EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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remove the snow from the sidewalk in front of said
lot and to impose a fine or penalty for the failure to do so ;
they may also by ordinance establish such a sewerage system
as may be necessary for the proper drainage of said town,
and which may be most conducive to the health and sanita-
tion of said town, and they may impose on and collect from

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persons using the same a tax for the use of said sewers,
which said tax shall be collected in like manner as other
taxes are collected in said town, and shall be a lien on the
property on which it is assessed; they may also from
time to time by ordinance provide for the paving of
any streets in said town which they may deem advisable
to be paved and to assess the properties on each side
of .said street for a proportionate share of the cost of such
pavement not exceeding one-third of such cost each to
respective owners of the properties on each side of said
street and make all assessments levied under this Act a lien
upon the said respective properties, to be collected in the
same manner as taxes now levied under the provisions of
Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws.

59 o. That the said commissioners shall have full power

Tax to be
imposed, etc.

to make all regulations and ordinances not inconsistent with
the constitution and laws of this State as from time to time
they may deem necessary or expedient for the comfort, con-
venience and prosperity of said town and its inhabitants ;
for the prevention, removal and abatement of any nuisance,
and the preservation of health, the suppression of vice and
immorality and for the general police regulations within the
limits of said town, and provide fines, penalties and forfeit-
ures for the violation of any of the ordinances passed by
said commissioners; but no fine or penalty shall exceed the
sum of twenty-five dollars.
59 D. That no person or corporation shall keep a dog or

Authority to
suppress
vice and
immorality.

bitch in said town without obtaining a license from the com-
missioners for that purpose in the mouth of October in each
and every year, paying at the time of the license being
granted one dollar for each dog and one dollar and fifty cents
for every bitch, and at such times and for such periods as
the commissioners may by ordinance require; every dog and
bitch shall be properly muzzled, and every dog and bitch
found running at large in said town without being licensed
or muzzled as aforesaid shall be shot or otherwise destroyed
by the bailiffs or police of said town.

License to be
obtained, etc