any interest therein sold or disposed of, or private property taken for public use, unless by a concurring vote of two-thirds of all the members elect; nor shall any vote of the council be reconsidered at a special meeting, unless there be present as many members as were present when such vote was taken. No money shall be expended except by ordinance or resolution of the council, nor shall any resolution or motion be passed or adopted, bonds approved or other business done except by a vote of a majority of all the members elect, except as hereinotherwise provided. The mayor shall not vote upon any ques- Mayor's veto. tion, but he may disapprove of any ordinance or resolution, provided he shall as soon as the next regular meeting, return the same to the council with his objections in writing, in which case the same shall not take effect unless the council on such return, shall by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elect again pass the same; and on such two-thirds vote, such ordinance or resolution shall have the same force and effect as though the same had not been disapproved by the mayor.

electors.

SEC. 9. Whenever the common council shall by resolution Question of declare that it is expedient for said city to issue bonds, to ac- to be submitissuing bonds quire by purchase, or to construct as the case may be, works ted to for the purpose of supplying said city, and the inhabitants thereof, or either with water, or with electric lights, the council shall direct the city engineer to cause to be made and recorded in the clerk's office, an estimate of the expense thereof; and he shall submit the same to the common council. The question of bonding said city for said purpose, shall be submitted to the tax-paying electors of the city, at its annual election, or at a special meeting of said tax-paying electors, called for that purpose by the council, as provided in section three of chapter nineteen of said act, and shall be determined as a majority of the tax-paying electors voting at such election by ballot shall decide. The council shall have power to fix the Council may time and place of payment of the principal and interest of the fix time of debt contracted under the provisions of this section, but the rate of such interest shall not exceed four per cent per annum, and such bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value.

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SEC. 10. The common council in addition to the duties spe- May pass cercially conferred upon them in this act, shall have power within said city to enact, continue, establish, modify, annul and repeal such ordinances, by-laws and regulations as they may deem desirable within said city for the following purposes: First, To prevent vice and immorality, to preserve public Relative to peace and good order, to organize, maintain and regulate a police force of the city, to prevent and quell riots, disturbances and disorderly assemblies, to protect the property of the corporation, and of its inhabitants, and of any association, public or private corporation, or congregation therein, and to punish for injuries thereto or for unlawful interference therewith;

preserving of peace.

Second, To prevent, restrain and suppress all disorderly Disorderly houses and places, houses of ill-fame, assignation houses, and houses, etc.

Gambling.

Liquors.

Sabbath.

Obscene exhibitions.

Nuisances.

Explosives.

Racing.

to punish the keepers thereof and dwellers therein and all who resort thereto for purposes of prostitution, or to associate with prostitutes;

Third, To prohibit, restrain and prevent persons from playing for money or other valuable things with cards, dice, wheels of fortune, boxes, machines or other instruments or devices whatsoever in any saloon, bar-room, grocery store, shop or in any other places in said city, to punish the persons keeping the place, instruments, devices or means of such gaming, and to provide for and compel the destruction of such instruments, machines or other devices whatever, used or intended to be used for gaming as aforesaid;

Fourth, To prohibit the selling or giving of any spirituous, fermented, or intoxicating liquors to any drunkard or intemperate person, or any minor or apprentice;

Fifth, To prevent the violation of the Sabbath the disturbance of any religious congregation, or any other meeting assembled for any lawful purpose;

Sixth, To prohibit and prevent in the streets or elsewhere in said city, any lewd and lascivious behavior, or any indecent exposure of the person, the show, sale or exhibition for sale of any indecent or obscene pictures, drawings, engravings, paintings, books or devices, or any written or printed or other thing containing obscene, scurrilous or scandalous matter, and all indecent or obscene exhibitions and shows of every kind;

Seventh, To prohibit or prevent any person from bringing, depositing or leaving within the limits of said city, or within one-half mile distant therefrom, or keeping or having on the premises owned or occupied by them in said city, any dead carcass, putrid or unsound meat, fish, hides, skins, or any article, substance or thing that is unwholesome or offensive; or the trying or rendering any unwholesome, putrid or offensive tallow, lard or meats in said city, and to authorize the removal or destruction thereof by some officer of said city; or to compel any person so bringing, depositing, or leaving the same within the limits of said city or within one-half mile therefrom, or having or keeping the same on the premises owned or occupied by them in said city, to remove the same; to compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, tallow-chandler shop, butcher's stall, soap factory, tannery, stable, privy, hog-pen, sewer or other offensive or unwholesome house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time to time as often as they may deem necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of said city, and to direct the location of all slaughter houses and markets;

Eighth. Concerning the buying, carrying, selling, storing and using of dynamite, gunpowder, or other combustible materials, and the exhibition of fireworks, the use of lights in barns, stables and other buildings, and to regulate or prohibit the discharge of firearms within the limits of the city, or the making of bonfires in streets or yards;

Ninth, To prevent and punish horse racing and immoderate

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riding or driving in any street or alley, and to authorize the stopping and detaining of any person who shall be guilty of immoderate riding or driving in any street or alley in said city;

Tenth, To provide for or compel cleaning the highways, Highways. streets, lanes, alleys, public grounds, crosswalks and sidewalks of said city of dirt, filth, snow and other substances; to prohibit and prevent the encumbering thereof with boxes, signs, posts and all other materials and things whatsoever, and to remove the same therefrom, and to prevent any encroachments upon any street, and to provide for the removal of such encroachments; to prevent the exhibition of signs upon canvas or otherwise in or upon any vehicle standing or traveling upon the streets or public grounds of said city; to control, prescribe and regulate the mode of constructing and suspending awnings, and the exhibition and suspension of signs and articles of merchandise therefrom; to prohibit and prevent all practices, amusements and doings having a tendency to frighten horses and teams, or dangerous to life, person or property; to remove or cause to be removed all walls and other structures that may be liable to fall so as to endanger life and property; to control, regulate and prescribe the manner in which the highways, streets, lanes. alleys, public grounds and spaces within said city shall be used and enjoyed; to regulate, restrict or prohibit the use of bicycles and tricycles upon any and all sidewalks in the city of Flint; to limit the speed at which bicycles, tricycles, or any other vehicle propelled by hand or foot, or both, may be used in the streets;

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Eleventh, The common council shall have power to provide Grade crossfor and change the location and grade of street crossings of any roads. railroad track and to compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower their railroad track to conform to street grades which may be established by the city from time to time, and to construct street crossings in such manner and with such protection to persons crossing thereat as the council may require, and to keep them in repair. Also to determine and designate the routes and grades of any railroad track to be laid in said city and to prevent the changing of any such grade at any street crossing without the consent of the council, and to restrain and regulate the use of locomotives, engines and cars and the shunting and switching thereof on or across any of the streets, lanes or alleys in said city upon any of the railroads within said city. Also to require and to compel railroad companies to keep flagmen and watchmen at all railroad crossings of streets and to give warning of the approach and passage of trains thereat, and to light such crossings during the night, and to regulate and prescribe the speed of all locomotives, railroad trains and street railway cars within said city, but such speed shall not be required to be less than five miles per hour, and to impose a fine of not less than five or more than one hundred dollars upon the company and upon any engineer or conductor violating any ordinance regulating the speed of trains;

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Twelfth, The council shall have power to require and compel any railroad company and any street railway company to make, keep open and in repair such ditches, drains, sewers and culverts along and under or across their rilroad tracks as may be necessary to drain their grounds and right of way properly and in such manner as the council shall direct, so that the natural drainage of adjacent property shall not be impeded. If any such railroad company or street railway company shall neglect to perform such regulations according to the direction of the council, the council may cause the work to be done at the expense of such company and the amount of such expense may be collected at a suit of the city against the company in a civil action before any court having jurisdiction of the cause; Thirteenth, To preserve the salubrity of the waters of the Flint river and other streams within the limits of said city; to prohibit or regulate bathing therein, and to provide for cleansing the same of driftwood and other obstructions; to fill up all low ground or lots covered or partially covered with water within the limits of said city, or to drain the same as they may deem expedient;

Fourteenth, To prohibit, restrain, license and regulate all hibitions, etc. sports, exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans of animals, theatrical exhibitions, circuses or other performances and exhibitions for money;

Fifteenth, To restrain and punish drunkards, vagrants, street beggars and other disorderly persons;

Sixteenth, To employ all persons imprisoned for the nonpayment of any fine, penalty, forfeiture, or costs, or for any offense under this act or any ordinance of the common council of the city of Flint in a city lockup or in the jail of Genesee county, at work or labor upon the streets of said city, or any public work under the control of said council;

Seventeenth, To prohibit and suppress mock auctions and every kind of fraudulent game, device or practice, and to punish all persons managing, using, practicing or aiding in the management and practice thereof;

Eighteenth, To license auctioneers, auctions and sales at auction, to regulate or prohibit the sale of live or domestic animals at auction, upon the streets, alleys or public grounds in said city; to regulate or prohibit the sale of goods, wares, property or anything at auction, or by the manner of public biddings, or offers by the buyer or seller after the manner of auction sales or Dutch auctions, and to regulate the fees to be paid by auctioneers, but no license shall be required in cases of sales required by law to be made at auction or public vendue;

Nineteenth, To prohibit and suppress the sale of every kind of unsound or unwholesome meat, poultry, fish, vegetables or other articles of food and provision, and to punish all persons who shall knowingly sell the same or offer or keep the same for sale;

Twentieth, To provide for the inspection and sealing of weights and measures, and to enforce the keeping of proper weights and measures by vendors;

riding or driving in any street or alley, and to authorize the stopping and detaining of any person who shall be guilty of immoderate riding or driving in any street or alley in said city;

Tenth, To provide for or compel cleaning the highways, Highways. streets, lanes, alleys, public grounds, crosswalks and sidewalks of said city of dirt, filth, snow and other substances; to prohibit and prevent the encumbering thereof with boxes, signs, posts and all other materials and things whatsoever, and to remove the same therefrom, and to prevent any encroachments upon any street, and to provide for the removal of such encroachments; to prevent the exhibition of signs upon canvas or otherwise in or upon any vehicle standing or traveling upon the streets or public grounds of said city; to control, prescribe and regulate the mode of constructing and suspending awnings, and the exhibition and suspension of signs and articles of merchandise therefrom; to prohibit and prevent all practices, amusements and doings having a tendency to frighten horses and teams, or dangerous to life, person or property; to remove or cause to be removed all walls and other structures that may be liable to fall so as to endanger life and property; to control, regulate and prescribe the manner in which the highways, streets, lanes, alleys, public grounds and spaces within said city shall be used and enjoyed; to regulate, restrict or prohibit the use of bicycles and tricycles upon any and all sidewalks in the city of Flint; to limit the speed at which bicycles, tricycles, or any other vehicle propelled by hand or foot, or both, may be used in the streets;

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Eleventh, The common council shall have power to provide Grade crossfor and change the location and grade of street crossings of any roads. railroad track and to compel any railroad company or street railway company to raise or lower their railroad track to conform to street grades which may be established by the city from time to time, and to construct street crossings in such manner and with such protection to persons crossing thereat as the council may require, and to keep them in repair. Also to determine and designate the routes and grades of any railroad track to be laid in said city and to prevent the changing of any such grade at any street crossing without the consent of the council, and to restrain and regulate the use of locomotives, engines and cars and the shunting and switching thereof on or across any of the streets, lanes or alleys in said city upon any of the railroads within said city. Also to require and to compel railroad companies to keep flagmen and watchmen at all railroad crossings of streets and to give warning of the ap proach and passage of trains thereat, and to light such crossings during the night, and to regulate and prescribe the speed of all locomotives, railroad trains and street railway cars within said city, but such speed shall not be required to be less than five miles per hour, and to impose a fine of not less than five or more than one hundred dollars upon the company and upon any engineer or conductor violating any ordinance regulating the speed of trains;