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Section 15. That the Mayor and Councilmen of Lonaconing
shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary for the good
government of the towns; to prevent, remove and abate all
nuisances, or obstructions in or upon the streets, highways,
lanes or alleys, drains or water courses, in or upon any lot or
lots adjacent thereto ; to prohibit or license the keeping of
hogs or hog pens or the rendering in open kettles of tallow, or
the running about the streets of animals and to punish therefor ;
to remove or cause to be removed houses or other structures
that may be dangerous to persons passing along and over any
of the highways of the town ; to make reasonable regulations
in regard to buildings to be erected in said town and to grant
building permits for the same ; to make and establish grades
upon the streets and highways of the town ; to cause sidewalks,
kerbs and gutters along the public streets and highways of said
town to be laid, graded, paved, repaired 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 cleaned ; to establish
markets and regulate the hours and limits thereof, and the
mode of dealing in relation thereto ; to grant licenses tor
marketable commodities ; to control and protect public
grounds and property of the town ; to establish and regulate a
station house or lock-up for temporary confinement of violators
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, or shall frequent or visit any such bawdy-
house or house of ill-fame ; to regulate and provide for the
issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and
vending of wares and merchandise of any description upon
the streets, alleys or highways of the town, and to issue
licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from
house to house to sell or vend any wares or merchandise ; to
regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling
persons who dispense medicine or medical advice; they shall
also have power to demand a license from all circuses, menag-
eries, players or showmen exhibiting within the limits of said
town, and to provide for licensing the rates and regulate or
restrain theatrical or other public amusements within said
town ; they shall also have power to regulate and license or
tax saloons, restaurants or places in which spirituous or fer-
mented liquor or lager beer is bartered or sold ; to regulate
and license all vehicles of every description used in said town
for hire ; to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any sale
or sales on the public streets, provided that no greater sum
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Authority to
pass all
ordinances
for the good
government
the town.
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