PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1261

Commissioner shall receive in any one year more than the sum
of fifty dollars for said services.

SEC. 86. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners
shall have power to purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property for the use and benefit of said Corporation, or the
recreation, entertainment and amusement of its citizens, and
may convey and dispose of the same or any part thereof, ana
to receive property by gift, devise or deed, in trust for any
municipal object. They shall have power to pass ordinances
and by-laws to prevent and remove nuisances and obstructions
from the streets, lanes and alleys, and from lots adjoining
streets, lanes and alleys and from any other place within the
limits of said town, and regulate and prohibit the excavation
and opening of streets and alleys and any work or anything
being done therein or thereon; to restrain drunkenness, all dis-
orderly annoyances or disorderly conduct; suppress street
walkers, bawdy houses and prevent gambling; prevent the firing
of cannons, guns, pistols, fire-crackers, fireworks or other ex-
plosives within the corporate limits; suppress fires, and prevent
the danger thereof; establish or aid and assist the maintenances
of a fire department; make or cause to be made and repaired,
all necessary drains, sewers, culverts and bridges; for con-
trolling the erection and location of buildings, fences and stock
enclosures and to regulate the erection or repair of buildings
and grant permits therefor, specifying the material of which
same shall be built and purposes for which same is to be used;
establish building lines on any of the streets and alleys of said
town, beyond which no structure can be erected; prevent and
regulate the storage of gunpowder, oil or other combustible
matter in such quantities and in such places as they may deem
proper; regulate the speed of horses, vehicles, motor cycles,
automobiles, cars and locomotives in the town limits; regulate
the maintenance of proper safety appliances by railroads at
street crossings and the stopping of trains thereon; provide for
the restraining or regulation of theatricals or other public
amusements within said town; regulate the construction and
maintenance of exits from places of amusement and all public
buildings; regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in,
under or above the same and may require the owner or occu-
pant of premises to keep the sidewalks in front of same and the
gutters thereof free from snow and other obstructions, and pre-
scribe hours for cleaning same; regulate or prevent the throw-
ing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills,
dirty liquids or any other offensive or objectionable material