338 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 315

(25) To establish by ordinance a local board of health
and to establish and maintain in cases of emergencies pest-
houses within or without the limits of the town and to quar-
antine against contagious or infectious diseases.

(26) To establish and maintain a lockup for the tempor-
ary confinement of violators of the law.

(27) To regulate the sale and storage of explosive and
combustible material within the town, and to enforce all or-
dinances by appropriate penalties.

(28) To provide for the codification and publication of the
ordinances of the town.

(29) To regulate or suppress slaughter houses and smoke-
houses within the town, and regulate canning houses within
the corporate limits, and to enforce the provisions of all such
ordinances by appropriate penalties.

(30) To regulate and control generally the use of the
streets of the town by telegraph lines, telephone lines, electric
light or electric power lines, electric subways, and gas or water
conduits; and no individual or corporation shall use any
street, lane or alley or thoroughfare of said town for any tele-
graph, telephone, electric light or electric power poles or lines,
or for any subway or conduit without the consent of the Mayor
and Council of Pocomoke City first had and obtained by or-
dinance for that purpose passed and approved; and any such
pole or line, subway or conduit placed upon, in or under any
of the streets, lanes, alleys or thoroughfares of said town
without such consent of the Mayor or Council shall be deemed
a nuisance.

(31) To employ an attorney and to pay for reasonable
fees.

(32) To accumulate a fund or other property by gifts or
bequests of citizens of said town, or any other persons, for
equipping the volunteer fire company of said town and pro-
moting its efficiency and growth; and the Mayor and Council
may become trustee of any such fund, and may for the invest-
ment and accumulation of any such fund buy and acquire title
as such trustee of any property, real or personal, and sell,,
grant, lease or mortgage the same, and execute, acknowledge
and deliver all necessary deeds for carrying out the power
hereby given.

(33) To require by ordinance or ordinances any railroad
company or other corporation running its locomotives or trains
across any street within the corporate limits, to keep a watch-
man or a flagman or erect and maintain safety gates, or both,,