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SECTION 7
The stated meetings of the select and common council shall be holden for the transaction of business every two weeks, and may hold meetings as much often as the Mayor and the respective councils may designate, and at such place in said city as shall be provided by the ordinances thereof; and the doors of respective halls of said select and common councils shall be open for the admission of orderly and peaceful disposed citizens who may choose to attend sessions thereof; and the said council may provide by ordinance for the punishment by fine of any disorderly conduct disturbing either of the perspective sessions and either body may expel such persons from the hall at its sessions.
SECTION 8
That each body shall appoint a clerk, who shall make and keep a full record of it s proceedings recording the names of the members present; and all of the ordinances and by-laws rules and regulations of said councils shall signed by the Mayor and clerk of the respective councils and published in one or more of the public newspapers of said city and the publication proved by oath of some creditable witness and recorded in the records of said city; and the said record shall be deemed and taken as sufficient evidence, of the passage and publication of all such ordinances by-laws, rules and regulations.
SECTION 9
That the Mayor of said city shall have the same powers and jurisdiction of the Police Justices, elected under this act.
SECTION 10
The select and common councils shall have power to compel the owners or occupiers of lots to repair the sidewalks in front of their respective lots or to cause the repairs to made and file their liens as is now provided by the general laws of this state and the said common council and select council may by a general ordinance regulate the portion of the sidewalks which the owners of dwelling houses and others may use for door steps and other purposes in front of their respective premises; and may impose penalties for mutilating or injuring trees growing upon the streets and public grounds of said city; and the council shall be vested with all the powers in said city which at and immediately before the passage of this act belonged to and were vested in the burgefs and council of the Borough of Corry.
SECTION 11
That the select and common council shall have power, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to pass from time to time such and so many ordinances as may be thought proper and necessary for the prevention or regulation of the erection or removal from any other place in said city of any wooden dwelling house, shop or warehouse carriage house store stable or other wooden building within the limits of the said city. Provided, that such ordinances shall not be contrary to the constitution or laws of this state.
SECTION 12
That all the estate and property whatever real or personal, or mixed and all chases in action, claims, or demands of the Borough of Corry or of the burgefs and council thereof, are hereby vested in the corporation or body corporate or politics of the City of Corry in the same manner and for the same estate which the corporate authorities of the said borough held or had therein; and all suits now pending may be prosecuted to judgment by and for said city, in the same manner and with the same effect as could have been done by the said burgefs and council if this act had not been enacted; and all judgments suits claims and demands whatsoever against said borough are hereby transferred to and shall continue and may be prosecuted against said city as fully and completely as they could have been against said borough if the said borough charter had not been abolished.
SECTION 13
That the mode of enforcing payment of any judgment against said city shall be the same as is now or hereafter may be provided by law for enforcing payment of judgments against the several townships of this state, provided, that any or either party to any judgment may have the same right of appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County that is now provided by law to appeal from Justices of the Peace.
SECTION 14
That the select and common council of said city of Corry shall have power to raise in addition to the amount raised for city proposes may raise not to exceed one and one-half percent on the taxable property real and personal within said city; to appoint as many Policemen as they may deem for the best interest of said city; to raise not to exceed one half of one percent on the real and personal estate of said city for city purposes; to provide for a distribution of a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome water to and through the city and the permanent continuance for the accommodation of the inhabitants thereof; to organize one or more fire companies; to establish a sufficient number of reservoirs to supply water in case of fires; to provide for the lighting of said city with gas or oil in such other way as the said select and common council may determine.
   Jas R Kelley
   Speaker of the House of Representatives
   D Fleming
   Speaker of the Senate
Approved, the eight day of March, anno domini, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
   Als Curtin
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
Harrisburg, March 8, 1866
Pennsylvania:
   I do hereby certify that the foregoing and annexed is a full true and correct copy of the original act of the general assembly entitled. An act to incorporate the City of Corry as the same remains on file in this office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Secretary's office to be offixed, the day and year above written.
   W W. Armstrong
   Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth