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any kind, arid from erecting buildings thereon, and to provide
penalties for violations thereof.

(4) To regulate party walls and division fences.

(5) To restrain and prohibit by ordinance all gambling or
gaming, and the keeping of gambling houses or tables therein,
and to prescribe penalties for any such act.

(6) To erect and regulate markets and to make all proper
by-laws and ordinances in relation thereto.

(7) To establish and regulate fire companies, and, by or-
dinance, to prescribe precautions and safeguards against fire,
and to define and appoint the parts and sections of the town
to which measures of precaution, ap- well as means for extin-
guishing fire, shall apply.

(8) To keep in repair sidewalks, gutters and roadways of
the streets, lanes, alleys, and thoroughfares of said town.

(9) To regulate the terms and conditions upon which the
public water supply and public sewers of the said town may
be used and: to establish a system of charges for the use there-
of, and to appoint such officers and employees as may be nec-
essary to conduct and manage the business of the town water-
works, and to provide by ordinance for the protection of
buildings, machinery, water pipes, hydrant, water plugs,
stand-pipe and other property belonging to or connected with
the public water supply, and also for the protection of the
public water supply of said town against pollution, obstruc-
tion and wastes and to enforce all ordinances by reasonable
penalties.

(10) To provide by ordinance for arresting and committing
to the lockup or to the county jail of any vagrant or drunken
person who may appear on any of the streets, lanes, alleys, or
thoroughfares or any place of public resort in said town, and
any common disturber of the peace, and by ordinance to pun-
ish all profane, indecent and obscene language in the hearing
or in the presence of other persons within the corporate limits.

(11) To declare and adjudge by order entered in the min-
ute book any encroachment and continuing obstruction of any
of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said town to be
a public nuisance and to order the same to be corrected or re-
moved at the expense of the parties or persons who brought
about or placed the encroachment or obstruction thereon or
who uses or takes advantage thereof or who are responsible
for the continuance thereof or who by their connection there-
with are the parties or persons who ought to correct or re-