aforesaid, for the violation of any of the ordinances of the said city, unless upon oath or affirmation made and filed before said justice, establishing to his satisfaction, by one or more particulars mentioned therein, that such process is necessary to secure the due enforcement of the ordinance, in the matter of said complaint, against such person or persons. grieved may 15. And be it enacted, That every person against whom Persons agjudgment may be obtained before any police justice for the appeal. violation of any of the ordinances of the said city, shall have the right of appeal, in common with the city, to the higher courts, as in case of civil suits before justices of the peace. powers of council. 16. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for a majority Duties and of the whole number of members of common council that common may be assembled, in council meeting convened, to pass all ordinances for establishing a public ground, or grounds, and for reclaiming, improving, regulating and protecting the public grounds and walks, and for regulating, levelling, grading, paving, flagging, gravelling, improving, clearing, and repairing the avenues, streets, alleys or side-walks therein, for ascertaining and establishing (by appointing a city surveyor, or otherwise) the lines and boundaries of the same, and for preventing and removing all encroachments, incumbrances and nuisances upon the same, and for regulating the planting and protection of shade trees, for compelling the occupiers and owners of lots to grade, curb and pave the side-walks opposite their lots, and to keep the same and the gutters clear, and clear of snow and ice, and other impediments, for regulating wharves, docks and piers, belonging or about said city, and the rates of wharfage for all wharves in charge of, or owned by said city; for abating and removing all nuisances on or in the Mullicas, or Little Egg Harbor river, opposite the said city, and in any creek, street, wharf, or city, or other place in said city, and for preventing or removing all obstructions in the Little Egg Harbor river opposite the same, and for the regulation of the distances any wharf or wharves may be built out into the Little Egg Harbor river, opposite the same, for causing common sewers or drains to be made, and granting permission to construct vaults in any part thereof; for lighting the streets, and for regulating the laying of gas or other pipes in or under the same; for sinking and regulating wells, cisterns, and pumps in said streets; for erecting, maintaining and regulating public markets in said city; for erecting and maintaining a city hall, city prison, school houses and such other public buildings as may be necessary or convenient in said city; for the better regulation and support of the poor; for preventing persons from riding, driving, or passing over or upon the side-walks with horses, wagons, carts or carriages, or animals of any description, and for preventing the immoderate riding or driving through, or in any avenue, street or alley in said city, for the prevention or suppression of fires, for compelling the cleaning of chimneys, for appointing watchmen and additional police, and prescribing their powers and duties; for regulating the vending of meats and vegetables, for regu lating butchers, hawkers, peddlers and petty chapmen; for the more effectual suppression of vice and immorality; for preserving peace and good order; for restraining vagrants, mendicants and street beggars; for suppressing and restraining disorderly and gaming houses, or public gaming in the said city; for preventing and restraining riots, routs, disturbances, or disorderly assemblages, and the carrying of concealed weapons in any street, alley, house, or any other place in said city, and on the Little Egg Harbor river opposite thereto; for preventing the running at large of cattle, horses, goats, geese, dogs and swine, and for imposing a reasonable tax upon the owners or possessors of dogs; for prescribing and defining the duties of the several officers elected in said city; and such other ordinances for promoting the peace, good order and prosperity of said city as they may deem expedient, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States, or of this state; and to enforce the observance of all such ordinances, by prescribing a forfeiture or penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be council may ses for inns, recoverable by action of debt, with costs, before any police. justice of said city, in the name of "the treasurer of Egg Harbor City," for the use of said city, or they may prescribe punishment therefor by fine or imprisonment in the city prison, or both, to be imposed by the police justice hearing and determining the same, the fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, and the imprisonment thirty days, and until fines and costs be paid; all said ordinances shall be caused to be published by printed handbills, put up in five of the most public places in said city by the clerk of said city, for at least ten days before said ordinances shall go into effect; and no ordinance shall be enacted or passed by said common council, unless the same shall have been introduced before said common council at a previous meeting. 17. And be it enacted, That a majority of the whole num- Common ber of members of common council that may be assembled, grant licen exclusive of the mayor, or presiding officer in council &c. meeting convened, shall have the sole, only and exclusive right and power of granting licenses under the common seal of said city, to all and every innkeeper and retailer of spirituous liquors residing within said city, subject to the same provisions, and in like manner, as the same may lawfully be done by the courts of common pleas in this state, except that they may grant them for such length of time, not exceeding one year, as they may deem best; and they shall have the sole, only and exclusive right and power of licensing such and so many keepers of oyster houses and cellars, and places for the sale of fermented liquors, within said city, upon such terms and conditions, and under such regulations, as they may deem most conducive to the good of said city; and the amount assessed and paid upon granting all licenses, shall be paid to the city treasurer for the use of said city. be raised by tax. 18. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the voters Money may of said city, at the annual elections, by ballot (by specify. ing the amount desired, and the object or objects to which it is desired to have it appropriated, and the manner in which it is desired to have it raised, whether by tax or Compensation of officers. Duties of assessor. loan, on the same ticket or ballot on which the names of those voted for the officers in said city, are written or printed), to direct to be raised by loan or by tax, from year to year, such sum or sums of money, in addition to that herein before directed, or authorized to be raised by the common council of said city, as they may deem expedient, for defraying the expense of lighting the streets of said city, supporting a night watch or police therein, supplying the said city with water for the extinguishment of fire and for other purposes, for the repairing and improving of the streets of said city, for improving the public grounds, for erecting and maintaining public market houses, a town house or city hall, city prison, and school house or houses, and for all other purposes and objects authorized by this act; said loans so directed to be raised.shall then be carried out on the best terms they can obtain, by the common council of said city, and a certificate or certificates of loan, or a bond or bonds, be issued therefor, as in other cases; and any sum or sums, as herein before directed to be raised by tax, shall be assessed by the assessor upon the actual value of property, and collected in the same manner, and at the same time as other taxes, and when several sums of money are voted for, that receiving the highest number of votes, whether by tax or law, shall be raised. 19. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the common council of said city, to pay the treasurer, clerk, assessor, overseer of the poor, marshal, and other officers and agents of said city, such compensation for their services as the said common council may deem reasonable and proper. 20. And be it enacted, That the assessor of said city shall assess upon the persons and property of the residents, and the property of non-residents within the said city, and the treasurer shall collect all taxes ordered by the common council of said city, or by the voters thereof at their annual election directed or required to be assessed or collected within the said city, in the same manner as the assessors and collectors of townships are, or may be, by law required to assess and collect the state and county tax within their commis appeal. 21. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of appeal Meetings of in cases of taxation shall convene annually, on the fourth sioners of Thursday of July, to hear and determine all appeals, and they shall sit from nine o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the afternoon, and if necessary so to do, for such further time as may be required. notify per amount of tax assessed. 22. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall, at least Treasurer to one week before the day of appeal, in cases of taxation, sons of demand of all persons taxed, the amount of their tax, by notice served upon them personally, if he can find them in the limits of the city, or left at their residence, if living in the city, and shall, at the same time, give notice of the time and place of the meeting of the commissioners of appeal in cases of taxation, and no other notices shall be required; and in case of the non-payment of any taxes by the twentieth day of August in each year (excepting when it shall happen on a Sunday, then on the following day), the treasurer shall make out a list of the names of the delinquents, with the sums due from them respectively, annexed, and deliver the same to the mayor, or a resident justice of said city. delinquent 23. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Collection of mayor or justice of the peace, on receiving a list of the taxes. names of such delinquents, to administer an oath or affirmation to the said treasurer, that the moneys in said list had been duly demanded, on due notice given, or left at the usual place of residence of each delinquent, who can be found, or who may then reside in said city, and thereupon' to give the said treasurer a receipt for such list, certifying therein the names of the delinquents, and the sums at which they are respectively assessed; and it shall be the duty of said mayor, or justice, within five days after the receipt of |