ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 43

the owner or occupant of the premises to keep the sidewalks in
front of same and the gutters thereof free from snow and other
obstructions, and to prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regu-
late and prevent the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal,
garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or other material into
any street, alley or public place, or on any vacant lot in said
town; to prevent the erection of bill boards and advertising
signs on any vacant lot or premises in said town; to license all
open waterclosets not connected with sewer and to prescribe
rules and regulations for removing the excrement therefrom;
to regulate or suppress slaughter houses and smoke houses in
said town, and to regulate canning houses within the corporate
limits, and to enforce the provisions of all such ordinances by
appropriate penalties; to regulate, restrain or prohibit the run-
ning at large of horses, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese
and chickens on any of the streets, lanes, alleys or highways of
said town; to regulate all stockyards, cattle pens, hog pens and
slaughter houses within the said town, or provide for their
removal from the corporate limits thereof; to regulate or pre-
vent the use of streets, sidewalks and public places for signs,
signposts, awnings, awning posts, posts, horse troughs, steps,
railings, entrances, rocks, posting handbills and advertisements
and display of goods, wares and merchandise; to grant fran-
chises and regulate the putting of sewers or drains on or under
its streets, alleys or highways and the charges for entering
same; to grant and regulate franchises to electric light com-
panies, power companies, gas companies, street railway com-
panies, water companies, telephone companies, telegraph com-
panies, sewer or drain companies, and any other which they
deem advantageous and beneficial to said town or the inhabi-
tants thereof, and to regulate the charges for services of such
companies as now possess or may hereafter obtain franchises
in said town; all such franchises shall be for a definite term of
years not exceeding twenty-five years, and be renewable at the
discretion of the Mayor and Council, and shall specifically set
out the nature, right and duration of same, and no power or
right not expressed in the franchise or grant shall pass there-
under; to establish and maintain public parks and playgrounds,
to control and protect the public grounds and property of the
town; to establish and regulate a station house or lockup for
temporary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances
of the town; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants; to
regulate the keeping of dogs in said town; to provide for pro-