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peace and good order, and promote the welfare and good government of the corporation.

3. To prescribe and define the powers and duties of the officers of said village, and in case an officer shall have duties specifically prescribed by this act, to prescribe such additional duties as they may deem the interest of the village to require, and as shall not be inconsistent with this act.

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4. To fix and determine the compensation of the Pay of officers of the village, and to see that they perform faithfully and correctly their several duties, and that proper measures are taken to punish neglect of duty in any of them.

Auditing

accounts,

etc.

5. To audit such accounts and claims against the corporation as are made out in items and verified, and order the payment of such as shall be allowed, and to make such other rules and regulations in regard to the same as they may deem necessary and proper. 6. To call special meetings of the inhabitants of Calling said village whenever in their judgment the same meetings. shall be required by the public interest, and to carry into effect every resolution adopted at said meetings or at the annual election.

7. To examine the accounts of the treasurer from time to time, and prescribe the manner of paying out and accounting for money received by him.

8. To issue under their hands warrants for the collection of all taxes or assessments to be raised according to the provisions of this act, which shall be returnable in sixty days from the time of issuing the same, and to renew such warrants for any tax or assessment not collected.

9. To exercise exclusively within the limits of said village the power vested in two justices of the peace by the second section of the first article of the eighth title of the twentieth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

10. To restrain cattle, horses, sheep, swine, dogs, geese, and other animals and fowls from running at large in said village.

11. To prohibit all kinds of gambling.

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Disorderly houses.

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Fast driving.

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13. To suppress and restrain disorderly houses and houses of ill fame.

14. To prevent or regulate bathing in the Rondout creek, and other waters within said village.

15. To prevent immoderate driving and horseracing in said village.

16. To regulate the burial of the dead and public burial grounds.

17. To regulate by license or prohibit the exhibitions for money, of any circus, caravan, theater, curiosities, tricks of legerdemain or other shows or entertainments.

18. To make or cause to be made maps of the vilvillage, etc. lage, to survey and designate the boundaries of said village, and of the streets, highways, and public grounds thereof, and to designate and alter the names of said streets, and the number of all lots and buildings.

Auction sales, etc.

Encroachment on streets, etc.

Snow, ice, dirt, etc., on sidewalks, etc.

19. To regulate, license or prohibit auction sales in said village, and hawking and peddling in the streets of said village.

20. To prevent any encroachment, incumbrance or obstruction in or upon any street, sidewalk, highway, public ground or public dock or wharf in said village; and in case of the neglect or refusal of any person who shall have caused any such encroachment, incumbrance or obstruction, or of the owner or occupant of any premises upon which shall be any building, fence or other structure or thing encroaching upon, incumbering or obstructing any street, sidewalk, highway, public ground or public dock or wharf in said village to remove the same after being notified so to do, the trustees shall have power to cause such removal at the cost and expense of such person, or of such owner or occupant, and to collect such cost and expense as hereinafter provided.

21. To compel the owner or occupant of any premises in said village to clear the snow, ice, dirt or other substance or material off the sidewalk and out of the gutter in front of such premises, and in case of the neglect or refusal of such owner or occupant so to do, to cause the same to be done at the expense of such

owner or occupant, and to collect such expense as hereinafter provided.

22. To require any turnpike, plank, flagstone, railroad or other road company to keep the street or highway through which its road may pass in said village, and the gutters and drains thereof, in good condition and repair; to lay or relay such road according to the established grade of such street or highway, or such parts of the same as the said trustees may prescribe and direct, and to remove all incumbrances or obstructions which such company may have placed or caused to be placed in or ou any of such streets or highways, without unnecessary delay, and in case snch company shall refuse or neglect to do any of the aets so required, the said trustees shall have power to cause the same to be done at the cost and expense of such company, and such costs and expense, to be fixed and determined by the said trustees, may be collected as hereinafter provided.

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23. To regulate and superintend the laying of all Gas pipes gas-pipes in said village, and to require any company, after laying or repairing such pipes in any street or highway in said village, to put such street or highway in good condition and repair, and remove all incumbrances or obstructions which such company may have placed or caused to be placed in any such street or highway, without unnecessary delay, and to require such company to keep proper signal lights burning at night at all holes or ditches or other places which it may have been rendered dangerous to persons traveling such streets or highways; and in case such company shall neglect or refuse to do any of the acts so required of them, the said trustee shall have power to cause the same to be done at the cost and expense of such company, and to collect such cost and expense as hereinafter provided.

into streets.

24. To prevent or regulate the erection or construc- Projections tion of any building or other structure which shall project into or over any street or sidewalk in said village, and the hanging or suspending of any goods, signs, sign-boards or any other thing whatever in or over any such street or sidewalk, and to remove the same at the expense of the person, owner or occupant

Lighting streets.

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causing the same, and to collect such expense as hereinafter provided.

25. To erect lamps, lamp-posts and fixtures, and cause such of the streets of said village, as they may deem proper, to be lighted at such times as, in their opinion, the wants and interests of the village require, and, in their discretion, to charge the expense of erecting such lamps, lamp-posts and fixtures, and of lighting the streets, to the street fund.

26. To prohibit, license or regulate the keeping, storing, use or sale of gunpowder or any other combustible or explosive substance or compound, and the conveyance or transportation of the same, in or through any part of said village, and upon or through the Rondout creek adjacent to said village; also to regulate or prohibit the use of firearms in said village.

27. To prevent or regulate the construction or use fires. of any building, chimney, fire-place, heater, stove, stove pipe, oven, repository of ashes or charcoal, boiler, furnace or any other apparatus or thing whatever which may be considered dangerous with regard to fire, and to cause the owner or occupant of any premises upon which shall be found any thing dangererous with regard to fire, to remove the same or put the same in a safe condition; and in case such owner or occupant shall neglect or refuse to do so, the said trustees shall have power to cause the same to be done at the cost and expense of such owner or occupant, and to collect such cost and expense as hereinafter provided; and for the purposes aforesaid, or any or either thereof, the said trustees shall have power to enter into or upon or authorize the entry into or upon any building or premises in said village.

Lights in stables, etc.

Fire buckets. Nuisances.

28. To regulate the use of lights in stables or buildings in which combustible materials may be deposited, and prescribe the use of lanterns or safety lamps in such stables and buildings.

29. To compel the inhabitants to keep fire buckets. 30. To prevent and abate nuisances and to determine what are such, either upon view or upon the testimony of witnesses (who may be examined on oath before them), and for these purposes, or any or either of them, to enter into or upon, or authorize

the entering into or upon any building or premises in said village; and in case the owner or occupant of any building or premises in or upon which such nuisance may be found, shall neglect or refuse to remove or abate the same, after being notified to do so, the said trustees shall have power to cause the same to be removed or abated at the expense of such owner or occupant, and to collect such expense as hereinafter provided.

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31. To compel the owner or occupant of any gro- Unwholecery, market, tallow chandler shop, soap factory, places privy, pigsty, drain or sewer, or any other unwholesome, offensive or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, purify, remove or abate the same, from time to time, as often as, in the opinion of the trustees, it may be necessary for the health, comfort or convenience of the inhabitants of said village.

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32. To prohibit any person from bringing or depos- Removal iting any unwholesome, putrid or decayed carcass, bodies. skins, hides, fish, meat or other substance or thing within said village, and to require or authorize the removal or destruction thereof,

houses.

33. To prohibit or regulate slaughter-houses, or the slaughterslaughtering of animals, and to regulate the time, place and manner of the sale of meats, fish and vegetables within said village.

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34. To prescribe regulations as to the location and Private construction of private sewers, drains or water or gas-pipes in said village, and for the prevention of any injury or obstruction of any street or sidewalk thereby.

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35. To prosecute upon any contract or liability in Prosecution which said village or corporation may be interested, etc. and for all fines and penalties, cost and expense imposed by this act, or by any ordinance or by-law of the village, and enforce the collection thereof.

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36. To build or purchase a village hall, purchase Village hall, fire engines, and the necessary hose and other apparatus, etc. ratus for the use of the fire department, erect enginehouses, or hire suitable places for keeping said engines, bose and apparatus, to dig public wells, sewers and drains, make aqueducts, cisterns and reservoirs in said village, for the use of the inhabitants thereof,

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