HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
walks and gutters along the public streets and

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highways of said town to be graded, paved, re-
paired 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 in repair and
cleansed; to establish markets and regulate
the hours and limits thereof, and mode of deal-
ing in relation thereto; to grant licenses for
marketable commodities; to control and protect
the public grounds and property of the town ;
to establish and regulate a station-house or
lock-up for temporary confinement of viola-
tors 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 reg-
ulate and to provide for the issuing of licenses
or permits for all hawking, peddling and vend-
ing of wares and merchandise of every des-
cription 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 merchan-
dise; to regulate and provide for the issuing
of license to all traveling persons who dispense
medicine or medical advice; they shall also

Paving and
grading.

have power to demand a license from all
players or showmen exhibiting within said
town; and to pro vide for licensing theatres, and
to regulate or restrain theatrical or other pub-
lic amusements within said town; to regulate,
license or tax saloons or restaurants, hackney
carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used
in said town for the carriage of passengers
and travelers; to regulate and license auc-
tioneers who cry any sale or sales on the pub-
lic streets; provided, that no greater sum than
one hundred dollars be charged for any one
license; and to regulate and control all offen-
sive trades, manufactures, and traffic in offen-
sive fertilizers or other commodities within

Licenses.