EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 985

any street, lane or alley or thoroughfare of said town for any
telegraph, telephone, electric light or electric power poles or
lines, or for any subway or conduit without the consent of the
Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City first had and obtained,
by ordinance for that purpose passed and approved; and any
such pole or line, subway or conduit placed upon, in or under
any of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said
town without such consent of the Mayor or Council shall be
deemed a nuisance. (31) To employ an attorney and to pay
him reasonable fees. (32) To accumulate a fund or other
property by gifts or bequests of citizens of said town, or any
other persons, for equipping the volunteer fire company of
said town and promoting its efficiency and growth; and the
Mayor and Council may become trustee of any such fund, and
may for the investment and accumulation of any such fund
buy and acquire title as such trustee of any property, real or
personal, and sell, grant, lease or mortgage the same, and exe-
cute, acknowledge and deliver all necessary deeds for carry-
ing out the power hereby given. (33) To require by ordi-
nance or ordinances any railroad company or other corpora-
tion running its locomotives or trains across any street within
the corporate limits, to keep a watchman or a flagman or erect
and maintain safety gates, or both, at such crossings of
said street to warn persons of the approach of the locomotives
and trains, and to enforce all such ordinances by such fines or
penalties within the limits herein provided as they deem nec-
essary to enforce the power hereby given. (34) And gener-
ally to pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances not contrary
to law for the preservation of the health, comfort, convenience,
morals, cleanliness, peace and good order of the community,
and for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens
of said town, and for the suppression, abatement and discon-
tinuance of nuisances within the limits of said town; and for
the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers the Mayor
and Council may pass any and all ordinances and by-laws from
time to time deemed necessary, and may enforce and) insure
the observance of such by-laws or ordinances in addition to the
usual action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist
in such cases by law for the recovery of fees, fines and penal-
ties thereto affixed; they may affix thereto reasonable penalties
for default of payment of any fine and cost imposed for a vio-
lation of any ordinance or by-laws; they may provide for the
imprisonment of the offender for a period not to exceed thirty