Seventh. To license, regulate and restrain tavern keep- License. ers, grocers and keepers of ordinaries or victualling or other houses or places, for the selling or giving away wines and other liquors, whether ardent, vinous or fermented.

Eighth. To license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit billiard tables, pin alleys, nine or ten pin alleys and ball alleys. Ninth. To license, regulate and suppress hackmen, draymen, carters, porters, omnibus drivers, cabmen, packers, carmen, and all others who may pursue like occupations, with or without vehicles, under other cognomens, and prescribe their compensation.

Tenth. To tax, license and regulate auctioneers, dis- Auctioneers, &c. tillers, brewers and pawnbrokers, and to impose duties upon the sale of goods at auction.

Eleventh. To license, tax, regulate and suppress hawk- Pedlers. ers and pedlers.

Twelfth. To regulate, license, suppress and prohibit all Shows, &c. exhibitions of common showmen, shows of every kind, concerts or other musical entertainments, by itinerant persons or companies, exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, theatrical performances, and all other exhibitions and amusements.

Thirteenth. To authorize the mayor, or other proper Licenses. officer of the city, to grant and issue licenses, and direct the manner of issuing and registering thereof, and the fees to be paid therefor. No license shall be granted for more than one year: Provided, not less than five, nor more than Proviso. five hundred dollars, shall be required to be paid for any license under this act, and the fee for issuing the same shall not exceed one dollar; but no license for the sale of wines or other liquors, ardent, vinous or fermented, at wholesale or retail, or by inn-keepers or others, as aforesaid, shall be less than fifty dollars. Bond shall be taken on the granting of licenses for the due observance of the ordinances or regulations of the common council.

Fourteenth. To prevent any riot or noise, disturbance Riots. or disorderly assemblage.

Fifteenth. To suppress and restrain disorderly houses Disorderly and groceries, houses of ill fame, billiard tables, nine or ten houses, &c. pin alleys or tables, and ball alleys, and to authorize the destruction and demolition of all instruments and devices used for the purpose of gaming.

Sixteenth. To compel the owner or occupant of any Nuisances. grocery, cellar, tallow chandler shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, barn, privy, sewer, or other unwholesome, nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same, from time to time, as often as may be necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of said city.

Seventeenth. To direct the location and management of, Breweries. and regulate breweries, tanneries and packing houses, and

Proviso.

Markets.

Butchers.

Gunpowder.

Racing,

Encumbering

streets.

Bathing.

Vagrants, &c.

Cattle, &c.

to direct the location, management and construction of, and regulate, restrain and prohibit, within the city, and the distance of four miles therefrom, distilleries, slaughtering establishments, establishments for steaming and rendering lard, tallow, offal and such other substances as can or may be rendered; and all establishments or places where any nauseous, offensive or unwholesome business may be carried on: Provided, that for the purposes of this section the Chicago river and its branches, to their respective sources, and the land adjacent thereto, or within one hundred rods thereof, shall be deemed to be within the jurisdiction of the city.

Eighteenth. To establish and regulate markets and other public buildings, and provide for their erection, determine their location, and authorize their erection in the streets or avenues of the city.

Nineteenth. To regulate, and license or prohibit butchers, and to revoke their licenses, for malconduct in the course of trade, and to regulate, license, and restrain the sale of fresh meats and vegetables in the city, and restrain and punish the forestalling of poultry, fruit and eggs.

Twentieth. To direct or prohibit the location and management of houses for the storing of gunpowder, or other combustible and dangerous materials, within the city.

Twenty-first. To regulate the keeping and conveying of gunpowder, and other combustible and dangerous materials, and the use of candles and lights in barns, stables and out-houses.

Twenty-second. To prevent horse racing, immoderate riding or driving in the streets, and to authorize persons immoderately riding or driving, as aforesaid, to be stopped by any person; and punish or prohibit the abuse of animals; to compel persons to fasten their horses, oxen, or other animals, attached to vehicles or otherwise, while standing or remaining in the street.

Twenty-third. To prevent the encumbering of the streets, side walks, lanes, alleys, public grounds, wharves and docks, with carriages, carts, sleighs, sleds, wheelbarrows, boxes, lumber, timber, fire-wood, posts, awnings, signs, or any substance or material whatever.

Twenty-fourth. To regulate and determine the times and places of bathing and swimming in the canals, rivers, harbors or other waters, in and adjoining said city, and to prevent any obscene or indecent exhibition, exposure or conduct.

Twenty-fifth. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, street beggars, and prostitutes.

Twenty-sixth. To restrain and regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, and geese, and to authorize the distraining, impounding,

and sale of the same for the penalty incurred, and the cost of the proceedings; and also to impose penalties on the owners of any such animals, for a violation of any ordinance in relation thereto.

Twenty-seventh. To prevent and regulate the running Dogs. at large of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large contrary to the ordinance.

Twenty-eighth. To prevent and regulate the rolling of Juvenile sports. hoops, playing at ball, flying of kites, or any other amusement or practice having a tendancy to annoy persons passing in the streets, or on the side walks, or to frighten teams and horses.

Twenty-ninth. To make regulations to prevent the in- Contagious distroduction of contagious diseases, into the city; to make eases. quarantine laws, and enforce the same within the city, and not to exceed fifteen miles beyond the city bounds.

Thirtieth. To have exclusive power over the streets Streets. and alleys, and to remove and abate any obstructions and encroachments therein.

Thirty-first. To compel all persons to keep the snow, Sidewalks. ice and dirt from the side walk, in front of the premises owned or occupied by them.

Thirty-second. To prevent the ringing of bells, blowing Unusual noises. of horns and bugles, crying of goods, and all other noises, performances and devices tending to the collection of persons on the streets or side walks, by auctioneers and others, for the purposes of business, amusement, or otherwise. Thirty-third. To abate and remove nuisances, and pun- Nuisances. ish the authors thereof, by penalties, fine and imprisonment, and to define and declare what shall be deemed nuisances, and authorize and direct the summary abatement thereof. Thirty-fourth. To license, regulate and restrain run- Runners. ners for boats and stages, cars and public houses.

Thirty-fifth. To regulate the burial of the dead, and Burial of the registration of births and deaths; to direct the returning dead, &c. and keeping of bills of mortality, and to impose penalties

on physicians, sextons and others, for any default in the premises.

Thirty-sixth. To appoint watchmen and policemen, and Watchmen. prescribe their duties and powers.

Thirty-seventh. To regulate the measuring and inspec- Inspection. ting of lumber, shingles, timber, posts, staves and heading, and all building materials, and appoint one or more inspectors.

Thirty-eighth. To regulate the place and manner of Fish. selling pickled and other fish, and inspecting the same.

Thirty-ninth. To regulate the weighing and place and Hay. manner of selling hay.

Fortieth. To regulate the measuring of wood and the Wood and coal. weighing and selling of coal, and the place and manner of selling the same.

Provisions.

Liquors.

Inspectors, &c.

Police.

Pumps, &c.

Pounds.

Lamps.

Ferries.
Locomotives.

Bridewell.

Weights and

measures.

Bridges.

Forty-first. To regulate the inspection of flour, meal, pork, beef, and other provisions, and salt to be sold in barrels, hogsheads, and other packages.

Forty-second. To regulate the inspection of whisky and other liquors,,to be sold in barrels, hogsheads, and other

vessels.

Forty-third. To appoint inspectors, weighers, gaugers, and regulate their duties and prescribe their fees.

Forty-fourth. To create and regulate the police of said city.

Forty-fifth. To establish, make, and regulate public pumps, wells, and cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs, and to prevent the unnecessary waste of water.

Forty-sixth. To establish and regulate public pounds. Forty-seventh. To erect lamps, and regulate the lighting thereof, and from time to time create, alter, and extend lamp districts.

Forty-eighth. To regulate and license ferries.

Forty-ninth. To regulate and prohibit the use of locomotive engines within the city, and may require the cars to be used thereon, within the inhabited portions thereof, to be drawn or propelled by other power than that of steam; to direct and control the location of railroad tracks and depot grounds, and prohibit railroad companies from doing storage and warehouse business, or collecting pay for storage.

Fiftieth. To erect and establish a bridewell or house of correction, pass all necessary ordinances for the regulation thereof, and appoint a keeper and as many assistants as may be necessary. In the said bridewell or house of correction shall be confined all vagrants, stragglers, idle or disorderly persons who may be committed thereto, by the mayor or any alderman or other conservator of the peace; and all persons sentenced by any criminal court or magistrate in and for the city, for any assault and battery, petit larceny, or other misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in any county jail, shall be kept therein, subject to labor or solitary confinement.

Fifty-first. To require every merchant, retailer, trader, and dealer in merchandise or property of any description, which is sold by measure or weight, to cause their weights and measures to be sealed by the city sealer, and to be subject to his inspection; the standard of which weights and measures shall be conformable to those now established by law.

Fifty-second. Exclusively to erect and construct, or to permit or cause, or procure to be erected and constructed, float or drawbridges over the navigable waters within the jurisdiction of said city, and keep the same in repair: said bridges to have draws of suitable width.

Fifty-third. To preserve the harbor; to prevent any Harbor. use of the same, or any act in relation thereto inconsistent with, or detrimental to, the public health, or calculated to render the waters of the harbor, or any part thereof, impure or offensive, or tending in any degree to fill up or obstruct the same; to prevent and punish the casting or depositing therein any earth, ashes, or other substance, filth, logs, or floating matter; to prevent and remove all obstructions therein, and to punish the authors thereof; to regulate and prescribe the mode and speed of entering and leaving the harbor, and of coming to, and departing from, the wharves and streets of the city, by steamboats, canal boats, and other craft and vessels, and the disposition of the sails, yards, anchors, and appurtenances thereof, while entering, leaving, or abiding in the harbor, and to regulate and prescribe by such ordinances, or through their harbor master or other authorized officer, such a location of every canal boat, steamboat, or other craft, or vessel, or float, and such changes of station in, and use of, the harbor, as may be necessary to promote order therein, and the safety and equal convenience, as near as may be, of all such boats, vessels, craft, and floats; and may impose penalties not exceeding one hundred dollars for any offence against any such ordinance; and by such ordinance charge such penalties, together with such expenses as may be incurred by the city in enforcing this section, upon the steamboat, canal boat, or other vessel, craft, or float. The harbor of the city shall include the piers and so much of lake Michigan as lies within the distance of one mile thereof into the lake, and the Chicago river and its branches to their respective sources. Fifty-fourth. To exclusively control, regulate, repair, Streets, &c. amend and clear the streets and alleys, bridges, side and cross walks, and open, widen, straighten, and vacate streets and alleys, and put drains and sewers therein, and prevent the encumbering of the streets in any manner, and protect the same from any encroachment and injury.

Fifty-fifth. To direct and regulate the planting and pre- Public grounds. serving ornamental trees in the streets and public grounds.

Fifty-sixth. To borrow money, not exceeding one hun- To borrow modred thousand dollars in any one year, and pledge the rev- ney. enue of the city for its payment, and issue bonds therefor. Fifty-seventh. To fill up, drain, cleanse, alter, relay, re- Grounds, &c. pair, and regulate any grounds, yards, basins, slips, cellars, private drains, sinks, and privies, direct and regulate their construction, and cause the expenses thereof to be assessed and collected in the same manner as side walk assessments. Fifty-eighth. To erect and establish one or more hos- Hospitals. pitals or dispensaries, and control and regulate the same. Fifty-ninth. To abate all nuisances which are or may Nuisances. be injurious to the public health, in any manner they may deem expedient.