LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

(6) To adequately provide for the maintenance of an efficient
police force 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 commital of offenders
to the Montgomery county jail, until the same with costs are
paid. .

1908, ch. 431, sec. 15.

357. 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 owners of the respective buildings, and collected
from them, and the same shall be a lien on said property and
collected as other taxes are collected, and the council may pass
suitable ordinance to enable the proper officers to collect and
remove all fifth from the town, and provide for the disposal
thereof. A special tax may be imposed to carry out the pro-
visions of this section, not exceeding the sum of six dollars per
year on any one house, to be paid by the owner thereof as afore-
said.

1904; ch. 65, sec. 16.

358. On or before the first day of June, 1912, and each
third year thereafter, the council shall appoint three assessors,
freehol'ders of said town, who shall, under the direction of the
said council, make an assessment of all the property real, per-
sonal and mixed, in said town, at a fair cash value at public
sale, as near as they may be able to determine the same, and
the council shall immediately thereupon levy a tax thereon not
exceeding thirty-five cents on the hundred dollars' worth of
assessable property in any one year, and all taxes so levied
shall be a lien on any and all property of the person or persons
against whom they may be levied, and any person may appeal
from the valuation of the said assessors to the council, which