FREDERICK COUNTY. 2417

Health, and defining and regulating its powers and duties; (6) for estab-
lishing and maintaining a fire department; (7) for erecting and main-
taining bridges; (8) for establishing, maintaining and regulating an ade-
quate police force (9) to prevent, remove and abate, or cause to be re-
moved or abated, all nuisances or obstructions in or upon the sidewalks,
streets, highways, lanes or alleys, drains or watercourses, or in or upon
any lot adjacent thereto, and to provide for imposing a fine upon any per-
son causing, creating or maintaining any such nuisance or obstruction;
(10) to open, close and widen or narrow streets, lanes, roads or alleys
within the limits of the town; (11) to remove or cause to be removed or
to render secure any house or houses, building or other structure or objects
that may be dangerous to property, health or to the life or to the limbs of
persons entering said house or building or passing along or over any of
the highways of the town, or residing in the neighborhood thereof; (12)
to make reasonable regulations in regard to buildings to be erected in said
town; (13) to make and establish grades upon the streets and highways
of said town; (14) to cause sidewalks along the public streets and high-
ways of the town to be graded, paved, repaired or made, and curbs to be
set, at the cost and expense of the abutting property or the owner thereof,
which cost and expense shall be a lien upon the abutting property in favor
of the Mayor and Council until paid, and such lien may be enforced by
distraints and sale in the same manner as the collection of corporate taxes
are enforced, or the Mayor and Council may, by fine or otherwise, com-
pel the owner or proprietor of any lot or lots to pave or repave the side-
walks or footways of any street adjacent to said lot or lots and to set curbs
along the same, agreeably to the ordinances now in force in said town, or
that may hereafter be passed in relation thereto; (15) to cause the streets,
ways and alleys, the watercourses, drains, sewers and gutters to be ma-
cadamized or paved, kept in repair and cleaned; (16) to control and pro-
tect the public buildings, grounds and property of the town; (17) to es-
tablish, enact, erect, maintain and regulate a station house or lockup in
said town for the confinement of violators of the law and ordinance there-
of, also such other buildings for municipal purposes as they may deem
necessary and proper; (18) to levy a tax and impose a license on clogs
find bitches and to prevent horses, cattle, goats, swine, dogs and fowls
from running at large in the streets of the town and through the vacant
buildings and lots thereof; (19) to regulate and control all offensive
trades, manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers and other com-
modities; (20) to prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses within the limits
of the town; (21) to require a license or permit to be applied for and
obtained by the parties or persons hereinafter mentioned, and fix the
amounts for said license and permits, and to prescribe the penalties to
be imposed for failure to procure the license or permits and pay for the
same. The money paid for any and all such licenses and permits required
by ordinance and issued under the order of the Mayor and Council shall
belong to them for the corporate purposes of the town. The Mayor and
Council may, by and under ordinance, require the following parties or