904

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

all nuisances or obstructions in or upon the sidewalks, streets,

highways, lanes or alleys, drains or watercourses, or in or upon

any lot adjacent thereto, and to provide for imposing a fine

upon any person causing, creating or maintaining any such

nuisance or obstructions; (3) to open, close and widen streets,

lanes, roads and alleys within the limits of the town; (4) to

remove or cause to be removed or to render secure any house

or houses, building or other structures or objects that may be

dangerous to property, health, or to the life or to the limbs

of persons entering said house or building, or passing along

or over any of the highways of the town, or residing in the

neighborhood thereof; (5) to make reasonable regulations in

regard to buildings to be erected in said town; (6) to make

Establishing
street grades.

and establish grades upon the streets and highways of the

town; (7) to cause sidewalks along the public streets and

highways of the town to be graded, paved, repaired or made,

and curbs to be set, at the cost and expense of the abutting

property, or the owner thereof, which cost and expense shall

be a lien upon the abutting property in favor of the Mayor

and Council until paid, and such lien may be enforced by dis-

traints and sale in the same manner as the collections of corpor-

ate taxes is enforced, or the Mayor and Council may, by fine

or otherwise, compel the owner or proprietor or any lot or lots

to pave or repave the sidewalks or footways of any streets

adjacent to said lot or lots and to set curbs along the same,

agreeable to the ordinances now in force in said town, or that

may hereafter be passed in relation thereto; (8) to cause the

Streets, ways

streets, ways and alleys, the watercourses, drains, sewers

and alleys.

and gutters to be macadamized or paved, kept in repair and

cleaned; (9) to control and protect the public buildings,

grounds and property of the town; (10) to establish, enact,

erect, maintain and regulate a station house or lockup in said

town for the confinement of the violators of the law and ordi-

nances thereof, and also such other buildings for municipal

purposes as they may deem necessary and proper; (11) to

levy a tax and impose a license on clogs and bitches and to pre-

vent horses, cattle, goats and swine from running at large in

the streets of the town and through the vacant building lots

thereof; (12) to regulate and control all offensive trades,

Regulating

manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers and other com-

traffic in of-
fensive ferti-

modities; (13) to prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses

lizers, etc.

within the limits of the town; (14) to license, regulate and re-

strain peddlers, hucksters, wagons, liveries, theatricals, circus

troops, hawkers, vendors, pool and billiard rooms and bowling

alleys: (15) to preserve the cleanliness, health, safety, peace