PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1401

property, which costs, in case the work is done by or by order
of the council, after twenty-one days' notice to the owner or
owners of such property, shall be a lien on such abutting prop-
erty and recoverable by action of law, or in the manner pro-
vided by law for the collection of delinquent general taxes of
the town, or delinquent State and county taxes, or compel by
fines or otherwise, the owners of properties of any such lot or
lots to grade, pave, or repair the sidewalks, or set curbs in front
thereof agreeable to ordinances which may hereafter be passed;

(4) To open and keep open and free from obstruction all
streets, public squares and reservations, grade and pave, close
or alter the same, and their rights, powers and duties in rela-
tion thereto, shall, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed,
be the same as is provided by the Code of Public General Laws
of this State, for opening, altering and closing public roads by
the Board of County Commissioners, with the right of appeal
to the Circuit Court for the county.

(5) To keep the streets and crossings and town bridges clean
and in repair;

(6) To adequately provide for the maintenance of an effi-
cient police department and fire department;

(7) To light the streets, public squares and reservations;

(8) To compel the owners of property or tenants, to keep the
sidewalks in front of their property clean and in repair;

(9) To impose a tax on dogs, fowls, hogs and other animals
running at large, or totally prohibit the same;

(10) To authorize the use of the streets for railroads, oper-
ated by electric, steam or other mechanical motive power, and
to regulate the same as to grades, crossing, paving between and
outside tracks and otherwise; to require and compel all lines
of railway in any one street to run on and use one and the same
track, and to keep in repair the bridges and crossings through
which or over which their cars run;

(11) To prescribe fines, penalties and forfeitures for the
violation of their ordinances, including the committal of offen-
ders to the Montgomery county jail, until the same with costs
are paid.

1898, ch. 452, sec. 14.

257. They may adopt suitable measures for the removal of
sewage and garbage, and fix the amount to be paid therefor,
which shall be paid by a special tax for that purpose, to be
imposed on the occupants of the respective buildings and col-
lected therefrom, provided that the owners of the property shall
be responsible for said tax in case the same cannot be collected