ART. 2.] ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

opened, widened or closed by the corporation, the
full value of all property taken and used for such
public street, lane or alley, or damage to be sustained
in closing the same, shall be assessed by a jury of
twelve citizens, and the said full value so assessed
first made or tendered to the proprietor of said prop-
erty, to erect and repair bridges, to have and keep
in repair all necessary drains and sewers, and to
pass all necessary regulations for the preservation
of the same ; to regulate and fix the assize of bread,
to provide for the appointment and define the duties

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of city commissioners, police officers, market mas-
ters, guagers, wood corders, harbor masters, hay
weighers, coal weighers and inspectors, and all Other
officers which they may create, and to define the
duties and compensation tnereof, to provide for the
safe keeping of the standard of weights and meas-
ures fixed by congress, or by an act of the state of
Maryland, and for regulating thereby all weights
and measures used within the city, to regulate party
walls and partition fences, to erect and regulate
markets, to provide for licensing and regulating the
sweeping and burning of chimneys, and fixing the
rates thereof, and to prescribe the size of those to be
built in the city; to establish and regulate fire wards
and fire companies, to restrain and prohibit gaming,
to license carriages of pleasure and burthen, and to
provide for licensing, regulating or restraining theat-
rical or other public amusements within the limits
of the city, to sink wells, to make and regulate
pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water plugs, foun-
tains, and so forth, in the streets, lanes and alleys,
and to pass laws to protect the same ; and to impose
and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for
the breach of their by-laws and ordinances, and to
levy and collect taxes, not exceeding one per centum
on all the property of the citizens of said city ; to
pass ordinances for the prevention and extinguish
ment of fires, for paving and keeping in repair the
streets, lanes and alleys in said city, and for extend

Officers, &c.