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thereto, and to provide for imposing a fine on any person
causing or creating any such nuisances or obstruction; to
provide by ordinance for the regulation and location of all
stock yards, cattle pens, hog pens and slaughter houses
within said city or for their removal from the corporate
limits of Hagerstown; to remove, or cause to be removed,
houses or other structures that may be dangerous to per-
sons passing along and over any of the highways of the
town; to make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings
to be erected in said town, and to grant building permits
for the same; to make and establish grades upon the streets
and highways of the town; to cause sidewalks along the
public streets and highways of said town to be graded,
paved, repaired or improved; curbs to be set and gutters
laid, at the cost and expense of the abutting property or
the owner thereof; or compel, by fine or otherwise the
owner or proprietor of any lot, to pave or repave the side-
walks or footways; to set curbs and lay gutters in front
thereof, agreeably to the ordinances now in force, or which
may be hereafter passed; to cause the water courses, drains
or sewers of the town to be paved, kept in repair and
cleansed; to establish markets, and to regulate the hours
and limits thereof, and mode of dealing in relation thereto;
to grant licenses on marketable commodities; to control
and protect the public grounds and property of the town;
to establish and regulate a station house or lockup for tem-
porary confinement of violators of the laws and ordinances
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 persons, who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be
kept, any such bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame; to regu-
late and provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for
all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and merchan-
dise 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 licenses to any and all
persons entering into or beginning transient 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 ad-
vice; they shall also have power to demand a license from
all players or showmen exhibiting within the town, and to
provide for licensing theatres and to regulate or restrain
theatrical or other public amusements within said town;