GARRETT COUNTY. 2767

or swine, fowls, sheep, goats, dogs or other animals; to authorize the com-
pounding, keeping, sale and redemption of such animals when found in
violation of the ordinance in such case provided; to prevent the deposit of
any unwholesome substance either on private or public property; compel
its removal to designated points, and to require slops, garbage, ashes and
other wastes or unwholesome materials to be removed to designated points,
or to require the occupants of premises to place them conveniently for
removal; to compel the occupants of any premises, buildings or out-
houses situated in said town when the same have become filthy or un-
wholesome, to abate or cleanse the same, and upon failure of the owners
to abate such nuisance, then the Council shall authorize the same to be
done by the proper public officers and to assess the expenses thereof
against such property; to regulate or prevent the storage of gun powder,
tar, pitch, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine,
dynamite, giant powder, petroleum or gasoline or any product thereof,
or any other explosive or combustible materials, or any materials which
may be dangerous; to authorize the removal or confinement of persons
having infectious or pestilential diseases; to pass all ordinances and
orders, and to expend such sums of money as may be necessary within
the limitations herein provided for the protection, maintenance and
preservation of the water supply of the town and the prevention of the
pollution thereof; to make all regulation which may be deemed expedient
for the promotion of health or suppression of disease; to regulate the con-
struction of chimneys, smoke stacks, hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves
and stove pipes, boilers and apparatus used in buildings or other places,
and cause the same to be removed or made secure when considered dan-
gerous; to suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy houses and houses of
ill-fame, and to prohibit the youth of said town from being in the streets,
lanes or alleys at unreasonable hours of the night; to punish and suppress
tramps and vagrants by imposing fines or both fines and imprisonment at
hard labor, and to abate by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said
town, which are so defined at common law, whether the same are herein
specifically named or not; to regulate the use of sidewalks and all struc-
tures in, under or over the same; to require the owner or occupant of
premises to keep the sidewalks in front of the same free from snow and
other obstructions and prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and
prevent the throwing or depositing of sweepings, dust or ashes, offal or
dirt, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any other materials into
any street, alley or public place; to regulate and prevent the use of streets,
sidewalks and public places for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts,
poles, horse troughs, steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting handbills
and advertisement and display of goods, wares and merchandise; to cause
the streets, lanes and alleys to be sidewalked, paved, graded, repaired, re-
paved, re-graded, drained or sewered, or to close streets or parts of streets,
lanes or alleys; to regulate and license the use of coaches, hacks, drays
and all other vehicles for the transportation of passengers, freight or other
articles to or from points within said town for hire or pay; to regulate,