1154 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 473

vide for their inspection and selling; to make all regulations
which may be deemed expedient for the promotion of health
or the suppression of disease; to regulate the construction of
chimneys, smokestacks, hearths or ovens, and the erection of
stoves and stovepipes, boilers and apparatus used in buildings
or other places, and cause the same to be removed or made
secure when considered dangerous; to suppress, restrain and
regulate bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame, and to prohibit
the youth of said town from being on the streets, lanes or
alleys at unreasonable hours at night; to punish and suppress
tramps and vagrants by imposing fines, or both fines and im-
prisonment at hard labor, and to abate by appropriate ordi-
nances all nuisances in said town which are so defined at
common law, whether the same are herein specifically named
or not; to regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures in,
under or above the same, and to require the owner or occu-
pant of premises to keep the sidewalks in front of same free
from snow or other obstructions, and prescribe hours for clean-
ing same; to regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing
of sweepings, dust, ashes, off-fallings, dirt, garbage, paper,
dirty liquors, or any other material into any street, alley or
other public place; to prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and
public places for signs, signposts, awnings, awning posts, poles,
horse troughs, steps, railroad entrances and other obstructions;
to cause the streets, lanes and alleys to be sidewalked, paved,
graded, repaired, regraded, drained or sewered, or to close
streets, parts of streets, lanes or alleys; to regulate and license
the use of coaches, hacks, drays and automobiles and other
vehicles for the transportation of passengers, freight or other
articles to or from points within said town for hire or pay:
to regulate, license, tax, restrain or prohibit theatrical or other
exhibitions, shows or entertainments, to which money is de-
manded or received, provided lectures on scientific, historic,
benevolent, artistic or literary subjects shall not be deemed to
be within these provisions; to regulate the sale of all kinds of
property at auction in the streets, stores, shops or elsewhere
in the town, and to license auctioneers and all vendors of
property on the streets or other public places in said town;
to license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit hawkers and
itinerant dealers, peddlers and pawnbrokers; to license. tax,
regulate and prohibit the keeping of dogs; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for temporary confinement
of violators of the laws and ordinances of the town; for the
regulation and handling of all kinds of explosives, and for the