2088 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

erected under a permit to erect temporary buildings, or that may
have been erected contrary to any ordinance heretofore passed,
or hereafter to be passed, or that may endanger any building
contiguous thereto in case of fire, and to enact ordinances and
impose fines for the enforcement of these provisions; to establish
grades upon the streets, gutters and sidewalks of said town, the
width thereof, and prescribe the material of which they shall be
built; to cause the sidewalks along the said public streets to be
graded, paved, repaved or improved, and curbs to be set at the
cost and expense of the owners of the abutting property, which
cost shall be a lien on the abutting property and recoverable by
action at law, or compel by fines, or otherwise, the owners or pro-
prietors of any such lot to grade, pave or repave the sidewalks,
set curbs in front thereof agreeably to ordinances that may here-
after be passed; to establish a market-house by lease or otherwise,
and regulate the days, hours and limits thereof, and mode of
dealing therein; to grant licenses or permits for the sale of
marketable commodities, such as fresh meats, fruits, vegetables,
poultry, &c.; to control and protect the public grounds, ceme-
teries and property of said town; to provide for and regulate the
issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and the
vending of any goods, wares or merchandise, of every description,
upon the streets or highways of said town, or to itinerant peddlers
that go from house to house to sell their goods, wares or merchan-
dise, or to itinerant persons who dispense patent medicines or
medical advice; to regulate and provide for licenses and tax on
all carts, wagons, carnages, hacks and vehicles of all kinds that
ply for hire within the limits of said town; to provide for and regu-
late licenses or permits for all exhibitions and shows within said
town, or to prohibit and restrain them, and to prohibit and restrain
gambling and games of chance of all kinds; to regulate and pro-
vide for a tax on dogs; to provide for and prevent the running at
large of all horses, cattle, hogs, geese, chickens and other fowl
upon the streets or within the limits of said town; to provide by
ordinance for condemning, laying out, opening, extending and
making new streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening
widening, grading, improving or closing up in whole or in
part any existing street or alley, and for removing trees, posts
and other obstructions, and for laying out public squares, drains,
water-courses; and all benefits or damages done, suffered or in-