DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2347

1902, ch. 511, sec. 110.

488. The owners or promoters of merry-go-rounds or flying-horses.*

1902, ch. 187. 1910, ch. 657 (p. 811). 1918, ch. 10. 1920, ch. 399. 1927, ch. 443.

489. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County shall annually
pay to the Commissioners of the Town of Secretary seven hundred and
fifty dollars out of the taxes levied and collected for roads in said county,
to be applied by the Town Commissioners for corporate purposes; pro-
vided, that all payments heretofore made by the County Commissioners
of Dorchester County to the County Commissioners of Secretary for the

corporate purposes of said town, shall be and the same are hereby ratified
and confirmed.

1912, ch. 199, sec. 14.

490. The Commissioners shall have the power to make reasonable
regulations in regard to buildings to be erected in said town and to grant
building permits for same; to establish the grades of the streets, gutters
and sidewalks of said town, fix the width thereof and prescribe the mate-
rial of which they shall be constructed; to cause the sidewalks along the
public streets to be graded, paved, repaired or improved at the expense
of the abutting property holders by taxes to be assessed, levied and col-
lected on such abutting property in same manner and by the same per-
son as the other taxes levied by said town are assessed, levied and col-
lected; to cause water courses, drains and sewers to be laid, paved, kept
in repair and cleaned; to establish and regulate a fire department; to
impose such restrictions and conditions upon the location and mainte-
nance of gas, electric light and waterworks, pipes, wires and poles as

shall secure the least possible public or private inconvenience; to license
for the purpose of regulation and revenue all and every kind of business
transacted or carried on in the town, fix the rate of license upon the
same, and provide for the collection thereof by suit, fine or otherwise; to
control the streets, public grounds and public property of the town and
protect all property therein from injury; to provide by ordinance for

condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or
alleys and assessing the benefits and damages thereon, and for altering,
straightening, widening, grading, improving or closing up in whole or
part any existing street or alley, for laying out public squares, drains,
sewers or water courses; to establish and regulate a station-house or lock-
up for temporary confinement of violators of the law and the ordinances
of the town; to lew a tax and enforce a license upon dogs, not to exceed
one dollar per year for male dogs and two dollars per year for female
dogs, to be enforced by suit or fine against the owners thereof, or by
killing such dogs upon which said taxes or license fees shall not be paid
when due; to prohibit animals or fowls running at large; to prohibit all
forms of gambling; and, for the purpose of carrying out the aforegoing
powers and for the preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good

*This is the way the section reads in printed volume.