588 LAWS OP MARYLAND [CH. 231

Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Washington
County", sub-title "Sharpsburg", be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and that certain
obsolete provisions of said section be and they are hereby
repealed, and all to read as follows:

736. The [Burgess and Commissioners] Mayor and
Council shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary,
in their judgment, for the good government of the town
and to secure the safety thereof and its inhabitants; to
prevent, remove and abate all nuisances or obstructions in
or upon the streets, highways, lanes, alleys, draws, water
courses, or in or upon any lot or lots adjacent thereto;
to provide for imposing fine or fines upon any person or
corporation, causing or maintaining any such nuisance
or obstruction; to repair or remove or cause to be repaired
or removed, at the cost of the owner, any house, structure
or object that may be dangerous to persons passing along
or over any highway or that may be peculiarly liable to
take fire; to make reasonable regulations in regard to
building or repairing the same; to make and establish
grades upon the streets, alleys or highways; to cause the
sidewalks and gutters along the streets and highways to
be graded, paved or improved at the cost of the abutting
property or the owner thereof; to cause curbs to be set
at the cost of the abutting property or the owner thereof;
to compel by fine or otherwise the owner or proprietor of
any lot to pave or repave the sidewalks or footways; to
cause the water courses and drains to be kept in repair
and clean, or to have the same repaired, cleaned, widened
or deepened whenever necessary, in their judgment, at the
cost of the property through which they may pass, or of
the owner thereof; to suppress vagrancy; to prohibit or
restrain the keeping of houses of ill-fame within the cor-
porate limits, and to provide for the punishment of keepers
or maintainers of such houses; to regulate and provide
for issuing licenses and permits for vending wares or
merchandise within the town limits, and for issuing
licenses and permits for hawking or peddling wares or
merchandise upon the streets or highways or from house
to house; to issue licenses to any and all persons enter-
ing into or beginning transient business in the town for
the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate
and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling
persons who dispense medicines or medical advice; to
license or issue permits to all players or showmen exhibit-
ing within the town and to regulate and restrain all public
amusements in said town; to regulate licenses and tax all
hotels, restaurants and saloons and all other places where