10. To direct and control the location of all slaughter- Markets. houses, markets or shops for the selling of meat, houses for storing gunpowder, and other combustible and explosive substances, and to regulate the keeping, selling or conveying thereof.

11. To prohibit the depositing, and prevent the keeping of any unwholesome or nauseous substance, and to compel the cleaning of any filthy place or dwelling.

racing.

12. To prohibit horse-racing and immoderate driving Horsein the streets; to prevent the incumbering of the streets, crosswalks and sidewalks in said village, and to compel every person to clear the dirt and obstructions from off the sidewalk in front of the premises owned or occupied in whole or in part by such person, and to provide for the clearing of the snow from off the sidewalks and crosswalks at such places and in such manner as they shall deem best.

bells

13. To prevent or regulate the ringing or tolling of Ringing bells, except those of railroad engines. blowing of horns, or crying of goods and wares, firing of guns, gunpowder or other explosive compounds, and the making of any improper noise which may tend to disturb the peace of the village; and regulate the sale or exposure to sale of fire-crackers, rockets, squibs, or other explosive compounds.

&c.

14. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants and Vagrante, persons soliciting alms, keepers of houses of ill-fame, common prostitutes, and disorderly persons, and to prevent and punish drunkenness, and disorderly or immoral conduct in public streets and places.

15. To regulate and determine the places of bathing

in the river, canals, or other waters within the village.

16. To regulate the burial of the dead, and protect the Cemeteries. public cemeteries.

17. To perform all the duties imposed upon them by

this act, or by any law of the state.

S17. The trustees shall have power in their discretion:

1. To establish and regulate a public pound, and ap- Pound point and define the duties of a pound-master, so that the same be not inconsistent with the laws of this state.

2. To restrain horses, cattle, sheep and swine from going at large in the streets, under a penalty not ex

Removal of buildings.

Nuisances.

To appoint firemen.

ceeding five dollars for each animal, and to cause any such animals to be impounded or sold, as may be provided by the by-laws, to prevent them from going at large, and to satisfy such penalty and the expenses; and the owner or owners of any such animal shall be liable for such penalty.

3. To cause buildings and other structures encroaching on the streets to be removed at the expense of the owners or occupants thereof, and to issue their warrant, against any such owner or occupant, to collect the necessary expense of such removal.

4. To permit building material to be deposited on the streets in front of any lot, to such extent, and for such a time, as they may prescribe.

5. To determine the existence of a public nuisance in any part of the village, and to compel its removal or abatement, and if not done within such time as the trustees may allow, to cause the same to be removed or abated at the expense of the village, and to declare such expense to be a lien on the lot whence the nuisance was removed, or whereon it was abated; and to enforce the collection thereof by leasing or selling the premises in the manner prescribed in this act for the collection of taxes, or by action against the owner or occupant of the lot, or against any person who may have caused or main

tained such nuisance.

6. To prohibit the flying of kites, playing ball, rolling hoops or sliding down hill in any specified street, or parts of said village.

7. To appoint and dismiss firemen, including members of fire engines and hook and ladder and hose companies, and to make regulations for their conduct and government.

8. To give names to the streets, and numbers to the lots and tenements, and to change the same.

9. To cause prosecutions upon any contract or liability in which the village is interested, or for fines and penalties imposed by this act, or by any by-law of the village, and to enforce the collection thereof, or to remit the same or any part thereof.

10. To employ attorneys in the prosecution or defense of any action by or against the village, or for the transaction of any business of the village requiring professional skill.

11. To establish and regulate public wells, pumps, aqueducts and reservoirs.

12. To provide for lighting the streets of said village, and to protect the public lamps.

13. To make regulations for taxing and confining dogs, and for destroying such as may be found running at large, contrary to any ordinance.

14. To prohibit all exhibitions of any natural or arti- Exhibitions ficial curiosity, caravans, circuses, theatrical and other shows or exibitions, or performances for money, within the bounds of the village; and, if the trustees shall deem advisable, to license the same on payment of such sum as they shall specify on granting such license.

15. To do any act necessary to carry into effect any resolution, ordinance or other proceeding which they are authorized to adopt by this act or by any statute.

make laws,

$18. The trustees may make, amend and repeal all Trustees to such by-laws, ordinances and police regulations, not con- &c. trary to the laws of this state, as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and of any other laws applicable to said village, and to the power vested in any officer thereof; and may prescribe penalties not exceeding twenty-five dollars, for the violation of any such by-law or ordinance. Every such bylaw or ordinance shall be published at least three weeks, by posting the same in a conspicuous place in ten public places in said village, or by publishing the same two weeks successively, once in each week, in two newspapers printed in the city of Utica, having the largest circulation in said village, and shall not take effect until after such publications. Proof of such publication, by the affidavit of the printer of such paper, his foreman or clerk, or of the person who posted the same, shall be filed with the clerk of the village, and shall be prima. facie evidence of such publication or posting.

$ 19. The trustees shall have power, from time to time, to prescribe the duties of the several officers appointed by them, subject to the provisions of this act. $20. No trustee shall be appointed to any office by the board of trustees, nor shall the president or any trustee be interested in any contract made with the cor

So in the original.

Trustees interested

not to be

in contracts, &c.

Application of moneys.

Sidewalks and streets.

poration; and any contract made in violation of this provision shall be void.

$21. The trustees shall have power to apply any and all moneys raised by any tax in said village to the purchasing of any personal property for the use of said village, and to the defraying the necessary expenses of the corporation; and also to the leasing or purchasing of so much land as may be necessary for the erection of engine-houses, a public pound, and public hay scales, and to the building and keeping in repair public wells, cisterns and reservoirs within said village, and the water pipes and fixtures connected therewith, and to the making and maintaining sidewalks in front of any public grounds in said village, and to improving such grounds, and to the making and maintaining crosswalks, and lighting the streets in said village, and to such other purposes as the trustees, in their discretion, shall deem necessary and for the interest of the said village.

$22. The said trustees shall likewise have power to cause the sidewalks, streets and highways within said village to be leveled, raised, graveled, planked and repaired, and the sidewalks ornamented with trees; and to compel the owners and occupants of any lands or lots adjoining such sidewalk to make such improvement upon the sidewalks as aforesaid, in front of said land or lot; to determine and prescribe the manner of doing the same, and the materials to be used therein, and the quantity of such materials; and in case the owner or owners, occupant or occupants, of any such land or lot should neglect or refuse to complete the said required improvements to the sidewalks within such reasonable time as shall be * required by the trustees, the said trustees may cause such improvements to such sidewalks to be made or completed, and the expense thereof may be by them assessed on such owner or owners, occupant or occupants, so neglecting or refusing, and be collected by warrant, to be issued by the president and trustees, in the same manner as other taxes are directed to be collected by this act; and in case such tax or assessment shall not be paid or collected, the trustees may cause such real estate to be leased or sold for the payment and collection of such assessment and expenses of sale, in the same manner and with the effect and subject to the provisions of sections

thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty

nine.

may levy

$23. The trustees shall have discretionary power to Trustees raise, levy and collect from the taxable property in said tax, &o. village any sum, not exceeding three hundred dollars in any one year, which they shall deem necessary for any of the purposes mentioned in section twenty-one of this act; the same to be assessed and collected in the same manner prescribed for the assessment and collection of other taxes directed or authorized to be raised, levied, assessed and collected by and under this act.

TITLE V.

DUTIES OF THE TREASURER AND CLERK.

duties of.

$24. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging Treasurer, to the village, and shall pay out the same on the order of the president, countersigned by the clerk. No such order shall be given, except in pursuance of a resolution of the board of trustees, duly entered on the village records, specifying the amount for which such order is directed to be issued, to whom, and what for.

$25. The treasurer shall, twenty days before each annual election, present to the president a statement, showing the state of the treasury, and the several sums received and paid out during the year, and when received and paid, and from, and to whom. He shall deliver to his successor in office, on receiving six days' notice to that effect, all moneys, books, vouchers, and papers appertaining to the office.

ties.

$26. The clerk shall attend and act as clerk at all the Clerk's dumeetings of the trustees, and record, in the proper journals of the village, all resolutions, ordinances, directions and determinations adopted at such meetings. He shall also enter in a book, to be called the clerk's minutes, a memorandum of the service of all notices by him, stating the time and manner of service, and of any other acts pertaining to the duties of his office which the trustees may require him to enter. He shall serve all notices, and file all papers required by the trustees, or by this act, to be served or filed, make copies of such assessment rolls and other papers as may be required by the trustees or president; and shall keep in good order the books, records