2782 ARTICLE 12.

hearing and determining all cases to which the corporation may be a
party, he is hereby clothed with all the powers of a justice of the peace,
except as to civil cases, and may pass sentence and impose fines for all
violations of ordinances of the said corporation, or may imprison offend-
ers, or may both fine and imprison offenders against said ordinances;
provided, that no ordinance shall be passed imposing a fine for less than
one or more than twenty-five dollars, nor for a term of imprisonment ex-
ceeding thirty days; provided, also, that all fines imposed shall be paid
to the treasurer of the town. During his term he shall hold no other cor-
poration office, nor shall he be interested in any contract to which the cor-
poration is a party; he shall receive the sum of ten dollars per year for
his official services, payable annually.

1906, ch. 285, sec. 1380. 1924, ch. 473.

260. The said Council shall have power to pass all such ordinances not
contrary to the Constitution or the laws of this State, as it may deem
necessary for the good government of the town; for the protection and
preservation of the town property, rights and privileges; for the preserva-
tion of the peace and good order, and securing persons from violence,
danger and destruction; for the protection of the health, comfort and
convenience of the citizens of Kitzmillersville and visitors thereto and
sojourners there; for providing proper and suitable lights on the streets;
for establishing, maintaining and regulating an adequate police force; to
regulate the management and location of livery stables, barns, outhouses
or privies and such other establishments of which the business, trade or
location may become obnoxious or injurious to the public comfort or
health; to prohibit the erection of such buildings, the continuance of
such noxious occupations therein, whenever the public health requires it;
to prevent or regulate the use of firearms therein, fireworks, bonfires or
other things or practices tending to endanger persons or property; to
regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, fowls,
sheep, goats, hogs or other animals; to authorize the empounding, keep-
ing, sale and redemption of such animals when found in violation of the
ordinances in such cases provided; to prevent the deposit of any unwhole-
some substance, either on public or private property; to compel its re-
moval; to designate a point, and to require slop, garbage, ashes and other
waste or unwholesome material to be removed to designated points, or to
require the occupants or residents on premises to place them conveniently
for removal; to compel the occupants of any premises, buildings or out-
houses situate in said town, when the same hath become filthy or unwhole-
some, to abate or clean the same; to authorize the same to be done by the
proper officers and to assess the expenditures thereon against such prop-
erty; to authorize the removal or confinement of such persons having
infectious or pestilential diseases; to regulate the selling, weighing or
measuring of hay, wood, coke, coal and all other articles sold by weight
and measure and to provide for their inspection and selling; to make all
regulations which may be deemed expedient for the promotion of health