HARFORD COUNTY. 2965

patents, secrets or pretended inventions and remedies on the streets, lanes
or sidewalks of the city; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and merchan-
dise of every description on the streets, lanes, alleys or sidewalks of the
city, and to issue licenses or permits to all carts, drays, wagons and other
vehicles and itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house to vend
or sell wares or merchandise; to levy and collect a tax on the assesable
property of said city as may be necessary to pay the interest on the city
bonds, and to provide a sinking fund for their redemption at maturity;
for the preservation of peace and good order, securing persons and prop-
erty from violence, danger or destruction; for the suppression and re-
straint of vice; for the assessment from time to time of all kinds of prop-
erty and securities in said city on which State or county taxes are or may
be levied, and for the levy and collection of a tax thereon for the general
purposes of the corporation not exceeding in any one year one dollar and
fifty cents to every one hundred dollars of assessable property; to fix and
pay the compensation of the bailiff, clerk, treasurer and such other offi-
cers, agents or servants as may be employed by the corporation; to sup-
press the practice of firing and discharging firearms, firecrackers, rockets,
torpedoes and other explosives, either by prohibiting the sale thereof or
otherwise; to restrain and prohibit gunning; to create the office of Build-
ing Inspector with such powers and duties as they shall, by ordinance,
prescribe; to provide for licensing, regulating or restraining circuses or
tent shows, theatricals or other public amusements within the city limits;
to establish day and night police, and to provide for the lighting of the
city streets, 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 alienate
any street or alley or parts thereof that are alrealy opened and used as
highways without first obtaining the assent of a majority of the legal
voters of the city cast at an election 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 bitches 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 hogpen
within the city or any part thereof; to regulate and define the location
of slaughter houses and smokehouses; to regulate the speed of railroad
trains within the limits of the 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 prevent disorderly conduct and drunken-
ness in said city; to prevent and disperse the congregation of disorderly
persons upon street corners and in the vicinity of places of worship; to
purchase fire engines, establish, construct and maintain waterworks, or
whatever appliances may be deemed best for extinguishing fires and pro-
tecting the property of the inhabitants from injury by fire, and to furnish