544 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

they shall provide for the enforcement of such restrictions
and conditions; to contract for lighting and supplying with
water the streets and public buildings, and for sprinkling the
streets; and such contract or contracts shall be awarded by or-
dinance; to license, for the purpose of regulation and revenue,
all and every kind of business not now prohibited by law, trans-
acted or carried on in the town; to fix the rate of license upon
the same, and provide for the collection thereof by suit or other-
wise; to establish markets and regulate the hours and limits
thereof and the mode of dealing in relation thereto; to control
and protect the public grounds and property of the town, and
protect public buildings, churches and private buildings, trees,
fences and song birds from defacement or injury; to provide
by ordinance for condemning, laying out, opening, extending
and making new streets or alleys, and for altering, straighten-
ing, widening, grading, improving, or closing up in whole or in
part, any existing street or alley, and for laying out public
squares, parks, drains, sewers or water courses; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for the temporary confine-
ment of violators of the law and ordinances of the town; to
levy, to tax, and impose a license upon dogs and to prohibit
animals or fowls running at large; to regulate and control all
offensive trades, manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers
or other commodities, and prohibit or regulate hog pens and
slaughter houses within the town limits; to control by ordi-
nance, the mode of constructing privies and sinks and the man-
ner of disposing of offal and waste products, and to require the
granting of a permit or permits for the installation of elec-
tricity, electrical wiring, plumbing or disposal systems and to
control, regulate, restrict or prohibit the same, and prescribe
the manner in which, and the material with which, any such
installation of electricity, electrical wiring, plumbing or dis-
posal system shall be made or done, and in general to pass
such ordinances as they may deem proper, necessary and bene-
ficial to the town; and for the purpose of carrying out the fore-
going powers; and for preservation of the cleanliness, health,
peace and good order of the community, and for the protection
of the lives and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate
or discontinue or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued,
all nuisances within the corporate limits of said town, and when
to do so would be to the advantage and benefit of the town,
they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time neces-
sary, and to insure the observation of such ordinances in ad-
dition to the action 6f debt or such other civil remedies as may