PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1007

SEC. 55. That neglect of non-user shall not work a for-
feiture of the charter of said city.

SEC. 56. The Commissioners of Ellicott City may pass
ordinances to preserve the health of the city; to prevent and
remove nuisances; to suppress gambling; to license public
ainusements not taxed by the State; to open and keep open
streets, lanes and alleys, with the consent of the owners of the
land through which the same may pass, or by paying damages
therefor, which said damages in all cases when property is con-
demned for city, purposes shall be determined by a jury of
twelve disinterested male citizens of the said city, whom for
that purpose the president of the commissioners shall cause to
be summoned and sworn; and the jury so summoned and sworn
shall return under their hands and seals, to the president of
the commissioners the result of their findings; and such dam-
ages so found shall be paid out of the treasury of Ellicott City.
The Commissioners of Ellicott City shall further have power
to enact all laws and ordinances necessary to prevent the intro-
duction of contagious diseases within said city; to establish
night watchers and patrols; to light the city; to erect and repair
bridges; to have, construct and keep in repair all necessary
drains and sewers, and to pass all necessary regulations for the
regulation, repair, and preservation of the same; to regulate
party walls and partition fences; to provide for the licensing
and regulating, the sweeping and burning of chimneys and fix-
ing the rates therefor, and to prescribe the size of those to be
built in the city; to establish and regulate fire companies; to.
provide for the licensing, regulating or restraining theatrical
or other public amusements within the said city; to license
hawkers, peddlers, traveling physicians, vendors of patent
medicines, or other articles; to sink wells; to make and regulate
pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water plugs, fountains, sewers
and so forth, in the streets, lanes and alleys of the city, and to
pass laws to protect the same; to impose and appropriate fines,
penalties and forfeitures for the breach of their by-laws or ordi-
nances; to pass ordinances for the prevention and extinguish-
ment of fires, and to purchase and keep in repair a fire engine
and apparatus, and to provide for the establishment of a fire
and water department; to pass ordinances for paving and
keeping in repair the streets, lanes and alleys of the city, to
provide for the taking up, fining or committing to the Ellicott
City jail, all vagrants, drunken, loose and disorderly persons
and such as have no visible means of support and livlihood.
and common disturbers of the peace, that may be found within
the jurisdiction of the said city; to declare and adjudge as