1594 ARTICLE 6.

or other fixtures; to establish the distances buildings or any part thereof,
fences or walls shall be erected from inner curb of street line; to direct in
what part of the town wooden buildings shall not be erected or constructed;
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
prevent obstructions on the streets, lanes, alleys and highways of said town;
to remove or cause to be removed houses or other structures that may be
dangerous to persons passing along or over any of the highways of the
town; to regulate, license and tax carts, wagons, carriages, automobiles

and other vehicles used in said town for transporting goods or persons
for hire; to regulate the parking of all -vehicles upon the streets and alleys
of said town; to regulate the speed of horses, wheeled vehicles, bicycles,
motorcycles, automobiles, cars and locomotives in the town limits; to regu-
late the erection and maintenance of proper safety appliances by rail-
roads at street crossings; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses

or permits for hawking, peddling and vending of wares and merchandise
of every description upon the streets or highways of the town, and to issue
licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from house to
house to vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to
any and all persons entering into or beginning transient business in
said town for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and
provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense
medicines or medical advice; to regulate and license all restaurants, bar-
ber shops, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire and slaughter sales and auction
sales; to regulate and license all nine and ten pin alleys, bowling alleys,
skating rinks, pool and billiard tables, theatres, moving picture shows,
boxing and sparring matches and wrestling contests, and also exhibitions
of every kind; to provide for the restraining of theatricals or other pub-
lic amusements of an immoral or indecent nature in said town; to regu-
late the construction and maintenance of exits from places of amusements
and all public buildings; to prevent gambling and games of chance; to
regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or above same,
and to require the owner or occupant of the premises to keep the side-
walks in front of same and the gutters thereof free from snow and other ob-
structions, and to prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and pre-
vent the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills,
dirty liquids or other material into any street, alley or public place, or
on any vacant lot in said town; to prevent the erection of bill boards and
advertising signs on any vacant lot or premises in said town; to license
all open waterclosets not connected with sewer and to prescribe rules and
regulations for removing the excrement therefrom; to regulate or sup-
press slaughter houses and smoke houses in said town, and to regulate
canning houses within the corporate limits, and to enforce the provisions
of all such ordinances by appropriate penalties; to regulate, restrain or
prohibit the running at large of horses, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks,
geese and chickens on any of the streets, lanes, alleys or highways of said