CITY OF CUMBERLAND. 291
To license, tax and regulate public hackmen, taxi-cabmen, draymen,
omnibus drivers, carters, cabmen, porters, expressmen, bill posters, and
all other persons pursuing like occupations and to prescribe their com-
pensation.
To license, tax and regulate all inns, taverns, dance halls, pool rooms,
soda fountains, pool tables, bowling alleys, places where soft drinks are
disposed of, livery or sale stables, hotels, restaurants, lunch rooms, or
other places used or kept for public entertainment, and in the discretion
of said Mayor and City Council to refuse to grant any such license and
to revoke any such license when granted.
To license, tax and regulate and prohibit the selling or giving away
of any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, and to license all places where
such liquors or either of them are lawfully disposed of, whether given
away or sold, and all such places shall pay a license fee of one hundred
dollars per year to said city.
To license, tax and regulate second-hand and junk stores, and to forbid
their purchasing or receiving from minors any articles whatever without
consent of their parents or guardians.
To license, tax, regulate and prohibit the keeping or harboring of dogs.
To license, tax and regulate wheeled vehicles; provided, that the funds
derived from all such licenses shall be applied only to the maintenance
and repair of streets and alleys.
To license, tax and regulate branch stores or establishments and all
other concerns established in said city for temporary business only.
To license, tax and regulate ice-cream wagons, butcher wagons, cigar
and tobacco stands, gasoline stations, popcorn machines, and all similar
occupations.
To license and tax fire insurance companies; provided, that all fire
insurance companies doing business in the City of Cumberland, shall
pay a license fee of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred
dollars per annum.
To license, tax and regulate, restrain and prohibit the erection or main-
tenance of billboards, within said city, the placing of signs, bills and
posters of every kind and description on any building, fence, post, bill-
board, pole or other place or device within said city.
To regulate, tax, restrain, or prohibit all public gatherings of every
sort; and to regulate, license, tax, restrain, or prohibit all medicine shows,
street vendors, and all demonstrators of every sort.
To regulate, license, tax, restrain, or prohibit all sales advertised as
removal sales, fire sales, closing out sales, reduction of stock sales, dam-
aged goods sales, salvage sales, inventory sales, auction sales, and all
other sales similar in character to any of the foregoing.
To regulate, license, tax, restrain, or prohibit the sale of magazines
or periodicals of every description by solicitors or agents; and to regulate,
license, tax, restrain or prohibit the enlarging of pictures, the selling of
soaps and perfumes, or any and all other merchandise by solicitors, agents,
or peddlers.
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