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to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, and shall be
confirmed by the said court at its next session, if no sufficient cause to
the contrary be shown, and when confirmed, shall be recorded by the said
clerk at the expense of the said Commissioners; and if the said inquisi-
tion shall be set aside by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County,
the said court may direct another to be taken in the same manner as the
first. That every inquisition shall describe the property taken on the
bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration of the interest
of the same therein valued, and such valuation when paid or tendered to
the owner or owners of the property taken, or his legal representatives,
shall entitle the said Commissioners to the estates, use and interest in the
same so valued for the purposes aforesaid, as fully as if the same had
been conveyed by the owner or his legal representatives.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 19.

325. The said Commissioners shall have the power to pass ordinances
regulating the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect steps, por-
ticos, bay windows, or other architectural ornaments to houses fronting
on any part of streets of said town; to regulate party walls and partition
fences; to direct in what part of said town buildings of wood may not
be erected; to regulate the manner in which public halls, churches, school
houses, bath houses, or places of amusement shall be constructed, and to
fix the penalty for violation thereof.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 20.

326. Said Commissioners shall have the power to license and regulate
all hacking coaches, carriages, carts, drays, omnibuses, wagons or other
vehicles kept for hire or hired in said town, and to license and regulate
the employment of all hackmen, draymen, wagoners, carters, porters,
boatmen and watermen plying for hire within the limits of said town, and
to pass all necessary and proper regulations respecting the same; and to
fix the price of compensation for hackney carriages, and to fix the penal-
ties for the violation of such regulations; to regulate the location and con-
duct of livery stables, and to enact ordinances respecting the keeping and
boarding of horses thereat; providing the regulating of such keeping and
boards of such stables shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State-
1922, ch. 213, sec. 21.

327. The said Commissioners shall have the power to license and regu-
late the sweeping of chimneys, and fix the rates thereof; to regulate the
sweeping of any chimneys by neglect of which the said town may be en-
dangered.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 22.

328. The said Commissioners shall have the power to enact ordinances
for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and fix the penalties for the vio-
lation thereof not inconsistent with the laws of this State.