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taking down of the same without delay. (22) To provide proper and
suitable lights on the public streets and make contracts for furnishing
such lights. (23) To define by ordinance the duties of all town officers
or employees where not fixed by this charter, and to require bonds of any
such officers or employes in order to secure the faithful performance of
their duties or of any contract entered into by them with the Mayor and
Council, and to fix the salaries of all officers and employes where the same
are not regulated by this Charter. (24) To borrow money on promissory
notes not to exceed two thousand dollars at any one time. (25) To estab-
lish by ordinance a local board of health and to establish and maintain
in cases of emergencies pest-houses within or without the limits of the
town and to quarantine against contagious or infectious diseases. (26) To
establish and maintain a lockup for the temporary confinement of vio-
lators of the law. (27) To regulate the sale and storage of explosives and
combustible material within the town, and to enforce all ordinances by
appropriate penalties. (28) To provide for the codification and publica-
tion of the ordinances of the town. (29) To regulate or suppress slaughter
houses and smokehouses within the town, and regulate canning houses
within the corporate limits, and to enforce the provisions of all such ordi-
nances by appropriate penalties. (30) To regulate and control generally
the use of the streets of the town by telegraph lines, telephone lines, elec-
tric light or electric power lines, electric subways, and gas or water con-
duits; and no individual or corporation shall use any street, lane or alley
or thoroughfare of said town for any telegraph, telephone, electric light
or electric power poles or lines, or for any subway or conduit without the
consent of the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City first had and obtained,
by ordinance for that purpose passed and approved; and any such pole or
line, subway or conduit placed upon, in or under any of the streets, lanes,
alleys or thoroughfares of said town without such consent of the Mayor
or Council shall be deemed a nuisance. (31) To employ an attorney and
to pay him reasonable fees. (32) To accumulate a fund or other property
by gifts or bequests of citizens of said town, or any other persons, for
equipping the volunteer fire company of said town and promoting its
efficiency and growth; and the Mayor and Council may become trustee
of any such fund, and may for the investment and accumulation of any
such fund buy and acquire title as such trustee of any property, real or
personal, and sell, grant, lease or mortgage the same, and execute, acknowl-
edge and deliver all necessary deeds for carrying out the power hereby
given. (33) To require by ordinance or ordinances any railroad company
or other corporation running its locomotives or trains across any street
within the corporate limits, to keep a watchman or a flagman or erect and
maintain safety gates, or both, at such crossings of said street to warn
persons of the approach of the locomotives and trains, and to enforce all
such ordinances by such fines or penalties within the limits herein pro-
vided as they deem necessary to enforce the power hereby given. (34)
And generally to pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances not contrary
to law for the preservation of the health, comfort, convenience, morals,