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nuisance or obstructions ; (3) to open, close and widen streets,
lanes, roads and alleys within the limits of the town ; (4) to
remove or caused to be removed, or to render secure, any
house or houses, building or other structures or objects that
may be dangerous to property, to heath, or to the- life or the
limb of persons entering said house or building, or passing
along or over any of the highways of the town, or residing in
the neighborhood thereof ; (5) to make reasonable regulations
in regard to buildings to be erected in said town ; (6) to make
and establish grades upon the streets and highways of the
town ; (7) to cause sidewalks along the public streets and high-
ways of the town to be graded, paved, repaired or made, and
curbs to be set at the cost and expense of the abutting:
property or the owner thereof, which cost and expense
shall be a lien upon the abutting property in favor of
the Mayor and Council until paid, and such lien may be-
enforced by distraint and sale in the same manner as the col-
lection of corporation taxes is enforced, or the Mayor and
Council may by fine or otherwise compel the owner or propri-
etor of any lot or lots to pave or repave the sidewalks or foot-
ways of any streets adjacent to said lot or lots, and to set curbs
along the same agreeably to the ordinances now in force in
said town or that may hereafter be passed in relation thereto ;
" provided, that this sub-section shall not apply to portions of
streets which have not been developed and improved by the
erection of houses thereon ; " (8) to cause the streets, ways and
alleys, the water courses, drains, sewers and gutters to be ma-
cadamized or paved, kept in repair and cleaned ; provided, that
this sub-section shall not apply to streets through property which
has not.been developed and improved by the erection of houses
thereon ; (9) to control and protect the public buildings, grounds
and property of the town ; (10) to establish, erect, maintain and
regulate a station house or lock-up in said town for the confine-
ment of the violators of the laws and ordinances thereof, and
also such other buildings for municipal purposes as they may
deem necessary and proper; (11) to levy a tax and impose a
license on dogs and bitches, and to prevent horses, cattle, goats
and swine from running at large in the streets of the town and
the vacant building lots thereof ; (12) to regulate and control
all offensive trades, manufactures and traffic in offensive fer-.
tilizers and other commodities ; (13) to prohibit hog pens and
slaughter houses within the limits of the town : (14) to license,
regulate and restrain peddlers, huckster's wagons, liveries,
theatricals, circus troupes, hawkers, vendors, pool and
billiard rooms and bowling alleys ; (15) to preserve the
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