The Charters of the City of Chicago, Parts 1-2University of Chicago Press, 1898 - Chicago (Ill.) |
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Page 62 - ... persons to aid in the extinguishment of fires, and in the preservation of property exposed to danger thereat ; and generally to establish such regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, as the common council may deem expedient.
Page 72 - To make out a tax-list of every district tax voted by any such meeting, or authorized by law, containing the names of all the taxable inhabitants residing in the district at the time of making out the list, and the amount of tax payable by each inhabitant, set opposite to his name, as directed in article fifteen of this chapter.
Page 137 - No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in this State, civil or military, who is not a citizen of the United States, and who shall not have resided in this State one year next preceding the election or appointment.
Page 176 - ... to prescribe the limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected...
Page 48 - To regulate weights and measures in conformity with the standard of weights and measures established by law, and to require every merchant, retailer, trader and dealer in merchandise or property of any description which is sold by measure or weight, to cause their weights and measures to be sealed by the city sealer, and to be subject to his inspection. Bathing. XXVIII. To regulate or prohibit swimming or bathing in the waters of or bounding the city. POII«.
Page 57 - ... make an additional pro rata assessment to supply the deficiency, and in case a larger amount shall have been collected than was necessary, the excess shall be refunded ratably to those by whom it was paid.
Page 151 - To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to make quarantine laws for that purpose and to enforce the same within five miles of the city.
Page 188 - No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant...
Page 147 - No member of said board of education shall, during the period for which he was elected, be appointed to, or be competent to hold any office of which the emoluments are paid from the city treasury...
Page 49 - In all actions arising under the laws respecting copyrights the defendant may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence.