X. Protection of purchasers of coal. (§§ 150-161.) XI. Effect of chapter; laws repealed. (§§ 170-173.) SECTION 1. Short title. ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 2. Term of office of city supervisors. 3. City officers not to be interested in contracts. 4. Certain parades and processions forbidden; penalty. 5. Swearing witnesses. 6. Summoning witnesses. 7. Attachment for witness in contempt; proceedings thereon. 8. Licenses for retailing goods on boats. 9. Use of soft coal in public institutions. 10. Money for Memorial Day in cities of the third class. 11. Moneys; how expended. 12. Permits for erection of booths and arches. 13. Firemen moving from one city to another. 14. Term of service; how reckoned. SECTION 1. Short title.- This chapter shall be known as the general city law. § 2. Term of office of city supervisors.-The term of office of each supervisor hereafter elected in a city shall, notwithstanding the provisions of such city charter, be two years, and a supervisor shall only be elected in such city each second year thereafter, except to fill vacancies. No § 3. City officers not to be interested in contracts. member of the common council of any city shall, during the period for which he was elected, be capable of holding under the appointment or election of the common council any office the emoluments of which are paid from the city treasury, or paid by fees or compensation directed to be paid by any act or ordinance of the common council, nor shall the mayor or any alderman, school commissioner or other public officer of any city be directly or indirectly interested either as principal, surety or otherwise, in any contract, the expense or consideration whereof is payable out of the city treasury, but this section shall not affect the right to any fees or emoluments belonging to any office. An officer of any city who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof his office shall be vacant. § 4. Certain parades and processions forbidden; penalty.— All processions or parades occupying or marching on any street of any city to the exclusion or interruption of other citizens in their individual right and use thereof (excepting the National Guard and the police and fire departments, and the associations of veteran soldiers) are forbidden, unless written notice of the object, time and route of such procession or parade be given by the chief officer thereof, not less than six hours previous to its forming or marching, to the police authorities of such city; and such police authorities may designate to such procession or parade how much of the street in width it can occupy with especial reference to crowded thoroughfares through which such procession may move; and, when so designated, the chief officer of such procession or parade shall be responsible that the designation is obeyed; and it shall be the duty of the police authorities to furnish such escort as may be necessary to protect persons and property and maintain the public peace and order. A person wilfully violating any provision of this section. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both. § 5. Swearing witnesses.—Whenever the common council of a city shall have appointed a committee of members of their body upon any subject or matter within the jurisdiction of such common council, or to examine any officer of the city, in relation to the dis charge of his official duties, or to the receipt or disbursement by him of any moneys by him in the discharge of such duties, or concerning the possession or disposition by him, in his official capacity, of any property belonging to the city; or to use, inspect or examine any book, account, voucher or document, in the possession or under his control as such officer, relating to the affairs or interests of such city, the chairman of such committee is authorized to administer oaths to all such witnesses as may appear or be brought before such committee. § 6. Summoning witnesses.- On application by the chairman or a majority of any such committee to a justice of the supreme court or to the county judge of the county in which the city is situate, or to the recorder of such city, and it satisfactorily appearing to such justice, judge or recorder, that the testimony of any witness named, residing in this state, is or may be material in such investigation or inquiry, such justice, judge or recorder, shall issue a summons to such witness, requiring him to appear before such committee to testify in the matter of such investigation or inquiry at a time and place within such city to be specified in such summons. Such summons shall be served by showing to the witness the original summons under the hand of the officer issuing the same, and by delivering to such witness a copy of the summons, or a memorandum containing its substance, and paying to him the fees of witnesses in civil actions in courts of record. § 7. Attachment for witness in contempt; proceedings thereon. If a witness shall fail to attend, as directed by such summons, the justice or officer issuing the summons, on due proof of the service thereof, and of the failure of such witness to appear, or to produce such books and papers, according to the direction of such subpoena, or shall refuse to testify before such committee, or to answer any question which a majority thereof shall decide to be proper and pertinent, he shall be deemed in contempt, and it shall be the duty of such justice or officer to issue an attachment, in the form usual in the court of which he shall be judge, directed to the sheriff of the county where such witness was required to appear and testify, commanding such sheriff to attach such person and forthwith bring him before such justice or officer. On the return of the attachment, and the production of the body of the defendant, such justice or officer shall have jurisdiction of the matter, and the person charged may purge himself of the contempt in the same way, and |