INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. I recorded in said Register of Deeds' office said vacation shall Penalty for Failing to Assist in, or Obstruction of, Arrest.— dollars per day for the time actually employed, provided that be valid without the payment of any money into said city Section 9. If any person shall wilfully refuse or neglect to no greater sum than one hundred ($100.00) dollars shall be assist the chief of police or any policeman in making a lawful treasury. expended for the services of deputy assessors and clerks in v?§&a Prohibiting Relief From Assessment, Etc.—Section 41. The arrest, when requested by such chief or policeman so to do, any one year. iggg city council shall not have the power to relieve any citizen or shall wilfully resist, impede or obstruct such chief of police Board of Equalization.—Section 4. The Board of Equalization from the payment of any lawful tax, assessment, judgment, or policeman in making or attempting to make a lawful arrest, shall consist of a city clerk and one alderman from each fine or license, bond or security, nor to exempt him from any or in the performance of any other official duty, such person ward to be chosen by the city council, who shall be sworn burden imposed upon him by law or ordinance or to ordain so offending shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred according to law as such board, shall select one of their number ($100.00) dollars or to imprisonment for a terpi not exceeding the payment of any demand not authorized and audited according to act as chairman, and shall meet at the city council ninety (90) days. to law. The city council shall not have power to chamber on the fourth Monday in June of each year, and shall ordain or authorize any compromise of any disputed demand Compensation to. be Fixed by City Council.—Section 10. continue in session until the Friday next preceding the first arising under contracts, or any allowance therefor or therein, Except as otherwise herein provided, the compensation ofi the Monday in July, to review, amend and equalize the work of Chief of Police, the officers, patrolmen, detectives and other except as provided in the contract therefor. The city council the city assessor, pursuant to the general laws of the state. employees of the police department shall be fixed for the ensuing shall not have authority nor power to authorize or ordain Such board of equalization shall receive as compensation for S) year by the city council, by resolution passed oni the the payment of any damages or claim for alleged injuries to their services the sum of three ($3.00) dollars per day for persons or property except by resolution, adopted by vote of secgnd Tuesday after the first Monday in April of each year, I each member for the actual time employed. It shall be the or as soon thereafter as may be. two-thirds \y$) of all the members elect. duty of the city assessor to attend all meetings of the board Compilation of Laws and Ordinances.—Section 42. The Provided, that on the date of the organization of the city of equalization, and the city clerk shall keep the minutes of council first elected under this charter, or as soon thereafter city council may from time to time provide for the compilation their proceedings. as may be, the compensation of all officers referred to in !this and publication, in book or pamphlet form, of this charter, Powers of the Board.—Section 5. Such board shall be the ordinances and regulations of the city, rules of the section shall be fixed by such council. vested with all the powers which are or may be vested in city council, police rules, regulations adopted by the board County Boards of Equalization so far as applicable, but shall CHAPTER IX. of health, and such resolutions of the city council, as it may not be restricted in reducing the aggregate sum of the real designate and may provide for the distribution by sale or FIRE DEPARTMENT. or personal property as returned by the assessor, and when 3 otherwise of copies of such compilation and publication and E its work of revision is completed the same shall be certified t* Chief of the Fire Department.—Section 1. There shall be such books or pamphlets so issued, purporting, on the title i'-* to the County Auditor by the board of equalization. a fire department in the city of International Falls, of which page to have been published by authority of the city council Grievances.—Section 6. Any person deeming himself aggrieved the mayor shall have control and supervision. The head of and to contain the ordinances of the city or other matter in by any assessment may appear before such board personally said department shall be known as the "Chief of the iFire this section above mentioned, shall be prima facie evidence or by counsel and present his grievance for consideration, Department." The mayor shall appoint, by and with the of their contents in all courts of this state and in absence and the said board shall have power to compel the consent of the city council, and by and with like consent, may of evidence to the contrary, all ordinances, rules, regulations attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, and remove, the Chief of the Fire Department. and resolutions found therein shall be presumed to have been examine any person as to any taxable property in said city. Assistants and Employees.—Section 2. The Chief ofi the duly legally passed, promulgated or adopted. Copies duly Fire Department shall appoint, and at his pleasure may remove, CHAPTER XI. certified by the city clerk of this city, of this, charter, ordinances a First Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, who 0 or rules, regulations or resolutions in writing or other CITY ATTORNEY. shall act as chief in case of his absence from the city or inability papers in his official custody, or any records kept by him to act and shall appoint, and at his pleasure may discharge a in his official capacity, shall also be received as prima facie Appointment.—Section 1. At the time of the organization or suspend, such other subordinates or employees as evidence of their contents in all courts of this state. The of the city council after each regular municipal election thereof,^ may be necessary for the purpose of said department whose District Court of the County of Koochiching, Municipal Court or as soon thereafter as may be, the city council shall appoint aggregate salaries, together with other expenses of said department, of the City of International Falls, and all Justice Courts of a city attorney, who shall be a person learned in the law shall not in any fiscal year exceed the amount of Koochiching County, shall take judicial notice of this charter and duly admitted to practice in courts of record in this state, the appropriation for said department for that year. and all ordinances duly passed by the city council. and who shall be a resident and qualified voter of the city! CJ Powers and Duties of the Chief.—Section 3. The Chief of Care of Streets.—Section 43. The city council shall have and who shall serve for the term of one year and until his successor the Fire Department, under the direction of the mayor, shall and maintain an active care, supervision and control of all is appointed and qualified, unless removed for cause as have the general superintendency of the fire department and public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares and in this charter provided. the custody of all engines and engine house hooks, ladders, grounds, as in this charter provided, and all other public improvements Duties.—Section 2. He shall be the legal adviser of the city hose and horses and other property used for the purposes of and public property within the limits of the city, and shall perform all the services incident to the office, and said department. He shall see that the same are kept in order, and shall cause all streets which have been opened and graded shall appear in and conduct all civil suits, prosecutions and and that all rules and regulations and all ordinances and provisions under the authority of the city or with its assent, to be kept proceedings in which the city shall be directly or indirectly of this charter, relative to the fire department and to open and in repair and free from nuisances. interested, except as otherwise provided in this charter, and, the prevention and extinguishment of fires, are duly executed. Not Liable for Injuries Caused by Railway Cars.—Section when^necessary, take charge of and conduct all prosecutions He shall superintend the preservation of all property endangered 44. The city shall be exempt from all liability or damages for violation of the city ordinances, and perform all such by fire, and shall have control and direction, in case of caused by railroads either to person or property, when said other duties as may be required by law. fire, of all persons, organizations or associations engaged in railroads or engine or cars are passing along, across, under, Opinions.—Section 3. He shall, when so required, furnish preserving such property. over or upon any street, lane, alley or any public way within opinions, in writing or otherwise as requested, upon any subject Rules and Regulations.—Section 4. The mayor, and chief the limits of the city. submitted to him by the city council or any of the committees of the fire department arc authorized and required to make all or boards thereof. He shall advise the city council CHAPTER VIII. needful rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the .laws and all city officers in respect to their official duties. He of the state, the provisions of this charter, or the ordinances shall personally, or by assistant, attend all the meetings of POLICE DEPARTMENT. of the city, for the government and control of the fire department, the city council and such of its committees or boards as shall Organization.—Section 1. There shall be maintained in the and for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. All require his attendance, and no board, department or officer city a police department of which the mayor shall have control rules and regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be in 3 of the city shall have or employ any other attorney in connection and supervision and shall be the chief executive officer writing signed by the aforesaid officers, and shall be filed in with their official business. and head, and shall consist of a Chief of Police and such other the office of the city clerk, and shall be binding upon all persons Appeals.—Section 4. The city attorney, unless otherwise officers of police, patrolmen and employees as may from time connected with said department. CO ordered by the city council, shall have the right to decide to time be authorized by the city council. Such Chief of Authority at Fires.—Section 5. The city council may, by whether or not, in any case in which the city is a party in anv Police and all other officers of police, patrolmen and employees ordinance provide for the removal and keeping away of any court, to take an appeal from any order, judgment or determination so authorized shall be appointed and may be removed by the and all persons from fires, and may confer powers for thai of the court, and in case of any such appeal, or in purpose upon the liaayor, the chief and assistant chief and mayor of the city. case of suing out a writ of error, certiorari, mandamus, attachment Eligibility.—Section 2. No person shall be eligible to appointment other officers of the fire department and the police officers of or any writ from any court, the city shall not be as Chief of Police or other officer of police, or the city. The mayor shall have authority, under such: provisions required to give any bonds, either for costs, supercedeas or patrolman, who is not a citizen of the United States and able as the city council may enact, to send apparatus of ,any other purpose whatever. The city attorney shall notify We are Exclusive to read and write the English language, and all officers, patrolmen the department, with complete force of employees, to the relief the city council of the result of all actions in which the city and chief of police shall have been for at least one of any other community, or for the preservation of property Agents for the is a party, or in which it is interested. When from absence, (1) year residents of the city before they are eligible to endangered by fire, outside the limits of the city. sickness or other cause, he shall be unable to attend- to any following lines: such appointments. Fire Alarm and Other Property.—Section 6. The city council of his official duties he may appoint some one to act in his STEIN BLOCK Extra Police.—Section 3. On occasions of large public gatherings may provide for the establishment and maintenance of an place for the time being, but at his own expense. or in case of riot, unlawful assemblages or disturbances efficient fire alarm telegraph and telephone system for the purposes and requiring additional police force the mayor may appoint such of the fire department and may provide for the purchase CHAPTER XII. KUPPENHEIME number of special or temporary police officers at a compensation of such apparatus as may be necessary. The city council shall WEIGHMASTER. Clothes not exceeding three (3) dollars a day, as he may deem also provide for the sale, or disposal, of any property no longer necessary but such special or temporary appointment shall necessary for the use of the department, and the proceeds' The clothes that Appointment.—Section 1. The city council, at the meeting not continue in force for more than one (1) week, without thereof shall be paid over to the city treasurer. of its organization or as soon thereafter as may be, shall appoint built our consent of the city council. Destruction of Buildings.—Section 7. Whenever any building a city weighmaster whose term of office shall be one Rules—By Whom Made.—Section 4. The mayor and chief REPUTATION in the city shall be afire, it shall be lawful for, and shall year. S of police are authorized and required to make all needful: rules be the duty of, the mayor and the chief of the fire department Duties.—Section 2. The city weighmaster shall have charge and regulations not inconsistent with this charter, the laws WALK-OVER to order and direct the destruction, and removal of, and to and control of all public scales, weights and measures owned of the state, or the ordinances of the city, for the government destroy, pull down and remove such building or any other and by the city and all appliances and tests of every kind and and control of the police department, and with a view of making building in the vicinity, or any part thereof, that they may nature pertaining to weighing and measuring. It shall be SHAROOD said department and all the officers and agents appointed deem hazardous or likely to communicate fire and no action his duty to perfor mall services in connection with the weighing under it, efficient, vigilant, prompt and useful to the city. All shall be maintained against^ any person, or the city, therefor, shoes are and measuring of hay, grain, seed, pork, coal, wood, and rules and regulations made in pursuance hereof shall be in or on account thereof. all other gross commodities offered and exposed for sale or Honest Made writing, signed by the aforesaid officers, and shall be filed Penalties.—Section 8. If any person shall, at a fire, refuse sold in the city, as the city council may from time to time by in the office of the city clerk, and shall be binding upon all Shoes to obey the orders of the Chief of the Fire Department, or ordinance prescribe and require, and shall receive such compensation persons connected with this department. A book containing other officer vested with authority at such fire, such person for services rendered as the city council may from this chapter, and such provisions of this charter, ordinances R. E. Z. Shoes shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as time to time prescribe. and regulations relating to the police department as may be prescribed by the ordinances of the city, or, in case the offense E. Z. to walk in adopted, shall be printed in legible type, and securely bound CHAPTER XIII. is not punishable under the ordinances of the city, then the Chief of Police shall deliver one of said books to each member for solid comfort as such misdemeanors are punished under the laws of the STREET COMMISSIONER—CITY ENGINEER. of the department, who shall always have the same in his and styles state. possession. Appointment.—Section 1. The city council shall at the CHAPTER X. Gratuities and Rewards Prohibited.—Section 5. Any member meeting for its organization, or within thirty days thereafter, DOROTHY of the police department who shall accept from any person appoint a street commissioner who shall have, under the direction CITY ASSESSOR AND BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. DODD while in his custody, or after he shall have been discharged, of the city council, charge and control of the streets, or from any of his friends, or any other person^ any gratuity or alleys and highways of the city, and shall perform such other and Duties.—Section 1. The city assessor shall qualify in the^ reward, or'any description of intoxicating drink, or who shall duties as the city council may order. The term of office of manner and form prescribed by the general law. The city assessor SHOROIS receive from any person, without the written permission of the street commissioner shall be for one year. The city council shall perform all the duties required by the general the mayor, any reward for the arrest of any thief, or recovery for may also employ, from time to time, a civil engineer to laws of the respecting the listing of property for taxa­ state, of any goods or money, or compensation for damages sustained perform such civil engineering for the city as may be necessary, tion, and shall commence his duties on the first day of May LADIES in the discharge of his duties, shall be deemed guilty of and when such civil engineer is employed by the city of each year. a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed council he shall be known and designated, during the term Deputy Assessors and Clerks.—Section 2. The city assessor You will behappy one hundred ($100.00) dollars or imprisonment not to exceed of such employment, as "City Engineer," and the city council shall, each year, appoint such number of deputies as may be ninety (90) days. if you ask for the shall prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of such required to enable him to properly perform the duties of his Police Officers to be Conservators of the Peace.—Section 6. Street Commissioner and City Engineer. McKIBBIN office, who shall serve during the time of the making of the The mayor, or acting mayor, the chief of police, the captains list of property for taxation, but only so long as their services Duties—City Engineer.—Section 2. The city engineer shall Hat. That's it of police, the sheriff of the county, and all police officers shall may be needed. The city assessor shall discharge such/deputies perform all duties within the scope of his employment that be conservators of the peace, and may command the peace from time to time as he can spare, and the city council may be assigned to him by the city council. The Lion Brand and suppress in a summary manner all riotous or disorderly may order sai(i deputies, or any of them, to be discharged at Duties-r-Street Commissioner.—Section 3. The Street Commissioner behavior or proceedings within the city limits, and for such of $1.00 Shirts for any time. The assessor shall present to the city council shall have supervision and general charge of all city purpose may require the assistance of all bystanders, and if ait" the second regular meeting thereof in April in each year workidone on any street, highway or alley in the city may Rich and Poor need be, of all citizens and in suppressing any riotous and the names of such persons as he shall desire to have for 4eputies, direct the manner of performing such work and the manner disorderly behavior or proceedings, the supreme authority to designating in each case the time when the appointees of the construction of all sidewalks, street crossings, bridges The best ever in command or direct shall reside in the senior or superior officer shall, with the approval of the city council, commence to or other structures in or upon said streets may suspend any present, in the order in this section above named. Collars, such as serve as such deputies, which time shall be long enough before such, work when the construction thereof shall not conform Penalty for Refusing to Assist in Preserving the. Peace.— May 1st, so that each may, for that day, be assigned to his to, and shall take care that the terms of all contracts for will keep you cool Section 7. If any bystander or citizen shall refuse to aid in portion of the work and be properly prepared and instructed any work or construction on behalf of the city, are fully compiled and comfortable, preserving the peace, or in suppressing riotous or disorderly to do the same. The city assessor may also employ such with, unless such duties are otherwise assigned to the behavior or proceedings, when thereto requested as provided clerks as may be necessary, their number to be reduced pr increased the. well known C|ty Engineer. in the preceding section^ he shall be guilty of a. misdemeanor as occasion may require or the city council may direct, Corliss & Coon Surveys, Etc.—-Section 4. All surveys, profiles, plans and and be punished by a fine of not more than fifty ($50.00) dollars and all deputy assessors shall qualify in accordance with and estimates, made by the street commissioner or the city engineer collar, 2 for 25c. or imprisonment of. not more than thirty (30) days. perform all the duties required by the general laws of the shall be carefully preserved in the office of the city state respecting the listing of property for taxation. Penalty for Falsely Assuming to Act as Police OfficerSection clerk and be public records of the city. 8. If any person shall, without lawful authority, assume Compensation.—Section 3. The compensation of the city LOOK FOR CHAPTER XIV. to act as a police officer of the cityj or falsely pretend assessor shall be three ($3.00) dollars per day for all time actually BURTON'S to be authorized so to act, or wear a badge of a police officer employed as such assessor, provided that said city assessor BOARD OF HEALTH. 1 within the city, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding, one shall not receive to exceed two hundred ($200.00). dollars hundred ($100 00) dollars or to imprisonment for a term not in any one year for services as such city assessor deputy Appointment—-Qualifications— Section 1. The health department assessors and clerks shall receive as compensation three($3.00) exceeding ninety (90) days. shall consist of three members, one of whom shall .* & fafc i-v:. §&mM. S&.