3438 ARTICLE 16.

temporary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances of the town.
(14) The council shall have the power to suppress vagrancy, tramps and
gypsies, commonly known as nomads. (15) The council shall have the
power to prohibit, suppress and restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or
houses of ill-fame or disorderly houses within the corporate limits of said
town, and to provide for the punishment of all persons who shall keep or
suffer to be kept in, upon or on their property any such house or houses.
(16) The council shall have power to regulate the speed of all conveyances
upon the streets or any public highway or road within the town, such as
carriages, bicycles, autocycles, motorcycles, automobiles, locomobiles and
street cars. (17) The council shall have the power to annually levy a
water tax for the use of water provided by the town. (18) The council
shall have the power to cause and compel all railroad corporations to light
all street crossings over or by which their cars pass. (19) The council
shall have the power to prohibit and provide for the punishment of all
wife-beaters, habitual drunkards, loafers, vagrants, tramps, beggars, dis-
orderly characters, disturbers of religious meetings or public meetings or
disturbers of the peace and quiet of the town. (20) The council shall
have the power to, and it shall be lawful for them to provide in the case
of conviction of any person for vagrancy, habitual drunkenness, wife-
beating or the keeping of or inmate of a disorderly house, sentence such
person to hard work on the streets of said town for a period not exceeding
twenty days, or to confinement in the Maryland House of Correction for a
period not to exceed six months, or less than two months. (21) The
council shall have the power to levy a tax and impose a license upon all
gas companies, electric light companies, water companies, telephone com-
panies, brokers, real estate and insurance agencies, pool rooms, billiard
rooms, bowling alleys, located in or doing business in said town, merry-
go-rounds, and all mechanical inventions of leisure operated in said town.
(22) The council shall have the. power to provide for the codification of
all ordinances which may hereafter be passed. (23) The council shall
have the power to remove or cause to be removed, or to render secure any
house or houses, buildings or other objects that may be dangerous to
property, health or to the life or to the limbs of persons entering said
house or building or passing along or over, any of the highways of said
town or residing in the neighborhood thereof. (24) The council shall
have the power to suppress vagrancy and gambling within the limits of
said town. (25) The council shall have the power to provide for rigid
enforcement of the Sabbath law by preventing all bodily labor on the
Sabbath day, except acts of necessity and charity. (26) The council shall
have the power to purchase, receive and hold such real and personal prop-
erty as may be necessary or proper for the town. (27) The council shall
have the power to grant for a period not exceeding forty years, upon such
terms, rates, fares and charges and conditions as may be presented by
ordinance, specific franchise or rights in or relating to any of the public
property or places, as the right touse any highway, avenue, street, lane
or alley, either on, above or below the surface of the same, and in or along