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half per cent. per annum upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same in any manner to be prescribed by ordinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and of this state.

§ 2. The city council shall have power to appoint a clerk, treasurer, assessor, marshal, supervisor of streets, and all such other officers as may be necessary.

§ 3. The city council shall have power to require of all officers appointed in pursuance of this charter, bonds with penalty and security, for the faithful performance of their respective duties, as may be deemed expedient, and also to require all officers appointed as aforesaid, to take an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices, before entering upon the discharge of the same; to establish, support and regulate common schools; to borrow money on the credit of the city, provided that no sum or sums of money shall be borrowed at a greater interest than at eight per cent. per annum, nor shall the interest on the aggregate of all the sums borrowed and outstanding ever exceed one half of the city revenue arising from taxes assessed on real property, within the limits of the corporation.

§ 4. To appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city.

§ 5. To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same within five miles of the city.

§ 6. To establish hospitals and make regulations for the government of the same.

§ 7. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, to declare what shall be a nuisance, and to prevent and remove the same.

$ 8. To provide the city with water, to erect hydrants and pumps in the streets, for the convenience of the inhabitants.

§ 9. To open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in repair, streets, avenues, lanes and alleys.

§ 10. To establish, erect and keep in repair bridges. § 11. To divide the city into wards, alter the boundaries thereof, and erect additional wards as the occasion may require.

§ 12. To provide for lighting the streets, and erecting lamp-posts.

§ 13. To establish, support and regulate night watchers. 14. To erect market houses, to establish markets and market places, and provide for the government and regulation thereof.

§ 15. To provide for the erection of all needful buildings for the use of the city.

16. To provide for enclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds belonging to the city.

17. To improve and preserve the navigation of the Illinois river within the limits of the city.

§ 18. To erect, repair aad regulate public wharves and docks, to regulate the erection and repair of private wharves, and the rates of wharfage thereat.

§ 19. To license, tax and regulate auctioneers, merchants, retailers, grocers, taverns, ordinaries, hawkers, pedlers, brokers, pawn-brokers and money changers.

§ 20. To license, tax and regulate hackney carriages, waggons, carts and drays, and fix the rates to be charged for the carriage of persons, and for the waggonage, cartage and drayage of property.

§ 21. To license and regulate porters and fix the rate of porterage.

22. To license, tax and regulate theatrical and other exhibitions, shows and amusements.

23. To tax, restrain, prohibit and suppress tippling houses, dram shops, and gaming houses, and bawdy houses, and other disorderly houses.

§ 24. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize and establish fire companies.

§ 25. To regulate or prohibit the erection of wooden buildings in any part of the city.

§ 26. To regulate the fixing of chimneys, fix the flues thereof.

§ 27. To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other combustible materials.

§ 28. To regulate and order parapet walls, and parti- Enumeration of tion fences.

§ 29. To establish standard weights and measures, and regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city, in all cases not otherwise provided for by law.

§ 30. To provide for the inspection and measuring of lumber and other building materials, and for the measurement of all kinds of mechanical work.

§ 31. To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay and stone coal, the measurement of charcoal, fire-wood, and other fuel, to be sold or used within the city.

§ 32. To provide for and regulate the inspection of tobacco, and of beef, pork, flour, meal and whiskey in barrels.

§ 33. To regulate the inspection of butter, lard and other provisions.

§ 34. To regulate the weight, quality and price of bread to be sold and used in the city.

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§ 35. To regulate the size of bricks to be sold or used in the city.

§ 36. To provide for the taking enumerations of the inhabitants of the city.

§ 37. To regulate the election of city officers, and provide for removing from office any person holding an office created by ordinance.

§ 38. To fix the compensation of all city officers, and regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses and others, for services rendered under this act, or any ordinance.

§ 39. To regulate the police of the city, to impose fines, and forfeitures, and penalties, for the breach of any ordinance, and to provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of such penalties.

§ 40. The city council shall have exclusive power within the city, by ordinance, to suppress and restrain billiard tables.

§ 41. The city council shall have power to make all ordinances which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers specified in this act, so that such ordinance be not repugnant to nor inconsistent with the constitution of the United States or of this state.

§ 42. The style of the ordinances of the city shall be, "Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Peru." § 43. All ordinances past by the city council shall, within one month after they shall have been passed, be published in some newspaper published in the city, and shall not be in force until they shall have been published as aforesaid.

§ 44. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the how proven. seal of the corporation, and when printed and published in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be printed and published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

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§ 45. The city council shall have power to establish ferries, license and regulate the same on the Illinois river, within the limits of the city, for the benefit of the inhabitants and the public.

ARTICLE SIXTH.-Of the Mayor.

SECTION 1. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of Mayor to pre- the city council, and shall have a casting vote and no other; in case of non-attendance of the mayor at any meeting, the board of aldermen shall appoint one of their own number chairman, who shall preside at that meeting.

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§ 3. The mayor shall at all times be active and vigilant Duties of mayin enforcing the laws and ordinances for the government of the city; he shall inspect the conduct of all subordinate officers of said city, and cause negligence and positive violation of duty to be prosecuted and punished. He shall from time to time communicate to the aldermen such information, and recommend all such measures as in his opinion may tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, the health, security, comfort and ornament of the city.

§ 4. He is hereby authorized to call on every male in- Posse. habitant of said city, over the age of eighteen years, to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances; and, in case of riot, to call out the militia to aid him in suppressing the same, or in carrying into effect any law or ordinance; and any person who shall not obey such call shall forfeit to said city a fine not exceeding five dollars..

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§ 5. He shall have power, whenever he may deem it Exhibit necessary, to require of any of the officers of said city, an books and paexhibit of his books and papers.

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§ 6. He shall have power to execute all acts that may Power. be required of him by any ordinance made in pursuance of this act.

§ 7. He shall be commissioned by the governor as a jus- Commission. tice of the peace for the said city, and as such shall be a conservator of the peace for the said city, and shall have power and authority to administer oaths, issue writs and process under the seal of the city, to take depositions, the acknowledgment of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments of writing, and certify the same under the seal of the city, which shall be good and valid in law.

§ 8. He shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases Exclusive jurisarising under the ordinances of the corporation, and concur- diction. rent jurisdiction with all other justices of the peace, in all civil and criminal cases within the limits of the city, arising under the laws of the state, and shall receive the same fees and compensation for his services in similar cases.

§ 9. He shall also have such jurisdiction as may be vest- Quarantine. ed in him by ordinance of the city, in and over all places within five miles of the boundaries of the city, for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations thereof.

10. He shall receive for his services such salary as Compensation. shall be fixed by an ordinance of the city.

§ 11. In case the mayor shall at any time be guilty of a Penalty for mispalpable omission of duty, or shall wilfully and corruptly be conduct. guilty of oppression, malconduct, or partiality, in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall be liable to be indicted in the circuit court of La Salle county, and, on conviction, he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and the court shall have power, on the recommendation of

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ARTICLE SEVENTH.-Of proceedings in Special Cases.

SECTION 1. When it shall be necessary to take private property for opening, widening or altering any public street, lane, avenue or alley, the corporation shall make a just compensation to the person whose property is so taken, and if the amount of such compensation cannot be agreed on, the mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of six disinterested freeholders of the city.

§ 2. When the owners of all the property on a street, lane, avenue or alley proposed to be opened, widened or altered, shall petition therefor, the city council may open, widen or alter such street, lane, avenue or alley, upon condition to be prescribed by ordinance; but no compensation shall in such case be made to those whose property shall be taken for the opening, widening or altering such street, lane, avenue or alley, nor shall there be any assessment of benefits or damages that may accrue thereby to any of the petitioners.

§ 3. All jurors empanneled to inquire into the amount of benefits or damages which shall happen to the owners of property proposed to be taken for opening, widening or altering any street, lane or alley, shall first be sworn to that effect, and shall return to the mayor their inquest in writing, and signed by each juror.

§ 4. In ascertaining the amount of compensation for property taken for opening or widening or altering any street, lane, avenue or alley, the jury shall take into consideration the benefit as well as the injury happening by such opening, widening or altering such street, lane, avenue or alley.

§ 5. The mayor shall have power, for good causes shown, within ten days after any inquest shall have been returned to him, as aforesaid, to set the same aside, and cause a new inquest to be made.

§ 6. The city council shall have power, by ordinance, to levy and collect a special tax on the holders of the lots in any street, lane, avenue or alley, or part of any lane, avenue or alley, according to their respective fronts owned by them, for the purpose of paving and grading the side-walks and lighting said street, lane, avenue or alley.

ARTICLE EIGHTH.-Miscellaneous Provisions.

SECTION 1. The inhabitants of the city of Peru are hereby exempted from working on any road beyond the