1582 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be used; establish building lines on any of the streets and alleys
of said town, beyond which no structure can be erected; prevent
and regulate the storage of gunpowder, oil or other conbusti-
ble matter in such quantities and in such places as they may
deem proper; regulate the speed of horses, vehicle, motor-
cycles, automobiles, cars and locomotives in the town limits;
regulate the maintenance of proper safety appliances by rail-
roads at street crossings and the stopping of trains thereon;
provide for the restraining or regulation of theatricals or other
public amusements within said town; regulate the construction
and maintenance of exits from places of amusement and all
public buildings; regulate the use of sidewalks and all struc-
tures in, under or above the same and may require the owner
or occupant of premises to keep the sidewalks in front of same
and the gutters thereof free from snow and other obstructions,
and prescribe hours for cleaning same; regulate or prevent the
throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, hand-
bills, dirty liquids or any other offensive or objectionable mater-
ial 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,
entrances, the posting of handbills and advertisements and dis-
play of goods, wares and merchandise; regulate the putting ii.
of sewers or drains on or under its streets or alleys, and the
charges for entering and maintaining the same; grant franchises
to electric companies, telegraph companies, telephone companies,
street railway companies, water companies, sewer and drain
companies, and any other public or quasi-public service cor-
poration ; and the ordinance or contract granting such franchise
shall specifically set out the nature, right and character of
same, and no power or right not expressed in the franchise 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 pro-
vide for the removal or killing worthless, annoying or danger-
ous 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