1560 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 908

establish and regulate a fire department and provide such
means, engines, apparatus, measures or materials for the
prevention or extinguishment of fires as they deem neces-
sary; to permit and control the laying of gas or water
pipes in the public streets, and to construct, maintain and
license, and permit the construction and maintenance of
telegraph, telephone and electric lines therein, and they
. shall impose such restrictions and conditions upon the loca-
tion and maintenance of telephone, telegraph, gas, electric
lights and waterworks, pipes, wires, poles and railroad or
trolley tracks as shall cause the least possible public or
private inconvenience, and they shall provide for the en-
forcement of such restrictions and conditions; to license,
for the purpose of regulation and revenue, all and every
kind of business transacted or carried on in the Town, and
to fix the rate of license upon the same, and provide for
the collection thereof by suit or otherwise; to license, regu-
late or prohibit the solicitation of customers by visiting the
homes in the Town, ringing door bells or otherwise; to
license, regulate or prohibit the sale of goods, wares or
merchandise from any truck, wagon or other vehicle, or
from any basket or other receptacle; to license, regulate
or prohibit any place of public amusement or recreation,
pleasure parks, picnic grounds, club houses, theatrical ex-
hibitions, baseball grounds, bowling alleys, billiard or pool
rooms, camp-meeting grounds or public assembly of any
kind; to establish markets and regulate the hours and limits
thereof and the mode of dealing in relation thereto; to con-
trol and protect the public grounds and property of the
Town; to establish, equip and maintain public parks and
playgrounds; to protect public buildings, churches and pri-
vate buildings, trees and fences, from defacement or in-
jury; to protect song birds; to provide by ordinance for
condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making
new streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, wid-
ening, grading, improving or closing, in whole or in part,
any existing street or alley, and for laying out public
squares, parks, drains, sewers or water courses; to estab-
lish and regulate a station-house or lock-up for the tem-
porary confinement of violators of the law and ordinances
of the Town; to levy a tax and impose a license upon dogs
or other animals or fowls running at large; to regulate
and control all offensive trades, manufacturers and traffic
in offensive fertilizers or other commodities and prohibit
hog pens and slaughter houses within the Town limits;
to control by ordinance the manner of disposing of offal
and waste products; and to regulate, license and tax restau-
rants and other places where food and/or malt or vinous
liquors or other beverages are sold, to regulate, license and