MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3651

and making new streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widen-
ing, grading, improving or closing up, in whole or in part, any existing
street or alley, and for laying out public squares, parks, drains, sewers
or water courses; to establish and regulate a station-house or lock-up for
the temporary confinement of violators of the law and ordinances of the
town; to levy a tax and impose a license upon dogs or other animals or
fowls running at large; to regulate and control all offensive trades, manu-
facturers and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities and pro-
hibit hog-pens and slaughter houses within the town limits; to control by
ordinance the mode of constructing privies and sinks, and the manner of
disposing of offal and waste products, and, in general, to pass such ordi-
nances as they may deem proper, necessary and beneficial to the town.

(B) For the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by this.
Charter, and for preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives and property
of the citizens, and to suppress, abate, or discontinue, or cause to be sup-
pressed, abated or discontinued, all nuisances within the corporate limits,
of said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary; and to insure the observance of such ordinances, in addition
to the action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in such
cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may
affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case,
as to them may appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine
imposed, they may provide for the imprisonment of the offenders for a
period not exceeding thirty days, or until the fines are paid; provided,
that no ordinance shall be adopted except by a yea and nay vote, and the
names of the members of the Council voting for and against the same
shall be entered in the minutes.

(C) The Council is hereby authorized to pay over to the Board of
County School Commissioners of Montgomery and, or, Prince George's
County, such sums as may in the discretion of the Council be necessary
or advisable, for expenditure within the corporate limits of the town, for
the purpose of aiding in the acquisition of land for school and playground
sites; aiding in the construction, operation, and maintenance of public
school buildings; assisting in the payment of salaries of public school
teachers, and generally to aid in promoting the efficiency of the public
schools located within the limits of the town. Such sums may, for the
purposes named in this subsection, be appropriated from the funds in the
treasury of the town not otherwise appropriated or allotted at the date of
the enactment of this Charter; or such sums may be paid from the general
revenue of the town; or such sums may be raised by creating indebtedness
for the purpose as provided in Subsection 961-I* of this Charter.

(D) Whenever any work of any nature is to be performed the esti-
mated cost of which exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), which
estimate shall be entered on the minutes of the Council, notice of two-

*This reference is apparently an error.