1096 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 694]

to be removed from the surface of the streets, lanes or alleys
of said city or any part or parts thereof, and to require such
wires to be placed in such conduits, all under such penalty as
it may prescribe; to prescribe and establish reasonable rentals
to be paid by any company or persons using any of said con-
duits by whomsoever the same may be constructed, for the use
thereof, and to provide for the collection of such rentals in
addition to the ordinary processes by such summary methods
as it may deem appropriate; to license all dogs owned, kept
or harbored within said city and to regulate and prohibit the
keeping of all vicious dogs in said city, and to prevent the run-
ning at large of horses, cattle, hogs, geese and other animals or
fowl on the streets, or in the limits of said city; and to regulate
or prohibit slaughter-houses within the limits of said city; to
provide for the protection of all public property, cemeteries
and property of all public service companies or corporations;
and for any franchise, easement or privilege hereafter granted,
the commissioners may charge for such franchise, easement or
privilege when granted, and may charge an annual rental upon
any franchise, easement or privilege of any gas company, elec-
tric light company, power company, telephone company, tele-
graph company, street railway company, sewer or drain com-
pany, for using the streets, highways and sidewalks of said
city that hitherto has been granted or may hereafter be granted;
to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing fines
or both fine and imprisonment, or by hard labor on the streets
of the city, and to abate by appropriate ordinances all nui-
sances in said city which are so defined at common law by this
act or by the laws of the State of Maryland, whether the same
herein specifically named or not; to provide for the establish-
ment and change from time to time of the grades or lines of
any street, lane, alley or thoroughfare, or part thereof, now or
hereafter marked, located or laid out in said town; to establish,
regulate and supervise night watches and patrols; to appoint
one or more wood measurers for the town, and to define their
duties, and to prescribe their compensation to be paid by those
who receive their services; to regulate party walls and divisions
fences; to provide for and regulate the sweeping and burning
of chimneys, and to prescribe their size and safeguard therefor,
and to fix the compensation of those who sweep or burn the
same, to be paid by those who receive their services; to erect
and regulate markets, and to make all proper by-laws and ordi-
nances in relation thereto; to sink wells and to provide or have
provided hydrants and water plugs on the streets, lanes, alleys
and thoroughfares of the town; to regulate all water pipes,