The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-07-09

in number, then in that event the
Mayor shall have authority to fill
by appointment the entire vacancies
in the office of Aldermen and in case
| it should ever happen that at the
same time it should exist in the Of
flee of the Mayor and also vacancy
in the offices of as many as three
or more than three Aldermen, then
in that event the Recorder shall
have full authority to appoint a
Mayor, or if al the same time there
be no Recorder, then the Marshal
shall have full authority to appoint
Mayor and if it should ever happen
that at the same time that all the
said offices of Mayor, Aldermen, Re
corder and Marshal should become
vacant, then and only in such event
shall a special election be held in
the same manner and way as pre-
scribed for general elections herein,
to elect officers for the said incorpo-
ration and any person appointed to
fill a vancanCy in office shall be sub
ject to the same conditions as al
ready prescribed herein as to quail
fications, oath and bond and shall
also hold office until his successor
in Office is elected and qualified.
Sec. 5. Be i further enacted, That
the Board OF Mayor and Aldermen
shall at the first meeting after their
election, elect a Recorder, Marshal
and such officers, servants and
agents as they may deem necessary
and may provide for by ordinance
and shall have the power to pre-
scribe the duties of same, all of
which officers, agents and servants
shall be bona fide citizens and voters
of the said corporation.
The Board of Mayor and Alder
men shall also fix the compensation
of said officers, ETC., before their
election, which compensation shall
not be increased or diminished for
the term for which they are elect
ed; the Board of Mayor and Alder
men shall have also the duty, pow
er and authority to dismiss any Of
ficer, servant or agent, elected or by
them appointed, tWO-thirds of said
Board of Mayor and Aldermen con-
currring in said dismissal, for any
miSdemeanOr, misconduct or failure
to properly perform their duties.
The Board of Mayor and Alder
men shall also fix the salaries of the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen to be
chosen for the next corporate term,
al the regular election on the first
Thursday after the fourth Monday of
May to serve during the ensuing
two years; which compensation shall
not be changed unless tWo-thirds of
the new Board of Aldermen concur
therein and then not changed, in
creased or diminished during the
term for which they were elected.
The salaries of any of the other
officers or agents shall be fixed by
the incoming Board of Mayor and
Aldermen.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen
shall have power by ordinance, with
in the town:
l. To assess property for taxes
and to levy and collect by proper
officers taxes upon all real and per
sonal property, polls and privileges
taxable by the laws of the State for
corporation purposes only.
2 To appropriate money and pro
vide for the debts and expenses of
the town.
3. TO make regulations to pre-
vent the introduction of contagious
diseases into the town or appoint a
board of health for that purpose and
to enforce the same within one mile
of the town limits.
4. To establish hospitals and make
regulations for the government of
same.
5. To make regulations to secure
the general health of the inhabi-
tants and to prevent nuisances.
6. To provide the town with wa
ter works or contract with others
for water, within or beyond the lin
it's for town or corporation purposes.
z. To open, abolish, widen, ex-
tend, establish, grade, pave or 9TH
erwise improve, clean and keep in
repair streets, pixies, highways, al
leys and sidewalks or to have the
same done.
8. To erect, establish and keep in
repair bridges, culverts, sewers and
cutters.
8. To provide for the lighting of
the streets and public buildings and
places.
10. To erect market houses, to
establish markets and regulate the
same.
II. To provide for the erection of
all buildings necessary for the use
of the town,
12. To provide for the incIosing,
improving and regulating all public
grounds in or out of the town.
13. To license, tax or regulate
everything or person, licensed, taxed
or regulated by the State or county.
IA. To regulate or prohibit and
suppress all disorderly houses or
bawdy houses.
Is. To provide for the prevention
and extinguishment of fires; to or
ganize or establish fire companies,
to regulate, restrain and prohibit
the erection of wooden buildings in
any part of the town, to regulate
and prevent the carrying on of
dangerous in causing
or producing fires.
Is. To regulate the storage of
powder, tar, pitch, rosin, salt
petre, assafoetida, gun-cotton and
all other combustible materials and
the use of lights, candles and stove
pipes in all stables, shops and all
ether places.
II. To establish standard weights
and measures and regulate the
weights and measures to be used in
the town in all cases not otherwise
provided by law.