1142 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

electric subways, and gas or water conduits; and no individual
or corporation shall use any street, lane or alley or thorough-
fare 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 Berlin first
had and obtained, by ordinance, for that purpose passed and
approved; and any such pole or line, subway or conduit here-
after 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 em-
ploy an attorney and to pay him reasonable fees. (32) To ac-
cumulate a fund or other property by gifts or bequests of citi-
zens of said town, or any other persons, for equipping any vol-
unteer fire company of said town that may hereafter be organ-
ized and promoting its efficiency and growth; and the Mayor
and Council may become trustees of any such fund, and may
for the investment and accumulation of any such fund buy and
acquire title as such trustees to any property, real or personal,
and sell, grant, lease or mortgage the same, and- execute,
acknowledge 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 corporate
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 ordinances by such fines or
penalties within the limits herein provided as they deem neces-
sary to enforce the power hereby given. (34) And generally to
pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances not contrary to law
for the preservation of the health, comfort, convenience,
morals, cleanliness, peace and good order of the community,
and for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens
of said town, and for the suppression, abatement and discon-
tinuance of nuisances within the limits of said town; and for
the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers the Mayor
and Council may pass any and all ordinances and by-laws from
time to time deemed necessary, and may enforce and insure the
observance of such by-laws or ordinances in addition to the
usual action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in
such cases by law for the recovery of fees, fines and penalties
thereto affixed, they may affix thereto reasonable penalty for de-
fault of payment of any fine and cost imposed for a violation of
any ordinance or by-laws; they may provide for the imprison-
ment of the offender for a period not to exceed thirty days in
the town lockup or the county jail, or for his commitment to
the custody of the policeman under sentence to hard labor upon