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not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, except in cases where the penalties are prescribed in this
*	feet, \jrhether the act prohibited or the non-performance of the duty required by such ordinance is punishable as an offense v against the laws of this State or not, and no property shall be N. exempt from sale for any fine and costs imposed by the Mayor; «’'^'-thirteenth, to prevent the introduction in the city of paupers,, jjf tramps, vagrants, beggars, and common prostitutes and their associates, and to cause the expulsion of the same therefrom, '■ and to prevent coming into the city or lurking about the same, £ dangerous, suspicious and disorderly persons, to punish any per-
*	, 4- son or common carrier who may bring any such class of persons t*', into *aid city and to compel such persons or carrier to carry
them away; fourteenth, to prohibit and suppress gaming and gaming-houses and all disorderly and bawdy-houses or any house or business or- conduct against good mcfrals or the good X order of said city, and to punish the keepers or proprietors of such houses or persons who shall carry on such business, and to ? prohibit the renting or letting of any house, room or tenement »•	foi* any of the	purposes aforesaid, or with knowledge that the
^	»ame is to be	so used, and to provide for the seizure and de-
[' jJ struction of any gaming implements, tables or paraphernalia;, fifteenth, if said Board of Mayor aud Aldermen shall appropriate any money or allow any daim for any public work, contract or object whatsoever, not authorized byjlhis act and a i • previous order of said Board, the members of said Board shall be personally and jointly and severally liable for the amount of ^ * said appropriation, or allowance to be recovered by suit in the t name of their	successors in office; but any member of said
^	Board may be	discharged from liability in any such suit .by plea
'and proof that’he voted against such unauthorized appropriation or allowance of money, and any member on demand shall have his vote recorded on the minutes of the Board on any question of appropriation or allowance of money for any purposes whatsoever.	*	•
Sec. 43. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall be convicted of violating any of the laws aud ordi-
*	• nances of sai(£)city and who shall fail or neglect to pay such
, fine and costs as may have been imposed upon him or them, the Mayor shall have power to commute the punishment so ordered and adjudged by him to that of labor on the streets or other public works of said city, at a rate per diem to be fixed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen until such fines and costs are paid, and any person pr persons who shall be convicted of violating any of the laws and ordinances as aforesaid an(l who shall have been sentenced to imprisonment therefor, the Mayor shall have
*	power and it shall be in his discretion to commute said sentence of imprisonment to that of labor on the streets as aforesaid at the rate of one day’s sentence for each day’s work, and said Mayor
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fand Aldermen shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the enforcement of this section.
Sec. 44. Beit further enacted, That said Board of Mayor and Aldermen shall have full power and authority to require the owner of any lot adjacent to any public strfeet or highways to construct, repair and keep in order at the expense of such owner, a smooth, dry and firm sidewalk or pavement of such width and of such material as shall be prescribed by said Boaj^Tof Mayor and Aldermen, adjacent to or fronting the lot or premises
N)f such owner ; or to construct, repair and keep in order such lowers, gutters, drains or ditches as shall be necessary to drain Mich lot; and said Board shall give notice to such owner, in writing, to construct or repair such walk, pavement, sewer, gutter, ditch or drain within some reasonable time to be fixed in such notice, and in case of a failure to comply with such requirements, said Board of Mayor and Aldermen may cause such work to be done at the expense of such lot owner, and the cost thereof shall be a lien upon such lot; suit may be brought for the amount of such cost before any court having jurisdiction of the amount, or before the Mayor, when the amount of such cast is* less than one hundred and fifty dollars; the proceedings before said May or shall be conducted as incases before a justice of thepeaoe,-and the judgment of the court, in case it finds for the city shall, condemn the lot upon which such costs is a lien, to be sold by* the proper Qffipd*, to pay such judgment and costs ; either party mayappedl to'the circuit court, provided the lot owner shall give an appeal bond, as in cases before justices of the peace.
Sgc. 4). Be it further enacted, That whenever it shall become necessary or expedients, in the discretion of said Board of Mayor and Aldermen, to lay out, alter or extend any public i*..	street, alley, highway or road within the limits of said city, if
any objections be made thereto by the owner or owners of the « land or property through which, or over which such street,, alley, highway or road will pass, or it shall become uecessary or expedient to take^use or occupy any ground or property io said city for any public use whatever, the said Board shall endeavor '■■f,	to purchase and pay for the same a reasonable price, or agree*
with the owner or owners of such property on the amount to be I; .paid for such property, or for the use or occupation thereof, but'-i	if they eannot agree with the owner or others thereof, or the
[	guardian of minors, then it shall be lawful for the circuit clerk
!	of Hancock county, on the petition of	said Board of Hayotcv
t	and Aldermen to issue a warrant to the	sheriff of said county
[	fully describing the premises, requiring him to summon a jury
•	,o( twelve disinterested freeholders to meet him on said land Qr
{	premises, not less than ten nor more than	twenty’Ways from the
[	date of said warrant, and if any of said	jurors shall,fail to at-/
*	-	tend at the time and place, the sheriff shall instanter summon as
S’	many as may be necessary to make a jury of twelve freeholders ■