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city clerk........., policemen
, policemen ........., councilmen.
councilmen........
The several officers hereinafter named of any city of
the first class shall receive the following compensation
for their services, and no more directly or indirectly,
to-wit:

1st. The mayor shall receive the sum of twelve Mayor.. hundred dollars per annum.

2d. The police judge shall receive a salary of fifteen Police judge. hundred dollars per annum.

3d. The treasurer shall receive the sum of fourteen Treasurer. hundred dollars per annum, and such further compensation or fees as may be provided by law, which shall be in full for his own services; and for the services of any deputy or assistant that may be necessary for the proper transaction of the business of his office he shall receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

4th. The marshal shall receive the sum of ten hun- Marshal. dred dollars per annum, which shall be full compensation for himself and deputy.

5th. The city clerk shall receive the sum of twelve Clerk. hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full for the services of himself and deputy or assistant that may be necessary for the transaction of the business of his office, except an assistant for council meetings, which assistant may be paid extra in the discretion of the council.

6th. Each policeman shall receive a sum not ex- Policemen. ceeding seventy dollars per month, to be fixed by ordinance. No policeman shall be allowed any fee or fees as a witness in any case tried in the police court. 7th. The council may appropriate a sum not ex- Councilmen. ceeding in the aggregate two hundred dollars in any one month for services rendered in the preceding month by members of the city council as such on committee or otherwise.

Repealing 1881, 143.

1882, 33.

Act repealed 137;141; 142

1881-129; 131;

157.

SEC. 7. That section fifty-seven (57) of said original

Comp. Stat., 96. act, approved March 1, 1881, as amended by section sixteen (16) of said act, approved May 23, 1882, be and the same is hereby repealed; also that said sections herein amended, to-wit, sections 42, 54, and 55 of said original act, as amended by said sections nine (9), four91; 93; 95: 101. teen (14), and fifteen (15) of said amendatory act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that said sections thirty-one, thirty-four, and one hundred and two of 'said original act, approved March 1, 1881, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Comp. Stat., 90;

1882. 24, 32, 33.

To take effect.

SEC. 8. An emergency existing, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 19th, A.D. 1883.

CHAPTER XIII.

Acts of certain

villages

AN ACT to amend section 124 of chapter 14 of the Compiled Statutes

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of Nebraska, entitled "Cities of the second class and villages.".

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That all villages having more than two legalized hundred inhabitants, who have associated themselves together by written agreement, or by petition of a majority of the legal voters therein, designating the object of their association to be the incorporation of a village, under the laws of Nebraska, and showing therein the boundaries of the same, and having a board of trustees elected by a majority of the legal voters of said village, who are acting conformable to the laws of the State of Nebraska regulating the powers and duties of the boards of trustees of villages, be

and the same are hereby declared to be duly and lawfully organized and incorporated as villages under the laws of this State, [together with all additions that have been made thereto;] and such villages and their board of trustees, and the officers by them appointed, and all acts, by-laws and ordinances done and adopted by them, are hereby declared to be legal and valid, and shall have all the force and effect given to the acts, bylaws and ordinances of villages incorporated under the laws of this State.

SEC. 2.

Section 124 of chapter 14 of the Compiled Act repealed. Statutes is hereby repealed.

Approved February 22, A.D. 1883.

1881, 199.
Comp. Stat. 129

CHAPTER XIV.

AN ACT to amend section seventy (70) of chapter fourteen (14), Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, entitled "Cities of the second class and Villages."

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That section seventy (70) of chapter fourteen (14), Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, entitled "Cities of the second class and Villages," be amended so as to read as follows:

streets.

SEC. 70. Each city and village governed by this Work on chapter is hereby empowered to provide that every male inhabitant of the corporation, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, shall, between the first day of April and the first day of November of each year, either by themselves or satisfactory substitutes, perform two days labor upon the streets, alleys, or highways within such corporation at such time and

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places as the proper officer may direct, and upon three days notice in writing being given. Provided, That all persons so notified, may commute the labor so required by the payment of three dollars to the proper officer of such city or village as may be provided by ordinance, and the fund arising under this section shall be expended by the city or village authorities in the repair and maintenance of the streets, alleys, and highways in said city or village. They may provide further, that for each day's failure to attend and perform the labor as required at the time and place specified, the delinquent shall forfeit and pay to the corporation any sum not exceeding one dollar for each day's delinquency. The amount so due for labor tax to the amount of three dollars, upon failure to labor or commute as above required, shall be treated and collected as taxes on property and the same shall be a lien on all the property of such person that may be listed and assessed for taxation for that year, and it shall be the duty of the city council or board of trustees to certify to the county treasurer the amount due from each individual as aforesaid, and the certificate of the city or village clerk, that person named therein has performed the labor or commuted as herein required, shall be received by the county treasurer in discharge of the amount due from such person. All moneys collected by the county treasurer under this section shall be paid over to the treasurer of the village or city wherein the same was levied or assessed.

SEC. 2. That section seventy (70) of chapter fourteen (14), Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, entitled "Cities of the second class and Villages," as now existing, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved March 1st, a.d. 1883.

CHAPTER XV.

AN ACT to amend section 69, chapter 14, entitled "Cities of the second class and Villages."

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

powers.

SECTION 69. In addition to the powers herein before Additional granted cities and villages under the provisions of this chapter, each city and village may enact ordinances or by-laws for the following purposes:

First. To leyy taxes for general revenue purposes, not to exceed ten mills on the dollar in any one year, on all property within the limits of said cities and villages, taxable according to the laws of the State of Nebraska, the valuation of such property to be ascertained from the books or assessment rolls of the assessors of the proper precinct or township.

General taxes.

5 Neb., 512. 11 Neb., 79.

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Neb., 94.

assessments.

Second. To levy any other tax or special assessment Special authorized by law.

bridges,

of sewers. ex-7 Neb., 272.

6 Neb., 27.

5 Neb., 452.

5 Neb., 144.

9 Neb 360.

Third. To provide for the grading and repairs of streets, any street, avenue, or alley, and the construction bridges, culverts and sewers, and shall defray penses of the same out of the general funds of such city or village, not exceeding two mills of the levy for general purposes, but no street shall be graded except the same be ordered to be done by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the city council or trustees.

Streets,

pave, strewalks. alley Neb., 272.

Fourth. To construct sidewalks, to curb, gravel, macadamize, and gutter any highway or therein, and to levy a special tax on the lots and parcels of land fronting on such highway or alley, to pay the expense of such improvement. But unless a majority of the resident owners of the property subject to the

5 Neb., 452.

9 Neb., 360.

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