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be kept open for the inspection of all parties interested; he
shall keep all the accounts of the Corporation, shall make out
the tax list, and perform such other duties in connection with
his office as the Mayor and City Council shall require, and he
shall receive such compensation as the Mayor and City Coun-
cil shall by ordinance prescribe.

Section 308. The Mayor and City Council shall have
power to pass all such ordinances, directly or impliedly, au-
thorized by this sub-title and 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 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 sidewalks along the public streets and highways of
said city to be graded, paved, repaired or improved, curbs to
be set and gutters laid; to erect and establish houses of correc-
tion, hospitals or pest-houses, without or within the city, and
to provide for the government of the same; to establish and
regulate a station house or lock-up for the temporary confine-
ment 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 explosives or combustible
matter in such quantities or places within the city as they may
deem dangerous; to regulate and provide for licensing pawn-
brokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions, patents, secrets or pre-
tended inventions and remedies on the streets, lanes or side-
walks 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 carts, 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 necessary 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 suppression and restraint of