EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making new
streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening,
grading, improving or closing up in whole or in part any
existing street or alley, and for laying our public squares,
parks, drains, sewers or water courses; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for the temporary con-
finement for violators of the law and ordinances of the town ;
to levy, to tax and impose a license upon dogs, and to pro-
hibit animals or fowls running at large; to regulate and
control all offensive trades, manufactures and traffic in
offensive fertilizers or other commodities, and prohibit hog
pens and slaughter houses within the town limits; to control,
by ordinance the mode of constructing privies and sinks and
the manner of disposing of offal and waste products, and, in
general, to pass such ordinances as they may deem proper,
necessary and beneficial to the town; and for the purpose of
carrying out the foregoing powers, and for preservation of
the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the com-
munity, and for the protection of the lives and property of
the citizens, and to suppress, abate or discontinue, or cause
to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances
within the corporate limits of said town, they may pass all
ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary; and to
insure the observance of such ordinance, in addition to the
action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in
such cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereon
to be affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable fines,
not exceeding fifty ($50.00) dollars in any case, as to them
may appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine

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imposed they may provide for the imprisonment of the
offenders for a period not exceeding thirty days, or until the
fine is paid; provided, that no ordinance shall be adopted
except by yea and nay vote, and the names of the members
of the Council voting for and against the same shall be
entered in the minutes. The Mayor and Council shall have
power, in their discretion, to appropriate money to aid in
promoting the efficiency of the public schools located within
the limits of the town.

14. The fiscal year shall begin on the first day of July of

Appeal may be
taken.

each year and shall be known by the name of the calendar
year in which it begins.
15. (a) As soon as may be after the passage of this Act
and on or before the 15th day of March in each succeeding

Fiscal year.