er to prevent the taking or spreading of any infections, innoxious, contagious or pestilential disease or epidemic within said village, to remove any person who shall be affected with any such disease or epidemic to any such hospital or asylum.

Nuisance. VI. To prevent, abate or remove nuisances.

Cattle.

VII. To restrain the running at large of cattle and all other animals, to establish pounds and appoint pound masFence viewers ters and fence viewers, and prescribe their powers and duties.

Grave yards.

Ilay.

Gambling.

Call meetings.

Pay of officers

Licence.

VIII. To protect trees and monuments in said village. IX. To purchase, hold, and own grave yards or ceinetaries, and regulate the burial of the dead.

X. To establish and regulate markets, and restrain sales in the streets, to establish and regulate a public scale, and appoint a weigher to attend to the same, to regulate the place and manner of selling hay, and other commodities.

grass

XI. To suppress disorderly, lewd, or gaming houses, and devices for the purpose of gambling.

XII. To call regular and special meetings of the voters of said village.

XIII. To prescribe the compensation of all officers of the corporation except their own and they shall receive no compensation or emolument for their services as trus

tees.

XIV. To licence and regulate groceries, victualling houses, taverns, shows, public exhibitions and theatrical and other entertainments and also the sale of spirituous or strong liquors within said village and to fix such rates. of licences and enact such by-laws on the subject with penalties for the breach thereof as they may deem proper, and to collect such penalties in the manner hereinafter provided: Provided, that the Board of County Commissioners of Iowa county may have authority if in their opinion the County may interests of the county require it to exact a tax to the county from any person who may be licensed by said trustees to keep a tavern or grocery, and so much of any law of the Territory as requires such person to pay a license to the county and conflicts with the provisions of this section is hereby repealed.

tax.

Repeal.

Poll tax.

XV. To tax every male resident of said village above the age of twenty-one years and under the age of fifty years, two days labour annually, or in lieu thereof three

dollars, to be appropriated in improving the streets and How expend. roads in said village under the direction of such person ed. or persons as they may appoint, and if any such person shall neglect after being notified or shall refuse to perform such labor or pay said money, the trustees may recover said money in the same manner as is provided in this act for the recovery of fines and forfeitures.

XVI. To organize school districts in said village, to School. receive the money coming from the county for the benefit of scholars in said village, and generally to have full control over all public schools in said village, and to take such measures for the benefit of public instruction as they may deem proper.

XVIII. To make, ordain, and establish such by-laws, Pass ordinanordinances and regulations not repugnant to the laws of ces. the Territory and to the laws and constitution of the United States for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act as they may deem proper, but no such ordinance or by-law shall take effect until the same shall have been published three weeks successively, and to repeal or amend the same at pleasure. The said trustees as often as they shall make or publish any by-laws, regulations, or ordinances may ordain and provide such reasonable fines for forfeitures and penalties upon the offen- Fines. ders against any such by-laws, regulations or ordinances

as they shall deem proper not exceeding twenty dollars Amount of for any one offence, to be prosecuted and recovered be- fine.

fore any Justice of the Peace or court having cognizance Before whom. of the same in the name and to and for the use of the Corporation, and in any such action it shall be lawful to declare generally in debt for such penalty or forfeiture and to give any special matter in evidence, and the defendant may plead the general issue and give any special Pleadings. matter in evidence and after final judgment in such action, execution may be issued thereon as provided by law Execution. in other cases. All expenses incurred in prosecuting for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture shall be defray-Costs how ed by the corporation; and all penalties and forfeitures paid. when collected shall be paid to the Treasurer for the use of the Corporation, also to remit such fines or penalties or any part thereof.

§ 15. The affidavit of the printer of the publication of any by-laws or ordinances, or the affidavit of the clerk By-laws how of the corporation of the putting up of notices, by-laws

published.

In a newspa. per.

Three to be a
Board.

Jurors, Justi. ces, &c.

or ordinances as required by this act shall be sufficient proof in all courts and elsewhere that such by-laws, notices and ordinances were properly published or posted up.

§ 16. Whenever in this act the publication of any by-law or ordinance is required, the same shall be published in a newspaper printed in said village if there be one, for three weeks successively; if there be no newspaper, then the same or copies thereof shall be posted up by the Clerk in four public places in said village, three weeks, which shall be a sufficient publication.

§17. Any three of said Trustees shall be a Board for the transaction of all business, but no by-law or ordinance shall pass unless three of said trustees concur therein.

§ 18. No person shall be an incompetent Judge, Justice, witness, or juror, by reason of his being an inhabitant of, or owner of taxable property in said village, in any action or proceeding in which said corporation is a party or interested.

§ 19. It shall be the duty of the trustees before the Statement of annual election to publish a full and correct statement in detail of the receipts and expenditures by said trustees, for said village during the preceding year.

finance.

§ 20. All property, real and personal, and all mineral lots, except property belonging to the county of Iowa, to any school district or to any religious society and property which is by law exempt from sale on execution withWhat subject in the limits of the village shall be subject to taxation. to taxation. Personal property shall be construed to include all goods, chattels, moneys and effects and all stock paid into any corporation.

21. The trustees shall have power to levy and collect annually a tax on all property subject to taxation Rate of tax. in said village not exceeding the rate of one dollar on every one hundred dollars of the assessment valuation thereof.

Assessment

to be made.

§ 22. It shall be the duty of the assessor during the months of March and April, 1844, and annually thereafter during the months of January and February to make an assessment roll in which they shall set down the names of all the taxable inhabitants of said village, and the names, so far as they can be ascertained, of non residents who shall own real estate therein, and the discription, quantity and value of all the property subject to taxation in said

village, and when said roll shall have been completed, it shall be certified to by at least two of the assessors

as a

true assessment roll of all the property subject to taxation in the said village, and immediately deposited with the Clerk of said village.

§ 23. It shall be the duty of the Clerk annually upon Duty of clerk. receiving the assessment roll as aforesaid, to lay the same before the trustees for their correction and consideration relative to the rate per centum of tax to be levied for the current year, and when the said trustees shall have determined the rate per centum to be taxed on the assessed value of property as contained in the assessment roll as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Clerk in the month of May, 1844, and thereafter annually in the month of March, to inake out, in accordance with this determination, a schedule of all the property, as contained in said assess- Schedule of ment roll, together with the names of the owners thereof when known, annexing to each lot or other kind of property the amount of tax which shall be chargeable on the same, agreeably to the assessment as returned, and Rate. the rate per centum of taxation as fixed by the trustees, which schedule shall be called the tax list, and shall be recorded in a book to be by him kept for that purpose, Recorded. and said tax list, or the record thereof, shall either of them be conclusive evidence of the amount of corporation taxes assessed for the current year in which the same shall be made out and dated.

property.

Treasurer.

§ 24. It shall be the duty of the clerk to complete the tax list as aforesaid, and deliver the same to the treasurer Deliver to in the month of May in the year 1844 and thereafter annually in the month of March and make a record of such delivery in the book where said list shall be recorded, which record shall be conclusive evidence of such delivery, and the tax assessed on real estate shall be a lien on To be lien on. the same from the first day of June, A. D. 1844, and thereafter annually from the first day of April, until the tax shall be paid, together with all penalties and costs which may accrue thereon agreeably to the provisions of this act.

§ 25. Upon the receipt of the tax list as aforesaid and during the month of June, A. D. 1844, and thereafter annually during the month of April, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to give public notice in a newspaper Notices. printed in said village or by posting up notices in three

public places in said village, that such tax list has been committed to him for the purpose of collecting the tax thereon, and that he will receive payment for taxes at Tax when to his office until the last day of August then ensuing, subject to a deduction of five per centum if paid before the said last day of August.

be paid.

May sell.

lands.

§ 26. If the taxes are not paid to the Treasurer on or before the said last day of June, 1844, and thereafter annnally during the month of August, he may proceed to collect the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person charged, giving six days notice of the time and place of such sale by written notices set up in three public places in said village.

Town lots and § 27. In case the tax on any lot or other piece of land shall remain unpaid on the said last day of August, and there are no goods and chattels of the person charged therewith to be found in the village, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to make out a general advertisement, stating that all lots and other pieces of land upon which the taxes have not been paid will be sold by him at a certain time and place to be therein mentioned for the purpose of paying the taxes which may be assessed thereon, together with all costs and other liabilities which shall accrue by advertisement and sale, agreeably to the provisFour weeks ions of this act. Said advertisement shall be published four successive weeks, commencing in the month of September in a newspaper printed in said village if there be one, and if not, then by posting up in three public places in said village: Provided, that in case of assessment of taxes in gross upon any tract or lot of land, the treasurer, upon Shall receive the application of any claimant or owner of a part thereof, either divided or undivided shall receive a part of the taxes, interest and charges due thereon, proportionate to the quantity of such lot or tract so owned or claimed and the balance of such taxes, interest, and charges shall be a lien only on the remainder of such lot or tract of land.

notice.

a part.

Sale when.

§ 28. The time fixed by the said treasurer for the sale of lots or other pieces of land for taxes shall be at the same time which he may designate within the month of November next ensuing the publication of the advertisement thereof, and on the day mentioned in the said notice, the treasurer shall commence the sale of the said lots and lands and continue the same from day to day un