Public exhibitions.

Nuisances.

Slaughter houses, etc. Explosives.

Obstruction of streets, etc.

Fast driving.

alms or subscriptions for any purpose, and to punish and prevent all intoxication and disorderly conduct;

Fourteenth, To prohibit and prevent or license and regulate the public exhibition by itinerant persons or companies, of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, menageries, theatrical representations, concerts, musical entertainments, exhibitions of common showmen, sparring, boxing, physical skill, horse racing feats of horsemanship and bowling alleys; mechanical contrivances and apparatus of every kind and description, or the use thereof in public for which money or other reward is directly or indirectly given or demanded; tricks of legerdemain, and all other public shows, exhibitions, entertainments and places of diversion and amusement, and to revoke such licenses at pleasure;

Fifteenth, To declare and define what constitutes a nuisance, and to prohibit, prevent, abate and remove all nuisances within said city, and to compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, tallow chandler's shop, butcher's shop or stall, soap factory, glue factory, tannery, slaughter house, stable. privy, hog pen, sewer, or other offensive house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same as often as it may deem necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the city; Sixteenth, To direct, regulate and prohibit the location and maintenance of all slaughter houses, markets and buildings for storing gunpowder and other combustible substances, and prohibit and regulate the buying, selling, keeping for sale, storing and transporting gunpowder, naphtha. saltpeter, benzine, benzole, petroleum, kerosene oil, firecrackers, fireworks and all other combustible substances, and the using thereof, the using of lights in barns, stables or other buildings, and the making of bonfires;

Seventeenth, To prevent the encumbering or obstruction of streets, sidewalks or crosswalks, lanes, alleys, bridges, wharves, or slips in any manner, or with any material or things of any kind or nature whatsoever, and to compel persons owning or occupying adjoining premises to keep the streets and sidewalks in front of such premises free from dirt and obstructions; to cause the removal of such obstructions or encumbrances by some city officer and cause the expense of such removal to be assessed on the abutting property and the expense thereof to be levied and collected in the same manner as herein provided for the levy and collection of local taxes for special improvements, the expense of which is assessed on the property spe cially benefited, according to the benefits derived. Any assessIment so made and tax levied shall be a lien on the lands so assessed after the assessment roll shall have been confirmed. To control, prescribe and regulate the use and enjoyment of streets, alleys, squares and other public places in the city;

Eighteenth, To prevent immoderate riding or driving in any street; to compel persons to fasten or secure their horses or other animals while standing in any of the streets or alleys of the city, and to authorize the stopping and detaining of any person who shall be guilty of any immoderate riding or driving

in any street, and to prevent persons from riding or driving in any street and to prevent any person from riding or driving upon or across any sidewalk, and to compel all persons to keep sidewalks in front of premises owned or occupied by them clear from snow, dirt, wood, or other obstructions;

Nineteenth, To prevent and regulate the running at large of Dogs. dogs; to impose taxes for the keeping thereof; to require them

to be muzzled and to authorize their destruction when running at large in violation of any ordinance;

Twentieth, To determine and designate the route and grades Railroads, etc. of any railroad or street railway now in or hereafter to be laid in said city, and to restrain and regulate the use of locomo tives, engines and cars upon the railroads in the city, and to compel the owners and managers of such roads to station flagmen and to erect and maintain safety gates at street crossings, and make such rules and regulations concerning the same as to secure the safety of the citizens;

hibitions.

Twenty-first, To prohibit and prevent any indecent exposure Indecent exof the person, the show, sale or exhibition of any indecent or obscene books, pictures or pamphlets, and all indecent or ob scene exhibitions or shows of any kind, and all indecent, immoral, profane, or disorderly conduct or language, and to prohibit and regulate the bathing in any public waters within or adjoining said city;

Twenty-second, To establish, regulate and maintain one or Pounds. more pounds, and to restrain and prevent or regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, swine or other animals, geese or poultry, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the cost of keeping and impounding;

Twenty-third, To prevent every species of gambling, and to Gambling. prevent the violation of the Sabbath and the disturbance of any religious congregation or any other public meeting assembled for lawful purposes;

dead car

Twenty-fourth, To protect and regulate all cemeteries and Cemeteries. graveyards within the city, and all such, without the limits of said city as such corporation may acquire, and to regulate the burial of the dead and the keeping of bills of the mortality; Twenty-fifth, To prohibit the bringing or depositing within Depositing of the limits of said city any dead carcasses or other unwholesome casses. or offensive substance and to provide for the removal, and destruction thereof wheresoever found; Twenty-sixth, To erect and provide for the erection of a city City buildings. hall and all needful buildings and offices, for the use of the corporation or of its officers, and to control and regulate the same, and to purchase the neccesary real estate on which to erect the same, and to purchase and sell real estate for the use of said corporation for corporate purposes; to acquire works by purchase or otherwise, for the purpose of supplying said city, with electric light, power or heat, and to prohibit and punish injuries to public buildings and property;

Twenty-seventh, To regulate the setting of awning or other Awnings. posts, and to direct and regulate the planting of shade or orna

Regulating fees of officers.

Surveying of city.

Hawkers, etc.

Butchers, etc.

mental trees in the streets and other public grounds, and to provide for the preservation of the same;

Twenty-eighth, To authorize and regulate the demand and receipt by officers of all fees and costs, and in such cases as the council may deem reasonable, and to prescribe, fix, determine and regulate the powers and duties of all officers of the city, subject to the provisions of this act;

Twenty-ninth, To survey, ascertain and establish the boundaries of the city, and all highways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, parks, squares and spaces in said city; to prohibit and remove all encroachments, encumbrances or obstructions upon the same in any manner, and to number the buildings;

Thirtieth, To license and regulate or prohibit auctioneers, hawkers, peddlers and pawnbrokers, and to regulate auctions, hawking and pawnbrokerage;

Thirty-first, To license and regulate butchers and keepers of shops, stalls and stands for the sale of meats, vegetables and Draymen, etc. provision of all kinds and to license and regulate all draymen, common teamsters, hackmen and all persons who carry or transfer persons or property for hire, to designate stands for all carriages, carts and drays used in carrying persons and property for hire, and to prescribe their fare and compensation;

Weights and measures.

Levy and assessment of taxes.

Confinement of prisoners.

Punishment of offenders.

Thirty-second, To regulate the weights and measures used in the city; to appoint one or more sealers of weights and measures, and to prescribe powers and duties thereof, and the penalty for using false weights and measures not conforming to the standard as established by the laws of this State;

Thirty-third, To assess, levy and collect taxes for the purposes of the corporation upon all property made taxable by law, which taxes shall be a lien on the property until paid; to appropriate money, provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city and make regulations concerning the

same;

Thirty-fourth, To employ all persons confined for the nonpayment of any fine, penalty, forfeiture, or cost of any offense under this act or any ordinance of the council, in any jail, workhouse or prison, at work or labor, either within or without the same, or upon any street or public work under the control of the council; to allow any person thus confined for the non-payment of any fine, forfeiture or costs, to pay and discharge the same by such work and labor, and to fix and value the price of such work and labor;

Thirty-fifth, To punish all offenders for violations of or offenses against this act, or any by-law or any ordinance of the common council adopted and passed under this or any other act of the legislature, by holding to bail for good behavior, by imposing fines and costs, and by imprisonment in the jail of Bay county, or any jail, prison or workhouse of said city, or by either, in the discretion of the court or magistrate before whom such conviction may be had. If only a fine be imposed, with or without costs, the offender may be sentenced to imprisonment until the payment thereof, for a term not exceeding three months. The limit and character of punishment for

offenses against the ordinances of the council shall be prescribed in the ordinance creating or specifying the offense to be punished, and no fine shall exceed one hundred dollars, and no imprisonment one year;

land for ceme

Thirty-sixth, It shall have power to purchase, for the use Purchase of of the city, so much land without the limits of the city as may tery. be required for the purpose of a cemetery, the same to be located not exceeding four miles beyond the boundary of the city;

Thirty-seventh, To provide for the appointment of such a Fire wardens. number of fire wardens as it may deem necessary, and for the examination by them from time to time of the stoves, chimneys and flues, furnaces and heating apparatus, and devices in all dwellings, buildings and structures in the city, and in all places where combustible or explosive substances are kept, and to cause all such as are unsafe with respect to fire to be put in a safe condition;

Thirty-eighth, To provide for the lighting of streets and Lighting. alleys, and the protection and safety of public lamps and lights;

of drains, etc.

Thirty-ninth, To direct and regulate the construction of cel- Construction lars, slips, barns, private drains, sinks and privies; to compel the owner or occupant to fill up, drain, cleanse, alter, relay, repair, purify, or abate any cellar. vault, slip, barn, private drain, sink, privy, lot, place or premises within the city which shall be damp, unwholesome, offensive, filthy or injurious to the public health, or be covered during any portion of the year with stagnant or impure water, or in such condition as to produce unwholesome or offensive exhalation, or to cause the same to be done by some proper officer of the city, and to assess the expense thereof on the lot or premises specially benefited thereby, in the manner herein provided for assessments for local improvements, and when the assessment roll shall have been confirmed, the taxes so levied shall be a lien on the lands so assessed, and shall be collected in the same manner as herein provided for collecting taxes for such local improvements;

noises.

Fortieth, To regulate the ringing of bells and the crying of Disturbing goods and other commodities for sale at auction or otherwise, and to prevent disturbing noises in the streets;

scavengers,

Forty-first, To prescribe rules to govern undertakers for bury- Undertakers, ing the dead, to govern scavengers, porters and chimney sweeps, etc. and their compensation, and the fees to be paid by them into the city treasury for licenses;

guests.

Forty-second, To regulate the soliciting of guests for hotels, Soliciting of and passengers and others to ride upon any railroad, boat, street car, omnibus or stage;

etc.

Forty-third, To fix and regulate the fees of jurors and wit- Fees of jurors, nesses in any proceedings under this act, or under any ordinance of the common council;

cleanings.

Forty-fourth, To sell or otherwise provide for disposing of Sale of street all dirt, filth, manure, cleanings, or materials lying in or gathered from highways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys and public places and all earth to be removed therefrom, or from the

Construction of fences, walls, etc,

Inspection of boilers, etc.

Gas pipes.

Meetings of electors.

Bread.

Telephones,

etc.

public squares and grounds of said city in grading, paving, repaving or otherwise improving the same;

Forty-fifth. To regulate the construction of partition fences, and of partition and parapet walls, the walls of buildings, the thickness of walls; to regulate the construction of chimneys, hearths, fire places, fire hearths, ovens, and the putting up of stoves, stove pipes, kettles, boilers or any structure or apparatus that may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to prohibit and prevent the burning out of chimneys, and chimney flues; to compel and regulate the cleaning thereof, and fix the fees therefor; to compel and regulate the construction of ash houses and deposits for ashes; to compel the owners of houses and other buildings to have scuttles upon the roofs thereof, and stairs or ladders leading to the same; to appoint one or more officers to enter into all buildings and enclosures, except private houses, to discover whether the same are in a dangerous state, and to cause such as are in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition; to authorize any of the officers of the city to keep away from the vicinity of fires all idle or suspicious persons, and to compel all officers of the city and other persons to aid in the extinguishment of fires and the preservation of property exposed to danger therefrom;

Forty-sixth, To provide for the inspection and management of stationary and portable steam boilers and steam generators; to appoint one or more inspectors of portable or stationary steam boilers or steam generators, and to prescribe and regulate their powers, duties, fees and compensation, and to license and regulate engineers and firemen of portable or stationary steam boilers or steam generators;

Forty-seventh, To restrain and regulate laying, continuing, repairing or taking up or removing any gas pipes along and across any of the streets, sidewalks, lanes, alleys and public grounds in said city;.

Forty-eighth, To provide for calling meetings of electors of the city;

Forty-ninth, To regulate the weight and quality of bread to be sold and used within the city;

Fiftieth, To regulate or prohibit, and to prescribe the location and height of telephone, telegraph and electric poles and wires within the limits of Bay City, and to regulate the manner of stringing wires on the same; to regulate the business of telephoning and conducting a telephone exchange in said city, and to compel all telephone and telegraph companies and others using electric wires to place their wires in conduits under ground, and to remove the poles, wires and apparatus of any person or company, in case of their refusal or neglect to comply with the provisions of any ordinance of the common council of Bay City; to compel all persons owning, managing, operating or using wires in said city, for the purpose of conveying electrical currents or electricity for any purpose, to return such currents by aerial wiring or otherwise, so as to