gnant to law, as they shall judge to be most
conducive to their welfare.[64] They may make such by-laws to secure,
among other things, the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks by
the owners of adjoining estates; to prevent the pasturing of cattle
or other animals in the highways; to regulate the driving of sheep,
swine, and neat cattle over the public ways; to regulate the
transportation of the offal of slaughtered cattle, sheep, hogs, and
other animals along the roads; to prohibit fast driving or riding on
the highways; to regulate travel over bridges; to regulate the
passage of carriages or other vehicles, and sleds used for coasting,
over the public ways; to regulate and control itinerant musicians
who frequent the streets and public places; and to regulate the
moving of buildings in the highways. Many people are inclined to
make the highway the receptacle for the surplus stones and rubbish
around their premises, and to use the wayside for a lumber and wood
yard; and some farmers are in the habit of supplying their hog-pens
and barn cellars with loam and soil dug out of the highway.

[64] Pub. St. c. 27, Sec. 15, and c. 53; 97 Mass. 221.

Again, some highway surveyors have very little taste for rural
beauty, and show very poor judgment, and perhaps now and then a
little spite, in ploughing up the green grass by the roadside and
sometimes in front of houses. These evils can be remedied by every
town which will pass suitable by-laws upon the subject and see that
they are enforced. Such by-laws might provide that no one should be
allowed to deposit within the limits of the highway any stones,
brush, wood, rubbish, or other substance inconvenient to public
travel; that no one should be permitted to dig up and carry away any
loam or soil within the limits of the highway; and that no highway
surveyor should be allowed to dig or plough up the greensward in
front of any dwelling-house, or other building used in connection
therewith, without the written direction or consent of the
selectmen.

CHAPTER XIV.

USE OF HIGHWAYS BY ADJOINING OWNERS.

The owner of land adjoining a highway ordinarily owns to the middle of
the road; and while he has the same rights as the public therein, he
also has, in addition thereto, certain other rights incident to the
ownership of the land over which the road passes. When land is taken
for a highway, it is taken for all the present and prospective purposes
for which a publi