Markets.

Buildings.

Public grounds.

To license

and tax merchants, &c.

Carriages, drays, &c.

Porters and

porterage.

Exhibitions.

Disorderly houses.

Fire compa

nies.

Chimneys,

SEC. 14. To erect market houses, establish markets, and market places, and provide for the government and regulation thereof.

SEC. 15. To provide for erecting all needful buildings for the use of the city.

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

SEC. 17. To license, tax, regulate auctioneers, merchants and retailers, grocers, taverns, ordinaries, hawkers, pedlars, brokers, pawn brokers, and money changers.

SEC. 18. To license, tax and regulate hacking, carriages, wagons, carts and drays, and fix the rates to be charged for the carriage of persons, and for the wagonage, cartage, and drayage of property.

SEC. 19. To license and regulate porters and fix the rates of porterage.

SEC. 20. To license and regulate theatrical and other exhibitions, shows and amusements.

SEC. 21. To tax, restrain, prohibit and suppress, tipling houses, dram shops, gaming houses, bawdy and other disorderly houses. SEC. 22. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize and establish fire companies.

SEC. 23. To regulate the fixing of chimneys and the flues

flues, & pipes. thereof, and stove pipes.

Combustible materials.

Walls and fences. Weights and

measures.

Lumber and materials.

Inspection of

SEC. 24. To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other combustible materials.

SEC. 25. To regulate and order parapet walls and partition fences.

SEC. 26. To establish standard weights and measures, and regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city, in all other cases not provided for by law.

SEC. 27. To provide for the inspection and measuring of lumber and other building materials: and for the measurement of all kinds of mechanical work.

SEC. 28. To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay, hay, lime, &c. lime, and stone coal, the measuring of charcoal, fire wood, and othor fuel, to be sold or used within the city.

Beef, pork,

&c.

Weight of bread.

Census.

Removal of officers.

Jurors and

SEC. 29. To provide for and regulate the inspection of tobacco, and of beef, pork, flour, meal, and whiskey in barrels. SES. 30. To regulate the weight, quality, and price of bread sold and used in the city.

SEC. 31. To provide for taking the enumeration of the inhabitants of the city.

SEC. 32. To regulate the election of city officers, and provide for removing from office any person holding an office created by ordinance.

SEC. 33. To fix the compensation of all city officers and witnesses fees. regulate the fces of jurors, witnesses and others, for services rendered under this act or any ordinance.

City police.

SEC. 34. To regulate the police of the city, to impose fines, and forfeitures and penalties, for the breach of

any ordi

nance, and provide for the recovery and appropriation of such Fines and forfines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of such penalties. feitures.

SEC. 35. The city council shall have exclusive power with- Billiard tain the city, by ordinance, to license, regulate, and suppress and bles, &c. restrain, billard tables, and from one to twenty pin alleys, and every other description of gaming or gambling.

SEC. 36. The city council shall have power to make all Ordinances. 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.

SEC. 37. The style of the ordinances of the city shall be: Style of. "Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Springfield."

effect.

SEC. 38. All ordinances passed by the city council shall, When to take 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.

SEC. 39. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the How proven. seal of the corporation, and when printed and published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

ARTICLE VI.

Of the Mayor.

SEC. 1. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the city Casting vote council and shall have a casting vote and no other. In case of of Mayor. non-attendance of the mayor or at any meeting, the board of ald

ermen shall appoint one of their own members chairman, who Chairman. shall preside at that meeting.

SEC. 2. The Mayor or any two aldermen may call special Special meetmeetings of the city council.

ings.

SEC. 3. The Mayor shall at all times be active and vigilant Duties of in enforcing the laws and ordinances for the government of Mayor said 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.

call on inhab

SEC. 4. He is hereby authorised to call on any male inhabi- In case of riot tant of said city over the age of eighteen years to aid in Mayor may enforcing the laws and ordinances; and in case of riot, to call itants. 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 the said city a fine not exceed-refusal. ing five dollars.

Fines for

books and

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

SEC. 6. He shall have power to execute all acts that may To extend all

arts.

Mayor cóm

Powers.

be required of him by any ordinance made in pursuance of

this act.

SEC. 7. He shall be commissioned by the Governor as, a missioned as justice of the peace for said city and county, and as such shall justice peace. be a conservator of the peace in the said city; and shall have power and authority to administer oaths, issue writs and processes under the seal of the city, to take depositions, the acknowledgements of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments of writing, and certify to the same under the seal of the city, which shall be good and valid in law.

Exclusive jurisdiction.

Fees.

Salary of
Mayor.

Mayor may be

mal-conduct.

SEC. 8. He shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases arising under the ordinances of [the] corporation,and concurrent jurisdiction with all 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.

SEC. 9. He shall also have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him by ordinance for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations thereof, and he shall receive for his services such salary as shall be fixed by ordinance of the city.

SEC. 8. [10.] In case the mayor shall at any time be guilty of indicted for palpable omission of duty, or shall wilfully and corruptly be guilty of oppression, mal-conduct, or partiality in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall be liable to be indicted in the circuit court of Sangamon county, and on conviction; he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars; and the court shall have power, on recommendation of the jury, to add to the judgment of the court, that he be removed from office.

Where private property tak

cn to open streets.

Petition by owners for widening streets.

Damages,

ARTICLE VII.

Proceedings in Special Cases.

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

SEC. 2. When the owner [s] of all the property and [on any] street, lane, avenue, 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 conditon to be prcseribed by ordinance, but no compensation shall in such case be made to those whose property shall be taken, for opening, 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.

SEC. 3. All persons empannelled to enquire into the amount how assessed. of benefits or damages which shall happen to the owners of property proposed to be taken for opening, widening, or altering any street, lane, avenue, or alley, shall be first sworn to that

effect, and shall return to the mayor their inquest in writing, and signed by the Jurors.

SEC. 4. In ascertaining the amount of compensation for Benefits and property taken for opening, widening, or altering any street, injuries. 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 streets, lanes, avenues, or alley.

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

to be made.

streets.

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

ARTICLE VIII.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

road and

SEC. 1. The inhabitants of the city of Springfield are Citizens exhereby exempted from working on any road beyond the limits empt from of the city, and from paying any tax to procure laborers upon county tax. the same, and from any tax for county purposes except upon real estate: Provided,The corporation shall support and provide Proviso. for all the resident paupers of said city, and pay the expenses of the circuit court in all criminal cases arising out of the of fences of any citizen of said city, as also jail fees which may accrue therefrom, viz: boarding and lodging of criminals, or charges that may be just and equitable.

SEC. 2. The city council shall have power for the purpose Labor on of keeping the streets, lanes, avenues, or alleys in repair, and streets. require any male inhabitants in said city of twenty one years of age to labor on said street, lane, avenue, or alleys, not exceeding three days in each and every year; and any person failing to perform such labor when duly notified by the super- Refusal to visor, shall forfeit and pay not to exceed one dollar per day for each day so neglected or refused.

labor.

SEC. 3. The city council shall have power to provide for Punishment of the punishment of offenders, by imprisonment in county or city offenders. jail in all cases when such offenders shall fail or refuse to pay the fines and forfeitures which may be recovered against them.

SEC. 4. The city council shall cause to be published annual- Annual stately, a full and complete statement of all moneys received and ments. expended by the corporation during the preceding year, and on what account received and expended.

force.

SEC. 5. All ordinances and resolutions passed by the presi- Ordinances of dent and trustees of the town of Springfield shall remain in trustees in force until the same shall have been repealed by the city council hereby created: Provided, No contract or agreement shall Proviso. be affected thereby.

SEC. 6. All suits, actions, and prosecutions, instituted, com- Suits and ac

tions, how prosecuted.

Fines, &c. ac

vested.

menced, or brought by the corporation hereby created, shall be instituted, commenced, and prosecuted in the name of the city of Springfield.

SEC. 7. All actions, fines, penalties, and forfeitures, which cruing-how have accrued to the president and trustees of the town of Springfield, shall be vested in, and prosecuted by, the corporation hereby created.

Property of

city.

SEC. 8. All property, real and personal, heretofore belongtown vested in ing to the president and trustees of the town of Springfield for the use of the said inhabitants of said town, shall be, and the same is hereby, declared to be vested in the corporation hereby created.

Charter not to invalidate

acts of town.

Duty of trus tees of town to issue procla mation,

Appeals allowed.

Office of Mayor when va

SEC. 9. This charter shall not invalidate any act done by the president and trustees of the town of Springfield, nor divest them of any right which may have accrued to them prior to the passage of this act.

SEC. 10. The President and trustees of the town of Springfield shall, immediately after the passage of this law, within the limits of the city of Springfield, issue their proclamation for the election of officers, and cause the same to be published in all the newspapers in said city, for four weeks in succession prior to the day of election for said officers.

SEC. 11. Appeals shall be allowed from the decision in all cases arising under the provisions of this act, or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof, to the circuit court of Sangamon county, and every such appeal shall be taken and granted in the same manner and like effect as appeals are taken from, and granted by, justices of the peace to the circuit court under the law of this state.

SEC. 12. Whenever the mayor shall absent himself from the city, or shall resign, or die, or his office shall otherwise be cant filled by vacated, the board of aldermen shall immediately proceed to elect one of their number president, who shall be the mayor pro tem.

Mayor pro

tem.

Act declared public.

Actsrepealed.

Jurisdiction

of city marshall and offi.

cers.

Act to be published.

SEC. 13. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and may be read in evidence in all courts of law and equity in this state without proof.

SEC. 14. All acts or part of acts coming within the provisions of this charter, or contrary to or inconsistent with its provisions, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. The city marshal, or any other officer authorised to execute writs or other process issued by the mayor, shall have power to execute the same any where within the limits of the county of Sangamon, and shall be entitled to the same fees for travelling as are allowed to constables in similar cases.

SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the president and trustees of the town of Springfield, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause the same to be published two weeks in succession in two of the public journals printed in said town, and Meeting of le- thereafter give notice for a public meeting of the legal voters gal voters. of said town, who shall have been resident citizens thereof