THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1543

(j) Franchises. To grant and regulate franchises to
electric light companies, telegraph companies, transit com-
panies, taxicab companies, and any others which may be
deemed advantageous and beneficial to the town. No fran-
chise shall be granted for a longer period than fifty years.

(k) Garbage. To require, regulate, and/or provide for
the collection and removal of filth, garbage, or any matter
or thing that is or may become injurious to the health or
comfort of the inhabitants of the Town of Mount Airy,
and to provide whether the expense, if any, shall be borne
by individual property owners or tenants or shall be paid
for in whole or in part by the town.

(I) Grants-in-Aid. To accept gifts and grants of fed-
eral or state funds from the federal or state governments
or any agency thereof, and to expend the same for any
lawful public purpose, agreeable to the conditions under
which the gift or grant was made.

(m) Hawkers. To regulate and provide for the issuing
of licenses or permits for hawking, peddling, and vending
of wares and merchandise of every description upon the
public ways in the town, and to regulate and provide for
the issuing of licenses or permits to all persons who may
go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or mer-
chandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses
to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or medical
advice.

(n) Health. To protect and preserve the health of the
town and its inhabitants; to appoint a public health officer
and to define and regulate his powers and duties; to pre-
vent the introduction of contagious diseases into the town;
to establish quarantine regulations, and to authorize the
removal and confinement of persons having contagious
or infectious diseases; to prevent and remove all nuisances;
to inspect, regulate, and abate any buildings, structures,
places or conditions which cause or may cause unsanitary
conditions or conditions detrimental to health; provided,
that nothing herein shall be construed to affect in any
manner any of the powers and duties of the State Board
of Health, the County Board of Health, or any public gen-
eral or local law relating to the subject of health.

(o) Jail. To establish and regulate a station house or
lock-up for temporary confinement of violators of the laws
and ordinances of the town, and to make provision for the
use of the Carroll County jail and the Frederick County
jail.