CARROLL COUNTY. 1797

their decision in the premises shall be final. If any person or corporation
shall fail to appeal from the assessment or revision of assessment of his,
her, or its property, made by the assessor or from the action of the assessors
upon any application for reduction of any assessment to the next session
of the Mayor and Council for ai hearing of such appeals in such cases,
such assessment and action of the assessor shall be final and conclusive.

1900, ch. 341, sec. Z.

234. The title of the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy to its highways,
avenues, streets, lanes and alleys is hereby declared to be inalienable, and
no right or franchise in relation to any highway, avenue, street, lane or
alley, either on, above or below the surface of the same shall be granted
by the Mayor and Council of Mt. Airy to any person or corporation for
a longer period than fifty years.

1906, ch. 785, sec. 1.

235. The Mayor and Council of Mount Airy shall have power by ordi-
nance to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for
all hauling, peddling and vending of marketable commodities, wares and
merchandise of every description upon the streets or highways of the
town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may
go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to
regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons
who dispense medicines or medical advice and secret or patented inven-
tions or remedies, and shall have the power to fix the price or fees for
such licenses, respectively, and to provide for the collection of the same.

1906, ch. 785, sec. 2.

236. Said Mayor and Council of Mount Airy shall also have power
by ordinance to establish night watches and patrols and erect and main-
tain lamps to light the streets, roads, and alleys of said town; to restrain
and prohibit gaming; to prevent drunkenness, brawling and fighting, and
to suppress and remove all nuisances affecting or liable to affect the peace,
quiet or health of the town.

1906, ch. 785, sec. 3.

237. Said Mayor and Council shall also have power by ordinance to .
make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings to be erected in said
town and grant building permits for the same; to establish five districts
in said town and regulate the kind of materials used in the erection of
buildings within such districts, with special reference to the prevention
and suppression of fires; to regulate the burning of brush, boxes, shavings
and other refuse matter in the streets, alleys, yards and gardens of said
town, for the purpose of preventing fires; to establish and regulate a
station house or lockup for the temporary confinement of the violators of
the laws and ordinances of the town, and for the suppression of vagrancy.