EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 983

minute book and served on the owner, reputed owner or con-
trolling occupant of the premises where the animal is kept, and
to direct such animal to be killed or to be sent out of the town,
if not immediately removed on receiving notice of such ordery
and also to prescribe penalties for keeping such dangerous
beasts in the town after such notice. (13) To regulate, re-
strain or prohibit by ordinance the running at large of horses,
bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and chickens on any of
the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of the said town, and
to prescribe penalties for violating such ordinance, and to for-
bid or regulate the keeping of swine in said town, and to pro-
vide penalties for violation of such ordinances. (14) To reg-
ulate and prescribe by ordinance, as a protection against fire,
whether houses built or erected in said town shall be built of
wood or other material, and to prescribe in what parts and
sections thereof buildings of wood may be erected, and in what
part or sections of the same buildings of wood shall not be
erected, and to prescribe penalties for violating said ordi-
nance. (15) To require by ordinance that every person or
party who wishes or proposes to erect any building in said
town to make a written application to the Mayor and Council
for a permit to erect the same before beginning work thereon
and in such application to set forth the location, character,
materials, purposes and uses of said building, and to require
every such person before beginning work on the erection of
any building in said town to obtain a permit, printed or writ-
ten, signed by the town clerk, or the order of the Mayor and
Council, and entered in the minute book, and to require a
reasonable fee for issuing such permit, and to prescribe pen-
alties for erecting or beginning to erect any building without
such permit. (16) To provide by ordinance for taking down
and removing any building of wood erected in any part or
section of town in violation of any ordinance wherein the erec-
tion of a building of wood are forbidden. (17) To prevent by
ordinance breaches or violations of the Lord's Day, commonly
called Sunday, so as to forbid traffic, barter or sale in all com-
modities except medicines, milk and ice, and to prohibit un-
seemly amusements, games, exhibitions and entertainments on
that day, and to prescribe penalties for violation of such ordi-
nance. (18) To provide by ordinance for establishing a build-
ing line for the erection of buildings on the streets, alleys,
lanes and thoroughfares of said town, or by order, in case of
particular business. (19) To preserve peace and order with-