1340 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 548

to regulate, license and tax carts, wagons, carriages, automo-
biles and other vehicles used in said town for transporting
goods or persons for hire; to regulate the parking of all vehi-
cles upon the streets and alleys of said town; to regulate the
speed of horses, wheeled vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, auto-
mobiles, cars and locomotives in the town limits; to regu-
late the erection and maintenance of proper safety appliances
by railroads at street crossings; to regulate and provide for
the issuing of licenses or permits for 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 li-
censes to any and all persons entering into or beginning tran-
sient business in said town for the sale of any goods, wares or
merchandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing of
licenses to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or
medical advice; to regulate and license all restaurants, bar-
ber shops, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire and slaughter sales
and auction sales; to regulate and license all nine and ten pin
alleys, bowling alleys, skating rinks, pool and billiard tables,
theatres, moving picture shows, boxing and sparring matches
and wrestling contests, and also exhibitions of every kind;
to provide for the restraining of theatricals or other public
amusements to an immoral or indecent nature in said town;
to regulate the construction and maintenance of exits from
places of amusements and all public buildings; to prevent
gambling and games of chance; to regulate the use of side-
walks and all structures in, under or above same, and to re-
quire the owner or occupant of the premises to keep the side-
walks in front of same and the gutters thereof free from snow
and other obstructions, and to prescribe hours for cleaning
same; to regulate and prevent the throwing of sweepings,
dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or
other material into any street, alley or public place, or on
any vacant lot in said town; to prevent the erection of bill
boards and advertising signs on any vacant lot or premises in
said town, to license all open waterclosets not connected with
sewer and to prescribe rules and regulations for removing the
excrement therefrom to regulate or suppress slaughter houses
and smoke houses in said town, and to regulate canning
houses within the corporate limits, and to enforce the provi-
sions of all such ordinances by appropriate penalties; to reg-
ulate, to restrain or prohibit the running at large of horses,
bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and chickens on any of
the streets, lanes, alleys, or highways of said town; to regulate
all stockyards, cattle pens, hog pens and slaughter houses
within the said town, or provide for their removal from the