190                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 101

the owner or contractor will pay all damages which may be
sustained by any person or property from such work.

To make all regulations which may be deemed expedient
for the promotion of health or suppression of disease.

To regulate the construction of chimneys, smokestacks,
hearths, ovens, the erection of stoves and stovepipes, and cause
the same to be removed or made secure, when considered dan-
gerous; to compel owners and occupants of public houses and
public buildings to make scuttles on the roof thereof with
stairs or ladders leading to the same and to compel the erection
of fire escapes thereon.

To regulate, authorize and require the inspection of gas;
pipes, water pipes, plumbing, drainage, sewerage, and electric
lines or wires on private property or elsewhere; to compel them
to be repaired or made secure by the owner or occupant, and on
failure of such owner or occupant to do so, to authorize or re-
quire the gas, water 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 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 ordinance all nuisances in said town
which are so defined by common law, whether the same are
herein specifically 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 same.

To regulate the speed of horses, wheeled vehicles, cars, loco-
motives and all other vehicles.

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