1876 ARTICLE 7.

of any premises, buildings or out-houses situated in said town, when same
have become filthy or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the same, and (o
authorize the same to be done by the proper officers and to assess the
expense thereof against such property; to regulate or prevent the storage
of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cot-
ton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum, gasoline or gas,
or any product thereof, or any other explosive or combustible material or
any material which may seem to be dangerous; to regulate or prohibit
the interment of bodies and to authorize the removal of bodies now or
hereafter buried out of cemeteries to some other proper places; to estab-
lish quarantine regulations; to authorize the removal or confinement of
persons having infectious or pestilential diseases; to pass all ordinances
and orders, and to expend such sums of money as may be necessary with-
in the limitations herein provided for the protection, maintenance and
preservation of the water supply of the city and the prevention of the
pollution thereof; to direct the location and regulate the management
of all public markets and market places, whether established by the town
or private individuals; to prevent the offenses of regulating and forestall-
ing; to authorize and require the inspection and condemnation, if un-
wholesome, and to regulate the sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, oleo-
margarine, cheese, lard, vegetables and all other food or provisions; to
authorize and require the inspection and licensing of steam boilers and
elevators, and to prohibit their use when unsafe and dangerous and with-
out license; to define fire limits in such city and the character of build-
ings which are forbidden to be erected within such limits, and to prohibit
the erection of buildings in such city without a license first obtained
therefor, and to regulate the construction of buildings to prevent the
spread of fire; to authorize and require the inspection of buildings and
structures erected, or to be erected, or in process of erection; to authorize
the license therefor to be revoked and the condemnation thereof, in whole
or in part, when dangerous or insecure, in the opinion of the building
committee or such party as the Council may appoint to inspect the same,
and to authorize the same to be taken down within a specified time by
the owner thereof, or in default thereof to authorize the same to be taken
down at the said owner's expense, or in case; of an emergency to authorize
the same to be taken down for such party as the Council may appoint
without delaying the owner to do so; to compel persons about to under-
take dangerous improvements to execute bonds of sufficient sureties, con-
ditioned that the owner or contractor will pay all damages which may be
sustained by any person or property from such work; to make all regula-
tions which may be deemed expedient for the promotion of health or sup-
pression of diseases; to regulate the construction of chimneys, smoke-
stacks, hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves and stovepipes, boilers and
apparatus used in buildings or other places, and cause the same to be re-
moved or made secure when considered dangerous; to suppress, restrain
and regulate bawdy houses and houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit the