Exemption of
Firemen from

(1629.) SECTION 1. Any person who was a fireman in any Militia duty, etc. incorporated city or village in this State on the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, or at any time thereafter, and who shall have served for the term of seven years from that time, or from the time of his appointment, if appointed since that time, and every person who may hereafter be appointed a fireman in any such city or village, and serve as such fireman, shall, during the time of such service, be exempted from serving as a juror in any of the Courts of this State, from the payment of any tax assessed against his person for labor on highways, and from the performance of all militia duty; and any fireman who shall serve a term of seven years, shall forever thereafter be exempt from all militia duty, except in cases of invasion or insurrection. (a)

(a) As Amended by "An Act to Amend Section One, Chapter Forty-Eight, Title Nine, of the Revised Statutes of 1846," Approved January 24, 1853. Laws of 1853, p. 12.

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(1630.) SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for the qualified voters Moneys may be of any such city such city or village, at their annual election of officers pensate Firemes. thereof, to authorize the Common Council, or other corporate board of such city or village, to raise a sufficient sum to pay each fireman therein the sum of five dollars; and thereupon such sum shall be levied and collected, in the same manner as the other contingent expenses of such city or village are levied and collected.

compensation.

(1631.) SEC. 3. Upon such provision being made for the Payment of payment of firemen, as provided in the preceding section, each fireman who shall produce a certificate from the foreman of his company, countersigned by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of such city or village, stating that he has well and faithfully performed his duties as such fireman during the year then.next preceding, shall be allowed and paid out of the Treasury of such city or village, the said sum of five dollars as a compensation for his services.

by Recorder

(1632.) SEC. 4. The Recorder or Clerk of every such city Record to be kept or village shall keep an accurate record, in a book to be clerk. provided for that purpose, of the name, occupation and residence of every fireman of such city or village, together with the date of his appointment, and a designation of the company to which he is attached; and whenever any fireman shall resign or be removed, it shall be so entered upon such record; and the appointment, resignation or removal, of every fireman, shall also be entered on the minutes of the Common Council, or other corporate board.

service.

(1633.) SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Recorder or certificat. of Clerk of such city or village, to deliver to every fireman who shall have served during the said term of seven years as provided in this chapter, a certificate to that effect, signed by himself and the Mayor of such city, or President of such village; which certificate shall be received as evidence in any of the Courts of this State.

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(1634.) SEC. 6. It shall be lawful for the Common Council, Taxes for pur or other corporate board of each incorporated city or village, pairing Engines. to levy and collect, by a tax upon all the taxable real and personal property within the limits thereof, in the manner prescribed in the charter of such city or village, for the collection of taxes therein, such sums as may be necessary for the purchasing and repairing of fire engines and other fire apparatus, and for defraying all other necessary expenses of the fire department thereof.

Fire Companies may make ByLaws, etc.

Fire Engines exempted from execution.

(1635.) SEc. 7. Every fire company shall have power to make such by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, for their government and discipline, and to prescribe such penalties for the violation thereof, not exceeding five dollars for any one offence, as they may deem necessary to the efficient accomplishment of the object of their organization; and they may sue for and collect such penalties in the name of the Common Council, or other corporate board of the city or village to which they belong.

(1636.) SEC. 8. All fire engines, and apparatus requisite for, and ordinarily used by fire companies in the extinguishment of fires, which are now owned, or which may hereafter be purchased and owned by any incorporated city or village, and kept for the use of any fire companies therein, and all waterworks, with the buildings, machinery and fixtures, and the ground occupied thereby, now owned, or which may hereafter be purchased and owned by any incorporated city or village, and used or intended to be used for the supplying of water 1843, p. 19, Sec. for the extinguishment of fires and the use of the inhabitants, 1844, p. 76, Sec. shall be, and are hereby exempted from levy or sale for any debt, damages, fine or amercement whatever.

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etc may License

hibitions

(1637.) SECTION 1. The Township Board of any township, or Township Board, the corporate board of any village, may at any meeting held Shows and Exfor that purpose, license theatrical exhibitions, public shows, and such other exhibitions as they deem proper, to which admission is obtained on payment of money, upon such terms. and conditions as they shall think reasonable, and may regulate the same in such manner as they shall think necessary for the preservation of order and decorum, and to prevent any danger to the public peace; but no such license shall be in force for a longer time than the officers granting the same Ishall have been elected to office.

setting up Shows

(1638.) SEC. 2. Any person who shall set up or promote any Punishment for such exhibition or show, or shall publish or advertise the without License. same, or otherwise aid or assist therein, without a license first

obtained, as provided in the preceding section, or contrary to the terms and conditions of such license, or while the same is suspended, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.

Inhabitants of
Townships, etc.,

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GUNPOWDER.

(1639.) SEC. 3. The inhabitants of every township or incormay make regu porated village may, at any regular meeting, order that no tion to keeping. gunpowder shall be kept in any place within the limits of such township or village, unless the same shall be kept in tight casks or canisters; and that no gunpowder above the quantity of fifty pounds, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, or in any ship or vessel, which shall be within the distance of twenty-five rods from any other building, or from any wharf; that no gunpowder above the quantity of twenty-five pounds, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, within ten rods of any other building; and that no gunpowder above the quantity of one pound, shall be kept or deposited in any shop, store or other building, within ten rods of any other building, unless the same shall be well secured in copper, tin or brass canisters, holding not exceeding five pounds each, and closely covered with copper, brass or tin covers.

When Search Warrant may be wued.

Forfeiture for violating two

tions

(1640.) SEC. 4. Upon complaint made on oath to any Justice of the Peace, by any township or village officer, that he has probable cause to suspect that gunpowder is deposited or kept within the limits of the township or village, contrary to any such order, such Justice may issue his warrant, directed to any constable of such township, or the marshal of such village, ordering him to enter any shop, store or other building, or vessel specified in said warrant, and there to make diligent search for the gunpowder suspected to have been deposited or kept as aforesaid, and to make return of his doings to such Justice forthwith.

(1641.) SEC. 5. If any person shall commit either of the preceding Sec- offences mentioned in the two preceding sections, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; but the two preceding sections shall not extend to any manufactory of gunpowder, nor in any case prevent the transportation thereof through any township, or from one part of any township to another part thereof.