1342 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 13.

tions and remedies on the streets, lanes or sidewalks of the city;
to levy and collect a tax on the assessable property of said city,
as may be necessary to pay the interest on the city bonds, and to
provide a sinking fund for their redemption at maturity; for the
preservation of peace and good order, securing persons and prop-
erty from violence, danger or destruction; for the suppression,
restraint and regulation of bawdy-houses and houses of ill-fame;
for the assessment from time to time of all kinds of property and
securities in said city on which State or county taxes are or may
be levied, and for the levy and collection of a tax thereon for the
general purposes of the corporation, not exceeding in any one
year sixty cents on every hundred dollars worth of said assessable
property; to fix and pay the compensation of bailiff, clerk, treas-
urer and such other officers, agents or servants as may be em-
ployed by the corporation; to suppress the practice of firing and

discharging fire-arms, fire-crackers, rockets, torpedoes and other
explosives, either by prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise;
to restrain and prohibit gunning, and to provide for licensing,
regulating or restraining theatricals or other public amusements

within the limits of said corporation; to establish day and night
police and erect lamps; to open and close streets and parts
of streets; provided, that they shall not have power to close
or alienate any public street or alley or parts thereof, or pledge
the faith and credit of said city for any sum exceeding five
thousand dollars, without first obtaining the assent of a ma-
jority of the legal voters of the city at an election held after
twenty days' public notice; to erect and repair bridges within the

corporation limits; to levy and collect taxes on dogs and bitches,
And to restrain them from going at large; to prevent swine, geese,
goats, horses, mules, cows, calves or cattle of any kind whatsoever,
from going at large, and to restrain and suppress the keeping of
any hog-pen within certain portions of said city; to regulate and

define the location of slaughter-houses and smoke-houses where
large numbers of fish are smoked; to regulate the speed of rail-
road trains through the limits of the said city; to prevent any
immoderate riding or driving through the streets in any carriage,
stage, cart or other vehicle, or on horseback, so as to endanger
the lives, limbs or property of citizens of said city, or disturb the
quiet enjoyment of the streets and thoroughfares; to prevent