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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

proper and suitable lights on the streets ; for establishing, main-

taining and regulating an adequate police force; to regulate

the management and location of starch factories, glue factories,

renderies, tallow chandlers, bone factories, soap factories, hide

houses, tanneries, slaughter houses, breweries, distillers, livery

stables, founderies, and all other establishments of which the

business or trade may become obnoxious or injurious to public

comfort and health ; to prohibit the erection of such buildings,

or the continuance of such noxious occupation therein ; when-

ever the public health requires it ; to prevent or regulate the

use of fire-arms, fireworks, bonfires or other things or practices

use of fiearms, fireworks, bonfires or other things or practices

tending to endanger persons or property ; to regulate or pro-

Prohibiting

hibit the running at large of cattle, horses, swine, fowls, sheep,

running at
large of cat

goats, dogs or other animals ; to authorize the impounding,

tie, etc.

keeping, sale and redemption of such animals when found in

violation of the ordinance in such cases provided ; to prevent

the deposit of any unwholesome substance either on public or

private property ; to compel its removal to designated points,

and to require slops, garbage, ashes and other waste or un-

wholesome material to be removed to designated points, or to

require the occupants or residents on premises to place them

conveniently for removal ; to compel the occupants of any

premises, buildings, or outhouses, situated in said city, when

the same have been filthy or unwholesome, to abate or clean the

same ; to authorize the same to be done, by the proper officers

and to assess the expense thereon against such property; to

regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch,

resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycer-

ine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum, gasoline, or gas, or

Preventing
storage of

any product thereof, or any other explosive or combustible

explosives,
etc.

material or materials which may seem to be dangerous ; to

authorize the removal or confinement of such persons having

infectious or pestilential diseases ; to pass all ordinances and

orders, and to expend such sums of money as may be necessary

within the limitations therein provided for the protection,

maintenance and preservation of the water supply of the city

and the prevention of the pollution thereof; to regulate the

selling, weighing or measuring of hay, wood, coal, coke 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 expedient for the promotion of health or suppres-

sion of disease ; to regulate the construction of chimneys, smoke

stacks, hearths, ovens, and the erection of stoves and stove

pipes, boilers and apparatus used in buildings or other places