THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1485

(w) Minor Privileges. To regulate or prevent the use
of streets, sidewalks, and public places for signs, awnings,
posts, steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting handbills
and advertisements, and display of goods, wares, and mer-
chandise.

(x) Nuisances. To regulate, restrain, or prohibit the
running at large of all animals and fowl on any of the
public ways of the city; to regulate all stockyards, cattle
pens, hog pens, and slaughterhouses within the city, or
provide for their removal from the corporate limits there-
of; to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufac-
ture and traffic in offensive fertilizer or other commodi-
ties within the city limits; to regulate or suppress slaugh-
terhouses and smokehouses within the city, and to regu-
late canning houses within the corporate limits; to abate
by appropriate ordinance all nuisances in the city which
are so defined at common law, by this charter, or by the
laws of the State of Maryland, whether the same be herein
specifically named or not; to prevent, remove, and abate
all nuisances or obstructions in or upon the public ways,
drains, or water courses, or in or upon any lot adjacent
thereto, or any other place within the limits of the city;
to remove or cause to be removed houses or other struc-
tures that may be dangerous to persons passing along or
over any of the public ways of the city.

(y) Parking Lots. To license, regulate, establish, oper-
ate, acquire, own, and maintain parking lots.

(z) Parks and Playgrounds. To establish and maintain
public parks and playgrounds.

(a2) Public Property. To control and protect the pub-
lic grounds and property of the city; to provide for pro-
tection of all public property, cemeteries, and property of
all public service companies or corporations.

(b2) Public Utilities. To establish, own, control, oper-
ate, maintain and manage a wharf for the use of the City,
a public market, and a plant or plants and system or sys-
tems for supplying water to and for the City and the in-
habitants thereof, and adjacent thereto, or any one or
more of them, and to exercise police power to regulate and
control the use of the streets, alleys and highways and
other public places of the City by electric, gas, telephone,
telegraph, street railway, taxicab, bus, water, heating,
sewer and drain companies, and to purchase or condemn,
as hereafter provided, any property whatsoever, in fee
simple or otherwise, for the purpose of establishing, own-
ing, controlling, operating, maintaining or managing any