had any claim allowed by them, the amount claimed, the amount allowed, and a brief statement of the nature of the demand; 15. To fix the compensation of the assessors, the collector and the clerk, but not exceeding the compensation allowed to the like town officers; and the compensation of the street commissioner, but not exceeding the compensation of overseers of highways; and the compensation of the treasurer, but not exceeding the compensation of county treasurers, respectively, for the same services; 16. To prescribe the method, subject to the provisions of this title, in which the treasurer and clerk shall keep their accounts, vouchers and records, and to examine the same from time to time to detect errors; 17. To enter or authorize others to enter, in the daytime, any building in which there is a fire-place, stove or stove-pipe, to examine and regulate the same, whenever necessary for security against fire; and to compel all persons to keep their ashes safely; 18. To compel every male resident, of the age of sixteen or upwards, attending a fire, to assist in extinguishing it, when required by any fire-warden, trustee, or any officer of a fire or hook and ladder company; 19. To act as commissioners of highways when their village is a separate road district, except in laying out, altering and discontinuing roads; 20. To make such ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws of this state and the United States, as they deem proper to carry into effect the laws relating to villages; and to regulate fire companies, and the management and use of village cemeteries and conveyances of lots therein, and prescribe penalties, not exceeding twenty-five dollars, for each offense against such ordinances. But no penalty shall be prescribed for any act prohibited by sta tute. No ordinance shall take effect until two days after it has been published in a newspaper printed in the village, or, if there is none, until four days after a printed copy has been posted in two of the most public places in the village, of which publication or posting an affidavit shall be made, and filed with the clerk within six days after it takes place. The clerk's certificate of the publication or posting any ordinance is evidence thereof; of 21. To audit and allow the necessary expenses of incorporating the village, and raise the same by tax in the same manner as if it had been directed to be raised by the village meeting; 22. To perform all other duties required of them by any provision of law. 1 R. S., 1244, §§ 40, 41, 55, 57, 66, 69, 76, 80, 110. The amendment of 1852 (ch. 184), respecting the payment of judgments, is properly within the scope of the CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. § 1085. The trustees have power: 1. To prohibit the going at large of animals, under penalty upon the owners, not exceeding five dollars for each animal, and impounding of the animals; 2. To protect the sidewalks, highways and shade trees from injury and incumbrance, and to compel adjoining owners or occupants to keep their sidewalks cleared from snow; 3. To prohibit flying kites, rolling hoops and playing ball in any street; 4. To provide by ordinance for the election of fire-wardens, not exceeding five; 5. To compel occupants of buildings in which fires are kept to keep fire-buckets; 6. To license and regulate hacks, cabs, carts, omnibusses and all other vehicles; butchers, porters pawnbrokers, showmen and junk-shop keepers and guides; theaters and other places of amusement; 7. To prevent or regulate the discharge of firearms and fire-works, and other dangerous substances, and the burning of any material in the streets; 8. To suppress gaming, gambling houses, and other disorderly houses, noises, nuisances of every description and all kinds of vice and immorality; Powers of the board. Form and verification of accounts to be audited. Certain proceedings to be recorded Duties of president. 9. To prohibit or regulate bathing and swimming within the village; 10. To prohibit or regulate hawking and peddling; 11. To make ordinances to enforce any of these powers in the mode and under the restrictions prescribed by subdivision 20 of the preceding section. 1 R. S., 1244, §§ 58 to 60. § 1086. No claim shall be paid, unless allowed by the trustees; and none shall be audited by them unless it is made out in items, and has attached to, and filed with it, the affidavit of the person claiming to have done the services or made the disbursements charged, that the several items are correct, that the services charged have been rendered, the disbursements made, and that no part has been paid. Ib., § 35, 36. any § 1087. Every allowance or disallowance of claim, every determination to draw a warrant, and every appointment by the trustees, shall be made by a resolution and vote of the trustees, and recorded at length in their proceedings. From § 77. § 1088. It is the duty of the president of the village to preside at all meetings of the village and of the trustees; to call special meetings of the trustees whenever the interests of the village require it, or whenever he is requested to do so by two of the trustees; to see that the ordinances are ARTICLE III. OTHER OFFICERS. SECTION 1089. The assessors. 1090. The collector. 1091. The treasurer. 1092. The clerk. 1193. The fire-wardens. 1194. The street commissioners. 1195. Delivery of books, papers and funds to successor. ors. § 1089. The assessors shall assess any tax The asscesdirected, pursuant to section 1096, in the mode prescribed by the "Fiscal Laws" for making town assessments, and deliver their assessment to the trustees within sixty days after the meeting. Ib., § 64. lector. § 1090. The collector, within the time prescribed The colin any warrant for the return thereof, shall collect the same and pay over all sums collected to the treasurer, and return the warrant to the trustees, with his return thereon written and subscribed by him, and specifying any sums not collected by reason of inability to find property out of which to collect them, and if any sums are returned not |