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nuisances and obstructions from the streets, lanes aud alleys,
and from any lots adjoining thereto, within the limits of the
city; they may pass ordinances to remove or cause to be re-
moved, any houses or other buildings that may in their judg-
ment become dangerous; they may pass ordinances to cause
the streets, lanes and alleys to be paved, graded, repaved,
drained and sewered; they may erect or establish market-hou-
ses and regulate markets; they may erect or establish houses
of correction, hospitals or pest-houses within or without the
city, if necessary, and pass all ordinances for the government
of the same; to pass all such ordinances as they may deem
necessary for the protection and preservation of the health of
the city and its inhabitants; to pass all ordinances necessary
for the preservation and protection of any of the city's prop-
erty, rights and privileges; they may direct in what part of
the city, buildings of wood shall not be erected; may prevent
the storage of gunpowder or other combustible matter in such
quantities or places within the city, as they may deem dan-
gerous; to pass all ordinances to provide for licensing and
regulating pawn-brokers, pedlars of nostrums, notions, pat-
ents, secret or pretended inventions and remedies, on the
streets, lanes or side walks of the city; pass all such ordi-
nances, in addition to those already existing, to levy and col-
lect a tax on the assessable property of said city, as may be
necessary to pay the interest on the city bonds, and to pro-
vide a sinking fund for the redemption thereof at maturity;
to pass ordinances for the preservation of peace and good or-
der, securing property and persons from violence, danger or
destruction; to pass ordinances for the suppression and re-
straint 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 exceeding in any one year fifty cents
on every hundred dollars worth of said assessable property;
to pass ordinances for the election and qualification of a City
Clerk, Treasurer and Collector, and the appointment of such
other officers, agents and servants as may be deemed neces-
sary, and to fix their compensation; to pass ordinances to
suppress the practice of firing and discharging firearms, 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 licens-
ing, regulating or restraining theatrical or other public
amusements within the limits of said corporation; to estab-
lish 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 of said cty for any