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General
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occupations therein, wherever the public comfort or health
requires it; to prevent or regulate the use and sale of fire-
arms, fireworks, bonfires, or other things or practices tend-
ing to endanger persons or property; to regulate and pro-
hibit the running at large of cattle, horses or swine, fowls,
sheep, goats, dogs or other animals; to authorize the com-
pounding, keeping, sale and redemption of such animals
when found in violation of the ordinance in such case
provided; to prevent the deposit of any unwholesome
substance either on private or public property; compel its
removal to designated points, and to require slops, garbage,
ashes and other wastes or unwholesome materials to be
removed to designated points, or to require the occupants
of premises to place them conveniently for removal; to
compel the occupants of any premises, buildings or out-
houses situated in said town when the same have become
filthy or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the same, and
upon failure of the owners to abate such nuisance, then the
Council shall authorize the same to be done by the proper
public officers and to assess the expenses thereof against
such property; to regulate or prevent the storage of gun
powder, tar, pitch, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton,
nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum or gaso-
line or any product thereof, or any other explosive or com-
bustible materials, or any materials which may be dangerous ;
to authorize the removal or confinement of persons having
infectious or pestilential diseases; to pass all ordinances and
orders, and to expend such sums of money as may be neces-
sary within the limitations herein provided for the protec-
tion, maintenance and preservation of the water supply of
the town and the prevention of the pollution thereof; to
make all regulation which may be deemed expedient for the
promotion of health or suppression of disease; to regulate
the construction of chimneys, smoke stacks, hearths, ovens,
the erection of stoves and stove pipes, boilers and apparatus
used in buildings or other places, and cause the same to be
removed or made secure when considered dangerous; to
suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy houses and houses of
ill-fame, and to prohibit the youth of said town from being
in the streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable hours of the
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