ART. 15.] CHESTERTOWN. 1447

and collect taxes on the assessable property within the town limits;
to require the laying of gutters and the paving of the sidewalks by
the owners of the adjoining property, and the keeping of them in
repair; to provide for the arrest and fining, or commitment to the
Kent county jail, of all vagrants, tramps, drunken or disorderly per-
sons ; to cause surveys and plats of the streets and town lots to be
made, and when adopted by said commissioners, to be recorded
in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for Kent county';
to prevent and prohibit all encroachments upon the streets;
to impose an annual tax upon dogs and public carts; pro-
hibit horses, cows or other animals from running at large; to
regulate the erection of buildings, and prohibit the construction
of wooden buildings where the fire risk would warrant it, unless
the name be protected by fire walls; to preserve order, and protect
persons and property from violence, danger and destruction; to
erect hospitals or pest houses, and provide for the proper manage-
ment of the same; to restrain or prohibit fast driving through the
streets; the firing of guns, pistols, cannons or fireworks; to contract
for water supply for fire purposes, and provide for the payment
of the same; to erect lamps and light the streets, or contract for
the lighting of the same, and provide for the payment thereof
to locate and restrain, or to prohibit and suppress the keeping of
hogs or shoats, slaughter houses, fertilizer factories, or houses for
the storage of fertilizers, within the town limits; to purchase and
keep in proper condition, hose, hose carriages, engines, ladders,
trucks, and other apparatus for extinguishing fires and protecting
property from fire, and to erect and keep in repair proper build-
ings therefor; to require bonds, with penalties, from officers of the
town, for the faithful performance of duty; to protect the prop-
erty of any water company, or gas or electric light company, or
the owner of such, which may supply water, gan or electric light
to the town or citizens thereof, and generally for the promotion
and securing of the health and good government of the town,
and to give effect to the powers vested in said commissioners.

1882, ch. 201.

60. They may contract and agree with the owner of property
through or over which a street is to be extended, widened or
opened, for the amount of damages sustained by or advantages