EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR,

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night; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by
imposing fines or both fines and imprisonment at hard labor,

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and to abate by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said
town, which are so defined at common law, whether the same
are herein specifically named or not; to regulate the use of
sidewalks and all structures in, under or over the same; to
require the owner or occupant of premises to keep the side-
walks in front of the same free from snow and other obstruc-
tions and prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and
prevent the throwing or depositing of sweepings, dust or
ashes, offal or dirt, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids
or any other materials into any street, alley or public place ;
to regulate and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and
public places for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts,
poles, horse troughs, steps, railings, entrances, racks, post-
ing handbills and advertisement and display of goods, wares
and merchandise; to cause the streets, lanes and alleys to
be sidewalked, paved, graded, repaired, re-paved, re-graded,
drained or sewered, or to close streets or parts of streets,
lanea or alleys; to regulate and license the use of coaches,
hacks, drays and all other vehicles for the transportation of
passengers, freight or other articles to or from points within
said town for hire or pay; to regulate, license, tax, restrain
or prohibit theatrical and all other exhibitions, shows or
entertainments for which money is demanded or received ;
provided, that lectures on scientific, historic, benevolent,
artistic, religious or literary subjects, and apparatus for the
education of the same and specimens of fine art, shall not be
deemed to be within this provision; to regulate the sale of
all kinds of property at auction in the streets, stores, shops
or elsewhere in the town, and to license auctioneers and all
venders of property on the streets or squares or other places
in said town; to license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit
hawkers and itinerant dealers, peddlers and pawnbrokers
and to revoke such license at pleasure; to license, tax and
regulate branch stores and all other concerns established in
said town for temporary business only.

Section 120. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor

General
powers.

shall annually appoint a bailiff, whose duty it shall be to pre-
serve the peace and good order of said town, and for this
purpose he is vested with the same power and authority as
constables have under the laws of this State; said bailiff shall

Bailiff
appointed.