WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the officers, agents or servants by him appointed,

for neglect or violation of any duties pertaining

to their respective offices, and shall appoint others

in their stead, and shall report such removal and

Power of

mayor.

appointment to the City Council, at its next reg-

ular meeting, for its approval or disapproval; he

shall have general supervision of the city, and

shall submit, from time to time, to the council,

such recommendations as he shall deem proper;

he shall also, by virtue of his office, be chairman

of the trustees of the sinking fund and of the board

of health, and shall discharge all the duties per-

taining to such chairmanship; and he shall receive

Compensation

for his services an annual salary of five hundred

dollars.

43. The Mayor and City Council shall have

power to provide for the laying out, opening, ex-

tending, widening, straightening or relocating any

Who to lay out
streets, &c.

street or alley, or parts thereof, within the city,

which, in their opinion, the public welfare or con-

venience may require; to provide for ascertaining

whether any and what amount in value of damage

will be caused thereby, for which the owner or

possessor of any property through which said

street or alley-way may pass ought to be com-

pensated, by the appointment of commissioners

to assess the same; to provide for assessing and

Provide for

levying, either generally on the whole assessable

assessing.

property within the city, or specially on the prop-

erty of persons benefited, the whole or any part

of the damages and expenses which will be in-

curred in laying out, opening, extending, widen-

ing, straightening or relocating such street or

alley, or parts thereof, and grading the same; to

provide for collecting and paying the compensation

Provide for

awarded to any person, before any such street or

collecting.

alley, or parts thereof, shall be laid out, opened,

extended, widened, straightened or relocated, and

to enact all ordinances from time to time necessary

or proper to the exercise of the powers granted

in this section; provided, that before they shall

proceed to execute any of the powers vested in

them by this section, at least thirty days' notice

shall be given of any application which may be

made for the passage of any such ordinance, by