JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

nuisance or obstruction; the Burgess and Commissioners shall
have power to enter into contract with any person, corpora-
tion or association to purchase and erect lamps for lighting
the streets of the town, and to make such changes and altera-
tions as they may deem proper; employ lamplighters and other
necessary labor and equipments; to remove or to cause to be
removed houses or other structures that may be dangerous to
persons passing along and over any of the highways of said
town; to make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings
and porches to be erected in said town, and to grant building
permits for the same; to make and establish grades upon the

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streets and highways of said town to be graded, paved, re-
paired or improved, and kerbs to be set and gutters to be laid
at the cost and expense of the abutting property, or compel
by fine or otherwise, the owner or proprietor of any lot to
pave or repave the sidewalks or footways; to set kerbs and
lay gutters in front thereof, agreeably to the ordinance now
in force, or which may hereafter be passed; to cause the
water courses, drains and sewers of the town to be paved,
kept in repair and cleaned; to establish and regulate a station-
house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the
law and ordinances of the town; to suppress vagrancy; to
prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or houses
of ill-fame within the limits of the said corporation;
and to provide for the punishment of all persons who shall

Grading, pav-
ing, repairing,
etc.

keep, authorize or suffer to be kept any such bawdy house, or
house of ill-fame; to regulate and provide for the issuing of
licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of
wares and merchandise of every description upon the streets
or highways of the said town, and to issue licenses or permits
to all itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house to
sell or to vend any wares or merchandise; to issue license to
any and to all persons entering or beginning transient business
in said town for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise; to
regulate and provide for the issuing of license to all traveling
persons who dispense medicines or medical' advices; they
shall also have power to demand a license from all players or
showman exhibiting within said corporation or the corporate
limits of the said town, and provide for the licensing such
players and showman, and to provide for licensing theaters,
and to regulate and restrain theatrical or other public amuse-
ments within said town; to regulate, license and tax restaur-
ants, breweries, and all other places where malt, spirituous,
vinous and fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license
and tax all livery stables within said town, and all hackney

Provide for
the issuing of
licenses or
permits.