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shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the
Court.

Section 171. The Mayor and Council shall have power to
town; to prevent, remove and abate all nuisances or obstructions
in or upon the streets, highways, lanes or alleys, drains or
water-courses, or in or upon any lot adjacent thereto, and to pro-
vide for imposing a fine on any person causing or creating any
such nuisances or obstruction; to provide by ordinance for the
regulation and location of all stock yards, cattle pens, hog pens
and slaughter houses within said city or for their removal from
the corporate limits of Hagerstown; to remove, or cause to be
removed, houses or other structures that may be dangerous to
persons passing along and over any of the highways of the
town; to make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings to
be erected in said town, and to grant building permits for the
same; to make and establish grades upon the streets and high-
ways of the town; to cause sidewalks along the public streets
and highways of said town to be graded, paved, repaired or im-
proved; curbs to be set and gutters laid, at the cost and expense
of the abutting property or the owner thereof; or compel, by
fine or otherwise the owner or proprietor of any lot, to pave or
repave the sidewalks or footways; to set curbs and lay gutters
in front thereof, agreeably to the ordinances now in force, or
which may be hereafter passed; to cause the water-courses,
drains or sewers of the town to be paved, kept in repair and.
cleansed; to establish markets, and to regulate the hours and
limits thereof, and mode of dealing in relation thereto; to grant
licenses on marketable commodities'; to control and protect the
public grounds and property of the town; to establish and regu-
late a station house or lockup for temporary confinement of
violators of the laws and ordinances of the town; to suppress
vagrancy; to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses
or houses of ill-fame within the limits of the town; and to pro-
vide for the punishment of all persons, who shall keep, author-
ize or suffer to be kept, any such bawdy houses or houses of ill-
fame; to regulate and to provide for the issuing of licenses or
permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and
merchandise of every description upon the streets or highways
of the town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant
peddlers who may go from house to house to vend or sell any
wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to any and all persons
entering into or beginning transient business in said town for
the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and