HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 1341

corporate limits thereof; to regulate or prevent the use of
streets, sidewalks and public places for signs, signposts, awn-
ings, awning posts, posts, horse troughs, steps, railing, en-
trances, rocks, posting handbills and advertisements and dis-
play of goods, wares and merchandise; to grant franchises
and regulate the putting of sewers or drains on or under its
streets, alleys or highways and the charges for entering same;
to grant and regulate franchise to electric light companies,
power companies, gas companies, street railway companies,
water companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies,
sewer or drain companies, and any other which they deem
advantageous and beneficial to said town or the inhabitants
thereof; all such franchises shall be for a definite term of
years not exceeding twenty-five years, and be renewable at
the discretion of the Commissioners of Ridgely, and shall
specifically set out the nature, right and duration of same,
and no power or right not expressed in the franchise or
grant shall pass thereunder; to establish and maintain pub-
lic parks and playgrounds, to control and protect the public
grounds and property of the town; to establish and regulate
a station house or lockup for temporary confinement of viola-
tors of the laws and ordinances of the town; to punish and
suppress tramps and vagrants; to regulate the keeping of
dogs in said town; to provide for protection of all public
property, cemeteries and property of all public service com-
panies or corporations and for any franchise, easement or
privilege hereafter granted the Commissioners of Ridgely may
charge for such franchise, easements or privileges when
granted, and may charge an annual rental upon any franchise,
easement or privilege for using the streets, highways and side-
walks of said town that hitherto has been granted or may
hereafter be granted; to regulate and license auctioneers who
cry any public sales within the corporate limits of the town;
to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufacture and
traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities within the
town limits; 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 aforegoing powers and for the
preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order
of the community, and for the protection of the lives and
property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate and discon-
tinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued all
nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits of said
town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to
time necessary, and to insure the observance of said ordinances
in addition to the usual action of debt or such other civil
remedies as may exist in such cases by law for the recovery
of the penalties therein affixed, the Commissioners of Ridgely