ART. 15.] KENT COUNTY. 889

and the certificate of the secretary entered upon the records
of the corporation shall be due evidence of the passage and pub-
lication of the ordinance respectively. All ordinances shall be
enforced from and after the date of their last respective publi-
cation.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall
have full power to make all regulations and ordinances not
inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State as
from time to time they may deem necessary or expedient for the
comfort, convenience and prosperity of said town and its in-
habitants, for the prevention, removal or abatement of any nui-
sance and the preservation of health, the suppression of vice
and immorality, and for general police regulations within the
limits of said town, and to impose fines and penalties for viola-
tions thereof, to be collected as provided for in the last pre-
ceding section 6.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall
have power to pass ordinance requiring all circus or theatri-
cal performances, shows, plays and public entertainments for
which an admission fee is charged to take out a license before
giving an exhibition in said town, and to fix the cost of said
license, and shall have the power to pass all ordinances to pro-
vide for regulating peddlers of nostrums, notions, patent, secret
or pretended inventions and remedies, on the streets, alleys
or sidewalks of said town.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That said corporation
may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest, without
warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance, when
in the judgment of the said president or of the constable or
police of the town the delay necessary to the issuing of war-
rants would be dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town
or to the lives, limbs or property of the citizens; and when it
shall appear that offender is intoxicated so as to render it
unsafe to permit him to ride or drive through the streets of
said town, shall provide for the custody of the horse or horses,
vehicle or vehicles, ridden or driven by such persons, in some
place of safety until such offender pr offenders shall become
sober; and the said corporation shall by ordinance subject the
property so taken and deposited to the payment of all cost of
the proceedings and the keeping of the said property until the
same shall be released according to law.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the police and the other
officers of the peace appointed by the said corporation under
the powers conferred by this Act, are hereby vested with the