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Pension Fund mentioned in Section 21 of this Article, proved, the

amount in the said Pension Fund is inadequate.

1927, ch. 27, sec. 2.

23. The Police Department of the City of Annapolis shall come under
the provisions of this Act, and all members of such Police Department,
at the time of the passage of this Act, shall continue as members, but

shall be subject to all other provisions of the same.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 37. 1914 Code, sec. 40.

24. The Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen shall have power to enact
all laws and ordinances necessary to preserve the health of the city; to
prevent and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction of contagious
diseases within the city; to establish night watches and patrols; to light
the city, to establish new streets, lanes and alleys, and to widen, straighten,
extend, stop up or discontinue any streets, lanes and alleys; and when
any street, lane or alley is opened, widened, straightened, extended,
stopped up or discontinued by the operation, the full value of all property
token and used for such public street, lane or alley, or damages to be
sustained in closing the same, shall be assessed by a jury of twelve citi-
zens, and the said full value, so assessed, shall be first paid or tendered to
the proprietor of said property; and if in opening, widening, straighten-
ing or extending any street, lane or alley in said city, any benefit shall
thereby accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or improvement,
within or upon said street, lane or alley, for which such owner or possessor
ought to pay a compensation, said benefits shall be assessed and paid by
the owner or possessor in like manner as above provided; to erect and
repair bridges; to pave, construct and keep in repair all necessary drains
and sewers, and to pass all necessary regulations for the regulation, repair
and preservation of the same; to regulate and fix the assize of bread;
to provide for the appointment, and define the duties of city commissioner,
police officers, market masters, gaugers, wood corders, harbor masters,
hay weighers, coal weighers and inspectors, and all other officers whom
they may create, and to define their duties and compensation; to provide
for the safe keeping of the standard of the weights and measures, fixed
by Congress, or by an Act of the General Assembly, and for regulating
thereby all weights and measures used within the city; to regulate party
walls and partition fences; to erect and regulate markets; to provide for
licensing and regulating the sweeping and burning of chimneys, and fix-
ing the rates thereof, and to prescribe the size of those to be built in the

city; to establish and regulate fire wards and fire companies; to restrain
or prohibit gaming; to license bowling saloons, bowling alleys, nine or
ten pin alleys, billiard tables, rondo tables, bagatelle tables, or any other
tables or devices, or structures of a similar kind; to license carriages of
pleasure and burden, and to provide for licensing, regulating or restrain-

*Sec. 3, ch. 27, 1927, repealed all laws Inconsistent therewith.