1510 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

mailing of a copy thereof by the clerk to the last known resi-
dence of the owner or owners of said abutting property, which
notice shall provide a time and place when and at which said
owner or owners shall have the right to be heard with reference
thereto; (4) to open and keep open and free from obstructions
and to condemn for public use all streets, roads, public squares
and reservations, grade, pave, alter and control the same, and
their rights, powers and duties in relation thereto shall, except
as hereinafter otherwise provided, be the same as is prescribed
by the Code of Public General Laws of this State for opening,
altering and closing public roads by the Board of County Com-
missioners, with the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for
the county; (5) to keep the streets, crossings and town bridges
clean and in repair; (6) to adequately provide for the mainte-
nance of an efficient police department and fire department;
(7) to light the streets, public squares and reservations, and
regulate the use of same for telegraph, telephone and other
poles and wires; (8) to compel the owners of property or ten-
ants to keep the sidewalks clear; (9) to impose a tax or license
on, or totally prohibit the running at large of dogs, fowls, hogs
and other animals; (10) to authorize the use of the streets for
railroads operated by electric, steam or other mechanical motive
power, and to regulate the same as to grade and crossings, pav-
ing between outside tracks and otherwise; to require and com-
pel 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 cross-
ings through which or over which their cars run; (11) to pro-
vide for meeting and defraying the incidental expenses of the
town government, including the cost of the bond prescribed for
the clerk and treasurer; (12) to prescribe fines, penalties and
forfeitures for the violation of their ordinances, including the
committal of offenders to the Montgomery county jail until said
fines, penalties or forfeitures are paid; provided, that no such
fine, penalty or forfeiture shall exceed the sum or value of fifty
dollars; and no imprisonment shall exceed the period of thirty
days.

1906, ch. 795, sec. 14.

548. That the corporation, by and through its Mayor and
Council, may purchase or construct water and electric light
plants, or either, as well as a sewerage system and other utili-
ties for the general good, and for such purpose may issue, in
such denominations as they may see fit, bonds not to exceed
the total sum of ten thousand dollars, said bonds to be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the treasurer, interest on same
not to exceed the rate of six per centum per annum; said bonds