ELHIU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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necessary for the good government of the town; to prevent, re-

move and abate all nuisances or obstructions in or upon the streets,

highways, lanes or alleys, drains or water-courses, or in or upon

any lot or lots adjacent thereto, and to provide for imposing a fine

or fines upon any person or persons causing or creating any such

nuisance or obstruction; to remove or cause to be removed houses

or other structures that may be dangerous to persons passing along

and over any of the highways of the town; to make reasonable

regulations in regard to buildings to bo erected in said town, and

to grant building permits for the same; to make and abolish

grades upon the streets and highways of the town; to cause side-

walks and gutters along the public sbreets and highways of said

town to be graded, paved, repaired or improved at the cost and

expense of the abutting property or the owner thereof; to cause

the water-courses, drains or sewers of the town to be paved, kept

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in repair and cleansed; to establish markets and regulate the hours

and limits thereof and mode of dealing in relation thereto; to

grant licenses for marketable commodities; to control and pro-

tect the public grounds and property of the town; to establish

and regulate a station house or lock up for temporary confinement

of violators of the laws and ordinances of the town; to suppress

vagrancy; to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or

houses of ill-fame within the limits of the town, and to provide

for the punishment of all persons who shall keep, authorize or

suffer to be kept, any such bawdy house or house of ill-fame; to

regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all

hawking, peddling and vending of wares and merchandise of every

description upon the streets or highways of the town, and to issue

licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from

house to house to vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to regu-

late and provide for the issuing of license to all traveling persons

who dispense medicine 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

regulate or restrain theatrical or other public amusements within

said town; to regulate and license or tax saloons or restaurants

and all vehicles of every description used in said town for hire ;

to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on

the public streets; provided, that no greater sum than one hun-

dred 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 codification of all ordinances

which may have been or may hereafter be passed; and for the pur-

pose of carrying out the foregoing powers and for the preserva-

tion of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the com-

munity, and for the protection of the lives and property of the

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