396 ARTICLE 2.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 20.

139. Said Commissioners shall have the power to license and regulate
all hacking coaches, carriages, carts, drays, omnibuses, wagons or other
vehicles kept for hire or hired in said town, and to license and regulate
the employment of all hackmen, draymen, wagoners, carters, porters, boat-
men and watermen plying for hire within the limits of said town, and
to pass all necessary and proper regulations respecting the same; and to
fix the price of compensation for hackney carriages, and to fix the pen-
alties for the violations of such regulations; to regulate the location and
conduct of livery stables, and to enact ordinances respecting the keeping
and boarding of horses thereat; providing the regulating of such keeping
and boards of such stables shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this
State.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 21.

140. The said Commissioners shall have the power to license and reg-
ulate the sweeping of chimneys, and fix the rates thereof; to regulate the
sweeping of any chimneys by neglect of which the said town may be en-
dangered.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 22.

141. The said Commissioners shall have the power to enact ordinances
for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and fix the penalties for the
violation thereof not inconsistent with the laws of this State.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 23.

142. The said Commissioners shall have the power to fix by ordinance
the disposition of all fines and penalties imposed in violation of any of
the ordinances of said town.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 24.

143. The said Commissioners shall have the power to establish regu-
lations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, to appoint firemen
and appoint, organize and equip fire companies, and to fix the penalties
for the violation of any fire regulation, and to fix the compensation of
firemen.

1898, ch. 349, sec. 25.

144. The said Commissioners shall have the power to pass ordinances
to preserve the health of the said town, to prevent and remove nuisances,
to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases within the said town,
and within two miles of the same, and may regulate the places for manu-
facturing soap and candles, the erection of slaughter houses, tanneries,
canning factories and distilleries, and whenever other offensive trade is
carried on. That whenever any nuisance dangerous to the health shall
exist in any street or alley of the said town, and it shall be found neces-
sary in order to remove the same to have such street or alley paved or