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about the uses and purposes contemplated by this act. It shall be the duty of the board of public works, and it shall have power, to make contracts on behalf of the city for the performance of all such work and the erection of all such improvements as may be ordered by the mayor and council, but only with the approval of the mayor and council; to superintend the performance of all such work and the erection of all such improvements; to approve the estimates of the city engineer, which may be made from time to time, of the value of the work as the same may progress; to accept any work done or improvement made when the same shall be fully completed according to contract, subject, however, to the approval of the mayor and council, and to perform such other duties as may be conferred upon them by ordinance.

Any member of such board may at any time be Removal. removed from office by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to the council or by the mayor and a majority of the council, and the proceedings in that behalf shall be entered in the journal of the council.

SEC. 79.-Poll Tax.-Each city governed by this chapter is hereby empowered to provide that all male residents of the corporation between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, shall, between the first day of April and the first day of November of each year, either by themselves or satisfactory substitute, perform two days' labor upon the streets, alleys or highways within such corporation, at such time and places as the proper officer may direct, and upon three days' notice in writing given;

Commutation

of labor.

Provided, That all persons so notified may commute the labor so required by the payment of the sum of three dollars to the proper officer of the city, as may be provided by ordinance, and the fund arising under this section shall be expended by the city authorities in the repair and maintenance of the streets and alleys and highways in said city. They may further provide that for each day's failure to attend and perform the labors as required at Delinquency. the time and place specified, the delinquent shall

Lien.

forfeit and pay to the corporation any sum not exceeding one dollar for each day's delinquency. The amount so due for labor tax, to the amount of three dollars, upon the failure to labor or commute as above required, shall be treated and collected as taxes on property, and the same shall be a lien on all the property of such persons that may be listed and assessed for taxation for that year; and it shall be the duty of the city clerk to certify the amount due from each individual as aforesaid to the city treasurer as herein before provided, and the certificate of the city clerk, under the seal of the city, that the person named therein has performed the labor or commuted as herein required, shall be received by the treasurer in discharge of the amount due from such person. The fund arising under this section shall be paid into the fund herein before created from taxes levied for road purposes, and shall be treated and expended in the same manner.

SEC. 80.-Finances, Published Statement.-The mayor and council shall cause to be published, semi-annually, a statement of the receipts of the

city and the sources thereof, and an itemized account of the expenditures and the financial condition of the city.

SEC. 81.-Witnesses.-The council or any committee of the members thereof shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses for the investigation of matters that may come before them, and the presiding officer of the council or chairman of such committee for the time being may administer the requisite oaths, and such council or committee shall have the same authority to compel the giving of testimony as is conferred on courts of justice.

SEC. 82.-County Jail.-Any city shall have the right to use the jail of the county for the confinement of such persons as may be liable to imprisonment under the ordinances of said city, but it shall

of keeping,

be liable to the county for the cost of keeping such Frisoners, cost prisoners. The city shall got pay to exceed fifteen cents for each meal furnished prisoners, and fifteen cents for lodging.

SEC. 83.-Bonds for Sewers and Waterworks.

amount of.

-The mayor and council shall have power to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of the city upon its negotiable bonds or otherwise, to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate one Maximum hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of constructing or aiding in the construction of a system of sewerage, authority therefor having first been obtained by a majority vote of the people at an election upon a proposition submitted in the manner provided by law for the submission of propositions, to aid in the construction of railroads and

Adoption of system.

other works of internal improvement; and to borrow money and pledge the property and credit of the city in the manner aforesaid, and upon being authorized as aforesaid to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and operating a system of waterworks for said city.

Provided, That bonds heretofore issued by any such city for said purposes, and being outstanding and unpaid, shall be included, and counted as a part of the amount hereby authorized to be issued.

upon

SEC. 84.-Same, Vote of People.-Before submitting any proposition for borrowing of money for either of the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, the mayor and council shall determine and adopt a system of sewerage, or of waterworks as the case may be, and shall procure from the city engineer an estimate of the actual cost of such system, and of the cost of so much thereof as the mayor and council may propose to construct with the amount proposed to be borrowed, and plans of such system and such estimate shall be placed and remain in the hands of the city clerk, Plans subject subject to public inspection during all the time such proposition to borrow money shall be pending; after a system shall have been adopted, no other system shall be adopted in lieu thereof, unless authorized by a vote of the people; after construction of waterworks the city may by vote of the people issue Extension of bonds to construct extensions of such works not to exceed ten thousand dollars in any one year.

to public inspection.

works.

SEC. 85.-Same, Waterworks,-When the sys

and control

and council.

tem of waterworks shall have been adopted and the people shall have voted to borrow money to aid in their construction as aforesaid, the mayor and council may erect, and construct, and maintain Construction such system of waterworks, either within or with- of by mayor out the corporate limits of the city, and make all needful rules and regulations concerning the use of such waterworks, and to do all acts necessary for the construction, completion, and management and control of the same not inconsistent with this act, including the taking of private property for public use for the construction and operation of the same, compensation to be ascertained and made therefor in the manner provided by law for acquiring the right-of-way and depot grounds for railway companies by the exercise of the right of eminent domain.

may run.

SEC. 86. Same, Contracts.-In case such aids shall not be voted by the people in the manner aforesaid the mayor and council may contract with and procure individuals or corporations to construct and maintain a system of water works in such city for any time not exceeding twenty years from Time contracts the date of the contract, and with a reservation to the city of the right to purchase such water works at Right to purany time after the lapse of ten years from the date of the contract, upon payment to such individuals or corporation of any amount to be determined from the contract, not exceeding the cost of construction of such water works; in other respects such contract may be upon such terms as may be agreed upon by a two-thirds vote of the mayor and council, entered upon the minutes.

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