adjoining such premises, and in case of neglect or refusal of the owner or occupant of said, premises to remove the same after being notified so to do, to cause the same to be done at the expense of such owner or occupant. To require any turnpike, plark-road street railway, electric railway, railroad or other corporation or company to keep each street, alley and highway through which its road may pass in said city, and the gutters, drains and culverts of said road in good condition and repair, to lay or relay such 10ad, or any portion thereof, in accordance with the established grade of said street, alley or highway, and to remove, without any unnecessary delay, all incumbrances and obstructions which such corporation or company shall have placed or caused to be placed upon such street, alley or highway; and if such corporat'on or company shall refuse or neglect to do any of the acts so required of it, after being notified to do the same, to cause the same to be done at the expense of such company or corporation. Nothing in this section or in this act shall be construed to require any street or electric railway company to repair or keep in condition any street, alley or highway, through which its road may pass, except that portion thereof covered by its road and a space two feet in width outside of and adjoining its track on either side. If it becomes necessary to remove snow or ice from any such street, alley or highway, said street railroad company is to remove the snow or ice thrown out by it from its track and said space, and also the snow and ice which shall be upon the space upon which said snow and ice is thrown or placed, which snow and ice shall be removed at such times and in such manner as the common council shall prescribe. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any railroad company or corporation of any of the rights or privileges now granted or which may be hereafter granted by the general railroad laws of the State. To regulate and superintend the laying of all gas and other pipes, except water pipes in said city, to fix the grade at which such pipes shall be laid and to compel the laying or relaying of the same in accordance with such established grade; to require any individual, company or corporation, after laying, relaying or repairing such pipes in any street, alley or highway in said city; to put such, street, alley or highway in good condition or repair; to remove, without unnecessary delay, all incumbrances and obstructions which such individual, corporation or company may

have placed or caused to be placed in such street, alley or highway; to require such individual, corporation or company to keep proper signal lights burning at night at all holes, ditches and places which shall have been rendered dangerous to persons traveling such streets, alleys or highways; and in case such individual, corporation or company shall neglect or refuse to do any of the acts required of him or it by this section, after being notified to do the same, to cause the same to be done at the expense of such individual, corporation or company. To prevent or regulate the construction and erection of any building, awn-' ing or other structure which shall project into or over any street or sidewalk in said city, and the hanging or suspending of any goods, signs or other thing in or upon any street or sidewalk, and the placing of barrels, boxes or other thing in or upon any such street or sidewalk; and in case the owner or occupant of such premises shall neglect or refuse to remove the same, after being notified to do so, to remove the same at the expense of the owner or occupant. To designate such portions of said city as it may deem proper within which no building, in whole or in part, of wood or other combustible material shall be erected or removed; to remove or provide for the removal thereof if so erected or removed; to prevent or regulate the construction, erection or use in any manner dangerous with regard to fire of any building, chimney or fireplace, heater, stove, stovepipe, repository of ashes or charcoal, boiler, furnace or other apparatus or thing; to compel the owner or occupant of any premises upon which shall be found anything so constructed, erected or used, to put the same in safe condition or remove the same, and in case the owner or occupant shall neglect to put in safe condition or remove the same, after being notified so to do, to cause the same to be done at the expense of the said owner or occupant, and for the pur pose aforesaid the common council shall have the power to enter into or upon or authorize the entry into or upon any building or premises in the city. To prevent and abate nuisances, and deter mine what are such, either upon view or upon the testimony of witnesses who may be examined under oath before it; and for these purposes to enter into or upon any building or premises in said city; and in case the owner or occupant of any building or premises in or upon which such nuisance may be found, shall neglect or refuse to abate the same, after notice so to do, to

cause the same to be removed or abated at the expense of the owner or occupant. To prohibit the erection, in an unsafe manner, of any wall or other building in said city, and to compel the owner or occupant of any building or wall therein, which may be in an unsafe condition, to render the same safe, or to remove the same, and in case of neglect or refusal of such owner or occupant to render such building or wall safe or to remove the same after being notified so to do, to cause the same to be done at the expense of such owner or occupant. To prescribe the length of notice to be given under any of the provisions of this section, and the manner of service thereof, and to make the costs and expenses of the carrying out of any of said provisions, by the city or any of its officers, a lien upon the premises or lots men. tioned or referred to in any such provisions by assessing the same thereon, and to issue warrants against the owners or occupants thereof respectively to collect such costs and expenses in the same manner as assessments and taxes are collected under the provisions of this act.

§ 60. Control of finances and property; ordinances, rules and regulations of the common counil.-The common council shall exercise all the corporate powers conferred by this act, and, except as otherwise provided by law or by this act, shall have the management and control of the finances, and of all the property, real and personal, belonging to said corporation, and shall have power, within the said city to make, establish, publish and modify, annul and repeal ordinances, rules, regulations and by-laws for any of the purposes specified in section fifty-nine of this act, and for the following additional purposes:

a. To prevent vice and immorality, to preserve peace and good order, to prevent and quell riots and disorderly assemblages.

b. To provide for the care, custody and preservation of the property, books, records and papers belonging to the city, and to regulate the use and management thereof; to prevent and provide for the punishment of any unlawful interference with, or injury to, the water-works system or sewer system, cemeteries and property of the city.

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c. To regulate the use of the streets and public places by foot passengers, vehicles, street cars, railways and locomotives; o regulate the speed of railway engines, cars and street cars through the city, and prevent the obstruction of streets thereby;

to regulate the length of time they may be allowed to stand upon and impede travel upon street crossings; to require and compel the railroad companies to provide and keep flagmen or watchmen, and to erect and maintain proper hoisting gates or other gates and bars at dangerous street crossings, and to place and maintain such iron or other screens or shields under its tracks and over sidewalks or streets as the common council may deem necessary for the public safety and convenience; to regulate traffic and sales in the streets and public places; to regulate and restrain the setting of poles and stringing of wires by telegraph, telephone and electric light companies therein; to regulate the cleaning of streets, alleys, lanes and public places, and the sidewalks and gutters therein; to regulate the removing of ice, hail or snow therefrom, and from the roofs of buildings abutting thereon; to regulate and prevent the throwing of ashes, offal, dirt or garbage therein, and to regulate the carting, drawing away and deposit or disposal thereof; to regulate animals being driven, led or ridden therein; to regulate the use thereof for signs, sign-posts, awnings, awning-posts, hitching-posts, horse-troughs, horse-blocks and public fountains; to regulate or prevent the driving of wagons, barrows, carts, bicycles or other vehicles, and all animals, over or upon any sidewalks; to regulate or prohibit coasting or skating in the streets and public places; to regulate the opening of street surfaces, the laying of gas and water mains, and the erection of gas and other lamp-posts, or other devices for lighting the streets; to prohibit or regulate the erection or construction of any stoop, step, platform, bay-window, cellar, area, stairs, descent or ascent into any building, or any erection or projections from any building or otherwise, in, over or upon any street or sidewalk, or the removal of any house or building through the streets of the city; to prohibit persons collecting or standing upon or occupying the streets, alleys, sidewalks, bridges, hallways, entrances, passages, or stairways in said city; to require persons driving horses with sleighs or cutters to carry ringing bells, either upon the horses, sleighs or cutters; to regulate the width of tires on all wheeled vehicles, and generally to preserve the streets and public places of the city free from all obstructions and disturbances therein, or injury thereto, and from any interference with the free and peaceable use thereof by the public.

d. To establish and regulate a public pound, subject to the provisions of this act, and to restrain, regulate and prevent cattle, sheep, horses, swine, dogs, geese and other animals and fowls running at large in said city, and to authorize the seizure, impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred by such running at large, and the cost of their keeping and of the proceedings taken for the purpose aforesaid; and to make regulations for taxing, muzzling and confining dogs, and for destroying such as are dangerous or may be found running at large contrary to any ordinance.

e. To suppress disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame, gambling, gaming tables and all instruments and devices employed in gaming; to regulate or restrain pool and billard playing by minors in public places, and the playing by minors of games of chance in public places; to restrain and punish street beggars, vagrants and mendicants; to regulate and restrain all occupations and business noxious to comfort.

f. To prohibit the carrying on, without a license therefor granted by the mayor, or except under such regulations as the common council may prescribe, of the following occupations: Hawking and peddling in the streets and public places of the city; the business of public hackmen, cabmen, expressmen, cartmen, pawnbrokers, auction sales, auction stores and junk dealers; to require licensed conveyances to be numbered; the business of runners for stages, railroads, hotels, taverns or other houses; the business of theatrical or opera performances, concerts, circuses, acrobatic exhibitions, the exhibition of all curiosities, of all feats of legerdemain and necromancy or other exhibitions of common showmen; billiard rooms, bowling alleys and other places of similar amusements; the selling, keeping and storing of gunpowder, gun cotton, blasting powder, dynamite and all dangerous or explosive materials.

g. To prohibit, regulate or restrain the exhibition, circulation and posting of advertisements and hand bills; the ringing and tolling of bells, blowing of horns and whistles, flying of kites, crying of goods and wares at auction, throwing of snowballs or ice, horse racing and immoderate driving; the use of guns, pistols, fire-works and detonating works of all descriptions; to prohibit the erection or continuance of, and regulate and prescribe the location of slaughter-houses, and of all places where cattle, sheep