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alley in said city, any benefit shall thereby accrue to the owner
or possessor of any ground or improvement, within or upon said
street, lane or alley, for which such owner or possessor ought to
pay a compensation, said benefits shall be assessed and paid by
the owner or possessor in like manner as above provided; to
erect and repair bridges; to pave, construct and keep in repair
all necessary drains and sewers, and to pass all necessary regu-
lations for the regulation, repair and preservation of the same;
to regulate and fix the assize of bread; to provide for the ap-
pointment, and define the duties of city commissioner, police
officers, market masters, gaugers, wood corders, harbor masters,
hay weighers, coal weighers and inspectors, and all other officers
whom they may create, and to define their duties and compen-
sation; to provide for the safe keeping of the standard of the
weights and measures, fixed by congress, or by an act of the
general assembly, and for regulating thereby all weights and
measures used within the city; to regulate party walls and parti-
tion fences; to erect and regulate markets; to provide for licens-
ing 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, bowling 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
burden, and to provide for licensing, regulating or restraining
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 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 prop-
erty in the city; to pass ordinances for the prevention and
extinguishment 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