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ing theatrical or other public amusements, within the limits of the city;
to license hawkers, peddlers, travelling physicians, vendors of patent
medicines or other articles, and their vehicles; to sink wells; to make
and regulate pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water plugs, fountains, sewers,
and so forth, in the streets, lanes and alleys of the city, and to pass laws
to protect, the same; to impose and appropriate fines, penalties and for-
feitures for the breach of their by-laws and ordinances; to levy and
collect taxes, not exceeding one per centum per annum, on all the assess-
able property in the city; to pass ordinances for the prevention and extin-
guishment 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 district of the city for paving the streets, lanes
and alleys therein, or for constructing sewers, sinking wells, making
pumps, water pipes, fountains, hydrants and water plugs therein, which,
in their judgment, may appear for the benefit of such particular part or
district, in a sum not exceeding one per centum on the assessable property
in said particular part or district; and to make a new assessment of all
the assessable property in said city, not exempt from taxation by the
laws of this State, as often as they may deem the same necessary; to-
borrow money on the credit of the corporation for the purpose of pro-
moting or effecting any important and permanent public improvement in
the city, or for paying its present debts; and to issue from time to time,
as they may deem proper, the bonds of the said Mayor, Counselor 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,
and to pledge their property for the payment thereof, and the interest
thereon; provided, however, that a majority of the legal voters shall ap-
prove the act at an election to be held on a day and at a place to be named
by the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, when
the legal voters of said city shall express by ballot their assent to or dis-
sent from the loan proposed; and provided further, that the entire public
debt of said city shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars; to
provide for taking up, fining or committing to the jail of Anne Arundel
County, all vagrants, drunken, loose and disorderly persons, and such
as have no visible means of support, and livelihood, and common dis-
turbers of the peace, that may be found within the jurisdiction of the
city; and the keeper of the said jail shall receive and safe keep all per-
sons so committed, according to the tenor of the commitment; to cause
a survey, as often as they may think necessary, of the city, its harbor,
streets, lots and the additions thereto to be made; to establish and fix
permanent boundaries and stones at such places as they may think neces-
sary, with proper marks and devices thereon; to ascertain the lines of
the city and the additions thereto; and the survey of the said city and
additions' thereto, and of the streets, lanes, alleys and harbor thereof,
when made, shall be signed by the Mayor, and the seal of the corporation
thereto affixed, and shall be deposited with the clerk of the corporation
of the city, and received as evidence of the boundaries of the said city,