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any person, persons or corporation, to erect and maintain a plant in said
town for furnishing light, power and heat, and to lay, erect, construct,
build and operate such lines of wire, tubes, posts, conductors and conduits,
along, under, upon or over the streets, avenues, sidewalks and squares of
said town, as may be necessary for the transmission of light, power or heat.

1908, ch. 664, sec. 203C (p. 999).

309. If the President and Commissioners of Princess Anne shall at
any time hereafter by virtue of competent authority sell the water works
system now owned and operated by the town of Princess Anne, then the
said President and Commissioners of Princess Anne be and they are here-
by authorized to contract with any person, persons or corporation to fur-
nish water for the protection of the property in said town against damage
and destruction by fire and to furnish lights for the streets, avenues and
squares of said town, upon such terms and for such length of time as may
be agreed upon.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 204. 1868, ch 318. 1894, ch. 543, sec. 204. 1916, ch. 154.

310. The President and Commissioners of Princess Anne shall have
power to pass all by-laws and ordinances not contrary to law, as they may
deem necessary for the good government of the town to preserve the health,
peace, safety and well being of the inhabitants and the protection of the
property thereof; to prevent and remove all nuisances and obstructions
from the streets, lanes and alleys, navigable waters, or wharves, and from
lots adjoining streets, or any other place within the limits of said town;
to restrain all disorder, disturbances, annoyances, disorderly conduct and
drunkenness therein, to suppress street walkers and bawdy houses; to pre-
vent firing of guns, cannons, pistols, rifles, sling-shots, firecrackers or other
fireworks or other explosives therein; to suppress fires and prevent the
dangers thereof; to establish and maintain a fire department; to establish
the distance buildings shall be erected from the inner curb of the street
line; to regulate the construction or repairing of buildings specifying the
materials of which same shall be built and the granting of permits for the
construction and repairing of buildings; and to require a reasonable fee
for issuing such permit; to direct in what part of the town wooden build-
ings shall not be erected or constructed; to prevent and regulate the storage
of gun-powder, oil or other combustible matter in. such quantities and in
such places as they may deem proper; to prevent obstructions on the
streets, lanes, alleys and highways of said city; to regulate the width of
tires of all vehicles used upon the streets, lanes, alleys and highways of
said town; to license, regulate and tax carts, wagons, carriages, motor
buses, and other vehicles used for transporting goods or persons for hire,
or burden or pleasure, and to license any such vehicle used for personal
service, and to provide and regulate the numbering of same; to regulate
the speed of horses, wheeled vehicles, bicycles, motor-cycles and automo-
biles in the town limits; to regulate and license all pawnbrokers, junk
dealers, fire and slaughter sales, auction sales, peddlers of nostrums, rem-
edies, medicines, notions, and other goods, patent, secret or pretended in-