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as may be necessary to pay the said taxes. He shall be entitled to the
following fees: For giving notice to enforce the payment of any tax bill
in the sum of fifty cents, and, in addition thereto, for the property to be
sold he shall receive, when sold, a poundage fee of three per cent, of the
gross amount of sale, but if the amount of bill be paid without sale, after
advertising, he shall receive as poundage fee, ten per cent, of the amount
collected, these several fees to be charged against the tax bill of the delin-
quent taxpayer. The Commissioners may allow such commission or sum
to the collector for collecting taxes as they may deem right and proper, and,
in addition to the remedy above provided for the enforcement of the taxes
so levied, the collector may, in the name of "The Commissioners of
Leonardtown," by suit and execution, enforce the payment and collection
of taxes in the manner and to the same extent as debts due and owing
individuals are now or may hereafter be collected by process of law, and
these provisions shall apply to all taxes now levied and uncollected, and the

same be collected, as herein provided.

1904, ch. 401, sec. 69. 1914, chs. 423 and 594, sec. 69.
104. The Commissioners shall have charge and control of the lighting

of the streets of the town and shall have power to establish and maintain
a lighting system, and all necessary powers of condemnation as conferred
upon them by the town charter for other purposes, to condemn property,
public or private, necessary in establishing same; to establish a water
system with the powers of condemnation aforesaid in establishing same,
for supplying water for all municipal purposes, or to contract with any
water company for supplying water for said purposes; to employ all labor,
and authorize the bailiff to do so, that may be necessary, and to make all
contracts for public improvement, and to fix the price to be paid for same.
The Commissioners shall have power to make such by-laws and pass such
ordinances, not contrary to law, and in conformity with this charter, as
they may deem necessary for the good government of the town and the
inhabitants, thereof; to prevent, remove and abate all nuisances and obstruc-
tions in or upon the streets, sidewalks, highways, lanes, alleys, drains,
waterways or sewers, or in or upon any lot, and to provide for imposing a
fine upon any person causing or creating such nuisances or obstructions;
and to establish a building line; to grant permits for all buildings and to
have power to remove, or order the removal of any buildings that may
be a nuisance, or that may have been erected, contrary to any ordinance
heretofore passed or hereafter to be passed, or that may endanger any
building contiguous thereto in case of fire, or to enact ordinances and im-
pose fines for the enforcement of these provisions; to establish grades upon
the streets, alleys, gutters and sidewalks of said town and prescribe the
width thereof and the material of which they shall be built; to cause the
sidewalks along said public streets to be graded, repaired, improved or
paved, and in the case of paving said sidewalks or putting down concrete,

cement or other similar sidewalks, to assess one-half of the cost of doing
same against the abutting property owners, said charge to be a lien against