ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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penalty as the mayor and city council may direct, and with

sureties approved by them for the faithful performance of his

duties as bailiff, but nothing herein shall be construed to pre-

vent the bailiff from also acting as tax collector and receiving

additional pay in that capacity.

152. The mayor and city council shall have power to pass all

such ordinances not contrary to the constitution and laws of this

State as they may deem necessary for the good government of the

city; they may pass ordinances to prevent, remove and abate all

nuisances and obstructions on or from the streets, lanes, alleys,

drains or water-courses or on or from any lot adjacent thereto,

within the limits of the city; to remove or cause to be removed

any houses or other buildings that may in their judgment become

dangerous; to cause the streets, lanes and alleys to be paved,

graded, drained or sewered; to cause the side-walks along the

public streets and highways of said city to be graded, paved, re-

paired or improved, curbs to be set and gutters laid; to erect and

establish market houses and regulate markets, houses of correc-

tion, hospitals or pest houses within or without the city if neces-

sary, and to provide for the government of the same; to establish

and regulate a station-house or lock-up for the temporary con-

finement of violators of the laws and ordinances of the city; to

suppress vagrancy; for the protection and preservation of the

health of the city and its inhabitants and of the city's property,

rights and privileges; to prevent the storage of gunpowder or

Powers.

other combustible matter in such quantities or places within the

city as they may deem dangerous; to regulate and provide for

licensing pawnbrokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions, potents,

secrets or pretended inventions and remedies on the streets, lanes

or side-walk of the city; to regulate and provide for the issuing

of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of

wares and merchandise of every description on the streets, lanes,

alleys or side-walks of the city, and to issue licenses or permits to

all itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house to vend or

sell wares or merchandise; to levy and collect a tax on the assessa-

ble property of said city as may be necessary to pay the interest

on the city bonds and to provide a sinking fund for their redemp-

tion at maturity; for the preservation of peace and good order,

securing persons and property from violence, danger or destruc-

tion; 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 its corpora-

tion not exceeding in any one year eighty-five cents on every one

hundred dollars worth of assessable property; to fix and pay the

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