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may also provide what may be necessary for the protection of the town
in case of fire; they shall prohibit the running or riding of horses or draw-
ing of carts, wagons or carriages unreasonably fast, prohibit the running
at large of horses, cows, hogs, or any cattle in said town; and may pro-
hibit the firing of guns or pistols, or throwing of lighted squibs, fire crack-
ers, roman candles or any other combustible matter within the limits of
said town; and make all necessary regulations in reference to pumps,
wells, sinks and privies; and provide for the suppression of vice and im-
morality in said town; and they may license theatrical and other amuse-
ments shows and circuses.

1890, ch. 386, sec. 159.

268. No person shall keep a dog or bitch in said town without first
obtaining a license from the commissioners for that purpose, in the month
of May in each and every year, paying at the time of the license being
granted fifty cents for every dog, and one dollar for every bitch, and the
owner of every dog or bitch for which a license shall be obtained, shall have
a collar put around the neck of said dog or bitch, to which shall be attached
a tag furnished by said commissioners, and every other dog or bitch found
running at large in said town shall be shot or otherwise destroyed by the
bailiff of said town; and the owner of every proud bitch shall be required
to keep fastened up, under a penalty of two dollars; if any person or per-
sons owing a proud bitch shall refuse to fasten up the same, the bailiff
shall shoot or otherwise destroy it; if any person shall bring a dog or bitch
into said town after the month of May in any year, he shall obtain a
license within ten days thereafter, and pay for the same as hereinbefore
directed, and place a collar and tag around the neck of said dog or bitch,
or otherwise said dog or bitch shall be shot or otherwise destroyed; any
person or persons refusing or failing to comply with this law shall be lia-
ble to a fine of not less than one dollar and fifty cents for each dog, and
two dollars and fifty cents for each bitch, brought or kept by him in said
town, in addition to the penalty of having the same shot or otherwise de-
stroyed.

See 1929 Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 56, secs. 267-273, for general law
as to taxation of dogs.

1890, ch. 386, sec. 160. 1906, ch. 95, sec. 160.

269. The commissioners may pass all laws and ordinances necessary
to give effect and operation to the powers vested in them, and impose such
fines, penalties and forfeitures for breach of their laws and ordinances as
they may think proper, not exceeding twenty-five dollars for any one
offense; and the said commissioners may pass all laws and ordinances nec-
essary for grading, regulating, paving and repairing the footways in the
streets, lanes and alleys in said town, and impose a tax on any lot fronting
on any street, lane or alley, for the purpose of grading, regulating, paving
and repairing the footways in front thereof, or compel, by fine or other-
wise, the owners of any lot to pave or repair the footways in front there-
of, agreeably to the ordinance to be passed by them, and shall have power