3934 ARTICLE 17.

To prevent and remove all nuisances within said town; to restrain dis-
orders and disturbances.

To forbid, prevent and remove all nuisances within said town, and to
define and prescribe what shall be a nuisance; to restrain disorders and
disturbances of every kind; to forbid any person from carrying firearms
or other concealed weapons; to open and close streets, fix the grade thereof,
straighten, widen and improve the same; to make causeways; to establish
the width and grade of sidewalks, and pave the same and set out shade
trees thereon; to prohibit the firing of guns and pistols, cannon, rifles or
other explosives in the town, and the tumultuous, irregular and disorderly
meetings of idle and dissolute persons; to regulate the location, erection
or repairing of buildings and grant permits therefor; to impose such fines,
penalties and forfeitures and punishment for the breach of their ordi-
nances, resolutions or regulations as they may think proper, not exceeding
Twenty-five Dollars for any one offense, and for the non-payment of such
fines, penalties and forfeitures may commit the offender to the County
Jail, or to such place of confinement in said town as they may provide,
for a period not exceeding thirty days, in the same manner as commit-
ments are made for fines and penalties imposed by the Circuit Court on
conviction for misdemeanor; to remit, at any time, any fine, penalty or
forfeiture, or any part thereof, in their discretion; to provide by ordinance
for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any person found violating
any town ordinance, resolution or regulation, and when it shall appear that
the offender is intoxicated, may confine said offender in some secure place
until he shall be sober, and may provide further for the confinement of
any person arrested, if the time be unreasonable, as in the night, whereby
he cannot attend the Justice of the Peace until a reasonable hour the suc-
ceeding morning, when he shall be taken before a Justice of the Peace
and dealt with according to the nature of the offense; provided that such
person so arrested may deposit with the Bailiff a sum of money or other
security to cover any fine that may be assessed against him for the viola-
tion of any ordinance, resolution or regulation.

To prohibit or restrain the running at large of any dogs or other ani-
mals and to provide for the enforcement thereof, provided that in the case
of dogs, such prohibition shall not continue for more than ninety days
consecutively, and to make such regulations for impounding, and to im-
pose such fines or penalties in relation to the same as to them may seem
necessary and proper.

And shall have power to pass ordinances, resolutions or regulations to
require any and all things to be done which will promote the welfare, good
government and prosperity, or of any nature which, in their judgment,
affect the health, order or morals of the town, and to forbid whatever will
oppress or injure them in their persons and property.

1927, ch. 427.

626. And the said Mayor and City Council is empowered, from time
to time, to borrow money on the faith and credit of the Mayor and City