| 477 "Sec. 6. To establish hospitals, and make regulations for the government of the same.
"Sec. 7. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, to declare what shall be a nuisance, and to prevent and remove the same.
"Sec. 8. To provide the city with water, to dig wells and erect pumps in the streets for the extinguishment of fires, and convenience of the inhabitants.
"Sec. 9. To open, alter, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in repair streets, avenues, lanes, and alleys.
"Sec. 10. To establish, erect, and keep in repair, bridges.
"Sec. 11. To divide the city into wards, and specify the boundaries thereof, and create additional wards, as the occasion may require.
"Sec. 12. To provide for lighting the streets and erecting lamp posts.
"Sec. 13. To establish, support, and regulate night watches.
"Sec. 14. To erect market houses, establish markets, and market places, and provide for the government and regulation thereof.
"Sec. 15. To provide for erecting all needful buildings for the use of the city.
"Sec. 16. To provide for inclosing [enclosing], improving, [and] regulating all public grounds belonging to the city.
"Sec. 17. To license, tax, [and] regulate auctioneers, merchants and retailers, grocers, taverns, ordinaries, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers, and money changers.
"Sec. 18. To license, tax, and regulate hacking, carriages, wagons, carts, and drays, and fix the rates to be charged for the carriage of persons, and for the wagonage cartage, and drayage of property.
"Sec. 19. To license and regulate porters and fix the rates of porterage.
"Sec. 20. To license and regulate theatrical and other exhibitions. shows, and amusements.
"Sec. 21. To tax, restrain, prohibit, and suppress, tippling
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