FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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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 ; to pass ordinances for the preservation

of peace and good order, securing persons and property from

violence, danger or destruction ; pass ordinances 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 streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable hours

of night ; pass ordinances providing for levying and col-

lecting a tax on 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 assessable property; 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 compensation ; pass ordinances to suppress

the practice of firing and discharging firearms, rockets, tor-

pedoes and other explosives either by piohibiting the sale

thereof or otherwise ; pass ordinances to restrain and pro-

hibit gaming and to provide for licensing, regulating or

restraining theatricals, or other public entertainments within

the limits of said city ; to establish day and night police,

to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing

fines thereon ; they may pass Such ordinances as may be

necessary for the protection of the health of the city and

the appointment of a board of health ; they shall 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 hand bills or

otherwise, and two-thirds of the legal votes cast upon such

question being in favor thereof ; to erect and repair bridges

within the corporation limits, to prevent swine, cattle,

dogs or other animals 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 tp pass all' .ordinances

necessary to define the duties of the officers of said corpora-

tion, require bonds and fix the penalties thereof for the

faithful performance of their respective duties, to require

bonds for the performance of any and all contracts entered

into with them ; pass all ordinances for conducting the

elections herein provided, and for making returns thereof ;

Elections