ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 221

fish, butter, oleomargarine, 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 definite fire limits in such city and the character of build-
ings which are forbidden to be erected within such limits, and
to prohibit the erection of buildings in such city without a
license first obtained therefor, and to regulate the construc-
tion 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 con-
demnation thereof in whole or in part when dangerous or in-
secure 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 build-
ings rendered dangerous by fire or other catastrophe.

To regulate the location, size, character and cost of all build-
ings to be erected, and to provide such regulations by ordi-
nance.

To compel persons about to undertake dangerous improve-
ments to execute bond of sufficient sureties, conditioned that the
owner or contractor will pay all damages which may be sus-
tained by any person or property from such work.

To make all regulations which may be deemed expedient for
the promotion of health or suppression of disease.

To regulate the construction of chimneys, smokestacks,
hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves and stovepipes, boilers
and apparatus used in buildings or other places, and cause the
same to be removed or made secure, when considered danger-
ous; to compel owners and occupants of houses and buildings
to make scuttles on the roof thereof with stairs or ladders lead-
ing to the same and to compel the erection of fire escapes.