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gunpowdor or other combustible matter in such
quantities or places within the city as they may deem	Purposes
dangerous; to pass all ordinances to provide for
licensing and regulating pawn-brokers, peddlers of
nostrums, notions, patents, secret or pretended in-
ventions and remedies on the streets, lanes or side-
walks of the city; pass all such ordinances, in addi-
tion to those already existing, to levy and collect a
tax on the assessable property of said city as may be
necessary to pay the interest on the city bonds, and
to provide a sinking fund for the redemption thereof
at maturity; to pass ordinances for the preservation
of peace and good order, securing property and per-
sons from violence, danger or destruction; to pass
ordinances for the suppression and restraint and
regulation of bawdy-houses and houses of ill-fame;
to pass ordinances providing for the assessment from
time to time of all kinds of property and securities
in said city on which State and county taxes are or
may be levied, and to levy and collect a tax thereon
for the general purposes of said corporation, not ex-
ceeding in any one year fifty cents on every hundred
dollars worth of said assessable property; to pass	Purposes
ordinances for the election and qualification of a
City Clerk, Treasurer and Collector, and the appoint-
ment of such other officers, agents and servants as
may be deemed necessary, and to fix their compen-
sation ; to pass ordinances to suppress the practice
of firing and discharging fire-arms, fire-crackers,
rockets, torpedoes and other explosives, either by
prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise; to pass
ordinances to restrain and prohibit gaming, and to
provide for licensing, regulating or restraining the-
atricals or other public amusements within the
limits of said corporation ; to establish day and night
police, and erect lamps ; to open or close streets or
parts of streets ; provided, that they shall not have
power to close or alienate any public street or alley,
or parts thereof, or pledge the faith and credit oi
said city for any sum exceeding ten thousand dollars,
without first submitting the question to the voters of
said city, after twenty days' public notice, and a
majority7 of the legal voters voting on said question
assenting thereto ; to erect and repair bridges within
the corporation limits; to pass ordinances to levy
and collect taxes on dogs, and to restrain them from
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