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power, by ordinance, to open, close and widen streets, lanes,
roads and alleys within the limits of the town; (4) to remove
or cause to be removed houses or other obstructions or objects
that may be dangerous to property or health, or to persons
passing along or over any of the highways of the town, or
residing in the neighborhood thereof; (5) to make reasonable
regulations in regard to buildings to be erected in said town ;
(6) to make and establish grades upon the streets and highways
of the town; (7) to cause sidewalks along the public streets
and highways of the town to be graded, paved, repaired or
made, and curbs to be set at the cost and expense of the abut-
ting property or the owner thereof, which cost and expense
shall be a lien upon the abutting property in favor of the Mayor
and Council until paid, and such lien may be enforced by dis-
traint and sale in the same manner as the collections of taxes is
enforced; or the Mayor and Council may by fine or otherwise,
compel the owner or proprietor of any lot or lots to pave or
repave the sidewalks or footways of any streets adjacent to said
lot or lots, and to set curbs along the same agreeably to the
ordinances now in force in said town or that may hereafter be
passed; (8) to cause the streets, ways and alleys, the water
courses, drains, sewers and gutters to be macadamized or paved,
kept in repair and cleaned; (9) to control and protect the pub-
lic grounds and property of the town; (10) to establish and
regulate a station-house or lock-up in said town, for the confine-
ment of the violators of the laws and ordinances thereof; (11)
to levy a tax and impose a license on dogs and bitches, and to
prevent horses, cattle, goats and swine from running at large
in the streets of the town and the vacant building lots thereof ;
(12) to regulate and control all offensive trades, Manufacturers
and traffic in offensive fertilizers and other commodities; (13)
to prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses within the limits of
the town; (14) to license, regulate and restrain peddlers, huck-
sters' wagons, liveries, theatricals, circus troupes, hawkers,
vendors, pool and billiard rooms and bowling alleys; they shall
also have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances
which may have been or may be hereafter passed, and to cause
the same to be printed, together with the charter of the town,
and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and
for the preservation of the peace, order, cleanliness, and health
of the community, and for the protection of the lives and
property of its citizens, and to suppress, abate or discontinue
all nuisances within the corporate limits of said town, and for
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