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and regulate the use of same for telegraph, telephone and other poles and
wires, (8) to compel the owners of property or tenants to keep the side-
walks clear, (9) to impose a tax or license on, or totally prohibit the run-
ning at large of dogs, fowls, hogs and other animals; (10) to authorize the
use of the streets for railroads operated by electric, steam or other mechani-
cal motive power, and to regulate the same as to grade and crossings, pav-
ing between outside tracks and otherwise; to require and compel all lines of
railway in any one street to run on and use one and the same track, and to
keep in repair the bridges and ciosaings through which or over which then
cars run, (11) to provide for meeting and defraying the incidental ex-
penses of the town government, including the cost of the bond pi escribed
for the clerk and treasurer, (12) to pi escribe fines, penalties and for
feitures for the violation of their ordinances, including the committal of
offenders to the Montgomery county jail until said fines, penalties or for-
feitures are paid, provided, that no such fine, penalty or forfeiture shall
exceed the sum or value of fifty dollars; and no imprisonment shall exceed
the period of thirty days

1906, ch 795, sec 14 1912, ch 790 sec 548

924. The corporation, by and through its Mayor and Council, may
purchase or construct water and electric light plants, or either, as well
as a sewerage system and other utilities for the general good, and for such
purpose may issue, in such denominations as they may see fit, bonds not
to exceed the total sum of ten thousand dollars, said bonds to be signed by
the Mayor and countersigned by the treasurer, interest on same not to
exceed the rate of six per centum per annum; said bonds to be payable
25 years after issuance and redeemable after ten years therefrom at the
pleasure of the Mayor and Council, said bonds shall be exempt from mu-
nicipal, county and State taxation; and the Mayor and Council in making
their annual levy of municipal taxes after said bonds are issued shall fix
the rate sufficient to provide for the payment of the interest on said bonds
and create a sinking fund for their redemption; provided, that the ques-
tion of such purchase, construction or bond issue shall first be submitted
to be passed on by the people of Somerset at the regular annual election
or a special election held for that purpose after thirty days' public notice
by the Council of intention to submit the question to the voters, said notice
to be posted in not less than three conspicuous places in the town and pub-
lished not less than three successive weeks in the official journal of the
town, or in a newspaper published in Montgomery county, the first of
which said newspaper publications shall not be less than thirty days before

said special election The Mayor or the clerk may, upon authority from
the Council, purchase real or personal property exposed for sale for taxes,
as herein elsewhere provided for, said purchase to be in the name and for
the use of the town; provided, that the sum bid shall not in any case exceed
the amount of delinquent taxes, interest, cost and expenses The town
may afterward sell or convey the same if not redeemed as herein else-
where provided for