218 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 138

ceeding twenty-five years, and be renewable at the discretion
of the Mayor and Council, and shall specifically set out the
nature, right and duration of same, and no power or right
not expressed in the franchise or grant shall pass thereun-
der; and the Mayor and Council notwithstanding anything
that may be set out in any such franchise or grant, shall not
have the power to divest itself of the right to regulate and
control the use of the rights under any franchise granted or
that may be granted by it, and to fix and regulate the charges
for service whenever they deem the public interest may require
it; to establish and maintain public parks and playgrounds;
to control and protect the public grounds and property of
the City; to establish and regulate a station house or lock-
up for temporary confinement of violators of the laws and
ordinances of the City; to punish and suppress tramps and
vagrants; to regulate the keeping of dogs in said City and to
provide for the licensing and taxing of the same; to provide
for killing of dogs on which no license or taxes are paid; to
provide for protection of all public property, cemeteries and
property of all public service companies or corporations and
for any franchise, easement or privilege hereafter granted
the Mayor and Council may charge for such franchise, ease-
ments or privileges when granted, and may charge an annual
rental upon any franchise, easement or privilege for using
the streets, highways and sidewalks of said City that hither-
to has been granted or may hereafter be granted; to regulate
and license auctioneers who cry any public sales within the
corporate limits of the City; to regulate and control all offen-
sive trades, manufacture and traffic in offensive fertilizer or
other commodities within the City limits; to provide for the
codification of all ordinances which may have been or may
hereafter be passed; and to abate by appropriate ordinance all
nuisances in said City which are so defined at common law by
this Act or by laws of the State of Maryland, whether the
same be herein specifically named or not; and for the purpose
of carrying out the aforegoing powers and for the preservation
of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the commu-
nity, and for the protection of the lives and property of the
citizens, and to suppress, abate and discontinue, or cause to be
suppressed, abated or discontinued all nuisances within the cor-
porate and sanitary limits of said City, they may pass all ordi-
nances or by-laws from time to time necessary, and to insure
the observance of said ordinances in addition to the usual ac-
tion of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in such
cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereto affixed,
they may affix thereto such reasonable fines as to them appear
right, and in default of the payment of any fine imposed, they