Breeze,    11    Iowa,    399,    400    (1860),   per
Wright,    J.      Under  the  general    welfare
elan-''  a  city  may  require  sellers  of  meat,
&c,  to  take  out.  licenses.     Kinsley  v.  Chi-
cago,  121   111.   359    (1888).     The   general
welfare  clause  has  been  held  to  confer  power
to  prevent  the  keeping  of  bawdy-houses.
81  ite  v.  Williams,  11  S.  Q.  288.     See  ante,
.  376,  393  ;  post,  sees.  432-436.
A   city   government    under   the    usual
grants  of  power  has  the  general  authority
to  so  regulate  the  use  and  enjoyment  of
private  property  in  the  city  as  to  prevent
its  proving  pernicious  to  the  citizens  gen-
erally, and    may,  when  the  use  to  which
the  owner  devotes  his  property  becomes  a
cmce,  compel  him  to  cease  so  to  use  it,
and   punish  him  for  refusing  to  obey  its
ordinances    and    regulations     concerning


such  use.     Louisville  City  Railway  Co.  v.
Louisville,  8  Bush  (Ky.),  415  (1871).
The  statute  of  California,  authorizing
supervisors  of  San  Francisco  "to  make
all  regulations  which  may  be  necessary  or
expedient  for  the  preservation  of  the  pub-
lic health,"  is  within  the  constitutional
power  of  the  legislature  to  enact  ;  and
under  it  the  supervisors  may  pass  an  ordi-
nance against  feeding  cmvs  on  distillery
slops,  and  vending  the  milk  of  cows  thus
fed.  Johnson  v.  Simonton,  43  Cal.  242
(1872);  ante,  sees.  141,  144,  369,  374,  379.
A  common  council  has  power  to  adopt
a  penal  ordinance  requiring  auctioneers  to
procure  licenses  from  the  city.  This  power
is  in  the  nature  of  a  police  regulation.
Go  hen  v.  Kern,  63  Ind.  46S;  Kinsley  v.
Chicago,  124  111.  359  (1888).  See  further,
Index,  title  License.
