1276 GARRETT COUNTY. [ART. 12.

be paved, graded, repaired, drained, leveled or sewered; to protect
and preserve any of the town's property, rights and privileges; to
regulate the sale of nostrums, notions, patents, secret or pretended
inventions and remedies, on the streets, lanes, alleys or sidewalks

of the town, and the weighing of coal, hay and other commodities
and merchandise; to restrain, regulate and suppress bawdy houses
and houses of ill-fame, and prohibit the youth of the town from
being on the streets, lanes or alleys at unreasonable hours of the
night; to provide for levying and collecting a tax on the assess-
able property of said town, for the general purposes of said
incorporation, not exceeding, however, in any one year twenty-
five cents on each one hundred dollars worth of said assessable
property; for the election of a clerk and treasurer, and the appoint,
ment by the mayor, and compensation of such other officers, agents

or servants as may be deemed necessary; to suppress the carrying

of concealed weapons, and the practice of firing and discharging
fire-arms, fire-crackers, rockets, torpedoes and other explosives,

either by prohibiting the sale thereof or otherwise; to restrain
and prohibit gaming; and to provide for licensing, regulating or
restraining theatricals or other public amusements within the
town limits; to punish and suppress tramps by the imposition of
fines and penalties thereon, and on failure to pay such fines, to
put them to work on the public streets; they shall erect lamps
and provide proper and suitable lights upon the public streets;
they shall have power to open or close streets or parts of streets,
lanes or alleys; provided, the question of closing any public
street or alley, or parts thereof, shall be first submitted to the
voters of said town after twenty days' pubh'c notice, by handbills

or otherwise, and approved by two-thirds of the legal votes cast
upon such question; to prevent swine, cattle, dogs or other
animals from running at large on the public streets, and to
prevent hog-pens within certain limits within the town; to levy
a tax on dogs; to define the duties of the officers of the corpora-
tion, and to enforce their ordinances by fines and penalties; they
shall have power to appoint one or more assessors who, under

oath, to be administered by the mayor, shall value and assess the
property of said town, including all property liable to State and

county taxes, and shall have power to collect the same as other
debts are collected.