EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1379

highways, lanes or alleys, drains or water courses, or in ox
upon any lot adjacent thereto, and to provide for imposing a
fine upon any person causing, creating or maintaining any
such nuisance or obstruction, to remove or cause to be removed
houses or other structures or objects that may be dangerous to
property, health or persons passing along or over any of the
highways of the town or residing in the neighborhood thereof,
to make and establish grades upon the streets and highways
of the town, to cause sidewalks along the public streets of
said town to be graded, paved or repaired, curb to be set and
gutters to be laid, to cause the water courses, drains or sewers
to be paved, kept in repair and cleaned; to control and pro-
tect the public grounds and property of the town; to establish
and regulate a station house or lock-up for confinement of vio-
lators of the law and ordinances of the town, provided, that
the county jail shall be used for such purposes until said
commissioners shall deem it advisable to establish and regulate
said station house or lock-up; to levy a tax and impose a license
on dogs or other animals running at large; to prevent horses,
cattle, sheep and swine from running at large in the streets
of said town, and to regulate and control all offensive trades,
manufactures and traffics in offensive fertilizer or other com-
modities, and to prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses within
the town limits, and for the purpose of carrying out the fore-
going powers, and for the preservation of the peace, health and
cleanliness and good order of the community, and for the pro-
tection of the lives and property of the citizens, and to suppress,
abate or discontinue, or to cause to be suppressed or discon-
tinued, all nuisances within the corporate limits of said town,
they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary, and to insure the observation of such ordinances in
addition to an action of debt or such other civil remedies as
may exist in such cases by law for the recovering of the penal-
ties thereunto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable
fines not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may
appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine im-
posed they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender,
not exceeding thirty days, or until the fine is paid.

13. Whenever said commissioners shall by ordinance direct
that any street, alley or sidewalk within the limits to be opened,
widened, narrowed, piked, paved, repaired, extended, stopped
up or discontinued, in whole or in part, they shall upon a
certain day to be named in said ordinance, and within three
days, inclusive of the day of meeting, proceed to ascertain