WORCESTER COUNTY. 5279

town, if not immediately removed on receiving notice of such order, and
also to prescribe penalties for keeping 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 ordinance, and to for-
bid or regulate the keeping of swine in said town, and to provide penal-
ties 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 parts of sections of the same buildings of wood shall not be erected,
and to prescribe penalties for violating said ordinance. (15) To require
by 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 in such application to set forth the location, character, materials, pur-
poses and uses of said building, and to require every such person before
beginning work on the erection of any building in said town to obtain a
permit, printed or written, signed by the town clerk, or the order of the
Mayor and Council, and entered in the minute book, and to require a
reasonable fee for issuing such permit, and to prescribe penalties for erect-
ing or beginning to erect any building without such permit. (16) To
provide by ordinance for taking down and removing any building of wood
erected in any part or section of town in violation of any ordinance where-
in the erection of buildings of wood are forbidden. (17) To prevent by
ordinance breaches or violations of the Lord's Day, commonly called Sun-
day, so as to forbid traffic, barter or sale in all commodities except medi-
cines, milk and ice, and to prohibit unseemly amusements, games, exhibi-
tions and entertainments on that day, and to prescribe penalties for viola-
tion of such ordinance. (18) To provide by ordinance for establishing a
building line for the erection of buildings on the streets, alleys, lanes and
thoroughfares of said town, or by order, in case of particular business.
(19) To preserve peace and order within the corporate limits, and to pre-
vent the firing of firearms, guns, pistols, firecrackers and all other ex-
plosives, whatever their form or device, within the corporate limits, and
enforce all ordinances in respect thereto by penalties. (20) To prevent
fast riding on horseback or on a bicycle or in an automobile on the streets,
alleys, lanes, and thoroughfares in said town, and to prevent fast driving,
in carriage, cart, wagon or any other vehicle on any of said streets, alleys,
lanes or thoroughfares in said town; to regulate the speed of railroad
trains crossing any street in said town and generally to restrain whatever
produces unreasonable annoyance or inconvenience to persons while pass-
ing along streets and thoroughfares of the town or that subjects them to
the risk or danger of injury or harm and to provide penalties for all viola-
tions of such ordinances. (21) To order the taking down and removal of
any house or building deemed dangerous and unsafe, and to direct the