MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3631

with the laws: (1) To preserve the peace, good order and best interest of
the town; (2) to maintain its cleanliness and health, and to this end, (a)
they shall have the same powers as the State Board of Health within the
corporate limits of said town; (b) they may provide for and adopt an
efficient system of drainage; (c) they shall have full power to regulate
privies, specify the character of boxes and other fixtures for them, and
the mode in which they shall be emptied and their contents removed, as
well as the disposition of said contents, and they shall have the power to
prohibit the construction or maintenance of privy sinks, cesspools and
other depositories of filth within the corporate limits; (d) they shall pro-
vide for the inspection and cleanliness of yards and stores; (e) they shall
regulate the location, inspection and cleanliness of dairies, stables, cow
yards and pens, all factories and other places of business likely to be or
become detrimental to health; they shall have the power to prohibit hog-
pens and slaughter-houses within the town limits, and shall maintain a
good sanitary condition in the streets, public places and buildings; (f)
they shall provide for the inspection of all premises by such person or per-
sons as may be designated by the health officer; (g) they shall pass such
ordinances as may be deemed necessary to preserve the health of the town,
suppress and remove all nuisances, prevent the sale of adulterated or de-
cayed food, and control or prohibit any and all such business within the
corporate limits as may injuriously affect sanitary conditions; (3) to
establish the grades of the streets, gutters and sidewalks of said town, fix
the width thereof and prescribe the material of which they shall be con-
structed; to caiise the sidewalks along the public streets to be graded,
paved, repaved, repaired and set with curbs at the cost and expense of the
town and of the owners of the abutting property in equal portions, said
work to be done by and under the direction of the town authorities, as may
be provided for by the Council, and the money due from the abutting
property owners shall be a lien on said abutting property and collected as
other taxes are collected; provided, that before any special tax for such
purpose shall be levied, notice shall be served upon said abutting property
owners of the purpose and amount of said tax, either by personal service
by the marshal or by the mailing of a copy thereof by the clerk to the
last known residence of the owner or owners of said abutting property,
which notice shall provide a time and place when and at which said
owner or owners shall have the right to be heard with reference thereto;
(4) to open and keep open and free from obstructions and to condemn for
public use all streets, roads, public squares and reservations, grade, pave,
alter and control the same, and their rights, powers and duties in relation
thereto shall, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, be the same as is
prescribed by the Code of Public General Laws of this State for opening,
altering and closing public roads by the Board of County Commissioners,
with the right of appeal to the Circuit Court for the county; (5) to keep
the streets, crossings and town bridges clean and in repair; (6) to ade-
quately provide for the maintenance of an efficient police department and
fire department; (7) to light the strepts. public squares and reservations,