EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the same removed at the charge and expense of the party or
persons so ordered, with a right on the part of the Mayor

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and Council to sue for and recover all sums of money laid
out and expended by them in removing or correcting said
obstruction or encroachment in an action at law without
relieving the said parties or persons so responsible for such
nuisance from criminal prosecution. (12) To prohibit the
keeping of any vicious or dangerous dog or other beasts in
said town by order noted on the minute book and served on
the owner, reputed owner or controlling occupant of the
premises where the animal is kept, and to direct such animal
to be killed or to be sent out of the town, if not imme-
diately removed on receiving notice of such order, and also
to prescribe penalties for keeping such dangerous beasts in
the town after such notice. (13) To regulate, restrain or
prohibit by ordinance the running at large of horses, bulls,
cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and chickens on any of the
streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of the said town, and
to prescribe penalties for violating such ordinance, and to
forbid or regulate the keeping of swine in said town, and to
provide penalties for violation of such ordinances. (14) To
regulate and prescribe by ordinance, as a protection against
fire, whether houses built or erected in said town shall be
built of wood or other material, and to prescribe in what
parts and sections thereof buildings of wood may be erected,
and in what part or sections of the same buildings of wood
shall not be erected, and to prescribe penalties for violating
said ordinance. (15) To require by ordinance that every per-
son or party who wishes or proposes to erect any building
in said town to make a written application to the Mayor and
Council for a permit to erect the same before beginning work
thereon, and in such application to set forth the location,
character, materials, purposes and uses of said building, and
to require every such person before beginning work on the
erection of any building in said town to obtain a permit,
printed or written, signed by the town clerk, on the order of
the Mayor and Council, and entered in the minute book, and
to require a reasonable fee for issuing such permit, and to
prescribe penalties for erecting or beginning to erect any
building without such permit. (16) To provide by ordi-
nance for taking down and removing any building of wood
erected in any part or section of town in violation of any

General
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granted .