Prescribe duties and compensation of officers, etc.

Require bond of officers.

Prevent cruelty to animals.

Prevent animals running at large.

Regulate running at large of ⚫ dogs.

Pay city expenses.

Regulate auctions.

Same.

ordinance, and provide for the recovery and collection thereof; and to provide in default of payment for confinement in the city jail or prison, and for hard labor in the city.

16th. To prescribe and regulate the duties, powers, and compensation of all officers, agents, and servants of the city not herein provided for.

17th. To require of all officers, or servants elected or appointed in pursuance of this act, bond and security for the faithful performance of their duties. No officer shall become security upon the official bond of another. 18th. To provide for the prevention of cruelty to animals.

19th. To prohibit or regulate the running at large of domestic animals such as hogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, fowls, or animals of any kind or description within the corporate limits, and provide for the impounding of all animals running at large contrary to such prohibition, and also for the forfeiture and sale of animals impounded to pay the expenses of taking up, caring for, and selling the same, including cost of advertising and fees of officers.

20th. To regulate, license, or prohibit the running at large of dogs, and guard against injuries or annoyances therefrom, and to authorize the destruction of the same when running at large contrary to the provisions of any ordinance.

21st. To appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the city.

22d. To regulate, license, or prohibit the sale of domestic animals, or of goods, wares, and merchandise at public auction on the streets, alleys, highways, or any public ground within the city.

23d. To regulate or license the auctioneering of goods, wares, and merchandise brought into the state for the purpose of being sold at auction.

streets, alleys,

24th. To care for and control, to name and rename To control streets, avenues, parks, and squares within the city; to and parks. provide for the opening and vacating of streets, avenues, and alleys within the city, under such restrictions and regulations as may be provided by law.

limits.

25th. To define fire limits and regulate the erection: Define fire of all buildings and other structures within the corporate limits, and provide for the removal of any building, or structure, or addition thereto erected contrary to such regulations.

regulate sewers

26th. To lay off the city into suitable districts for Establish and the purpose of establishing a system of sewerage and and drains. drainage; to provide such system and regulate the construction and repairs and use of sewers and drains, and of all proper house connections and branches, and provide penalties for any obstruction of, or injury to, any sewer or part thereof.

regulate water

27th. To erect, construct, and maintain waterworks Construct and either within or without the corporate limits of the city, works. and to make all needful rules and regulations concerning the use of water supplied by such waterworks, and to do all acts necessary for the construction, completion, management, and control of the same, including the appropriation of private property for the public use in the construction and operation of such waterworks; compensation for such appropriation to be made as is provided by section fifty-four (54) of said act as now amended and in force; and the mayor and council of each city, created or governed by said act, shall have power to contract with and procure individuals or incorporations to construct and maintain waterworks on such terms and under such regulations as may be agreed on. 28th. To provide for the organization and support of organize fire a fire department, and to establish regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires.

department.

Improve public grounds.

Require reports from officers.

Regulate riding and driving in

streets.

Regulate keeping of combustibles.

Regulate street transportation.

Appropriate private property.

Punish disturbances of the peace.

Punish vagrants, etc.

Call elections

to fill official vacancies.

29th. To hold and improve public grounds and parks within or without the limits of the city, and provide for the protection and preservation of the same.

30th. To require from any officer of the city, at any time, a report in detail of the transactions in his office or of any matter connected therewith.

31st. To prevent horse racing and immoderate driv. ing or riding in the streets, and to compel persons to fasten their horses, or other animals, attached to vehicles, while standing in the streets.

32d. To regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder and other combustible and explosive articles. 33d. To regulate the transportation of articles through the streets, and prevent injuries to the streets from overloaded vehicles.

34th. To appropriate private property for the use of the city.

35th. To provide for the punishment of persons disturbing the peace and good order of the city by clamor and noise, by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting, or using obscene or profane language in the streets, or other public places, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent and disorderly conduct, or by lewd or lascivious behavior.

36th. To provide for the punishment of vagrants, common street beggars, common prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, burglars, thieves, watch stuffers, ball game players, persons who practice any game, trick, or device with intent to swindle, persons who abuse their families, and suspicious persons who can give no reasonable account of themselves.

37th. To provide for filling such vacancies as may occur in the office of councilman, or other elective office of the city, by calling special elections for that purpose.

38th. To provide for the planting and protection of Provide for shade or ornamental and useful trees.

planting of trees.

weights and

39th. To provide for the inspection of weights and Regulate use of measures, and prohibit the use of any imperfect weights measures. or measures, or weighing apparatus.

depots, and

40th. To regulate levees, depots, depot grounds, and Regulate levees places for storing freights and goods, and to provide for railway pasand regulate the passage of railways through the streets and public grounds of the city.

sage ways.

ning of rail

41st. To regulate the crossing of railway tracks, to Regulate runregulate the running of railway engines, cars, and trucks ways. within the limits of the city, and to make other and further rules and restrictions to prevent accidents at crossings and on the tracks of railroads, and to prevent fires from engines.

weapons and

42d. To punish and prevent the carrying of concealed Regulate use of weapons, the discharge of fire-arms or fire-works of any fire-works. description in any of the streets, alleys, or public grounds, or about or in the vicinity of buildings.

wholesome

43d. To prevent any person from bringing, deposit- Regulate uning, having or leaving upon or near his premises or substances. elsewhere within the city any dead carcass, and putrid beef, pork, fish, hides, or skins of any kind, or any other unwholesome substance, and to compel the removal of the same.

Approved February 27th, A.D. 1879.

tional contracts

and filed.

Affidavit attached.

AN ACT

To amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the 'fraudulent transfer of property," approved, February 19, 1877.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That an act entitled an act to prevent the fraudulent transfer of personal property, approved, February 19, 1877, be amended to read as follows: "Section 1. That no sale, contract or lease, wherein the transfer of title or ownership of personal property is made to depend upon any condition, shall be valid against any When condi- purchaser or judgment creditor of the vendee or lessee to be in writing in actual possession, obtained in pursuance of such sale, contract or lease without notice, unless the same be in writing, signed by the vendee or lessee, and a copy thereof filed in the office of the clerk of the county, within which such vendee or lessee resides; said copy shall have attached thereto an affidavit of such vendor or lessor, or his agent or attorney, which shall set forth the names of the vendor and vendee or lessor or lessee, or description of the property transferred and the full and true interest of the vendor or lessor therein. All such sales and transfers shall cease to be valid against purchasers in good faith or judgment or attaching creditors without notice at the expiration of five years, unless such vendor or lessor, shall, within thirty days, prior to the expiration of the five years from the date of such sale or transfer, file a copy thereof verified as aforesaid in the office of said clerk, and the said vendor or lessor may preserve the validity of his said sale or transfer of personal property by an annual refiling in the manner as aforesaid of such copy." "Sec. 2. The