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health and secure the inhabitants from contagious, infectious or other dis-
eases; to suppress drunkenness, vice, immorality and punish all violations
of the public peace from whatever cause, and in general they shall have
power to ordain and enforce all ordinances, rules and regulations neces-
sary for the peace, good order, health and safety of the town and of the
people and property therein, and may impose such reasonable fines, for-
feitures or imprisonments as to them may appear necessary for the viola-
tion of any of the ordinances of said town; they shall have power to estab-
lish and regulate a station-house or lock-up for the confinement of violators
of the law and ordinances of said town; they shall have power to make
reasonable regulations in regards to buildings to be erected in said town
and to grant building permits for the same; to make and establish grades
on the streets and highways of the town; but the powers and authority
herein granted shall however be limited and restricted to police power
only over the bridge connecting the town of Luke with the town of Pied-
mont, West Virginia, and the ownership and duty of repair and main-
tenance of same shall remain as heretofore; to cause the sidewalks and
gutters along the public streets and highways of said town to be graded,
paved or repaired at the cost and expense of the abutting property or
the owner thereof and to collect from said abutting property or owner
thereof the cost of making said improvements thereto, when made by the
Mayor and Commissioners of Luke, after refusal or neglect on the part
of the property owner to do so after reasonable notice, the cost of which
improvement as made by the Mayor and Commissioners, shall be a lien,
against said abutting property and collectible as are liens for taxes against
said property or owner thereof: to charge for and grant licenses, trade,
industry, profession or occupation within the limits of said town and more
specifically in connection therewith to regulate and provide for the issu-
ing of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares,
merchandise of every description upon the streets and highways of the
town; to impose and demand a license from all players or showmen exhib-
iting within the said town and to provide for licensing theatres and to
regulate or restrain theatrical or other public amusements within said
town; to regulate and license the business of conducting restaurants, sa-
loons, hotels or any other business enterprise carried on within the said
town; to license carriages, wagons or other vehicles used in said town and
upon the streets thereof, for the purpose of carrying passengers or goods;
to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on the public
streets; to insure the observance of said 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 such
reasonable fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) in any case,
as to them may 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 (30) days or until the fine is paid, which im-
prisonment may be in the town lock-up or in the county jail; that all fines