2036 ARTICLE 8.

to establish and regulate a station-house or lock-up for temporary confine-
ment of violators of the laws and ordinances of the town, and to suppress
vagrancy.

1012, ch. 455, sec. 289A.

400. They shall also have power to demand a license from all players
or showmen exhibiting within said town, to regulate and restrain theatrical
or other amusements within said town, and to provide for the preservation
and cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the community, and for
the protection of the property and lives of its citizens, to suppress, abate
and discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all nui-
sances within the corporate limits of said town or village, and to insure
the observation of all the said ordinances, and in addition to the action of
debt, or such other civil remedies as may exist in said cases by law for the
recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may affix thereto such rea-
sonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may appear
right, and in default of the payment of any fines imposed they may pro-
vide for the imprisonment of the offenders for a period not exceeding
twenty days, or until the fine is paid, and instead of the aforesaid penalties
it shall be lawful, in case of conviction of any person for vagrancy, to sen-
tence such person to hard labor on the streets of said town for a period not
exceeding ten days.

1912, ch. 455, sec. 289B.

401. They may also provide by ordinance for the construction of
sewers, grading and lighting the streets, lanes and alleys of said town,
and also for supplying the inhabitants of said town with water and regulate
the placing of water mains, water plugs and public fountains; for the
planting of poles and stringing of wires thereon in any of the streets, lanes
and alleys thereof, and to make and enter into contracts and pass ordi-
nances in relation thereto.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 290. 1862. ch. 151. 1912, ch. 455. sec. 200.

402. They may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest without
warrant of any person violating any town ordinance by riotous or disorder-
ly conduct or driving or riding through the streets, when, in the judgment
of the President or any of the Commissioners or the bailiff of the town,
the delay necessary to the issuing of a warrant will be dangerous to the
peace and quiet of the said town, or the lives, limbs or property of the
citizens, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated so as to
render it unsafe to permit him to drive through the streets they shall pro-
vide for the removal of the horse and vehicle or vehicles without the limits
of the said village, or for the deposit thereof in some place of safety until
the offender shall be sober, and may subject the property so taken and
deposited to the payment of the costs of the proceedings and of the keep of
said property until the same shall be released according to law.