1566 ARTICLE 6.

of the time and place of sale by written or printed handbills set up in two
public places in said town or by advertisement in some newspaper pub-
lished in Caroline County. And whenever real estate is sold as aforesaid
the Treasurer or other person making such sale shall report the same to the
Circuit Court for Caroline County which shall take and exercise juris-
diction over said sale and cause such proceedings to be taken and had
looking to the ratification thereof as is or may be hereafter provided by
law for the ratification of tax sales in this State; provided, however, that
no sale of real estate as aforesaid shall be ratified to the purchaser thereof,
his heirs or assigns, if the person against whom the said tax was assessed,
his heirs or assigns shall within six months after said sale pay into Court
to be paid to the parties entitled thereto all taxes due at the time of said
sale, together with a Commission of 10 per cent, to the party making said
sale and all costs including an attorney's fee to the counsel to the Commis-
sioners of Denton, and interest to the purchaser on the amount of the
purchase price at the rate of ten per centum per annum.

1914, ch. 730, sec. 85.

138. Each of the Commissioners shall receive for services rendered
in attending each meeting the sum of two dollars provided, however, that
no such Commissioner shall receive in any one year more than the sum of
fifty dollars for said services.

1914, ch. 730 sec. 86.

139. The Commissioners shall have power to purchase and hold real,
personal and mixed property for the use and benefit of said corporation,
or the recreation, entertainment and amusement of its citizens, and may
convey and dispose of the same or any part thereof, and to receive prop-
erty by gift, devise or deed, in trust for any municipal object. They shall
have power to pass ordinances and by-laws to prevent and remove nuisances
and obstructions from the streets, lanes and alleys, and from lots adjoin-
ing streets, lanes and alleys and from any other place within the limits
of said town, and regulate and prohibit the excavation and opening of
streets and alleys and any work or anything being done therein or thereon;
to restrain drunkenness, all disorderly annoyances or disorderly conduct;
suppress street walkers, bawdy houses and prevent gambling; prevent the
firing of cannons, guns, pistols, fire-crackers, fireworks or other explosives
within the corporate limits; suppress fires, and prevent the danger thereof;
establish or aid and assist the maintenances of a fire department; make
or cause to be made and repaired, all necessary drains, sewers, culverts
and bridges; for controlling the erection and location of buildings, fences
and stock enclosures and to regulate the erection or repair of buildings
and grant permits therefor, specifying the material of which same shall
be built and purposes for which same is to be used; establish building lines
on any of the streets and alleys of said town, beyond which no structure
can be erected; prevent and regulate the storage of gunpowder, oil or other
combustible matter in such quantities and in such places as they may
deem proper; regulate the speed of horses, vehicles, motor cycles, automo-