PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 995

private, necessary in establishing same; to establish a water
system with the powers of condemnation aforesaid in establish-
ing same, for supplying water for all municipal purposes, or
to contract with any water company for supplying water for
said purposes; to employ all labor, and authorize the bailiff to
do so, that may be necessary, and to make all contracts for
public improvement, and to fix the price to be paid for same.
The Commissioners shall have power to make such by-laws and
pass such ordinances, not contrary to law, and in conformity
with this charter, as they may deem necessary for the good
government of the town and the inhabitants thereof; to prevent,
remove and abate all nuisances and obstructions in or upon the
streets, sidewalks, highways, lanes, alleys, drains, waterways
or sewers, or in or upon any lot, and to provide for imposing
a fine upon any persen causing or creating such .nuisances or
obstructions; and to establish a building line; to grant permits
for all buildings and to have power to remove, or order the
removal of any building that may be a nuisance, or that may
have been erected, contrary to any ordinance heretofore passed
or hereafter to be passed, or that may endanger any building
contiguous thereto in case of fire, or to enact ordinances and im-
pose fines for the enforcement of these provisions; to establish
grades upon the streets, alleys, gutters and sidewalks of said
town and prescribe the width thereof and the material of which
they shall be built; to cause the sidewalks along said public
streets to be graded, repaired, improved or paved, and in the
case of paving said sidewalks or putting down concrete, cement
or other similar sidewalks, to assess one-half of the cost of doing
same against the abutting property owners, said charge to be a
lien against said property and to be collectible as taxes are col-
lectible under this charter; to provide for and regulate licenses,
or permits for all exhibitions and shows within said corporation,
or to prohibit or restrain them; and to regulate and provide for
a tax on dogs and bitches; and to. provide for and prevent
the running at large of all horses, cattle, hogs, geese, chickens,
and other fowl, upon the streets or within the limits of said
town; to provide by ordinance for condemning laying out, open-
ing, extending and making new streets, or alleys, and for alter-
ing, straightening, widening, grading, improving or closing up,
in whole or in part any existing street or alley, and for removing
trees, posts and other obstructions, and for laying out public
squares, drains, water-courses and sewers, and all benefits or
damage done, suffered or incurred by the laying out, opening and