SEC. 16. The city council shall have power to re- May require bonds. quire of the officers appointed or elected in pursuance of this act, bonds with penalty and security, for the faithful performance of their respective duties as may be deemed expedient, and also to require all officers appointed or elected as aforesaid to take such oath or make such affirmation as the city council may prescribe for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices, before entering upon the discharge of the same.

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SEC. 17. The city council shall have, subject to the Enumeration provisions hereinafter named, the general management council. and control of the finances, and all property, real, personal and mixed, belonging to the corporation, and shall likewise have power within the jurisdiction of the city, by ordinance not repugnant to the constitution of the United States or the constitution of the State of Colorado:

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 make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws for that purpose and to enforce the same within five miles of the city.

Fourth. To establish hospitals and make regulations for the government of the same.

Fifth. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, to declare what shall be a nuisance, and to prevent and remove the same.

Sixth. 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.

Seventh. To establish, erect and keep in repair bridges.

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

population of the city, as shown by the census, or other enumeration provided for by ordinance or other legal authority shall exceed seventy thousand to create an additional ward, and from time to time may add an additional ward for every ten thousand inhabitants, in excess of seventy thousand.

Ninth. To provide for lighting the streets and erecting lamp posts.

Tenth. To erect market houses, to establish markets, and market places, and to provide for the government and regulation thereof.

Eleventh. To provide all needful buildings for the use of the city.

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

Thirteenth. To license, tax and regulate auctioneers, grocers, commission merchants, retailers, merchants, hotels and inn keepers, boarding houses, public buildings, public halls, public grounds, concerts, photographists, artists, agents, porters, runners, drummers, public lecturers, public readings and shows, real estate agents and brokers, horse and cattle dealers, beer houses, patent right dealers, inspectors, gaugers, stock yards and wagon yard mercantile agents, insurance companies, insurance proprietors, agents, second hand dealers, junk shops, bill posters, banking and other corporations, and institutions, drain pipe layers, street railroad cars, Herdic or other coaches or carriages, hackney carriages, omnibuses, carts, drays, job wagons, ice wagons and all other vehicles and all other business trades, avocations or professions, whatever, and fix the rates for carriage of persons, and of wagonage, drayage or cartage of property; and to license, tax and regulate as ordinaries, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawn brokers, money brokers, money changers, intelligence offices, public masquerades, balls, street exhibitions, sparring exhibitions, fortune tellers, pistol galleries, dealers in tickets of legalized lotteries, corn doctors, private venereal hospitals, museum and menageries, equestrian performances, horoscope views, lung testers, muscle developers, magnifying glasses, pin alleys, ball alleys, billiard

tables or any other tables, theatrical or other exhibitions, shows, and amusements, and to suppress dance houses, opium joints, gaming, gambling houses, prize fighting, dog fighting, cock fighting, bawdy houses, disorderly houses, houses of-ill-fame or assignation, and to destroy instruments for gaming.

Fourteenth. To license, tax and regulate hackmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, porters, and to fix the rates of porterage, and to license, tax and regulate all others pursuing like occupations with or without vehicles, and prescribe their compensation; and to regulate, license, tax and restrain runners for cars, stages, hacks, carriages and public houses.

Fifteenth. The city council shall have exclusive power within the city, to license, tax, restrain, regulate, prohibit and suppress, tippling houses, dram shops, and the selling or giving away of any intoxicating or malt liquors, by any person within the city, except by persons duly licensed.

Sixteenth. To regulate the storage and tranportation of illuminating oils, high explosives, gun powders, tar, pitch, resin and other explosive or combustible material.

Seventeenth. To regulate parapet walls and partition fences, and restrain cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, dogs and all other animals from running at large, and to prohibit the erection or maintenance of barb wire fences within the city limits.

Eighteenth. 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 for by law, and to order all ordinances on the subject to be enforced, and to fix and enforce payment of fines for noncompliance with any such order.

Nineteenth. To provide for the measuring and inspecting of lumber, and other building materials, and for the measuring of all kinds of mechanical work.

Twentieth. To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay and mineral, coal, the measurement of charcoal, fire-wood, and other fuel to be sold and used within the city.

Twenty-first. To provide for and regulate the inspection of flour in barrels or sacks; also tobacco, beef, pork and whisky in barrels.

Twenty-second. To regulate the inspection of butter, lard and other provisions.

Twenty-third. To regulate the weight and quality of bread to be used in the city.

Twenty-fourth. To regulate the size of bricks to be sold and used in the city.

Twenty-fifth To provide for taking the enumerations of the inhabitants of the city.

Twenty-sixth. To regulate the election of city officers, and to provide for removing from office any person holding office created by ordinance.

Twenty-seventh. To fix the compensation for city officers, and regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses, and others for the services rendered under this act, or any ordinance made in pursuance hereof, not herein otherwise provided for.

Twenty-eighth. 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; and all money collected under or by authority of any city ordinance shall be deemed and taken to belong to the said city and be disposed of by the city council under the ordinances of said city for the general use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof.

Twenty-ninth. The city council, shall have exclusive powers within the city by ordinance to license, suppress and restrain billiard tables and bowling alleys.

Thirtieth. The city council shall have power to prohibit gambling and gambling houses, bawdy houses, disorderly houses and houses wherein lewd persons assemble for dancing in any and every portion of the city.

Thirty-first. To provide for the removal of buildings when erected or allowed to remain in any locality,

contrary to the ordinances of the city, to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactures or other busiHess or calling dangerous in causing or producing fires, or dangerous or injurious to health; to appoint fire wardens and property guards with power to remove and keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious persons near the same, and to compel any person or persons present to aid in extinguishing such fire, or in the preservation of property exposed to the danger of the same, and in preventing goods or property from being purloined thereat, and with such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by ordinance.

Thirty-second. The city council shall have the exclusive right within the corporate limits of said city annually to levy and collect a poll tax, not exceeding one dollar upon every male person over twenty-one, and under fifty years of age, who shall have resided three months within the city, which, when collected, shall constitute a special fund, to be used for repairing and cleansing the streets, and the city council may enforce payment of such tax by fine, as may be provided by ordi

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Thirty-third. To remove all obstructions from the streets, lanes, avenues, and alleys of the city, and from the sidewalks and curbstones within the city, and prevent and remove all encroachments into or upon all or any streets, lanes, avenues or alleys within the city, established by law or ordinance.

Thirty-fourth. To levy and collect annually, a license fee, not exceeding ten dollars upon each and every dog owned or kept within the city of Denver, and the city council may enforce the payment of the same by ordinance, in such manner as they may determine.

Thirty-fifth. To make such rules and regulations with regard to the improvement, preservation, laying out and ornamenting any grounds for a cemetery or cemeteries without the limits of the city, and for the sale of burial places or lots for the interment of the dead therein, as they may deem proper, and also to provide for the punishment of all persons who shall without said city limits, be guilty of any violation of said rules and regulations, or the rules and regulations which the city