house. And no license shall hereafter be issued or granted to any person convicted as aforesaid, except upon the recommendation of not less than six reputable householders, living in the neighborhood of the applicant, and the board of police.

13. VACATION OF STREETS AND ALLEYS.] Act February 16, 1865. SEC. 10. The vacating or closing of any street or alley, or portion of the same, in said city, shall be ordered only by the vote of at least three-fourths of all the aldermen authorized by law to be elected; such vote shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the record of the common council.*

14. SAME-LOT LINES TO EXTEND TO CENTRAL LINE OF.] Act February 16, 1865. SEC. 1. That when any street, square, lane, alley, highway, or part thereof, shall have been, or may hereafter be, vacated under or by virtue of any act or acts of this state, the lot or tract immediately adjoining shall extend to the central line of any such street, square, lane, alley, highway, or part thereof, so vacated, unless otherwise specially provided in the act vacating the same: Provided, that the common council of any city in this state shall not have power to vacate, or order closed, any street or alley, or portion of the same, unless such vacation shall be ordered upon the vote of at least three-fourths of all the aldermen of said city, authorized by law to be elected; such vote to be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the records of the common council.

15. Further GENERAL POWERS.] Act March 9, 1867, chap. 5. SEC. 1. The common council of the city of Chicago shall have power, by ordi

nance:

First. To prevent the interment of the dead within the present or future limits of the city.

Second. To provide for the vacation of the several cemeteries in said city by the purchase and extinguishment of the titles of lot owners, or otherwise.

Third. To purchase grounds and erect thereon a city hall, and provide for the payment thereof by the issuing and negotiating of the bonds of said city, or by the levy and collection of taxes, or partly by both: Provided, however, that no such levy shall in any one year exceed two mills on the dollar on the assessed value of the real and personal estate in the city, made taxable by the laws of this state.

Fourth. To provide for the inspection and regulation of stationary steam engines and boilers.

Fifth. To appropriate not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in any one year from the city treasury for celebrating the Fourth of July, for funeral occasions, and to defray the expenses of entertaining official visitors of sister cities: Provided, however, such order or appropriation shall be passed only by the votes of at least three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, such vote to be entered by ayes and noes on the records of the common council.

Sixth. To prescribe, regulate and control the time or times, manner and speed of all boats, crafts and vessels passing the bridges over the Chicago river and its branches.

* See chapter 8, post; and "Streets," appendix.

Seventh. To control and regulate the construction of buildings, chimneys and stacks, and to prevent and prohibit the erection or maintenance of any insecure or unsafe buildings, stack, wall or chimney, in said city, and to declare them to be nuisances, and to provide for their summary abate

ment.

Eighth. To cause the seizure and destruction or other disposition of tainted or unwholesome meat, butter, vegetables, fruit or provisions.

Ninth. To authorize the use of the streets and alleys in said city by railroad companies, or city railway companies, for the purpose of laying tracks and running cars thereon: Provided, however, permission or authority shall not be given, nor shall any such grant or permission already given be extended, unless by vote at least [of] three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, such votes to be entered by ayes and noes on the records of the council: And provided, further, that no grant, consent, contract or permission heretofore given or made, or hereafter to be made or given, shall in any case be extended until within one year of the expiration of such grant, consent, contract or permission: And provided, further, that in case of a veto by the mayor, any such grant or permission shall receive the votes of three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, to take effect as an act or law of the corporation.

Tenth. To direct, regulate and prohibit the location and management of houses for the storing of gunpowder, or other combustible material, within the city and within one mile of the limits thereof.

Eleventh. To declare that it shall be unlawful for any hall, theatre, operahouse, church, school-house, or building of any kind whatsoever, to be used for the assemblage of people, unless the same is provided with ample means for the safe and speedy egress of the persons therein assembled, in case of alarm.

Twelfth. To control, regulate or prohibit the use of steam whistles within the limits of the city.

Thirteenth. To provide for the borrowing, from time to time, a sum of money not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate, to pay existing debts incurred by said city for sewerage works, and to increase the sewerage works of said city: Provided, however, the said loan or loans shall be made in strict conformity with the provisions of chapter sixteen of the act of 1863, to which this is an amendment.*

Fourteenth. To direct and require the board of public works to let the cleaning of the streets, alleys, lanes and highways, or ordinary repairs on the same or any part thereof, to the lowest reliable and responsible bidder or bidders. The said letting and contracts to be in all respects governed by the provisions of the law in regard to the letting of contracts for improving the streets: Provided, however, it shall require two-thirds of all the aldermen elected to pass any such ordinance, such vote to be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the records of the council.

Fifteenth. To direct and authorize the board of health to let the scavenger work, night or day, or both, to the lowest reliable and responsible bidder

* See post, chapter 16.

or bidders, or in case a proper contract cannot be made, to authorize said board to do said work. Such letting to be governed in all respects, as nearly as may be, by the provisions of the charter in reference to the letting of street improvements.

Sixteenth. To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapons, and to provide for the confiscation or sale of such weapons.*

Seventeenth. To sell or otherwise dispose of any grounds heretofore purchased for a bridewell or house of correction.

Eighteenth. To purchase grounds, either within or without the corporate limits of said city, and erect the necessary buildings thereon for a city bridewell or house of correction.

Nineteenth. To provide for the payment of the same by the levy and collection of taxes, or the issue and negotiation of bonds, or partly by both.

Twentieth. To adopt all necessary rules and regulations for the government of said institution, and the proper discipline of the inmates thereof, and also to purchase all materials, tools and machinery necessary to secure the most beneficial results from the labor of said inmates.

Twenty-first. To require the superintendent, warden or keeper to keep such book or books of account as shall fully, and in detail, show all the receipts and expenditures of said institution, and to require a report of the condition thereof from time to time.

Twenty-second. The common council shall have power to require the board of police commissioners to detail a sufficient number of men from the police force of the city to take charge of the public pounds of said city, and to properly enforce the pound ordinances thereof, and to provide for the election of one or more pound-keepers, and to provide for the payment of such pound-keepers, either by salary or fees, or partly by both, and to make all necessary rules and regulations for the enforcement of any pound ordinance of said city.

Twenty-third. To allow dummies or steam engines to be used on the street railways of said city, by ordinance and contract with said railway companies, and to direct the kind of dummies to be used, the time and speed of running the same, and the price at which passengers shall be conveyed :† Provided, the fare on such railways shall not exceed five cents for each passenger within the present or future limits of said city, nor exceeding eight cents from any point within such limits to any point not more than three miles outside such limits; also, at any time, to order a total or partial discontinuance of the use of such dummies and steam engines in said city: Provided, also, that it shall require three-fourths of all the aldermen elected to pass any such ordinances or make any such contract: And provided, further, that no privilege to use or run dummies or steam engines, or other than horse motive power, shall ever be allowed upon any street or horse railway except

For ordinance "Concealed weapons;" see ante, page 11. + See section 16, this chapter.

the party or parties, company or corporations asking for such privilege shall first enter into and execute an irrevocable contract with the city of Chicago, with approved bond, in a sum not less than one hundred thousand dollars, to forever thereafter give and pay over into the city treasury, at the end of each and every month, one-fifth of each and every fare collected and received by said company, party or corporation, from persons or passengers carried- or transported over said railway, and for tickets and commutation. Such monthly payments to be accompanied by a sworn statement of the president. or secretary of the company, showing the actual amount received during the month by them for fares, tickets or commutations, and the books of said party, company or corporation to be thereafter, at all times, open to inspection by any duly authorized city official.

Twenty-fourth. That the common council shall have power and authority to regulate and control the slaughtering of all animals in the city, or within four miles thereof, intended for consumption or exposed for sale in the city, and to enforce, by additional ordinances, any regulation, contract or law heretofore made on the subject.

Twenty-fifth. To adjust and settle with property owners any differences arising by reason of any changes made in the dock lines, by the council, on the Chicago river or its branches, if in its discretion the same may be deemed just and proper.

Twenty-sixth. To make, publish, ordain, amend and repeal all such ordinances, by-laws and police regulations, not contrary to the constitution of this state, for the good government and order of the city and the trade and commerce thereof, as may be necessary or expedient to carry into effect the powers vested in the common council, or of any officer of said city, by this act, and enforce observance of all rules, ordinances, by-laws, police, sanitary and other regulations made in pursuance of this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, the amendments thereto, or any other act concerning said city, by punishment, fine or imprisonment in the bridewell or house of correction, or both, in the discretion of the magistrate or court before which conviction may be had: Provided, however, such fine shall not exceed five hundred dollars, nor the imprisonment two years.

Twenty-seventh. To prohibit the piling of lumber within the fire limits, by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elected.

16. ADDITIONAL POWER AS TO USE OF HORSE RAILWAYS.] Act March 10, 1869. SEC. 1. That the twenty-third article of section one of chapter five of an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act to reduce. the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same," approved February 13th, 1863, and the several amendments thereto, approved March 9th, 1867, be, and hereby is, amended so as to read as follows: To allow dummies or steam engines to be used on the street railways of said city, upon such terms and conditions as said common council may by contract with said railway companies deter· mine.”*

Amendatory of article 23, section 15, this chapter.

1. OFFICERS OF TREASURY DEPARTMENT.] Act February 13, 1863, chap. 5. SECTION 1. There is hereby established an executive department of the municipal government of said city, to be known as the "Treasury Department," which shall embrace the city comptroller, the city treasurer and the city collector, and all such clerks and assistants, including an auditor, as the common council may, by ordinance, see fit to prescribe and establish.