436 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 223]

or to be sent out of the town, if not immediately removed on
receiving notice of such order, and also to prescribe penalties
for keeping such dangerous beasts in the town after such notice.
(13) To regulate, restrain or prohibit by ordinance the running
at large of horses, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and
chickens on any of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of
the said town, and to prescribe penalties for violating such
ordinances, and to forbid or regulate the keeping of swine in
said town, and to provide penalties for violation of such ordi-
nances. (14) To regulate and prescribe by ordinance, as a
protection against fire, whether houses built or erected in said
town shall be built of wood or other material, and to prescribe
in what parts and sections thereof buildings of wood may be
erected and in what part or section of the same buildings of
wood shall not be erected, and to prescribe penalties for violat-
ing said ordinance; that every person or party who wishes or
proposes to erect any building in said town to make a written
application to the Mayor and Council for a permit to erect
the same before beginning work thereon, and in such applica-
tion to set forth the location, character, materials, purposes and
uses of said building, and to require every such person before
beginning work on the erection of any building in said town
to obtain a permit and to prescribe penalties for erecting or
beginning to erect any building without such permit. (16) To
provide by ordinance for taking down and removing any build-
ing of wood erected in any part or section of town in viola-
tion of any ordinance wherein the erection of a building of wood
is forbidden. (17) To prevent by ordinance breaches or viola-
tions of the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, so as to
forbid traffic, barter or sale in all commodities except medi-
cine, milk and ice, and to prohibit unseemly amusements, games,
exhibitions and entertainments on that day, and to prescribe
penalties for violation of such ordinance. (18) To provide by
ordinance for establishing a building line for the erection of
buildings on the streets, alleys, lanes and thoroughfares of said
town, or by order, in case of particular business. (19) To pre-
serve peace and order within the corporate limits, and to pre-
vent the firing of firearms, guns, pistols, firecrackers and all
other explosives whatever, within the corporate limits, and
enforce all ordinances in respect thereto by penalties. (20)
To prevent fast riding on horseback or on a bicycle or in an
automobile on the streets, alleys, lanes or thoroughfares in said
town, and to prevent fast driving in carriage, cart, wagon or
any other vehicle on any of said streets, alleys, lanes or thor-
oughfares in said town; to regulate the speed of railroad