3070 ARTICLE 14.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 67. 1924, ch. 406, sec. 67.

140. The Commissioners of Ellicott City may pass all ordinances nec-
essary to preserve the health of said City; to prevent and remove nui-
sances; to suppress gambling; to license public amusements not taxed by
the State; to open and keep open streets, lanes and alleys with the con-
sent of the owners of the land through which the same may pass, or by
paying damages therefor, which damages in all cases when property is
condemned for City purposes shall be determined by a jury of twelve
disinterested male citizens of said City, who, for that purpose, the Presi-
dent of the Commissioners of Ellicott City shall cause to be summoned
and sworn; and the said jury so summoned and sworn shall return, under
their hands and seals, to the President of the Commissioners of said City
the result of their finding; and such damages so found shall be paid out
of the treasury of said City. The Commissioners of Ellicott City shall
have the further power to enact all laws and ordinances necessary to pre-
vent the introduction of contagious diseases within said City; to establish
night watches and patrols; to light the City; to erect and repair bridges;
to pave, construct and keep in repair all necessary drains and sewers;
and pass all necessary regulations for the regulation, repair and preserva-
tion of the same; to regulate party walls and partition fences; to provide
for the licensing and regulating the sweeping and burning of chimneys
and fixing the rates therefor; and to prescribe the size of those to be built
in the City; to establish and regulate fire companies; to provide for the
licensing, regulating or restraining of theatrical or other public amuse-
ments within the said City; to license hawkers, peddlers, traveling phy-
sicians, vendors of patent medicines or other articles; to sink wells; to
make and regulate pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water plugs, fountains,
sewers, etc., in the streets, lanes and alleys of the said City; and pass
laws to protect the same; to impose and appropriate fines, penalties and
forfeitures for the breach of their by-laws or ordinances; to pass ordi-
nances for the prevention and extinguishment of fires; to purchase or
lease and keep in repair a fire engine and apparatus, and to provide for
the establishment of a fire and water department; to purchase or lease
for a term of years any real estate deemed necessary for said fire depart-
ment; to pass ordinances for paving and keeping in repair the streets,
lanes and alleys of the said City; to provide for the taking up, fining or
committing to the Howard County jail of al] vagrants, drunken, loose or
disorderly persons, and such as have no visible means of support and live-
lihood; and common disturbers of the peace that may be found within the
jurisdiction of the said City; to declare and adjudge as nuisances any
encroachments on the streets, lanes and alleys of said City; and to cause
the same to be removed at the expense of the party offending; to restrain
or prohibit the running at large of horses, cows, sheep, goats or other
animals; to direct in what parts of the City buildings of wood shall not be
erected; and to regulate the construction of the same; to pass ordinances
for the preservation of order and securing property and persons from vio-
lence; to establish a building line for the erection of buildings on the