PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 997

hawkers, vendors, pool and billiard rooms and bowling alleys;
(15) to preserve the cleanliness, health, safety, peace and good
order of the town, and to protect the lives and property of the
citizens thereof; (16) to punish and suppress vagrancy, gam-
bling and the sale or giving away of spirituous or fermented
liquors or lager beer or intoxicating drinks of any kind
within the limits of said town; (17) to purchase, receive
and hold such real and personal property as may be
necessary or proper for municipal purposes, and to con-
trol, dispose of and convey the same for the benefit of
the town; and also to establish a market and to regulate the
same, and to license the sale of marketable commodities; (18)
they shall also have power to provide for the codification of all
ordinances of said town, and to cause the same to be printed,
together with the charter of the town; (19) they shall also
have power to grant for a period not exceeding forty years,
upon such terms, rates, fares and charges and conditions as
may be presented by ordinances, specified franchises or rights
in and relating to any of the public property or places, as the
right to use any highway, avenue, street, lane or alley, either
on, above or below the surface of the same, and in and along
its water front and wharf property; every such grant shall
specifically set forth and define the nature, extent and duration
of the franchise or right, shall make provision by way of for-
feiture or otherwise, of the grant and to secure efficiency of
public service at reasonable rates and the maintenance of the
property in good condition throughout the full term of the
grant; (20) to suppress, abate and discontinue all nuisance
within the corporate limits of the said town; (21) and in addi-
tion to the power of providing by contract for the lighting of
its streets, lanes, alleys, public places and buildings of the
town, they shall have the power also to construct or purchase,
own, improve, extend, repair, maintain and operate an electric
light plant for the purpose of lighting said streets, etc., and for
furnishing light for the use of the citizens thereof, and to this
end to acquire by gift, grant, lease, purchase or condemnation
proceedings, all lands, tenements, rights, ways, privileges and
franchises necessary to carry this power into effect; and for the
purpose of carrying out all the aforegoing powers they may
pass all ordinances from time to time necessary, and to insure
the observance of said ordinances, they may affix thereto rea-
sonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them
shall appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine
imposed they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender
for a period not exceeding thirty days in the town lockup or