ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  647

nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum or gasoline
or any product thereof, or any other explosive or combustible
materials, or any materials which may be dangerous; to author-
ize the removal or confinement of persons having infectious or
pestilential diseases; to pass all ordinances and orders, and to
expend such sums of money as may be necessary within the
limitations herein provided for the protection, maintenance and
preservation of the water supply of the town and the preven-
tion of the pollution thereof; to make all regulation which may
be deemed expedient for the promotion of health or suppres-
sion of disease; to regulate the construction of chimneys, smoke
stacks, hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves and stove pipes,
boilers and apparatus used in buildings or other places, and
cause the same to be removed or made secure when considered
dangerous; to suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy houses
and houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit the youth of said town
from being in the streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable hours
of the night; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by
imposing fines or both fines and imprisonment at hard labor,
and to abate by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said
town, which are so defined at common law, whether the same
are herein specifically named or not; to regulate the use of
sidewalks and all structures in, under or over the same; to
require the owner or occupant of premises to keep the side-
walks in front of the same free from snow and other obstruc-
tions and prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and
prevent the throwing or depositing of sweepings, dust or ashes,
offal or dirt, garbage, paper, hand-bills, dirty liquids or any
other materials into any street, alley or public place; to regu-
late and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public places
for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, poles, horse
troughs, steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting handbills and
advertisement and display of goods, wares and merchandise;
to cause the streets, lanes and alleys to be sidewalked, paved,
graded, curbed, repaired, repaved, regraded, recurbed, drained
or sewered, or to close streets or parts of streets, lanes or alleys;
to assess and tax the expenses of paving, grading, curbing or
repairing, re-grading, repaying or recurbing the sidewalks or
streets of said town, in whole or in part, upon the respective
owners of property fronting thereon, that the expense and cost
of paving, grading, curbing or repairing, degrading, repaying
or recurbing or otherwise improving the sidewalks or streets in.
said town, incurred by the Council under its ordinances, may