FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 263

provide for and regulate license or permits for all exhibitions
and shows of every kind within said town, or prohibit and
restrain gambling and games of chance of every description ;
to regulate and provide for a special tax on dogs, and to
empower the policeman to kill all dogs in said town whose
owners refuse or fail to pay the tax when demanded, or
whose owners cannot be ascertained, and authorizing the
policeman to enter upon any lot or into any building with-
in said town for the purpose of taking and killing such dog
or dogs; to provide for and prevent the running at large of
all horses, cattle, hogs, geese, sheep, goats or other stock
upon the streets or uninclosed lots within the limits of said
town ; to provide by ordinance for condemning, laying out,
opening, extending and making new streets and alleys, and
for altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving or
closing up in whole or in part any existing street or alley,
and for removing trees, posts, and other obstructions, and
for laying out public squares, drains, water courses, and all
benefits or damages done, suffered or incurred by the laying
out, opening and making of new streets or alleys, or by alter-
ing, straightening, widening, grading, or improving or
closing up in whole or in part, any existing street or
alley, or laying out public squares, drains and water courses,
shall be determined and assessed by three disinterested
persons, residents of said town, appointed by the mayor and
approved by the council, who shall take an oath before a
justice of the peace or notary public that they will faithfully
and fairly, without favor or partiality or prejudice, value
and assess the loss and damages to be suffered and incurred
by any person or persons interested in the said property,
over, through and by which the said street or alley, square,
drain or waterway is to be opened, closed, extended,
widened, graded or improved, and also to estimate the
benefits that may accrue therefrom to any such property,
over, through, or by which the said street, alley, square,
drain or waterway is to be opened, closed, extended,
widened, improved or graded, or auy property adjacent
thereto, or any other property injured or benefited by said
street, alley, square, drain or waterway; and they shall
within twenty days from qualifying return to the mayor and
council a map locating the proposed street, alley, square,
drain, waterway, so directed to be opened, extended, closed
up, widened, straightened, graded or improved, with an
accurate statement of the accounts of damages awarded and
the benefits assessed to any lot or parcel of ground or the
owner thereof, together with a certificate of their qualifica-
tion which return of damages and benefits may be ratified
or rejected or altered and amended in whole or in part by