ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 217

merchandise; to issue licenses to any and all persons entering
into or beginning transient business in said City for the sale of
any goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for
the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense medi-
cines or medical advice; to regulate and license all restaurants,
barber shops, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire and slaughter sales
and auction sales; to regulate and license all nine and ten pin
alleys, bowling alleys, skating rinks, pool and billiard tables,
theatres, moving picture shows, boxing and sparring matches
and wrestling contests, and also exhibitions of every kind; to
provide for the restraining of theatricals or other public amuse-
ments of an immoral or indecent nature in said City; to regulate
the construction and maintenance of exits from places of amuse-
ments and all public buildings; to prevent gambling and games
of chance; to regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in.
under or above same, and to require the owner or occupant of
the premises to keep the sidewalks in front of same and the glit-
ters thereof free from snow and other obstructions, and to
prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and prevent
the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper,
handbills, dirty liquids or other material into any street,
alley or public place, or on any vacant lot in said City; to
license all open water-closets not connected with sewer and
to prescribe rules and regulations for removing the excrement
therefrom; to regulate or suppress slaughter houses and smoke
houses in said City, and to regulate canning houses within the
corporate limits, and to enforce the provisions of all such
ordinances by appropriate penalties; to regulate, restrain or
prohibit the running at large of horses, bulls, cows, sheep,
goats, ducks, geese and chickens on any of the streets, lanes,
alleys or highways of said city, to regulate all stockyards,
cattle pens, hog pens and slaughter houses within the said
City, or provide for their removal from the corporate limits
thereof; to regulate or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks
and public places for signs, signposts, awnings, awning
posts, posts, horse troughs, steps, railings, entrances, rocks,
posting handbills and advertisements and display of goods, wares
and merchandise; to grant franchises and regulate the putting
of sewers or drains on or under its streets, alleys or high-
ways and the charges for entering same; to grant and reg-
ulate franchises to electric light companies, power companies,
gas companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies,
street railway companies, water companies, sewer or drain com-
panies, and any other which they deem advantageous and
beneficial to said City or the inhabitants thereof, and to regu-
late the charges for services of such companies as now
possess or may hereafter obtain franchises in said City; all
such franchises shall be for a definite term of years not ex-