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maintaining any such nuisance or obstruction; to remove, or
cause to be removed, houses or other obstructions or objects that
may be dangerous to property, health or persons passing along
or over any of the highways of the town, or residing in the
neighborhood thereof; to make reasonable regulations in regard
to buildings to be erected in said town, and to grant building
permits for the same; to make and establish grades upon the
streets and highways of the town; to cause sidewalks along the
public streets and highways of said town to be graded, paved,
repaired or improved; curbs to be set and gutters laid agreeably to
the ordinances now in force, or which may be hereafter passed;
to cause the water-courses, drains or sewers to be paved, kept in
repair and cleaned; to establish markets and to regulate the hours
and limits thereof, and mode of dealing in relation thereto; to
control and protect the public grounds and property of the town;
to establish and regulate a station-house or lock-np for the tempo-
rary confinement of the violators of the laws and ordinances of
the town; provided, that the county jail shall be used for such
purposes until said council shall deem it advisable to establish
and regulate said station-house or lock-up; to levy a tax and
impose a license upon dogs or other animals, or fowls running at
large; and to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufac-
tures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities;
and to prohibit hog-pens or slaughter-houses within the town
limits. And for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing
powers, and for the preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace
and good order of the community, and for the protection of the
lives and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate or dis-
continue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all
nuisances within the corporate limits of said town, they may
pass all ordinances or by-laws, from time to time, necessary; and
to insure the observance of such ordinances, in addition to the
action of debt, or such other civil remedies as may exist in such
cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed,
they may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty
dollars in any case, as to them may appear right; and in
default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may provide
for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding
thirty days, or until the fine is paid.

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