EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 981

243. Besides the power and authority conferred upon the
Mayor and Council in the other sections of this sub-title of
this Article, the Mayor and Council shall have power and
authority to make such by-laws, and to pass such ordinances
not contrary to law and in conformity with this charter as
they may. deem necessary for the good government of said
town, for the following purposes, to wit: (1) To promote and
preserve the health of the town and the people thereof, and to
protect and safeguard the town generally and every section
thereof, and to protect and safeguard the property belonging
to the town as a corporate body as well as the property of the
residents thereof, and also to protect and safeguard persons
who are non-residents, and the property of such non-residents,
while they or their property are within said town. (2) To
forbid and prevent or remove and abate all nuisances and to
define and describe what shall be a nuisance, and to declare
any existing thing within said town to be a nuisance which
prejudices or is liable to prejudice the health of the people
thereof, or of any considerable number of the same, and to
prescribe and appoint means for removing any nuisance, and
to enforce the use of such means, and to prescribe penalties for
a refusal or failure to remove any nuisance after the Mayor
and Council have ordered the removal thereof. (3) To open,
build or construct and to enclose or keep open, and to regulate
and to keep in repair all necessary and useful drains and sew-
ers, and to demand and obtain for the policeman, employee,
workmen and laborers in the service of the town the right to
enter any private property and premises for the purpose of
improving the condition of any such drain or sewers; for open-
ing the same when they become closed or obstructed; to re-
build or repair them when they require rebuilding or repair-
ing, and also to provide penalties in the case of persons who
resist any employes, workmen, or laborers in the service of the
town, and to forbid and prevent any parties or persons from
obstructing such drains or from placing upon or over any drain
or sewer coal, wood, or any heavy mass of any kind, and from
erecting buildings thereon, and to provide penalties for viola-
tions thereof. (4) To regulate party walls and division
fences. (5) To restrain and prohibit by ordinance all gam-
bling or gaming, and the keeping of gambling houses or tables
therein, and to prescribe penalties for any such act. (6) To
erect and regulate markets and to make all proper by-laws and
ordinances in relation thereto. (7) To establish and regulate