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Section 111 E. And be it further enacted, That said Council
shall have power to pass all such ordinances not contrary to
the constitution and laws of the State as it may deem necessary
for the good government of the town ; for the protection and
preservation of the town's property, rights and privileges;
for the preservation of peace and good order and securing
persons and property from violence, danger or destruction ; for
the protection of health, comfort and convenience of
the citizens of Friendsville and visitors thereto or
eojourners therein ; for providing proper and suitable
lights upon the public streets; for establishing, main-
taining and regulating an adequate police force ; to regulate
the location and management of starch factories, glue factories,
renderies, tallow chandlers, bone factories, soap factories, hide
houses, tanneries, slaughter houses, breweries, distilleries,
livery stables, foundries and all other establishments of which
the business or trade may become noxious or injurious to
public comfort and health ; to prohibit the erection of such
buildings or the continuance of such noxious, injurious occu-
pations therein, wherever the public comfort or health requires
it; to prevent or regulate the use and sale of firearms, fire-
works, bonfires or other things or practices tending to endanger
persons or property ; to regulate and prohibit the running at
large of cattle, horses or swine, fowls, sheep, goats, dugs, or
other animals ; to authorize the compounding, keeping, sale
and redemption of such animals when found in violation of
the ordinance in such cases provided ; to prevent the deposit
of any unwholesome substance, either on private or public
property; to compel its removal to designated points, and to
require slops, garbage, ashes and other wastes or unwhole-
some materials to be removed to designated points or to
require the occupants of premises to place them conveniently
for removal ; to compel the occupants of any premises, build-
ing or outhouses situated in said city, when the same have
become filthy or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the same,
and upon failure of the owners to abate such nuisances then
the Council shall authorize the same to be done by the proper
public officer and to assess the expenses thereof against such
property ; to regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder,
tar, pitch, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp cotton, nitro
glycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum or gasoline or any
product thereof, or any other explosive or combustible materials
or any material which may seem to be dangerous ; to authorize
the removal or confinement of persons having infectious or
pestilential diseases; to pass all ordinances and orders, and
to expend such sums of money as may be necessary within
the limitation herein provided for the protection, maintenance
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CHAP. 477.
Authority
to pass
ordinances
for the
good govern-
ment of
the town, etc.
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