'PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 393

the expense of the abutting property holders by taxes to be
assessed, levied and collected on such abutting property in
same manner and by the same person as the other taxes levied
by said town are assessed, levied and collected; to cause water
courses, drains and sewers to be laid, paved, kept in repair
and cleaned; to establish and regulate a fire department; to
impose such restrictions and conditions upon the location and
maintenance of gas, electric light and waterworks, pipes, wires
and poles as shall secure the least possible public or private
inconvenience; to license for the purpose of regulation and
revenue all and every kind of business transacted or carried
on in the town, fix the rate of license upon the same, and pro-
vide for the collection thereof by suit, fine or otherwise; to
control the streets, public grounds and public property of the
town and protect all property therein from injury; to provide
by ordinance for condemning, laying out, opening, extending
and making new streets or alleys and assessing the benefits
and damages thereon, and for altering, straightening, widen-
ing, grading, improving or closing up in whole or part any
existing street or alley, for laying out public squares, drains,
sewers or water courses; to establish and regulate a station-
house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the
law and the ordinances of the town; to levy a tax and enforce
a license upon dogs, not to exceed one dollar per year for male
dogs and two dollars per year for female dogs, to be enforced
by suit or fine against the owners thereof, or by killing such
dogs upon which said taxes or license fees shall not be paid
when due; to prohibit animals or fowls running at large; to
prohibit all forms of gambling; and, for the purpose of carry-
ing out the aforegoing powers and for the preservation of the
cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the community,
and for the protection of the lives and property of the citi-
zens, and to suppress, abate or discontinue all nuisances within
the corporate limits of said town they may pass all ordinances
or by-laws from time to time necessary, and to insure the
observance of such ordinances in addition to the action of debt
or such other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by
law for the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they
may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dol-
lars in any case, as to them may appear right, and in the
default of the payment of any fines imposed they may provide
for the imprisonment of the offenders in the county jail for a
period not exceeding thirty days, or until the said fine is
paid, all such infractions of ordinances shall be triable before a
justice of the peace or before the Circuit Court