...BRADSTREET AND CLARK & SIMON FOR APPELLANTS. 1. " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no othPattern, &c. v. Stephens, <£c. ers: fir.t/, those granted in express words; tecond, those necessarily...

...Railroad Co. v. Dunn.] following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words ; secondly, those necessarily or fairly implied in, or incident...is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied." Dillon Mun. Corp. § 55. The proposed corporate act of which complaint is...

...municipalities. Dillon lays down the rule that: " It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation, the charter or statute by which it is created...

...the following powers and no others : "First, those granted in express words; second, those necessary or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly...indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the ex840 — 20 istence of the power is resolved by the courts against the corporation and the power is...

...intended for regulatingend governing said town." It is a general and undisputed proposition of law, that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...declared objects and purposes of the corporation. Dillon Mnn. Corporations, Sec. 55 ; Spaulding v. Lowell, 23 Rich. 71, 74. Our case seems to fall within...

...Limitation — Canons of Construction. § 55. It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses, and can exercise,...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Auy fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence ol power is resolved by the courts against the...

...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that "They can exercise the following powers and no others: First,...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...

...purposes exclusively. Judge Dillon, in his valuable work on municipal corporations, says that " They can exercise the following powers, and no others :...words. Second, those necessarily or fairly implied, or incident to the powers expressly granted. Third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes...

...says a distinguished jurist and eminent commentator in his excellent treatise on this subject, "that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise...fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of apprehension, or conviction of offenders against tbe criminal laws of the State. Nor does any statute...

...necessarily implied, or necessarily incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those absolutely essential to the declared objects and purposes of...corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable; and any fair doubt as to the existence of a power is resolved by the courts against the corporation...