11. To prescribe the manner, subject to the provistons of this act, in which the treasurer shall keep the accounts and vouchers, and the clerk shall keep the books, records and papers of such village; to provide all such books and blanks as it shall deem necessary for that purpose, and to examine such accounts, records and papers from time to time, and correct any errors therein.

12. To determine the rules of its own proceedings, and to be the judge of the election and qualification of its own members; to compel the attendance of absent members from time to time, by the entry of a resolution and order in the minutes directing any police officer of the village, or any peace officer residing within the village, to arrest such absent member and take him before the board of trustees, at the meeting from which such member was absent, or some subsequent meeting of the board of trustees, to answer for his neglect.

13. To compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses before the board, or any committee thereof, in respect to any matter pending before or referred to it, by process to be issued by the president, and to be enforced by such board or committee in the same manner as process against witnesses in criminal cases. And the president of the board, or presiding officer of any committee thereof, is hereby empowered to administer oaths to witnesses in all cases pending before or referred to them.

14. To require any officer of the village to furnish reports, information, specifications or estimates whenever deemed proper. 15. To designate three weekly newspapers, printed and published within the corporate limits of said village, in which shall be published, at at* such rates as are allowed by law for the publi cation of legal notices, all such notices, resolutions, ordinances, acts of the board of trustees and reports of officers as shall be directed by the board or required by this act to be published, except the annual statement of said board, which shall be published in only one paper to be designated by the board.

16. To prevent vice and immorality, to preserve peace and good order, and to prevent and quell riots and disorderly assemblages. 17. To restrain and suppress disorderly and gaming houses, all instruments and devices used for gaming, and to prohibit all gaming and fraudulent devices within the said village.

18. To suppress and prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors contrary to law, and to regulate and fix the closing of saloons,

* So in the original.

shops and places where intoxicating liquors are sold, in case of riot, public disturbance, or other emergeney, which in their dis cretion requires it to be done.

19. To restrain and suppress houses of ill-fame, or of assignation and to apprehend and punish keepers of the same.

20. To apprehend and punish common prostitutes, vagrants, beggars and disorderly or drunken persons, and persons unneces sarily congregated upon the walks or corners, or disturbing a public assembly.

21. To license, regulate or prohibit all exhibitions of natural or artificial curiosities, caravans of animals, theatrical and other shows and exhibitions, circuses or other performances for money, within the bounds of said corporation; and to regulate parades, exhibitions, and the parading and playing of bands of music upon the streets and public places therein. The said trustees, or a majority of them, may license any such exhibition or performance on payment of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars in all cases when the amount is not specified by an ordinance, resolution or vote of the board of trustees; but nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the delivery of literary, historical and scientific lectures in said village, the use of apparatus illustrating the same, and the receiving of money for the same; nor shall any church fair, concert or other entertainment under the auspices and for the benefit of any church or religious body in said village be prevented hereby, and no license shall be required for the delivery of such lectures, or for such church fair, concert, or other entertainment.

22. To restrain and prohibit the running at large of sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals, or geese, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same for the penalty and costs of keeping and proceedings.

23. To make regulations for taxing and confining dogs, and preventing the same from running at large, and for destroying such as may be found running at large contrary to any ordinance.

24. To prohibit the abuse of animals; to compel the hitching of animals while standing in the street and to prevent animals being hitched or fastened in the streets of said village for an unreasonable time or unreasonably exposed in cold or inclement weather.

25. To provide for the abatement of nuisances; to compel the owners or occupants of any grocery, tallow-chandler shop, soap factory, privy, sewer, drain, cesspool, pig-sty, stable, barn-yard, manure heap or other unwholesome or nauseous house, building, place or thing, to cleanse, renovate, remove, or abate the same, from time to time, whenever and as often as in the judgment of the board of trustees the same may be necessary for the health and comfort of the inhabitants of said village; and said trustees shall have full power to enter upon the premises upon which a nuisance is permitted, suffered, maintained or controlled, and cause the same to be abated or removed, and cause all expenses of such abatement or removal to be assessed upon and collected from the person who may maintain or control such nuisance, and may also, by action, enforce the penalty imposed by the ordinance of said village for erecting, permitting or maintaining the same.

26. To regulate or prohibit the erection, keeping, or using of slaughter-houses or pig-stys, or the keeping of swine in said village; to direct the location of markets, and houses or places for storing gunpowder, or other explosive material, or volatile and inflammable substance; and to regulate the conveying and keeping of gunpowder and other explosive or dangerous materials, and the use of candles or lights of any kind, or fires, in barns and stables and other places liable to take fire.

27. To regulate or prohibit the exhibition of fireworks, the stor ing of gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous materials, the firing of guns, pistols, powder, or other explosive substance, and the building of bonfires within said village.

28. To regulate, prohibit and prevent the ringing of bells (other than church bells for divine service), blowing of horns, and the making of any improper and disturbing noises in said village; and the racing or immoderate driving of horses, and to authorize the stopping of anyone who shall be guilty of immoderate riding or driving in the streets; and also the flying of kites, rolling hoops, playing at ball, throwing snowballs, or other missiles, coasting or the using of bicycles, tricycles and velocipedes in aud upon the streets of said village, or any other amusement practiced, having a tendency to endanger or annoy persons passing on the streets or sidewalks, or to frighten teams or horses in said village.

29. To regulate or prohibit the incumbering of the streets, parks, pier and basin, public places, sidewalks, crosswalks, lanes

and alleys, with teams, carriages, carts, sleighs, sleds, wheelbarrows, boxes, lumber, timber, building materials, firewood, coal or any other substance or material whatsoever.

30. To prohibit any person from bringing, depositing or having within the limits of said village, any putrid carcass or other unwholesome or offensive substance, and to require the removal or destruction, by any person who shall have such on or about his premises, of any such substance, or any putrid meat, fish, hides or skins of any kind; and on his default, to authorize the removal or destruction thereof by some officer of the village, the expenses thereof to be paid by the person or persons violating any such prohibition, or neglecting or refusing to make such removal or destruction, in addition to the penalty prescribed for such offense.

31. To take such measures as they shall deem effectual to prevent the entrance or spread of any pestilential or infectious diseases in said village, including the power to erect a pest-house or houses when necessary; and to require the removal thereto of any person or persons in said village having infections or pesti lential diseases, whenever they shall by resolution decide that such removal is necessary for the public health and safety, or to prevent the spread of such diseases.

32. To regulate or prohibit the erection or construction of any projection from or in front of any building in, over or upon any of the streets or sidewalks in said village, and cause the same to be removed at the expense of the owner or occupant of the premises and to enforce the penalty prescribed for neglect or failure to make such removal.

33. To provide for the proper drainage of said village, and to that end to erect, construct, maintain or repair all necessary sewers or drains in the streets, lanes, alleys, or public grounds of said village, in the manner and under the restrictions and provisions prescribed by this act, and also to regulate and direct by ordinance or resolution, the mode, manner and time in which any private drains shall be made, maintained, or repaired, or connected with any such public sewer or drain; and in case of neglect or refusal to make, maintain, repair, or connect any private drain as directed, to enforce the same by doing the necessary work, and collecting the expense thereof, in addition to the penalty prescribed for such neglect or failure.

34. To license, regulate, or prohibit the hawking, peddling, or auctioneering of goods, wares, and merchandise, or property of any kind, in or upon the streets, sidewalks, and public grounds of said village, except sales made under any judgment, execution or authority conferred by statute, or in satisfaction of specific liens; to restrain, regulate or prohibit all gift enterprises, or sales of goods founded upon or connected with any gift, raffle, lottery, or chance, in said village; and to regulate and restrain the auction. eering or crying of goods, wares and merchandise or other prop erty or commodity by nonresidents, or transient dealers or venders, in said village.

35. To provide for the planting or setting, protecting or removal of shade or ornamental trees in any public square, grounds or streets in said village; and to prevent the cutting, injury or destruction of any shade or ornamental trees now or hereafter planted in and along such streets, grounds or public square.

36. To designate and establish, by ordinance, such extensions of the fire limits within the said village prescribed by this act, as the said board shall deem proper and necessary, within which limits or of any such extension thereof, no building or structure of wood, shall be erected, or addition or repairs of wood be made to any building now erected; to regulate the erection of buildings and structures within such limits and any extension thereof, and prohibit the erection of cornices or roofs of wood or other material liable to take fire therein; to require iron shutters to be placed on the outer doors and windows of such buildings and structures already erected, and upon such as shall be constructed; and to direct the materials of partition walls, and the construction of chimneys, under such penalties as they may prescribe, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for any one offense, and the further sum of fifty dollars for each week any building or structure so prohibited shall be continued. And every building or structure erected, placed, or continued contrary to such ordinance is hereby declared to be a common nuisance, and may be abated and removed as such by the board of trustees, and every person or corporation violating such ordinance shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor.

37. To compel by ordinance or resolution in special cases, the sweeping and cleaning of chimneys, flues, stove-pipes, and all other conductors of smoke; to prevent a dangerous construction