THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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than five dollars, in their discretion ; and in like
manner an additional fine for every successive ten
days' failure or refusal to obey said notification,
until said grounds and premises are put in a
cleanly and sanitary condition, unless said person
or persons occupying or having charge of said
grounds or premises shall, in the judgment of said
Commissioners, be unable, from the want of ade-
quate means, to obey said notification, in which
event the Commissioners shall direct the Bailiff of
said town to put the same in a, cleanly and sanitary
condition at the expense of the town ; and the

said Commissioners may pass all laws and ordi-
nances necessary for grading, regulating, paving
and repairing the footways in the streets, lanes
and alleys of said town, and impose a tax upon
any lot or lots fronting on any paved street, lane
or alley for the purpose of grading, regulating,
paving or repairing the footways in front thereof,
or compel, by fine or otherwise, the owner or pro-
prietor of any lot or lots to pave or repair the foot-
ways in front thereof, agreeably to the ordinances
to be passed by them ; and the said Commissioners
may prohibit the running or riding of any horses,
or driving of carts, wagons or carriages unreason-
ably fast in said town, may regulate and provide
for the sweeping of chimneys, prohibit the firing

By-law;:.

of guns or pistols, the throwing of lighted squibs,
fire-crackers, Roman candles or any other com-
bustible matter, and the storage of gunpowder or
any combustible matter within the limits of said
town, and make all necessary regulations relative
to wells and pumps therein.

Fire works

Sec. 39. Be it enacted, That no person shall
keep a dog or bitch in said town without first ob-
taining a license from the Clerk of the Commis-
sioners for that purpose in the month of April of
each and every year, and paying at the time of the
license being granted for every dog one dollar, and
for every bitch two dollars'; and the owner of
every dog or bitch for which a license shall be ob-
tained shall have a collar put around his or her
neck, and every other dog or bitch found going at
large at said town shall be shot or otherwise de-
stroyed, by the Bailiff of said town ; and if any
person shall bring a dog or' bitch into said town
after the month of April in any year, he or she

Keep dogs