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they shall also have power by ordinance to regulate and control all slaugh-
ter houses and offensive trades or business carried on within the limits
of said town; the Mayor and Councilmen shall have full power and au-
thority by ordinances, to extend the bounds and limits set forth in the
preceding sections, not exceeding one-half mile in any one direction beyond
the limits named in said preceding section, whenever they shall deem ex-
pedient, provided said extension is approved by the majority of the regis-
tered voters residing in the territory to be annexed by a petition to the
Mayor and City Council, said petition to be filed with the City Clerk of
said town, and shall whenever they extend the same record the survey
of every such extension as may be made together with the ordinance pro-
viding for the same from time to time among their own proceedings and
also among the Laud Records for Allegany County; and they also shall
have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances which have
been or which may hereafter be passed, and a printed copy of all such
ordinances codified as herein empowered when issued by the authority
and sanction of said Mayor and Councilmen shall be legal evidence of the
passage of said ordinances and of the contents thereof in any Court of
Law or Equity in this State; and for the purpose of carrying out the fore-
going powers and for the preservation of health, cleanliness, peace and
good order of the town, and for the protection of the lives and property
of the citizens, or to suppress, abate or discontinue, or cause to be sup-
pressed, abated or discontinued all nuisances within the corporate and
sanitary limits of said town, they may establish a board of health and may
pass all ordinances and by-laws from time to time necessary; and to
insure the observance of said ordinances in addition to the action of the
debt for the recovery of penalties thereunto affixed, to be brought in the
same of the Mayor and Councilmen of Lonaconing, they may fix such
reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may
appear right; and in default of the payment of any fine imposed or of
the costs therein incurred, they may provide for the imprisonment in the
corporation prison, or in the jail of Allegany County, of the offender, for
a period not exceeding thirty days, or until the fine and costs be paid, or
in default of such payment they may compel the offender to work upon
the streets, alleys, lanes and highways of said town, at the rate of one
dollar and twenty-five cents per day, until his services shall amount to
the fine and cost imposed.

1890, ch. 132, sec. 16. 1892, ch. 425, sec. 16. 1924, ch. 172, sec. 16.
401. They may from time to time cause an assessment to be made
of all the property, real and personal, in the town by three persons ap-
pointed by them and may levy a tax thereon for general purposes, not
exceeding in any one year thirty-five cents on each one hundred dollars
of assessable property.