FREDERICK COUNTY. 2459

ing a fine of one hundred dollars for any violation of the same, and the
mode of enforcing such penalties; which orders, resolutions or ordinances,
may be for the following purposes, to wit:

To manage and control all property of the corporation, and to authorize
the purchase or sale of property in the name of the corporation, and to
provide for the form and manner of making contracts, to lay taxes upon
all real and personal property in said town, and regulate the collection.
and enforcement of the same, and borrow money as authorized by Sec-
tion 181 of this subtitle, and to provide for the adjustment of claims
against the corporation and the payment of the same, to preserve peace
and good order of the town, and punish the resistance, hindrance or ob-
struction of public officers in the discharge of their duties, to prevent vice,
suppress gambling, houses of ill-fame and disorderly houses; to protect the
town from fire and unsafe buildings and to regulate the cleaning of chim-
neys; to regulate the manufacture and keeping of explosives and inflam-
mable materials or the conveyance thereof through the streets of the town;
to tax and regulate the use and construction of electrical plants and wires,
on which electricity is conducted within the town; to tax and regulate
the use and construction of telegraph and telephone lines in the said town;
to protect public lamps or other public lights therein; to regulate fire-
companies in said town; to establish building lines on the streets and
ways of the town beyond which it shall not be legal to erect buildings or
other structures; to provide for the laying out, grading, discontinuing,
altering, paving, opening, improving, lighting, making and repairing-
streets, squares, walks, drains, sewers, gutters, and to keep open and safe
for public use and travel all streets, squares, alleys or any part thereof;
to require sidewalks to be kept free from ice, snow or other obstructions;
to regulate all shows, processions, assemblages or parades in streets or
public places; to regulate the speed of animals, bicycles and automobiles
and to designate over what streets or thoroughfares the same may be
driven; and to prohibit the running at large of animals in the streets or
public places, and for impounding the same; to tax dogs and regulate the
time and manner, when public safety requires it, of running at large;
to license and regulate public hacks, carriages, sleighs or public convey-
ances, and the charges for the use thereof; to regulate and prohibit the
excavation and opening of streets, public walks and public grounds for
public or private purposes, whether temporary or permanent, and the reg-
ulation of any work or thing therein; to regulate the laying and use of
gas pipes, water pipes, electric light conduits, railroad tracks and drains
for public or private purposes in the streets of the town; to provide for
the sprinkling of streets or parts thereof and establishing of public foun-
tains of any kind, or hydrants, and the providing the same with water;
to provide for the health of the town, and the prevention of the intro-
duction of contagious diseases therein and within one mile thereof; to
prevent and summarily abate nuisances of any kind, at the expense of
the persons maintaining them; to establish quarantine regulations and
regulate the burial and disinterment of the dead; to provide for the licens-