86 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

to make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings to be
erected in said town, and to grant building permits for the same 5
to make and establish grades upon the streets and highways of
the town; to cause the sidewalks and gutters along the public
streets and highways of said town to be graded, paved, repaired
or improved at the cost and expense of the abutting property or
the owner thereof; to cause the water courses, drains or sewers of
the town to be paved, kept in repair and cleansed; to establish
markets and regulate the hours and limits thereof, and mode of
dealing in relation thereto; to grant licenses for marketable
commodities; to control and protect the public grounds and prop-
erty of the town; to establish and regulate a station-house or lock,
up for temporary confinement of violators of the laws and ordi-
nances 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 per-
sona who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be kept, any such
bawdy-house or house of ill-fame; to regulate and to 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 regulate and provide
for the issuing of license to all travelling persons who dispense
medicine or medical advice; they shall also have power to de-
mand a license from all players or showmen exhibiting within
said town, and to provide for licensing theatres and to regulate
or restrain theatrical or other public amusements within said
town; to regulate, license or tax, saloons or restaurants, hackney
carriages, omnibusses or other vehicles used in said town for the
carriage of passengers and travellers; to regulate and license
auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on the public streets, pro-
vided, that no greater sum than one hundred dollars be charged
for any one license; and to regulate and control all offensive
trades, manufactures, and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other
commodities within the town limits; they shall also have power
to provide for the codification of all ordinances which may have
been or may hereafter be passed, and for the purpose of carrying;
out the foregoing powers, and for the preservation of the clean-