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vendors of property on the streets or squares or other public places in
said city.

To license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit hawkers and itinerant
dealers, peddlers, pawnbrokers and all other persons selling any articles
on the streets of said city, and to revoke such license at pleasure.

To license, tax and regulate public hackmen, taxicabmen, omnibus
drivers, carters, cabmen, porters, expressmen, bill posters, and all other
persons pursuing like occupations and to prescribe their compensation.

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 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.

To license, tax and regulate branch stores or establishments and all
other concerns established in said city for temporary or seasonal 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, tax and regulate, restrain and prohibit the erection or main-
tenance of bill boards, 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.

The said Mayor and City Council shall have power to enforce the ordi-
nances by fines and penalties and by imprisonments, and may establish
and maintain a city prison, and the committing Magistrate or Court may
confine therein all persons convicted of violations of their ordinances in
default of the payment of fines imposed for such violations, or may at
their option confine such persons in the county jail; and the said Mayor