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carriage, stage, cart or other vehicle, or on horseback, auto-
mobile or bicycle so as to endanger the lives, limbs or property
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of any person, or to disturb the quiet enjoyment of the
streets and thoroughfares; to prevent disorderly conduct
and drunkenness in said town; to prevent and disperse the
congregation of persons upon street corners, and in the
vicinity of places of worship; to purchase fire-engines, estab-
lish, construct and maintain water works or whatever appli-
ances they may deem best for extinguishing fires and pro-
tecting the property of the inhabitants from damage by fire,
and to furnish a supply of pure water for the use of the
inhabitants, under such rules and regulations as they may
by ordinance prescribe; to define the duties of the officers of
said corporation, require bonds and fix the penalties thereof
for the faithful performance of their respective duties, and
they shall have power to enforce all ordinances by fines and
penalties; they shall have power to contract with indivi-
duals, companies or corporations, for the introduction of gas,
water or electricity into the town, and for the lighting of the
streets and alleys thereof; they may erect or purchase any
plant for the supplying of gas, water or electricity to the
town and its inhabitants, for the public or private uses, and
may operate the same; they shall have the power to con-
struct or maintain or contract for the construction of sewers
or a general system of sewers for the town; provided, how-
ever, that before the said Mayor and Council shall proceed
to erect or purchase any plant for supplying gas, water or
electricity to the town or its inhabitants, and before author-
izing any system or systems of sewers, they shall first sub-
mit said proposition or propositions to the legally qualified
voters of said town at a special or general election to be
held, as hereinafter in this Act provided; and if at said
election a majority of said votes shall approve any such
proposition or propositions, the Mayor and Council shall
thereupon proceed to carry the same into effect. But if
a majority of said voters shall disapprove of any such
proposition or propositions, then said Mayor and Council
shall abandon the same, and no propositions for the ejection
or purchase of the same public utility or making the same
public improvement, shall again be submitted to the popular
vote until at least two years have elapsed from the date of
the election at which said proposition was disapproved.
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granted.
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