Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1921-06-02

public or other property; to regulate
/ or prohibit the running at large of any
4 live stock on the streets or other
! places within said town; to condemn
and take all land or property for cor
porate uses or purposes necessary for
the site, or erection of school build
ings, and other public buildings, bury
ing grounds, streets, sidewalks, and
drains, under the laws of eminent do
main of the state; for restraining
gambling, houses of i'll fame and baw-
dy houses; to impose, collect and dis
pose of fines, forfeitures, and penal
! ties, imposed for the violation of the
laws and ordinances of the town; to
build and maintain a safe scalaboose
or lock up for the safe keeping of
prisoners before trial, for the violation
of the town laws and ordinances; to
regulate and prohibit the use of fire.
arms; to provide for planting and pro-
tecting shade trees along the streets,
alleys and public grounds, or within
the town limits to lease or erect and
maintain a workhouSe, or house of
correction and to regulate the same;
to prohibit and punish the unneces-
sary abuse of, and cruelty to animals;
to regulate or prevent the use of fire.
works, shooting fire-crackers, Roman
candles, guns or pistols within the
town, to appropriate money for school
purposes; to provide for the arrest
and confinement until trial of riotous
and disOrderly persons; to prohibit
disorderly, noisy or boisterous assem-
blages of persons within the town linn
its; to prohibit and punish vagrancy,
to define offenses against the corpor-
alton and citizens thereof, and to pass
all ordinances and bylaws that may
be necessary to carry out the full in
tent and purpose of this Act. The
power is hereby conferred on the po-
lice authority of said town to make
arrests at any point within one mile of
the corporate limits for violations of
ordinances within the limits of said
town
Section IL. Be it further enacted,
That the Town of Hickman shall have
and is hereby given the power of emf
nent domain for the purpose of pro-
curing sites for the erection of school
buildings, and other buildings for the
public use of the Corporation, sites
for burying grounds, location of
streets, pavements, sidewalks, sewers,
and other ways of said town, and for
the purpose of calculating the OBJ
jects, purposes, and powers of this
charter, to be exercised under the gen.
eral laws of the state relating to emil
nent domain.
Section IL. Be it further enacted,
That the Council shall fix their reg
ular times of meeting, and they shall
meet not less than once in each month
in regular session. The mayor shall
have power to call special meetings
of the council by giving notice to all
the members of the Council within
the town at the time, and shall spec
ify in his call the objects for which !
the meeting is called, which call and |
the action of the Council shall be en- /
tered on the minutes. No other bust !
ness shall be transacted than such as
is set out in said call That al or
dinances shall begin by an enacting
clause as follows: "Be it ordained by
the Mayor and Aldermen of Hickman" I
and that the end shall contain the pro- /
vision that "This ordinance shall take I
effect from and after it's passage, the I
welfare of the town requiring it,"
otherwise the same shall not take /
effect until twenty days after its pas
sage.
Section Is. Be it further enacted, (
That it shall be the duty of the Mayor
to carefully examine all bills passed |
before affixing his signature thereto, /
and should anyone not meet with his
approval he shall at the next regular
meeting of the council return the same
with his objection in writing and no
law so vetoed shall go into effect I'M
less the same be again passed by
two-thirds majority of the council, no