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the town, to be removed from the streets, lanes and alleys, and
may provide for the mending, improving and cleansing the
same, and shall have power to prohibit and punish by ordinance
the placing of any dirt, filth or other matter therein, and may
also erect lamps in any of the streets, lanes and alleys of said
town, and cause the same to be lighted at the public expense, and
may pass all laws and ordinances for the preservation of the
health of said town, and to prevent the introduction of contagious

diseases within the town or within three miles thereof.

1868, ch. 53.

49. They shall have full power to cause any nuisance to be
abated, upon complaint or view, if they shall be satisfied it is det-
rimental to the health of the inhabitants of said town or injurious
to its trade, and for this purpose are empowered and directed to

enter upon any private grounds or premises within its corporate
limits; and they shall see that it is kept in a cleanly and sanitary

condition, and to this end are empowered and directed once in a
month, and oftener if they shall deem it necessary, beginning

with the month of April and ending with the month of Novem-
ber, in each and every year, to enter upon and examine into the

condition of all the private grounds and premises within its cor-
porate limits; and if in their judgment any such grounds and
premises are not in a cleanly and sanitary condition, they shall
forthwith cause a written notification to be served by the bailiff
upon the person occupying or having charge of said grounds and
premises, to put the same in a cleanly and sanitary condition;
and if said person shall fail or refuse for ten days after the service
of such notification to obey the same, they shall impose a fine
upon such person so offending of not less than one dollar and
not more than five dollars, in their discretion; and in like manner
an additional fine for every successive ten days' failure or refusal
to obey said notification, until said grounds and premises are put
in a cleanly and sanitary condition, unless said person occupying
or having charge of said grounds or premises shall, in the judg-
ment of said commissioners, be unable, from the want of adequate

means, to obey said notification, in which event the commissioners
shall direct the bailiff to put the same in a cleanly and sanitary
condition at the expense of the town; and the said commissioners