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hibit the construction or maintenance of privy sinks, cesspools
and other depositories of filth within the corporate limits;
(d) They shall provide for the inspection and cleanliness of
all privies, yards and stores ;
(e) They shall regulate the location, inspection and cleanli-
ness of dairies, stables, cow yards and pens, all factories and
other places of business likely to be, or become detrimental to
health, and shall maintain a good sanitary condition in the
streets, public places and buildings ;
(f) They shall provide for the frequent inspection of all
premiees by a person or persons to be designated by the Mayor
or health officer;
(g) They shall pass such ordinances as they may deem neces-
sary to preserve the health of the town, suppress and remove
all nuisances, prevent the sale of adulterated or decayed food,
and prohibit any and all business within the corporate limits as
shall in their opinion injuriously affect the sanitary condition
thereof ;
(3.) To establish the grades of the streets, gutters and side-
walks of said town, fix the width thereof and describe the material
of which they shall be constructed; to cause the sidewalks
along the public streets to be graded, paved, repaved or im-
proved at the cost and expense of the owners of the abutting
property, which costs, in case the work is done by or by order
of the council, after twenty-one days' notice to the owner or
owners of such property, shall be a lien on such abutting
property and recoverable by action of law, or in the manner
provided by law for the collection of delinquent general taxes
of the town, or delinquent State and county taxes, or compel
by tines or otherwise, the owners of properties of any such lot
or lots to grade, pave, or repair the sidewalks, or set curbs in
front thereof agreeable to ordinances which may hereafter be
passed ;
(4.) To open and keep open and free from obstruction all
streets, public squares and reservations, grade and pave, close
or alter the same, and their rights, powers and duties in rela-
tion thereto, shall, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, be
the same as is provided by the Code of Public General Laws
of this State, for opening, altering and closing public roads by
the Board of County Commissioners, with the right of appeal
to the Circuit Court for the county ;
(5.) To keep the streets and crossings and town bridges clean
and in repair;
(6.) To adequately provide for the maintenance of an
efficient police department and fire department ;
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Power to
pass ordi-
nances.
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