4788 ARTICLE 22.

cent thereto, and to provide for imposing a fine on any person causing or
creating any such nuisances or obstruction; to provide by ordinance for
the regulation and location of all stock yards, cattle pens, hog pens and
slaughter houses within said city or for their removal from the corporate
limits of Hagerstown; to remove, or cause to be removed, houses or other
structures that may be dangerous to persons passing along and over any
of the highways of the town; to make reasonable regulations in regard
to buildings to be erected in said town, and to grant building permits for
the same; to make and establish grades upon the streets and highways of
the town; to cause sidewalks along the public streets and highways of
said town to be graded, paved, repaired or improved; curbs to be set and
gutters laid, at the cost and expense of the abutting property or the owner
thereof; or compel, by fine or otherwise the owner or proprietor of any
lot, to pave or repave the sidewalks or footways; to set curbs and lay
gutters in front thereof, agreeably to the ordinances now in force, or which
may be hereafter passed; to cause the water-courses, drains or sewers of
the town to be paved, kept in repair and cleansed; to establish markets,
and to regulate the hours and limits thereof, and mode of dealing in rela-
tion thereto; to grant licenses on marketable commodities; to control and
protect the public grounds and property of the town; to establish and regu-
late a station house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators of
the laws and ordinances of the town; to suppress vagrancy; to prohibit
or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame within the
limits of the town; and to provide for the punishment of all persons, who
shall keep, authorize or suffer to be kept, any such bawdy houses or houses
of ill-fame; to regulate and provide for the issuing: of licenses or permits
for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and merchandise of every
description upon the streets or highways of the town, and to issue licenses
or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house to
vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to any and all per-
sons entering into or beginning transient business in said town for the sale
of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for the issu-
ing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or medical
advice; they shall also have power to demand a license from all players
or showmen exhibiting within the town, and to provide for licensing thea-
tres and to regulate or restrain theatrical or other public amusements
within said town; to regulate, license and tax restaurants, breweries and
all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous and fermented
liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all hackney carriages, omni-
buses or other vehicles used in said town for the carriage of passengers;
all vehicles used for the carriage or transportation of freight or merchan-
dise and all carts or other vehicles which play for hire; to levy a tax and
impose a license upon dogs, and to impose a license upon all gas com-
panies, water companies and telephone companies, brokers, real estate and
insurance agencies, located in or doing business in said town; and to regu-
late and license auctioneers who cry any piiblic sales within the corporate
limits of the town; provided, that no greater sum than one hundred dol-