ACT. 1. ] ALLEGANY COUNTY. 311

upon any lots adjacent thereto; and to provide for imposing a
fine or fines upon any person or persons causing or creating
any such nuisance or obstruction; to remove or cause to be
removed houses or other structures that may be dangerous to
persons passing along or over any of the streets, lanes, alleys or
highways of said town; to make reasonable regulations for the
erection and improvement of buildings in said town, and to
grant permits for same; to alter, extend, widen and extend
streets, to open alleys, to make and establish grades upon the
streets and highways of said town and to regrade the same; to
cause sidewalks and gutters along the public streets to be
graded and paved, repaired or improved at the cost and expen-
ses of the abutting property or the owners thereof, such grad-
ing, paving, repairing or improving of sidewalks and gutters to
be of such materials and at such grades as the said Mayor and
Council may prescribe; to cause the water courses, drains and
sewers of said town to be cleaned and kept in repair; to estab-
lish markets and to regulate the hours and limits thereof, and
the mode of dealing in relation thereto; to grant licenses for
marketable commodities; to control, protect the public grounds
and property of said town; to establish and regulate a station
house or lock-up for the temporary confinement of violators of
the laws and ordinances of said town; to suppress vagrancy;
to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy-houses or houses
of ill-fame within the corporate limits, and to provide for the
punishment of all persons who shall keep or suffer to be kept
in their property any such house or houses; to regulate and
provide for issuing of licenses and permits for all hawking,
peddling and vending of wares and merchandise of every de-
scription upon the streets and highways of said town, and to
issue licenses and permits to all itinerant persons who dispense
medicines or medical advice; to demand a license from all
players and showmen exhibiting within said town; to provide
for licensing theatres and to regulate theatrical and other
public amusement and exhibitions within said town; to regu-
late and license hacks, carriages, cars and other vehicles used
in said town for the carriage of passengers and travelers; to
regulate and license auctioneers who may cry sales on the
public streets; provided, that no greater sum than one hundred
dollars be charged for any one license. The said Mayor and
Council shall impose a license of one hundred dollars per
annum upon all saloons, hotels, taverns, restaurants and all
other places where malt, spirituous and fermented liquors and
lager beer are sold, and they are given full power and authority
to pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the
regulation and control of the traffic in said liquors within said