4398 ARTICLE 20.

late the erection or repairing of buildings and grant permits therefor,
specifying the material of which same shall be built and purpose for
which same is to be used; to direct in what part of the City wooden build-
ings shall be erected; to prevent and regulate storage of gunpowder, oil
or other combustible matter in such quantities and in such places as they
may deem proper; to prevent obstructions on the streets, lanes, alleys and
highways of said city; to regulate the width of tires of all vehicles used
upon the streets, lanes or alleys of said City; to license carts, wagons,
carriages, and other vehicles used for transporting goods or persons for
hire, burden or pleasure, and to provide and regulate the numbering of
same; to regulate the speed of horses, vehicles, automobiles, cars and
locomotives in the City limits; to regulate the harbor of Crisfield, the
anchorage of vessels in the navigable waters of the City, the hauling in
to the public wharf and other wharves. For these purposes each policeman
of said City shall have all the usual rights and powers of harbor master;
to regulate the erection and maintenance of proper safety appliances by
railroad at street crossings; to regulate and license all pawn brokers, junk
dealers, fire and slaughter sales, auction sales, street venders or peddlers
of nostrums, remedies, medicines, notions or any other goods, patents,
secret or pretended inventions; to regulate and license or prohibit all nine
or ten-pin alleys, bowling alleys, pool rooms, billiard rooms, skating rinks,
theatres, moving pictures, shows, boxing and sparring matches, wrestling
matches or contests, and all shows and exhibitions of every kind; to pro-
vide for the restraining of theatrical or other public amusements within
said City; to regulate the construction and maintenance of exits from
places of amusements and all public buildings; to prevent gambling and
games of chance, fortune telling, conjuring, palmistry and sooth-saying;
to regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or above same,
and to require the owner or occupant of premises to keep the sidewalks
in front of same and the gutters thereof free from snow and other ob-
structions, and to prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate or pre-
vent the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, hand-
bills, dirty liquids or any other offensive or objectionable material into
any street, alley or public place, or any vacant lot in said City; to regulate
or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public places for signs, sign-
posts, awnings, awning posts, poles, horse troughs, steps, railings, en-
trances, rocks, posting hand-bills and advertisements and display of goods,
wares and merchandise; to construct at public expense or to grant fran-
chises for and to regulate the putting in of sewers or drains on or under
its streets or alleys and the charges for entering and maintaining same;
to construct and maintain works and apparatus for at public expense or to
grant and regulate franchises to electric light companies, power companies,
gas companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies, street railway
companies, water companies, sewer and drain companies, and any other
which they may deem advantageous and beneficial to said City or the
inhabitants thereof, and to regulate the charges therefor by the munic-
ipality or for service of such companies as now possess or may hereafter