8 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

have power to establish markets, to regulate the hours and
limits thereof, and to regulate the mode of dealings thereat; they
shall have the same power over the public grounds as over other
parts of the city, but shall not interfere with the title thereof;
they shall have power to ordam all such rules and regulations
as they may deem necessary for the protection and preservation
of the health of the city and its inhabitants; they shall have
power to establish and regulate a city prison for the confinement
of offenders against the laws and ordinances of said city; they
may from time to time cause an assessment, to be made of all
property in the city real and personal, by a person or persons
appointed by them, and may levy thereon a tax not exceeding
in any one year fifty cents in every hundred dollars worth of
assessable property; they shall have power to prevent all nui-
sances and annoyances in said city, and may impose such reason-
able fines, forfeitures or imprisonments as to them may appear
necessary for the violation of any ordinance of the said city;
they may pass ordinances to prohibit or restrain the keeping of
"bawdy houses, or houses of ill-fame within the limits of the
city; to restrain and prohibit all loose and suspected persons
from resorting to, frequenting or living in any such bawdy
house or house of ill-fame, and to provide for punishing all
persons who shall keep, authorize, or suffer to be kept any such
bawdy house or house of ill-fame, and all loose and suspected
persons who shall live, reside in or resort to any such bawdy
house or house of ill-fame, by fine and imprisonment,\such fine
not to exceed fifty dollars and imprisonment not to exceed
twenty days, and may pass all such other ordinances as they
may deem proper for the welfare of said city; provided, that
they shall not have power to close or alienate any public street
or alley, or pledge the credit and faith of said city for any sum
exceeding ten thousand dollars, without first submitting the
question to the voters of said city, after twenty days public
notice, and a majority of the legal voters assenting thereto.

7. For the purpose of introducing a supply of good soft water
into the said city, the mayor and councilman are hereby author-
ized to issue bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding
sixty thousand dollars to be denominated Cumberland Water