330 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

1867, c. 276 repeals section 82 and 92 of said act and substitutes the following:

1867, c 276. Powers of mayor and councilmen.	82. The mayor and councilmen may pass such ordinances, not contrary to law, as they may deem beneficial to the town; they shall have power to remove all nuisances and obstructions from the streets, lanes and alleys, and from any lots adjoin- ing thereto, and also any houses or other buildings that may become dangerous to the neighborhood on any account, and to prevent all nuisances, an- noyances and disturbances in said town, and to prevent the erection of slaughter-houses within six hundred feet from the boundaries of said town, and to build a town watch-house; and they may impose such reasonable fines, forfeitures, or imprisonment in said watch-house, as to them may appear neces- sary, for the violation of any ordinance of said town, and they shall nave power to require a license from all circuses, menageries, theatrical exhibitions and other shows and exhibitions for gain, exhibiting in
For what licen- ses required.	said town; they shall have power to require a license from the owners and keepers of hacks, carts, wagons, drays, and every description of wheeled carriages kept for hire in said town, and also from auction stores, hawkers and pedlars. 1866, c. 47 further enacts as follows :
1866, c. 47. Assessment of property and tax	83. They may, from time to time, cause an assess- ment to be made of all the property, real and per- sonal, in the town, by a person appointed by them, and may levy thereon a tax not exceeding in any one year, fifty cents in every hundred dollars worth
Right of appeal.	of assessable property ; but an appeal may be made by any person thus assessed to the mayor and coun- cilmen, who on a hearing from evidence of the party appealing or any other person on oath touching the value of the property assessed, may abate or increase the assessment as may seem just.