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trary be shown, and when confirmed shall be recorded by said clerk at; the
expense of said Commissioners, and if said inquisition shall be set aside
by the Circuit Court of Calvert County, the said court may direct another
to be taken in the same manner as the first. Every inquisition shall de-
scribe the property taken or the bounds of the land condemned, and the
quantity or extent of the interest therein taken and valued, and such valua-
tion, when paid or tendered to the owner or owners of the property taken,
or his legal representatives, shall entitle the Commissioners to the estate,
use and interest in the same so valued for the purposes aforesaid, as fully
as if the same had been conveyed by the owner or his legal representatives.

1900, ch. 120, sec. 21.

47. The Commissioners shall have the power to pass ordinances regu-
lating the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect steps, porticos,
bow-windows or other architectural ornaments to houses fronting on any
part of said streets; to regulate party walls and partition fences; to regu-
late in what part of said town buildings of wood may not be erected; to
regulate the manner in which public halls, churches, school-houses or
places of amusement shall be constructed, and to fix the penalty for viola-
tion thereof.

1900, ch. 120, sec. 2'2.

48. The said Commissioners shall have the power to license and regu-
late all hackney coaches, carriages, carts, drays, omnibuses, wagons and
other vehicles kept for hire or hired in said town, and to license and regu-
late the employment of all hackmen, draymen, wagoners, carters, porters,
boatmen and watermen, plying for hire within the limits of said town,
and to fix the rate of compensation for hackney carriages, and to fix the
penalties for the violation of such regulations; to regulate the location
and conduct of livery stables, and to enact ordinances respecting the keep-
ing and boarding of horses thereat, not inconsistent with the laws of this
State.

1900, ch. 120, sec. 23.

49. The Commissioners shall have the power to license and regulate
the sweeping of chimneys, and to fix the rates therefor, and to direct the
sweeping of any chimney by neglect of which the said town shall be en-
dangered.

1900, ch. 120, sec. 24.

50. The Commissioners shall have the power to enact ordinances for
the prevention of cruelty to animals, and to fix the penalties for the viola-
tion thereof, not inconsistent with the laws of this State-
1900, ch. 120, sec. 25.

51. The Commissioners shall have the power to fix by ordinance the
disposition of all fines and penalties imposed in violation of any of the
ordinances of said town.