996 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 660]

18. The Council shall have power to pass all ordnances
necessary, (1) for the good government of the town; (2) to
prevent, remove and abate, or cause to be removed or abated,
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 obstruction; (3) to open, close and widen streets,
lanes, roads or 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 structure 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 neigh-
borhood thereof; (5) to make reasonable regulations in regard
to buildings to be erected in said town; (6) to make and estab-
lish grades upon the streets and highways of said 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 distraints and sale in the
same manner as the collection of corporate taxes are enforced,
or the Mayor and Council may, by fine or otherwise; compel the
owner or proprietor of any lot or lots to pave or repave the side-
walks or footways of any streets adjacent to said lot or lots and
to set curbs along the same, agreeably to the ordinances now in
force in said town, or that may hereafter be passed in relation
thereto; (8) to cause the streets, ways and alleys, the water-
courses, drains, sewers 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 violators of the law and
ordinances thereof, and also such other buildings for munic-
ipal purposes as they may deem necessary and proper; (11) to
levy a tax and impose a license on dogs and bitches and to
prevent 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,
manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers and other com-
modities ; (13) to prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses within
the limits of the town; (14) to license, regulate and restrain
peddlers, hucksters, wagons, liveries, theatricals, circus troupes,