WORCESTER COUNTY. 5231

jurisdiction is given such city one mile in every direction from the cor-
porate limits.

To compel the occupants of any premises, building or outhouses situated
in said city when the same may have become filthy or unwholesome, to
abate or cleanse the same, and to authorize the same to be done by the
proper officers, and assess the expense thereof against such property.

To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal
oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant
powder, petroleum, gasoline or gas, or any product thereof, or any other
explosives 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, or of cemeteries, to some other
proper place.

To establish quarantine regulations.

To authorize the removal or confinement of persons having infectious
or pestilential diseases.

To regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells, crying of goods, or sound-
ing of steam whistles.

To pass all ordinances or orders, and to expend such sums of money as
may be necessary 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 mar-
kets and market places, whether established by the city or by private
individuals.

To regulate and require the inspection and condemnation, if unwhole-
some, and to regulate the sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, oleomargarine,
cheese, lard, vegetables and all other food or provisions.

To regulate the selling, weighing or measuring of hay, wood, coal, coke
and all other articles sold by weight or measure, and to provide for their
inspection and sealing.

To authorize and require the inspection and licensing of steam boilers
and elevators, and to prohibit their use when unsafe or dangerous or with-
out license1.

To define fire limits in such city and the character of buildings 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 progress of erection; to cause 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 person as the said Council may appoint to inspect the same, and to
require the same to be taken down within a specified time by the owner
thereof, or in default thereof to require the same to be taken down at
the said owner's expense, or in case of an emergency, to require the same
to be taken down by such person as the Council may appoint without delay-