JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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may be levied, and for the levy and collection of a tax
thereon for the general purposes of the corporation not exceed-
ing in any one year eighty-five cents to every one hundred
dollars of assessable property; to fix and pay the compensa-
tion of bailiff, clerk, treasurer, tax collector and such other
officers, agents or servants as may be employed by the corpo-
ration; 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 restrain
and prohibit gunning; to provide for licensing, regulating or
restraining theatricals or other public amusements within the
city limits; to establish day and night police, and erect lamps;

Levy and
collection of
taxes.

to borrow money on the faith and credit of the city, and to
open and close streets; provided, they shall not have the
power to borrow any sum or sums greater than five thousand
dollars, or to close or alineate any street or alley
or parts thereof that are already opened and used
as highways without first obtaining the assent of a major-
ity of the legal voters of the city, cast at an election

Establish day
and night
police.

held for that purpose, after twenty days' public notice;
to erect and repair bridges within the corporate limits; to levy
and collect taxes on dogs, and to restrain them from going at
large; to prevent domestic animals or poultry of any kind from
going at large; to restrain and suppress the keeping of any
hog-pen within the city or any part thereof; to regulate and
define the location of slaughter-houses and smoke-houses; to
regulate the speed of railroad trains within the limits of the

Erect and
epair bridges.

city; to prevent any immoderate driving or riding through the
streets in any carriage, stage, cart or other vehicle or on
horseback or bicycle so as to endanger the lives, limbs or
property of any of the inhabitants of said city, or to disturb
the quiet enjoyment of the streets and thoroughfares; to pre-
vent disorderly conduct and drunkenness in said city; to pre-
vent and disperse the congregation of disorderly persons upon
street corners and in the vicinity of places of worship; to
purchase fire-engines, establish water-works, or whatever

Immoderate
driving or
riding, etc.

appliances may be deemed best for the extinguishing fires
and protecting the property of the inhabitants from injury by
fire; to define the duties of the officers of said corporation,
require bonds and fix the penalties thereof for the faithful
performance of their respective duties, and for regulating the
conduct of elections in any particulars not herein specially
provided for, making returns and declaring the result thereof,
and prescribing the manner of recounting ballots in case of
contested elections, and they shall have power to enforce their
ordinances by fines and penalties; they shall have the power

Purchase
fire-engines,
establish
water-works,
etc.