HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1827

all persons entering into or beginning transient business in
the City for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; to
levy and collect a tax on the assessable property of the City,
including a tax for the use of sewers and sewerage disposition,
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 sup-
pression and restraint of gambling and vice; for the assess-
ment from time to time of all kinds of property and securities
in the City and in the same or other manner in which County
or State taxes are or may be levied; and for the levy and col-
lection of a tax thereon for the general purposes of the corpora-
tion not exceeding in any one year one dollar and fifty cents
to every One Hundred ($100. 00) Dollars of assessable prop-
erty; to fix and pay the compensation of such other officers,
agents or servants as may be employed by the corporation as
are not hereinafter provided for; to suppress the practice of
firing and discharging firearms, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes
and other explosives, either by prohibiting the sale thereof or
otherwise; to restrain and prohibit gunning; to create the
office of City Engineer and Building Inspector with such pow-
ers and duties as they shall, by ordinance, prescribe; to pro-
vide for licensing, regulating or restraining circuses or tent
shows, theatricals or other public amusements within the City
Limits; to establish day and night police; to borrow money on
the faith and credit of the City, providing they shall not have
the power to borrow any sum or sums beyond the limit here-
inafter prescribed; to close or alienate any street or alleys
or parts thereof that are already opened; to erect and
repair bridges within the corporate limits; to provide
for and regulate the cleaning and removal of snow and
ice from the sidewalks and pavements adjacent to prop-
erties and the punishment of tenants and property owners
for failure to comply therewith; to levy and collect
taxes on dogs and bitches and to restrain them from going
at large; to prevent domestic animals or poultry of any kind
from going at large and to restrain and suppress the keeping
of any hogpen within the City or any part thereof; to require
the removal of any privy, or surface toilet, not equipped with
running water located within two hundred feet of the City's
sewerage system or to require such privies, or surface toilets,
to be equipped with running water supplied by the City, and to
enforce the removal of those existing in the instance where the
property owner on which the same is located either fails or
neglects, after ten days written notice, to equip the same with
running water, to prohibit the erection of any privy, or surface
toilet, without running water within a distance of two hundred