extinguishing fires; to construct water-works; to designate limits within
which wooden buildings shall not be erected; to regulate the manner of
building and cleaning chimneys, and of disposing of ashes; and generally
to enact such necessary measures for the prevention or extinguishment of
fires as may be proper.

2. To lay out streets, alleys, parks, and other public grounds; to grade,
improve, or discontinue them; to make, repair, improve, or discontinue
sidewalks, and to prevent their being encumbered with merchandise, snow or
other obstructions; to regulate driving on the streets; to appoint a
street commissioner.

3. To erect lamp-posts and lamps, and provide for the care and lighting of
the lamps.

4. To appoint a board of health, with due powers; to provide public
hospitals; to regulate slaughter-houses; to define, prevent, and abate
nuisances.

5. To establish and maintain a public library and reading-room.

6. To prohibit gambling; to prevent, or license and regulate the sale of
liquor, the keeping of billiard-tables, and the exhibition of circuses and
shows of all kinds; to appoint policemen, and provide a place of
confinement for offenders against the ordinances.

7. In general, "to ordain and establish all such ordinances and by-laws
for the government and good order of the village, the suppression of vice
and immorality, the prevention of crime, the protection of public and
private property, the benefit of trade and commerce, and the promotion of
health, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United
States or of this state, as they shall deem expedient," and to provide
penalties for the violation of the ordinances.

All fines and penalties imposed belong to the village.

Appointive Officers.--The council appoints, as provided by law, a village
attorney, a poundmaster, one or more keepers of cemeteries, one or more
fire-wardens, and regular and special policemen; and it prescribes the
duties and fixes the compensation of these officers. The council also
elects at its first meeting, a village assessor, who shall hold his office
one year.

Vacancies and Removals.--Vacancies in any of the village offices are
filled by the council, and it has power to remove any officer elected or
appointed by it whenever it seems that the public welfare will be promoted
thereby.

Like Town Officers.--The assessor, treasurer, justices of the peace, and
constable, have the same duties and responsibili