HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1403

16. The Mayor and Council of Hurlock shall have full
power to make and pass all such by-laws, regulations and
ordinances not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws
of this State, as from time to time they may deem wise, equi-
table and expedient for the good order, comfort, health and
convenience of the said town and its inhabitants; for the pre-
vention and removal of nuisances; for the preservation of
health, for the protection of the lives and limbs of the in-
habitants 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
thoroughfares 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 waterworks or
other public enterprise involving the use of the said streets,
alleys, lanes or other thoroughfares.

And the Mayor and Council of said town shall have full
power 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,
including poles, wires, and phones already in the town of
Hurlock, and said Mayor and Council 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 and proper
service.

And the said Mayor and Council 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.

And the said Mayor and Council shall be and they are here-
by authorized and empowered to borrow money on negotiable
paper, provided that the sum so borrowed shall not exceed
the sum of eight thousand ($8, 000. 00) dollars; to forbid and
prevent nuisances; to define and describe what shall be a
nuisance 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
health of the people thereof, or of any considerable number
of same, and to prescribe and appoint means for removing any
nuisance or nuisances and to enforce the use of such means
and to prescribe penalties for a refusal or failure to remove
any nuisance after the said Mayor and Council have ordered
the removal thereof; to restrain all disorder, disturbances,
annoyances, disorderly conduct and drunkenness within the