1968 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

or sell any wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to any and
all persons entering into or beginning transient business in said
town for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regu-
late and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons-
who dispense medicines or medical advice; they shall also have
power to demand a license from all players or showmen exhibit-
ing within said town, and to provide for licensing theatres and to
regulate or restrain theatrical or other public amusements within
said town; to regulate, license and tax restaurants, breweries and
all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous and
fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all
hackney carriages, omnibusses or other vehicles used in said town
for the carriage of passengers; all vehicles used for the carriage
or transportation of freight or merchandise, and all carts or
other vehicles which ply for hire; to levy a tax and impose a
license upon dogs, and to impose a license upon all gas companies,
water companies and telephone companies, brokers, real estate
and insurance agencies, located in or doing business in said town;
and to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any public sales
within the corporate limits of the town; provided, that no greater
sum than one hundred dollars be charged for any one license;
and to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures and
traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities within the
town limits; they shall also have power to provide for the codifi-
cation of all ordinances which may have been or may hereafter
be passed; 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
discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all
nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits of said town,
they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary; and to ensure the observance of said 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 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 twenty days, or until the fine be paid; and instead of