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CHAP. 649
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by-laws and ordinances not contrary to law for the preserva-
tion of the health, comfort, convenience, morals, cleanliness,
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General
powers
granted.
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peace and good order of the community, and for the pro-
tection of the lives and property of the citizens of said
town, and for the suppression, abatement and discontinuance
of nuisances within the limits of said town; and for the
purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers the Mayor and
Council may pass any and all ordinances and by-laws from
time to time deemed necessary, and may enforce and insure
the observance of such by-laws or ordinances in addition to
the usual action of debt or such other civil remedies as
may exist in such cases by law for the recovery of fees,
fines and penalties thereto affixed; they may affix thereto
reasonable fine for default of payment of any fine and cost
imposed for a violation of any ordinance or by-laws ;
they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender
for a period not to exceed thirty days in the town lockup or
the county jail, or for his commitment to the custody of the
policeman under sentence to hard labor upon the streets of
the town, not to exceed ten days. And whenever in any such
ordinance or by-law a fine or penalty is imposed for the
doing of any act forbidden to be done by such ordinance or
for omitting to do any act required to be done by such
ordinance, the doing of such act in the first case or the
omission to do such act in the second case, shall be deemed
to be a criminal offense; and all such offenses shall be prose-
cuted by the arrest of the offender and by holding him to
bail to appear in or committing him for trial in the Circuit
Court for Worcester county, unless upon being brought
before a justice of the peace, and having been informed of
his right to a jury trial, as elsewhere provided in this charter,
he shall waive said right and elect to be tried before a
justice of the peace; and if any person shall be adjudged
guilty of any such offense under any ordinance or by-law
passed in pursuance of the powers hereby given or any of
them, by the Circuit Court aforesaid or by a justice of the
peace, a person so found guilty shall be sentenced to pay
the fine or penalty prescribed by the said ordinance or by-law,
and also the costs of prosecution, and in default of the pay-
ment thereof the person so found guilty shall be committed
to jail for the length of time required by said ordinance or
by-laws, not to exceed the thirty days' limit above provided;
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