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CHAP. 127.
Certain
ordinances
to be passed
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of violators of the laws of the State or of the ordinances of
the city ; to suppress vagrancy ; to protect and preserve the
health of the citizens and the property, rights and privileges
of the city ; to prevent the storage of explosive or com-
bustible 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, patents,
secrets or pretended inventions and remedies on the streets,
lanes or sidewalks 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 sidewalks of the city, and to
issue licenses or permits to all carte, drays, wagons and other
vehicles, and itinerant peddlers who may go from house to
house to vend or sell wares or merchandise ; to levy and collect
a tax on the assessable property of said city as may be neces-
sary to pay the interest on the city bonds, and to provide a
sinking fund for their redemption at maturity; for the
preservation of peace and good order, securing persons and
property from violence, danger or destruction ; for the sup-
pression and restraint of vice; 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 the corporation not exceeding in any one year eighty-five
cents to every one hundred dollars of assessable property ; to
fix and pay the compensation of the bailiff, clerk, treasurer
and such other officers, agents or servants as may be
employed by the corporation ; to suppress the practice
of firing and discharging firearms, tire-crackers, rockets,
torpedoes and other explosives, either by prohibiting the
sale thereof, or otherwise to restrain and prohibit gunning ;
to provide for licensing, regulating or restraining circuses or
tent shows, theatrical or other public amusements within the
city limits ; to establish day and night police, and to provide
for the lighting of the city streets ; to borrow money on the
faith and credit of the city, and to open and close streets;
provided, they shall not have the power to borrow any sum or
sums greater than tive thousand dollars, or to close or alienate
any street or alley, or parts thereof that are already opened
and used as highways, without first obtaining the assent of a
majority of the legal voters of the city, cast at an election held
for that purpose after twenty days' public notice; to erect and
repair bridges within the corporate limits; to levy and collect
taxes on dogs and bitches and to restrain them from going at
large; to prevent domestic animals or poultry of any kind
from going at large; to restrain and suppress the keeping of
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