1828 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 935

feet from the City's sewerage system and to provide punish-
ment for violation of such regulations; to regulate and define
the location of slaughter houses and smokehouses; to prevent
any immoderate driving or riding through the streets in any
motor vehicle or any other means of conveyance so as to en-
danger the lives, limbs or property of any of the inhabitants
of the City or to disturb the quiet enjoyment of the streets and
thoroughfares; to prevent disorderly conduct and drunken-
ness in the City; to prevent and disperse the congregation of
disorderly persons upon street corners and in the vicinity of
places of worship; to purchase fire engines, establish, con-
struct and maintain waterworks, or whatever appliances may
be deemed best for extinguishing fires and protect the property
of the inhabitants from injury by fires and to furnish a supply
of pure water for the use of the inhabitants under such rules
and regulations as they, or the Municipal Utilities Commis-
sion, may prescribe; to define the duties of the officers of said
corporation, not otherwise herein provided for and require
bonds and fix the penalties thereof for the faithful performance
of their duties; to contract with individuals, companies or
corporations for the introduction and delivery of gas, water
or electricity into the City, and for the lighting of the streets
and alleys thereof; to lease, erect or purchase any plant for
the supplying of gas, water, or electricity to the City and its
inhabitants for public or private uses, and may operate the
same; they shall have power to construct and maintain or
contract for the construction of sewers or a general system
of sewers for the City; to regulate by Ordinance the limita-
tion of time for and the prevention of standing or parking of
automobiles and all other vehicles on the streets of the City
to the inconvenience or delay of public travel and to designate
such streets as they deem proper as boulevards; to impose
a license upon all water companies, telephone companies,
brokers, real estate and insurance companies located in
or doing business in the City and to regulate and license
auctioneers who cry any public sales within the corporate
limits of the City; to regulate and control all offensive
trades, manufacturers and traffic in offensive fertilizers or
other similar commodities within the City limits; to regulate,
license and tax automobiles, trucks and all other vehicles used
in the City which ply for hire or are used for the transporta-
tion of freight or merchandise; to regulate, license and tax
pool rooms, billiard halls and bowling alleys; to restrain the
use of the streets, alleys or any public thoroughfares by an in-
dividual or corporation for the purpose of a railroad, tramway,
telegraph line, telephone line, electric light or power lines,
electric subways or gas, water or electric conduits or pipe
lines without the consent of the Mayor and City Council, and