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SEC. 210E. The president and commissioners may cause
sidewalks to be laid or constructed along the public streets and
highways of said town, and to be graded, paved or regraded or
repaved, repaired or improved, at such time and in such man-
ner as they may think proper, at the sole cost and expense of
the abutting property owners thereof; and for such purpose
the president and commissioners shall have the authority to
establish grades and curb lines for such sidewalks, and if the
owner or owners of any property, so abutting on any public
street or highway, shall refuse or neglect to have such prop-
erty so paved, graded or repaved, for a longer time than sixty
days, after notice thereof, by the bailiff, the commissioners
may have the same paved, at the expense of such owner or
owners, and may collect the cost of such pavements from such
owner or owners, in such manner as other debts are collected,
and any judgment obtained in such case shall be a preferred
lien on said property.

SEC. 210M. The president and commissioners shall have
the power and authority to compel the filling in and abolition
of any cesspool in said town, or to prevent the maintaining of
such cesspool whenever the residence, or other buildings for the
use of which such pool is maintained, shall be located not more
than three hundred feet from a public sewer in said town, or,
from a sewer to which the public may have access; and may
compel, by fine or otherwise, the owner of the property upon
which such pool is located, to discontinue the use of, fill in and
abolish any such pool so located as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 548.

AN ACT to provide for building and furnishing a jail for Anne
Arundel county in Annapolis, Maryland, upon the site of
the present jail, and to authorize and require the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County to issue bonds to
obtain money for the purpose of erecting and furnishing said
jail.

WHEREAS, The jail now in use by Anne Arundel county is in a
dilapidated condition, is unsafe, unsanitary and insecure, a
menace to the community, and a disgrace to the county; and,