256 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 154

medicines, notions, and other goods, patent, secret or pretended
inventions; to regulate and license all nine or ten pin alleys,
bowling alleys, skating rinks, pool and billiard tables, theatres,
moving picture shows, boxing and sparring contests, and all
shows and exhibitions of every kind; to provide for the restrain-
ing of theatrical or other public amusements of an immoral or in-
decent nature in said town; to regulate the construction and
maintenance of exits from, places of amusement and all public
buildings; to prevent gambling and games of chance; to regu-
late the use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or over
same: to 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 to prescribe the hours for
cleaning same; to regulate and prevent the throwing of sweep-
ings, dust ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids
or other material into any street, alley or public place, or on
any. vacant lot in said town; to regulate or suppress slaughter
houses and smoke houses in said town; and regulate canning
houses within the corporate limits, and to enforce the pro-
visions of all such ordinances by appropriate penalties; to
regulate, restrain or prohibit the running at large of horses,
bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and chickens on
any of the streets, lanes, alleys or highways of said town,
and to further forbid or regulate the keeping of swine
in said town; to regulate and prevent the use of the streets,
sidewalks and public places for signs, sign-posts, awning posts,
horse troughs, steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting hand-
bills and advertisements and display of goods, wares and mer-
chandise; to construct at public expense, or to grant franchises,
regulate the putting of sewers or drains on or under its streets,
alleys or highways, and the charge for entering same; to grant
and regulate franchises to electric light companies, power com-
panies, gas companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies,
street railway companies, water companies, sewer or drain com-
panies, and any other which they deem advantageous and benefi-
cial to said town or the inhabitants thereof; all such franchises
shall be for a definite term of years not exceeding twenty-five
years, and be renewable at the discretion of the President and
Commissioners, and shall specially set out the nature, right and
duration of same, and no power or right, not expressed in the
franchises or grant shall pass thereunder; to regulate the keep-
ing of dogs in said town and to provide for taxes thereon, and to
provide for the collection of same as other city taxes are col-
lected, and to provide that any person or persons owning a dog