Seventh.-To prevent all persons from doing any damage to the sidewalks.

Eighth. To direct the location and management of slaughter houses and markets in said village and to regulate the sale, storage and keeping of gunpowder and other combustible materials.

Ninth. To compel the owners, agents or lessees of any hog yard, or hog pen, stable, privy, sewer, hide yard, slaughter house, markets or any other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to clean, remove or abate the same, from time to time as the village council may deem necessary, for the health, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the said village.

Tenth.-To prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fire places, hearths, stoves, stove pipes, ovens, boilers, boiler stacks, and apparatus, in or about any building, and to cause the same to be placed in a safe condition at the expense of the own er or owners, to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, or the throwing of them into the street; to regulate and prevent the use of fire-arms, and to establish such regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, as they may deem proper, also to adopt such regulations, as they may deem expedient to prevent the introduction or spread of contagious diseases.

Eleventh. To establish the grades of streets, and cause an accurate profile thereof to be made, a copy of which must be filed in the office of the village recorder.

Twelfth.-To license public showmen or exhibitions, billiard tables and bowling alleys.

Thirteenth.-To prevent and punish horse-racing, immoderate riding or driving in the streets; to compel persons to fasten their horses or mules, attached to vehicles while in the streets, and to regulate the places of bathing and swimming in water in the limits of said village.

SEC. 6. Said village council shall have full power and authority to declare and impose fines, penalties and punishments, and to enforce the same against any person or persons who may violate any of the provisions of any ordinance, rule or by-law enacted by them, and all such ordinances, rules and by-laws are hereby declared to have the force of law. Provided, They are not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States and the state of Minnesota. Fines, penalties and punishments may extend as follows, to-wit: Fines not to exceed one hundred dollars, nor imprisonment to exceed thirty days in the county or village jail; offenders may be required to give security for their good behavior, and to keep the peace for a period not exceeding one year, in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 7. All ordinances, rules and by-laws shall be enacted by a

majority of all the members of the village council, and shall be signed by the president or chairman, attested by the recorder, and published once in a newspaper published and printed in said village, or posted conspicuously in three [public] places in said village for ten days before the same shall be in force, and shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose.

SEC. 8. All prosecutions for violating any of the ordinances, rules or by laws enacted under the provisions of this act, shall be brought in the name of the village of Easton, and shall be com. menced by warrant, upon complaint being made, as required by law in criminal cases before justices of the peace, and the same proceedings shall be had thereon as are required to be had by the laws of this state in criminal or civil actions, before justices of the peace. Provided, No appeal shall be allowed in any case where the fine or penalty imposed is less than ten dollars. The justice of the peace of the village shall have and possess exclusive and original jurisdiction of all cases arising under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 9. All fines and penalties imposed under or by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall belong to the village of Easton, and shall constitute a fund to pay the expenses incurred under the provisions of this charter.

SEC. 10. Any five citizens, being freeholders within the corporate limits of said village, and having the qualifications requisite for electors of members of the state legislature, may at any time call a meeting of: the electors thereof, to elect officers provided for in section two of this act, by posting a notice for ten days prior to the meeting, at the post office and at two more public places within the limits of said village, or by publishing the same for two weeks immediately preceding said election, in a paper published in said village, stating the object of the meeting, and the time and place of holding the same, and the electors present at the time and place may organize such meeting by choosing, viva voce, two judges of election and one clerk, who shall take an oath or affirmation to faithfully discharge the duties required of them; and said judges and clerk, being duly qualified, shall forthwith open the polls by proclamation, and conduct the election in the manner prescribed by the statutes of Minnesota for the election of township officers, and the judges of election shall give to each person a certificate of his election within five days after said election.

SEC. 11. After the first election of officers the village council shall act as judges of election, and the annual meeting for the election of officers shall be held on the first Wednesday of April in each year at such place in said village as the counsel may direct, and the polls shall be opened between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and close at four o'clock in the afternoon of said

day. At the close of the polls shall be counted, and a true statement thereof proclaimed to the voters by some one of the judges of election, and the recorder shall make a true copy thereof in a book kept for that purpose, and within five days thereafter shall notify in writing the persons so elected of their election.

SEC. 12. The village council shall give notice of the time and place of holding the annual meeting for the election of officers, by posting a notice of the same fourteen days immediately prior to the day of election at the post office, and at three or more public places in said village, or by publishing it for two weeks immediately prior to said election in a paper published in said village, and may at any time call a special meeting of the electors of the village, by posting or publishing a notice, as provided in this section, for the call of the annual meeting. Provided, No subject or question shall be considered or acted upon at any annual or special meeting unless it has been clearly stated in the notice for the call of such meeting.

SEC. 13. The legal voters of said village may, at any annual or special meeting, authorize the village council to levy a tax to build a pound, or to build a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested under the provisions of this act, and any such tax shall be levied and collected as prescribed by the statutes of this state for the levying and collecting of township taxes.

SEC. 14. The village council shall have the exclusive right to license persons vending, dealing in, or disposing of spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquors, within the limits of said village, and persons so licensed shall not be required to obtain a license from the board of county commissioners, and shall not be prosecuted for selling, bartering or disposing of spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquors, if having first obtained license therefor agreebly to the provisions of chapter sixteen of the general statutes. Provided, That no license shall be granted for less than fifty dollars, and that previous to the granting of any such license a bond shall be executed with the same conditions, and with the same penal sum as required by the general act, and the council shall have full power to restrain any person from vending liquors unless duly licensed by the village counsel of said village.

shall have and may exercise in addition to the power and authority SEC. 15. The justice of the peace and constable of said village herein specially granted to such officers, all the power and authority

in

any case

in any of said townships. The village justice and constable shall take the same oath of office and execute, before entering upon the discharge of their duties as such officers, the same bonds and file the said bonds with the same parties as justices of the peace and constables elected by the said townships, are now or may be hereafter re

possessed by a justice of the peace or constable elected

quired to do, and shall receive the same fees for their services as justices of the peace and constables elected by the said townships are allowed under the statutes of this state, and the constable may at any time under the direction of the president or a majority of the village council, call to his assistance any number of citizens sufficient to aid in the suppression of a riot or any public disturbance, or to aid him in making arrests.

SEC. 16. Should a vacancy occur in any of the offices provided for in this act, the village council are hereby authorized to fill the same by appointment.

SEC. 17. The village of Easton shall be a road district and alltaxes raised within the limits of said village for building bridges or public highways, or for repairing the same, shall be expended under the direction of the village council. Provided, a village council is elected under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 18. The village council shall constitute a village board of auditors for the purpose of auditing all accounts payable by said village, and the recorder shall be clerk of said board and a member thereof.

SEC. 19. The said board of auditors shall meet annually on the Tuesday next preceding the annual village election to be held in said village, and at such other times as they shall deem necessary and expedient for the purpose of auditing and settling all charges against the said village, and they shall state on each account the amount allowed by them, but no allowance shall be made for any account which does not specially state each item of the same and the nature thereof.

SEC. 20. Said board shall draw up a report stating in detail the items of accounts audited and all owed, the nature of each account and the name of the person to whom such account was allowed, including a statement of the fiscal concerns of the village.

SEC. 21. Such report shall be produced and publicly read by the clerk of the said board at the next ensuing village election, and a whole or a part of such report may be referred by the order of the meeting to a committee of three whose duty it shall be to examine the report and report thereon to such meeting.

SEC. 22. The amounts of any account audited and allowed by the board of auditors, and the amount of any account voted to be allowed by any meeting of the voters of said village, shall be paid by the village treasurer on the order of the said board signed by the president and countersigned by the clerk of the said board, and all orders issued to any person by such board for any sum of money due from said village shall be received in payment of village taxes of said village.

SEC. 23.

The village justice shall report quarterly to the village

council all the proceedings instituted before him in which the village is interested and shall at the same time account for and pay over to the village treasurer all fines and penalties collected, by him belonging to said village, and said justice shall be entitled to receive from the county of Faribault such fees in criminal cases occurring without the village as are allowed to other justices in the county for similar purposes.

SEC. 24. The cost and expense of building, grading, paving or repairing sidewalks shall be at the option of the village council chargeable to the lots fronting on said improvement. Whenever the village council shall deem it necessary to construct or repair any sidewalks in said village they may notify all owners and occupiers [pants] of any lot or lots or parcels of land adjoining such sidewalks, to construct or repair the same at his or their own proper expense and charge within a certain time designated by delivering to the owners or occupants of said lot or lots or parcels of land, or by publication in a newspaper printed and published in said village for not less than two weeks of a notice to said owners or occupants, setting forth what work is to be done and the character of the same by such owners or occupants and the time within which they are required to do the same.

SEC. 25. If such work is not done and the sidewalks not built or repaired in the manner and within the time prescribed, the village council may order the same to be done at the expense of the lots and parcels of land adjoining said sidewalks, and said expenses shall be assessed upon such lots and parcels of land so chargeable by the village council and returned by them and said assessment so made and returned if approved by the common council shall become a lien upon said lots and parcels, as in case of town, county and

state taxes.

SEC. 26. All the work for said village exceeding fifty dollars shall be let by contract to the lowest responsible bidder, and due notice shall be given of the time and place of letting such contract and every contract so made shall be commenced within one week of the acceptance of the proposal, unless the village council otherwise determine, Provided; That they shall have power to reject all unreasonable bids.

SEC. 27. No moneys shall be appropriated to any purpose whatever, except and not exceeding the sum of fifty dollars, unless it is expressly authorized by a vote of the legal voters of said village. SEC. 28. All moneys arising from fines, commutations, licenses, etc., shall be paid into the village treasury.

SEC. 29. The village council shall have power and authorityFirst.-To regulate the place and manner of selling and to provide for the inspection and weight of hay and coal, and measuring