HOWARD COUNTY. 3071

streets, lanes and thoroughfares of said City; to regulate the numbering
of houses, lots, streets and avenues, and the naming of streets, avenues
and public places; to regulate the use of the sidewalks for the use of
signs, sign posts, awnings, posts, horsetroughs, telegraph, telephone, elec-
tric light and trolley wire poles, telegraph, telephone, electric light and
trolley wires; and to impose an annual tax on each and every of said
telegraph and telephone, electric light poles not exceeding one (1) dollar
per pole per year; to require the occupants of property within said City
limits to remove snow from the sidewalks in front of their respective
properties; to regulate the speed of automobiles and other motor vehicles
within said City limits; and generally to pass all ordinances necessary
for the good government of said city. The Commissioners of Ellicott
City shall further have the power to enact all laws or ordinances neces-
sary for the installation, distribution and protection of any water supply
hereafter built, installed or purchased.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 68.

141. The Commissioners of Ellicott City may acquire by deed, will
or in any other manner any land lying within the corporate limits of
Ellicott City for the purpose of creating a public park or parks, and may
appropriate such funds as they may, in their discretion, deem proper for
the laying ont, construction and permanent maintenance of such public
park or parks.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 69.

142. Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously injure, disfigure
or destroy any monument erected in any public park or parks within the
corporate limits of Ellicott City, or take and carry away any growing
tree therefrom, or destroy any vine, plant, shrubbery, root, vegetable, or
fencing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and, after presentment
and indictment by the Grand Jury for Howard County, and conviction
thereof in the Circuit Court for Howard County, shall, in the discretion
of said Court, be imprisoned in the Maryland House of Correction for a
period not exceeding three years, or be fined not more than One Thousand
($1,000.00) Dollars, or both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 70. 1924, ch. 406, sec. 70.

143. They may grade and pave streets and lay flagstones across the
same and require the owners of lots, in front of which such grading and
paving are to be done, to do the same at their own expense. They may
also contract for the lighting of the avenues, streets, lanes and alleys of
said City, either by electricity or otherwise, and they shall also have the
authority to contract with some responsible Company, Corporation, per-
son or persons for a water supply for said City; and may grant permis-
sion to any such Company, Corporation, person or persons to lay pipes in
the beds of the avenues, streets, lanes and alleys of said City, at the ex-
pense and liability of said Company, Corporation, person or persons for