usual corporate powers. It organizes by electing officers.

Elective Officers.--The usual elective officers of a village are a
president, three trustees, a treasurer, and a recorder, who are chosen for
one year, and two justices of the peace and a constable, elected for two
years. [Footnote: The difference in term is accounted for by the fact that
the justices and constables are in a measure county officers.]

The Council and Its Powers.--The president, the three trustees, and the
recorder constitute the village council. They may make, for the following
purposes among others, such ordinances or by-laws as they deem necessary:

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