2178 ARTICLE 10.

of any and all of the matters and things hereinafter mentioned, and to
prohibit, forbid and prevent the doing of any of the matters and things
which they are herein authorized to prohibit, forbid and prevent and to
impose and prescribe, any penalties which herein they are invested with
power to impose and prescribe and are hereby given and vested with full
police and health authority and jurisdiction over said town and the terri-
tory contiguous thereto within a radius of one mile of the corporate
limits thereof; and the provisions herein shall in no wise interfere with,
restrict or forbid the exercise of any rights, privileges or prerogatives
which are provided for, conferred and bestowed directly or by necessary
implication in any of the provisions of section of the charter other than
the present section, that is to say, the Commissioners shall be and they
are hereby authorized and empowered: To borrow money on negotiable
paper, provided that the sum so borrowed shall not exceed the sum of six
thousand dollars ($6,000) ; to pass and enact all by-laws and ordinances
not contrary to law, for the good government of the town of Cambridge, or
that may be necessary and proper to promote and preserve the health of the
town and the people thereof, and to protect and safeguard the town gener-
ally and every section and part of it, and to protect and safeguard the prop-
erty belonging to the town as a corporate body and the property of the resi-
dents thereof and also to protect and safeguard persons who are not resi-
dents and the property of such non-residents while they or their property
are within said town; to forbid and prevent nuisances, to define and de-
scribe what shall be a nuisance and to declare any existing thing within said
town or within a radius of one mile of the corporate limits thereof, to be a
nuisance which prejudices or is liable to prejudice the health of the people
thereof, or of any considerable number of the same, and to prescribe and
appoint means for removing any nuisance or nuisances, and to enforce
the use of such means, and to prescribe penalties for a refusal or failure
to remove any nuisance after the Commissioners have ordered the removal
thereof; to prevent and remove all nuisances and obstructions from the
streets, lanes and alleys and from lots adjoining streets or other places
within the limits of said city; to restrain all disorder, disturbances, an-
noyances, disorderly conduct and drunkenness therein; to prevent breaches
of the day called Sunday, so as to forbid traffic, barter and sale in all
commodities, except medicines, and to prohibit gambling, unseemly amuse-
ments, games, exhibitions and entertainments, and to prescribe penalties
for violations of the ordinance or ordinances passed in the matter of the
premises; to suppress street-walkers and bawdy houses; to prevent firing
of guns, cannon, pistols, rifles, sling-shots, fire-crackers or other fire-works
or other explosives therein; to suppress fires and prevent the dangers
thereof; to establish and maintain a fire department; to regulate the
erection or repairing of buildings and grant permits therefor, specifying
the material of which the same shall be built and purpose for which the
same is to be used; to direct in what part of the city wooden buildings
shall not be erected; to provide for taking down, and removing any build-
ings of wood erected in any part or section of the town, in violation of an