ART. 17.] QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. 753

87. They shall cause all nuisances and obstructions that may
interrupt the passage or injure the health of the inhabitants of
said town, to be removed from the streets, lanes and alleys, and
may provide for the mending and improvement thereof.

38. They may prohibit the running of horses or driving of
carts, wagons or carriages unreasonably fast in said town; may
regulate and provide for the sweeping of chimneys, prohibit
firing of guns or pistols, and the storage of gunpowder and
other combustible matter within the limits of the town, and
make all necessary regulations relative to wells and pumps
therein.

39. They may provide for levying and collecting annually a
tax of fifty cents on every dog and one dollar on every bitch,
within said town, and to kill any dog or bitch whose owner can-
not be ascertained, and may impose such fines, penalties and
forfeitures for breach of their ordinances as they may think pro-
per, not exceeding five dollars for any one offence, and may pass
all ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to the
powers vested in them.

40. The public grounds in said town shall be vested in said
commissioners, so far as to preserve the same and prevent depre-
dations thereon, and they may erect a pump thereon if they
think necessary.

41. They may purchase and hold four acres of land for the
use and benefit of said town.

42. No person shall permit any hogs or geese to run at large
in said town, and if any hog or goose shall be found running at
large therein, the bailiff of said town, or any inhabitant thereof,
may seize and impound the same; and the bailiff shall imme-
diately give notice thereof by public advertisement, and if the
owner shall not within three days thereafter pay said bailiff ten
cents for every day of impounding any goose, and fifty cents for
every day of impounding any swine, the bailiff may sell the same
at public sale, and after deducting fifty cents for each goose and
a dollar and a half for each hog, shall pay the same to the com-
missioners of the town.

43. No hog sty shall be erected, nor shall hogs be kept in any
other manner, within one-half mile of the bounds of said. town,

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