INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. tion the City Council shall submit the question of issuing the use of water for protection against fire and other purposes. such portion of the city as it may designate, and to compel bonds for any purpose, to a vote of the people as above It shall also have the power to contract with individuals, firms sewer connections in such portions, and to make the same provided. or corporations for the use of electric or gas light for street and to assess the cost thereof on the property so connected. Provided, however, that a majority vote of the members lighting and other purposes. Such contracts for water and Sixteenth. To regulate the numbering of houses, buildings tu of the City Council shall be sufficient to pass any ordinance electricity and gas to be made for such time as the City and lots and to compel the owners of houses and other buildings a authorizing the issuance of bonds for the purpose of paying aj Council may deem for the best interests of the Citv, not to to have the numbers of such houses and other buildings maturing bonds of the City without submission to the electors. exceed five (5) years for water, and not to exceed five (5) shown conspicuously thereon or adjacent thereto. & Provided, further, that the amount of all such bonds, except years for gas or electricity for street lighting and other public Seventeenth. To prevent and regulate or prohibit the locating, as hereinafter provided, shall be controlled by the limitations purposes. construction and laying of street railway tracks in, under herein made on the power to issue bonds, and the City Council Power to Maintain Buildings.—Section 24. It shall have or over any streets, alleys or public places provided,'that it 5 shall not in any manner, either with or without the vote power by a two-thirds vote of all the members thereof, shall grant all public franchises and rights over, under or upon of the people, authorize the issuance of any bonds or create to erect, provide for, improve and repair a city hall, fire public sti eets and highways of the city only to such parties indebtedness of the City in excess of the said limit herein halls, police stations, armories, jail, workhouse, poorhouse, hospitals, as will contribute to the City the greatest amount of monev prescribed, except as hereinafter provided. public cemeteries, libraries, markets and market houses, for and give the best service in the exercise of the same. Aldermen Not to Solicit Appointment.—Section 13. No public pounds, pest houses, quarantine hospitals, and dumping Eighteenth. To provide for and change the location, grade member of the City Council shall demand, request or solicit places, dumping stations, sewer stations and other appurtenances, and crossing of any railroad, and compel railroad companies any board, officer or employee, connected with the City, to accessories, apparatus and equipment in connection to lower and bridge over or raise their tracks, and to pay all a appoint any person to a position in said City, except that aldermen therewith as may be necessary for the transaction of the business damages caused thereby and to fence their respective rightsof-way, in open Council meeting may make such request or of the city, either within or without its limits, for its or any portion of the same, and construct cattle guards solicitation, and upon proof of the violation of this provision government, or the operation of its department: and to on the streets and public roads and to keep the same in'repair the office of such member shall become and be declared vacant acquire by purchase, gift or condemnation lands for sites for within the limits of the City. O by the City Council. said buildings or to be used in connection therewith and to Nineteenth. To require railroad companies to keep fla«-men Witnesses Before City Council.—Section 14. The Citv acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, any real and erect and maintain gates at railroad crossings of Council and any of its Committees authorized by it so to do, property for municipal purposes, and by resolution passed by streets or public places, and to regulate and prohibit the obstruction shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses a two-thirds {-,) vote of all its members, to sell or authorize tu of the streets, alleys and other public places by railroad and the production of books, papers and other evidences at any the sale of any of the same. trains, cars or engines, and to provide protection against of its meetings, or before such committee, and for that purpose Depositing Funds and Auditing Accounts.—Section 25. It injury to persons and property in the use of such railroads. may issue subpoenas or attachments in any case of inquiry shall designate the depositories of the funds of the City Treasury, Twentieth, To compel and require railroad companies to or investigation to be signed by its President, or the and by resolution approve all bonds given for the safe make and keep open and in repair ditches, drains, sewers and xj) c/3 Chairman of such Committee, as the case may be, which shall keeping thereof, and it shall examine and audit the accounts culverts along and under their railroad tracks so that filth he served and executed by any officer or person authorized by of all City officers. and stagnant water cannot stand on their ground or rightof-way iaw to serve subpoenas and other processes. Specific Powers.—Section 26. The City Council, except as and so that the natural drainage of adjacent propertv Punishment for Refusal to Testify.—Section 15. If any in this Charter otherwise provided, shall have the general shall not be impeded. witness shah reluse to testify to the facts within his knowledge, management and control of the finances and all property of 52 1 cnt_\ -fii st. lo lestrain the pollution of the waters of or te -produce any books or papers in his posession, or the City, and shall have full power and authority to make, an\ cieek, river, pond, lake or Avater course Avithin or adjacciu ruder his control, the City Council shall have the power to amend or repeal all such ordinances and resolutions as it to the city, to prevent the dumping of refuse or other nr.e or commit him for contempt. shall deem expedient for the government and good order of niattei theiein, and to provide for the cleansing and purification "Witnesses Not to Be Excused.—Section 16. No witness the City, for the protection of the public and public health, of water, couises and canals and the draining and fillin0- Avater shall be excused from touching his knowledge of testifying comfort and safety, for the suppression of vice and intemperance of ponds or pools on private property Avhenever necessary to the matter under investigation in any such proceeding or inquiry and the prevention of crime. It shall have power and prevent or abate nuisances and to compel the owner or occupant before the City Council or any Committee thereof, or authority to declare and impose penalties and punishments of any building or grounds to remove from the premises UJ before any officer of the City having power to conduct the investigation for violation of ordinances and resolutions, and to enforce owned or occupied by him all such offensive substances as the QQ but such testimony shall not be used against him the same against any person who may violate the same and City Council or the Board of Health may direct, and upon in any criminal prosecution except for perjury. all such ordinances and resolutions, not inconsistent with the his default to authorize the removal or destruction thereof bv City Council to Control Finances—Limit on Bond Issues.— constitution and laws of this State, nor of the United States, some officer of the City at the expense of said owner or occupant. Section 1/. he City Council shall control the finances of are hereby declared to have full force of law. For these purposes the City and shall have power to appropriate money for City the City Council shall have specific authority by ordinance Aventy-second. To compel the OAvner of low ground purposes only, except as hereinafter provided: to provide for where water is liable to collect or become stagnant to fill or the payment of its debts and expenses to borrow money on IOAV First. To regulate the use of and to prevent and remove drain such places, and, upon his default, to authorize such its credit for City purposes and to issue bonds therefor, as encroachments into, upon or over streets, avenues, public draining or filling at the expense of such OAvner, and to make hereinbefore provided to issue bonds in place of, or to stipplv grounds, public places, public streams and waters, and to the expense of the destruction or removal of such substances means for paying maturing bonds or to consolidate or fund prevent injury thereto and prohibit the improper use thereof. specified in subdivisiem 21, or expense of filling or draining any Q- same. Second. To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing such low ground, a lien upon the property from Avhich'such Provided, that the total indebtedness of the City, except as of ashes, paper, refuse, offal, dirt, garbage, or any other substances are removed or destroyed, or in Avhich said low hereinafter provided, shall not thereby be made to exceed ten offensive matter or obstructions in or upon any street, avenue, ground is filled or drained, and to make a special assessment (10) per cent of the total value of the taxable property of the alley, public ground, place or public stream or waters. for the same upon such property, to be collected as other it}" according to the last preceding assessment for the purpose special assessments are collected. Third. To require the owner or occupant of any premises of taxation. to keep the sidewalks along or in front of the same free from twenty-third. To fix the amount, terms and manner of a Provided, however, that the certificates of indebtedness or obstructions and to remove snow, dirt or rubbish therefrom, issuing licenses not inconsistent the law and subject Avith bonds issued for the creation and maintenance of the permanent and to authorize the removal thereof at the expense of such to the provisions of this Charter: provided, that no license improvement revolving fund shall not be considered as shall be issued for a longer term than tme year. owner or occupant, and to assess the cost of such removal a part of the bonded indebtedness of the City, for the purposes against said premises. 1 wenty-fourth. 1 license and regulate or prohibit conciuctois of this section. of gifts, fire, auction or bankrupt sales, itinerant merchants Fourth. To regulate the making and maintaining of openings t/5 Provided, further, that the certificates of indebtedness and transient of merchandise, and tax the and excavations in streets, alleys, public grounds and public Aenders 04 issued for the purpose of anticipating the collection of general proceeds of their sales, and to license and regulate runners, places for the laying of gas and water mains and pipes, oc taxes for the year in which they may be issued, shall not be construction of subways and conduits, and for other purposes agents and solicitors for stages, cars, vessels," public houses considered as a portion of the bonded indebtedness of the or other things or persons. and to regulate the building and maintaining of sewers, tunnels UJ city for the purposes of this section. and drains, and the construction and use of all structures, TAventv-fifth. To license and regulate or and to a prohibit Provided, further, that the certificates of indebtedness or suppress pigeon-hole tables, pin alleys. conduits and electric conductors of every kind, underneath billiard, pool, boAvling bonds issued for tfie purpose of purchasing, constructing, regulating. alleys, and shooting galleries. the streets, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds and places of maintaining, extending, enlarging or improving water 1 Aventy-sixth. To license and regulate the exhibition of the City, and to regulate and. if it is deemed necessary, to and light plants or either of such plants, owned, maintained SIIOAA^S common showmen and of all kinds, and the exhibitions prohibit the construction and maintaining of coal holes, manholes and operated by the city, or for the purpose of acquiring any of caravans, menageries, circuses, concerts, theatrical performances, and hatchways and other openings in the sidewalks, real or other property needed in connection with such plant skating rinks and all places of amusement and museums, streets and alleys and the coverings ancl guards thereof. or plants, or any refundment of such certificates or bonds, for entrance into Avhich monev is charged. Fifth. To regulate and provide for the removal or destruction a c/3 shall not be considered as a portion of the indebtedness of the throughout the city or in such districts or on such streets 1 wenty-seventh. To license and regulate auctioneers, city for the purposes of this section. pawnbroke'rs, second-hand dealers and junk dealers and to and avenues and in such manner as the Council may direct, W Provided, further, that the City Council may set aside annually compel all such persons to keep such records of their transactions of any and all swill, offal, garbage, ashes, street sweepings, such portion of the gross income from any water and as it may direct, and make report thereof. barnyard litter, manure, rubbish, and the contents of privy light works, or either, of the City, as they shall determine, to 1 went^-eighth. To license and regulate neAvsbovs, bootblacks, vaults, cesspools and sinks, decaying animal matter- and dead create a sinking fund for the payment of any water ana light fortune tellers, clairvoyants, astrologists and massage animals, or any other foul or unhealthy material, and to provide doctors. bonds, or either, as they become due. 1 for the removal, to a point beyond the City limits, of UJ Power to Levy Taxes and Make Assessments.—Section 18. 1 Aventy-ninth. To license and regulate or prohibit hackmen, any and all such matter or things and the City Council is draymen, expressmen, porters and all other persons engaged It shall have the power to fix the rate of, subject to the hereby authorized and empowered to make and enter into in carrying passengers, baggage or freight, and to regulate restrictions in this charter contained, and levy and collect contracts with persons or corporations for such removal of their charges therefor, and to prescribe" standing places general and special taxes for municipal purposes on real and such material and substances or any of them, upon such terms )ersonal property in the city, and to levy assessments for local or stations the streets or near railway stations Avhere and conditions as it may deem best for any time not to exceed Avithin the same may remain while for business, and to prohibit improvements, and to prescribe the procedure in making improvements two years. Avaiting the same from standing or Avaiting for business at anA' and assessments therefor, in so far as the same Sixth. To provide for and regulate the construction and other place than the places so prescribed. is not fixed and prescribed by the terms of this charter. use of pavements, sidewalks, cross-walks, curbs and gutters. .thirtieth. To license and regulate or prohibit all peddlers, Condemnation.—Section 19. It shall have power to acquire, Seventh. To regulate and prevent the use of streets, alleys, book agents, canvassers, street Avalkers, venders and public by condemnation, dedication or otherwise, lands for and to sidewalks and public grounds for signs, sign-posts, awnings, criers doing business in the city. ay out, open, widen and extend streets, alleys, avenues, bridge awning-posts, telegraph, telephone and electric light poles, Ihirty-first. To tax, license and regulate distiller-, approaches, parks and public grounds, and to establish the breAv- horse troughs, racks and other obstructions, the posting and eries and paAvnbrokers. grade and width of such streets, alleys and avenues and to CO distributing of handbills and advertisements to remove and 1 hirty-second. To license and regulate all traffic in spirituous, hange the same: and to acquire by condemnation or otherwise abate any nuisance, obstruction or encroachment upon the A'inous, fermented, malt or intoxicating liquors in said easements for slopes, cuts and fills by condemnation or walks, streets, alleys and public grounds, and to regulate and city to define and establish the territorial limits within Avhich therwise to extend or widen any street, alley or highway over prevent the encumbering of the same with vehicles, boxes, & and the number of saloons at Avhich such traffic may be carried across or to construct any sewer under or through, any lumber or any other things to provide for and regulate the on to prohibit all persons from vending or otherAvise railroad track, right of way or land of any railroad or other erection of hitching posts and rings for fastening horses, and disposing of or dealing in such liquors in said citv Avithout orporation, aifd to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, to prohibit the same in any portion of the City. first obtaining a city license to do so to prescribe the manner the right to take, use or divert water from any lake, stream Eighth. To regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying in Avhich and the conditions under such licenses mav Avhich or water course for water supply of said City. of banners painting, posting, distributing or placing of be granted and issued to regulate all saloons and other places Improvement of Streets.—Section 20. It shall have power placards, advertisements, handbills or other articles upon telegraph, Avhere any such liquors are sold or kept for sale and the manner to extend, widen, straighten, grade, drain, pave, repave, macadamize telephone or electric light poles, or in or upon the of doing business therein and to prescribe days and hours or otherwise improve any street, alley or public streets, alleys, sidewalks and public places. during which such saloons or other places shall be kept closed ground, and to lay or order laid sidewalks, curb and gutter Ninth. To regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners and during which no such liquor shall be sold or disposed of thereon, also to establish a building line for any residence and signs across or over the streets, alleys and public places: therein or elsewhere in said city, and the conferred avenue or streets, and to prevent the erection of buildings in and to regulate, license or prohibit the construction and use poAvers CO upon said City Council in and by this subdivision shall be front of such line, but no such building line shall be established of bill-boards and signs adjacent to or near the streets, alleys exelusiAre. on any street or avenue until a majority of the owners and public places or upon any vacant lot or other property. Thirty-third. To license and regulate butchers' stalls and of the property affected thereby fronting on such street or Tenth. To regulate and prohibit traffic and sale upon the shops and stands for the sale of game, poultry, meat, fish and avenue have petitioned the City Council therefor. streets, sidewalks and public places. perishable provisions. Maintaining and Altering Water Courses and Lakes.—Section Eleventh. To regulate the speed of horses and other animals, Thirty-fourth. To license and regulate plumbers and to 21. It shall have the power to build and maintain bridges bicycles, cars, locomotives, automobiles and other vehicles regulate sewer and Avater connection of all kinds and the laying and viaducts, to deepen, widen, dock and cover, wall, alter or within the limits of the City, and to compel persons to of branch and water pipes. seAver change the channel of any water course within the city, and fasten their horses or other animals attached to vehicles, or Thirty-fifth. To license, regulate and control or prohibit by condemnation or otherwise, to acquire the land and rights otherwise, while standing in the streets, alleys or public places. the carrying of concealed weapons and proA'ide for the confiscation necessary therefor, and may remove any obstructions or Twelfth. To regulate and prescribe the maximum weight of the same. unsightly structures from any pond or water course in the of a load to be drawn over any bridge or street in the city, Thirty-six. To regulate and license the keeping of dogs, city and to prevent the dumping of any garbage therein. and to direct upon what streets heavy loaded vehicles or traction and to prevent the same running at large, and to" authorize Approval of Plats.—Section 22. It shall have the sole engines may be drawn or propelled, and from what streets, the destruction thereof in a summary manner. C* power to accept and approve plats of additions within or adjoining bridges, alleys and public places the same may be excluded. Thirty-seven. To regulate and prevent the storage of gun the City, and to prescribe the width and location of Thirteenth. To regulate and control or prohibit the placing poAvder, dry pitch, rosin, coal oil, benzine, naphtha, gasoline, streets and alleys required in such plats of property. of poles and the stringing of wires along or across the turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerin, or any product thereof, Light, Water and Transportation Plants.—Section 23. It streets and alleys, and to require any and all wires within and other combustible or explosive materials Avithin the city, shall have the power to provide for the lighting of streets, prescribed limits within the city to be placed, as it may aijd the use thereof, and of lights in stables, shops and other avenues and public grounds and buildings, and to purchase, designate, beneath the surface of the streets or sidewalks, and places, and the building of bonfires and to regulate and restrain acquire or establish gas, electric and other lighting plants, and to require any poles already erected or wires already suspended the use of firecrackers, torpedoes, roman candles, sky to furnish gas, heat and electricity to persons within or without to be removed and the wires likewise to be placed in rockets, and other to prohibit the discharge of firearms, fireAvorks the City limits on such terms as it may provide ,to purchase, conduits beneath the surface of the streets, and to compel any fire crackers, rockets or other similar projectiles within procure or establish water works and to provide water and all such pipe and other constructions and con­ wires, the limits to be defined by the City Council, and to designate for the use and convenience of the inhabitants of the City or duits to be placed in a common area beneath the surface upon fireworks%hall limits within which no exhibition or display of others, and to prescribe and fix the charges for the same and such terms as it may designate. be made. the manner in which the same shall be paid and to provide Fourteenth. To name and change the name of streets, Thirty-eighth. To provide for the licensing of house for systems of public transportation within the City, and to alleys and other public places. movers and to prescribe the time and manner of moving buildings regulate the operation thereof. It shall also have the power Fifteenth. To regulate and prohibit the use of all ditches, in the public streets of the city. \to make contracts with individuals, firms or corporations for drains, sewers, privies and cesspools within the city, or in Thirty-ninth. To prevent and suppress riots, bouts, affrays,