PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1523

remove and abate or cause to be removed or abated all nuisances
or obstructions in or upon the streets, sidewalks, highways or
alleys, drains, sewers, or water courses, or in or upon any lot
or lots adjacent thereto; to provide for imposing a fine or fines
upon any person or persons causing, creating or maintaining
any such nuisance or obstructions; to remove or cause to be
removed houses or other obstructions or objects that may be
dangerous to property, health or persons passing along or over
the highways of the town, or residing in the neighborhood
thereof; to make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings
to be erected in said town and to grant building permits for
the same; to establish the grades of the streets, gutters and side-
walks of said town, fix the width thereof and prescribe the
material of which they shall be constructed; to cause the side-
walks along the public streets to be graded, paved, repaired o?
improved at the cost and expense of the owners of the abutting
property, which costs, in case the work is done by or by the
order of the Mayor and council, shall be a lien on such abutting
property and recoverable by action at law or in the manner
provided by law for the collection of delinquent general taxes
of the town or delinquent State and county taxes, or compel by
fines or otherwise, the owners or proprietors of any such lot or
lots, - to grade, pave or repave the . sidewalks, or set curbs in
front thereof, agreeably to ordinances which may hereafter be
passed; to cause the water courses, drains and sewers to be laid,
paved, kept in repair and cleaned; to purchase, lease or receive
such real and personal property as may be necessary or proper
for municipal purposes, and to control, dispose of and convey
the same for the benefit of the town; to erect and maintain such
buildings for municipal purposes, as they may deem necessary
and proper; to construct and maintain public works for supply-
ing the town with artificial light, water or other purpose, which
they may deem necessary, proper and beneficial for said town;
or to contract with any person or persons or corporation for
supplying said town, and the inhabitants thereof, with water,
gas or electricity, and to cause the public streets and public
buildings to be lighted, supplied with water or other conven-
iences, as they may deem necessary and proper; to establish
and regulate a fire department and provide such means, engines,
apparatus, measures or material, for the prevention or extin-
guishment of fires, as they may deem necessary; to prevent,
under such restrictions as they may deem proper, the laying of
railroad tracks, and the running of cars drawn by horses, steam,
electricity or other power thereon; the laying of gas or water
pipes in the public streets; and to construct and maintain, and