MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3395

they may deem proper, the laying of railroad tracks and the running of
cars drawn by horses, steam, electricity or other power thereon; the laying
of gas or water pipes in the public streets, and to construct and maintain,
and to permit the construction and maintenance of the telegraph, telephone
and electric lines therein; and they shall impose such restrictions and con-
ditions upon the location and maintenance of gas, electric light and water
works, pipes, wires, poles and railroad tracks, as shall secure the least
possible public or private inconvenience; and they shall provide for the
enforcement of such restrictions and conditions; to contract for lighting
and supplying with water the streets and public buildings, and for sprink-
ling the streets; and such contract or contracts shall be awarded by ordi-
nance; to license, for the purpose of regulation and revenue, all and
every kind of business not now prohibited by law, transacted or carried
on in the town; to fix the rate of license upon the same, and provide for
the collection thereof by suit or otherwise; to establish markets and regulate
the hours and limits thereof and the mode of dealing in relation thereto; to
control and protect the public grounds and property of the town, and
protect public buildings, churches and private buildings, trees, fences
and song birds from defacement or injury; to provide by ordinance for
condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or
alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving, or
closing up in whole or in part, any existing street or alley, and for laying
out public squares, parks, drains, sewers or water courses; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for the temporary confinement of vio-
lators of the law and ordinances of the town; to levy, to tax, and impose
a license upon dogs and to prohibit animals or fowls running at large; to
regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures and traffic in offen-
sive fertilizers or other commodities, and prohibit or regulate hog pens
and slaughter houses within the town limits; to control by ordinance, the
mode of constructing privies and sinks and the manner of disposing of
offal and waste products, and to require the granting of a permit or per-
mits for the installation of electricity, electrical wiring, plumbing or dis-
posal systems and to control, regulate, restrict or prohibit the same, and
prescribe the manner in which, and the material with which, any such
installation of electricity, electrical wiring, plumbing or disposal system
shall be made or done, and in general to pass such ordinances as they may
deem proper, necessary and beneficial to the town; and for the purpose
of carrying out the foregoing powers; and for preservation of the cleanli-
ness, health, peace and good order of the community, and for the protection
of the lives and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate or discon-
tinue or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances with-
in the corporate limits of said town, and when to do so would be to the
advantage and benefit of the town, they may pass all ordinances or by-
laws from time to time necessary, and to insure the observation of such
ordinances in addition to the action of debt or such other civil remedies
as may exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalties there-
unto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding