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all gas companies, water companies, telephone and telegraph companies,
brokers, real estate and insurance companies and agencies locating or doing
business in said town; and to regulate 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 regu-
late and control all offensive trades and manufactures, and traffic in offen-
sive 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 watercourse within the bounds of said
town which, in their opinion, public convenience may require. They shall
also have power to grant a franchise to any water company desiring to
bring water into said town, and to establish water works therein, and to
contract with any water company to furnish 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 fore-
going 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 nui-
sances 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 imprison-
ment 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 suffi-
cient 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.

1904, ch. 17, sec. 413. 1906, ch. 374.

833. The said burgess and commissioners shall have power to license
saloons, breweries and all other places where malt, spirituous, vinous, fer-
mented and intoxicating liquors are sold, and to pass ordinances providing
for such licenses; the issuing of the same and the amount to be paid
therefor; provided, that no greater sum than five hundred dollars nor
less than two hundred and fifty dollars shall be charged for said license;
provided, that no person shall sell malt, spirituous, vinous, fermented and
intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of the town of Williams-
port without first having obtained from the said burgess and commission-
ers a license therefor and herein provided for; and provided further, that
if any person shall barter and sell any malt, spirituous, vinous, fermented
and intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits of Williamsport with-
out having obtained the license herein provided for, they shall, upon in-
dictment and conviction, be fined a sum not less than three hundred dol-
lars nor more than five hundred dollars in' discretion of the court.