58 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

88. They may compel the attendance of absent members in
such manner and under such penalties as they may by ordinance
provide; shall settle their rules of proceedings; appoint their
own officers and remove them at pleasure.

89. They shall judge of the election returns and qualifications
of their own members, and may, with the concurrence of the
whole number, expel any member for disorderly behavior or
malconduct in office, but not a second time for the Same cause.

40. They shall keep a journal of their proceedings and enter
the yeas and nays upon any question, resolve or ordinance, if
required by any one member, and their deliberations shall be
public.

41. The mayor, recorder and aldermen shall have power to
enact all laws and ordinances necessary to preserve the health
of the city; to prevent and remove nuisances; to prevent the
introduction of contagious diseases within the city; to establish
night watches and patrols and erect lamps; to establish new
streets, lanes and alleys, with the consent of three-fourths of the
proprietors of the lots or houses adjoining such streets, lanes
and alleys; to erect and repair bridges; to pave and keep in
repair all necessary drains and sewers, and to pass all regular
tions necessary for the preservation of the same; to regulate the
assize of bread, to provide for the appointment and define the
duties of city commissioners, city constables, market masters,
gangers, wood corders, harbor masters, hay weighers and in-
spectors; to provide for the safe keeping and preservation of the
standards of weights and measures, and for regulating thereby
all weights and measures used within the city; to regulate
party walls and partition fences; to erect and regulate markets;

to provide for licensing and regulating the sweeping or burning
of chimneys and fixing the rates thereof, and for regulating the
sweeping of any chimney by the neglect of which the safety of
the city might be endangered, and to ascertain the size of those
built in the city.

42. They shall have power to pass ordinances to establish
and regulate fire wards and fire companies; to regulate and
establish the size of bricks to be burned in said city; to restrain
or prohibit gaming, and to provide for licensing, regulating or
restraining theatrical or other public amusements within the
city; to erect and regulate pumps in the streets, lanes and alleys;