GARRETT COUNTY. 2783

or the suppression of disease; to regulate the construction of chimneys,
smokestacks, hearths or ovens, and the erection of stoves and stovepipes,
boilers and apparatus used in buildings or other places, and cause the
same to be removed or made secure when considered dangerous; to sup-
press, restrain and regulate bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame, and to
prohibit the youth of said town from being on the streets, lanes or alleys
at unreasonable hours at night; to punish and suppress tramps and va-
grants 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 structures in, under
or above the same, and to require the owner or occupant of premises to
keep the sidewalks in front of same free from snow or other obstructions,
and prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and prevent the throw-
ing or depositing of sweepings, dust, ashes, off-fallings, dirt, garbage,
paper, dirty liquors, or any other material into any street, alley or other
public place; to prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public places
for signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts, poles, horse troughs, steps,
railroad entrances and other obstructions; to cause the streets, lanes and
alleys to be sidewalked, paved, graded, repaired, regraded, drained or
sewered, or to close streets, parts of streets, lanes or alleys; to regulate
and license the use of coaches, hacks, drays and automobiles and other
vehicles for the transportation of passengers, freight or other articles to
or from points within said town for hire or pay; to regulate, license, tax,
restrain or prohibit theatrical or other exhibitions, shows or entertain-
ments, to which money is demanded or received, provided lectures on
scientific, historic, benevolent, artistic or literary subjects shall not be
deemed to be within these provisions; to regulate the sale of all kinds
of property at auction in the streets, stores, shops or elsewhere in the
town, and to license auctioneers and all vendors of property on the streets
or other public places in said town; to license, tax, regulate, suppress and
prohibit hawkers and itinerant dealers, peddlers and pawnbrokers; to
license, tax, regulate and prohibit the keeping of dogs; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators
of the laws and ordinances of the town; for the regulation and handling
of all kinds of explosives, and for the prevention of gambling; to con-
demn or purchase a right of way of any street or alley which they may
determine should be opened for the public convenience; to assess and tax
the expenses for laying or paving sidewalks or streets in said town, in
whole or in part, upon the respective owners of property footing thereon,
that the expense and cost of paving, repairing or otherwise improving the
sidewalks or streets in said town, incurred by the Council under their ordi-
nances, may be charged and recovered by them in the name of the cor-
poration from the owners of the property footing thereon, by suit or action
at law against the owner thereof, as other debts are collected, and the
expenses of the same shall be a lien upon the property chargeable there-