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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 city for any
sum exceeding ten thousand dollars, without first submitting
the question, to the voters of said city, after twenty days' pub-
lic notice, and a majority 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 going at large; to
prevent swine from going at large, and to restrain and sup-
press the keeping of any hog-pen within certain portions or
watds in said city; they shall have power to pass all ordi-
nances necessary to define the duties of the officers of said
corporation; to require bonds and fix the penalties thereof for
the faithful performance of their respective duties; and to
pass all ordinances for conducting the elections herein di-
rected, and for making the returns thereof; provided, that
duplicate copies of said returns shall be made out, one copy
of which shall be filed with the Mayor and City Council and
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