1. To make and enforce within the limits of said city and county all such local, police, sanitary and other laws and regulations as are not in conflict with general laws or this Charter.

2. To regulate and control the use of the streets, sidewalks, highways, roads and public places for any and all purposes; to prevent encroachments upon and obstruction to the same, and require the removal of any encroachment or obstruction thereon.

3. To regulate and control the use of the streets and sidewalks for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, drinking fountains, horse troughs, urinals, telegraph posts; for traffic and sales therein; for exhibiting banners, placards or flags in or across the same, or from houses or other buildings, and for all other purposes.

4. To regulate the cleaning of the streets, sidewalks and gutters, and prevent the depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, rubbish or garbage in the same.

5. To regulate the opening of street surfaces for the laying of gas or water mains, or telegraph or telephone wires; for the building and repair of sewers; for the erecting of gas or electric lights, or for any other use or purpose.

6. To regulate the numbering of houses and lots and the naming of streets, public places and thoroughfares.

7. In relation to street beggars, vagrants and mendicants, and the exhibition and distribution of advertisements or handbills along the streets or in public places.

8. In relation to intoxication, fighting, quarreling and vulgar language in the streets and other public places, and in relation to carrying concealed weapons.

9. In relation to the construction, maintenance, repair and removal of public fountains for the use of persons and animals on the streets and in other public places.

10. To regulate and to provide for the safety and comfort of people attending places of public amusements and regulate or prohibit public processions.

11. To restrain and prevent any riot, mob, noise, disturbance, or disorderly assembly or amusement dangerous to persons or property in any street, house or place.

12. To permit the laying down of railroad tracks and running cars thereon, along any street or portion of a street, for the sole purpose of excavating and filling in a street or portion of a street or the adjoining land, for such limited time as may be necessary for such purpose and no longer.

13. To provide for lighting the streets, squares, parks and public places, buildings and offices; and for enclosing, improving and regulating public grounds.

14. To fix the limits within which wooden buildings or structures shall not be erected, placed or maintained, and to prohibit the same within such limits.

15. To prohibit, suppress, regulate or exclude from certain limits all houses of ill-fame, prostitution and gaming; to prohibit, suppress or exclude from certain limits all occupations, houses, places, pastimes, amusements, exhibitions and practices which are against good morals and contrary to public order and decency, or dangerous to the public safety.

16. To regulate the manufacture, transportation, sale, disposition, storage and use of firearms, firecrackers, fireworks and all explosive or combustible materials and substances; the manufacture of acids, and the maintenance of acid works, slaughter houses, brick kilns, tanneries, laundries, foundries, steam boilers, and factories using steam boilers, and all other manufactories, works and occupations of every description that may affect the public safety, health or comfort, and to exclude them from certain limits.

17. To protect the health, comfort and security of the inhabitants, and the safety and security of property and life; to exclude from certain limits, hospitals, institutions and places for the treatment of disease, or for the care of sick or insane persons; to regulate all noxious trades, and restrict the prosecution thereof to such limits as may from time to time seem proper, or exclude them from said city and county; to make regulations for protection against fire, and to make such rules and regulations concerning the construction and use of buildings as may be necessary for the safety of the inhabitants; to provide for the examination, approval or disapproval of the plans and specifications of all buildings about to be constructed, and to prevent the construction thereof contrary to the provisions of any ordinance; to provide

for the examination of all buildings and the removal thereof if found unsafe or constructed contrary to ordinance.

18. To authorize the establishment and maintenance of crematories and cemeteries, to regulate the same, and exclude them from certain limits.

19. To provide for the abatement or summary removal of any nuisance.

20. To regulate hackney carriages and public passenger vehicles, and fix the rates to be charged for the transportation of persons or personal baggage; to regulate all vehicles used for the conveyance of merchandise, earth or ballast; to exclude certain classes of vehicles from the use of certain streets; to prescribe the width of the tires of all vehicles, and the weight to be carried by said vehicles; and to regulate drivers, carriers, runners and solicitors.

21. In relation to the construction, repair, care and use of markets and market places, and of places of public amusement and public assemblage.

22. In relation to the construction, repair and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps and sewers.

23. To provide a public pound and a pound keeper, with necessary assistants, and to fix the salary of the pound keeper and his assistants, which shall be paid only out of fines collected and paid into the Treasury for the redemption of impounded animals; to prescribe fines for the redemption of animals duly impounded, and to provide for the collection of such fines and their payment into the Treasury on the day they are received; to prevent animals from running at large, and to provide for impounding or killing them when found running at large; to provide for the removal and disposition of animals or vehicles found unattended in any street or public place.

SEC. 24. To provide for suitable buildings, rooms or accommodations for all Courts, Departments, Boards and Officers, together with all necessary attendants, furniture, fuel, lights and stationery for the convenient transaction of business.

25. To provide and maintain a morgue.

26. To provide for places for the detention of witnesses separate and apart from places where criminals, or persons accused of public offenses are imprisoned.

27. To regulate and provide for the employment on the public works of said city and county of prisoners sentenced to labor thereon, and to make regulations requiring prisoners not sentenced to imprisonment in the State Prison, to be sentenced to such labor either in the chain-gang or elsewhere, as the Supervisors may deem. expedient; to establish, maintain and regulate, and change, discontinue and re-establish city and county jails, prisons, and houses of correction and other places of detention, punishment, confinement and reformation, and to establish in connection therewith, manufacturing or laboring establishments.

28. To purchase or acquire by condemnation such property as may be needed for public use.

29. To provide water for municipal purposes.

30. To regulate the quality, capacity and location of water and gas pipes, mains and fire plugs, and to provide for and regulate the construction and repair of hydrants, fire plugs, cisterns and pumps, and such other appliances as may be used in the distribution of water or gas in the streets, public places and public buildings. 31. To fix and determine by ordinance in the month of February of each year, to take effect on the first day of July thereafter, the rates or compensation to be collected by any person, company or corporation in the city and county, for the use of water, and gas or other illuminating power, supplied to the city and county or the inhabitants thereof, and to prescribe the quality of gas or other illuminating power.

32. To regulate and impose a license tax upon public amusements, shows and exhibitions, pawnbrokers and railroad passenger cars; upon the manufacture, sale, transportation or storage of any combustibles or explosives; upon astrologers and fortune tellers, who practice their profession for hire; upon billiard tables, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, and other games and amusements kept or conducted for gain or hire; upon the sale at retail of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, alcoholic and malt liquors; and upon all such other callings, trades, employments, business and places, not prohibited by law, that may require special police surveillance, or that may be prejudicial to public morals and the general welfare.

33.

To impose a license tax on dogs.

34. To provide for the collection of licenses and municipal revenues and fix the amount thereof.

35. To prescribe fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance and for a violation of any provision of this Charter; but no penalty shall exceed the amount of five hundred dollars or six months' imprisonment, or both.

36. To provide for the security, custody and administration of all property of said city and county.

37. To make rules and regulations for the government of all servants, employees, officers and departments, and to fix the fees and charges for all official services, and to fix salaries and wages that are not fixed by general laws or this Charter.

38. To allow and order paid out of the various Funds provided in this Charter, the sums respectively chargeable thereto.

39. To allow and order paid out of the proper fund such sums, not to exceed five thousand dollars in any one fiscal year, as may be deemed necessary for the employment of special counsel.

40. To allow and order paid out of the proper fund such sums as may be necessary for burying the indigent dead.

41. To appropriate out of the proper fund a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars each month for the enforcement of the law in relation to cruelty to children, and to authorize and regulate the payment of the same, or some part thereof, to any Society that shall most efficiently aid in the enforcement of such law.

42. To appropriate out of the proper fund a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars each month, for the care and cure of confirmed inebriates, and the temporary detention of the insane or such persons as may be charged with insanity pending examination.

43. To appropriate out of the proper fund such sums as may be paid into the Treasury from fines collected on conviction of persons charged with cruelty to animals, and to authorize and regulate the payment of the same or some part thereof to any society that shall efficiently aid in such convictions.

44. Until the completion of the New City Hall, to provide in the annual tax levy for a tax upon the real and personal property in said city and county, at the