784 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 464

along the public streets and highways of said city to be
graded, paved, repaired or improved, curbs to be set and gut-
ters laid; to erect and establish houses of correction, hospitals
or pest-houses without or within the city, and to provide for
the government of the same; to establish and regulate a sta-
tion house or lockup for the temporary confinement of vio-
lators 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 mat-
ter in such quantities or places within the city as they may
seem dangerous; to regulate and provide for licensing of pawn
brokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions, patents, secrets or
pretended 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 re-
straint 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 cor-
poration not exceeding in any one year one dollar and fifteen
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 dis-
charging firearms, fire-crackers, rockets, torpedoes, and other
explosives, either by prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise;
to restrain and prohibit gunning; to create the office of Build-
ing Inspector with such powers and duties as they shall, by
ordinance, prescribe ; to provide for licensing, regulating or
restraining circuses or tent shows, theatricals or other public
amusements within the city limits; to establish day and night