THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1437

lish quarantine regulations, and to authorize the removal
and/or confinement of persons having contagious or in-
fectious diseases; to prevent and remove all nuisances; to
inspect, regulate, and abate any buildings, structures, or
places 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 general or local law
relating to the subject of health.

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

(t) Licenses. To issue licenses to any and all persons
entering into or beginning transient business in the city
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 li-
cense and regulate any business, calling, trade, profession,
or place of amusement. To establish and collect fees and
charges for all licenses and permits issued under the
authority of this charter.

(u) Lights. To provide for the lighting of the city.

(v) Minor Privileges. To regulate or prevent the use of
public ways, sidewalks, and public places for signs, awn-
ings, posts, steps, railings, entrances, racks, posting hand-
bills and advertisements, and display of goods, wares, and
merchandise.

(w) Nuisances. To prevent or abate by appropriate ordi-
nance all nuisances in the city which are so defined at com-
mon 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 city of all animals and fowl; to regulate,
to prohibit, to control the location of, or to require the re-
moval from the city of all trading in, handling of, or manu-
facture of any commodity which is or may become offensive,
obnoxious, or injurious to the public comfort or health. In
this connection the city may regulate, prohibit, control the
location of, or require the removal from the city of such
things as stockyards, slaughterhouses, cattle or hog pens,
tanneries, renderies, and livery stables. This listing is by
way of enumeration, not limitation.