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thereof, and to prescribe the size of those to be built in the city; to establish and regulate lire wards and fire companies; to restrain or prohibit
gaming; to license bowling saloons, bowling alleys, nine or ten-pin alleys, billiard tables, rondo tables, bagatelle tables, or any other tables or devices or structures of a similar kind; to li- cense carriages of pleasure and burthen, and to provide for licensing, regulating or restraining theatrical or other public amusements within the limits of the city; to license hawkers, peddlars, traveling physicians, venders of patent medicines or other articles, and their vehicles; to sink wells; to make and regulate pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water plugs, fountains, and so forth, in the streets, lanes and alleys, and to pass laws to protect the same; to impose and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for the breach of their by-laws and ordinances; to levy and collect taxes not exceed- ing one per centum per annum on all the assessa- ble property in the said city; to pass ordinances for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and for paving and keeping in repair the streets, lanes and alleys in said city; and, in addition to the power aforesaid, to tax any particular part or	License for amusements.
district of the city for paving the streets, lanes and alleys therein, or for sinking wells, making pumps, water pipes, fountains, hydrants and water plugs therein, which may appear for the benefit of such particular part or district, in a sum not exceeding one per centum on the assessable prop- erty in said particular part or district; and to make a new assessment of all the assessable prop- erty in said city not exempt from taxation by the laws of this State, as often as they may deem the	Pave streets and lanes.
same necessary; to borrow money on the credit of the corporation for the purpose of promoting or effecting any important and permanent public im- provement in the city, or for paying its present debt, and to issue, from time to time, as they may deem proper, the bonds of the said Mayor, Coun- sellor and Aldermen, payable at such times and in such sums as they may deem proper, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of fifty thousand dollars,	Borrow money
and to pledge their property for the payment thereof, and the interest thereon; provided, however, that a majority of the legal voters shall approve the	Legal voters to approve.