4936 ARTICLE 22.

provide for licensing theatres, and to regulate and restrain theatrical or
other public amusements within said town; to regulate, license and tax
restaurants, breweries, and all other places where malt, spirituous, vinous
and fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all livery

stables within said town, and all hackney carriages, omnibuses or the other
vehicles used in said town for the carriage of passengers, all vehicles used
for the carriage or transportation of freight or merchandise, and all carts

or other vehicles which ply for hire; to levy a tax and to impose a license

on dogs, and to impose a license on all gas companies, water companies,
telephone and telegraph companies, brokers, real estate and insurance com-
panies and agencies locating or doing business in said town; and to regu-
late and license auctioneers who cry any public sales within the corporate
limits of said town, provided that no greater sum than ten dollars be

charged for any one license; and to regulate and control all offensive trades
and manufactures, and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities
within the town limits; they shall also have power to provide for laying
out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or closing up, in whole
or in part, any street, highway, square, lane, alley, drain, or any water-
course within the bounds of said town which, in their opinion, public con-
venience may require. They shall also have power to grant a franchise
to any water company desiring to bring water into said town, and to estab-
lish waterworks therein, and to contract with any water company to fur-
nish water for public purposes for said town; they shall also have power
to provide for the codification of all ordinances which have been or which
may hereafter be passed by the Burgess and Commissioners; and for the
purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and for the preservation of
the cleanliness, health, peace and good government and good order of the
town, and for protection of the lives and property of the citizens of the
town, and to suppress, abate or discontinue, or cause to be suppressed,
abated or discontinued, all nuisances within the corporate and sanitary
limits of the town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to
time necessary, and they may affix thereto such reasonable fines and costs,
not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, as may to them appear right
and just, and in default of payment of any fine and cost imposed, they may
provide for the imprisonment of the offender, for a period not exceeding
thirty days, or until the fine and costs be paid, or sentence said offender to
hard labor for a sufficient length of time until said labor will satisfy the
fine and costs, the price allowed for the labor thus done to be the same as
that allowed for persons regularly hired to perform such labor.

1900, ch. 504, sec. 374A.

776. The said Burgess and Commissioners shall have power to appoint
a bailiff for the said corporation who shall have the same general peace
powers within the corporate limits of the said town as a constable of said
Washington County. He shall have authority to arrest all persons found
by him violating any ordinance of said corporation, or on warrant issued
by the Burgess, or assistant Burgess in the absence of the Burgess, and