984 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 495

in the corporate limits, and to prevent the firing of firearms,
guns, pistols, firecrackers and all other explosives, whatever
their form or device, within the corporate limits, and enforce
all ordinances in respect thereto by penalties. (20) To pre-
vent fast riding on horseback or on a bicycle or in an automo-
bile on. the streets, alleys, lanes, and thoroughfares in said
town, and to prevent fast driving in carriage, cart, wagon or
any other vehicle on any of said streets, alleys, lanes or thor-
oughfares in said town; to regulate the speed of railroad trains
crossing any street in said town and generally to restrain what-
ever produces unreasonable annoyance or inconvenience to per-
sons while passing along streets and thoroughfares of the town
or that subjects them to the risk or danger of injury or harm
and to provide penalties for all violations of such ordinances.
(21) To order the taking down and removal of any house or
building deemed dangerous and unsafe, and to direct the tak-
ing down of the same without delay. (22) To provide proper
and suitable lights on the public streets and make contracts
for furnishing such lights. (23) To define by ordinance the
duties of all town officers or employes where not fixed by this
charter, and to require bonds of any such officers or employes
in order to secure the faithful performance of their duties or
of any contract entered into by them with the Mayor and
Council, and to fix the salaries of all officers and employes
where the same are not regulated by this Charter. (24) To bor-
row money on promissory notes not to exceed two thousand dol-
lars at any one time. (25) To establish by ordinance a local
board of health and to establish and maintain in cases of emer-
gencies pesthouses within or without the limits of the town
and to quarantine against contagious or infectious diseases.
(26) To establish and maintain a lockup for the temporary
confinement of violators of the law. (27) To regulate the
sale and storage of explosives and combustible material within
the town, and to enforce all ordinances by appropriate penal-
ties. (28) To provide for the codification and publication of
the ordinances of the town. (29) To regulate or suppress
slaughter houses and smokehouses within the town, and regu-
late canning houses within the corporate limits, and to en-
force the provisions of all such ordinances by appropriate
penalties. (30) To regulate and control generally the use of
the streets of the town by telegraph lines, telephone lines, elec-
tric light or electric power lines, electric subways, and gas or
water conduits; and no individual or corporation shall use