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pair such roads, streets, lanes and alleys as have been or may be laid

out for that purpose; to prevent and remove nuisances; to provide

against fires, and for the extinguishment of the same; to regulate
fire companies; to provide for the safety of houses, buildings and
chimneys from fire; to prevent the discharge of explosive ma-
terials; to regulate party walls and division fences; require a
license to keep dogs and bitches and to regulate their running at
large; to prevent and regulate the going at large of beasts, cattle,
.sheep and hogs; to restrain or regulate public amusements,
entertainments or exhibitions, and to license the same; to restrain
disorders and disturbances and immoralities; to make, repair or
keep in order the roads, streets, lanes, footways and alleys of said
town, and the drains, sewers and culverts thereof, and to build or
secure a place of confinement for persons charged or convicted of
violating the laws and ordinances for the suppression of vice and
immorality, and disorders.

1884, ch. 509

155. They shall cause to be made an assessment from time to
time of all property, real and personal, within the limits of said
town, and shall levy a tax upon all such property, not to exceed
in any one year twenty cents on the one hundred dollars, as they
may deem necessary for their corporate expenses; and they may
borrow, to be used for corporate purposes, a sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars before the collection of said taxes, which
debt shall be cancelled as rapidly as the collection of taxes
succeeding said borrowing will permit.

Ibid.

156. They may direct by ordinances what material shall be
used in the paving, repairing and curbing the footways, or any of
them, in said town, and provide that the same shall be done at
the expense of the owners of the land in front of which said foot-
way shall be made or repaired.

Ibid.

157. If the owner of any land shall refuse or neglect for thirty
days after notice, to pave, curb or repair any footway immediately
in front of his land on the same side of the road, street, lane or
alley therewith, as directed by any ordinance of the commissioners