EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 785

of them to the best of their skill and judgment without favor,
affection or prejudice, and the said Treasurer, in addition to
the oath prescribed, shall give bond to the Mayor and Com-
missioners of Barton in the sum of two thousand ($2,000)
dollars for the faithful performance of his duties.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Commis-
sioners of Barton shall have power to pass all ordinances nec-
essary for the good government of said town; to prevent, re-
move and abate nuisances or obstructions in or upon the streets,
highways, lanes or alleys, drains or watercourses, or in or
upon any lot or lots adjacent thereto, and to provide for im-
posing a fine or fines upon any person or persons causing or
creating any such nuisance or obstruction; to remove or cause
to be removed houses or other structures that may be dan-
gerous to persons passing along or over any of the said high-
ways of the said town; to make reasonable regulations in re-
gard to buildings to be erected in said town and to grant
building permits for the same; to open and extend streets, to
open alleys, to make and establish grades upon the streets and
highways of the said town; to cause the sidewalks and gutters
along the public stieets and highways to be graded and paved,
repaired or improved at the cost and expense of the abutting
property owners thereof, such paving and grading to be made
economically so as to minimize the expense thereof; to cause
the watercourses and drains or sewers of said town to be kept
in repair and cleaned; to establish markets and to regulate the
hours and limits thereof; to grant licenses for marketable com-
modities; to license pool and billiard rooms, bowling alleys,
shooting galleries and the regulation of the hours thereof; to
regulate and provide for the control of public grounds and
the property of the town; to establish and regulate a station
house or lockup for the temporary confinement of the vio-
lators of the laws and ordinances of the town; to suppress
vagrancy and to prohibit or the keeping of bawdy houses or
houses of ill-fame within the said corporate limits, and to pro-
vide for the punishment of all persons who shall keep or suffer
to be kept in their property any such houses; to regulate and
provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawk-
ing, peddling or vending of wares and merchandise of every
description on the streets or highways of the town, and to
issue licenses or permits to all itinerant persons who dispense
medicine; to demand a license from all players or showmen
exhibiting within the said town; to provide for the licensing