1974 ARTICLE 8.

remove and abate all nuisances or obstructions in or upon the streets, high-
ways, lanes or alleys, drains or water courses, or in or upon any lot adja-
cent thereto, and to provide for imposing a fine on any person causing or
creating any such nuisance or obstruction; to remove or cause to be re-
moved, houses or other structures that may be dangerous to persons pass-
ing along and over any of the highways of the town; to make and estab-
lish grades upon the streets and highways of the town; to cause the water

courses, drains or sewers of the towr. to be paved, kept in repair and
cleansed; to establish markets, and to regulate the hours and limits there-
of, and mode of dealing in relation thereto; to control and protect the pub-
lic grounds and property of the town; to establish and regulate a station
house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the laws and
ordinances of the town; to suppress vagrancy; to suppress all disorderly
meetings; to prohibit the use of profane language, drunkenness, fighting
and disorderly conduct in the town; to prevent the firing of cannons, guns,
squibs or any kind of firearms or fireworks in the town; to prevent the
running at large in the town of horses, cattle, swine; to prevent any im-
moderate driving through the streets of the town with carriage, wagon or

other vehicles, or on horseback, so as to endanger the lives, limbs or prop-
erty of the citizens, or disturbing the quiet enjoyment of the streets and
thoroughfares. They shall also have power to demand a license from all
players or showmen exhibiting within said town; to regulate or restrain
theatrical or other amusements within said town, and for the preservation

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 or discontinue or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all
nuisances within the corporate and standing limits of said town; they
shall pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary, and to
ensure the observance of said ordinance, in addition to the action of debts
or such other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for the
Tecovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may affix thereto such rea-
sonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case as to them may ap-
pear right; and in default of the payment of any fine imposed they may
provide the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding
twenty days or until the fine be paid, and instead of the aforesaid penal-
ties, it shall be lawful, in case of the conviction of any person for vag-
rancy, to sentence such person to hard work on the streets of said town for
a period not exceeding ten days.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 8, sec. 136. 1880, ch. 435.

184. They may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest, without
warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance by riotous or dis-
orderly conduct, or driving or riding through the streets, when, in the
judgment of the President, or of any of the Commissioners, or of the
bailiff of the town, the delay necessary to the issuing of a warrant will be

dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs or prop-
erty of the citizens; and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxi-