3650 ARTICLE 16.

may hereafter be passed; to cause drains and sewers to be laid, paved,
kept in repair and cleaned; to purchase, lease, accept or receive such real
and personal property as may be necessary or proper for municipal pur-
poses, and to control, dispose of and convey the same for the benefit of
the town; to erect and maintain such buildings for municipal purposes
as they may deem necessary and proper; to construct and maintain public
works for supplying the town with artificial light, water or other purpose
which they may deem necessary, proper and beneficial for said town; to

cause the public streets and public buildings to be lighted, supplied with
water or other conveniences, as they may deem necessary and proper; to
establish and regulate a fire department, and provide such means, engines,
apparatus, measures or materials for the prevention or extinguishment

of fires as they may deem necessary; to permit, under such restrictions

as they may deem proper, the laying of railroad tracks and the running

of cars drawn by horses, steam, electricity or other power thereon; the
laying of gas or water pipes in the public streets, and to construct and

maintain and permit the construction and maintenance of telegraph, tele-
phone and electric lines therein, and they shall impose such restrictions
and conditions upon the location and maintenance of gas, electric light
and waterworks, pipes, wires, poles and railroad tracks as shall secure
the least possible public or private inconvenience, and they shall provide
for the enforcement of such restriction and conditions; to contract for
periods not exceeding five years with the County Commissioners of Mont-

gomery or Prince George's Counties, any municipal corporation, village

or town improvements association, any person, association or persons or
corporations for supplying the said town or the inhabitants thereof or for
said town or its said Council supplying such County Commissioners, mu-
nicipality, association, person, persons or corporation, with water, gas
or electricity, or for any other general municipal purpose or purposes,

and as to sewers or sewerage not exceeding ten years; such contracts to
be let only after thirty days' notice, calling for bids for such purpose or
purposes, has been given at least three times during that period in some
newspaper of general circulation in the town, and the Council may, in
their discretion, reject any or all bids, and such contract or contracts shall
be awarded by ordinance; to license, for the purpose of regulation and
revenue, all and every kind of business transacted or carried on in the
town, to fix the rate of license upon the same, and provide for the Collec-
tion thereof by suit or otherwise; to license, regulate or prohibit any place
of public amusement or recreation, pleasure parks, picnic grounds, club
houses, theatrical exhibitions, baseball grounds, bowling alley, billiard or
pool rooms, camp-meeting grounds or public assembly of any kind; to
establish markets and regulate the hours and limits thereof and the mode
of dealing in relation thereto; to control and protect the public grounds
and property of the town; to establish, equip and maintain public parks
and playgrounds; to protect public buildings, churches and private build-
ings, trees and fences, from defacement or injury; to protect song birds;
to provide by ordinance for condemning, laying out, opening, extending