ed during any portion of the year with stagnant or noises. Fortieth. To regulate the ringing of bells and Disturbing the crying of goods and other commodities for sale at auction or otherwise, and to prevent disturbing noises in the streets; Forty-first. To prescribe rules to govern under Undertakers, takers for burying the dead, to govern scavengers, scavengers, etc. porters and chimney sweeps, and their compensa tion, and the fees to be paid by them into the city treasury for licenses; guests. Forty-second. To regulate the soliciting of guests Soliciting of for hotels, and passengers and others to ride upon any railroad, boat, street car, omnibus or stage; Forty-third. To fix and regulate the fees of jurors Fees of jurors, and witnesses in any proceedings under this act, or under any ordinance of the common council; etc. cleanings. Forty-fourth. To sell or otherwise provide for Sale of street disposing of all dirt, filth, manure, cleanings, or materials lying in or gathered from highways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys and public places and all earth to be removed therefrom, or from the public squares and grounds of said city in grading, paving, repaving or otherwise improving the same; Forty-fifth. To regulate the construction of partition fences, and of partition and parapet walls, the walls of buildings, the thickness of walls; to regulate the construction of chimneys, hearths, fire places, fire hearths, ovens, and the putting up of stoves, stove pipes, kettles, boilers or any structure Construction of fences, walls, chimneys, fire places, etc. Scuttles in or apparatus that may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to prohibit and prevent the buraing out of chimneys, and chimney flues; to compel and regulate the cleaning thereof, and fix the fees therefor; to compel and regulate the construction of ash houses and deposits for ashes; to compel the owners of houses and other buildings to have scutroof, stairs, etc. les upon the roofs thereof, and stairs or ladders leading to the same; to appoint one or more officers to enter into all buildings and enclosures, except private houses, to discover whether the same are in a dangerous state, and to cause such as are in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition; to authorize any of the officers of the city to keep duties of officers away from the vicinity of fires all idle or suspicious persons, and to compel all officers of the city and other persons to aid in the extinguishment of fires and the preservation of property exposed to danger therefrom; Powers and at fires. Inspection of boilers, etc. License engineers. Gas pipes. Laying and removal of. Meetings of electors. Bread. Telephones, telegraph, etc., poles. Forty-sixth. To provide for the inspection and management of stationary and portable steam boilers and steam generators; to appoint one or more inspectors of portable or stationary steam boilers or steam generators, and to prescribe and regulate their powers, duties, fees and compensation, and to license and regulate engineers and firemen of portable or stationary steam boilers or steam generators; Forty-seventh. To restrain and regulate laying, continuing, repairing or taking up or removing any gas pipes along and across any of the streets, sidewalks, lanes, alleys and public grounds in said city; Forty-eighth. To provide for calling meetings of electors of the city; Forty-ninth. To regulate the weight and quality of bread to be sold and used within the city; Fiftieth. To regulate or prohibit, and to prescribe the location and height of telephone, telegraph and electric poles and wires within the limits of Bay City, and to regulate the manner of stringing wires on the same; to regulate the business of telephoning and conducting a telephone exchange in said city, and to compel all telephone and telegraph companies and others using electric wires to place their wires in conduits under ground, and to remove the poles, wires and apparatus of any person or company, in case of their refusal or neglect to comply with the provisions of any ordinance of the Regulation of. common council of Bay City; to compel all persons owning, managing, operating or using wires in said city, for the purpose of conveying electrical currents or electricity for any purpose, to return such currents by aerial wiring or otherwise, so as to prevent electrolysis, and to provide for a liabil ity by injury to public or private property from electrolysis; permits. Fifty-first. To require all persons, before con- Building structing, altering or enlarging any building or other structure within the city limits, to obtain a permit therefor; and to regulate by ordinance the terms and conditions on which such building permits shall be granted and issued; Fifty-second. The council shall also have power, City Markets. whenever it may deem necessary, to cause to be constructed a city market or markets, or other necessary public buildings, to acquire by purchase the necessary lands whereon to erect the same and to appoint the necessary officers thereof; to locate the same within or without the city limits, and to make such rules and regulations concerning the same as it may deem necessary or proper. The council may provide for erecting and maintaining a city hos- Hospitals, etc. pital with any eleemosynary or charitable association, and provide for the joint management and control thereof. No such public building shall be constructed unless the council shall order the same by a three-fourths vote of all the aldermen elect; Fifty-third. To require transient traders and dealers and itinerant merchants to obtain a license Three-fourths vote to construct. Transient traders and itinerant vend ers to obtain license. Voting machines. before engaging in business in said city, and to prescribe and regulate the terms and conditions of issuing of such license; Fifty-fourth. To own and provide for the use of voting machines, and to provide for the reception, determination and return of the votes cast at elecRegulate use of. tions, and to regulate the manner of the use of such machines, and the conducting of the elections therewith within said city; Water works. Further powers. Vote necessary to pass ordinances. Franchise, a two-thirds vote. Fifty-fifth. The said city shall have the power to acquire, own, maintain and operate a system of waterworks, also to acquire, own and maintain such real estate as it may deem requisite therefor, within or without the limits of said city; Fifty-sixth. The council shall have power to make all such other by-laws, ordinances and regulations as it may deem necessary for the safety and good government of the city, and to preserve the health, and to protect the persons and property of the inhabitants thereof. Sec. 23. The concurrence of a majority of all the aldermen elect shall be necessary to pass any ordin ance, and no ordinance granting rights, privileges or franchises to any person or corporation shall be adopted, amended or repealed without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the aldermen elect. No ordinance, when first introduced, shall be acted upon at the same meeting, but shall be referred to Ordinances lay a committee, or otherwise laid over for at least one week, and shall be published with the council proceedings. No ordinance subjecting any person to fine and imprisonment shall take effect until it shall have been published at least six days in the official newspaper of said city. over one week. Penal ordinance must be published six days before taking effect. Style of ordinances. Sec. 24. The style of all ordinances of the common council shall be, "It is hereby ordained by the common council of Bay City." And all prosecu tions for offenses arising under this act or any ordinance or regulation of the council shall be in the name of Bay City. etc., how made. how used. Sec. 25. All appointments to office shall be made Appointments, by a majority vote of all the aldermen elect, except as herein otherwise provided, and removals from office shall be made by a like vote, except in cases where, by this act, a different vote may be required. Sec. 26. All moneys collected by the city for Certain moneys, licenses and permits, and all fines imposed for the violation of any ordinance, except for license and fees collected for the use of or matters connected with public markets, shall be placed into and con- Removal. stitute a part of a special fund, to be appropriated for the use and benefit of charitable purposes, as may be directed by the common council. Sec. 27. The common council of said city is hereby authorized and required to perform the same duties in and for said city as are by law imposed upon the township boards of the several townships in this State in reference to school taxes, county and state taxes, the support of the poor, and state, district and county elections. When council to act as town ship board. Council to have vision. Sec. 28. The legislative powers of the city gov general superernment are hereby vested in the common council, which shall possess a general supervisory control over the officers, agents and employes of the city government; also over all boards and commissions of the city, and over the officers, agents and employes of said boards and commissions. Sec. 29. The comptroller, treasurer, board of public works and all other officers and boards of such city, shall take notice officially of the acts and resolutions of the council and board of education, and said council and board of education shall in like manner take official notice of acts and resolutions of each other. Officers to take official notice of certain acts. Duties of Sec. 30. It shall be the duty of every alderman aldermen. in said city to attend the regular and special meetings of the council; to act upon committees when thereunto appointed; to order the arrest of all persons violating the laws of this State, or the ordinances, by-laws or police regulations of said city; to |