ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1285

vide for and regulate licenses or permits for all exhibitions
and shows within said town, or to prohibit and restrain them,
and to prohibit and restrain gambling and games of chance
of all kinds; to regulate and to provide for a tax on dogs; to
provide for and prevent the running at large of all horses,
cattle, hogs, geese, chickens and other fowl upon the streets
or within the limits of said town; to provide by ordinance
for condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making
new streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening,
grading, improving, closing up in whole or in part any exist-
ing street or alley, and for removing trees, posts and other ob-
structions, and for laying out public squares, drains, water
courses; and all benefits or damages done, suffered or incurred
by the laying out, opening and making of new streets or al-
leys, or by altering, straightening, widening, grading, improv-
ing, or closing up in whole or in part any existing street or
alley, or laying out of public squares, drains and water courses,
shall be determined and assessed by three disinterested per-
sons, residents of said town, appointed by the Mayor and ap-
proved by the Council, who shall, within ten days after ratifi-
cation of their appointment, take an oath before a Justice of
the Peace of Worcester County, that they will faithfully and
fairly, and without partiality or prejudice, value and assess
the loss and damages to be suffered and incurred by any per-
son or persons interested in the said property, over, through
and by which the said street or alley, square, drain or water-
way is to be opened, closed, extended, widened, graded or im-
proved, and also to estimate the benefits that may accrue there-
from to any such property, over, through and by which the
said street or alley, square, drain or waterway is to be opened,
closed, extended, widened, graded or improved, or any prop-
erty adjacent thereto, or any other property injured or bene-
fited by said street, alley, square, drain or waterway; they
shall receive at least ten days' notice in one or more newspa-
pers published in said town of their purpose to lay out, open
extend, close up, widen, straighten, grade or improve the street
or alley, square, drain or waterway so directed to be laid out,
opened, extended, closed up, widened, straightened, graded or
improved, and the day, hour and place of meeting for the said
purpose, and they shall meet at the time and place mentioned
in the notice given by them, and proceed to exercise the powers
and perform the duty assigned to and required of them, and to
ascertain whether any and what amount of value of damages
will be caused thereby, for which the owner or occupant of any
right or interest claimed in any ground or improvement, ought
to be compensated, over and above the amount in value of benefit
which will thereby accrue to such owner or occupant thereof,
and ascertain what amount in value of benefit will accrue to