438 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 237

telephone and electric lines therein; and they shall impose
such restrictions and conditions upon the locations and
maintenance of gas, electric light and water works, pipes,
poles and railroad tracks, as shall secure the least possible
public or private inconvenience; and they shall provide for
the enforcement of such restrictions and conditions; to
contract for lighting and supplying with water the streets
and public buildings, and for sprinkling the streets; and
such contract or contracts shall be awarded by ordinance;
to license, for the purpose of regulation and revenue, all
and every kind of business not now prohibited by law,
transacted or carried on in the town; to fix the rate of
license upon the same, and provide for the collection thereof
by suit or otherwise; to establish markets and regulate the
hours and limits thereof and the mode of dealing in rela-
tion thereto; to control and protect the public grounds and
property of the town, and protect public buildings, churches
and private buildings, trees, fences and song birds from
defacement or injury; to provide by ordinance for con-
demning, laying out, opening, extending and making new
streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening,
grading, improving, or closing up in whole or in part, any
existing street or alley, and for laying out public squares,
parks, drains, sewers or water courses; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for the temporary con-
finement of violators of the law and ordinances of the town;
to levy, to tax, and impose a license upon dogs and to pro-
hibit animals or fowls running at large; to regulate and
control all offensive trades, manufactures and traffic in
offensive fertilizers or other commodities, and prohibit or
regulate hog pens, enclosures containing cattle, horses, and
slaughter houses within the town limits; to control by ordi-
nance, the mode of constructing privies and sinks and the
manner of disposing of offal and waste products, and to
require the granting of a permit or permits for the installa-
tion of electricity, electrical wiring, plumbing or disposal
systems and to control, regulate, restrict or prohibit the
same, and prescribe the manner in which, and the material
with which, any such installation of electricity, electrical
wiring, plumbing or disposal system shall be made or done,
and in general to pass such ordinances as they may deem
proper, necessary and beneficial to the town; and for the
purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers; and for
preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives
and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate or dis-
continue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or con-