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regulations in regard to buildings erected in said town and to require
and grant building permits for the same; to establish quarantine regula-
tions and to authorize the removal or confinement of persons having in-
fectious or contagious diseases; to regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells,
sounding of whistles, or any other loud or unseemly noises; to regulate
or prevent the storage of gunpowder, dynamite, gasoline, or any other
explosive or combustible material; to pass all ordinances which may be
necessary to maintain peace and order within the town; to make and
establish and re-establish grades upon the highways and streets of the
town, to cause sidewalks, curb-ings and gutters, streets and alleys to be
made, graded, paved, repaired or improved at the cost and expense of the
abutting property owners, or to grade, pave, lay, repair and improve
streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters and to collect the cost of the same from
abutting property owners by suit at law or by bill in equtiy, or otherwise,
and in such case the Mayor and Council shall be entitled to recover the said
cost and expense from the said abutting property owners in a civil suit
at law, or by a bill in equity, and said cost and expense is hereby made
a lien upon the abutting property; to cause the water courses, ditches,
drains and sewers of the town to be kept in repair and cleansed; to estab-
lish such sewers in the town as the said Mayor and Council may deem
necessary and to compel the owners of property adjoining the same, or
for the benefit of which any sewer may be laid, to connect with and tap
the same and to charge a reasonable sum for such connection and tappage;
to regulate the making of private connections with sewers, gas and water
pipes, and to compel the owners of property to bring such connections
inside the curb of streets before permanent improvement of said streets
are made, and in default of the owner of such property making any such
connection and tappage, the Mayor and Council is hereby authorized to
do the work at the owner's expense and to collect the same by suit at law,
and such expense shall also be a lien upon the property in favor of the
Mayor and Council, which lien may be enforced against the property by
a bill in equity for the sale of the property to pay the said lien; to regulate
sales upon the streets, alleys and public places of the town, and to license,
tax and regulate public hackmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, carters, cab-
men, wagons, sleds, automobiles, motor trucks, and all other vehicles using
the streets of the town and their drivers or owners; to license, tax, and
regulate porters, expressmen, haulers, bill posters and bill distributors
and all other persons pursuing like occupations and to prescribe their com-
pensation; to license, tax, and regulate peddlers, hawkers and venders of
merchandise or any patent medicines; to license, tax and regulate pool and
billiard rooms, bowling alleys, moving picture shows, opera houses, dance
halls, theatres, and all places of public amusement, and all traveling cir-
cuses and shows of every description; to license, tax and regulate retail and
wholesale stores, butcher shops, restaurants, shoe repair shops, club rooms,
barber shops, hotels, ice cream parlors, pool rooms, banking houses, or
banks, drug stores, news stands, millinery shops, shooting galleries, garages,