An Act to Reduce the Law Incorporating the City, ch. 56, § 8, no. 4, 1848 Ind. Acts 89, 92-93 (John D. Defrees).

"CHAPTER LVI.
An Act to reduce the law incorporating the City of Madison, and the several acts amendatory thereto into one act, and to amend the same.

[APPROVED FEBRUARY 14, 1848.]

    Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana...
    Sec. 8. The common council shall have the custody and management of the corporate property, real and personal, and all revenues belonging to the city within or without said city, and shall have power for and within the city to make, establish, publish, alter, modify, amend, and appeal ordinances, rules, regulations, and by-laws for the following purposes, and upon the following subjects, to-wit...
    ...4. To regulate and license, or provide by ordinance for regulating and licensing, all ferries to and from the city across the Ohio river; all carts, drays, wagons, coaches, and all other carriages or vehicles for transporting persons or things kept for hire, or for transporting persons or things in said city, and to punish by suitable penalties all persons who shall, without license, hire out any such vehicle, or transport any person or thing for hire or pay within the limits of the city: To regulate and license pedlars and hucksters, agents for foreign insurance companies, and the keepers of gun powder and other explosive compounds, and in all these cases to charge and receive for such license such sum as the common council may ordain."