JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 733

therein or within one mile of the town, to prevent
and remove nuisances, to prevent and extinguish
fires, to regulate fire companies, to impose and ap-
propriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for the breach
of their by-laws and ordinances, to regulate party
walls and partition fences, to provide for licensing
and regulating of sweeping or burning of chimneys, and fixing the rate thereof, to restrain and prohibit
gaming, to provide for licensing and regulating or restraining theatrical or other public exhibitions or	Restrain pub- lic exhibiti'ns
amusements within the town and within one mile
thereof, to regulate and tax dogs, and in all cases,
when the public safety may so require, to pre vent them
from going at large, to regulate and prevent horses
and cows and sheep and hogs from going at large
in said town, to pass all ordinances necessary for
paving or otherwise improving or keeping in repair
the streets, lanes, alleys and footways thereof, and
to lay and collect an equal tax upon the personal
and real estate within the corporation for all pur-
poses necessary for carrying into effect the by-laws
and the ordinances of the town.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, They shall not levy a tax exceeding twenty cents on the hundred dollars	Levy tax.
of assessable property in any one year.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted, They may direct by
ordinance all or any of the footways in said town to	Diiect foot-
be laid off' and leveled, paved, curbed and mended	ways to be laid off.
with any material which to them may seem best, at
the expense of the proprietors of the different lots
or portions of lots before which the president of the
commissioners shall direct the same to be done.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, If the owner of any
house, lot, or part of a lot, where such levelling,
curbing, paving or mending shall be directed to be
done, shall not reside in said town, the tenant, or
person occupying the same, or who has charge there-
of, shall cause the same to be done before the front
of such possession, and the money expended by such tenant, or other person, in and about said work, in	Who shall cause paving, &c.,to be done
obedience to the ordinance of the corporation, shall
be allowed by the owner, and deducted from the
rent due or to become due.