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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Quorum.

of the whole Board shall be a quorum to do busi-
ness, but a smaller number may adjourn from day
to day.

40. The Mayor, Counsellor and Aldermen shall

Pass laws.

have power to enact all laws and ordinances neces-
sary to preserve the health of the city; to prevent
and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction
of contagious disease within the city; to establish
night watches and patrols; to light the city; to
establish new streets, lanes and alleys, and to

Open and
widen streets.

widen, straighten, extend, stop up or discontinue
any streets, lanes and alleys; and when any street,
lane or alley is opened, widened, straightened, ex-
tended, stopped up or discontinued by the corpora-
tion, the full value of all property taken and used
for such public street, lane or alley, or damages
to be sustained in closing the same, shall be

Assess damage
and pay bene-
fits.

assessed by a jury of twelve citizens, and the
said full value so assessed, first paid or ten-
dered to the proprietor of said property; and
if in opening, widening, straightening or ex-
tending any street, lane or alley in said city, any
benefit shall thereby accrue to the owner or pos-
sessor of any ground or improvement within or
upon said street, lane or alley, for which said
owner or possessor ought to pay a compensation,
said benefits shall be assessed and paid by the
owner or possessor in like manner, as above pro-
vided, to erect and repair bridges, to have and
keep in repair all necessary drains and sewers, and
to pass all necessary regulations for the preserva-
tion of the same; to regulate and fix the assize of
bread; to provide for the appointment, and define

Powers.

the duties of City Commissioners, police officers,
market masters, gangers, wood corders, harbor
masters, hay weighers, coal weighers and inspec-
tors, and all other officers which they may create,

Duties and
compensation.

and to define the duties and compensation thereof;
to provide for the safe keeping of the standard of
the weights and measures fixed by Congress, or
by an Act of the State of Maryland, and for regu-
lating thereby all weights and measures used
within the city; to regulate party walls and par-
tition fences; to erect and regulate markets; to
provide for licensing and regulating the sweeping
and burning of chimneys, and fixing the rates