3252 ARTICLE 15.

and enter the yeas and nays of their proceedings on any question, resolu-
tion or ordinance at the request of any member.

1908, ch. 171, sec. 11 (p. 888).

345. The said corporation shall have the power to suppress all dis-
orderly meetings; to prohibit the use of profane, indecent, seditious or
riotous language, drunkenness, fighting and disorderly conduct in said
town; to regulate the firing of cannon, guns, pistols, squibs or any kind of
firearms and fireworks in said town; to prevent the running at large in
said town of all animals; to prevent any immoderate riding or driving
through the streets of said town with carriage, stage, cart, wagon, sleigh,
bicycle or other vehicle or on horseback, so as to endanger the lives, limbs
or property of the citizens or corporation, or disturb the quiet enjoyment
of the streets or thoroughfares of said town; to prevent indecent exhibi-
tion of every kind; to preserve order and secure persons and property
from violence, danger or destruction within said town, and prescribe fines,
penalties and forfeitures for the violation of any of the said ordinances;
but no fine or penalty shall exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars, and all
fines and penalties imposed by said ordinances shall be collected as other
fines and penalties and forfeitures are collected under the laws of the
State, and all fines, when collected, shall be promptly paid to the treasurer
of the corporation for the use of the town, and in case of default in the
payment of such fines, penalties and forfeitures, and the costs attending
their imposition and collection of the same, the offender may be impris-
oned in the town or county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days, in
the same manner as commitments are made for fines imposed by the Cir-
cuit Court for the judicial district in which said town is situated, on con-
viction for misdemeanor; but any party fined or subject to a fine or for-
feiture may, after the same is imposed, supersede or stay the same for five
days by giving ample security to the officer imposing the same; and any
party subject to a fine, penalty or forfeiture by virtue of any of the pro-
visions of this Act, shall have right of appeal within five days thereafter
to the Circuit Court of Kent county, upon giving ample security for the
payment of such fines and costs. All ordinances shall be posted for thirty
days in some public place in said town, and the certificate of the secretary
entered upon the records of the corporation shall be due evidence of the
passage and publication of the ordinance respectively. All ordinances
shall be enforced from and after the date of their last respective publica-
tion.

1908, ch. 171, sec. 12 (p. 889).

346. The said corporation shall have full power to make all regulations
and ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this
State as from time to time they may deem necessary or expedient for the
comfort, convenience and prosperity of said town and its inhabitants, for
the prevention, removal or abatement of any nuisance and the preserva-
tion of health, the suppression of vice and immorality, and for general
police regulations within the limits of said town, and to impose fines and