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property, cemeteries and property of all public service companies or corpo-
rations; and for any franchise, easement or privilege hereafter granted,
the Commissioners may charge for such franchise, easement or privilege
when granted, and may charge an annual rental upon any franchise, ease-
ment or privilege of any gas company, electric light company, power
company, telephone company, telegraph company, street railway company,
sewer or drain company, for using the streets, highways and sidewalks of
said city that hitherto has been granted or may hereafter be granted; to
punish and suppress tramps and vagrants by imposing fines or both fine
and imprisonment, or by hard labor on the streets of the city, and to abate
by appropriate ordinances all nuisances in said city which are so defined
at common law by this Act or by the laws of the State of Maryland,
whether the same herein specifically named or not; to provide for the
establishment and change from time to time of the grades or lines of any
street, lane, alley or thoroughfare, or part thereof, now or hereafter
marked, located or laid out in said town; to establish, regulate and super-
vise night watches and patrols; to appoint one or more wood measurers for
the town, and to define their duties, and to prescribe their compensation
to be paid by those who receive their services; to regulate party walls and
divisions fences; to provide for and regulate the sweeping and burning
of chimneys, and to prescribe their si/e and safeguard therefor, and to fix
the compensation of those who sweep or burn the same, to be paid by
those who receive their services; to erect and regulate markets, and to
make all proper by-laws and ordinances in relation thereto; to sink wells
and to provide or have provided hydrants and water plugs on the streets,
lanes, alleys and thoroughfares of the town; to regulate all water pipes,
hydrants and water plugs on the said streets, lanes, alleys and thorough-
fares, and to prescribe penalties for improperly interfering with or
injuring such water pipes, hydrants or water plugs, or for improperly
interfering with any street lamp or lamp post; to provide proper and
suitable lights on the public streets, and to make contracts for furnishing
such lights, to pass all ordinances for defining the duties of all town officers
where not fixed by the charter; to require bond and to approve the same in
order to secure the faithful performance of all contracts entered into by
the Commissioners, and by ordinance, to require any and all things to
be done which will promote the welfare, good government and prosperity
of the people of the town, and to forbid whatever that will oppress or
injure them in their persons and property; to borrow money on negotiable
paper, executed by the Commissioners of Cambridge; provided the sum so
borrowed shall at no time exceed the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dol-
lars, unless otherwise expressly authorized by law.*

1920, ch. 99, sec. 58A.

64. That in addition to the powers vested in the Commissioners of
Cambridge by the aforegoing section, the said Commissioners shall have

*The last sentence was enacted by ch. 481, 1902, and amended by chs. 470 1/2, 1906,
290 of 1920, and 38 of 1927.