WICOMICO COUNTY. 5099

ments of an immoral or indecent nature in said City; to regulate the con-
struction and maintenance of exits from places of amusements and all
public buildings; to prevent gambling and games of chance; to regulate
the use of sidewalks and all structures in, under or above same, and to
require the owner or occupant of the premises to keep the sidewalks in
front of same and the gutters thereof free from snow and other obstruc-
tions, and to prescribe hours for cleaning same; to regulate and prevent
the throwing of sweepings, dust, ashes, offal, garbage, paper, handbills,
dirty liquids or other material into any street, alley or public place, or on
any vacant lot in said City; to license all open water-closets not connected
with sewer and to prescribe rules and regulations for removing the excre-
ment therefrom; to regulate or suppress slaughter houses and smoke houses
in said City, and to regulate canning houses within the corporate limits,
and to enforce the provisions of all such ordinances by appropriate penal-
ties; to regulate, restrain or prohibit the running at large of horses, bulls,

cows, sheep, goats, ducks, geese and chickens on any of the streets, lanes,
alleys or highways of said city, to regulate all stockyards, cattle pens,
hog pens and slaughter houses within the said City, or provide for their
removal from the corporate limits thereof; to regulate or prevent the use

of streets, sidewalks and public places for signs, signposts, awnings, awn-
ing posts, posts, horse troughs, steps, railings, entrances, rocks, posting
handbills and advertisements and display of goods, wares and merchan-
dise; to grant franchises and regulate the putting of sewers or drains on
or under its streets, alleys or highways and the charges for entering same;
to grant and regulate franchises to electric light companies, power com-
panies, gas companies, telephone companies, telegraph companies, street
railway companies, water companies, sewer or drain companies, and any

other which they deem advantageous and beneficial to said City or the
inhabitants thereof, and to regulate the charges for services of such com-
panies as now possess or may hereafter obtain franchises in said City; all
such franchises shall be for a definite term of years not exceeding twenty-
five years, and be renewable at the discretion of the Mayor and Council,
and shall specifically set out the nature right and duration of same, and
no power or right not expressed in the franchise or grant shall pass there-
under ; and the Mayor and Council notwithstanding anything that may be
set out in any such franchise or grant, shall not have the power to divest
itself of the right to regulate and control the use of the rights under any
franchise granted or that may be granted by it, and to fix and regulate
the charges for service whenever they deem the public interest may require
it; to establish and maintain public parks and playgrounds; to control
and protect the public grounds and property of the City; to establish and
regulate a station house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators
of the laws and ordinances of the City; to punish and suppress tramps and
vagrants; to regulate the keeping of dogs in said City and to provide for
the licensing and taxing of the same; to provide for killing of dogs on
which no license or taxes are paid; to provide for protection of all public
property, cemeteries and property of all public service companies or cor-
porations and for any franchise, easement or privilege hereafter granted