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the firing of guns, cannon, pistols, rifles, slingshots, firecrackers,
or other firearms or explosives therein; to suppress fires and
to prevent the danger thereof by all reasonable regulations and
precautions; to establish and to maintain a fire department; to
regulate the erection and repair of all buildings and grant per-
mits therefor, specifying the material of which the same may
be built and the purpose for which same may be used; to re-
strict the building of wooden buildings in certain sections of
the Town, when in the judgment of the Mayor and Common
Council such regulations shall become prudent and necessary;
to prevent and to regulate the keeping and storing of gun-
powder, oil or other explosives of combustible material, in such
places and under such conditions as may appear proper; to
regulate the speed of all vehicles and street cars in said Town;
to provide for the proper restraining of all improper public
exhibitions or amusements and to regulate the proper erection
of buildings therefor and the maintenance of safe exits there-
from; to regulate and provide for the proper condition of side-
walks; to prevent the throwing or allowing the accumulation
of foreign material or of any offensive or dirty material on
the public streets or near thereto; to regulate the keeping of
dogs in the Town, to provide a tax or license therefor; to pro-
vide for the effective collection thereof; and to provide proper
penalties for any person keeping a dog or bitch, or allowing
one to remain on his premises who does not comply with such
regulations; providing for the killing of all dogs, the owners
or ones in possession of which, do not comply with such regu-
lations and for killing or impounding of all dogs found run-
ning at large, in violation of such regulations; and for the
proper execution of all of the aforesaid regulations, the Mayor
and Common Council may provide such penalties as now al-
lowed to them by the Town Charter.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That as this Act is one
of emergency, and necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public health and safety, it shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved March 22nd, 1918.

CHAPTER 30.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 227
of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Al-