CAROLINE COUNTY. 1619

1906, ch. 284, sec. 27. 1908, ch. 331 (p. 681).

298. The said Commissioners may pass such by-laws and ordinances
as they shall deem necessary for the good government of said town and
the inhabitants thereof; and for the maintaining of a jail or lock-up
for the temporary detention, when necessary, of persons who would be by
law liable to detention in the county jail; also for the prevention, re-
moval or abatement of nuisance; to prevent swine, geese, animals, stock
and poultry of every kind from going at large; for controlling the erection
and location of buildings, fences, stock inclosures, and for prohibiting and
controlling the use of powder, firearms, firecrackers and other explosives;
for the controlling of the repairs of any buildings when repaired to the
extent of new roof or weather-boarding; for the protection of public prop-
erty and sidewalks and streets and to regulate the use of the same, includ-
ing the rate of speed over them, and to protect shade or ornamental trees
from injury or obstructions; for the paving of sidewalks, and assessing
and taxing the expense thereof in whole or in part upon the respective
owners of the property fronting thereon; for the regulating of the run-
ning of traction engines through said town and prescribing the kind of
fuel to be used therein; for the laying of sewers or other drains and to
regulate the use thereof, and to enter into contracts with property owners
for the use thereof for a term of one or more years, and to provide in
said contract for the collection of any rents or other sums of money
charged by said Commissioners for the use thereof, which rents or other
charges shall be a lien upon the property connected with said sewer, and
shall be collected by the bailiff as taxes levied by said Commissioners are
collected; for license or tax on public exhibitions or amusements of all
kinds, billiards, pool or bagatelle tables and ten-pin alleys, and for the
collection of the same; for a tax on persons for every dog kept by them,
and to cause any dog to be killed; for tax on telephone, telegraph and
electric light poles; for the promotion of the morality, health, convenience
and safety of the inhabitants of said town; and for the opening, widening,
extending, repairing, improving and closing up of streets, lanes and alleys
of said town; and all damage done and all benefits received by the open-
ing, closing, extending, widening or improving said streets, lanes or alleys,
or for the laying of any sewers or opening of any drains over private prop-
erty, shall be determined and assessed by three disinterested persons,
residents of said town, to be appointed by said Commissioners, who shall
within a reasonable time after the notification of their appointment take
an oath before a justice of the peace or notary public for Caroline County
that they will faithfully, fairly and without partiality or prejudice, value
or assess in money the loss and damage to be suffered and incurred, as well
as benefits to be received by any person interested in the property over,
through and near said street, lane, alley, sewer or drain to be opened,
closed, extended, widened or improved, and they shall return the same
in writing, under their hands and seals, with a certificate of their quali-
fications, before a justice of the peace or notary public as aforesaid to the