«. l" I disturbances, disorderly assemblies, cock fights, dog fights, houses and tanneries, within the limits of the city, or within formance of any work required to be done, and material to be sparring matches and all brutal or depraving exhibitions or the distance of one mile without the limits thereof. sports. jirmshed in carrying into execution its powers and the operations Fifty-ninth. To direct the location and regulate the use of its departments. Fortieth. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, and construction of breweries, dispensaries, stables, livery Provided however that the city council may authorize the reet beggars and prostitutes, and to regulate bathing and stables, blacksmith shops and foundries within the city limits doing of the same by the employees of the city under the swimming in waters within the city limits, and to prevent and Sixtieth. To declare what is a nuisance and to prohibit direction of the department in charge of such work or building punish drunkenness, fighting, assaults, batteries and disorderly any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within conduct and obscenity in the city and to prohibit within the one mile of the limits of the city. dollars °OSt three hundred ($300.00) eof sha11 not exceed «x I circulation, sale or exhibition of libelous, obscene C1 Sixty-first. To compel the owner of any grocery, cellar A .uAHd prOVjded' ™here Proposals have been received for and immoral publications, prints, pictures, advertisements anc that or soap and tallow chandlery, pig-sty, privy, or other unwholesome the doing of any public work, if the lowest of such proposals illustrations, and any printed matter naturally tending to provoke or noxious house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove is higher than the estimate of the cost of such work, the city a breach of the peace or imperil the morals of the community. the same, and to regulate and prescribe the location council may, if it deem it for the best interests of the city so th^-eof. to do, by a two-thirds vote of all its members elect, direct Forty-first. To prohibit and suppress bawdy and disorderly Sixty-second. To regulate or prohibit the keeping of any such work to be done by day's labor. nouses and houses of ill-fame and assignation within the limits lumber yard, and the places of piling timber, wood and Advertisements. Section 33. It shall let no contract for iG a!Kl Pr°vide for the arrest and punishment of to other combustible materials within the fire limits of said the performance of work or the furnishing of material or supplies the keepers, inmates, and patrons thereof, and persons who city and to require any person maintaining any lumber, shingles, or property or lighting service involving the expenditure visit the same for lewd or immoral purposes. or lath piles or mill woodyards in the city to remove more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars by the city, nor Forty-second. To restrain and prohibit lotteries", and to the same when they become dangerous to any building or authorize the purchase or sale of any property of a greater prohibit all descriptions of gambling and playing cards, dice, buildings or other property near the same. value than three hundred ($300.00) dollars, nor grant any hazard, roulette, slot machines and other games of chance Sixty-third. To establish and enforce rules for the use and public franchise, nor authorize the sale or negotiation of any the use of blackboards, lists and tickets for the purpose of regulations of all buildings maintained in the city. bond or evidence of indebtedness issued by the citv, nor gambling all pool rooms and betting rooms and the selling Sixty-fourth. To prevent and regulate the rolling of hoops, designate any depository for the public money of the city, of pools and making of books on horse races or other contests, playing of ball, flying of kites or any other amusement or except upon advertisements for proposals thereof as provided real or fictitious to suppress and prohibit all mechanisms practice having a tendency to annoy persons on the streets by law. and devices used for gambling or betting to prohibi-t all or sidewalks, or to frighten horses, and to regulate the use '1\ Contract to Lowest Bidders.—Section 34. It shall let all fraudulent practices and the use of fraudulent devices, and of bicycles and other vehicles on the sidewalks and streets. such contracts to the lowest responsible bidder (except as to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for the Sixty-fifth. To do all acts and make all regulations which provided in section 8, chapter 16, of this charter), who will purpose of gambling or other unlawful purposes aforesaid. I- 1 may be necessary and expedient for the preservation of health C/ enter into the contract and give security for the performance Forty-third. To prevent the running at large of horses, and the suppression of disease, and to make regulations to prevent thereof, and shall let no contracts to any party in default to mules, sheep, cattle, swine and poultry, and authorize the the introduction of contagious, infectious or other diseases the city in the performance or by reason of any other conshall empounding and sale of such animals and poultry when found in the city, and to make quarantine laws, and to enforce sell all property, bonds and other evidence of running at large contrary to ordinance, and to fix the limits the same within the city, and to regulate, prevent and indebtedness only to the highest bidder for cash therefor and within which no swine shall be kept. control the landing of persons, baggage, merchandise or- property sell nor negotiate any such bond or evidence of indebtedness Forty-fourth. To regulate and prevent the cutting of ice from cars, boats or other conveyances, whereon are infectious below its par value, the same being its face value in waters in or adjacent to the city, and to compel the erection or contagious diseases or disorders, and to make and accrued interest. It shall designate as city depositories of fences around all ice cuttings, and to prevent the sale O such disposition of such persons or property as to preserve only such duly incorporated banks or trust companies in this of impure ice within the city. the health of the city, and to prevent infected cars, boats state as shall furnish the bonds required by law, and shall be 7D Forty-fifth, lo establish and regulate the location of markets or other conveyances from coming within or near the limits satisfactory to the city council. and market houses and to provide for the use thereof. of the city. Bonds of Contractors.—Section 35. It shall require of every Forty-sixth. To regulate the sale and making of bread and Sixty-sixth. To establish and regulate public wells, cisterns, party entering into a contract with the city or any of its prescribe the weight and quality of the bread in the load, and hydrants and reservoirs. departments or accepting any license, immunity, privilege or to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of bread baked contrary Sixty-seventh. To regulate and control the quality and franchise from^ or under the city pursuant to any power or thereto measurement of gas, and to prescribe and enforce regulations authority herein vested, a bond to be approved by the citv Forty-seventh. To provide for and regulate the inspection for the manufacture and distribution of gas, and to inspect council for the full and faithful performance of such contracts of meats, poultry, fish, game, butter, cheese, lard, eggs, vegetables, gas and gas meters, and to control and regulate the measurement or the just and lawful exercise of the powers and privileges flour, meal, milk, fruits and other provisions and to and use of electricity and electrical apparatus for the conferred, which bonds shall be sufficient in amount to indemnify provide for the taking and summarily destroying of any furnishing of light, heat and power in the city. the city against any loss or damage that may be such provisions which are unsound, spoiled or unwholesome. 0 0 Sixty-eighth. To establish offices for inspectors, weighers, sustained by a breach of contract, or any wrong committed Forty-eight. To provide for and regulate the place and gaugers, scalers, electricians, market masters, wharf masters, in the exercise of such power or privilege. manner of weighing hay and straw and selling the same, and quarantine masters and such other officers as may be necessary Advertising for Proposals.—Section 36. Every advertisement measuring and selling firewood, coal and lime. 1 1 to carry into effect the inspection laws of the city and for proposals shall be made by publication in the official Forty-ninth. 1 provide for a standard of weights and the powers herein granted and to regulate the duties of said 0 newspaper of the city, at least twice, of a notice containing measures and for the inspection and sealing of all weights and officers and to authorize and direct said officers to enforce and a general description of the contract to be let or the property measures and to enforce the keeping and use by venders of carry into effect the provisions of any ordinance passed here- 0 0 to be purchased or sold, or bond or other indebtedness to be weights and measures duly tested and sealed. under- negotiated, or funds to be deposited, or franchise to be granted, Fiftieth. To prescribe the limits within which wooden Sixty-ninth. To prohibit and punish cruelty to animals and and shall invite sealed proposals therefor, which proposals buildings shall not be erected or placed, nor repaired without to require the places where such animals are kept to be maintained 0 shall be filed with the city clerk at such time as shall be designated permission and to direct that ajl and any buildings within such in healthful condition and to inspect and regulate in said advertisement, not less than one (1) week, 0 a fire limits, when damaged by nre, decay or otherwise to the dairies and dairy products, and to regulate persons engaged after the last publication. All proposals shall be opened and 1 extent of fifty (50) per cent of the value shall be torn down in selling milk within the city. read by the city clerk in the presence of the city council before and removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining Seventieth. To regulate and require licenses to be obtained tu any of the same are acted on or accepted. such damages and to provide for requiring the owners of for the pursuit and prosecution of such occupation or Designation of Official Papers.—Section 37. The city council buildings or other structures which shall have been destroyed kind of business not hereinbefore expressly referred to and shall biennially, at its second regular meeting or as soon or partially destroyed by fire or otherwise, to take the same provided for, as in the opinion of the city council may require DO 0 thereafter as practicable, designate some newspaper printed or any part thereof down, to prevent accident, and in case regulation, and, in general, to adopt all such measures in the English language, which is and shall have been printed, of refusal or neglect of said owners to so take the same down and to establish all such regulations, in cases where no express published and of general circulation in the city, for one (1) when ordered by the officers designated by said city council, provision is hereinbefore made, as the city council year prior to its designation as the official paper of the city, then to cause the same to be done at the expense of the 0 shall from time to time deem necessary .for the promotion of and shall Jet the contract for publishing the ordinances and owner, the cost thereof to be made a special assessment on the health, comfort and safety of the inhabitants, the preservation 0 proceedings of the council, and other public notices required the land on which said buildings stand, and collected as other of peace and good order, the suppression of vice and enhancement by law to such newspaper, as other contracts are required special assessments. of public welfare in said city. to be let. The compensation paid for printing shall never Fifty-first. To regulate the construction of all buildings i&V Seventy-first. To license, regulate and control the employ exceed two-thirds of the amount allowed by law for within the fire limits of said city, and by such regulations to ment or occupation of minors on the public streets and other legal advertising. Whenever in the city no newspaper is published prescribe the depth of cellars, the material and method of places. iiitflWi any paper printed in the English language and published construction of foundations and foundation walls and area Seventy-second. To compel the owners or keepers of vacant 9 in Koochiching County may be designated as the official paper. walls, manner of construction and location of drains and sewer property within.the city limits, to keep the same clear Provided, that if each and all proposals shall fix a price in pipes, the thickness, material and construction of party walls, If^ of any brush, timber, or other material or substance, liable 3 excess of the maximum, as herein provided, or if no proposal additions and outside walls, the size, material and construction a 9 to receive or communicate fire to adjoining property, and in shall be received, then in either event the city council may of floor beams, girders, piers, columns, roofs, chimneys, case the owner or owners of such property shall neglect or adopt such other methods for publication of ordinances, proceedings flues and heating apparatus, and all other parts of the structure, I refuse to remove the same within ten days after being notified and other matters as it may determine, the compensation and to apportion and adjust such regulations to the-size so to do by the city council, either personally or by one in no event to exceed the amount herein provided. and height of the buildings to be erected to regulate the publication in the official newspaper of the city, the city Power to Enter Private Property.—Section 38. It may authorize construction and location of privies and vaults in such buildings council shall have the authority to have the same done at the the entry into any lands or tenements for the purpose to prohibit the construction of buildings within said limits expense of the owner or owners, and in case such owner or of carrying into effect its inspection laws and may enter upon not conforming to the prescribed regulations to provide owners shall refuse to pay such expense, shall have the right any land to lay any branch sewer or water main, or drain for the appointment of an inspector or inspectors of buildings to assess the same against said property, and to make, enforce, any marsh, or make any changes or erections in, upon or about within said limits and to require all -persons intending and collect such assessments as other assessments for any water course. to erect buildings therein first to submit to such inspector or local improvements, for benefits, are made, enforced and collected. Vacation of Streets.—Section 39. The city council of the inspectors the plans and specifications thereof, and to obtain city shall have the sole and exclusive power to vacate and discontinue from him or them a permit for the erection thereof and to Seventy-third. To provide for the levy and collection of public grounds, streets, alleys, or highways within authorize such inspector or inspectors to enter, examine and poll tax within the city. the city, and also all county, territorial and state roads, whether inspect any building in process of construction within said Other Powers.—Section 27. The city council shall prescribe actually traveled and used at the date of the petition for limits, and to direct the suspension of work on any such by ordinance all regulations proper and necessary to carry such vacation or not. No such vacation or discontinuance building, the construction or material whereof does not conform into effect any and all powers granted by this charter, and shall be granted or ordered by the city council except upon to the prescribed regulations. Provided, however, that may provide by such ordinances for the punishment of the the petition of a majority of the owners of property on the neither said council or any inspector of said city shall have violation of any of the same by subjecting the offender to line of such public ground, street, alley or highway, resident the power to control or regulate the construction of any pay a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or to within the city, which petition provided for in this section shall building erected by the United States or the State of Minnesota. be confined and kept at hard labor in the work house of state the facts and reasons for such vacations and be accompanied the city, or upon the publio works, or to be confined in any by a plat of such public ground, streets, alleys or highways, Fifty-second. To require the owner or lessee of any building place of confinement maintained by the city, or in case there county, territorial or state roads proposed to be vacant, or structure now or hereafter built in the city, to place is no such place, then to be confined in the county jail of and shall be verified by the oath of one (1) of the petitioners. thereon such fire-escapes and appliances for protection against Koochiching County, not to exceed the term of ninety (90) The city council, if it deem it expedient that the matter be or for the extinguishment of fires as it may direct, and to days, and may provide that such imprisonment may be cumulative proceeded with," shall order the petition to be filed of record require such owner or lessee to do any act necessary or advisable or for an indefinite term, not to exceed ninety (90) with the city clerk, who shall give notice by publication in to lessen the danger to him in life in case of fire or days subject to suspension or termination by reason of or the official paper of the city for four (4) weeks at least once accident. I jfflli during good behavior of the person so imprisoned. a week to the effect that such petition has been filed as aforesaid, Fifty-third. To prevent the dangerous construction and Revocation of License.—Section 28. The city council shall and stating in brief its object, and that said petition will condition of chimneys, fire places, hearths, stoves, stovepipes, lave power to revoke any license granted by it. be heard and considered by the city council at a certain time ovens and boilers, and apparatus used in and about any building Granting of Franchises, Etc.—Section 29. No perpetual and place therein specified, not less than ten (10) days from or manufactory, and to cause the same to be removed or franchise or privilege shall ever be granted nor shall any the expiration of said publication. The city council at the time placed in a safe condition when considered dangerous to exclusive franchise or privilege be granted unless the question and place appointed, shall investigate and consider such matter regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactures, dangers of granting the same shall have been first submitted to and shall hear the testimony and evidence on the part and causing or permitting fires. To prevent the depositing the qualified voters of the city and adopted by a majority of the parties interested, and thereupon, after hearing the of ashes, or accumulation of shavings, rubbish or other voting such election on the question, or in such case for a same, may by resolution passed by a two-thirds (2/s) vote of combustible material in unsafe places. And to causie all such all the members elect declare such public grounds, streets, 'onger period than ten years. S buildings and enclosures as may be in a dangerous state to alleys or highways, county, territorial or state roads vacated, Protection of Streets, Etc.—Section 30. It sliall have the be placed in a safe condition, and to make provisions to guard which resolution shall, before the same shall go into effect, be against fire and to prevent the spreading of fire. power to punish any person wilfully damaging any sidewalk, published as in the case of ordinances, and thereupon a transcript Fifty-fourth. To regulate the construction, location and pavement or appurtenance to the water works or sewerage of such resolution, duly certified by the city clerk, shall, operation of derricks, windlasses freight and passenger elevators, system, or to any other property in or upon the public works before the same shall take effect, be filed for record and duly and other mechanical structures, and apparatus or of the city, and shall have power to punish interference with recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of the County operations hazardous to life or property. or the withholding any property of the city by any officer wherein the property is situated. thereof, or any party, and to require any officer, member or Fifty-fifth. To declare what shall be a nuisance, to abate employee of any department to produce the books and accounts Vacation to Take Effect —When.—Section 40. No vacation the same, and t© impose fines upon parties who may create, thereof at any time for inspection and examination, shall take effect until the value of the premises so vacated continue or suffer nuisances to exist. Fifty-sixth. To provide for and compel the reporting and and at the expiration of the time for which elected," appointed shall have been deposited in the treasury of the city, which value shall be fixed by a resolution of 'the city council by a recording of all births and deaths within the city. or employed to turn over the same and all property in his two-thirds vote of all the members elect and in no case Fifty-seventh. To regulate or prevent the burial of the possession to the proper custodian thereof or to his successor in office, and to require reports at any time from any person shall be less than the proportionate average value of the dead within the city, and to regulate and determine the manner of the condition or operation of the business under his management. abutting property according to the last previous assessment in which bodies, having been buried in a vault or tomb for taxation. or other place for the purpose of burial, may be removed, and to regulate and control the location of cemeteries and Appointment by Ballot.—Section 31. The appointment Of Provided, in case the city council shall have approved a crematories, and to vacate and cause the removal of-bodies interred any officer by the city council shall require an affirmative plat embracing the premises proposed to be vacated, which in any cemetery not existing according to law. plat indicates to the public use, in the opinion of the city council, vote of a majority of all its members, taken by ballot, or by Fifty-eighth. To direct the location and regulate the management roll call and recorded by the clerk. land equivalent in value and area to the premises sought and construction of stock yards slaughter houses, Letting of Contracts.—Section 32. It shall have power to to be vacated, then the city council may by a two-thirds ($4) packing houses, renderies, tallow chandlers, 'store houses for let contracts for the erection, improvement and repair of any vote of all its members, accept said plat and pass said resolution hides, bone or glue houses, gas works, soap factories, dye of the public works or buildings of the city, and for the per-^ of vacation, and after said plat and resolution have been