CAROLINE COUNTY. 1567

biles, cars and locomotives in the town limits; regulate the maintenance

of proper safety appliances by railroads at street crossings and the stop-
ping of trains thereon; provide for the restraining or regulation of theat-
ricals or other public amusements within said town; regulate the construc-
tion and maintenance of exits from places of amusement and all public
building's; regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or
above the same and may require the owner or occupant of premises to keep
the sidewalks in front of same and the gutters thereof free from snow and
other obstructions, and prescribe hours for cleaning same; regulate or pre-
vent the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, hand-
bills, dirty liquids or any other offensive or objectionable material or

substance into any street, alley or public place, or upon any vacant lot
in said town; regulate or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public
places for signs, signposts, awnings, boxes, posts, poles, horse troughs,
steps, bay windows, railings, entrances, the posting of handbills and adver-
tisements, and display of goods, wares and merchandise; regulate the
putting in of sewers or drains on or under its streets or alleys, and the

charges for entering and maintaining the same; grant franchises to elec-
tric companies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, street railway
companies, water companies, sewer and drain companies, and any other
public or quasi-public service corporation; and the ordinance or contract
granting such franchise shall specifically set out the nature, right and
character of same, and no power or right not expressed in the franchise
or grant shall pass thereunder; regulate the erection and use of telephone,
telegraph and electric light poles and wires within the town; regulate
the keeping of dogs in said town, and provide for the removal or killing
worthless, annoying or dangerous dogs; prevent the running at large
within said town of horses, cattle, hogs, geese or any other beast, brute
or fowl, and regulate or prevent the keeping of the same within said town;
provide for the protection of all town property and of all public property
of public service companies or corporation; punish and suppress tramps
and vagrants by imposing fines or both fine and imprisonment or by hard
labor on the streets of the town. And they shall have power to provide
by ordinance for the construction, opening, enlarging or straightening of
any sewer or drain and for regulation of the same; for paving and keep-
ing in repair all necessary sewers and drains or gutters; to provide for
the purchase and condemnation of private or public property, as is now

provided in this Act for the condemnation and opening of streets in said
town, for the purpose of paving, building and maintaining any sewer or
drain for surface water in said town; they are empowered by ordinance
to regulate and prohibit cesspools, earth pits and other means of sewage
disposal; to regulate or exclude places where offensive trades or occupa-
tion is conducted or engaged in; to regulate or exclude pig pens within
the corporate limits; to pass ordinances governing the disposal of garbage
or refuse; to regulate or exclude slaughter houses within the corporate
limits; to pass ordinances to close polluted wells, springs and other sources

of water supply, when such sources shall be certified by the State Board