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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be numbered to correspond with the number upon

the license issued to it in pursuance of this authority ;

they may prevent the storage of gunpowder or other
combustible matter in such quantities or places with-

in the city as they may deem dangerous ; pass all

ordinances to provide for regulating pawnbrokers,

pedlers of nostrums, notions, patents, secret or pre-

tended inventions and remedies on the streets, lanes,

alleys or sidewalks of the city, and for licensing

commercial travelers and all retail dealers non-resi-

dents of the city ; pass all such ordinances in addi-

tion to those already existing, 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

Provide sink-

to provide a sinking fund for the redemption thereof

ing fund.

at maturity ; 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 the streets, lanes or

alleys at unreasonable hours of night ; pass ordi-

nances 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 assessable property ; pass ordinances

for the election by the City Council and qualification

City meas-

of a city measurer and collector, and the appoint-

urer and col-

ment by the Mayor of such other officers, agents or

lector.

servants as may be deemed necessary, and to fix

their compensation ; pass ordinances to suppress the
practice of firing and discharging fire-arms, fire-crack-
ers, rockets, torpedoes and other explosives, either by

prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise ; pass ordi-

Restrain
gaming.

nances 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; they shall erect lamps and provide

proper and suitable lights upon the public 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