30 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

able property; may pass ordinances for the election by the city

council and qualification of a city treasurer and collector, and
the appointment by the mayor of such other officers, agents or
servants as may be deemed necessary, and to fix their compen-
sation; may pass ordinances to suppress the practice of firing and

discharging fire-arms, fire-crackers, rockets, torpedoes and other
explosives, either by prohibiting the sale thereof or other-
wise; may pass ordinances to restrain and prohibit gaming, and
to provide for licensing, regulating or restraining theatricals
or other public amusements within the limits of said city;
to establish day and night police; to punish and suppress
tramps and vagrants by imposing fines thereon; to erect
lamps and provide proper and suitable lights upon the pub-
lic streets; to open or close streets, or parts of streets, lanes
or alleys; provided, they shall not have power to close any
public street or alley or parts thereof, or pledge the faith
and credit 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 by handbills or otherwise,
and unless two-thirds of the legal votes cast upon such question
shall be in favor thereof; to erect and repair bridges within the
corporation limits; to prevent swine, cattle, dogs or other ani-
mals from running at large on the public streets, and to prevent
the keeping of any hog-pen within certain limits or wards within
the city, and to levy a tax on dogs; they shall have power to
pass all ordinances necessary to define the duties of the officers of
said corporation; require bonds and fix the penalties thereof for
the faithful performance of their respective duties; to require
bonds for the performance of any or all contracts entered into
with them; pass all ordinances for conducting the elections here-
in provided, and for making returns thereof; provided, that
duplicate copies of said returns shall be made out, one copy of
which shall be filed with the clerk of the city council, and the
other with the clerk of the circuit court for Allegany county;
and they shall have power to enforce their ordinances by fines
and penalties; and if said mayor and city council shall be author-
ized by the vote above mentioned at any time to pledge the
credit of the city to the amount of ten thousand dollars or more,
then they may at once issue coupon bonds of said corporation