LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 263

Commissioners, or other persons appointed to determine the
amount or amounts of such special taxes or assessments; and
in the trial of such appeals the practice shall conform as near
as may be to the practice in the trial of street appeals, including
the right of appeal to the Court of Appeals. To pass all ordi-
nances necessary for grading, regulating, paving and repairing
the footways in the streets, lanes and alleys of the City, and
impose a tax on any lot fronting on any paved street, lane or
alley, for the purpose of grading, regulating, paving or repair-
ing footways in front thereof, or compel by fine or otherwise
the owner or proprietor of any lot to pave or repair the foot-
ways in front thereof, agreeably to the ordinances to be passed
by it. To regulate the use of streets, highways, roads, public
places and sidewalks by foot-passengers, animals, vehicles, cars,
motors and locomotives, and prevent encroachment thereonand
obstruction of the same. To regulate the opening of street sur-
face, for the purposes authorized by law or ordinance. To
regulate the numbering of houses, lots, streets and avenues,
and the naming of streets, avenues andpublicplaces. Toregulate
the use of sidewalks for use of signs, sign-posts, awnings, awn-
ing-posts, horse-troughs, telegraph-posts, trolley poles, electric
light poles, telegraph wires, electric light wires, and for any
and all other purposes, and to prohibit the erection of any posts,
poles or wires, and to compel the removal of any posts, poles
or wires in, over or above any street, sidewalk or highway. To
clean the streets and remove the dirt and filth therefrom, and
to prohibit and punish by ordinance the placing of any dirt,
filth or other matter therein, and to protect any pavement by
prohibiting the travel thereon. To erect lamps in any of the
streets, lanes or alleys of said City, and cause the same to be
lighted at the expense of the City. To regulate the use of
streets, lanes or alleys in said City, by railway or other tracks,
gas or other pipes, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other
wires and poles, in, under, over or upon the same, and to re-
quire all such wires to be placed under ground, after such reas-
onable notice as it may prescribe. To provide a series of con-
duits under the streets, lanes and alleys of said City, or any
part or parts thereof, for the use of telephone, telegraph, electric
light and other wires, either by constructing said conduits itself
or authorizing their construction by such person or corporation,