42 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 21

to require a reasonable fee for the issuance of building per-
mits; to regulate 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,
structures and land for trade industry, residence or tanks,
pumps or other fixtures; to establish the distances buildings or
any part thereof, fences or walls shall be erected from inner
curb of street line; to direct in what part of the town 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 town; to remove or cause to be removed houses
or other structures that may be dangerous to persons passing
along or over any of the highways of the town; to regulate,
license and tax carts, wagons, carriages, automobiles, and other
vehicles used in said town for transporting goods or persons for
hire; to regulate the parking of all vehicles upon the streets
and alleys of said town; to regulate the speed of horses, wheeled
vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, cars and locomo-
tives in the town limits; to regulate the erection and mainte-
nance of proper safety appliances by railroads at street cross-
ings to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or per-
mits for hawking, peddling and vending of wares and merchan-
dise of every description upon the streets or highways of the
town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers
who may go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or
merchandise; to issue licenses to any and all persons entering
into or beginning transient business in said town for the sale
of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide
for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense
medicines or medical advice; to regulate and license all restau-
rants, barber shops, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire and slaugh-
ter sales and. auction sales; to regulate and license all nine and
ten pin alleys, bowling alleys, skating rinks, pool and billiard
tables, theatres, moving picture shows, boxing and sparring
matches and wrestling contests, and also exhibitions of every
kind; to provide for the restraining of theatricals or other pub-
lic amusements of an immoral or indecent nature in said town;
to regulate the construction and maintenance of exits from
places of amusements and all public buildings; to prevent
gambling and games of chance; to regulate the use of side-
walks and all structures in, under or above same, and to require