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explosives or combustible material, or any material which may seem to be
dangerous.

To regulate or prohibit the interment of bodies and to authorize the
removal of bodies now or hereafter buried, or of cemeteries, to some other
proper place.

To establish quarantine regulations.

To authorize the removal or confinement of persons having infectious
or pestilential diseases.

To regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells, crying of goods, or sound-
ing of steam whistles.

To pass all ordinances or orders, and to expend such sums of money
as may be necessary within the limitation herein provided for the pro-
tection, maintenance and preservation of the water supply of the city and
the prevention of the pollution thereof.

To direct the location and regulate the management of all public mar-
kets and market places, whether established by the city or by private
individuals; to prevent the offenses of regrating and forestalling.

To regulate and require the inspection and condemnation, if unwhole-
some, and to regulate the sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, oleomarga-
rine, cheese, lard, vegetables, and all other food or provisions.

To regulate the selling, weighing or measuring of hay, wood, coal, coke
and all other articles sold by weight or measure, and to provide for their
inspection and sealing.

To authorize and require the inspection and licensing of steam boilers
and elevators, and to prohibit their use when unsafe or dangerous or
without license.

To define fire limits in such city and the character of buildings which
are forbidden to be erected within such limits, and to prohibit the erec-
tion of buildings in such city without a license first obtained therefor,
and to regulate the construction of buildings to prevent the spread of fire.

To authorize and require the inspection of buildings and structures
erected, or to be erected, or in process of erection; to authorize the license
therefor to be revoked and the condemnation thereof in whole or in part
when dangerous or insecure in the opinion of the building committee,
or such party as the said Council may appoint to inspect the same, and
to authorize the same to be taken down within a specified time by the
owner thereof, or in default thereof to authorize the same to be taken
down at the said owner's expense, or in case of an emergency, to authorize-
the same to be taken down -by the Street Superintendent or such party as
the Council may appoint without delaying for the owner to do so. This
power to include authority to tear down buildings or parts of buildings
rendered dangerous by fire or other catastrophe.

To regulate the location, size, character and cost of all buildings to be-
erected, and to provide such regulations by ordinance.

To compel persons about to undertake dangerous improvements to exe-
cute bond of sufficient sureties, conditioned that the owner or contractor