1262 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or substance into any street, alley or public place, or upon any
vacant lot in said town; regulate or prevent the use of streets,
sidewalks and public places for signs, signposts, awnings, boxes,
posts, poles, horse troughs, steps, bay windows, railings, en-
trances, the posting, of handbills and advertisements, and dis-
play of goods, wares and merchandise; regulate the putting in
of sewers or drains on or under its streets or alleys, and the
charges for entering and maintaining the same; grant fran-
chises to electric companies, telegraph companies, telephone
companies, street railway companies, water companies, sewer
and drain companies, and any other public or quasi-public ser-
vice corporation; and the ordinance or contract granting such
franchise shall specifically set out the nature, right and char-
acter of same, and no power or right not expressed in the fran-
chise or grant shall pass thereunder; regulate the erection and
use of telephone, telegraph and electric light poles and wires
within the town; regulate the keeping of dogs in said town, and
provide for the removal or killing worthless, annoying or dan-
gerous dogs; prevent the running at large within said town of
horses, cattle, hogs, geese or any other beast, brute or fowl,
and regulate or prevent the keeping of the same within said town;
provide for the protection of all town property and of all public
property of public service companies or corporation; punish and
suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing fines or both fine
and imprisonment or by hard labor on the streets of the town.
And they shall have power to provide by ordinance for the con-
struction, opening, enlarging or straightening of any sewer or
drain and for regulation of the same; for paving and keeping
in repair all necessary sewers and drains or gutters; to pro-
vide for the purchase and condemnation of private or public
property, as is now provided in this Act for the condemnation
and opening of streets in said town, for the purpose of paving,
building and maintaining any sewer or drain for surface water
in said town; they are empowered by ordinance to regulate and
prohibit cesspools, earth pits and other means of sewage disposal;
to regulate or exclude places where offensive trades or occupation
is conducted or engaged in; to regulate or exclude pig pens
within the corporate limits: to pass ordinances governing the
. disposal of garbage or refuse; to regulate or exclude slaughter
houses within the corporate limits; to pass ordinances to close
polluted wells, springs and other sources of water supply, when
such sources shall be certified by the State Board of Health,
after proper analysis, to be polluted; and to pass ordinances for
the quarantine and regulation of all communicable diseases,