216 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 138

158E. The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have power
to pass all by-laws and ordinances not contrary to law, as
they may deem necessary for the good government of the
City to preserve the health, peace and safety and well be-
ing of the inhabitants, and the protection of property there-
of, to prevent, remove and abate all nuisances or obstructions in
or upon the streets, highways, lanes or alleys, drains or water
courses, or in or upon any lot adjacent thereto or any other place
within the limits of said City, and to provide for imposing a fine
on any person causing or creating any such nuisances or obstruc-
tions; to restrain all disorder, disturbances, annoyances, dis-
orderly conduct and drunkenness therein; to suppress street
walkers and to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy house
or houses of ill fame within the limits of the City; to prevent
firing of guns, cannons, pistols, rifles, sling-shots, fire-crackers
or other fire-works or other explosives therein; to suppress
fires and prevent the dangers thereof; to establish and main-
tain a fire department; to make reasonable regulations
in regard to buildings to be erected in said City, and to
grant building permits for the same; to formulate a build-
ing code and to appoint a building inspector, and to require
a reasonable fee for the issuance of building permits; to regu-
late and restrict the height, number of stories and size of
buildings and other structures, the size of yards, courts and
other open spaces, and the location and use of buildings, struc-
tures and land for trade industry, residence or tanks, pumps
or other fixtures; to establish the distance buildings or any
part thereof, fences or walls shall be erected from inner curb
of street line; to direct in what part of the City wooden
buildings shall not be erected or constructed; to prevent and
regulate the 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 remove or cause to be re-
moved houses or other structures that may be dangerous to per-
sons passing along or over any of the highways of the City;
to regulate, license and tax carts, wagons, carriages, automo-
biles, and other vehicles used in said City for transporting
goods or persons for hire to regulate the parking of all vehicles
upon the streets and alleys of said City; to regulate the speed of
horses, wheeled vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, cars
and locomotives in the City limits; to regulate the erection and
maintenance of proper safety appliances by railroads at street
crossings; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or
permits for hawking, peddling and vending of wares and mer-
chandise of every description upon the streets or highways of
the City, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers
who may go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or