mation as may be necessary for a full understanding of the finan

cial concerns of the city.

ings.

§ 14. The city council shall hold stated meetings, commencing stated meeton the first Monday of May: but the mayor or in his absence any three aldermen, may call special meetings, by notice to each of the members of said council, served personally or left at his usual place of abode.

§ 15. The city council shall have power within said city to By-laws. make, establish, publish, and modify, amend, or repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws for the following purposes:

1. To manage and regulate the finances and property, real and Finances. personal, of the city.

2. To regulate the wharves, piers and slips of or adjoining to Wharves, the city, and direct the repairs thereof, and to fix the rates of &c. wharfage and cranage to be taken thereat.

3. To establish and regulate the watch, police and fire depart- Watch, police, &c. ments of the city, within the limits prescribed by law, and to define and regulate the duties and powers of watchmen, firemen and policemen.

4. To license and regulate cartmen, porters, hack, cab, omni- Cartmen,&c; bus, stage, and truck owners and drivers, weights and measures, surveyors, common criers, hawkers, pedlars, pawn-brokers, junkshop keepers, sweeps and scavengers, and to fix the rates of compensation to be allowed to them, and to prohibit unlicensed persons from acting in either of such capacities.

5. To prescribe the places of selling hay, straw and grains Hay. from wagons.

houses.

6. To locate, regulate, and remove slaughter-houses, establish Slaughter and regulate public markets, license and regulate butchers, designate the places, times and manner of selling fresh meats, fish and vegetables, and to prohibit persons from selling without li

cense.

large.

7. To restrain and regulate the running at large of cattle, Cattle, &c., horses, sheep, swine, geese, or any other animals and to authorise running at and regulate the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred, and cost of proceedings, as well as the destruction of dogs, and the imposition of a fine upon their owners.

8. To regulate the keeping of cows and swine, and to prevent cows,swine, the keeping in any one place, or within such space as it may prescribe, of more than such numbers as it may deem proper to be so kept.

9. To prohibit and abate all nuisances.

Nuisances.

10. To regulate or prohibit the flying of kites, or any other Amuseamusement or practice having a tendency to frighten horses, or to ments. annoy persons passing in the streets or on the sidewalks in said

city.

11. To regulate or prohibit swimming or bathing in the waters Bathing. of or bounding the city.

Each board to elect a president.

to the mayor for his ap

proval.

rity of each board shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. And no act, resolution or ordinance, which shall have passed one board, shall be acted upon by the other board on the same day, unless by unanimous consent, except in case of invasion, insurrection or pestilence.

§ 11. Each board shall annually elect a president from its own body, and in his absence a president for the time being; choose its own clerk and other officers, appoint its times and places of meeting, determine the rules of its own proceedings, be the sole judge of the qualifications of its members, keep a journal of its proceedings, and may punish or expel a member for disorderly conduct, or declare his seat vacated by reason of absence; provided such absence be continued for the space of two months. But no expulsion shall take place except by the vote of a majority of all the members elected, nor until the delinquent member shall have had an opportunity to be heard in his defence.

Acts, &c., to § 12. Every act, ordinance, or resolution of the city council, be presented shall before it takes effect, be presented, duly certified, to the mayor. If he approves it, he shall sign it, if not, he shall return it with his objections, and file it with the clerk of the board in which it originated, within ten days after he received it; the said board shall, at its first regular meeting thereafter, enter the objections at large on its journal and forthwith cause the same to be published; after which it shall proceed to reconsider the same, and if a majority of all the members elected in each board shall then agree to pass the same, it shall take effect as a law; but in every such case the votes shall be taken by ayes and noes and entered on the journal of each board. And if such ordinance or resolution shall not be returned by the mayor, within ten days after he has received it, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it.

expenditures

to be pub

lished.

Statement of § 13. The city council shall at least once a year, not more than receipts and thirty nor less than fifteen days before the annual charter election publish in such of the newspapers printed in the city as they shall designate, a full statement of all the receipts and expenditures of every description, for the fiscal year preceding such statement: including all the moneys which have passed through the hands of the treasurer or comptroller for any purpose whatever; together with the different sources of city revenue, the amount received under each, the several appropriations made by the city council, the objects for which the same were made, and the sums expended for each, also any moneys borrowed upon the credit of the city, whether by temporary loans or by the issue of bonds, the terms upon which they were obtained, the authority under which they were borrowed, and the purposes to which they were applied; and how much of the same or other city indebtedness has been repaid and by what means. The statement shall also include, a detailed account of the city property, existing debts of every description, and the condition of the sinking fund, with all such other infor

mation as may be necessary for a full understanding of the financial concerns of the city.

ings.

§ 14. The city council shall hold stated meetings, commencing Stated meeton the first Monday of May: but the mayor or in his absence any three aldermen, may call special meetings, by notice to each of the members of said council, served personally or left at his usual place of abode.

§ 15. The city council shall have power within said city to By-laws. make, establish, publish, and modify, amend, or repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws for the following purposes:

1. To manage and regulate the finances and property, real and Finances. personal, of the city.

2. To regulate the wharves, piers and slips of or adjoining to Wharves, the city, and direct the repairs thereof, and to fix the rates of &c. wharfage and cranage to be taken thereat.

3. To establish and regulate the watch, police and fire depart- Watch, police, &c. ments of the city, within the limits prescribed by law, and to define and regulate the duties and powers of watchmen, firemen and policemen.

4. To license and regulate cartmen, porters, hack, cab, omni- Cartmen,&c: bus, stage, and truck owners and drivers, weights and measures, surveyors, common criers, hawkers, pedlars, pawn-brokers, junkshop keepers, sweeps and scavengers, and to fix the rates of compensation to be allowed to them, and to prohibit unlicensed persons from acting in either of such capacities.

5. To prescribe the places of selling hay, straw and grains Hay. from wagons.

houses.

6. To locate, regulate, and remove slaughter-houses, establish Slaughter and regulate public markets, license and regulate butchers, designate the places, times and manner of selling fresh meats, fish and vegetables, and to prohibit persons from selling without li

cense.

running at

7. To restrain and regulate the running at large of cattle, Cattle, &c., horses, sheep, swine, geese, or any other animals and to authorise farge. and regulate the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred, and cost of proceedings, as well as the destruction of dogs, and the imposition of a fine upon their owners.

8. To regulate the keeping of cows and swine, and to prevent Cows,swine, the keeping in any one place, or within such space as it may prescribe, of more than such numbers as it may deem proper to be so kept.

9. To prohibit and abate all nuisances.

Nuisances.

10. To regulate or prohibit the flying of kites, or any other Amuseamusement or practice having a tendency to frighten horses, or to ments. annoy persons passing in the streets or on the sidewalks in said city.

11. To regulate or prohibit swimming or bathing in the waters Bathing. of or bounding the city.

Horse ra

cing.

Burial of the dead.

Gunpowder.

Disorderly houses, &c.

Common

12. To prevent horse racing and immoderate driving in said city, and to authorise the stopping of any one who shall be guilty of so doing.

13. To regulate the burial of the dead, prohibit interments within such limits as it may prescribe, purchase land for a public burial place, direct the keeping and returning of bills of mortality, and to establish such regulations for conveying the dead through the streets of the said city as the health, quiet and good order of the city may require, or to prohibit the same entirely if necessary.

14. To regulate the keeping and conveying of gunpowder and other dangerous material, and the use of candles and lights in barns, stables and other buildings.

15. To suppress and restrain disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame, gaming tables, ball alleys, the playing of cards or games of chance in places where liquor is sold to be drank, to destroy all instruments or devices employed in gaming, and to restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars and common prosti

tutes.

16. To prohibit or regulate the exhibition of common showmen, showmen. or of curiosities or other public exhibitions tending to create or encourage idleness or immorality.

Obstructions

c.

17. To prevent and remove obstructions and incumbrances in on wharves, and upon wharves, streets and public places, direct and regulate the planting, rearing and preserving of ornamental and shade trees in the streets, to enforce the removal of snow, ice or dirt from sidewalks and gutters, and to direct the sweeping and cleaning of streets by the persons owning or occupying premises fronting thereon.

Duties of officers.

Victualing houses.

Grocers, &c.

Stoops, platforms, &c.

18. To prescribe and define the duties of all officers appointed under this act not otherwise prescribed by law.

19. To regulate victualing houses or cellars, gardens and other places where ardent spirits or other intoxicating drinks may be sold or given away, and to prohibit the keeping of the same, except by persons duly licensed.

20. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandler's shop, soap factory, tannery, slaughter-house, stalls, privy, sewer, or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same, from time to time, as often as it may be necessary for the health, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants, and to prescribe certain limits within which it shall not be lawful to erect or establish any such offensive or unwholesome manufactory or business.

21. To prevent the erection or construction of any stoop, step, platform, bay window, cellar door, area, descent into a cellar or basement, sign-post, or other projection from any building or otherwise, in, over, or upon any street or avenue in, or the removal of any house or other building through said city, and to cause the same to be taken out and removed from such street or ave

nue.

dations.

22. To limit and prescribe the depth to which cellar founda- Cellar fountions shall be laid below the upper grade line of the curbstone, or the grade or surface of the street in front thereof or nearest thereto.

23. To cause sidewalks to be flagged, and the expense thereof Side walks. to be paid by the owners of the adjoining lots, from whom such expense may be recovered in the name of the city.

filling up

24. To direct the digging down, draining, or filling up of lots, Draining and pieces or parcels of ground so as to conform to such level as they lots, &c. may deem proper, in all cases in which they shall deem such digging down, draining or filling up necessary for preventing or abating a nuisance; direct the fencing in or enclosing of vacant lands in said city, and the building and maintaining of sufficient brick or stone walls between any lot or piece of land, and any street or avenue adjoining the same in said city, in all cases where such lots or pieces of land shall not properly conform to the level of the streets or avenue adjoining the same, and to require such wall to be built upon any lot or piece of land which shall not so conform at the expense of the owner or owners thereof, and to be so constructed as to prevent the draining or running of water or any other thing from any street or avenue upon any such lot, and so as to maintain, uphold and preserve the sidewalk of any such street or avenue, and to assess and collect the expenses thereof in the same manner as for regulating, grading and paving streets; but before any ordinance shall be passed for any of the purposes in this, or the last preceding subdivision mentioned, ten days notice of the application for, or the intention to pass such ordinance shall be given to every person to be affected thereby, either personally or by publication in the corporation newspapers.

tion to offi

cers.

25. To fix and determine a reasonable compensation to be paid Compensato any officer of said city, or other person employed by them, for any service required of him by this act, or by any ordinance or resolution passed by them, for which no specific fee or compensation is provided by this act, to be paid by the person or persons for whom such service shall be performed, for the uses of the city; and to regulate the compensation for the services of any officer of said city, or other person employed by him, for searching the books, files or records of said city, for private persons.

26. To regulate the construction of chimneys, and to compel Chimneys, the sweeping thereof; to prevent the setting up or constructing of stoves, &c. stoves, boilers, ovens or other things, in such a manner as to be dangerous; to prohibit the deposit of ashes in unsafe places; to authorise any city officer, or person or persons whom they may designate for that purpose, to enter upon and inspect any place or places, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same is or are in a safe condition, and if not, to direct and cause the same to be made so; to regulate the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to prevent the use, sale, or exposure to sale, of fireworks or firearms, in said city; to require all