An Act to Incorporate the City of Dayton, ch. 2, §20, 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 93 (C. B. Bagley).
"AN ACT
TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF DAYTON...
...CHAPTER II.
POWERS OF THE CORPORATION...
...Sᴇᴄ. 20. The city of Dayton shall have power to prevent injury, or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and to cause any nuisance to be abated; to suppress and restrain disorderly houses, houses of ill fame and gambling houses, and to authorize the destruction of all instruments or devices used for purposes of gambling; to regulate the transportation, storing and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles and to provide or license magazines for the same; to prevent and punish immoderate or fast riding or driving horses and other animals through the streets; to regulate the speed of trains and locomotives on railways over the streets or through the city; to prevent any riots, noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblages, and to protect the property of the corporation and the persons and property of the inhabitants thereof, and to preserve peace and order therein...
...Approved November 10, 1881."
Laws of Washington Territory Enacted by the Legislative Assembly In the Year 1881 (Olympia, WA: C. B. Bagley, Public Printer, 1881), 93. Chapter 2—An Act to Incorporate the City of Dayton, §20. Approved November 10, 1881.