1738 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 702

(55) SNOW. To require the owners or occupants of build-
ings to remove the snow and ice from cornices and other
projections on said buildings.

(56) SOLICITORS. To license, tax, regulate or prohibit
solicitors for hotels, restaurants, or other establishments and
purposes, including solicitors for magazines and periodicals.

(57) STEAM BOILERS. To require the inspection and
licensing of steam boilers, and to prohibit their use when
unsafe, dangerous, or without a, license.

(58) STORES. To license, tax and regulate branch stores or
establishments and all other concerns established in the City
for temporary business only.

(59) STREET LIGHTS. To provide proper and suitable lights
upon the public streets.

(60) SWEEPINGS. To regulate and prevent the throwing
or depositing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, dirt, garbage,
paper, handbills, dirty liquids or any other material into any
street, alley or public place.

(61) TAXICABS. To license, tax and regulate public hack-
men, taxicabmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, carters, cabmen,
porters, and expressmen, and all other persons pursuing like
occupation, and to prescribe their rates of compensation.

(62) TRAFFIC. To regulate all traffic within the limits of
the City, including trains at grade crossings, and to prohibit
interference with or injury to traffic signs and all other City
property, subject to the provisions of Article 66 1/2 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland.

(63) UTILITY INSTALLATIONS. To authorize and require the
inspection of gas pipes, water pipes, plumbing, drainage,
sewage and electric lines or wires on private property or
elsewhere; to compel them to be repaired or made secure by
the owner or occupant, and on failure of such owner or
occupant to do so, to authorize or require the gas or electric
current to be shut off from the same until such repairs are
made.

(64) VAGRANTS. To punish and suppress tramps and
vagrants by imposing fines, or both fine and imprisonment at
hard labor.

(65) VEHICLES. To regulate the use of streets and alleys
by vehicles, and designate the kind of conveyances and
vehicles which may not use designated streets, together with
hours for the use of such streets by certain specified classes