there is no paper published in the city, written copies shall be posted upon the door of the council chamber the same length of time. They shall also be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, signed therein by the mayor and attested by the recorder.

§ 19. The mayor shall be a conservator of the peace within the city limits, and it shall be his duty to see that all ordinances passed by the city council are strictly executed and their violation punished, to superintend and direct the official conduct of subordinate officers, sign and seal all commissions, licenses and permits granted by the city council. His court shall always be open on every day of the week (Sundays excepted), to hear, try and determine cases where a breach of any city ordinance is charged, and he shall have to issue all necessary process to bring parties before him forthwith for trial.

§ 20. The mayor shall have within the city limits all the powers and jurisdiction vested in justices of the peace, in civil and criminal cases, in their respective counties, and for like services shall receive similar fees, and appeals may be taken from his judgment and decisions to the district court in like manner as from those of justices of the peace.

§ 21. The city marshal shall have power to serve within the city limits all writs and processes directed to him by the mayor, and shall have the same fees therefor as are allowed to constables for similar services; he shall be a conservator of the peace, and shall suppress all riots, mobs and disorderly conduct in the city, and for this purpose may arrest suspicious and disorderly persons, and take them before the mayor for trial and examination without process; he shall have power to commit disorderly persons to the county jail, workhouse, or other place of safe keeping until trial and examination can be had, and shall do and perform all such acts as may be prescribed by ordinance.

§ 22. The marshal shall have all the powers and authority of a constable of the township within the limits of the city, and shall have jurisdiction anywhere within the limits of Richardson county to execute all warrants for the arrest of any person or persons for a violation of any city ordinance or for the commission of any criminal offence.

§ 23. The recorder shall keep a true record of all proceedings of the city council and such record shall be open in all business hours to the inspections of all citizens.

24. The treasurer, recorder, assessor and marshal shall each give bonds to the city before entering upon the discharge of their duties, in any sum of not less than five hundred dollars, which bonds shall be approved by the mayor and filed with him, and shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be required of them by ordinance. not consistent with law.

§ 25. Fines for the violation of city ordinances shall in no case exceed one hundred dollars, and ten days' imprisonment.

§ 26. When the mayor shall pass sentence in pursuance of this act for the violation of any city ordinance, he shall render judgment for costs of prosecution and for fine, if any, in the name of the city, and thereon issue execution for the collection of the same as in civil cases, or he may in his discretion direct that the person so fined, be committed to jail until the fine is paid.

§ 27. All persons residing within the city limits of Rulo, shall perform all work that they might otherwise be required to perform upon roads, upon the streets of the city or the roads leading thereto, as directed by the city council. or pay one dollar per day in lieu thereof, which may be collected by civil suit before the mayor

§ 28. The city council shall have power to impose a poll tax not exceeding one dollar on all able bodied male persons residents of the city of Rulo between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years of age, for the improvement of the streets of the city.

§ 29. The city council may appoint in such manner as it determines, during its pleasure, street commissioners, city attorney, clerks of the market, city supervisors, health officers, and such other officers as it may deem advisable, and may prescribe their duties, powers, and qualifications, or may provide for their election by the citizens.

§ 30. The city council is authorized to levy and collect taxes not exceeding one-half of one per cent on all taxable property within the city, according to the laws of the territory.

§31. The marshal, or in case of his absence or disability, such person as the city council shall appoint in his stead, shall be collector of taxes, and before proceeding to collect the same shall give twenty days' notice of the assessment and levy of the taxes and the rate thereof in general terms, with a general description of the property in a newspaper printed in the city or by posting up such notice in writing in some public place within the city.

§32. At any time within the time such writing is being printed or posted up any person feeling aggrieved by the assessment or taxation, may appear before the city council at their next meeting, and they may correct the same, if found erroneous.

§ 33. The tax list shall be made out by the recorder, and the mayor shall endorse thereon an order to the marshal to collect the taxes thereon levied, which shall authorize him to collect the same by levy and sale as on execution.

§ 34. Taxes on real property shall be a lien thereon, and it may be sold therefor, when the takes remain unpaid for six months after publication of notice of the tax.

§ 35. Such sale must be at auction and there must be thirty days' notice prior to the day of sale given as above provided for giving notice of assessment and tax. On such sale, he who bids to pay the amount due for the least quantity of land shall be deemed the highest bidder, and the manner of ascertaining the least quantity bid for shall be determined by ordinance of the city council.

§ 36. The marshal shall execute and deliver to the purchaser a deed running in the name of the city, which shall have the same force and effect as the deed of the proper county officer in like circumstances on sale for county taxes.

§ 37. The city council shall have power to levy and collect a license tax on merchants, auctioneers, grocers, confectioners, peddlers, brokers, dram shops, liquor sellers and exhibitions for pay, to provide for the licensing and prohibition of all exhibitions, shows and theatrical performances, billiard tables, ten pin alleys and other saloons, but the

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above authority extends to no exhibitions of a purely scientific character. All license tax collected as herein provided shall be paid into the city treasury, and no person paying a city license tax for any of the above privileges shall be required to pay a county license tax for the same privileges.

§ 38. The city council may make all necessary ordinances in relation to the cleanliness or health of the city, and may require the owners of lots upon which water stagnates, to drain or fill up the same, and in default thereof, after reasonable notice, may cause the same to be done at the expense of the city, and cause the same to be sold to pay the expenses of the same, as in case of taxes.

§ 39. The city council may prohibit hogs and other animals from running at large within the city, and regulate the system of cartage, drayage, hacks, omnibuses, etc.

§ 40. The city council shall have power to establish and organize fire companies, and provide them with fire engines, to regulate the keeping and sale of gun powder and other combustibles, to provide by ordinance for the keeping and disbursement of the public moneys of the city, to cause all claims against the city to be audited, and to hold all city officers accountable to the city in such manner as it directs.

§ 41. The city council shall have exclusive authority to establish the grade of all streets and alleys in the city, and may change the same upon the petition of the owners of two thirds of the value of the real property on both sides of the street.

§ 42. The city council are authorized to borrow money for any object in their discretion, if at a regular election, under a notice stating dis tinctly the nature and object of the loan and the amount thereof as nearly as practicable, the voters of the city may determine in favor of the loan by a majority of two thirds of the legal voters at said election, and the loan can in no case be diverted from the specified object.

§ 43. In all elections for city officers the mayor shall issue a procla mation to the voters of the city naming the time and place for such election, and the officers to be chosen, and cause a copy thereof to be posted up at least ten days previous to the day of the said election. The polls shall be opened at ten o'clock in the forenoon and continue open until three o'clock in the afternoon; within two days after said election the judges of election shall make out their returns to the mayor of the city who shall examine them in the presence of the other members of the city council at their next meeting and cause an abstract of the votes to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and issue certificates of election to persons having the highest number of votes for the offices to which they were elected.

§ 44. The present mayor of Rulo city shall issue a proclamation for the election under the present charter, the same as if this act had not been passed.

§ 45. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed from and after the taking effect of this act.

§ 46. This act to take effect from and after the first Monday in April,

1861.

Approved January 11th, 1861.

AN ACT

To dissolve the bonds of matrimony between William H. Lyman and Juliette Lyman.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the bonds of matrimony between William H. Lyman and Juliette Lyman, his wife, be and the same are hereby dissolved, and either party are allowed to marry again.

§3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 11th, 1861.

AN ACT

To dissolve the bonds of matrimony between Jennie Higgins and James A. Higgins.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the bonds of matrimony heretofore existing between Jennie Higgins and James A. Higgins, be, and the same are hereby dissolved, and the parties are hereby released from the obligations of the same.

§ 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 11th, 1861.

AN ACT

To amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Plattsmouth," approved March 14th, 1855.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That section eight of said act of incorporation be so amended that it shall read as follows: "That the qualified voters shall on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1861, and every year thereafter hold a city election for the purpose of electing a mayor, five aldermen, a recorder, assessor, treasurer, marshal and street commissioner; and the mayor and aldermen so elected, when assembled together and duly organized, shall constitute the city council, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; they shall be elected for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The mayor, recorder, assessor, treasurer, marshal and street commissioner, shall be elected by a plurality of the legal voters of said city."

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§ 2. Amend section fourteen, so it shall read as follows: The treasurer, recorder, assessor, marshal and street commissioner shall give such bonds, perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be required of them by ordinances not inconsistent with law, which bonds

shall be approved by the city council, and filed with the recorder, except the recorder's bond, which shall be filed with the city treasurer.

§ 3. Amend section fifteen so it shall read as follows: "In all elections for city officers the recorder shall at least ten days previous to the day of election, post up four notices in four of the most public places of the city, naming the place and day when and where the election will be held, naming the officers which are to be elected, and the election shall be conducted in all respects the same as elections for county officers are conducted, at the time such city election is held.

Within three days after the election, the judges of election shall make out their returns to the president of the city council, who shall examine them, at their next meeting, and cause an abstract of the votes to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, by the city recorder."

§ 4. Amend section nineteen by inserting "street commissioner" in the first line after the word "recorder;" amend section twenty by inserting "street commissioner" after the word "marshal" in first line; amend section twenty-two by striking out the words "street commissioner" in second line.

§ 5. Amend section twenty-five so that it shall read as follows: "The city council are hereby authorized to establish and organize fire companies, and provide them with fire engines, hose and other apparatus; and they shall have the exclusive and perpetual power to grant all ferry licenses within the city limits, and regulate the same by ordinance: Provided, that they shall not have the power to grant the exclusive and perpetual privilege to any one person or company, but may grant licenses to any parties or companies, if application be made, and the requirements of this law complied with: Provided, further, that the said city council shall grant no license infringing on the rights of others under ferry charters heretofore granted. In case of granting licenses they shall prescribe the precise limits for which each license was granted, and a non-compliance of the parties so licensed, with the rules and regulations prescribed by the city ordinances shall be deemed a good and sufficient reason for the annulling of the license so granted.

No license shall be granted for a longer time than five years, and the party so licensed shall be required to pay not less than twenty-five dollars annually in United States currency into the treasury of the city, for the use of the common school fund, and to be used for no other purpose, and may also regulate the keeping and sale of gun powder, within the corporate limits of the city. All money arising from the granting of licenses of any and all kinds shall be paid into the school fund of the city, for the use and support of common schools."

§ 6. Amend section thirty-three so it shall read as follows: "The city council is authorized to levy and collect taxes not exceeding one per cent on all taxable property within the city, according to the laws of the territory."

§ 7. That section thirty-four of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Plattsmouth " shall be so amended as to read as follows: The treasurer shall be collector, or in case of his absence or disability, such person as the council shall appoint in his stead, shall be collector

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