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and to appoint such officers and employees as may be necessary; to con-
duct and manage the business of the town water works, and to provide by
ordinance for the protection of buildings, machinery, water pipes, hy-
drants, water plugs, standpipes and other property belonging to or con-
nected with such public water supply, and also for the protection of the
public water supply of said town against pollution, obstruction and wastes,
and to enforce all ordinances by reasonable penalties. (10) To provide
by ordinance for arresting and committing to the lockup or to the County
jail of any vagrant or drunken person who may appear on any of the
streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares or any place of public resort in said
town, any common disturber of the peace, and by ordinance to punish all
profane, indecent and obscene language in the hearing or in the presence
of other persons within the corporate limits. (11) To declare and adjudge
by order entered in the minute book any encroachment and continuing
obstruction of any of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said

town to be a public nuisance, and to order the same to be corrected or

removed at the expense of the parties or persons who brought about or
placed the encroachment or obstruction thereon or who use or take advan-
tage thereof, or who are responsible for the continuance thereof, or who

by their connection therewith are the parties or persons who ought to

correct the same, and on refusal or failure of the person ordered to cor-
rect or remove said encroachment or obstruction to remove or have the

same removed at the charge and expense of the party or persons so ordered,
with a right on the part of the Mayor and Council to sue for and recover

all sums of money laid out and expended by them in removing or cor-
recting said obstruction or encroachment in an action at law without
Telieving the said parties or persons so responsible for such nuisance from
criminal prosecution. (12) To prohibit the keeping of any vicious or
dangerous dog or other beasts in said town by order noted on the minute
book and served on the owner or reputed owner or controlling occupant
of the premises where the animal is kept, and to direct such animal to
be killed or to be sent out of the town, if not immediately removed on
receiving notice of such order, and also to prescribe penalties for keep-
ing such dangerous beasts in the town after such notice. (13) To regulate,
restrain or prohibit by ordinance the running at large of horses, bulls,
cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and chickens on any of the streets, lanes,
alleys or thoroughfares of the said town, and to prescribe penalties for
violating such ordinances, and to forbid or regulate the keeping of swine
in said town, and to provide penalties for violation of such ordinances.
(14) To regulate and prescribe by ordinance, as a protection against fire,
whether houses built or erected in said town shall be built of wood or other
material, and to prescribe in what parts and sections thereof buildings
of wood may be erected and in what part or section of the same build-
ings of wood shall not be erected, and to prescribe penalties for violating
said ordinance; that every person or party who wishes or proposes to erect
any building in said town to make a written application to the Mayor and
Council for a permit to erect the same before beginning work thereon, and