EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1467

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 hun-
dred dollars of assessable property; to fix and pay the compen-
sation 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, fire-
crackers, rockets, torpedoes, and other explosives, either by
prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise; to restrain and pro-
hibit gunning; to provide for licensing, regulating or restrain-
ing circuses or tent shows, theatricals or other public amuse-
ments 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 bor-
row any sum or sums greater than five thousand dollars, or
to close or alienate any street or alley or parts thereof that
are already opened and used as highways without first obtain-
ing 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 ani-
mals or poultry of any kind from going at large; to restrain
and suppress the keeping of any hogpen within the City or
any part thereof; to regulate and define the location of slaugh-
ter houses and smokehouses; to regulate the speed of railroad
trains within the limits of the City; to prevent any immoder-
ate driving or riding through the streets in any carriage, stage,
cart or other vehicle or on horseback or bicycle so as to endan-
ger the lives, limbs or property of any of the inhabitants of
said City, or to disturb the quiet enjoyment of the streets and
thoroughfares,. to prevent disorderly conduct and drunkenness
in said City; to prevent and disperse the congregation of dis-
orderly persons upon street corners and in the vicinity of
places of worship; to purchase fire engines, establish, con-
struct and maintain water works, or whatever appliances may
be deemed best for extinguishing fires and protecting the prop-
erty of the inhabitants from injury by fire, and to furnish a
supply of pure water for the use of the inhabitants under such
rules and regulations as they may by ordinance prescribe; to