light companies and construction of subways for such wires therein; to regulate the cleaning of streets, alleys, lanes and public places and the sidewalks and gutters therein; to regulate the removing of ice, hail or snow therefrom and from the roofs of buildings abutting thereon; to regulate and prevent the throwing of ashes, offa!, dirt and garbage therein, and to regulate the carting, drawing away and deposit or disposal thereof; to regulate animals being driven, led or ridden therein; to regulate the use thereof for signs, signposts, awnings, awning-posts, hitching-posts, horse troughs, horse blocks and public fountains; to regulate or prevent the driving of wagons, barrows, carts, bicycles or other vehicles and all animals over or upon any sidewalks; to regulate or prohibit coasting or skating in the streets and public places; to regulate the opening of street surfaces, the laying of gas and water mains, and the erection of gas and other lamp-posts or other devices for lighting the streets; to prohibit or regulate the erection or construction of any stoop, step, platform, bay-window, cellar, area, stairs, descent or ascent into any building, or any erection or projections from any building or otherwise, in, over or upon any street or sidewalk, or the removal of any house or building through the streets of the city; to prohibit persons collecting or standing upon or occupying the streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges, hallways, entrances, passages, or stairways in said city; to require persons driving horses with sleighs or cutters to carry ringing bells either upon the horses, sleighs or cutters; to regulate the width of tires of all wheeled vehicles and generally to preserve the streets and public places of the city free from all obstructions and disturbances therein or injury thereto and from any interference with the free peaceable use thereof by the public.

4. To establish and regulate a public pound, subject to the provisions of this act, and to restrain, regulate and prevent cattle, sheep, horses, swine, dogs, geese and other animals and fowls running at large in said city, and to authorize the seizure, impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred by such running at large, and the cost of their keeping and of the proceedings taken for the purpose aforesaid; and to make regulations for taxing, muzzling and confining dogs and for destroying. such as are dangerous or may be found running at large contrary to any ordinance.

5. To suppress disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame, gambling, gaming tables and all instruments and devices employed in gam ing; to regulate or restrain pool and billiard playing by minors

in public places and the playing by minors of games of chance in public places; to restrain and punish street beggars, vagrants and mendicants; to regulate and restrain all occupations and busiDess noxious to comfort.

To prohibit the carrying on, without a license therefor, granted by the mayor, or except under such regulations as the common council may prescribe, of the following occupations: hawking and peddling in the streets and public places of the city; the business of public hackmen, cabmen, expressmen, cartmen, pawnbrokers, auction sales, auction stores and junk dealers; to require licensed conveyances to be numbered, the business of runners for stages, railroads, hotels, taverns or other houses; the business of theatrical or opera performances, concerts, circuses, acrobatic exhibitions, the exhibition of all curiosities, of all feats of legerdemain and necromancy or other exhibitions of common showmen; billiard rooms, bowling alleys and other places of similar amusements; the selling, keeping and storing of gunpowder, gun cotton, blasting powder, dynamite and all dan gerous or explosive materials.

7. To prohibit, regulate or restrain the exhibition, circulation and posting of advertisements and hand bills; the ringing and telling of bells, blowing of horns and whistles, flying of kites, crying of goods and wares at auction, throwing of snowballs or ice, horse racing and immoderate driving; the use of guns, pistols, fireworks and detonating works of all descriptions; to prohibit the erection or continuance of and regulate and prescribe the location of slaughter houses and of all places where cattle, sheep or swine shall be kept within said city and to prohibit the slaughter or keeping thereof in any other place than those so directed.

8. To regulate the sale and place of sale of wood, hay and straw, grain, lumber and other marketable articles from wagons, sleighs and other vehicles, and to fix the fees for weighing, selling or measuring the same; to regulate and designate publie places or markets for the sale of fresh meats, fruit, poultry, butter, cheese, eggs, honey, vegetables, game birds, fish and other ar ticles usually disposed of from farmers' wagons and the fees for marketing privileges; to regulate the management, care and use of the public markets.

9. To regulate the manner of erecting brick, stone or other material for walls and buildings and the thickness thereof, to pro

hibit or require the removal of any such as may be deemed dangerous; to raze or demolish any building or erection which by reason of fire or any other cause has or may become dangerous to human life or health, or tend to extend conflagration; to regulate the construction of chimneys and the sweeping thereof; to prevent the setting up or require the removal of stoves, pipes, boilers and other articles deemed dangerous; to prohibit or regulate the deposit of ashes; to regulate the carrying on of manufactures dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to require, regulate or permit such other acts to be done as the common council may deem proper to prevent the occurrence or provide for the extinguishment of fires in the city.

10. The common council are hereby authorized and empowered to determine and define, from time to time, the limits in said eity within which no building of wood shall thereafter be constructed or repaired, or reroofed or enlarged or made higher, except with such materials and in such manner as shall be approved by said common council; to regulate and prescribe plans and methods for the erection and repairing of buildings within said city or any district or districts thereof that said common council may establish; and whenever said common council shall so require, all buildings within said city, or district or districts thereof as may be established, shall be erected and repaired in accordance with the rules, regulations and requirements of the common council, and in accordance with plans previously approved, in writing, by such common council, or the city engineer, as the common council shall determine, after suitable drawings and descriptions of said plans in each case shall have been placed on file with the said city engineer; to require fire escapes to be provided in such mills, factories and other buildings as it may deem safety to human life require; to raze or demolish any building or strueture which may be or become dangerous to human life or health; to prevent the dangerous construction or condition of buildings, walls, chimneys, fireplaces, hearths, stoves, stovepipes, ovens, boilers, and apparatus used in any building, and to cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe condition; to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places. And every building erected, repaired or reroofed, enlarged or made higher, contrary to the ordinances or regulations of said common council, is hereby declared to be a common nuisance, and may be abated and removed as such by said common council, who shall have full power to

enter upon any lot or premises upon which said building is so situated, with men, teams, and other means necessary to abate and remove the same; and expenses of such abatement and removal shall be a lien on such lot or premises, the same as any other lien for taxes or assessments which may now be created in favor of the said city. Such lien may be recovered, and its payment or collection enforced, in the same manner as other liens for taxes or assessments are now or may hereafter be recovered, collected or enforced by said city.

11. To establish, maintain and regulate a city lock-up, stations or watchhouses for the detention and safekeeping of offenders, vagrants and other persons under arrest, and to provide a keeper therefor, and for the proper care thereof; to establish police headquarters and other necessary rooms for the police department as the public necessity requires; to purchase ground and erect necessary public buildings thereon, and to purchase grounds for, to lay out and maintain a public park or parks, provided the necessary funds for such purposes shall have been voted at an annual or special meeting, as provided in this act, but not otherwise; to make, or cause to be made maps of the city and of the several wards thereof; to designate and alter the names of the streets, avenues and alleys, and the number of all lots and buildings and to compel the owners or occupants of buildings to affix thereto the proper numbers thereof in such manner as the common council may direct.

12. To prescribe and define such powers and duties of the officers of said city as are not specified in this act and are not inconsistent therewith, and which it shall be for the best interests of the city to require; to fix and determine the compensation of officers of the city where the same is not prescribed by law or by this act; to see that they perform faithfully and correctly their several duties and that proper means are taken to punish neglect of duty on the part of any of them; to examine the accounts of the treasurer from time to time, or cause them to be examined, and prescribe the manner of paying out and accounting for moneys received by him belonging to the city in all cases not provided for by this act; to call special meetings of the inhabitants of said city whenever in the judgment of the common council the public interests require the same, and to carry into effect all lawful resolutions adopted at any of said meetings or at the annual election.

13. To prevent and provide for punishing the casting into any pond or stream within the city limits of any dead animal, offal, filth or foul, offensive or poisonous substance or thing, or any earth, stones or rubbish of any kind; to regulate the burial of the dead and the management of all cemeteries within the city subject to existing provisions of law; to prevent the deposit of dirt, ashes, garbage or other filth in any street, alley, highway or public place in said city, and to provide for the punishment of those who violate such ordinance; to regulate the use of lights in stables and other buildings in which combustible materials may be collected or deposited, and prescribe the use of lanterns or safety lamps in such stables or other buildings; to prohibit all persons from bringing or depositing any unwholesome, putrid or decaying carcass, skins, hides, fish, meat or unhealthful substance or thing within said city, and to require or authorize the removal or destruction thereof; to prohibit and make regulations in regard to every game, practice, amusement or act in the public streets or elsewhere in said city having a tendency to frighten teams of horses, to injure or annoy persons or to injure or endanger property, and provide for the punishment of those who violate such ordinances; to prescribe regulations as to the location and construetion of private sewers, drains, water or gas pipes in said city, and for the prevention and punishment of injury to or obstruction of any sidewalk thereby; to prevent the injury or defacement of shade or ornamental trees and of fences, walks, posts and buildings in said city.

14. To prosecute in the name of the city upon any contract or liability in which said city may be interested, and for all fines, penalties, costs and expenses imposed by this act or by any ordinance or by-laws of the city and enforce collection thereof; to appoint and employ an attorney or attorneys and counsel for the transactions of the city requiring legal skill; to divide said city into road, fire or other districts as they may deem necessary or advisable, and to fix and define the boundaries of the same; to provide a council room or rooms for the common council and of other boards and city officers, and for the several fire companies of said city, and necessary fuel, lights, stationery and supplies for their offices; to provide for defraying the expenses of all elections held in said city; to create new election districts when necessary and appoint inspectors therein; to prohibit the