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be placed in such conduits, all under such penalty as it may
prescribe; to prescribe and establish reasonable rentals to be
paid by any company or persons using any of said conduits by
whomsoever the same may be constructed for the use thereof,
and to provide for the collection of such rentals, in addition to
the ordinary processes, by such summary methods as it may
deem appropriate; to regulate and prohibit the keeping of all
vicious dogs in said city, and to provide for the killing of said
vicious dogs; to prevent the running at large of horses, cattle,
hogs, geese and other animals or fowl on the streets or in the
limits of said city; and to regulate or prohibit the keeping of
swine, hogs, pigs and geese and to regulate or prohibit slaugh-
ter houses within the limits of said city; to provide for the
protection of all public property, cemeteries and property of
all pubilc service companies or corporations, and for any fran-
chise, easement or privilege hereafter granted the Commission-
ers may charge fpr such franchises, easements or privileges
when granted, and may charge an annual rental upon any
franchise, easement or privilege of any gas company, electric
light company, telephone company, telegraph company, street
railway company, sewer or drain company, for using the
streets, highways and sidewalks of said city that hitherto has
been granted or may hereafter be granted; to punish and sup-
press tramps and vagrants by imposing fines or both fine and
imprisonment, or by hard labor on the streets of the city, and
to abate by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said city
which are so defined at common law, by this Act or by the
laws of the State of Maryland, whether the same herein spe-
cifically named or not; to provide for the establishment and
change from time to time of the grades or lines of any streets,
lane, alley or thoroughfare, or part thereof, now or hereafter
marked, located or laid out in said town; to establish, regulate
and supervise night watches and patrols; to appoint one or
more wood measurers for the town, and to define their duties
and to prescribe their compensation to be paid by those who
receive their services; to regulate party walls and division
fences; to provide for and regulate the sweeping and burning
of chimneys, and to prescribe their size and safeguards therefor,
and to fix the compensation of those who sweep or burn the
same to be paid by those 'who receive their services; to erect
and regulate markets and to make all proper by-laws and ordi-
nances in relation thereto; to sink wells and to provide or have
provided hydrants and water plugs on the streets, lanes, alleys
and thoroughfares of the town; to regulate all water pipes,
hydrants and water plugs on the said streets, lanes, alleys and
thoroughfares and to prescribe penalties for improperly inter-
fering with or injuring such water pipes, hydrants or water