EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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17A. That the Mayor and Council shall have power to pass

Powers of

all necessary by-laws and ordinances for the following purposes,

Mayor and
Council.

in addition to those enumerated in Section 17, namely, to estab-

lish a local Board of Health, to establish pest houses within

or without the limits of the town, to establish and regulate a

lockup or station house for the temporary confinement of vio-

lators of the law, to suppress vagrancy, to regulate the sale and

storage of explosives and combustible materials within the

town, to provide for the codification and publication of the or-

dinances of the town, to fix and establish the salaries, com-

pensation or pay of those officers or employees of the town

whose salaries are not now fixed by law, to regulate or sup-

press the keeping of hog pens within the town or any part

thereof, to regulate or suppress slaughter bouses and smoke

houses within the town, to regulate canning houses within the

corporate limits, to regulate the speed of locomotives and rail-

road trains within the corporate limits, and of carriages,

wagons, carts, bicycles and automobiles upon the streets, lanes

and alleys ; to regulate and control generally the use of the

streets of the town by telegraph lines, telephone lines, electric

light or electric power lines, electric subways, and gas or water

conduits, and impose a reasonable annual license or tax for

police regulation and supervision upon all telephone, telegraph,

electric light and electric power poles erected upon, or here-

after to be erected upon, the streets of the town ; and all cable

subways or conduits placed in said streets; and no individual

or corporation shall use any street, public lane or public alley

of said town for any telegraph, telephone, electric light or elec-

tric power poles or lines, or for any subway or conduit, without

the consent of the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City first

had and obtained by ordinance for that purpose passed and ap-

proved ; and any such pole or line, subway or conduit placed

Shall be

upon, in or under any of the streets, lanes or public alleys of

deemed a

said town without such consent of the Mayor and Council

nuisance.

shall be deemed a nuisance.

17B. That the Mayor and Council are authorized to pass

such ordinances as may be necessary to regulate the terms and

Regulating the

conditions upon which the public water supply and public

by ordinance.

sewers of said town may be used, and to establish a system of

charges for the use thereof, to be known as water rents and

sewer rents; to appoint such officers and employees as may be

necessary to conduct and manage the business of said water

works, and to provide by ordinances for the protection of the

buildings, machinery, pipes, fire plugs, standpipes, hydrants

and other property belonging to or connected with said water