of persons disturbing the peace and good order of the city by clamor and noise, by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting, or using obscene or profane language in the streets or other public places, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent and disorderly conduct, or by lewd or lascivious behavior.

XLIV. Vagrants, Tramps.-To provide for the punishment of vagrants, tramps, common street qeggars, common prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, burglars, thieves, watch stuffers, ball game players, persons who practice any game, trick, or device with intent to swindle; persons who abuse their families, and suspicious persons who can give no reasonable account of themselves.

XLV. Drainage. To require any and all lots or pieces of ground within the city to be drained or filled, so as to prevent stagnant water or any other nuisance accumulating thereon, and upon the failure of the owners of such lots or pieces of ground to fill or drain the same when so required, the council may cause such lots or pieces of ground to be drained or filled, and the cost and the expense thereof shall be levied upon the property so filled or drained, and collected as any other special tax.

XLVI. Nuisance.-To prevent any person from bringing, depositing, having, or leaving upon or near his premises, or elsewhere within the city, any dead carcass and putrid beef, pork, fish, hides, or skins of any kind, or any other unwholsome substance, and to compel the removal of the same,

XLVII. Regulate Halls, Churches, Etc.-To regulate, license, or suppress halls, opera houses, churches, places of amusement, entertainment, or instruction, or other buildings used for the assembly of citizens, and to cause them to be provided with sufficient and ample means of exit and entrance, and to be supplied with necessary and appropriate Fire escapes, appliances for the extinguishment of fire, and for escape from such place in case of fire, and to prevent the overcrowding, and to regulate the placing and use of seats, chairs, benches, scenery curtains, blinds, screens, or other appliances therein, and to provide that for any violation of any such regulation a penalty of two hundred dollars shall be imposed, and that upon conviction of any such licensee of any violation of any ordinance regulating such Penalty for places, the license of any such place shall be revoked by the mayor and council; and whenever the mayor and council shall by resolution declare any such place to be unsafe, the license thereof shall be Unsafe thereby revoked, and the council may provide that any case where they have so revoked a license, any owner, proprietor, manager, lessee, or person opening, using, or permitting such place to be opened or used for any purpose involving the assemblage of more than twelve persons shall upon conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars.

XLVIII. Same, Construction of Buildings.To prescribe the thickness, strength, and manner of constructing stone, brick, and other buildings, and

violation of ordinances.

buildings.

Fire escapes,

in construction

prescribe the number and construction of means of exit and entrance, and the number and construction of fire escapes, and to require the keeper or of buildings, proprietor of any hotel, boarding house, or dormitory to provide and maintain such sufficient and such number of ladders, ropes, balconies, and stairways, and other appliances as by ordinance may be prescribed to facilitate the escape of persons from any such building in case of fires.

XLIX. Domestic Animals.-To regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, goats, dogs, and other animals, and to cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold to discharge the costs and penalties provided for the violation of such prohibitions, and the fees and the expense of impounding and keeping the same, and of such sale.

L. Pounds. To provide for the erection of all needful pens, pounds, and buildings for the use of the city, within or without the city limits, and to appoint and compensate keepers thereof, and to establish and enforce rules governing the same.

LI. Auctions. To regulate, license, or prohibit the sale of domestic animals, or of goods, wares and merchandise, at public auction on the streets, alleys, highways, or any public grounds within the city; to regulate or license the auctioneering of goods, wares, and merchandise.

LII. Contagious Diseases. To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious, infectious, or malignant diseases into the city, and to create a board of health to make quarantine laws

for that purpose and enforce the same within five miles of the city.

LIII.-Hospitals, Work-houses, Etc.-To erect, establish, and regulate hospitals and work-houses and poor-houses, house of correction, jails, station houses, and other necessary buildings, and to provide for the government and support of the same.

LIV. Health. To make regulations to secure the general health of the city; to prescribe rules for the prevention, abatement, and removal of nuisances; to make and prescribe regulations for the construction, location, and keeping in order of all slaughter houses, stock yards, warehouses, stables, or other places where offensive matter is kept or is likely to accumulate within the corporate limits or within five miles thereof.

LV. Cemeteries.-To purchase, hold, and pay for, in the manner herein provided, lands not exceeding eighty acres, in one body, outside of the limits of such city, for the purpose of the burial of the dead, and all necessary grounds for hospital grounds and waterworks, and to have and exercise police jurisdiction over the same, and over any tery lying near said city and used by inhabitants thereof.

ceme

of.

LVI. Same. To survey, plat, map, grade, fence, Improvement ornament, and otherwise improve all burial and cemetery grounds, and avenues leading thereto owned by such city; to construct walks, rear and protect ornamental trees therein, and provide for paying the expenses thereof.

LVII. Same.-To convey cemetery lots owned

Title in fee imple to lots, how obtained.

by such city, by certificates, signed by the mayor
and countersigned by the clerk under the seal of the
city, specifying that the person to whom the same
is issued is the owner of the lot or lots described
therein by number as laid down on such map or
plat, for the purpose of interment, and such certifi-
cate shall vest in the proprietor, his or her heirs
and assigns, a right in fee simple to such lot for the
sole
purpose of interment, under the regulation of
the city council, and such certificate shall be en-
titled to be recorded in the office of the register of
deeds of the proper county without further ac-
knowledgment, and such description of lots shall
be deemed and recognized as a sufficient description
thereof.

LVIII.-Same, Lots.-To limit the number of cemetery lots which shall be owned by the same person at the same time; to prescribe rules for inclosing, adorning, and erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots; to prohibit any diverAdornment of sion of the use of such lots and any improper adornment thereof; but no religious test shall be made as to the ownership of lots, the burial therein, or the ornamentation of graves or lots.

lots.

LIX. Same, Rules. To pass rules and ordinances imposing penalties and fines not exceeding one hundred dollars regulating, protecting, and governing the cemetery, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereof, and trespassers therein. And the officers of such city shall have as full jurisdiction Enforcement and power in the enforcing of such rules and ordinances as though they related to the city itself.

of rules.