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Section 11. The common council shall have the power to make, modify and repeal such ordinance, res- olutions, regulations, or by-laws as may be necessary to carry into full effect all the powers conferred upon it by this act. In every such ordinance, resolutions, regu- lations, or by-laws passed by said council, it may im- pose such penalty for the violation thereof, any part thereof, by fine, not exceeding two hundred dollars, and if not paid with the costs, by imprisonment in the county jail for Langlade County, not exceeding six months, or by imprisonment in any other place pro- vided by the common council for the detention or im- prisonment and punishment of persons committing of- fenses, not exceeding three months, and shall have power by such ordinances, resolutions, regulations, or by-laws and with such penalties aforesaid;
1. To preserve peace and good order, and to re- strain and prevent vice, immorality and every kind of fraudulent device and practice.
2. To restrain, prevent and suppress, houses of ill- fame, and all places of prostitution, and disorderly and gambling houses, billiard tables, and all instruments and devices for gambling, and to authorize the des- truction and demolition of all instruments used for this purpose of gambling, and to punish the occu- pants and frequenters of such houses and places, and to prohibit the occupation of any room, building, or any part thereof, within said city, for that purpose.
3. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars, drunkards, and persons soliciting alms, keepers of houses of ill-fame, common prostitutes, bawds, and disorderly persons, and to prevent drunken- ness and disorderly and immoral conduct, and obsceni- ty in public places and streets, and to provide for ar- resting, removing and punishing any persons or per- sons who may be guilty of the same.
4. To prevent any riots, noises, or public disturb- ances, and all disorderly assembles.
5. To license, prevent, or regulate the sale and giving away of ardent, spirituous wines, malt, ferment- ed and intoxicating liquors, and drinks within the city, under the provisions of this act.
6. To prohibit or regulate the erection or contin- uance of slaughter houses in said city, and to cause the removal thereof.
7. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, meat market, tallow chandlers shop, soap factory, tan-
nery stable, privy, sewer, drain or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same as often as, and whenever the common coun- cil or board of health, shall deem it necessary for the health, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants of the city, and for the prevention of diseases.
8. To require the removal of any putrid or unwhole- some meat, fish, hides or skins, or any decaying sub- stance of any kind, by any person owing or occupying the premises on which the same may be found and in case of his default to do so, within time as may be prescribed by the council, to cause the removal there- of, and the expense thereof shall be a lien upon the lot or premises upon which the same were found, to be enforced, as hereinafter provided.
9. To prevent restrain remove and abate nuisances. 10. To prevent any and all persons from casting into Spring Brook within the limits of the city or leav- ing upon the banks thereof any offal, dead animals, filth or rubbish, and to punish any person or persons doing the same.
11. To prevent the digging, excavating or making holes or places below the natural surface of the ground, wherein stagnant waters or other noxious or unwhole- some matter may accumulate, and to cause the filling up, cleansing or purifying of any such hole or place by any person who may have caused, made, or in any way assisted in making the same, and in case of the default in the filling up, cleansing or purifying thereof, within such time as may be prescribed by the common council, to cause the same to be filled up, cleansed or purified, and the expense thereof shall be a lien upon the lot or premises upon which the same existed to be enforced as hereinafter provided.
12. To prohibit any person from bringing or deposit- ing, within the limits of said city the dead carcass of any animal, filth or rubbish or any unwholesome thing.
13. To prevent and prohibit the manufacture keep- ing or storing of nitro-glycerine, and to regulate the keeping and storing of gun powder, gun cotton, burn- ing fluids, coal oils, and other dangerous explosives material in said city, and to provide for the inspection of illuminating oils and fluids.
14. To prohibit, restrain or regulate the discharge of firearms, and the explosion of gun powder and gun- cotton, and the firing of fire crackers, and fireworks of any kind within the city.
15. To regulate the use of candles and lights in barns, stables, shops and out buildings.
16. To compel all persons to remove the dirt, snow and ice from the sidewalk in front of the premises oc- cupied or owned by them, and to keep the streets swept in front of such premises and to prevent the encumber- ing of the streets, sidewalks and cross walks with car- riages, wagons, carts, sleds, sleighs, wheelbarrows, boxes, wood, lumber, timber, or other substances or materials whatsoever, and to prohibit excavating on streets, or the raising or lowering the surface of streets, crosswalks, or sidewalks, above or below the estab- lished grade, or the interference in any manner with the established grade of the streets, and to prohibit the raising of any portion adjoining, unless with the
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consent of the common council, and to prohibit injury to sidewalks.
17. To prohibit the leaving of any horse, mule or team on any street without being securely fastened or hitched.
18. To regulate and control the erection of awn- ings and awning posts, to prevent the erection of signs and sign posts in the streets or over the sidewalks; and to provide for and compel the hitching posts and places for fastening teams, at such point or points as the coun- cil may deem necessary.
19. To prevent and regulate the running at large of dogs, and to destroy them, and to impose a tax upon the owners or possessers of dogs.
20. To require and cause the removal from thick- ly inhabited parts of the city, of all persons having contagious diseases.
21. To prohibit, restrain and regulate all exhibi- tions of natural or artificial curiousities, caravans of animals, theatrical shows or performances, circuses, and all other public exhibitions or performances for money, and to require, fix the amount, and provide for the collection of license fees for any and all such pub- lic exhibitions or performances.
22. To regulate, restrain and prohibit the ringing of bells and the crying of goods, wares and merchan- dise or other commodities in the streets of said city.
23. To impose and collect license fees of each auc- tioneer, and commissions on the sale of goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property by auction, and to punish any person acting as auctioneer without a license, or refusing to report sales by auction.
24. To regulate and restrain hawking and peddling in streets.
25. To establish and regulate a market or markets in said city, to restrain and regulate the sale of fresh meats, fish and vegetables, and to select places for the sale of hay, wood, straw, grain, lumber, lime, and all other articles offered for sale from wagons, sleighs or vehicles, and cause the same to be weighed, measured or inspected, and to establish and collect fees for such weighing, measuring, or inspection, and to prohibit under penalties the sales of such articles at any other place or places.
26. To establish and regulate public pounds.
27. To restrain and prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, mules, sheep, swine, geese and fowls in said city, and to cause such as may be found run- ning at large to be impounded, and to have a lien there- on for all fines, penalties, costs, poundage and dam- age done thereby, and to cause the same to be sold, to discharge the said liens, and to punish the owners of such animals or fowls found running at large.
28. To prevent and punish horse racing and im- moderate driving or riding in the streets or highways; to require all persons driving horses with sleighs or cutters in the streets of said city, to carry bells either upon the horses or other animals, to warn other per- sons using said streets, and prevent and punish per- sons playing any game or doing any act having a ten- dency to frighten horses, or annoy persons passing in,
or along the streets or highways, or endanger pro- perty.
29. To compel railroad companies and other cor- porations and persons, to do all needful and proper draining, grading and filling up the lands owned or occupied by them, within the limits of said city to compel railroad companies to construct and keep in repair, suitable street crossing and carriage ways over their several tracks, and place flagmen at such street crossings, in said city, as said common council may designate; to regulate and restrain the speed of cars in passing through said city, and to prevent such cars from passing at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour through said city, and to prevent the obstruc- tion of streets, lanes and highways by the cars of said companies, and to regulate the putting up of all necessary signs to beware of the cars, at railroad and street crossings.
30. To prevent the use of false weighing or meas- ures.
31. To direct and require the keeping of records of mortality by physicians, sextons, and others.
32. To protect shade trees and direct and compel and regulate the planting, rearing and preservation of shade or ornamental trees in the streets and public grounds in said city.
Section 12. The common council shall have author- ity, by ordinances, resolution, or by-laws; regulate, preserve and dispose of the property, real and person- al, belonging to the city.
2. To purchase all real estate, or other property, as may be required for the use of such city, for public uses, provided, the cost thereof shall not exceed the amounts previously limited therefor.
3. To adopt all legal and requisite measures for levying taxes and assessments, general and special.
4. To purchase and lay out public parks, squares, or grounds, and improve same.
5. To establish, make, regulate, preserve, and pro- tect public reservoirs, pumps, wells, hydrants and fountains in said city, supply them with water and construct all necessary water works for such purposes, and to pay for the same, and to prevent the unneces- sary waste of water therefrom and regulate and con- trol the use thereof.
6. To establish, construct and build all necessary drains, sewers, and gutters, and maintain the same.
7. To fix up, widen, straighten, deepen, drain, dress, or otherwise improve or abate any and all sloughs, ravines, water courses and wet places in the limits of said city.
8. To compel the owners or occupants of houses or other buildings to have scuttles in the roofs, and stairs or ladders leading to the same, and suitable fire escapes for same.
9. To prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, and to cause all buildings and enclosures, as may be in dangerous state, to be put in a safe condition.
10. To regulate and prevent the improper construc- tion and unsafe condition of chimneys, fire places, hearths, stoves, stove pipes, ovens, boilers, and appa-
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ratus now in and about any buildings or manufactory, and to cause the same to be removed or put in a safe condition.
11. To regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or promoting fires.
12. To authorize the mayor, aldermen, police, fire- men and other officials of the city to keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious persons, and to compel all persons in said city to aid in the extinguishing of fires and the protection and preserva- tion of property thereof.
13. To authorize and require any person appointed for that purpose to enter buildings and enclosures at proper times, to ascertain whether the arrangements for fire, or the preservation of ashes are dangerous, ard to cause such as are dangerous to be put in a safe condition.
Section 13. The common council shall let by pro- posals to the lowest bidder and not otherwise, all con- tracts for services or work, and materials or supplies, and other payment for the same, except as is specific- ally otherwise provided by this act, and may, from time to time, require any officer to furnish reports, in- formation or estimate and to perform other and furth- er duties than herein prescribed, if the council shall deem that the interests of the city so require.
Section 14. The common council shall have power by ordinance or resolution, to cause all out and in lots within said city, of less size than ten acres each, that have not been platted and recorded by the owner or owners thereof as required by the laws to be platted and recorded, and to tax the charges for the platting and recording thereof against the lot or lots so plat- ted and recorded, to be collected in the same manner as other special city assessments and taxes.
Section 15. The common council may cause all streets, highways, alleys, lanes, side and crosswalks, culverts, drains, sewers, public places in the said city, to be surveyed and described and the established height of all grades of streets or sidewalks, to be re- corded in a book to be kept by the city clerk for that purpose, and to cause maps to be made and filed with the city clerk. Such records and maps, when so filed, shall be primafacie evidence of the facts therein de- scribed and portrayed, in all actions and places be- tween the city and other persons, touching their loca- tion and the facts therein or thereon represented.
Section 16. The common council of said city shall, by proper resolution, levy all taxes to be raised in said city, itemizing the amount so as to show the amount raised for school purposes, and for general purposes.
Section 17. The school tax shall be based on an itemized estimate of the amount required, such esti- mate to be furnished to the council by the board of education of said city at the regular monthly meet- ing of the council in July, each year, but they may, by a two-thirds vote of the whole council, levy more or less tax for school purposes than the amount so estimated by the board of education.
Section 18. The common council shall, annually
at its regular meeting in April, levy taxes on all the taxable property of said city, not exceeding five mills on the dollar, for highway purposes, such tax to be known and designated as the general fund.
Section 19. The common council shall, annually at its November meeting, levy a tax not exceeding five mills on a dollar, on all the taxable propery of said city for all general purposes of said city, to be known and designated as the highway fund.
Section 20. Such highway tax shall be levied and carried out immediately, and the tax roll placed in the hands of the city treasurer for collection on or before the tenth day of May, in each year. The trea- surer shall forthwith proceed to collect the highway tax so levied and shall collect the same on or before the first day in June, in the next year.
Section 21. The common council shall at its last regular meeting before the annual municipal elec- tion, by resolution, fix the salaries and compensation to be paid to such of the city officers and employees, to be elected or appointed under the provisions of this act as are entitled thereto; provided no salary or compensation having been once fixed, shall not be increased to any officer or employee during his term of office or employment, unless by the unanimous con- ser.t of all the members of the common council elect; provided that the salaries for the first year shall be fixed at the first meeting of the council.
Section 22. The common council of the city of An- tigo shall, annually at the spring election therein, sub- mit to the voters of said city the question of granting license for the sale of intoxicating liquor, or refusing to grant license for the sale of intoxicating liquors therein, for the ensuing year. The question when sub- mitted to the voters shall be upon a separate ballot, and the ballots on the license question shall be in the following form: Those in favor "For License," those against "No License," and they shall be deposited in a separate ballot box provided for that purpose and whenever a majority of the voters shall declare by their votes as aforesaid in favor of license then the common council shall grant licenses according to the provisions of the laws of the State of Wisconsin on that subject, and in case the majority of the voters shall declare for no license, as aforesaid, then, and in every such case, the common council shall have no power or authority to grant licenses for the sale of in- toxicating liquors and drinks in said city; and all such licenses granted shall run from the first day of May in each year to the first day of May following; provided, however, that when any such license may be applied for after that date the same may be granted to expire on the first day of May of each year on ap- plicant paying pro rata therefor; but no license shall be granted for a longer period than one year.
POLL TAX.
Section 23. The common council of said city shall have and it is hereby granted power to tax annually each male inhabitant within the corporate limits of said city, not by law exempt from such labor, between
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the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, a sum not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents, to be denominated a poll tax, and to be appropriated to the improve- ment of the streets, roads, alleys and crosswalks of the city.
Section 24. On or before the twentieth day of May in each year the street commissioner in each ward shall make out a list of the names of all male persons over the age of twenty-one and under the age of fifty years, liable to pay such poll tax, with the amount thereof set opposite to each person's name, and sub- mit the same to the common council for correction. When such list is correctly made out, and on or before the first day of June in each year, the board shall by order (signed by the mayor and clerk and annex- ed thereto) direct the same to be delivered forthwith to the street commissioner in each ward for collection.
Section 25. The street commissioner shall notify each male inhabitant to whom a poll tax shall be so assessed, to appear at a certain time and place in his ward with such tools as the street commissioner shall direct; such notice to be less than three nor more than five days. If the persons so notified shall appear and work for one day, agreeably to the order of such street commissioner, he shall, if he demands, receive a receipt for the poll tax so assessed, provided, how- ever, that the person so assessed may, at his option, pay such poll tax in money. And if any person neglects to pay the same for two days after, the street commissioner shall in the name of the city, sue for and collect such tax with fifty percenium damages on the same with costs of suit, before the justice of peace of said city, and in default of payment of such judg- ment execution shall issue against the defendant as in cases of court, and the first process in such action shall be by civil warrant; and the street commissioner shall account for such taxes by him collected, in the same manner as for other moneys coming into his hands by virtue of his office. And the street commis- sioner, while said list is in his hands for collection, may be put upon the same, the names of all such per- sons liable to such tax, as may have been omitted therefrom, who shall then be liable, the same as if their names were originally placed in such list.
Section 26. Every street commissioner shall, before entering on the duties of his office, give a bond to the city of Antigo, with one or more sureties, to be approv- ed by the common council in the penal sum of not less than five hundred dollars, conditioned to render an account to the common council, whenever required by law, or the ordinances of said city, or by vote of said common council, to safely keep and account for, and deliver over when lawfully required, all property of said city that may come into his hands; to use, dis- burse or pay over as required by law, or the ordinances of said city, all moneys that may come into his pos- session as such officer, and to faithfully discharge the duties of his said office.
Section 27. The common council of said city shall at its first meeting after election, elect a city marshal of said city, who shall before he enters upon the dis-
charge of the duties of his office take the constitution oath of office and give a bond to said city, and to each and every person entitled thereto, for all moneys that may come into his hands by virtue of his office.
Section 28. The city clerk and city assessor shall be paid a salary to cover all services rendered by them; the common council may also, in its discretion, pay the marshal a salary, in which case the salary so fixed shall be in full for all services which the mar- shal may render by direction of the council, and shall also be payment in full for any and all services ren- dered by him in or for which the city mayor shall eventually become liable.
Section 29. The common council may by a two- thirds vote of the whole council make temporary loans at such rates of interest as it shall decide for the gen- eral purpose of said city, and may, in its discretion, in anticipation of the highway tax levied but not paid in the month of June in any year, make temporary loans for highway purposes, but no such loan shall, in any event, exceed the amount of tax levied for high- way purposes, and all moneys so loaned by the city for highway purposes, if any, shall be apportioned to the wards on the basis of the tax levied.
Section 30. The common council shall annually fix and limit the per diem of the several street commis- sioners in said city.
CHAPTER VII.
OFFICERS, THEIR DUTIES AND POWERS.
Section 1. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the city. He shall see that all laws relat- ing to the peace and good order of the city, as well as the ordinances of the city, are enforced, and shall exercise a constant supervision over all other officers of the city. He shall receive and examine into all complaints against all subordinate officers for mis- conduct, inefficiency or neglect of duty, and may, when the interests of the city are in danger of being impaired, summarily suspend such officer until the next meeting of the common council, at which time the mayor shall make report to the common council of his action in writing, setting forth all the facts and circumstances in relation thereto, and the common council may dispose of the matter in the same man- ner as hereinbefore provided, for the removal of per- sons from office. He shall recommend from time to time to the common council such measures as he shall deem expedient and necessary for the welfare of the city. He shall possess all the power and authority conferred upon mayors of cities by the general laws of the state. He shall have power, with force if ne- cessary, to suppress all tumults, riots and unlawful assemblies, all revelling, quarreling, or other disor- derly conduct to the disturbance or annoyance of the peaceable inhabitants of the city. He shall have con- trol, subject at all times to be restricted by the com- mon council, of the city marshal and the entire police force of the city. He shall have power to admit to. or discharge without, bail any and all persons ar- rested by the police force of the city without warrant.
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He shall have power to administer oaths required in the discharge of the duties of his office. He may call special meetings of the common council by order in writing specifying therein the object for which such meeting is called, to be filed with the city clerk and when such order is filed it shall be the duty of the city clerk to serve or cause to be served on all the members of the common council a copy thereof, per- sonally or by leaving the same at the place of resi- dence or business of each member to be served. And at such special meeting of the common council so called the common council shall not transact any other business than that so specified in the call. He shall nave power, for cause to pardon, any person convicted for violation of any city ordinance. He shall com- municate to the common council as soon as practic- able after his election, and as often thereafter as he may deem expedient a general statement of the af- fairs of the city in relation to its finances, government and improvement. He shall possess all such other powers and perform all such other duties as are inci- dent to, or necessary for, the faithful discharge of his duties under this act.
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