be required to stop any defective plumbing work, not being done in accordance with the requirements of the rules and regulations therefor of the board, and the plumbing board shall have the power to can-e such defective or insuficient plumbing to be torn ont and removed, if, after notice to the owner or plumber doing the work, e board shall find the work or any part thor of, to be realy dei a tive and asticitat,

1519 Sec. 12. Board -App intraout ealth caller Salary.] The appointment of the board add be within thầy (54) ays from die taking ci e of this act, and shall be made annually, at the let meeting of the city council, in August of each year, except as provided in Sect on one (1) of this act. And wate such city has a chiet II a.h Officer and Plumbing Inspector, they shall act as me.Ler of stea board ex-oficio, and shall receive no extra compensation; and where there are no such odicers in such city, then on being appointed, they shall receive a salary of of Pitten Hindre1 (1,500) Dollars each, for chict Health Oliver and Plumbing In-pector.

1511 SEC. 13. [Oncers-Salary.] The assistant Inspectors shall receive a salary at the rate of Twelve Hundred (1200) D Hars per annum each. The members of the board, not ex-officio members, shall be paid Five (5) Dollars for each full days service, actually employed. No meeting of the said Board shall at any time be held, except ou call of the Chief Health officer, and no member of the Board shall be paid to exceed the sum of Two Hundred (200). All salaries to be paid out of the General Fund of the city, where the board is located, the same as other city officers are paid, and vouchers for the same shall be duly certified by the chairman and secretary of such board, to the City Council.

1512 SEC. 14. Any per-on violating any provisions of this act, or of any lawful ordinances, or rules and regulations, authorized by this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding $50.00 nor less than $5.00 for each and every violation thereof; and if such persons hold a plumber's license he shall forfeit the same and it shall be void, and he shall not be entitled to another plumber's license for the space of one year after such forfeiture is declared against him by the board.

1513 SEC. 15. [Repeals.] All laws and acts and parts of acts of this state, in so far as any of their provisions are in conflict with the provisions of this act, be and the same hereby are repealed.

ARTICLE IV.-PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CITIES FIRST CLASS.

TAXES FOR SEWERS ALREADY CONSTRUCTED.

1514 SECTION 1. [Sewer debt tax.] That in cities of the first class the mayor and council shall levy a tax in each year in addition to all other taxes, in the manner provided by law for the levy of other taxes, of one and one-half mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of all the taxable property in said city to pay all indebtedness heretofore incurred for the construction and maintenance of any main sewer or sewers or branches thereof. draw warrants therefor on the fund so provided for; Provided, That before any payment shall be made under the provisions of this act the value of said sewers shall be ascertained by the inspection, and appraisement of three disinterested experts, who shall be appointed for that purpose, one of whom shall be selected by the mayor and council of such city, within which such sewer or sewers may have been constructed, one by the contractors who constructed such sewer or sewers, and the third to be chosen by the two experts so selected, who shall first be sworn to make a true and impartial appraisement of the value of such sewer or sewers; upon actual inspection and measurement, and who

shall return their appraisement in writing to the mayor of such city, and said appement being so returned, and said sewer or sewers accepted by said mayor and to meil, the same shall be paid with interest thereon at the rate provided by law when such indebtedness accrued; Provided, further, That in no case shall payment le made in excess of the contract price and interest thereon, from the date of such weerud indebtedness, under which such sewer or sewers may have been constructed. [181, § 1, chap. 18.]

RATES OF TOLL OF BRIDGES.

15:4 SEC. 2. [Toll bridges.] That the mayor and council in any city of the first class shall have power to neonse and regulate the keeping of toll riges within or terminating within the city, for the passage of persons and property over ay river passing wholly or in part within or rau ng by and a joining the corporate limits of any such city, to ix and determine the rates of tal over any such Iridge, or over the part thereof within the city, and to authorize the owner or ownis of any such bridge to charge and collect the rates of tollo tixei a d determined, from all persons passing over or using the same. [1871, 26. G. S., 186.]

PARKS.

1515 SEC. 3. [Park commissioners.] In each city in this state of more than 5,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitants, which has already or shall hereafter acquire land for a park or parks, there shud be a board of park commissioners, who shall have charge of all the parks belonging to the city, with power to e-tablish rules for the management, care and use of the same. Said board of park commissioners shall be composed of three (3) members, who shall be resident freeholders of such city, and who shall be appointed by the judge or judges of the district court of the judicial district in which such city shall be situated. The members of said board shall be appointed by said judge or judges, the majority concurring, on the second Monday of January, 1896, or on the second Monday of January following the establishment of the first park in any city, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years, and one for the term of three years, and after the appointment of said three members it shall be the duty of said judge or judges, a majority concurring, to appoint or reappoint one member of said board each year on the second Monday of January. A majority of all the members of the board of park commissioners shall constitute a quorum. It shall be the duty of the said board of park commissioners to lay out, improve and beautify all grounds now owned or hereafter acquired for public parks, and employ helpers and laborers as may be necessary for the proper care and maintenance of such parks and the improvement and beautifying thereof to the extent that funds may be provided for such purposes. The members of said board, at its first meeting each year after the second Monday in January, shall elect one of their own members as chairman of said board. Before entering upon their duties each member of said board shall take an oath, to be filed with the city clerk, that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, and will not in any manner be actuated or influenced therein by personal or political motives. The members of said board shall each receive the salary of ten dollars

SEC. 1. Sec. 108 of "An act to provide for the levy of a tax in cities of the first class for the payment of sewers already constructed." Approved Feb. 28. Took effect June 1. 1881.

SEC. 2. Sec. 109 of "An act empowering the mayor and council in cities of the first class, to license and regulate the keeping of toll bridges; to fix the rates of toll, and to authorize the collection of the same. Laws, 1871,

5. G. S. 136. Took effect Feb. 8. 1871. The signature of the governor does not appear in the enrolled act." SEC. 3. An act to create a board of park commissioners in cities of more than 5,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitants where public park or parks already exist or may hereafter be established, and to provide for the ap pointment of such park commissioners, to define their duties, to fix their compensation, to provide by a tax for a park fund to improve and maintain parks." Took effect July 6, 1895. Laws, 1895, chap. 19.

per annum. For the purpose of paying such salaries, providing funds for laying out, improving and beautifying parks and public grounds, and providing for the payment of the salaries and wages of the employes of said board, the mayor and council shall each year, at the time of making the levy of taxes for general city purposes, make a levy not less than one-half (1) mill and not exceeding two (2) mills on the dollar valuation on all the real estate and personal property within the corporate limits of such city, taxable according to the laws of this state, which levy shall be collected into the city treasury and constitute the park fund of the city. All accounts against said fund for salaries and wages of said board and its employes and other expenses of such parks shall be audited and allowed by the park commission, and warrants thereon shall only be drawn by the chairman of said commission; warrants so drawn shall be paid by the city treasurer out of such fund. [Laws, 1895, chap. 19.]

ARTICLE V.-PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO CITIES FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

HEATING-LIGHTING.

1517 SEC. I. [Heat and Light System-Taxes.] Any city of the first or second class in this state shall have the power and is hereby authorized to establish and maintain a heating or lighting system for such city, and the city council shall have the power to levy a tax not exceeding five (5) mills on the dollar in any one year for the purpose of establishing, extending, and maintaining such heating or lighting system.

1518 SEC. II. [Same-Bonds. Where the amount of money which would be raised by the levy provided for in section I of this act would be insufficient to establish a heating or lighting system as contemplated herein, in any city in this state, such city may issue its bonds bearing not to exceed six per cent interest, and maturing in twenty years, but payable at any time after the expiration of ten years at the option of the city, for the purpose of raising a sum sufficient to establish such heating or lighting system; Provided, That the aggregate of bonds issued for such purpose shall not exceed five (5) per cent of the taxable value of the property of such city as shown by the last annual assessment; and provided further, That no such bonds shall be issued by the city council until the question of issuing the same shall have been submitted to the electors of such city at an election held for that purpose, notice of which shall be given by publication in some newspaper published in said city at least twenty days prior to the date of said election, and a majority of such electors shall have voted in favor of issuing such bonds; Provided, No such election shall be called unless a petition signed by at least ten resident freeholders from each ward of said city shall be presented to the mayor and council asking that an election be called for the purpose herein provided. When any city has estab lished a heating or lighting system as herein contemplated, the city council shall have power to levy an annual tax of not to exceed two (2) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the city, for the purpose of maintaining, operating, and extending the same.

1519 SEC. III. [Contracts.] All contracts for the erection or construction of any such heating or lighting system or any part thereof or any extension thereof shall be let in the same manner as contracts for electric light systems.

1520 SEC. IV. [Management-Commissioner, duties.] When any city shall have established a heating or lighting system, it shall provide by ordinance for the management and control of the same, and the rates to be charged to persons

SECS. I-V.

"An Act To authorize cities of the first and second class to establish and maintain a heating or lighting system." Laws, 1901, chap. 22. In effect June 28, 1901. See secs. 124-128, chap. 14, art. 1.

using such heat or light. In cities having and maintaining a system of water works, and having a water commissioner, such water commissioner shall be ex-officio heat or light commissioner. In cities having no water commissioner, the mayor shall, with the advice and consent of the city council, appoint some resident freeholder as such heat or light commissioner, who shall hold his office until the end of the municipal year, and until his successor shall be appointed and shall have qualified. Before entering upon the duties of his office such heat or light commiss.oner so appointed shall give bond to the city in such sum as may be required by the city council, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by the city council. Such commissioner shall have general management and control of the heating or lighting system in such city, under the direction of the city council. He shall make a detailed report to the city council at least every six months, showing the condition of such heating or lighting system, and of all such improvements, repairs, extensions and additional machinery, which he may think proper to make or obtain, together with an estimate of the cost thereof. He shall receive a salary fixed by ordinance, and may be removed at any time by a two-thirds vote of the council.

1521 SEC. V. [Rates-Disposition.] The city council shall fix by ordinance the rates to be charged for the use of such heat or light, and shall provide the manner of collecting the same. All money collected for the use of such heating or lighting system shall be paid over to the city treasurer and kept by him in a separate fund, and be used for the operation, maintenance, repair, and extension of such heating or lighting system, under the direction of the city council.

PARKS GROUNDS.

1522 SEC. 6. [Parks-Public grounds-Police power.] That any city of the second class or any city having not more than 25,000 inhabitants in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to take land in fee, within its corporate limits or within one mile thereof by donat on, gift, devise, purchase or appropriation and to hold, improve and control such land for parks and public grounds. The jurisdiction of the mayor and city council of any city that shall acquire any real estate as herein contemplated, and the police power thereof, shall be at once extended over the same by virtue of this act; and the mayor and city council shall have power to enact by-laws, rules and ordinances for the protection, preservation and control of any real estate acquired as herein contemplated and provide suitable penalties for the violation of any such by-laws, rules or ordinances. [1899, chap. 15.]

1523 SEC. 7. [Same-Bonds.] The mayor and council shall have power to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of the city upon its negotiable bonds or otherwise to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving land for parks and public grounds as in this act contemplated, authority therefor having first been obtained by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the city voting on such question at any general city election of such city or at an election called for that purpose upon a proposition or propositions submitted in the manner provided by law for the submission of propositions to aid in the construction of railroads and other works of internal improvement and to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of the city in the manner aforesaid. [Id., § 2.]

SECS. 6-7. "An act to authorize and empov er cities of the second class and cities having not more than 25,000 inha itants to purchase, take by donation, gift, devise or appropria io, own, improve maintain and controll and for parks and public grounds, and to borrow money on the bonds of such cities, for the purchase and improvement of such parks and public grounds, and to call elections and submit propositions to the electors of such cities for the issuance of such bonds. And to repeal sections 143a and 143b. of chapter 14, article 1, of the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska of 1897, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act." Laws, 1899, chap. 15. Took effect July 1, 1899.

CHAPTER 15.-CIVIL RIGHTS.

1673 SECTION 1. [Equal privileges.] All persons within this state shall be entitled to a full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, public conveyances, barber shops, theaters, and other places of amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to every person. [1885, chap. 104. Reenacted 1893, chap. 10.]

1674 SEC. 2. [Same-Penalty.] Any person who shall violate the foregoing section by denying to any person, except for reasons by law applicable to all persons, the full enjoyment of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, or privileges enumerated in the foregoing section, or by aiding or inciting such denials, shall for each offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars and to pay the costs of the prosecution. [Id.]

СНАР. 15. "An act to provide that all persons shall be entitled to the same civil rights, to punish all person for violations of its provisions to repeal," etc., chap. 14a, C. S. Took effect Mar. 17, 1893. Laws, 1893, chap. 10. Act valid so far as it relates to citizens. 25 Neb., 675.