HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1283
the public streets and highways of the town to be graded,
paved, repaired or made, and curbs to be set, at the cost
and expense of the abutting property or the owner thereof,
which cost and expense shall be a lien upon the abutting
property in favor of the Mayor and Council until paid, and
such lien may be enforced by distraints and sale in the
same manner as the collection of corporate taxes are en-
forced, or the Mayor and Council may, by fine or other-
wise, compel the owner or proprietor of any lot or lots to
pave or repave the sidewalks or footways of any street
adjacent to said lot or lots and to set curbs along the same,
agreeably to the ordinances now in force in said town, or
that may hereafter be passed in relation thereto; (15) to
cause the streets, ways 'and alleys, the watercourses, drains,,
sewers and gutters to be macadamized or paved, kept in
repair and cleaned; (16) to control and protect the public
buildings, grounds and property of the town; (17) to estab-
lish, enact, erect, maintain and regulate a station house or
lockup in s!aid town for the confinement of violators of the
law and ordinance thereof, also such other buildings for
municipal purposes as they may deem necessary and
proper; (18) to levy a tax and impose a license on dogs
and bitches and to prevent horses, cattle, goats, swine, dogs
and fowls from running at large in the streets of the town
and through the vacant buildings and lots thereof; (19) to
regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures
and traffic in offensive fertilizers and other commodities;
(20) to prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses within the
limits of the town; (21) to require a license or permit to
be applied for and obtained by the parties or persons here-
inafter mentioned, and to fix the amounts for said, license
and permits, and to prescribe the penalties to be imposed
for failure to procure the license or permits and pay for
the same. The money paid for any and all such licenses
and permits required by ordinance and issued under the
order of the Mayor and Council shall belong to them for
the corporate purposes of the town. The Mayor and Council
may, by and under ordinance, require the following parties
or persons, whether individuals, firms, associations or in-
corporated bodies, to apply for and obtain license or per-
mit to wit: a, All parties or persons who hawk, peddle,
huckster or vend any marketable commodities, wares or
merchandise or any description upon or along the streets,
alleys or thoroughfares of Brunswick; provided, that no
license shall be required of the producer, grower or the
manufacturer of such marketable commodities, b. All
persons who go from house to house, or place to place, in
said town to sell or dispose of any wares, merchandise,
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