<​Qualification of voters​> Sec. 7. All free white male inhabitants who are of the age of twenty-one years, who are entitled to vote for officers, and who shall have been actual residents of said sixty days next preceding said election, shall be entitled to vote for city officers.

<​Taxes for purposes​> Sec. 8. The city council shall have authority to levy and collect taxes for purposes, upon all property, real and personal, within the limits of the , not exceeding one half per cent. per annum upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same in any manner to be provided by ordinance, not repugnant to the Constitution of the or of this .

<​Additional officers​> Sec. 9. The city council shall have power to appoint a recorder, treasurer, assessor, marshal, supervisor of streets, and all such other officers as may be necessary, and to prescribe their duties and remove them from office at pleasure.

<​Bonds of officers​> Sec. 10. The city council shall have power to require of all officers, appointed in pursuance of this act, bonds with penalty and security, for the faithful performance of their respective duties, such as may be deemed expedient; and also, to require all officers appointed as aforesaid, to take an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices.

<​Ordinances and by-laws​> <​Vacancies how filled​> <​Fines and forfeitures​> <​Divided into wards​> Sec. 11. The city council shall have power and authority to make, ordain, establish and execute all such ordinances, not repugnant to the Constitution of the or of this , as they may deem necessary for the peace, benefit, good order, regulation, convenience and cleanliness of said ; for the protection of property therein from destruction by fire or otherwise, and for the health and happiness thereof, they shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen by death, resignation or removal, in any of the offices herein made elective; to fix and establish all the fees of the officers of the said corporation not herein established; to impose such fines, not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence, as they may deem just, for refusing to accept any office in or under the corporation, or for misconduct therein; to divide the into wards; to add to the number of aldermen and councillors, and apportion them among the several wards, as may be most just and conducive to the interests of the .

<​Power to license auctions, &c​> Sec. 12. To licenses, tax, and regulate auctions, merchants, retailers, grocers, hawkers, pedlars, brokers, pawn brokers and money changers.

<​Police​> <​Proviso​> Sec. 13. The city council shall have exclusive power within the , by ordinance, to license, regulate and restrain the keeping of ferries; to regulate the police of the ; to impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the recovery of such fines and for [p. 54]