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after buried, or of cemeteries to some other proper place. (8) To authorize
the removal or confinement of persons having infectious or pestilential
diseases. (9) To regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells, crying of goods
or sounding of steam whistles, (10) To regulate and require the inspec-
tion and condemnation, if unwholesome, and to regulate the sale of meats,
poultry, fish, butter, oleomargarine, cheese, lard, vegetables and all other
food or provisions. (11) To authorize and require the inspection and
licensing of steam boilers and elevators and to prohibit their use when
unsafe or dangerous or without license. (12) To authorize and require
the inspection of buildings and structures erected, or to be erected, or in
progress of erection; to cause the license or permit therefor to be revoked
and the condemnation thereof in whole or in part when dangerous or un-
secure in the opinion of the building inspector or such person as the said
Council may appoint to inspect the same, and to require the same to be
taken down within a specified time by the owner thereof, or in default
thereof, to require the same to be taken down at the said owner's expense,
or in case of an emergency, to require the same to be taken down by such
person as the Council may appoint without delaying for the owner to
do so. This power to include authority to tear down buildings or parts
of buildings rendered dangerous by fire or other catastrophe. (13) To
regulate the location, size, character and cost of all buildings to be erected
and to provide such regulations by ordinance. (14) To compel persons
about to undertake dangerous improvements to execute bond with suffi-
cient sureties, conditioned that the owner or contractor will pay all dam-
ages which may be sustained by any person or property from such work.
(15) To regulate the construction of chimneys, smokestacks, hearths,
ovens, the erection of stoves and stove pipes, boilers, and apparatus used
in buildings or other places, and cause the same to be removed or made
secure, when considered dangerous; to compel owners and occupants of
houses and buildings to erect and maintain fire escapes. (16) To regulate
and prohibit the keeping of any lumber yard and the placing or piling
of any lumber, wood or combustible material within the fire limits. (17)
To suppress, distrain and regulate bawdy houses, disorderly houses and
houses of ill-fame and to prohibit the youth of said town from being on
the streets, lanes and alleys at unreasonable hours of the night. (18) To
prevent the encumbering of streets, alleys, squares, sidewalks and cross-
ings with vehicles, horses or any substance or material interfering with
the free use of the same. (19) To regulate the speed of horses, wheeled
vehicles, cars, locomotives and all other vehicles. (20) To regulate and
protect all bridges, culverts, tunnels, viaducts, aqueducts, sewers, canals
and hydrants wholly or partly in said town and to prohibit digging in
the streets, alleys or public places or in any way injuring, disturbing or
making holes in the surface thereof. (21) To regulate the use of side-
walks and all structures, under or above the same and to require the owner
or occupants of premises to keep the sidewalks in front of the same free
from snow and other obstructions, and prescribe hours for cleaning the
same. (22) To regulate and prevent the throwing, depositing of sweep-