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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
and making new streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widen-
ing, grading, improving or closing up, in whole or in part, any existing
street or alley, and for laying out public squares, parks, drains, sewers
or water courses; to establish and regulate a station-house or lock-up for
the temporary confinement of violators of the law and ordinances of the
town; to levy a tax and impose a license upon dogs or other animals or
fowls running at large; to regulate and control all offensive trades, manu-
facturers and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities and pro-
hibit hog-pens and slaughter houses within the town limits; to control by
ordinance the mode of constructing privies and sinks, and the manner of
disposing of offal and waste products, and, in general, to pass such ordi-
nances as they may deem proper, necessary and beneficial to the town.

(B) For the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by this
Charter, and for preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives and property
of the citizens, and to suppress, abate, or discontinue, or cause to be sup-
pressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances within the corporate limits
of said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary; and to insure the observance of such ordinances, in addition