THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 541

(p) Jail. To establish and regulate a station house or
lock-up for confinement of violators of the laws and ordi-
nances of the town, and to make provision for the use of
the Garrett County jail.

(q) 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.

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

(s) 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.

(t) 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 run-
ning at large in the town of all animals and fowl; to regu-
late, to control the location of, or to acquire the removal
from the town of all trading in, handling of, or manufac-
ture of any commodity which is or may become offensive,
obnoxious, or injurious to the public comfort or health. In
this connection the town may regulate, prohibit, control
the location of, or require the removal from the town of
such things as stockyards, slaughterhouses, cattle or hog
pens, tanneries, renderies, and livery stables. This listing
is by way of enumeration, not limitation.

(u) Police Force. To establish, operate, and maintain
a police force.

(v) 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, disturb-
ances, annoyances, disorderly conduct, and drunkenness.

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