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which a license shall be obtained, shall have a collar placed around the neck
of said dog or bitch, on which collar shall be placed a number correspond-
ing with the, number of the license; every dog or bitch found going at
large in said town without such collar and number, shall be shot or other-
wise destroyed by the bailiff of said town; and if any person shall bring a
dog or bitch into said town after the month of April in any year, he shall
obtain a license for said dog or bitch within ten days thereafter, and shall
pay for the same as hereinbefore directed, and place a collar with a num-
ber around the neck of said dog or bitch, otherwise said dog or bitch shall
be shot or otherwise destroyed; any person failing or refusing to comply
with the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of five dollars.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 188. 1880. ch. 105.

457. The commissioners are empowered to pass such ordinances as they
deem proper, not contrary to law, for the regulation and good government
of said town and the inhabitants thereof, and to restrain all disorders and
disturbances, and prevent and remove all nuisances, inconveniences and
annoyances within said town; to prevent the running at large of horses,

cattle, swine and geese; and to prevent the firing of guns, pistols and fire-
crackers in the streets of said town; the burning of chimneys in dry
weather; the continuance of unsafe chimneys, stove or stovepipes; to pro-
vide against fire; to make, repair and regulate footways; to make and
keep open drains and sewers; to lay out and make new streets and alleys;
to build a market-house; regulate market days; to build a jail or guard-
house for the confinement of persons charged with or convicted of violations
of the law or ordinances, and may cause the harbor, or such portions there-

-of as they may deem necessary, to be cleaned and cleared of all obstruc-
tions and annoyances in and upon the same, whether from vessels sunk
or any other cause; for the keeping of wharves in repair, so as to prevent
their injuring the harbor, and for preventing vessels from casting filth
or ballast into the same, and to prevent filth, earth, shells or soil from
being thrown from the wharves, or land, or houses, into the said harbor,
so as to fill up the same, or obstruct the navigation thereof; and any
justice of the peace of the said town shall impose fines for the breach of
any ordinances passed under this section, not exceeding twenty dollars in
any one case; and all persons so convicted shall be committed to the county
jail for not less than five or more than thirty days on failure to pay such
fine.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 21, sec. 189. 1880, ch. 105.

458. They are authorized and empowered to pass ordinances for the

licensing of circuses, menageries, theatricals, and other exhibitions for
gain, exhibiting in said town; they shall have power to require licenses
from the owners and keepers of hacks, carts, wagons, drays and every de-
scription of wheel vehicle and carriage kept for hire in said town; also

from hawkers, peddlers and street venders.