2706 ARTICLE 12.

the occupants of any premises, buildings or outhouses situate in said town
when the same has become filthy or unwholesome to abate or clean the
same; to authorize the same to be done by the proper officers and to assess
the expenses thereon against such property; to authorize the removal or
confinement of such persons having infectious or pestilential diseases; to
regulate the selling, weighing or measuring of hay, wood, coke, coal, and
all other articles sold by weight and measure, and to provide for their
inspection and selling; to make all regulations which may be deemed
exedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease; to
regulate the construction of chimneys and smokestacks and cause the same
to be made secure or removed when considered dangerous; to suppress,
restrain and regulate bawdy-houses or houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit
the youth of said town from being on the streets, lanes or alleys at unrea-
sonable hours at 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 expressly named or not; to
regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or above the
same, and to require the owner or occupant of premises to keep the side-
walk in front of same free from snow and other obstructions; to regulate
and prevent the throwing or depositing of sweepings, dust, ashes off fall-
ings, dirt, garbage, paper, dirty liquors or any other material into any
street, alley or other public place; to prevent the use of streets, sidewalks
and public places for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, poles, horse
troughs, steps and other obstructions; to cause the streets, lanes and alleys
to be sidewalked, paved, graded, repaired, repaved, regraded, drained or
sewered; to regulate and license the uses of coaches, hacks, drays, auto-
mobiles and other vehicles for the transportation of passengers, freight
or other articles to or from points within said town for hire or pay; to
regulate, license, tax; restrain or prohibit theatrical or other exhibitions,
shows or entertainments to which money is demanded or received, pro-
vided lectures on scientific, historic, benevolent, artistic or literary sub-
jects shall not be deemed to be within these provisions; to license vendors
of property on the streets or other public places in said town; to license,
tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit paupers and itinerant dealers, ped-
dlers and pawnbrokers; to license, tax, regulate and prohibit the keeping
of dogs, establish station house or lock-up for temporary confinement of
violators of the law and ordinances of the town; for the regulation and
handling of all kinds of explosives, for the prevention of gambling; to
assess and tax the expense of laying of sidewalks in said town in whole or
in part upon the respective owners of property footing thereon, and that
the expenses and costs of paving, repairing or otherwise improving the
sidewalks in said town incurred by the council under their ordinances may
be charged and recovered by them in the name of the corporation from
the owners of the property footing thereon by suit or action at law against
the owner thereof as other debts are collected, and the expense of the