1066 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 514

to regulate the construction of chimneys and smokestacks and
cause the same to be made secure or removed when consid-
ered dangerous; to suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy-
houses or houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit the youth of said
town from being on the streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable
hours at night; to punish and suppress tramps and vagrants
by imposing fines or both fines and imprisonment at hard
labor, and to abate by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in
said town which are so defined at common law whether the
same are herein expressly named or not; to regulate the use of
sidewalks and all structures in, under or above the same, and
to require the owner or occupant of premises to keep the side-
walk in front of same free from snow and other obstructions;
to regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of sweep-
ings, dust, ashes off fallings, dirt, garbage, paper, dirty liq-
uors or any other material into any street, alley or other public
place; to prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public
places for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, poles, horse
troughs, steps and other obstructions; to cause the streets,
lanes and alleys to be sidewalked, paved, graded, repaired, re-
paved, regraded, drained or sewered; to regulate and license
the uses of coaches, hacks, drays, automobiles and other vehi-
cles for the transportation of passengers, freight or other arti-
cles to or from points within said town for hire or pay; to
regulate, license, tax, restrain or prohibit theatrical or other
exhibitions, shows or entertainments to which money is de-
manded or received, provided lectures on scientific, historic,
benevolent, artistic or literary subjects shall not be deemed to
be within these provisions; to license vendors of property on
the streets or other public places in said town; to license,, tax,
regulate, suppress and prohibit paupers and itinerant dealers,
peddlers and pawnbrokers; to license, tax, regulate and pro-
hibit the keeping of dogs, establish station house or lock-up
for temporary confinement of violators of the law and ordi-
nances of the town; for the regulation and handling of all
kinds of explosives, for the prevention of gambling; to assess
and tax the expense of laying of sidewalks in said town in
whole or in part upon the respective owners of property foot-
ing thereon, and that the expenses and costs of paving, repair-
ing or otherwise improving the sidewalks in said town in-
curred by the council under their ordinances may be charged
and recovered by them in the name of the corporation from
the owners of the property footing thereon by suit or action