FREDERICK COUNTY. 2601

1900, ch. 341, sec. N. 1918 Code, sec. 567.

571. The Mayor and Council shall have power to pass all ordinances
necessary within the limits of said town to preserve the health, peace and
safety of the inhabitants thereof; to prevent and remove nuisances and
annoyances; to suppress gambling; to prevent the firing of cannon, guns,
pistols, fire-crackers and all explosive instruments or materials within the
corporate limits; to restrain all disorders and disturbances; to suppress
fires and the danger thereof; to make or cause to be made and repaired
all necessary drains, sewers, culverts and bridges; to license public amuse-
ments, shows and exhibitions; fix the sum of money to be paid therefor,
and to prescribe the mode of collecting the same; and to provide for the
good government and police of the town; and they shall have power to

enforce the observance of all such ordinances by fines, penalties and for-
feitures, not exceeding twenty dollars for any one offense.

1900, ch. 341, sec. O. 1918 Code, sec. 568.

572. They shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary to regu-
late or prevent the going at large within the corporate limits of horses,
cattle, sheep, goats, swine, geese or any other brute or fowl or beast; to
regulate or prevent the going at large within the corporate limits of dogs,
and to provide for the killing of worthless, dangerous or annoying dogs;
to levy a tax on dogs, male or female, kept, within the corporate limits;
to fix the rate of said tax and to collect the same from the owners as the
other town taxes are collected, under the provisions of this Act, and may
in default of payment of said tax provide for the killing of the dogs whose

owners make such default.

1900, ch. 341, sec. P. 1918 Code, sec. 569.

573. They, s'aid Mayor and Council, shall have power to provide for
the laying out, opening, widening and extending any street or alley in the
town, and may fix the dimensions thereof which in their judgment the
public welfare or convenience may require; to provide for ascertaining
whether any and what amount in value of damages will be caused thereby,
for which the owner or possessor of the property through or over which

such street or alley may pass, ought to be compensated and paid, and for
assessing or laying either generally on the whole assessable property
within the town, or specially on the property of persons benefited by said
improvement, the whole or any part of the damages and expenses which
may be incurred in laying out, opening, extending or widening such street
or alley; to provide in case they determine to levy and assess the whole
or any part of the damages and expenses upon the owners of the property
in the town specially benefited by such improvement, for the apportion-
ment among them of such damages and expenses so determined, to be
levied upon them in due proportion to the amount of benefits by them,
respectively received; to provide for the condemnation, of all land and
property so taken for public use in opening, widening or extending any
street or alley as aforesaid, for the notice to be given in relation thereto
for the payment of the damages so awarded and for the collection and