EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 925

therefor, specifying the material of which same shall be built
and purpose for which same is to be used; to direct in what
part of the City wooden buildings shall be erected; to prevent
and regulate storage of gunpowder, oil or other combustible
matter in such quantities and in such places as they may deem
proper; to prevent obstructions on the streets, lanes, alleys and
highways of said city; to regulate the width of tires of all vehi-
cles used upon the streets, lanes or alleys of said City; to
license carts, wagons, carriages, and other vehicles used for
transporting goods or persons for hire, burden or pleasure, and
to provide and regulate the numbering of same; to regulate the
speed of horses, vehicles, automobiles, cars and locomotives in
the City limits; to regulate the harbor of Crisfield, the anchor-
age of vessels in the navigable waters of the City, the hauling
in to the public wharf and other wharves. For these purposes
each policeman of said City shall have all the usual rights and
powers of harbor master; to regulate the erection and main-
tenance of proper safety appliances by railroad at street cross-
ings; to regulate and license all pawn brokers, junk dealers,
fire and slaughter sales, auction sales, street venders or ped-
dlers of nostrums, remedies, medicines, notions or any other
goods, patents, secret or pretended inventions; to regulate and
license or prohibit all nine or ten-pin alleys, bowling alleys,
pool rooms, billiard rooms, skating rinks, theatres, moving pic-
tures, shows, boxing and sparring matches, wrestling matches
or contests, and all shows and exhibitions of every kind; to
provide for the restraining of theatrical or other public amuse-
ments within said City; to regulate the construction and main-
tenance of exits from places of amusements and all public
buildings; to prevent gambling and games of chance, fortune
telling, conjuring, palmistry and sooth-saying; to regulate the
use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or above same,
and 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 hours for clean-
ing same; to regulate or prevent the throwing of sweepings,
dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any
other offensive or objectionable material into any street, alley
or public place, or any vacant lot in. said City; to regulate or
prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public places for signs,
signposts, awnings, awning posts, poles, horse troughs, steps,
railings, entrances, rocks, posting handbills and advertisements
and display of goods, wares and merchandise; to construct at
public expense or to grant franchises for and to regulate the