ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

fine or fines upon any person or persons causing
or creating any such nuisance or obstructions ;
to grant permits for and control and regulate the
erection of all buildings, specifying in all cases
the material of which they shall be built, and for
what purpose used, and to have power to remove,
or order the removal of any building that may
be a nuisance, or that may have been erected on
the burnt district since the fire of October seven-
teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, or that
may have been erected under a permit to erect
temporary buildings, or that may have been
erected contrary to any ordinance heretofore
passed, or hereafter to be passed, or that may
endanger any building contiguous thereto in
case of fire, and to enact ordinances and impose

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fines for the enforcement of these provisions ; to
establish grades upon the streets, gutters and side-
walks of said town, the width thereof, and pre-
scribe the material of which they shall be built ; to
cause the sidewalks along the said public streets
to be graded, paved, repaved or improved, and
curbs to be set at the cost and expense of
the owners of the abutting property, which cost
shall be a lien on the abutting property and re-
coverable by action at law, or compel by fines,
or otherwise, the owners or proprietors of any
such lot or lots to grade, pave or repave the
sidewalks, set curbs in front thereof agreeable

Establish
grades, etc.

to ordinances that may hereafter be passed ; to
establish a market-house by lease or otherwise,
and regulate the days, hours and limits thereof,
and mode of dealing therein ; to grant licenses
or permits for the sale of marketable commodi-
ties, such as fresh meats, fruits, vegetables,
poultry, &c.; to control and protect the public
grounds, cemeteries and property of said town ;
to provide for and regulate the issuing of
licenses or permits f or all hawking, peddling and
the vending of any goods, wares or merchandise,
of every description, upon the streets or high-
ways of said town, or to itinerant peddlers that
go from house to house to sell their goods, wares

What to
establish.

or merchandise, or to itinerant persons who dis-
pense patent medicines or medical advice ; to
regulate and provide for licenses and tax on all
carts, wagons, carriages, hacks and vehicles of

What to pro-
vide for.