1544 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 538

(p) Licenses. To issue licenses to any and all persons
entering into or beginning transient business in the town
for the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise; to license
and regulate all restaurants, pawnbrokers, junk dealers,
fire and slaughter sales, auctioneers and auction sales; to
license and regulate any business or calling or place of
amusement; to establish and collect fees and charges for
all licenses and permits issued under the authority of this
charter.

(q) Lights. To provide for the lighting of the town.

(r) Minor Privileges. To regulate or prevent the use
of public ways, sidewalks, and public places for signs,
awnings, posts, steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting
handbills and advertisements, and display of goods, wares,
and merchandise.

(s) Nuisances. To prevent or abate by appropriate
ordinance all nuisances in the town 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 regulate, restrain, or prohibit the keeping
or running at large in the town of all animals and fowl; to
regulate, to prohibit, to control the location of, or to
require the removal from the town of all trading in,
handling of, or manufacture of any commodity which is or
may become offensive, obnoxious, or injurious to the public
comfort or health. In this connection the town may regu-
late, prohibit, control the location of, or require the re-
moval from the town of such things as stockyards, slaugh-
terhouses, cattle or hog pens, tanneries, renderies, and
livery stables. This listing is by way of enumeration, not
limitation.

(t) Police Force. To establish, operate, and maintain
a police force. All town policemen shall have the powers
and authority of constables in this state.

(u) Police Powers. To prohibit, suppress, and punish
within the town all vice, gambling, and games of chance;
street walkers and the keeping of bawdy houses and houses
of ill fame; all tramps and vagrants; all disorder, dis-
turbances, annoyances, disorderly conduct, and drunken-
ness.

(v) Public Property. To acquire property, real or
personal, within or without the boundaries of the town
for any public purpose by purchase, gift, bequest, devise,
lease, condemnation, or otherwise; to construct and main-
tain all buildings necessary for the operation of the town