ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 939

description upon the streets or highways of the said town, and
to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may
go from house to house to sell or to vend any wares or mer-
chandise ; to issue license to any and to all persons entering
or beginning transient business in said town for the sale of
goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for the
issuing of license to all traveling persons who dispense medi-
cines or medical advices; they shall also have power to de-
mand a license from all players or showmen exhibiting within

said corporation or the corporate limits of the said town;
and provide for the licensing such players and showmen, and
to provide for licensing theatres, and to regulate and restrain
theatrical or other public amusements within said town; to
regulate, license and tax restaurants, breweries, and all other
places where malt, spirituous, vinous and fermented liquors
are sold: to regulate, license and tax all livery stables within
said town, and all hackney carriages, omnibuses or the other
vehicles used in said town for the carriage of passengers, all
vehicles used for the carriage or transportation of freight or
merchandise, 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, tele-
phone and telegraph companies, brokers, real estate and insur-
ance companies and agencies locating 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 ten 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,
square, lane, alley, drain, or any watercourse within the bounds
of said town which, in their opinion, public convenience may
require. They shall also have power to grant a franchise to
any water company desiring to bring water into said town,
and to establish water works therein, and to contract with
any water company to furnish water for public purposes for
said town; they shall also have power to provide for the codi-
fication of all ordinances which have been or which may here-
after be passed by the Burgess and Commissioners: and for
the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and for the
preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good govern-
ment and good order of the town, and for protection of tbe