PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1579

the commissioners and if a vacancy occurs in the office of town
bailiff, they may fill the same.

And the said commissioners shall be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow money ou negotiable
paper, provided that the sum so borrowed shall not exceed the
sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars; to forbid and prevent
nuisances; to define and describe what shall be a nuisance and
to declare any existing thing within said town, or within a
radius of one mile of the corporate limits thereof, to be a
nuisance which prejudices, or is liable to prejudice, the health
of the people thereof, or of any considerable number of same,
and to prescribe and appoint means for removing any nuisance
or nuisances and to enforce the use of such means and to pre-
scribe penalties for a refusal or failure to remove any nuisance
after the said commissioners have ordered the removal thereof;
to restrain all disorder, disturbances, annoyances, disorderly
conduct and drunkenness within the limits of said city; to
prohibit gambling, unseemly amusements, games, exhibitions
and entertainments and to prescribe penalties for violations
of the ordinance or ordinances passed in the matter of the
premises; to establish and maintain a fire department; to regu-
late the erection or repairing of buildings and to grant permits
therefor, specifying the material of which same shall be built
and the purpose for which fhe same is to be used; to provide
for taking down and removing any building erected without a
permit first having been obtained from the commissioners; to
prevent and regulate the storage of gunpowder, oil or other
combustible matter in such quantities and in such places as
they may deem proper; to regulate and license all pawn-brokers,
junk dealers, fire and slaughter sales, auction sales, peddlers of
nostrums, remedies, medicines or notions; to regulate and
license all ten-pin alleys, bowling alleys, skating rinks, billiard
or pool tables, theatres, moving-picture shows and all other
shows and exhibitions of every kind; to build and repair
sewers and to pass ordinances requiring owners of property
abutting streets in which there are sewers belonging to the town
to tap said sewers and to pay a reasonable charge for same;
to provide and maintain a building line on the streets of said
town and to provide and maintain a curb line on said streets.

SEC. 330A. The year for ordering and repairing the streets,
lanes, alleys and thoroughfares of said town shall be reckoned
from the first Monday of July, inclusive, in one year to the
first Monday of July, inclusive, in the next year.

Every able-bodied male person between the age of 21 and
50 years who has resided in said town for four months shall