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 224 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 42. 1848. exceeding three fourths of one per centum per annum on the assessed Taxes antenna, value of all bonds and mortgages, of stocks of all kinds, and all public mortgages: ¤¤d and private securities, and on every descrtption of property within the °°‘°' P'°*’°"" said city, or which may be owned or held by the inhabitants thereof; Certain miclcs except the wearing apparel and necessary tools ahd implements used in °‘°“‘P""d· carrying on the trade or occupation of any person; and to compel persons to furnish, when required by the assessors, a full and correct list of all property by law taxable, held by them, and to punish with suitable fines and penalties persons refusing or omitting to furnish such lists. The said corporation shall have power to lay and collect a School-tax. school-tax upon every free white male citizen of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, of one dollar per annum; to provide for licensing, taxing and regulating livery stables, and wholesale and retail dealers, in a ratio according to the annual average amount of the capital in- Licenses, &c-, vested in the business of such wholesale and retail dealers; to license, E','?0,l`:l'°° "Q"' tax and regulate agencies of all kinds of insurance companies; to tax private bankers, brokers and money lenders, not exceeding three fourths of one per centum per annum on the assessed amount of capital employed in the business of said private bankers, brokers and money lenders; to make all necessary regulations respecting hackney carriages and the rates of fare of the same, and the rates of hauling by cartrnen, wagoners, carmen, and draymen, and the rates of commission of auctioneers; to regulate and graduate the licenses of nonresident merchants and traders, and the taxes on the same; to regulate and establish fish wharves and docks; to restrain and prohibit gaminghouses, and bawdy-houses; to punish those who may sell intoxicating liquors without having obtained license therefor, by fines not less than five dollars; and in default of the payment thereof; by imprisonment and labor in the workhouse for aterm not exceeding ninety days; to pro- Fi¤¤S=¤¤d1¢·¤¤· vide for the punishing by fines and penalties, and by confinement to m'"' labor in the workhouse, any person and all persons who shall molest or disturb any church or other place of worship while the congregation are engaged in any religious exercises or proceedings; to provide for the weighing of all kinds of live stock brought into the city; to cause to be pulled down unsafe, dilapidated, or dangerous buildings; to take Other powers. up and relay foot pavements and paved carriage·ways, and to keep them in repair, and to lay and collect taxes for paying the expenses thereof; on the property fronting on such foot·ways and carriage-ways; to lay and collect taxes for the support of public schools; to cause new alleys to be opened into the squares, and to open, change, or close those already laid out, upon the application of the owners of more than one half of the property in such squares, subject to the second proviso of the eighth section of the act of May the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, incorporating the inhabitants of the city of Washington. And the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make all necessary laws for the protection of public and private pfoperty, the preservation of order, the safety of persons, and the 18€0.¢h· IN- observance of decency in the streets, avenues, alleys, public spaces, and other places in the said city, and for the punishment of all persons violating the same, as well as for the punishment of persons guilty of public profanity and prostitution. _ BElection of Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That at the first general election _0*}gf·‘ °l A“°s` held after the passage of this act, a Board of Assessors, to consist of one member from each ward, shall be elected by the qualified voters therein, to serve for two years; and the returns of election for assessors shall be made in the same manner and form as the returns of the election for members of the Board of Aldermen and Board of Common Council; and the person having the greatest number of legal votes in each ward for assessor, shall be duly elected assessor; but in case two