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Officers, &c
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the duties of city commissioners, police officers, market
masters, gaugers, wood corders, harbor masters, hay
weighers, coal weighers, and inspectors, and all other
officers which they may create, and to define the duties
and compensation thereof; to provide for the safe-keep-
ing of the standard of the weights and measures fixed
by congress, or by an act of the state of Maryland, and
for regulating thereby all weights and measures used
within the city; to regulate party walls and partition
fences; to erect and regulate markets; to provide for
licensing and regulating the sweeping and burning of
chimneys, and fixing the rates thereof, and to prescribe
the size of those to be built in the city; to establish
and regulate fire wards and fire companies; to restrain
or prohibit gaming; to license bowling saloons, bow-
ling alleys, nine or ten-pin alleys, billiard tables, rondo
tables, bagatelle tables, or any other tables or devices
or structures of a similar kind; to license carriages of
pleasure and burthen, and to provide for licensing,
regulating or restraining theatrical or other public
amusements within the limits of the city; to license
hawkers, peddlars, traveling physicians, venders of
patent medicines or other articles, and their vehicles;
to sink wells; to make and regulate pumps, water
pipes, hydrants, water plugs, fountains, and so forth,
in the streets, lanes and alleys, and to pass laws to pro-
tect the same; to impose and appropriate fines, penal-
ties and forfeitures for the breach of their by-laws and
ordinances; to levy and collect taxes not exceeding one
per centum, per annum on all the assessable property
in the said city; to pass ordinances for the prevention
and extinguishment of fires, and for paving and keep-
ing 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 sinking wells,
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