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General
powers
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to vend or sell goods, wares, merchandise or produce; for
the preservation of peace and good order, securing persons
and property from violence, danger or destruction; for the
suppression and restraint of vice; for the assessment or
re-assessment from time to time of all kinds of property and
securities in said town on which State and county taxes are or'
may be levied, and for the levy and collection of a tax thereon
for the general purposes of the corporation not exceeding
in any one year fifty cents to every one hundred dollars of
assessable property; to fix and pay the compensation of the
chief of police, town clerk and such other officers, agents
or servants as may be employed by the corporation; to sup-
press the practice of firing and discharging firearms, fire
crackers, rockets, torpedoes and other explosives, either by
prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise; to restrain and
prohibit gunning; to provide for licenses regulating or
restraining circuses or tent shows, theatrical or other public
amusements, bowling alleys, billiard and pool tables, and all
other games of amusement run for profit within the town
limits; to establish day and night police, and to provide for
the lighting of the streets; to provide for and regulate the
sweeping of chimneys, and to fix the compensation of those
who sweep the same, to be paid by those who receive their
services, and to provide and fix a penalty to prohibit the
intentional burning out of the same; to borrow money on the
faith and credit of the town, and to open and close streets ;
provided, they shall not have the power to close or alienate
any street or alley, or parts thereof, that are already opened
and used as highways without first obtaining the assent of a
majority of the legal voters of the town cast at an election
held for that purpose, after twenty days' public notice; to
erect and repair bridges within the corporate limits; to
levy and collect taxes on dogs and bitches and to restrain
them from going at large; to prevent horses, cattle, goats
and other domestic animals or poultry of any kind from
going at large; to restrain and suppress the keeping of any
hog pens within the town; to regulate and define the location
of slaughter houses and smoke houses; to regulate the speed
of railroad trains within the limits of the town; to prevent
any immoderate driving or riding through the streets in any
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