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to fix the compensation of those who sweep the same, to be paid by those
who receive their services, and to provide and fix a penalty to prohibit
the intentional burning out of the same; to borrow money on the faith
and credit of the town, and to open and close streets; provided, they shall
not have the power to close or alienate any street or alley, or parts thereof,
that are already opened and used as highways without first, obtaining the
assent of a majority of the legal voters of the town cast at an election
held for that purpose, after twenty days' public notice; to erect and repair
bridges within the corporate limits; to levy and collect taxes on dogs and
bitches and to restrain them from going at large; to prevent horses, cattle,
goats and other domestic animals or poultry of any kind from going at
large; to restrain and suppress the keeping of any hog pens within the
town; to regulate and define the location of slaughter houses and smoke
houses; to regulate the speed of railroad trains within the limits of the
town; to prevent any immoderate driving or riding through the streets
in any carriage, stage, cart or other vehicle, or on horseback, automobile
or bicycle so as to endanger the lives, limbs or property of any person,
or to disturb the quiet enjoyment of the streets and thoroughfares; to pre-
vent disorderly conduct and drunkenness in said town; to prevent and

disperse the congregation of persons upon street corners, and in the vicinity
of places of worship; to purchase fire-engines, establish, construct and
maintain water works or whatever appliances they may deem best for
extinguishing fires and protecting the property of the inhabitants from
damage by fire, and to furnish a supply of pure water for the use of the
inhabitants, under such rules and regulations as they may by ordinance
prescribe; to define the duties of the officers of said corporation, require
bonds and fix the penalties thereof for the faithful performance of their
respective duties, and they shall have power to enforce all ordinances by
fines and penalties; they shall have power to contract with individuals,

companies or corporations, for the introduction of gas, water or electricity
into the town, and for the lighting of the streets and alleys thereof; they
may erect or purchase any plant for the supplying of gas, water or elec-
tricity to the town and its inhabitants, for the public or private uses, and
may operate the same; they shall have the power to construct or maintain
or contract for the construction of sewers or a general system of sewers
for the town; provided, however, that before the said Mayor and Council
shall proceed to erect or purchase any plant for supplying gas, water or
electricity to the town or its inhabitants, and before authorizing any sys-
tem or systems of sewers, they shall first submit said proposition or propo-
sitions to the legally qualified voters of said town at a special or general
election to be held, as hereinafter in this Act provided; and if at said

election a majority of said votes shall approve any such proposition or
propositions, the Mayor and Council shall thereupon proceed to carry the
same into effect. But if a majority of said voters shall disapprove of any
such proposition or propositions, then said Mayor and Council shall aban-
don the same, and no propositions for the erection or purchase of the same