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provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who
dispense medicines or medical advice; they shall also have
power to demand a license from all players or showmen exhibit-
ing within the town, and to provide for licensing theatres and
to regulate or restrain theatrical or other public amusements
within said town; to regulate, license and tax restaurants, brew-
eries and all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous,
vinous and fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and
tax all hackney carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in
said town for the carriage of passengers; all vehicles used for
the carriage or transportation of freight or merchandise and all
carts or other vehicles which play for hire; to levy a tax and
impose a license upon dogs, and to impose a license upon all
gas companies, water companies and telephone companies, brok-
ers, real estate and insurance agencies, located in or doing busi-
ness in said town; and to regulate and license auctioneers who

cry any public sales within the corporate limits of the town;
provided, that no greater sum than one hundred dollars be
charged for any one license; and to regulate and control all
offensive trades, manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers
or other commodities within the town limits; they shall also
have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances
which may have been or may hereafter be passed; and for the
purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and for the pre-
servation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the
community, and for the protection of the lives and property of
the citizens, and to suppress, abate or discontinue, or cause to
be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances, within the

corporate and sanitary limits of said town, they may pass all
ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary; and to en-
sure the observance of said ordinances, in addition to the action
of debt, or such other civil remedies as may exist in such cases
by law for the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they
may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dol-
lars in any case, as to them appear right; and in default of the

payment of any fine imposed, they may provide for the im-
prisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding twenty

days, or until the fine be paid; and instead of the aforesaid
penalties, it shall be lawful in case of the conviction of any
person for vagrancy, to sentence such person to hard work for

a period not exceeding ten days.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take

effect from the date of its passage, it being hereby declared to