JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 683

or pledge the faith and credit of said city for any
sum exceeding five thousand dollars without first
submitting the question to the voters of said city
after twenty days public notice, and the majority of
the legal voters voting on said question assenting
thereto ; to erect and repair bridges within the	Erect and re-
corporation limits ; to pass ordinances to levy and	pair bridges
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 ; they may regulate and define the location of slaughter-houses and smoke-
houses where large numbers of fish are smoked ;
they may pass ordinances regulating the speed of
railroad trains through the limits of the said city ;
they may pass ordinances 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 ; they shall pass ordinances
to prevent disorderly conduct and drunkenness in
said city ; to prevent and disperse the congregation
of disorderly persons upon street corners and in the
vicinity of places of worship; they shall have the
power to purchase such engines (or whatever con-
venience may be deemed best), for extinguishing
fires and protecting the property of the inhabitants
from injury by fire ; they shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary to define the duties of the	Enforce by fines and pen- alties
officers of said corporation ; to require bonds and fix
the penalties thereof for the faithful performance or
their respective duties ; and to pass all ordinances
for conducting the election herein directed, and for
making the returns thereof; and they shall have
power to enforce their ordinances by fines and
penalties.
SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and
City Council shall have power and authority to con-	Construct
struct wharves at the end of such streets as extend	wharves.
into the river ; shall have power to rent or lease the
same, and determine upon and regulate all matters
to the erecting or building said wharves ; to regulate