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BALTIMORE COUNTY: [ART. 3.

citizens residing within the said corporate limits are
of the said two turnpike roads as a centre, and the

Incorporated.

created a body corporate, with perpetual succession, by
the name of the Town of Towsontown, with all the
privileges of a body corporate, and to have and use a
common seal, and shall be able and capable in law, to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court
of law or of equity.

Ibid. s. 2.
Election of
commissioners

246. The citizens residing within the corporate limits
of the town of Towsontown, shall hold an election on
the first Monday of April next, and in each and every
year thereafter, for five commissioners, who shall hold

Term.

their offices for one year or until their successors are
elected and qualified, and shall have the management

Powers

of the town, and who shall have full power and autho-
rity to enact and pass all ordinances to preserve the
health of the town, to promote cleanliness and good
order, to regulate the keeping and running at large of
cattle, swine, goats, dogs, fowls, and other animals, to
enact and pass all such ordinances as may conduce to
the peace, order and good government of said town;
to regulate the police, and provide for the payment of
the same; to impose and appropriate taxes, fines, pen-
alties and forfeitures for the breach of the ordinances,
to establish new avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks,
to open, widen, narrow, extend, stop up, or discontinue
avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks now laid out or
used, and such as may be established under the autho-
rity herein conferred, to lay and collect taxes for es-
tablishing, opening, narrowing, closing, repairing and
keeping in order such avenues, streets, alleys and side-
walks, and the roads leading from and to said town;

Proviso.

provided, that when any avenues, streets, alleys or side-

Open streets.

walks shall be opened, widened or closed, the full value
of all property taken and used for such avenue, street,
alley or sidewalk, or damage to be sustained in closing
the same in whole or in part, shall be assessed by the
commissioners, and the said full value so assessed shall
be paid, or offered to be paid to the proprietors of said
property before the said avenue, street, alley or side-