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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

works, and for the protection of the water supply of said town

against pollution, obstruction and waste, and they may enforce

all such ordinances by fine and imprisonment, as hereinafter

provided.

24. That the Council shall in each and every year, before

striking the levy, add to and include in the assessment all tax-

Assessing all
taxable prop-

able property omitted by the assessors, all property acquired

erty.

since the assessment, and all improvements made since ; and

they shall appoint one or more days for hearing complaints

and for receiving and passing upon bills for the current ex-

penses of the town, and they shall give reasonable notice of the

time and place of said meetings by hand bills or newspaper

advertisement, and the Councilmen shall each receive an annual

salary of fifteen dollars.

29. That the Clerk and Treasurer shall annually, not later

Receipts and

than the thirty-first day of January, publish, by printed hand

disburse-
ments.

bills or newspaper advertisement, a full and complete itemized

statement of the receipts and disbursements of the town for

the year ending the preceding December.

29A. That the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City may

accumulate a fund or other property, not to exceed six thou-

sand dollars, by gifts or bequests of citizens of said town or

Fund for

other persons for encouraging or equipping the volunteer

volunteer fire

fire company of said town and promoting its efficiency and

company.

growth, and may become trustee of said fund, and may, for the

investment and accumulation of any such funds, buy and ac-

quire title as such trustee to any property, real or personal,

within the limitations above named, and sell, grant, lease or

mortgage the same, and execute, acknowledge and deliver all

necessary deeds, leases, mortgages and title papers for the

same, restrained only by the terms and conditions of said gifts

and bequests.

29B. That the Mayor and Council shall have power and au-

Protection of

thority if, in their judgment, the protection of life or property

life or prop-
erty.

demand it, to pass all proper and necessary ordinances to re-

quire any railroad company or other corporation running its

locomotives, engines or trains across any street within the

corporate limits to keep a watchman or flagman at such cross-

ing of said street to warn persons of the approach of locomo-

tives, engine or trains, and the Mayor and Council may en-

force such ordinance or ordinances by such fines or penalties,

not to exceed fifty dollars for each offense, as they deem neces-

sary to enforce the power hereby given.