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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ing swine, cattle, fowls, dogs, or other animals from running
at large on the streets; for the suppression of vice, gambling
and immorality; for apprehending and punishing all tramps
and vagrants; and they shall pass all ordinances necessary
from time to time to carry out and enforce the foregoing pro-
visions, and give full force and effect to the powers and

Penalties for
violation

authority conferred on said corporation; and they may enforce
such ordinances by reasonable fines and penalties not exceed-
ing twenty-five dollars in any one case, as may appear to them
right; they may recover said fine or penalty by an action of
"debt," and in addition thereto may imprison the offender
until the fine be paid, not exceeding thirty days, such impris-
onment to be in the town lock-up, if one be provided, or in
the county jail, and the sheriff of Prince George's County
shall receive and confine any person so committed.

Preservation
of health.

18C. And they may pass such ordinances as shall be
necessary and proper for the preservation of the health of the
town, and remove all nuisances from and prohibit all business
within the corporate limits as shall, in their opinion, injur-
iously affect the sanitary conditions thereof.

May tax dogs.

18D. They may provide for levying and collecting annually
a tax of one dollar on every dog and two dollars on every
bitch, and for killing every dog and bitch whose owner shall
refuse to pay said tax or who shall refuse to pay the same
within one month from the time he shall be called upon
therefor.

Sidewalks, etc.

18E. That all sidewalks on any of the streets of said town
shall not be less than four feet in width and of such material
as the Mayor and Common Council may direct, and they may
assess upon the land abutting said sidewalk two-thirds of the
cost thereof; which assessment shall be a lien upon such
abutting property and be recovered from the owners of such
abutting property in the name of the corporation as other of
like amounts are recoverable in this State by law.

18F. And the Mayor and Common Council shall not expend
or contract to expend in any one year more money than the
amount receivable from taxes and other sources of revenue
for that year.

Codification of
ordinances.

18G. And they may by ordinance provide for the codifica-
tion of all ordinances which have been or may be passed, and
for the printing of such codification therefor, and the printed
ordinances so issued by the authority of the Mayor and
Common Council may be read in evidence from the printed
codification .