passengers, or any sewer, curbing, or paved gutter, shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars, or impris oned not less than seven, nor more than thirty days, or both. SEC. 4. Every person, who shall wilfully tear down, re- Tearing down move or deface, any notice posted in compliance with law, shall be fined not more than seven dollars. notices. rary business. SECTION 1. The Court of Common Council of the City of S. A., 1879, p. 240. Hartford shall have power by a majority of the members of each branch present and absent, subject to the approval or disapproval of the mayor, to make, alter, and repeal ordinances for the following purposes: To require a suitable Licenses for tempo license fee from and grant licenses to all persons who desire to sell any kind of goods, wares, or merchandise, for a short space of time at holiday seasons, or at other times, and who only temporarily occupy storerooms, sidewalks, or street corners, for the purpose of such sales, also to require a suitable license fee from and grant licenses to peddlers and venders of Licenses to goods, wares, and merchandise about the streets, and at the stores, houses, offices, and banks in said city, and to regulate all such traffic and vending, provided that such ordinances shall not hinder or interfere with the sale within said city of the produce of the farms and gardens of this state. peddlers. SEC. 2. Said Court of Common Council shall also have Gambling. power to make, alter, and repeal ordinances to suppress the playing of policy, so called, and all kinds of gaming or gambling, and to prevent idlers and persons without apparent Penalty for viola. tion of various ordinances. Mayor to furnish statement of municipal affairs. When act takes effect. By-laws to suppress gambling. P. A., 1881, p. 43. employment from inveigling youth and unsuspecting persons into policy shops, gambling places, and places of ill-repute. SEC. 3. Said Court of Common Council shall have power by ordinance to provide for the punishment in and by the Police Court of said city, by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, of all violations of ordinances made under the authority of this act, and of all violations of ordinances relating to nuisances, and ordinances regulating public hacks or carriages, the charges of hackmen and public drivers, cartmen and truckmen, and ordinances requiring sidewalks to be kept clean and free from snow, ice, and other obstructions, and ordinances to prevent the running at large of cattle, sheep, swine and goats. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the mayor of said city, from time to time, to furnish a statement to the Court of Common Council of the condition of municipal affairs, and to communicate such recommendations in relation thereto, as may seem to him proper. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from its II. passage. The court of common council of any city, and the warden, burgesses, and freemen of any borough in this state, and the inhabitants of any town in legal town meeting assembled shall have power to make, alter, and repeal ordinances or bylaws to suppress and punish all kinds of gambling and gaming, pool selling, policy playing, lottery dealing, bucket-shop business, and the staking or deposit of money or collaterals for the same on margins or otherwise against a rise or fall in the markets of the price of stocks, bonds, or merchandise, and to prevent idlers and persons without apparent employment from enticing persons into places where gambling of any kind is carried on. Approved, April 6, 1881. III. published SECTION 1. That the ninth section of the act to alter the charter of the City of Hartford, and to combine sundry public statutes relating thereto, approved June 24, 1859, be so amended in the ninth section of said act as to read as follows: "SEC. 9. No ordinance passed by the Court of Common Ordinances to be Council shall take effect until ten days from the passage of 5. A., vol. 5, p. 340. said ordinance, nor until it has been published twice in two or more daily papers issued within the City of Hartford, and the clerk of said city shall cause every ordinance passed by said Court of Common Council to be published without unreasonable delay; and the certificate of the city clerk upon the record of such ordinance, that the same has been so published, shall be prima facie evidence thereof, in any suit or proceeding; and no ordinance shall be valid, if repugnant to the laws of the state." SEC. 2. All parts of said ninth section, repugnant here- Repeal. with, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. IV. revised ordinances unnecessary. That the Court of Common Council of the City of Hart- Publication of ford may, from time to time, revise the ordinances of said s. A., vol. 7, p. 276. city, combining therein existing ordinances, and making such alteration as they may deem necessary, which revision so made shall be legal and valid without the publication now required to be made of new ordinances. Approved, June 26, 1872.. Authority of police. Arrest without warrant. R. S., p. 34, § 3. When officers may break into houses, § 5. I. Active members of any legally organized police force, in a city or borough, shall have the same authority to execute criminal process in their respective cities or boroughs, as constables have in their respective towns. II. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, borough bailiffs, police officers, and railroad and steamboat police, in their respective precincts, shall arrest, without previous complaint and warrant, any person for any offence in their jurisdiction, when the offender shall be taken or apprehended in the act, or on the speedy information of others; and all persons so arrested shall be immediately presented before proper authority. III. Every officer who shall have a warrant for the arrest of P. A., 1882, p. 188, any person charged with keeping a house of ill-fame, or with keeping a house reputed to be a house of ill-fame or a house of assignation, or with keeping a house where lewd, dissolute, or drunken persons resort, or where drinking, carousing, dancing, and fighting are permitted, to the disturbance of the neighbors, or with violating any law against gaming in the house or rooms occupied by him, or with resorting to any house for any of said purposes, or who shall have a warrant for the arrest of any person charged with keeping open on Sunday any room, place, enclosure or any building or struct ure of any kind or description in which it is reputed that spirituous and intoxicating liquors are exposed for sale, or with selling spirituous and intoxicating liquors in any place on Sunday, or for the seizure of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, may at any time, for the purpose of gaining admission to such house, room, place, enclosure, building, or structure, or for the purpose of arresting any of the persons aforesaid, make violent entry into such house, room, place, enclosure, building, or structure, or any part thereof, after demanding admittance and giving notice that he is an officer and has such warrant, and may arrest any person so charged and take him before the proper authority. The county commissioners, sheriff of the county, and any deputy sheriff by him specially authorized, the chief of police of any city, or any policeman by him specially authorized, may at any time enter upon the premises of any person licensed under this act to ascertain the manner in which such person conducts his business, and to preserve order. IV. board of police commissioners. SECTION 1. The mayor of any city, clerk of the board of witnesses before police commissioners in any city, or any justice of the peace, P. A., 1880, p. 498. may sign and issue process of subpæna to compel the attendance of witnesses before the board of police commissioners in said city, at any lawful meeting of said board. SEC. 2. Such process of subpoena may be served in the Service of subpoena. same manner as now by law provided as to witnesses in civil causes, except that no fees shall be tendered to any witness at the time of such service. Any person upon whom such process has been legally served shall appear before said board in obedience to such process, and testify as to any matters lawfully pending before said board, and any wilful false False swearing. swearing in the premises shall be punished in the same manner as perjury before courts of justice. to attend or to testify. SEC. 3. If any person upon whom such subpoena has been Refusal of witness duly served shall refuse to attend before said board, the clerk of the board of police commissioners, by direction of said board, may issue a capias, directed to some proper officer, to |