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CHAP. 477.
Authority to
pass
ordinances
for the good
government
of the
town, etc.
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and preservation of the water supply of the city and the pre-
vention of the pollution thereof; to make all regulations
which may be deemed expedient for the promotion of health,
for suppression of disease ; to regulate the construction of
chimneys, smoke-stacks, hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves
and stovepipes, boilers and apparatus used in buildings or
other places, and cause the same to be removed, or made secure
when considered dangerous ; to suppress, restrain and regu-
late bawdy houses and houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit the
youth of said city from being in the streets, lanes or alleys at
unreasonable hours of the night ; to punish and suppress
tramps and vagrants, by imposing fines, or both fines and
imprisonment at hard labor, and to abate by appropriate ordi-
nances all nuisances in said town, which are so defined at
common law, whether the same are herein specifically named
or not; to regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in,
under or over the same, and to require the owner or occupant
of premises to keep the sidewalks in front of the same free
from snow and other obstructions, and prescribe hours for
clearing the same ; to regulate and prevent the throwing or
depositing of sweepings, dust or ashes, offal or dirt, garbage,
paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any other materials into any
street, alley or public place; to regulate and prevent the use
of streets, sidewalks and public places for signs, sign-posts, ,
awnings, awning-posts, poles, horse-troughs, steps, railings,
entrances, racks, posting handbills and advertisements, and
display of goods, wares and merchandise ; to cause the streets,
lanes and alleys to be sidewalked, paved, graded, repaired,
repaved, regarded, drained or sewered, or to close streets or
parts of streets, lanes or alleys ; to regulate and license the use
of coaches, hacks, drays, and all other vehicles for the transpor-
tation of passengers, freight or other articles to or from, points
within said city for hire or pay; to regulate, license, tax, restrain,
or prohibit theatrical and all other exhibitions, shows or enter-
tainments for which money is demanded or received ; provided,
that lectures on scientific, historic, benevolent, artistic, religious
or literary subjects, and apparatus for the elucidation of the
same, and specimens of fine art, shall not be deemed to be
within this provision ; to regulate the sale of all kinds of
property at auction in the streets, stores, shops or elsewhere in
the city, and to license auctioneers and all vendors of prop-
erty on the streets or squares or other places in said city ; to
license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit hawkers and itin-
erant dealers, peddlers and pawnbrokers, and to revoke such
license at pleasure ; to license, tax and regulate branch stores
and all other concerns established in said city for temporary
business only.
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