EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and other public purposes : to employ all labor, and authorize

the bailiff to do so, that may be necessary, and to make all con-

tracts for public improvement, and to fix the price to be paid

for same. The Commissioners shall have power to make such

by-laws and pass such ordinances, not contrary to law, and in

conformity with this charter, as they may deem necessary for

good government of the town and the inhabitants thereof; to

prevent, remove and abate ail nuisances and obstructions in or -

To abate

upon the streets, sidewalks, highways, lanes, alleys, drains,

nuisances.

waterways, or in or upon any lot, and to provide for imposing

a fine upon any person causing or creating such nuisance or

obstructions : to grant permits for all buildings, and to have

power to remove, or order the removal of any building that may

be a nuisance, or that may have been erected, contrary to

any ordinance heretofore passed or hereafter to be passed, or

that may endanger any building contiguous thereto in case of

fire, and to enact ordinances and impose fines for the enforce-

ment of these provisions ; to establish grades upon the streets.

alleys, gutters and sidewalks of said town and prescribe the

width thereof and the material of which they shall be built ; to

cause the sidewalks along said public streets to be graded, paved.

repaired or improved ; to provide for and regulate licenses, or

permits, for all exhibitions and shows within said corporation,

or to prohibit and restrain them ; and to regulate and provide

for a tax on dogs and bitches; to provide for and prevent the ;

Preventing

running at large of all horses, cattle, hogs, geese, chickens, and

the running
at large of

other fowl, upon the streets or within the limits of said town ;

stock, etc.

to provide by ordinance for condemning, laying out, opening.

extending and making new streets, or alleys, and for altering,

straightening, widening, grading, improving or closing up, in

whole or in part any existing street or alley, and for removing

trees, posts, and other obstructions, and for laying out public

squares, drains, water-courses, and all benefits or damages done,

suffered or incurred by the laying out, opening and making of

new streets or alleys, or by altering, straightening, widening,

grading, improving or closing up, in whole or in part, any ex-

isting street or alley or laying out public squares, drain, or wa-

ter-courses shall be determined and assessed by three disinter-

ested persons, residents of said town, appointed by the Com-

missioners of Leonardtown, who shall take an oath before

some justice of the peace that they will fairly, without par-

tiality or prejudice, value and assess the loss and damages to be

suffered and incurred by any person interested, also to esti-

mate the benefits that may accrue therefrom to each interested

person. They shall locate boundaries and prepare an explan-

To locate

atory map giving description of the street or alley opened.

boundaries.

closed, extended, widened, straightened or improved, with each

separate lot or parcel of ground deemed to have sustained dam-

ages or received benefits, and they shall, within thirty days, re-

turn to the Commissioners such maps, together with the amount

of damages awarded such owner or occupant, and the amount

of benefits assessed to any lot or the owner thereof, together