894                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 353

said city, said abutting owner to pay one-tenth of the cost of
installing one-half of said curb each year for a period of ten
years until said abutting owner shall have paid one-half of the
cost of said curb; to erect and establish houses of correction,
hospitals or pesthouses without or within the city, and to pro-
vide for the government of the same; to establish and regulate
a station house or lockup for the temporary confinement 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 mat-
ter in such quantities or places within the city as they may
deem dangerous; to regulate and provide for licens-
ing of 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 carts, drays, wagons and other vehi-
cles 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
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 one dollar and fifty 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 corpo-
ration to suppress the practice of firing and discharging fire-
arms, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes and other explosives,
either by prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise; to restrain
and prohibit gunning; to create the office of Building Inspec-
tor 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 police, and