1.  To establish and regulate a fire department; to purchase apparatus for 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 responsibilities as the corresponding officers in the town.  The village has a seal, of which the recorder is the custodian; and he is, as has been said, a member of the council.  Otherwise the duties of the recorder are similar to those of the town clerk.

Elections.—­A village usually constitutes one election district and one road district.  Village elections are conducted as are those in a town.