approval of plans and specifications therefor be secured; and to provide for inspection of such construction and repair, including the appointment of one or more building inspectors; to prescribe limits wherein none but buildings of incombustible materials and fire-proof roofs shall be erected or substantially reconstructed or removed thereinto; and to provide penalties for violation of such ordinance and building regulations. Any building erected, reconstructed, or removed, contrary to the provisions of such ordinance, is declared to be a public nuisance, and abatable as such.

58 "Section 2. All such building regulation and inspection ordinances, heretofore enacted by boroughs, are hereby validated, as being lawfully within their police powers.

59 "Section 3. All acts or part of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed."

60 Act of 1907, P. L., 203. "Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the passage of this act, the town council of all boroughs now incorporated in this Commonwealth, or that may hereafter be incorporated, are hereby authorized and empowered to pass such ordinance as may be necessary to regulate and prevent the erection of any wooden dwelling-houses, shops, warehouses, stores, carriage-houses, stables, or other frame tenement within the limits of the respective boroughs."

61 VIII. To enter upon the lands and premises of any person or persons, for the purposes authorized by this Act, by themselves and their duly appointed officers and agents.

62 IX. To prohibit and otherwise regulate the running at large of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, geese, dogs, and other animals, and to authorize their seizure and sale for the benefit of the borough.

63 X. To authorize and direct the killing of dogs running at large, contrary to the regulations of the borough.

64 XI. To make all needful regulations respecting markets and market days, the hawking and peddling of market produce, and other articles in the borough, and for the inspection

and measurement of weight of cord wood, hay, coal, and other articles sold or offered for sale in the borough.

65 By Act of 1887, P. L. 93, a borough may regulate and license persons or firms engaged in the business of auctioneering goods, etc., said license to be in addition to all other licenses now required by law.

66 Act of 1889, P. L. 159, provides for the licensing of transient retail merchants at from twenty-five dollars to two hundred dollars per month or fractional part thereof to be regulated by ordinance.

67 A license fee may be imposed for soliciting orders, but must apply to residents and non-residents alike, 194 Pa. 609, 148 Pa. 482. The peddling of garden, farm and dairy products, not the products of one's own garden or farm, may be prohibited, 123 Pa. 106. But license fee must not be unreasonable or oppressive. 14 Lanc. L. Rev. 12. But no license fee can be exacted from agent of non-residents manufacturers or dealers who ship goods into the state after orders are taken. 153 U. S. 289, reversing 143 Pa. 642.

68 Act of 1903, P.L., 258.-"Be it enacted, etc., That after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any borough or city of this Commonwealth to levy or collect any money or tax, as a license fee, from any farmer who sells his own products in or about the streets of any borough or city of this Commonwealth.

69 "Section 2. Any and all acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed."

70 Act of 1901, P. L. 563.-"Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That hereafter any county treasurer of the respective counties of this Commonwealth is hereby authorized to issue a license to any person or persons to hawk, peddle, or sell, within the county where such license is granted, clothing, dry goods, notions, crockery and tinware, other than their own manufacturing product; and each person so applying for and taking out a license, shall pay to such county treasurer, yearly, as follows, to-wit: The sum of ten dollars for each person hawking, peddling or selling, where the same is done on foot or by traveling without any conveyance, for the sale of such goods, and the

sum of forty dollars for the hawking, peddling and selling of such goods, wares or merchandise, where a horse and carriage, or any vehicle, is used in carrying on the business of hawking, peddling or selling goods, wares and merchandise, aforesaid: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply to any person or persons, nor alter existing laws, in the hawking, peddling or selling goods, wares and merchandise, where the manufacturer or producer hawks, peddles or sells his own manufactured goods or products: Provided, further, That nothing in this act shall apply to an act, entitled 'An act to permit disabled soldiers to peddle by procuring a license therefor, without charge,' approved the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred sixty seven, extending such privilege to all soldiers, sailors, and marines who are unable to procure a livlihood by manual labor, approved the ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one: Provided also, That this act shall not apply to any boroughs, townships or counties of this State where, under existing laws, hawking and peddling is entirely prohibited by law."

71 "Section 2. Any person hawking, peddling or selling goods, wares or merchandise, without obtaining the license aforesaid and in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of the peace, in and for the respective counties, shall be sentenced to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail of the proper county for a period of not less than three months nor more than one year, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court. Every person or persons, granted a license under the provisions of this act, who refuses to exhibit said license upon request of any citizen of this State, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered according to law.

72 "Section 3. This act shall not affect cities of the first, second and third classes, nor any existing local or special laws now in force."

73 Act of 1889, P. L. 39. "The town council of each borough now incorporated in this Commonwealth, or that may here

after be incorporated, shall have power to enact ordinances establishing reasonable rates of license tax on all hacks, carriages, omnibuses and other vehicles used to carry persons or property for pay, and limit the compensation for the same within the limits of the said borough.

74 "That said ordinance shall be enforced as other borough ordinances are by law enforced, and the license tax shall be collected as other licenses, taxes, fines and penalties are now authorized by law to be collected."

75 XII. To regulate annually the scales, weights, and measures within the borough, according to the standard of the Commonwealth.

76 XIII. To prohibit and remove any obstructions in the highways of the borough, and any nuisance or offensive matter, whether in the highways or in public or private ground, and to require the removal of the same by the owner or occupiers of such grounds, in default of which the corporation may cause the same to be done, and collect the cost thereof with twenty per centum advance thereon, in the manner provided herein for the costs of pavements made by the corporation.

77 Act of 1901, P. L. 569.-"Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the burgess and town council of any borough of this Commonwealth, upon the petition of a majority of the property owners upon any public street thereof, may by ordinance require the planting and replanting of suitable shade-trees along and upon either side of any such street, upon such alignment and at such points as may by such ordinance be designated, by the owner or owners of property abutting on the street at the points designated; and on failure of any such owner or owners after reasonable notice, to comply with the terms of any such ordinances, the said authorities may cause such trees to be planted or replanted at the expense of the borough; and thereupon, in the name of the borough, collect such expense from the owner or owners in default, as debts of like amount are by law collectible. Provided, That the said authorities shall not require the planting

or replanting of trees at any point or points which may interfere with the necessary or reasonable use of any street or abutting property, or interfere unreasonably with any business thereon conducted."

78 XIV. To prohibit within the borough the carrying on of any manufacture, art, trade or business which may be noxious or offensive to the inhabitants; the manufacture, sale or exposure of fire-works or other inflammable or dangerous articles, and to limit and prescribe the quantities that may be kept in one place of gunpowder, fire works, turpentine, and other inflammable articles, and to prescribe such other safeguards as may be necessary.

79 Act of 1903, P. L. 198. "Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That six months after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person to discharge on the streets or alleys, of any city or borough in this commonwealth, a flobert rifle, air gun, spring gun, or any implement which impels with force a metel pellet of any kind.

80 "Section 2. Any person violating this act shall be arrested, and fined in the sum of five dollars before any committing magistrate; and for the second offense, shall be fined in the sum of fifteen dollars, and may undergo an imprisonment in the county jail for a period not less than ten days and not exceeding thirty days, the person so offending to pay all costs of prosecution."

80 a Act of 1905, P. L. 217, fixes the speed of automobiles at not more than a mile in six minutes. (Borough "regulations contrary to this act are void.)

81 XV. To make such regulations relative to accumulations of manure, compost, and the like, in barns, stable-yards, and other places, and to prohibit the keeping of hogs within the borough, or within such limits within the same, as they may prescribe.

82 The maintenance of a pig-pen within the limits of a borough, especially if near the built up portions, may be prohibited as a nuisance. 24, C. C. 442.

83 The borough may prohibit the carrying on of any nox