der this act, shall have the same jurisdiction and perform all the duties of justices of the peace, as provided by the general laws of the state, except in those cases where the police justice has sole and exclusive jurisdiction: and their official bonds shall be approved by a majority of the aldermen of the ward for which they are elected, but the places of business of such justices may be held at any place within the city limits.

their duties.

SECTION 16. The assessor appointed under this act Assessors shall in all things pertaining to his office, so far as prac ticable, be governed by the same laws as assessors in towns, except that as soon as he shall have completed the assessment rolls, he shall return them to the comptroller, and his compensation shall be established by the common council. The assessor shall as soon as the common council shall designate, proceed and make a complete and accurate assessment roll, and perform such other and further duties as is prescribed by this act, or shall be required by any ordinance or resolution of the common council. Any assessor who shall neglect to perform the duties of his office, or who shall use any partiallity in assessing the property of any individual, corporation or association, or shall be guilty of any corruption in anything pertaining to his office, stall upon conviction suffer and pay a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court before whom conviction is had, and upon failure to pay such penalty to be imprisoned in the county jail of Fond du Lac county, for a term not less than three months and not more than six months.

Penalty.

sioners their

SECTION 17. The aldermen of each ward within Aldermen to be the city shall be street and road commissioners in and street commisfor their respective wards, with such powers and duties duties. as are herein specified. They shall whenever required by the common council, make a detailed and accurate report in writing to the comptroller, of the £nancial condition of the ward, of the expenditures, and a list of all ward certificates issued since their last report, together with a list of all debts contracted against the ward of which they are aldermen. No alderman shall be a party to or interested in any job or contract with ested in conthe city or any of the wards, and any contract in which any alderman may be so interested shall be null and void; and in case any money shall have been paid up

Not to be inter

tracts.

Peace officers.

May arrest

orderly persons

on any such contract, the common council or any person may sue for and recover the amount so paid from the parties to such contract, and the alderman interested in the same.

SECTION 18. The mayor, sheriff of Fond du Lac county, each and every alderman, justice of the peace, chief of police, policeman and constable, shall be officers of the peace, and suppress in a summary manner all rioting and disorderly behaviour within the limits of the city, and for such purpose may command the assistance of all bystanders, and if need be of all citizens and military companies. If any person shall re fuse to aid in maintaining the peace, when so required, every such person shall forfeit and pay a fine of fifty dollars, and in case where the civil power may be required to suppress riots or disorderly behaviour, the superior or senior officer present, in the order mentioned in this section, shall direct the proceedings. It shall drunken or dis- be lawful for the mayor, any alderman, the chief of police, every policeman (or person acting as such) or constable of the city, to arrest forthwith any person who shall be drunk, disorderly, riotous, or doing any act which shall be by this act construed to be a misde meanor, or by warrant arrest any person whom they or any of them shall find find committing any violation of the laws or of any ordinances of the city, and to take such person before the police justice of the city, or if the said justice is not in his office, or unable, or if it be out of office hours, or if for any other good reason an examination cannot be had, to confine the person so arrested in the city watch-house or county jail, otherwise to be examined by the said justice and dealt with according to the provisions of this act, or any ordinance of the city, or the laws of the state.

Inspector of boilers, en

gines, etc.-his powers and duties.

SECTION 19. The common council shall have power whenever deemed necessary, to appoint an inspector, whose duty it shall be to inspect all boilers and engines and other apparatus deemed dangerous to life, used in or about any shop, manufactory or other building in the city, to examine the same, and to report whether the same are in a safe and secure condition, and, for that purpose said inspector shall have the power to enter into any shop, manufactory or other building in said city. Said inspector shall receive such fees as the common council shall prescribe, to be paid by the owner or

lessee of the engine, boiler or other apparatus so inspected. And if said inspector shall report that any engine, boiler or other apparatus is in an unsafe or dangerous condition, the owner or lessee thereof shall immediately place the same in a safe and secure condition; and for every day's neglect to repair the same, while running such engine, boiler or other apparatus, such owner or lessee shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars.

ed of officers.

SECTION 20. The common council shall have power Other duties from time to time to require other and further duties may be requir to be performed by any officer whose duties are herein. prescribed, and to appoint such other officers as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to prescribe their duties and to fix the compensation of all officers elected or appointed by the common council. Such compensation shall be fixed by resolution at the time the office is created, or at the commencement of the year, and shall not be increased or diminished during the term such officer shall remain in office.

may be consol

SECTION 21. The common council shall have the office of comppower of consolidating the offices of city comptroller troller & clerk and city clerk, whenever the labor of the two offices can idated. be performed by one person, or whenever the general interest of the city shall require it; and whenever the same are so consolidated, the officer to be appointed to perform the duties of both shall be called the city comptroller, and in such case, when by this act any duty is required to be performed by the city clerk, the same shall be performed by the comptroller.

be let to the

SECTION 22. The common council at their first city printing to meeting in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, lowest bidder. stail order the city clerk to advertise for proposals for such printing or publishing as the common council may direct, except as otherwise provided herein, and such printing and publishing shall be let to the lowest bidder or bidders, and all affidavits and verifications of the fact of the publication of any notice, ordinance, by-law, resolution or any other matter or thing may be made by any person doing such publishing, or by the foreman in any office in which such publishing may have been done, and such affidavits shall be read in evidence in the same manner and shall in all respects have the same force and effect as if made by the city 7 P. & L. LAWS.

Officers to deliver books, etc., to their successors.

Officers may be be removed.

Bribes, etc.penalty.

printer; and no appropriation of money shall be made for any printing or publishing unless the same shall be let by contract, as herein provided: provided, that the printing and publishing of the city charter and amendments thereto, together with the city ordinances and the rules and regulations of the common council or any other job work may be let by contract to the lowest bidder at any time the common council shall direct.

SECTION 23. All city officers at the termintion of their office, thall immediately deliver to their successors in office all property, moneys, books, papers and effects of every discription in their possession belonging to the city, or pertaining to the office they may have held. Any person who may have held an office, neglecting or refusing so to do, shall forfeit and pay to the use of said city one hundred dollars, besides all damages caused by such neglect or refusal, and such successor may recover the possession of such books, papers and effects in the manner prescribed by the laws of the state for other officers.

SECTION 24. Each and every city and ward officer created by this act, either elected or appointed shall be qualified to perform the duties of his office, and in case he is not qualified, or shall become disqualified during the continuance of such office, he may be peremptorily removed therefrom by a vote of two-thirds of the aldermen elect.

SECTION 25. Each and every city or ward officer, either elected or appointed, is expressly enjoined from receiving any pay, reward or bribe, or any fee or salary cxcept such as is authorized by this act, or by the laws of the state not conflicting herewith; and if any officer shall receive any pay, reward or bribe, or any fee or salary by virtue of such office, in any other manner than authorized by this act, he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of any person cognizant of the facts, and the person so suing shall be entitled to one-half of the amount recoverd in such suit, and the other half be paid iuto the city treasury. Any officer who shall illegally receive any fee, reward or bribe, shall be peremptorily removed from his office by the common council.

CHAPTER VI.

THE COMMON COUNCIL-ITS GENERAL POWERS AND

DUTIES.

common

SECTION 1. The legislative powers of the city of Legislative Fond du Lac shall be vested in the common council, powers vested The mayor and aldermen of said city, when assem- council. bled, shall constitute the common council. In the proceedings thereof, each member present shall be entitled to vote: provided, that the mayor shall be entitled to vote only in case of a tie vote by the aldermen present. A majority of the aldermen elect shall constitute a quorum, but a less number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, or in case of a refusal to attend, when notified for three successive meetings, to declare the office of the alderman so refusing, vacant.

officers.

SECTION 2. The commou council shall annually Meetings. meet upon the third Tuesday of April after the annual municipal election, at seven o'clock in the afternoon, or sooner, at the council rooms in said city, and at such other times as they by resolution shall appoint. The mayor for any good reason may call special meetings, by notice to each of the members, to be served personally or left at their usual place of abode. The common council shall determine the rule of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election and qualifications of its members. SECTION 3. At the first meeting of the common Appointive council, or as soon thereafter as may be, they shall appoint the following officers: president of the council, comptroller, city clerk, assessor, chief of police and policemen, city attorney, city surveyor, inspector of hay and wood, harbor master, strect superintendent, and sealer of weights and measures for the city at large, and one fire-warder and two school commissioners for each ward in said city, and such other officers as the interests and welfare of the city shall require. SECTION 4. Every ordinance or resolution of the Ordinances common council (excepting those prescribing rules for ed by mayor. it takes effect, be presented, duly certified by the city rgovernment and appointing officers) shall, before clerk, to the mayor. If he approves of it, he shall sign t, in which case it shall take effect immediately there

their

etc., to be sign