JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

and running in a northeasterly direction to lower Ship Point
on Rousby Hall farm shall be the dividing line between the
mouth of Mill Creek and the Patuxent River.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 441.
AN ACT to add a new section to Article 15 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Kent County," sub-title "Ches-
tertown," to follow Section fifty-nine, to be designated as
Section 59A, and to repeal and re-enact, with amendments,
Section sixty-eight of said Article.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new Section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 15 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent
County," sub-title "Chestertown," and to repeal and re-enact,
with amendments, Section sixty-eight of said Article, to read
as to said two sections as follows:

Chestertown.

5gA. In addition to the powers conferred on the Commis-
sioners of Chestertown by Section fifty-nine of this Article,
they shall have power to regulate by ordinance the building
and maintenance of party walls, partition, fences, parapet and
firewalls, smoke flues, fire places, hot air flues, boilers, smoke-
stacks, chimneys and stove pipes, and to have any such
removed, repaired or reconstructed, whenever, in the judg-
ment of said Commissioners, the same may be dangerous to or
menace the property wherein such structures are, or any
adjacent or contiguous property; they may also by ordinance
establish such a sewerage system as may be necesaary for
the proper drainage of said town and which may be most
conducive to the health and sanitation of said town, and they
may impose on and collect from persons using the same a tax
for the use of said sewers, which said tax shall be collected in
like manner as other taxes are collected in said town and
shall be a lien on the property on which it is assessed; they
may also from time to time levy ordinance provided for
the pavement of any streets in said town which they may
deem advisable to be paved, and to assess the properties on
each side of said street for a proportionate share of the cost of
such pavement, not exceeding one-third of such cost, each to
the respective owners of the properties on each side of said

Additional
powers
conferred on
Commission 'rs
of said town.