1734 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 702

(14) CURFEW. To prohibit the youth of the City from
being in the streets, lanes, alleys or public places at unrea-
sonable hours of the night.

(15) DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. To compel persons about to
undertake dangerous improvements to execute bond, with
sufficient sureties, conditioned that the owner or contractor
will pay all damages which may be sustained by any persons
or property from such work.

(16) DIGGING. To prohibit digging in the streets, alleys
or public places, or in any way injuring, disturbing or making
holes in the surface thereof.

(17) DISORDERLY HOUSES. To suppress bawdy houses, dis-
orderly houses and houses of ill-fame.

(18) Dogs. To license, tax, regulate and prohibit the keep-
ing or harboring of dogs.

(19-) DUMPING. To regulate and prohibit the dumping of
ashes, refuse or debris at any place within the City, including
the stream bed of Wills Creek.

(20) ELEVATORS. To require the inspection and licensing
of elevators, and to prohibit their use when unsafe or dan-
gerous or without a license.

(21) EXPLOSIVES. To regulate or prevent the storage of
gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine,
hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petrol-
eum, gasoline or gas, or any product thereof, or any other
explosives or combustible material, or any material which
may seem to be dangerous.

(22) FILTH. To compel the occupants of any premises,
building or outhouses situated in the City, when the same
have become filthy or unwholesome, to abate or cleanse the
same, and to authorize the same to be done by the proper
officers, and assess the expense thereof against such property.

(23) FIRE HAZARDS. To regulate the construction of
chimneys, smokestacks, hearths, and ovens, the erection of
stoves and stovepipes, boilers and apparatus used in buildings
or other places, and to cause the same to be removed or
made secure, when considered dangerous; to compel owners
and occupants of houses and buildings to make scuttles on
the roof thereof with stairs or ladders leading to the same;
and to compel the erection of fire escapes or other fire-proof
means of exit; to regulate the emission of smoke and dirt.

(24) (Vacant. )