1630 ARTICLE 6.

vehicles, motor cycles, automobiles, cars and locomotives in the town
limits; regulate the maintenance of proper safety appliances by railroads
at street crossings and the stopping of trains thereon; provide for the
restraining or regulation of theatricals or other public amusements within
said town; regulate the construction and maintenance of exits from places
of amusement and all public buildings; regulate the use of sidewalks
and all structures in, under or above the same, and may require the
owner or occupant of premises to keep the sidewalks in front of same and
the gutters thereof free from snow and other obstructions, and prescribe
hours for cleaning same; regulate or prevent the throwing of sweepings,
dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any other
offensive or objectionable material or substance into any street, alley or
public place, or upon any vacant lot in said town; regulate or prevent the
use of street, sidewalks and public places for signs, signposts, awnings,
boxes, posts, poles, horse troughs, steps, bay windows, railings, entrances,
the posting of handbills and advertisements and display of goods, wares .
and merchandise; regulate the putting in of sewers or drains on or under
its streets or alleys, and the charges for entering and maintaining the same;
grant franchises to electric companies, telegraph companies, telephone
companies, street railway companies, water companies, sewer and drain
companies, and any other public or quasi-public service corporation; and
the ordinance or contract granting such franchise shall specifically set out
the nature, right and character of same, and no power or right not ex-
pressed in the franchise or grant shall pass thereunder; regulate the erect-
tion and use of telephone, telegraph and electric light poles and wires
within the town; regulate the keeping of dogs in said town, and provide
for the removal or killing worthless, annoying or dangerous dogs; prevent
the running at large within said town of horses, cattle, hogs, geese or any
other beast, brute or fowl, and regulate or prevent the keeping of the same
within said town; provide for the protection of all town property and of all
public property of public service companies or corporation; punish and
suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing fines or both fine and imprison-
ment or by hard labor on the street of the town. And they shall have
power to provide by ordinance for the construction, opening, enlarging
or straightening of any sewer or drain and for regulation of the same:
for paving and keeping in repair all necessary sewers and drains or
gutters; to provide for the purchase and condemnation of private or public
property, as is now provided in this Act for the condemnation and opening
of streets in said town, for the purpose of paving, building and maintain-
ing any sewer or drain for surface water in said town; they are em-
powered by ordinance to regulate and prohibit cesspools, earth pits and
other means of sewage disposal; to regulate or exclude places where offen-
sive trades or occupation is conducted or engaged in; to regulate or exclude
pig pens within the corporate limits; to pass ordinances governing the
disposal of garbage or refuse; to regulate or exclude slaughter houses
within the corporate limits; to pass ordinances to close polluted wells,
springs and other sources of water supply, when such sources shall be