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health.

10. For precautionary measures to guard the public Public health in times of pestilence, and provide against the small pox or other infectious or pestilential diseases when they appear in the village, by providing suitable places for persons diseased, out of the populous part of the village, and defraying the expenses incident to their removal.

11. For repairing, regulating and running the village Repair of clock.

village

clock.

12. For the necessary expenses of doing any act Necessary expressly required or authorized by law.

expenses.

tax.

§ 10. Such meeting may, by resolution, also direct the Special trustees to be caused to be raised, by general tax upon the taxable property in the village, a specified sum of money for special purposes, in addition to the ordinary expenses of the village, in the cases and manner and under the restrictions hereinafter prescribed. It must be for one or more of the following objects:

1. To purchase one or more fire engines, and to sup- For fire ply their place when worn out or unfit for use.

engines.

houses.

2. To purchase a site and building, or erect a build- Engine ing, for a fire engine house.

and water.

3. For the construction of public reservoirs of water Reservoirs and procuring ground for the same, and for supplying the same with water, and conducting water to and from them for the extinguishment of fires.

4. For the purchase of a hearse and other conven- Hearse. iences for the burial of the dead.

Village clock.

and col

lected.

5. For the purchase of a village clock. § 11. The ordinary expenses of the village, and all Tax; howsums of money voted for special purposes, shall be defrayed by tax, to be assessed upon the real and personal property subject to taxation within said village, and be collected within each current year from the time of voting the same. The sum to be raised for ordinary expenses shall be determined by the meeting, before any resolution to raise money for a special purpose can be offered; and the whole sum to be raised for ordinary Aggregate: expenses and special purposes together, during any one year, shall not exceed six hundred dollars.

annual

amount..

12. The president shall be the chief executive offi- Village cer of the village, and shall preside at all annual and president;

and duties.

his powers special meetings of the village. He shall also preside at the meetings of the trustees, but shall have only a casting vote when there is a tie. He may, however, submit propositions for the action of the trustees. It shall be his duty to see that the provisions of this act and the village by-laws and ordinances are faithfully executed, and to institute prosecutions for their violation. He shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to suspend, until after the next annual election, the operation of any resolution or ordinance of the trustees by' his order, to be entered upon the journal with his reasons therefor, when in his judgment it is in violation of this act or of any of the laws of this State, or is not warranted by any law, or appropriates money, or involves expenditures improvidently. The president, in behalf of the village, must execute all leases, contracts, obligations, licenses and other papers to be executed as the. acts of the village when so authorized by the trustees.

Annual financial report.

Estimate of moneys to be raised.

trustees.

§ 13. The president shall submit to the annual meeting a report of the financial and other affairs of the village for the past year, showing:

1. All moneys raised or received and from what sources, distinguishing also the funds and the purposes to which they belong.

2. All payments specifying each item and out of what fund, and showing whether any and what items of charge against the village have been disallowed by the

trustees.

3. The state of the fire department, its engines and implements, and what may be needful for the same.

The president shall also submit an estimate of the amount required to be raised by tax for the ensuing year for ordinary village expenditures, specifying items as far as practicable; and his report may also contain any statement or suggestion which he may deem proper for the consideration of the meeting. A copy of this report shall be filed with the clerk at least five days before the annual meeting.

Quorum of § 14. The trustees shall only be authorized to transact business as a board sitting in public, when at least three of their number are present, and all their acts shall be entered in writing upon the journal of the village.

The concurrence of three trustees shall be necessary for the passage of any ordinance, by-law or resolution or the performance of any act by the trustees, except when all are present and there is a tie, in which case the concurrence of two trustees and the president shall be sufficient.

and special

of trustees.

15. Meetings of the trustees may be held pursuant Regular to adjournment or upon a call by the president or any meetings two trustees. It shall be the duty of the president or trustees calling a meeting to cause to be notified all the trustees who are in the village at the time. If the president be absent at a meeting, the trustees may appoint a president for the time being from their own number, who may still vote as a trustee, but when he votes as such, he shall have no casting vote on a tie.

trustees.

§ 16. It shall be the duty of the trustees, and they Duty of shall have the power:

cers.

1. To appoint the several officers whose offices are To appoint held by appointment under them and to fill vacancies village offitherein, and to fill any vacancy which may occur in any other office by appointment of a suitable person to hold until the close of the next annual election.

cords and

2. To provide for the care, custody and preservation care of reof the public property, records and papers of such village. property. 3. To organize and keep under good and efficient or- Organizaganization and regulation one or more fire companies of companies. not exceeding forty men each.

officers.

4. To see that the officers of such village perform Duties of their duties, and to cause measures to be taken to punish

every act of dereliction.

5. To call special meetings of the voters of said vil- Special lage when, in their judgment, the interests of the village meetings. require it.

6. To give notice, in the manner prescribed by law, Notices of of the annual and special meetings.

meetings.

of instruc

7. To carry into effect every resolution of instruction Execution lawfully adopted at any such meeting.

tions.

8. To examine all accounts and claims against the Auditing of village, and to allow such as are just and legal.

accounts.

bouds.

9. To fix the amount and decide upon the sufficiency Official of the sureties in the official security of the treasurer, collector, street commissioner and police constable.

Street commissioner.

Treasurer

and clerk;

records, etc.

10. To fix the compensation of the street commissioner.

11. To prescribe the manner in which the treasurer keeping of shall keep the accounts and vouchers of his office, and also in which the clerk shall keep the records and papers of such village, and to examine such accounts, vouchers and records from time to time in order to detect errors therein.

Collection

of taxes

12. To issue warrants for the collection of taxes and and assess the expenses of making and repairing sidewalks and abating nuisances.

ments.

Leases of property.

Precautions against fire.

Depositing

13. To order real property to be leased to satisfy taxes, expenses or assessments charged thereon and not paid or collected.

14. To enter or authorize others to enter in the day time any building in the village in which there shall be a fire place, stove or stovepipe, for the purpose of examining the same, and to make such regulation in regard thereto as a proper security against tire shall, in their judgment, require.

15. To compel all persons in such village to deposit of ashes. their ashes in such vessels or places as they may deem proper.

Licensing

of caravans,

shows, etc.

Making of side and

cross

walks.

Duties in relation to

16. To prohibit the exhibition or performance for gain or profit of any puppet show, wire or rope dancing, public dancers, wrestlers, jugglers, circus, menagerie, or any theatrical exhibition, or any natural or artificial curiosity, except upon license expressly granted, which license may be granted for such time, and upon such terms and conditions, and upon the payment of such sums as the trustees may prescribe.

17. To direct and superintend the making of sidewalks and cross-walks in such village.

18. To exercise the powers and duties of commissionhighways. ers of highways of towns within the limits of the village, so far as those powers and duties are consistent with other parts of this act (except in respect of the assessment of highway labor or tax, and except as to the bridge across the Boardman brook in said village, which bridge shall remain under the same jurisdiction and charge as if this act had not been passed), and to direct the application of the highway labor or tax assessed on

Applica

tion of

tax.

the property in the village to the building of cross- highway
walks in said village, and to the improvement of the
highways in such place within the village, or out of its
boundaries and leading to it, as they may deem best.
The powers conferred by this subdivision of this section
shall be deemed to exclude the commissioners of high-
ways of the town of Chateaugay from exercising juris-
diction over the highways in said village or any part
thereof, excepting the said bridge.

and groce

19. To prescribe regulations for the preservation of Taverns good order and propriety in taverns and groceries and ries. for the prevention of intoxication, and for the care and custody of persons who may become intoxicated and incapable of taking proper care of themselves."

Obstruc

20. To prescribe regulations as to the location of Drainage. private drains, water logs and pipes in the streets, and for the prevention of injury or obstruction to the streets tion of thereby.

streets.

21. To make such regulations in respect to keeping Dogs. and confining dogs as they may see fit.

powers.

22. To perform all the duties and exercise all the General powers imposed or conferred on them by this act or by any other law of the State.

for viola

To make such by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws By-laws. of this State or of the United States, as they may deem proper to carry into effect the provisions of this act and of other laws applicable to the village, and the powers vested in any officer thereof, and to prescribe penalties, Penalties not exceeding fifty dollars, for each violation of any such tion. by-law; but no penalty shall be prescribed for any act which shall be prohibited, and for doing which a penalty is attached by the laws of this State, and any such by law shall not take effect until the expiration of ten days after it shall have been posted in at least five conspicu ous places in the village, or published in a newspaper Publiesprinted in said county of Franklin, or printed in pamph- thereof. let form and freely distributed at the annual or any special meeting of the village, of which publication, in any one of the modes herein mentioned, an affidavit shall be made and filed with the clerk, the production of which in any court or place shall be sufficient evidence of the proper publication of any such by-law.

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