ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 789

Ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of
this State, as from time to time they may deem wise, equitable
and expedient for the good order, comfort, health and con-
venience of the said town and its inhabitants; for the preven-
tion and removal of nuisances; for the preservation of health,
for the protection of the lives and limbs of the inhabitants of
the said town and of persons temporarily therein and for the
suppression of vice and immorality within the said limits: and.
they shall have full power to grant permits and franchises
for the use of the streets, lanes, alleys, and other thorough-
fa'res of Hurlock by telephone, telegraph, electric light and
other wires and poles in, over and upon, or pipes under the
same, for the purpose of installing a system of gas or electric
or other lights, or power, or of water-works or other public
enterprise involving the use of the said streets, alleys, lanes or
other thoroughfares.

And the Commissioners of said town shall have full p6wer
at their discretion to charge a reasonable sum for the use of
said streets, lanes and alleys, and to levy a tax on all poles,
wires, pipes and other property connected therewith, includ-
ing poles, wires and phones already in the Town of Hurlock,
and said Commissioners shall require of any person, company-
or corporation who may be granted a permit or franchise for-
the use of said streets, alleys or lanes, a bond which shall
guarantee to the Town of Hurlock good service.

And the said Commissioners shall have the right to levy a
tax not exceeding in any one year one hundred and ten
cents, on the one hundred dollars on the taxable property
within said corporation limits, to be applied to carrying out
the purposes of said corporation. They shall be entitled to
appoint, as soon as may be convenient after each regular elec-
tion, a town bailiff, who shall hold till the next election unless
sooner removed by the Commissioners and if a vacancy occurs
in the office of town bailiff, they may fill the same.

And the said Commissioners shall be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow money on negotiable
papers, provided that the sum so borrowed shall not exceed
the sum of six thousand ($6,000) dollars; to forbid and pre-
vent nuisances; to define and describe what shall be a nuis-
ance and to declare any existing thing within said town, or-
within a radius of one mile of the corporate limits thereof
to be a nuisance which prejudices, or is liable to prejudice, the