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town; to regulate all stockyards, cattle pens, hog pens and slaughter
houses within the said town, or provide for their removal from the cor-
porate limits thereof; to regulate or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks
and public places for signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts, posts, horse
troughs, steps, railings, entrances, rocks, posting handbills and advertise-
ments and display of goods, wares and merchandise; to grant franchises
and regulate the putting of sewers or drains on or under its streets, alleys
or highways and the charges for entering same; to grant and regulate
franchises to electric light companies, power companies, gas companies,
street railway companies, water companies, telephone companies, tele-
graph companies, sewer or drain companies, and any other which they
deed advantageous and beneficial to said town or the inhabitants thereof,
and to regulate the charges for services of such companies as now possess
or may hereafter obtain franchises in said town; all such franchises shall
be for a definite term of years not exceeding twenty-five years, and be
renewable at the discretion of the Mayor and Council, and shall specific-
ally set out the nature, right and duration of same, and no power or right
not expressed in the franchise or grant shall pass thereunder; to establish
and maintain public parks and playgrounds, to control and protect the
public grounds and property of the town; to establish and regulate a sta-
tion house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the laws
and ordinances of the town; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants;
to regulate the keeping of dogs in said town; to provide for protection
of all public property, cemeteries and property of al] public service com-
panies or corporations and for any franchise, easement or privilege here-
after granted the Mayor and Council may charge for such franchise, ease-
ments or privileges when granted, and may charge an annual rental upon
any franchise, easement or privilege for using the streets, highways and
sidewalks of said town that hitherto has been granted or may hereafter
be granted; to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any public sales
within the corporate limits of the town; to regulate and control all offen-
sive trades, manufacture and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other com-
modities within the town limits; to provide for the codification of all
ordinances which may have been or may hereafter be passed; and for
the purpose of carrying out the aforegoing powers and for the preserva-
tion of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the community,
and for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens, and to
suppress, abate and discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or dis-
continued all nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits of said
town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary,
and to insure the observance of said ordinances in addition to the usual
action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by
law for the recovery of the penalties thereto affixed, the Mayor and Coun-
cil shall have the power to enforce the observation of all ordinances or
by-laws by fine, penalty and forfeiture not exceeding One Hundred Dol-
lars ($100.00) for any one offense, or by imprisonment not exceeding