1096 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

no power or right not expressed in the franchise or grant shall
pass thereunder; and the said Mayor and Council, notwith-
standing anything that may be set out in any such franchises
or grant, shall not have the power to divest itself of the right
to regulate and control the use of the rights under any fran-
chise granted or that may be granted by it, and to fix and
regulate the charge for service whenever they deem the public
interest may require it; to regulate the keeping of dogs in said
city, and to provide for a tax thereon, and to provide for the
collection thereof as other taxes are collected, and to provide
that any person or persons owning a dog or dogs and refusing
or neglecting to pay such tax within twenty days after notice
thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof before a justice of the peace shall be fined not
less than one nor more than ten dollars and be committed to
jail until the fine and costs are paid; to provide for the killing
of dogs on Avhich no taxes are paid; to prevent the running at
large of horses, cattle, hogs, geese and other fowl on the streets
or in the limits of said city, and to regulate or prevent the
keeping of same within said city; to provide for the protection
of all city property and of all public property, of all public
service companies or corporations, and for any franchise, ease-
ment or privilege for using the streets, highways and sidewalks
of said city that hitherto has been granted or may hereafter be
granted; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by im-
posing fines, or both fine and imprisonment, or by hard labor
on the streets of the city, and may so employ any person sen-
tenced to the town jail for 30 days or more and confined therein
for non-payment of any fine and costs, and to abate by appro-
priate ordinance all nuisances in said city which are so defined
at common law, by this Act or by the laws of the State of Mary-
land, whether the same herein specifically named or not. The
Mayor and Council may establish and provide a market house
in the town for the use and convenience of the inhabitants
thereof, and may, by by-laws and ordinances,: provide for and
regulate the sale of all provisions brought to said city for sale,
the trying and adjusting of the scales, weights and measures
used at the market by the standards of the county, and the
seizure and sale to the highest bidder or the destruction of any
found false or untrue, the renting of the stalls and shambles
of the market, and for the seizure and sale for the use of the
Council of articles of any kind, and especially of all butter in
print or parcel brought to the said market for sale, or any
other article found wanting in weight or unsound or unwhole-
some. The police shall have charge of and supervision over the
market house and market therein, under the direction and con-
trol of the Mayor and Council. If any persons shall feel ag-