon for the purpose of connecting ware
houses, manufactures, Or other business enterprises, with
any line of railroad that may be built, with other lines
OF railroad which do now or may hereafter enter the
City, subject to such regulations and conditions as may
be prescribed by the Council, such tracks to be used for
transportation of freight only, and not to be used as a
main line or a part thereof; and also for the purpose Of
eScayating and filling a street tor such limited time as
Such tracks must be laid level with the street and
must be operated under such restrictions as not to inter
fere with the use of streets for the public. All permits
granted under the provisions hereof shall be revocable at
the pleasure OF the Council.
Telegraph and Telephone Wires. Regulation on Streets.
(6S) To cause the removal and placing under ground of
all telephone. telegraph. electric or other wires within the
City, or within any designated portion thereof, and to
regulate or prohibit the placing of poles and suspending
of wires along or across any OF the streets, alleys or public
places in the City.
Regulation of Water and Gas Pipes, conduits, Etc.
(O9) o regulate the Size ana location OF all water,
gas and other pipes and conduits laid or constructed in
the streets and public places. and to require the filing of
charts and maps of such pipes and conduits.
Park Commission, Health Commission and Public Charity
Commission.
(7O) To establish a park commission, a playground
commission, a health commission, and a commission of
public charities, and to appoint commissioners thereon, to
serve with or without compensation, and with such powers
and duties as may be fixed by the Council.
Municipal Ownership Procedure.
on To provide a suitable procedure for taking over
or otherwise acquiring municipal ownership of public utili-
ties.
Hitching Posts.
(72) To provide for and regulate the erection of hitch
ing posts and rings for fastening horses and to prohibit
the same in any portion of the City at its discretion.
Fastening Animals.
animals attached to vehicles or otherwise while standing
in the streets.
Naming and Changing Names of Streets.
(74 To name and change the names of streets, ave-
nues and other public places.
Numbering of Houses.
(75) To regulate the numbering OF houses and lots and
to compel the owners of houses and other buildings to have
the numbers of said houses and buildings shown %conspicu-
ously thereon or adjacent thereto.
Flagmen on Railway Crossings.
06) To require railway companies to keep hagmen and
to regulate and maintain gates at railroad crossings and
streets and to provide protection against injury to persons
and property in the use of such railroad.
Intelligence and Employment Offices.
H7) To license and regulate keepers of intelligence
and employment Offices for all persons seeking employment
or furnishing employees to others, and to require such per
sons to keep such records as it may direct and to punish
unfair dealings by such persons in their said business.
Regulating Distillers and Brewers.
0S) To tax, license and regulate distillers, brewers and
lDawu brokers.