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bill as amended; but no further amendments shall be made to such bill after it has been returned. amendments adopted by either board, to a bill pending and originating in the same, shall be incorporated with the bill by engrossment, under the supervision of the president. It shall then be delivered to the president of · the other board, for its action, and may be further amended or rejected by such board. No bill shall become Bill must be an ordinance until the same shall have been signed by siding officer. the presiding officer of each board.

SEC. 13. No ordinance shall be reviewed or reenacted by mere reference to the title thereof, but the same shall be set forth at length, as if it were an original ordinance.

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if vetoed.

SEC. 14. Every resolution adopted or contract ap- Resolution or proved by the city council, appropriating, or involving priating money. the expenditure of money, and every bill passed, shall, within twenty-four hours after the action of the city council, be presented to the mayor for his approval. If he approve the resolution, contract, or bill, as the case Approval may be, he shall sign the same; if not, he shall return it, with his objections in writing, to the city clerk, who shall present the same to the board in which it originated, at the next regular meeting thereof. Each bill, contract, Action on bills or resolution, shall stand as reconsidered, in the board to which it is returned. The board shall cause the objections of the mayor to be entered at large upon the journal, and proceed forthwith to consider the question pending, which shall be in this form: "Shall the bill, contract, or resolution (as the case may be), pass, notwithstanding the objections of the mayor there to?" If two-thirds of all the members elected vote in the affirmative, the president shall certify that fact on the bill, attesting the same by his signature, and send the bill, contract, or resolution, with the objections of the mayor, to the other board, in which like proceedings shall be had in relation thereto; and if the bill, contract, or resolution, receive a like majority of all the members elected to the board, the presiding officer thereof shall, in like manner, certify the fact upon the bill. The bill, or resolution, thus certified, shall be deposited in the office of the city clerk, as an authentic act, and shall be valid, or become an ordinance, in the same manner, and with like effect, as if it had received the approval of the mayor. If the mayor If mayor shall fail for five days to return to the board in which it five days. originated, any bill, contract, or resolution, presented to him for his approval, as aforesaid, the same shall become

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Mayor may call special session.

Protecting bridges.

Platte river and
Cherry creek.

Unlawful to deposit refuse

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thereafter a valid ordinance, or act, contract, or resolution, as the case may be, in like manner as if it had been approved by him.

SEC. 15. The mayor may call, or upon the application of a majority of either board, shall call special sessions of the boards of the city council, or a joint convention of the boards, by causing proper notices in writing to be served upon the members thereof. A copy of the notice thus served shall be entered upon the journal of the board or joint convention. Said notice shall state the objects for which such session is called, and the action at such session shall be confined to the objects stated.

SEC. 16. For the purpose of protecting the bridges and thoroughfares of the city, and lessening the danger of disastrous destruction of property by reason of floods and high water, the city council is hereby authorized to cause the banks and channels of the South Platte river and Cherry creek to be improved, and for this purpose the said city [council] may designate and define the banks of said streams, and locate the lines thereof, at such place and places upon either side of said streams as will, in the opinion of the said city council, best subserve the purposes aforesaid, and may cause docks, embankments, levees or breakwaters to be constructed upon such lines so. as to confine the waters of said streams between the banks so to be established, and may prevent and may remove obstructions therefrom, and to this end the city may acquire the title to any lands in the channels of said streams, or upon the banks thereof, either by purchase or condemnation proceedings.

SEC. 17. It shall be unlawful for any person to dematter in chan- posit in the channels of said streams or upon the sands between the banks thereof, within the city, or for the distance of seventy-five miles above said city, any unwholesome matter or substance whatever, tending to the defilement of the waters of said streams. And the city council is hereby authorized to provide, by ordinance, for the patrol of the said portions of said streams, and for the punishment of offenders against the provisions of this section.

Offenders against the ordinances.

SEC. 18. The city council is hereby authorized to provide for the punishment of all offenders against the ordinances of the city by imprisonment, not exceeding ninety days, in cases. where said offenders shall fail or

refuse to pay the fines and forfeitures which may be recovered against them; and also, to provide by ordinance for all persons so fined to work out said fines and costs on the streets of the city, or in such other way and manner as it may prescribe. All fines and forfeitures collected for offenses committed, or penalties incurred against said ordinances, shall be paid into the treasury of the city by the officers collecting the same, and be disposed of as a part of the general revenue of the city.

of buildings.

SEC. 19. Whenever, in the opinion of the city coun- Removal cil, any building, fence or other structure of any kind, or any part thereof, is liable to fall down and endanger persons or property, or where any building or other structure has been erected or allowed to remain in any locality contrary to ordinance, it may, by joint resolution of both boards, order any owner or occupant of the premises on which said building or other structure stands, to take down the same on account of the owner of the premises, and assess the expense on the land on which it stood. The city may collect such expense in the method prescribed by the General Laws of the State.

SEC. 20. The city council shall have the management and control of the city finances and all property of City finances. the corporation, real, personal and mixed, and shall have power by ordinance:

First--To establish a system of sewerage.

Second-To appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city.

Third-To open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave or otherwise improve and keep in repair streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, sidewalks, drains and sewers, and provide for the planting and protection of shade trees upon the streets and avenues and parks, or other public grounds, and regulate the same.

Fourth-To establish, erect and keep in repair bridges. Fifth-To provide for the appointment of an inspector of buildings, and inspector of steam boilers, and define their powers and duties.

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to control.

Sixth-To divide and re-divide the city into wards, Boundaries and alter the boundaries thereof, for the purpose of of wards. equalizing the population of the several wards.

Lights.

Markets.

Licenses.

Storage.

Fences.

Weights.

Seventh-To provide for lighting the streets and public grounds, and erecting lamp-posts, electric towers, or other apparatus.

Eighth-To provide for the erection of market houses, establish markets and market places, and provide for the government and regulation thereof.

Ninth-To provide all needful buildings for the use of the city.

Tenth-To provide for enclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds belonging to the city.

Eleventh-Exclusively to license, regulate and tax any or all lawful occupations, business places, amusements, places of amusement, and may fix the rate of charges for the carriage of persons and property within the city, by licensed hack-men, omnibus-men, carriage-men, dray-men and express-men.

Twelfth-Exclusively to license, regulate, tax, prohibit or suppress tippling houses, dram shops, billiard tables and bowling alleys, and the selling or giving away of any intoxicating or malt liquors, by any person within the city.

Thirteenth-Exclusively to prohibit and suppress dance houses, opium joints, gaming, gambling houses, dealing in lottery tickets, prize fighting, dog fighting, cock fighting, bawdy houses, disorderly houses, houses of ill fame or assignation, or any place or resort for the practice of lewdness or fornication, or notoriously reputed to be such, whether kept or frequented by one or more persons, and to destroy instruments for gambling.

Fourteenth-To regulate the storage and transportation of illuminating oils, high explosives, gun powder, tar, pitch, rosin or other explosive or combustible material, and regulate or prohibit the use of fire arms.

Fifteenth-To regulate parapet walls and partition fences, and to restrain cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, dogs, fowls and all other animals, from running at large, and to prohibit the erection and maintenance of barb-wire fences within the city limits, and to authorize the summary sale or other disposition of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and dogs found running at large within the city. Sixteenth-To establish standard weights and measures and to regulate the weights and measures to be used in the city in all cases not otherwise provided by law.

Seventeenth-To provide for the measuring and in- Lumber. specting of lumber, and other building materials, and for the measuring of all kinds of mechanical work.

Eighteenth-To provide for the inspection and weigh- May measure, ing of hay and mineral, coal, the measurement of char- etc. coal, firewood and other fuel to be sold and used within the city.

Nineteenth-To provide for and regulate the inspection of flour in barrels or sacks; also tobacco, beef, pork, fish, whisky and other malt and alcoholic liquids.

Twentieth-To provide for and regulate the inspec- Provisions. tion of butter, lard and other provisions.

Twenty-first-To regulate the weight and quality of bread to be used within the city.

Twenty-second-The regulate the size and quality of Brick. bricks to be sold and used within the city.

Twenty-third-To provide for taking the enumeration Census. of the inhabitants of the city.

Twenty-fourth-To prescribe fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and to provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of such penalties.

Twenty-fifth-To prevent the dangerous construction Chimneys, etc. and condition of chimneys, fire places, hearths, stoves, stove pipes, ovens, boilers and apparatus, and to cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe and secure condition, when considered dangerous.

Twenty-sixth-To prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, and to cause all such buildings and enclosures as may be in a dangerous state, to be put in a safe condition.

Twenty-seventh-To regulate or prevent the use of Fireworks.

fire works.

Twenty-eighth-To regulate or prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or promoting fires.

Twenty-ninth-To compel the owners or occupants of houses or other buildings to have scuttles in the roofs, and stairs or ladders leading to same.

Thirtieth-To authorize the mayor, chief and assistant engineers, the fire wardens, police or other officers of said city, to keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious persons, and to compel all officers of said.