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ket, and may require a license therefor from each vender; but
such ordinances shall not apply to licensed dealers in such fruits,
vegetables, butter, eggs and poultry occupying regular places of
business in said city, unless they offer their goods also in the
market space; nor to persons offering for sale products of their
own farms or gardens to customers, whether private citizens or
licensed dealers, unless they do so in the market space, which
market space shall include the market-house and streets bound-
ing the same; the said mayor and city council shall not impose-
any restraint or hindrance upon the sale of such vegetables,
fruits, butter, eggs, poultry or country produce, by persons,
raising or producing the same; but if such persons shall desire to
sell the same in the market space, may require from them a
license or fee for the privilege of so doing; they may require a
license from all persons owning and keeping for public hire,
drays, wagons or other vehicles for transporting goods or passen-
gers in said city, and may require that all such drays, wagons or
other vehicles shall be numbered to correspond with the number
upon the license issued to them in pursuance of this authority;
they may prevent. the storage of gunpowder or other combustible
matter in such quantities or places within the city as they may
deem dangerous; may pass all ordinances to provide for regulating
pawnbrokers, pedlars of nostrums, notions, patents, secret or
pretended inventions and remedies, on the streets, lanes, alleys or
sidewalks of the city, and for licensing commercial travelers and
all retail dealers, non-residents of the city; may pass all such ordi-
nances, in addition to those already existing, 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 the redemption thereof at maturity; may pass ordinances
for the preservation of peace and good order, securing persons
and property from violence, danger or destruction; may pass ordi-
nances for the suppression, restraint and regulation of bawdy-
houses and houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit the youth of said
city from being on the streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable
hours of night; may pass ordinances providing for levying and
collecting a tax on the assessable property of said city, for the
general purposes of said corporation, not exceeding in any one
year fifty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of said assess-