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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

erected or built of wood and commonly known as frame
buildings, on the burnt district since the fire of August the
seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, that may have been
erected under a permit to erect temporary buildings or that
may have been erected contrary to any ordinance heretofore
passed, or hereafter to be passed, that may endanger any
building contiguous thereto in case of tire; and to have power
to fix all building lines in said town, and to enact ordinances

Power over
streets.

and impose fines for the enforcement of these provisions; to
establish grades upon the streets, gutters and sidewalks of said
town, the width thereof, and prescribe the material of which
they shall be built; to cause the sidewalks along said public
streets to be graded, paved, repaved or improved, and curbs to
be set, at the cost and expense of the owners of the abutting
property, which cost shall be a lien on the abutting property
and recoverable by action at law, or compel by tines or other-
wise, the owner or proprietors of any such lot or lots to grade,
pave or repave the sidewalks, set curbs in front thereof, agree-

Market house.

able to ordinances that may hereafter be passed; to establish a
market house by lease or otherwise, and regulate the days,
hours and limits thereof, and mode of dealing therein; to grant
licenses or permits for the sale of marketable commodities
such as fresh meats, fruits, vegetables, poultry, &c.; to control
and protect the public grounds, cemeteries and property of said
town; to provide for and regulate the issuing of licenses or
permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of any goods,
wares or merchandise of every description, upon the streets or
highways of said town, or to itinerant peddlers that go from
house to house to sell their goods, wares, merchandise, or to
itinerant persons who dispense patent medicines or medical
advice; to regulate and provide for licenses and tax on all
carts, wagons, carriages, hacks and vehicles of all kind that
ply for hire within the limits of said town; to provide for and
regulate licenses or permits for all exhibitions and shows
within said town, or to prohibit and restrain them, and to pro-
hibit and restrain gambling and games of chance of all kinds ;
to regulate and to provide for a tax on dogs; to provide for
and prevent the running at large of all horses, cattle, hogs,

Opening and
closing

streets.

geese, chickens and other fowl upon the streets or within the
limits of said town; to provide by ordinance for condemning,
laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or
alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening, grading, im-
proving, closing up in whole or in part any existing street or
alley, and for removing trees, posts and other obstructions,
and for laying out public squares, drains, water courses; and all