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trains crossing any street in said town, and generally to restrain
whatever produces unreasonable annoyance or inconvenience to
persons while passing along streets and thoroughfares of the
town, or subjects them to the risk or danger of injury or harm,
and to provide penalties for all violations of such ordinance.
(21) To order the taking down and removal of any house or
building deemed dangerous and unsafe, and to direct the
taking down of the same without delay. (22) To provide
proper and suitable lights on the public streets and .make con-
tracts for furnishing such lights. (23) To define by ordinance
the duties of all town officers or employees in order to secure
the faithful performance of their duties or of any contract
entered into by them with the Mayor and Council, and to fix
the salaries of all officers and employees where the same are
not regulated by this charter. (24) To borrow money on
promissory notes not to exceed four thousand dollars at any
one time. (25) To establish by ordinance a local Board of
Health and to establish and maintain in cases of emergencies
pest houses within or without the limits of the town, and to
quarantine against contagious or infectious diseases. (26) To
establish and maintain a lockup for the temporary confinement
of violators of the law. (27) To regulate the sale and storage
of explosives and combustible materials within the town, and
to enforce all ordinances by appropriate penalties. (28) To
provide for the codification and publication of the ordinances
of the town. (29) To regulate or suppress slaughter houses
and smoke houses within the town, and regulate canning houses
within the corporate limits, and to enforce, the provisions of all
such ordinances by appropriate penalties. (30) To regulate
and control generally the use of the streets of the town by
telegraph lines, telephone lines, electric light or electric power
lines, electric subways and gas or water conduits; and no
individual or corporation shall use any street, lane or alley
or thoroughfare of said town for any telegraph, telephone,
electric light or electric power poles or lines, or for any sub-
way or conduit without the consent of the Mayor and Council
of Berlin first had and obtained, by ordinance, for that purpose
passed and approved, and any such pole or line, subway or
conduit hereafter placed upon, in or under any of the streets,
lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said town without such con-
sent of the Mayor and Council shall be deemed a nuisance.

(31) To employ an attorney and pay him reasonable fees.

(32) To accumulate a fund or other property by gifts or
bequests of citizens of said town, or any other person, for
equipping any volunteer fire company of said town that may