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CHAP. 826
General
powers
granted.
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The Council shall have the power to, and it shall be lawful
for them to provide in the case of conviction of any person
for vagrancy, habitual drunkenness, wife beating or the keep-
ing of or inmate of a disorderly house, sentence such
person to hard work on the streets of said town for a period
not exceeding twenty days, or to confinement in the Mary-
land house of correction for a period not to exceed six
months, or less than two months. (21) The Council shall
have the power to levy a tax and impose a license upon all
gas companies, electric light companies, water companies,
telephone companies, brokers, real estate and insurance
agencies, pool rooms, billiard rooms, bowling alleys, located
in or doing business in said town, merry-go-rounds and all
mechanical inventions of leasure operated in said town. (22)
The Council shall have the power to provide for the codifica-
tion of all ordinances which may hereafter be passed. (23)
The Council shall have the power t© remove or cause to be
removed, or to render secure any house or houses, buildings or
other objects that may be dangerous to property, health or to
the life or to the limbs of persons entering said house or build-
ing or passing along or over, and of the highways of said
town or residing in the neighborhood thereof. (24) The
Council shall have the power to suppress vagrancy and
gambling within the limits of said town. (25) The Council
shall have the power to provide for rigid enforcement of the
Sabbath law by preventing all bodily labor on the Sabbath
day, except acts of necessity and charity. (26) The Council
shall have the power to purchase, receive and hold such real
and personal property as may be necessary or proper for
the town. (27) The Council shall have the power to grant
for a period not exceeding forty years, upon such terms,
rates, fares and charges and conditions as may be presented
by ordinance, specific franchise or rights in or relating to
any of the public property or places, as the right to use any
highway, avenue, street, lane or alley, either on, above or
below the surface of the same, and in or along its water
front and wharf property ; every such grant shall specifically
set forth and define the nature, extent and duration of the
franchise or right ; shall make provision by the way of
forfeiture or otherwise of the grant for the purpose of com-
pelling compliance with the terms of the grant, and to secure
efficiency of public service at reasonable rates and mainte-
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