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sidewalks and public grounds for signs, sign-posts, awnings, awning-posts, scales, or other like purposes; to regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying Carrying of or conveying of banners, placards, advertisements

or the distribution or posting of advertisements or handbills in the streets or public grounds or upon

the sidewalks.

banners.

weights and

SEC. 58. The mayor and council shall have Inspection of power to provide for the inspection of weights and measures. measures and prohibit the use of any imperfect weights or measures or weighing apparatus.

and maiutenance of public

libraries and

reading rooms.

SEC. 59. The mayor and council shall have Establishmen power to establish and maintain public libraries and reading rooms, and to provide the necessary grounds or buildings therefor; to purchase books, papers, maps, and manuscripts therefor; and to receive donations and bequests of money or property for the same in trust or otherwise. They may also pass necessary by-laws and regulations for the protection and government of the same.

districts.

SEC. 60. The mayor and council shall have Sewerage power to lay off the city, or parts thereof, into suitable districts for the purpose of establishing a system of sewerage and drainage; to provide such system and regulate the construction and repairs and use of sewers and drains, and of all proper house construction and branches, and provide penalties for any obstruction of or injury to any sewer or part thereof, and to require and compel sewer connections to be made.

maintain water

SEC. 61. The mayor and council shall have May erect and power to erect, construct, and maintain waterworks works.

May erect market houses.

channels of

streams.

either within or without the corporate limits of the city, and to make all needful rules and regulations concerning the use of the water supplied by such waterworks, and to do all acts necessary for the construction, completion, management, and control of the same, including the appropriation of private property for the public use in the construction and operation of such waterworks, compensation for such appropriation to be made as is provided by this

act.

And the mayor and council of each city created or governed by this act shall have power to construct and maintain waterworks on such terms and under such regulations as may be agreed on, or to provide by contract for the construction and maintenance, or leasing of waterworks, or any main or line thereof, or settling basins therefor.

SEC. 62. The mayor and council shall have power to erect and establish market houses and make market places, and to provide for the erection of all other useful and necessary buildings for the use of the city, and for the protection and safety of all property owned by the city, and they may locate such market houses and market places and buildings aforesaid on any streets, alleys, or public grounds or on any land purchased for such purpose; to provide for the safety and protection of private property where damages are likely to occur by the action of the elements or through the carelessness and negligence of any servant or officer of the city;

May change the and to establish, alter, and change the channels of streams and water courses within the city, and bridge the same;

voted on,

Provided, That any such improvement costing in Improvements the aggregate a sum greater than twenty thousand when. dollars shall not be authorized until the ordinance providing therefor shall be first submitted to and ratified by a majority of the legal voters of such city voting thereon.

for census.

SEC. 63. The mayor and council shall have May provide power to provide for and cause to be taken an enumeration of the inhabitants of the city.

ate private property.

SEC. 64. The mayor and council shall have May appropri power to appropriate private property for the use of the city for streets, alleys, avenues, sewers, public squares, market places, gas works, or waterworks, including mains, pipe lines, and settling basins therefor, the right and power to appropriate private property for sewers, and waterworks to extend to a distance of ten miles from the corporate limits of the city.

license or tax

SEC. 65. The mayor and council shall have the Power to power to tax, license, and regulate liquor dealers, certain classes pawnbrokers, auctioneers, employment agencies, commission merchants, brokers, insurance offices, insurance agents, brokers, and solicitors, real estate agents, surveyors, engineers, architects, house-movers, runners, hawkers, pedlers, telegraph, telephone or express interests, or business, and also such kinds of business or vocations as the public good may require, and the mayor and council shall also have power to tax, license, and regulate sales of bankrupt stocks of goods, and the selling or contracting for the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise by samples, when such goods, wares, and merchandise

May issue

bonds, rate of

interest fixed,

which issue is made.

are thereafter to be sent or delivered to the

purchaser. The mayor and council shall also have power to levy and collect a license tax on shows, caravans, circuses, theaters, and exhibitions for pay, billiard tables, ball and ten pin alleys, without regard to the number of pins used; hacks, drays, or other vehicles used for pay within the city, and prescribe the compensation for the use of such hacks, drays, and other vehicles.

SEC. 66. The mayor and council are hereby purposes for authorized and empowered to issue bonds of the city, with interest coupons annexed thereunto, in such amounts, and for such length of time, as they may deem proper, the rate of interest not to exceed six per centum per annum, for the construction and maintenance of sewers, or in renewal of outstanding of bonds said city, bearing a higher rate of interest, or for the purpose of funding, taking up, and making payment of the floating indebtedness and liabilities of the city, or for the construction of a city hall, or other needful buildings, for the use of the city, or for the appropriation of gas-works, waterworks, or land for public parks. All such bonds shall express upon their face the their face the purpose for which they are issued;

Ratio to taxable property.

Maximum

amount in any

one year,

Provided, The bonded indebtedness of said city, exclusive of district paving bonds, and curbing and guttering bonds, shall not at any time exceed in the aggregate ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in said city;

Provided further, No bonds shall be issued except such renewal bonds, and bonds for paving, or

on.

for the appropriation of gas-works, or waterworks, or land for public parks, or for curbing and guttering purposes, in excess of two hundred thousand ($200,000) in any one year, nor until the legal Must be voted electors of said city shall have authorized the same by a vote of two-thirds of all the electors voting on such proposition at a general, annual, or special election of said city, called after twenty days, public notice, stating distinctly the amount and the purpose for which they are to be issued; which bonds, or the proceeds from the sale thereof, shall not be diverted from the purpose for which they were issued, and shall not be disposed of at less than par. SEC. 67. The sinking fund to redeem at matu- Sinking fund rity the bonded indebtedness of the city may be bonds. used to purchase such bonds, before maturity, on such terms, and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance;

may be used to redeem such

compete at

Provided, That bondholders shall be given an Holders may opportunity to compete for the sale of bonds held sale. by them, and the bonds that can be purchased upon the most favorable terms shall be preferred.

missioners of

Duties of.

SEC. 68. The mayor and council shall have Board of compower to create a board, to be known as commis-adjustment. sioners of adjustment, to be composed of the city engineer and two resident free holders, who shall, as soon as practicable, cause to be surveyed in sections or districts, all lots, blocks, streets, alleys, and public grounds within any city of the metropolitan class not surveyed and platted with fixed monuments and recorded; and such additions within the incorporate limits of such city where discrepancies

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