1826 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 935

ances and obstructions on or from the streets, highways, lanes,
alleys, drains or water courses, or on or from any lot within
the limits of the City and to provide for imposing a fine on any
person causing, creating or maintaining any nuisance or ob-
struction; to remove or cause to be removed any houses or
other buildings that may in their judgment become dangerous
to property, health or safety of persons in the City; to cause
the streets, lanes and alleys to be paved, graded, drained or
sewered, and to fix the width thereof and prescribe the ma-
terial of which they shall be constructed; to cause the side-
walks along the public streets and highways of the City to be
graded, paved, repaired or improved, curbs to be set and gut-
ters laid; and the Mayor and City Council, in addition to the
regular taxes paid may in their discretion without discrimina-
tion assess against the owner of the abutting property one-half
of the cost of said curbs and sidewalks installed by the City,
which shall be a lien on the adjacent property and shall take
precedence over a mortgage or any other lien on said property,
said abutting owner to pay one-tenth of the cost of installing
one-half of the said curb and sidewalk each year for a period
of ten years until said abutting owner shall have paid one-
half of the cost of said curb and sidewalk, which cost shall
be added to and made part of his regular taxes; to erect and
establish houses of correction, hospitals or penthouses with-
out or within the City, and to provide for the government of
the same; to establish and regulate a station house or lockup
for the temporary confinement of violators of the laws of the
State or the Ordinances of the City; to suppress vagrancy; to
prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or houses of
ill-fame within the limits of the City; to provide for the pun-
ishment of all persons who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be
kept, any such bawdy houses or houses of ill-fame; to control,
protect and preserve the health of the citizens and the prop-
erty rights and privileges of the City; to prevent the storage
of explosives or combustible matter in such quantities or
places within the City or within one mile thereof as they may
deem dangerous; to construct, maintain or lease such build-
ings for municipal purposes as they may deen necessary and
proper; to regulate and provide for the licensing of pawn-
brokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions, patents, secrets or pre-
tended inventions and remedies on the streets, lanes or side-
walks of the City; to regulate and provide for the issuing of
licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of
wares and merchandise of every description on the streets,
lanes, alleys or sidewalks of the City; to issue licenses or per-
mits to all automobiles, trucks, drays or any kind of vehicle
and itinerant peddlers who may go from house to house to
vent or sell wares or merchandise; to issue licenses to any and