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Session Laws, 1916
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EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 10G5

each receive a sum not exceeding two dollars per annum,
provided that any person shall have the right to donate to the
town their services whenever they see proper so to do.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said council shall
have power to pass all such other ordinances not contrary to
the constitution or laws of this state as it may deem necessary
for the good government of the town; for the protection and
preservation of the town property, rights and privileges; for the
preservation, of the peace and good order; and securing persons
from violence, danger and destruction; for the protection of
the health, comfort and convenience of the citizens of said
town and visitors thereto or sojourners there; for providing
for proper and suitable lights on the streets; for establishing,
maintaining and regulating an adequate police force; to regu-
late the management and location of livery stables, barns,
garages, outhouses or privies and hog pens, and such other
establishments of which the business, trade or location may
become obnoxious or injurious to the public comfort or health;
to prohibit the erection of such buildings, the continuance of
obnoxious occupations therein whenever the public health re-
quires it; to prevent and regulate the use of firearms therein,
fireworks, bonfires or other things or practices tending to en-
danger persons or property; to regulate or prohibit the run-
ning at large of cattle, horses, swine, fowls, sheep, goats, hogs
or other animals; to authorize the impounding, keeping, sale
and redemption of such animals when found in violation of
the ordinances in such cases provided; to prevent the deposit
of any unwholesome substance either on public or. private
property, to compel its removal to designated points, and to
require slop, ashes and other waste or unwholesome material
to be removed to designated points, or to require the occu-
pants or residents on premises to place them conveniently for
removal; to compel the occupants of any premises, buildings
or outhouses situate in said town when the same has become
filthy or unwholesome to abate or clean the same; to authorize
the same to be done by the proper officers and to assess the
expenses thereon against such property; to authorize the re-
moval or confinement of such persons having infectious or
pestilential diseases; to regulate the selling, weighing or meas-
uring of hay, wood, coke, coal, and all other articles sold by
weight and measure, and to provide for their inspection and
selling; to make all regulations which may be deemed expedi-
ent for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease;

 

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