ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 287

town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers
who may go from house to house to sell or vend any wares or
merchandise, to issue licenses to any and all persons entering
or beginning transit business in said town for the sale of
goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for the
issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense medi-
cines or medical advises; they shall also have power to demand
a license from all players or showmen exhibiting within said
corporation of the corporate limits of the said town, and pro-
vide for the licensing of such players and showmen, and to
provide for licensing theatres, and to regulate and restrain
theatricals or other public amusements within said town; to
regulate, license and tar restaurants. To regulate, license
and tax all livery stables or garages within said town, and all
hackney carriages, omnibuses or the other vehicles used for
the carriage or transportation of freight or merchandise, or
persons and all carts or other vehicles which ply for hire; to
levy a tax and to impose a license on dogs, and to impose a
license on all gas companies, water companies, telephone and
telegraph companies, brokers, real estate and insurance com-
panies and agencies located or doing business in said town;
and to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any public
sales within the corporate limits of said town, provided that
no greater sum than five dollars be charged for any one
license; and to regulate and control all offensive trades and
manufactures, and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other com-
modities within the town limits; they shall also have power to
provide for laying out, opening, extending, widening, straight-
ening or closing up, in whole or in. part, any street, highway,
promenade, square, lane, alley, drain, or any watercourse
within the bounds of said town which, in their opinion, public
convenience or improvement may require. They shall also
have power to grant, reject or annul any franchise to any
water company desiring to bring water into said town, and to
establish waterworks and shall have power to own. build or
to contract with any water company to furnish water for
public purposes for said town; they shall also have power to
provide for the codification of all ordinances which have been
or which may hereafter be passed by the Mayor and Commis-
sioners; and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing
powers, and for the preservation of the cleanliness, health,
peace and good government and good order of the town, and