222 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 96

To authorize and require the inspection of gas pipes, water
pipes, plumbing, drainage, sewage and electric lines or wires
on private property or elsewhere; to compel them to be re-
paired or made secure by the owner or occupant, and on failure
of such owner or occupant to do so, to authorize or require the
gas or electric current to be shut off from the same until such
repairs are made.

To regulate and prohibit the keeping of any lumber yard
and the placing or piling of any lumber, wood or other com-
bustible material within the fire limits.

To suppress, restrain and regulate bawdy houses, disorderly
houses and houses of ill-fame and to prohibit the youth of said
city from being on the streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable
hours of the night.

To restrain and prohibit gaming.

To punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing
fines or both fine and imprisonment at hard labor, and to abate
by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said city which are
so defined by common law, whether the same are herein spe-
cifically named or not.

To prevent immoderate or careless riding or driving.

To regulate the use of streets and alleys by vehicles, and
designate the kind of conveyances and vehicles which may not
use designated streets, which have been improved, together
with hours for the use of such streets by certain specified
classes of vehicles.

To prevent the encumbering of streets, alleys, squares, side-
walks and crossings with vehicles, horses or any substance
or material interfering with the free use of the same.

To regulate the speed of horses, wheeled vehicles, cars, loc-
omotives and all other vehicles.

To regulate and protect all bridges, culverts, tunnels, via-
ducts, aqueducts, sewers, canals and hydrants wholly or partly
in said city, and to prohibit digging in such streets, alleys or
public places, or in any way injuring, disturbing or making
holes in the surface thereof.

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 sidewalks in front of the same free from
snow and other obstructions, and prescribe hours for cleaning
the same.

To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of sweep-
ings, dust, ashes, offal, dirt, garbage, paper, handbills, dirty