for money, and to fix the sums to be paid for such licenses to the city.

streets.

V. To ascertain, establish and monument the bound- Lay out aries of all streets, avenues, highways, lanes, alleys and public places in such city, and prevent and remove all encroachments upon streets, avenues, highways, lanes, alleys and public places and to regulate the use thereof, and to prescribe the manner in which public streets and highways before accepted by the city as such shall be laid out.

Care of bridges,

streets,

sewers, etc.

VI. To regulate, clean and keep in repair the streets, highways, avenues, lanes, alleys, parks, public places, bridges, wharves, docks and piers in such city, and to prevent and remove obstructions and encumbrances in and upon all streets, highways, sidewalks, crosswalks, bridges, sewers, drains, aqueducts, water-courses, docks and other public places in any manner whatever; to prescribe and regulate the manner in which corporations. or persons shall exercise any privileges granted to them by said city in the use of any street, highway, avenue, alley or public place in such city, for laying railway Tracks, pipes, tracks, gas or other pipes, telegraph, telephone, electric wires, etc. light or other wires or poles, or in digging up any street, avenue, highway, alley or public place for the purpose of laying down pipes, conduits or for any other purposes whatever, and to prohibit and prevent any such use or work at such times and seasons of the year as city council may designate; to require all telegraph, telephone, electric light or other wires to be placed underground, after such reasonable notice and on such terms as it may prescribe; to direct and regulate the planting, Trees. rearing, trimming, preserving and protecting of ornamental or shade trees in the streets, avenues, parks and grounds of the city and to designate the location thereof, and to authorize or prohibit the removal or destruction.

numbering streets.

of such trees; to name the streets and number the houses Naming and of such city, and to change such names or numbers, and to enforce the removal of snow, ice, weeds or dirt from the sidewalks of such city by the owners or occupants of the premises fronting thereon.

VII. To establish the width of sidewalks and driveways of the public streets and highways and to alter

Sidewalks, poles, etc.

Dangerous
or unhealthy
premises.

House and stoop lines.

Riding and driving.

or change the same; to compel abutting property owners to pave, repave and repair sidewalks and to curb or recurb the same; to determine and direct what portions of such sidewalks or driveways shall be devoted to grass plots or park purposes, and to regulate the use of sidewalks by merchants and other persons for business purposes, and also for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, horse troughs, telegraph and telephone poles, trolley poles, electric light or other poles, and to license and prohibit such use or uses, and to compel the removal of any such posts, poles, wires or other obstruction or encumbrances thereon, and generally to regulate and control the same.

VIII. To direct the digging down, draining, filling up or fencing of lots, pieces or parcels of ground in said city which shall be deemed dangerous, unhealthy, unwholesome or necessary to carry out any improvement authorized by this act; to prescribe the manner in which said work shall be performed and to cause the expense thereof to be assessed in just, equitable and suitable proportions on the lots, pieces or parcels of ground, whether improved or unimproved, benefited thereby to the extent of the peculiar benefits conferred.

IX. To prevent or regulate the erection or construction of any stoop, step, platform, bay-window, oriolewindow, cellarway, area, descent into a cellar or basement, sign or any post or erection, or any projection or otherwise, in, over or upon any street, avenue, highway or public place, and to specify under what conditions such erections and constructions may be made and to remove the same where unlawfully erected, at the expense of the owner or occupant of the premises.

X. To prevent and punish persons for horse-racing and immoderate riding and driving of horses, bicycles, automobiles, or other vehicles and devices made to run on the streets, or riding in any street, highway or public place, and to authorize the stopping and detaining of any person who shall be guilty of immoderate driving or riding in any street, highway or public place, and to regulate the speed and running of locomotive engines and railroad cars, and all other vehicles propelled by

crossings.

mechanical device through said city, and designate the Grade
crossings at which any railroad company shall be re-
quired to place safety gates, to station flagmen or to
place and maintain signals to warn travelers of the
approach of locomotive engines or railroad cars; to
designate the points or places in the streets or highways
at which cars shall stop to take on or let off passengers,
and to compel the equipment of motor, electric and other
cars running through the city with fenders and other Fenders.
devices for the safety of the public.

cattle.

XI. To prohibit the driving of cattle through any of Driving the streets of the city on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and to regulate the same at other times.

Parks and

cemeteries.

XII. To regulate, protect and improve the parks, public burial grounds and other public grounds in said city. XIII. To provide for and regulate the lighting of all Light streets. streets, parks and public places of such city; to construct and equip or purchase, subject to the provisions of this act, a suitable plant or plants, works and machinery for supplying light, heat and power for public, private or commercial use, and to provide for the maintenance and operation thereof.

XIV. To prohibit or regulate the construction and Pumps and use of wells, pumps, aqueducts and cisterns in public cisterns. streets and places.

standing upon

XV. To regulate and prescribe the conditions under Animals which horses and other animals may be left standing streets. upon the public streets or highways.

XVI. To establish and regulate one or more pounds, Pounds. and to prohibit, restrain and regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, swine, goats and other animals, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the cost of keeping, impounding and sale, and to regulate or prohibit the keeping of swine, goats, cattle and other animals in any part of such city.

XVII. To regulate and prevent the running at large Dogs. of dogs; to authorize the destruction of dogs running at large and to impose taxes on the owners of dogs.

XVIII. To prescribe and regulate the place of vend- Peddling.

Noises.

Drunkards

and vagrants.

Contracts.

Issue licenses for sundry purposes.

Proviso.

ing or exposing for sale wood, hay, straw and other articles from wagons or other vehicles.

XIX. To regulate and prohibit noises and any practice having a tendency to frighten animals or to annoy persons passing in the streets or on the sidewalks of such city.

XX. To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, mendicants, street walkers and street beggars; to prevent loitering, lounging or sleeping in the streets, parks or public places.

XXI. To prescribe the manner in which all contracts for performing work or furnishing materials for the city shall be made and executed, subject, however, to the provisions of this act.

XXII. To license and regulate cartmen, porters, hacks, street cars, omnibuses, automobiles, stages and all other carriages and vehicles used for transportation of passengers, baggage, merchandise or goods and chattels of any kind, and the owners and drivers of vehicles and means of transportation; also auctioneers, common criers, hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, junk shop keepers, keepers of bath-houses, boarding-houses and newsstands, sweeps, scavengers, traveling and all other shows, circuses, theatrical performances, plays, billiard tables, pool tables, organ grinders, exhibitions, concerts, public places of amusement for gain, skating rinks, itinerant venders of merchandise, medicines and remedies, lumber and coal yards, stores for the sale of groceries, dry goods and merchandise or goods and chattels of every kind, bucket shops or places for the sale on margin or for cash, or for future delivery of stocks, bonds, produce or other commodities, and all other kinds of business conducted in such city; the place or places or premises in which or at which the different kinds of business or occupations are to be carried on or conducted, and to fix the amount of fees to be paid for such licenses and to prohibit all persons and places and all vehicles unlicensed from acting or being used in said capacities or for such uses and purposes, and that the fees for such licenses may be imposed for revenue; provided, that no person or persons shall be required to

take out a license in order to sell the product of his or
her farm.

whistles.

XXIII. To regulate the ringing of bells and blowing Bells and of steam whistles and the crying of goods and other commodities at auction or otherwise, and to prevent disturbing noises in the streets.

XXIV. To regulate or prohibit swimming or

thing Bathing.

in the waters of or bounding the city, and to regulate
and to prohibit persons from appearing in any or all
the public streets and places clad in bathing robes or
other costumes of similar character.

measures.

XXV. To regulate weights and measures in con- Weights and formity with the standard of weights and measures established by law, and to require, under proper penalties prescribed by ordinance, every merchant, retailer, trader or dealer in merchandise, or property of any description which is sold by weight or measure, to cause his or her weights and measures to be sealed by the city sealer of weights and measures, and to be subject to inspection, the fees for such inspection to be fixed by the ordinance.

Sealer of

weights and

measures.

To provide by ordinance for the appointment by the mayor of a sealer of weights and measures, who shall, from time to time, test the weights and measures in use in any city by the merchants or other dealers in goods, wares or merchandise, for such fees as may be fixed by crdinance; provided, however, that all such fees shall Proviso. be turned into the city treasury; to provide that the sealer of weights and measures shall also inspect all coal furnished to any of the city departments, and to see that the kind and quantity of coal ordered by any such department is duly delivered, and to give him authority to order and compel any person delivering coal in the city to drive upon a public or private scale for the purpose of ascertaining whether the weight of the coal is correct; to prescribe, from time to time, other duties of such sealer of weights and measures, fix his term of office and provide for his compensation.

XXVI. To establish a day and night police force and Police. prescribe the duties and fix and determine the number and the compensation of the officers and members thereof.