Cemeteries, and bills of mortality. Depots, steam, cable and horse cars. Prevention of accidents on railroad tracks. Lighting of railways within city. SEC. 44. The mayor and council shall have power to prohibit the establishment of additional cemeteries within the limits of the city, and to regulate the registration of births and deaths, to direct the keeping and returning of bills of mortality, and impose penalties on physicians, sextons, and others for any default in the premises. SEC. 45. The mayor and council shall have power to regulate levees, depots, depot grounds, and places for storing freights and goods, and to provide for and regulate the laying of tracks and the passage of steam, cable, horse, or other railways through the streets, alleys, and public grounds of the city. SEC. 46. The mayor and council shall have power to regulate the crossings of railway tracks, to regulate the running of railway engines, cars, and trucks within the limits of the city, and to make other and further rules and restrictions to prevent accidents at crossings and on the tracks of railroads, and to prevent fires from engines; also, to regulate and prescribe the time and manner of running street cars within the city, and require the heating and cleaning of such cars, and to fix and determine the fare to be charged. SEC. 47. The mayor and council shall have power to require the lighting of any railway within the city, the cars of which are propelled by steam, in such manner as they shall prescribe, and may fix and determine the number, size, and style' of the lamp posts, burners, lamps, and all other fixtures and apparatus necessary for such lighting, and the points of location for such lamp posts; and in case the company owning or operating such railways shall fail to comply with such requirement, the council may cause the same to be done, and may assess the expense thereof against such company, and the same shall constitute a lien upon any real estate belonging to such company and lying within such city, and may be collected in the same manner as taxes for general purposes. viaducts. SEC. 48. The mayor and council shall have Railroad power to require any railroad company or companies, owning or operating any railroad track or tracks upon or across any public street or streets of the city, to erect, construct, re-construct, complete, and keep in repair any viaduct or viaducts, upon or along such street or streets, and over or under such track or tracks, including the approaches to such viaduct or viaducts as may be deemed and declared by the mayor and council necessary for the safety and protection of the public. property in the construction of Provided, That the approaches to any such viaduct, which any railroad company or companies may be required to construct, re-construct, and keep in repair, shall not exceed, for each viaduct, a total distance of eight hundred feet. Whenever Damage to any such viaduct shall be deemed and declared by viaducts. ordinance necessary for the safety and protection of the public, the mayor and council shall provide for appraising, assessing, and determining the damages, if any, which may be caused to any property by reason of the construction of such viaduct and its approaches. Proceedings in determining such damages. The proceedings for such purpose shall be the same as provided herein for the purpose of determining damages to property owners by reason of the change of grade of a street, and such damages shall be paid by the city, and may be assessed by the city council, against property benefited, and the cost of approaches beyond said distance of eight hundred feet may also be assessed by the council against property benefited by reason of the construction of any such viaduct and its approaches. The width, height, and strength of any such viaMaterial used, duct, and the approaches thereto, the material therefor, and the manner of the construction there Construction Disposition of revenue. Ordinary repairs, how paid. Licensing of toll bridges. of, shall be as required by the board of public works, as may be approved by the mayor and council. When two or more railroad companies own or operate separate lines of track to be crossed by any such viaduct, the proportion thereof, and of the approaches thereto, to be constructed by each, or the cost to be borne by each, shall be determined by the mayor and council. After completion of any such viaduct, any revenue derived therefrom by the crossing thereon of street railway lines, or otherwise, shall constitute a special fund, and shall be applied in making repairs to such viaduct. All ordinary repairs to any such viaduct, or to the approaches thereto, shall be paid out of such fund, or shall be borne by the city. SEC. 49. The mayor and council shall have power to license and regulate the keeping of toll bridges within, or terminating within, the city for the passage of persons, teams, and property over any river passing wholly or in part within, or running by and adjoining, the corporate limits of any such city; to fix and determine the rates of toll over any such bridge, or over the part thereof within the city, and to authorize the owner or owners of any such bridge to charge and collect the rates of toll so fixed and determined from all persons passing over or using the same. streets, regu phone service. SEC. 50. The mayor and council shall have Lighting of power to regulate and provide for the lighting of lating telestreets, laying down gas pipes, and erection of lamp posts, electric towers, or other apparatus, and to regulate the sale and use of gas and electric lights, and fix and determine the price of gas, the charge of electric light, and the rent of gas metres within the city, and regulate the inspection thereof, and to regulate telephone service and the use of telephones within the city, and to fix and determine the charges for telephones and telephone service and connections, and to prohibit or regulate the erection of telegraph, telephone, or electric wirepoles in the public grounds, streets, or alleys, and the placing of wires thereon, and to require the removal from the public grounds, streets, or alleys of any or all such poles, and require the removal and placing under ground of any or all telegraph, telephone, or electric wires. ate money. SEC. 51. The mayor and council shall have May appropri power to appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city. May provide for fire depart ment. Night watch. Protection of birds and trees. May erect hospitals. houses, nam ing streets. SEC. 52. The mayor and council shall have power to provide for the organization and support of a fire department and to establish regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires. SEC. 53. The mayor and council shall have power to establish, regulate, and support night watch and police, and to define the duties thereof, except as otherwise herein specially provided. SEC. 54. The mayor and council shall have power to provide for the planting and protection of shade or ornamental and useful trees and for the protection of birds, their nests and eggs. SEC. 55. The mayor and council shall have power to erect, establish, maintain, and regulate hospitals, workhouses, houses of correction, jails, station-houses, and other necessary buildings. Numbering of SEC. 56. The mayor and council shall have power to provide for, regulate, and require the numbering or renumbering of houses along public streets or avenues; to care for and control, to name and rename streets, avenues, parks, and squares within the city; to provide for the opening, vacating, widening, and narrowing of streets, avenues, and alleys within the city, under such restrictions and regulations as may be provided by law; Provided, That no street or avenue shall be narrowed to a width of less than sixty-six feet, except on petition of two-thirds of the owners of the lots and real estate along that portion of the street or avenue narrowed. Signs, awnings. SEC. 57. The mayor and council shall have power to regulate and prevent the use of streets, |