ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 771

therefor; may pass zoning ordinances for the protection
of the public health, welfare, safety and morals; may regu-
late and provide the conditions under which live animals
may be kept within the limits of said town, and may pro-
hibit the running at large of the same during the entire
year, or during such periods as may to them seem advisa-
ble, and may make such regulations for impounding such
animals and for disposing thereof as may seem to them
necessary and proper. They may regulate the sale and use
of fireworks in said town and may provide reasonable
license fees to be paid for any place of public amusement or
recreation, pleasure park, picnic ground, club house, the-
atrical exhibition, circus, baseball ground, bowling alley,
billiard or pool room, motion picture parlor, roadside stand,
and signs or signboards. They may impose such fines, pen-
alties, forfeitures and punishment for a breach of their
ordinances, resolutions or regulations as they may think
proper, such fines not to exceed twenty-five dollars for any
one offense, and for the non-payment of such fines, penal-
ties and forfeitures may commit the offender to the County
Jail, or to such place of confinement in said town as they
may provide, for a period not exceeding thirty days, in the
same manner as commitments are made for fines and
penalties imposed by the Circuit Court on conviction for
misdemeanor; may remit, at any time, any fine, penalty or
forfeiture, or any part thereof, in their discretion; may
provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest, without
warrant, of any person found violating any town ordi-
nance, resolution or regulation, and when it shall appear
that the offender is intoxicated, may confine said offender
in some secure place until he shall be sober, and may pro-
vide further for the confinement of any person arrested,
if the time be unreasonable, as in the night, whereby he
cannot attend the Justice of the Peace until a reasonable
hour the succeeding morning, when he shall be taken before
a Justice of the Peace and dealt with according to the na-
ture of the offense; provided that such a person so arrested
may be released if he deposit with the Bailiff a sum of
money or give security before a Justice of the Peace to
cover any fine that may be assessed against him for the
violation of the ordinance, resolution or regulation with
which he is charged.

They shall have power to acquire by purchase or by
condemnation under the provisions of Article 35A of the
Public General Laws of the State, any private property
that in their judgment may be needed for municipal pur-
poses, whether the same lies within the limits of said town