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contagious or infectious diseases. (26) To establish and
maintain a lockup for the temporary confinement of violators
of the law. (27) To regulate the sale and storage of explo-
sives and combustible material within the town, and to
enforce all ordinances by appropriate penalties. (28) To
provide for the codification and publication of the ordi-
nances of the town. (29) To regulate or suppress slaughter
houses and smoke houses within the town, and regulate
canning houses within the corporate limits, and to enforce
the provisions of all such ordinances by appropriate penalties.
(30) To regulate and control generally the use of the streets of
the town by telegraph lines, telephone lines, electric light or
electric power lines, electric subways, and gas or water con-
duits; and no individual or corporation shall use any street,
lane or alley or thoroughfare of said town for any telegraph,
telephone, electric light or electric power poles or lines, or
for any subway or conduit without the consent of the Mayor
and Council of Pocomoke City first had and obtained, by
ordinance for that purpose passed and approved; and any such
pole or line, subway or conduit placed upon, in or under any
of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said town
without such consent of the Mayor and Council shall be
deemed a nuisance. (31) To employ an attorney and
to pay him reasonable fees. (32) To accumulate a fund
or other property by gifts or bequests of citizens
of said town, or any other persons, for equipping the
volunteer fire company of said town and promoting its
efficiency and growth; and the Mayor and Council may
become trustee of any such fund, and may for the invest-
ment and accumulation of any such fund buy and acquire
title as such trustee to any property, real or personal, and
sell, grant, lease or mortgage the same, and execute, acknowl-
edge and deliver all necessary deeds for carrying out the
power hereby given. (33) To require by ordinance or ordi-
nances any railroad company or other corporation running
its locomotives or trains across any street within the cor-
porate limits, to keep a watchman or a flagman at such
crossing of said street to warn persons of the approach of
the locomotives and trains, and to enforce all such ordi-
nances by such fines or penalties within the limits herein
provided as they deem necessary to enforce the power
hereby given. (34) And generally to pass all necessary
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CHAP. 549
General
powers
granted.
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