SOMERSET COUNTY. 4399

obtain franchises in said City; all such franchises shall be for a definite
term of years, not exceeding twenty-five years, and be renewable at the
discretion of the Mayor and Council, and shall specially set out the nature,
right and duration of same, and no power or right not expressed in the
franchise or grant shall pass thereunder; and the said Mayor and Council,
notwithstanding anything that may be set out in any such franchises or
grant, shall not have the power to divest of the right to regulate and control
the use of the rights under any franchise granted or that may be granted by
it, and to fix and regulate the charge for service whenever they deem the
public interest may require it; to regulate the keeping of dogs in said
city; and to provide for a tax thereon, and to provide for the collection
thereof, as other taxes are collected, and to provide that any person or
persons owning a dog or dogs and refusing or neglecting to pay such a tax
within twenty days after notice thereof shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, before a justice of the peace shall be
fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars, and be committed to
jail until the fines and costs are paid; to provide for the killing of dogs
on which no taxes are paid; prevent the running at large of horses, cattle,
hogs, geese and other fowl on the streets or within the limits of said City,
and to regulate or prevent the keeping of same within said City, to provide
for the protection of all city property and to regulate and license all
public service companies or corporations, and any franchise, easement or
privilege for using the streets, highways and sidewalks of said City that
hitherto has been granted or may hereafter be granted; to punish and sup-
press tramps and vagrants by imposing fines, or both fine and imprison-
ment, or by hard labor on the streets of the city, and may so employ any
person sentenced to the town jail for thirty days or more and confined
therein for non-payment of any fines and costs, and to abate by appropriate
ordinance all nuisances in said City, which are so defined at common law,
by this Act or by the Laws of the State of Maryland, whether the same
are herein specifically named or not. The Mayor and Council may
establish and provide a market house in the town for the use and conveni-
ence of the inhabitants thereof, and may, by by-laws and ordinances,
provide for and regulate the sale of all provisions brought to said city
for sale, the trying and adjusting of the scales, weights and measures
used at the market by the standards of the county, and the seizure and sale
to the highest bidder or the destruction of any found false or untrue, the
renting of the stalls and shambles of the market and for the seizure and sale
for the use of the Council of articles of any kind, and especially of all
butter in print or parcel brought to the said market for sale, or any other
article found wanting in weight or unsound or unwholesome. The police
shall have charge of and supervision over the market house and market
therein, under the direction and control of the Mayor and Council. If
any person shall feel aggrieved by any seizure made by the police, he
may within three days after such seizure appeal to the Mayor and Coun-
cil, who shall make such order therein as they or he may deem just. The
rent of the stalls and shambles of the market house may be recovered in the