248 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 127

and construction of electrical plants and wires on which elec-
tricity is conducted within the town; to tax and regulate the
use and construction of telegraph and telephone lines in the
said town; to protect public lamps or other public lights there-
in; to regulate and contribute to the support of fire companies
in said town; to establish building lines on the streets and
ways of the town beyond which it shall not be legal to erect
buildings or other structures; to provide for the laying out,
grading, discontinuing, altering, paving, opening, improving,
lighting, making and repairing streets, squares, walks, drains,
sewers, gutters, and to keep open and safe for public use and
travel all streets, squares, alleys or any part thereof; to re-
quire sidewalks to be kept free from ice, snow or other ob-
structions; to regulate all shows, processions, assemblages or
parades in streets or public places; to regulate the speed of
animals, bicycles and automobiles and to designate over what
streets or thoroughfares the same may be driven; and to pro-
hibit the running at large of animals in the streets or public
places, and for impounding the same; to tax dogs and regulate
the time and manner, when public safety requires it, of running
at large; to license and regulate public hacks, carriages,
sleighs or public conveyances, and the charges for the use
thereof; to regulate and prohibit the excavation and opening
of streets, public walks and public grounds for public or
private purposes, whether temporary or permanent, and the
regulation of any work or thing therein; to regulate the lay-
ing and use of gas pipes, water pipes, electric light conduits,
railroad tracks and drains for public or private purposes in
the streets of the town; to provide for the sprinkling of streets
or parts thereof and establishing of public fountains of any
kind, or hydrants, and the providing the same with water; to
provide for the health of the town, and the prevention of the
introduction of contagious diseases therein and within one
mile thereof; to prevent and summarily abate nuisances of
any kind, at the expense of the persons maintaining them; to
establish quarantine regulations and regulate the burial and
disinterment of the dead; to provide for the licensing and regu-
lating or restraining theatricals, sports, exhibitions, public
amusements and performances within the town and one mile
thereof; to license, tax and regulate the peddling of merchan-
dise on the streets, and branch stores and other concerns estab-
lished for temporary purposes only, and bowling alleys in the
said town; to restrain and punish vagrants and beggars and to
prevent cruelty to animals; to provide for and regulate the
registration of voters in said town for town elections, and the
holding of town elections, and the filling of all vacancies in
any town office not otherwise provided for, and to do any and
all things necessary to make effectual the powers herein and