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require, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of
their respective offices.

1886, ch. 424

162. The commissioners shall receive all returns of elections
and determine all questions arising thereon; and in case of non-
election of a commissioner or treasurer by reason of a tie vote,
disqualification or other cause, they shall, within ten days there-
after, order a new election, giving ten days' public notice thereof;
an appeal may be taken from their decisions to the circuit court
for Prince George's county, the losing parties to pay the costs
thereof.

Ibid.

163. They may pass such ordinances, not inconsistent with
law, as they may deem beneficial to the town; may grade and
pave streets, lanes and alleys, remove nuisances and obstructions
therefrom; restrain all disorders and disturbances; prevent all
congregations of disorderly persons in public places; apprehend
and fine all tramps and vagabonds; impose a tax on dogs, geese,
hogs, and all other animals running at large in the streets, or
totally prohibit the same; and may impose fines, penalties and
forfeitures not exceeding twenty dollars for any one offence for
the violation of their ordinances, and commit offenders to the
county jail until the same shall be paid, with costs.

Ibid.

164. They may pass such ordinances as they may deem neces-
sary for the preservation of the health of the town, and remove
all nuisances from and prohibit all such business within the cor-
porate limits thereof, as shall, in their opinion, injuriously affect
the sanitary condition thereof.

Ibid.

165. They may adopt the current assessments made or to be
made on real and personal property for county purposes, and are
empowered to levy on said assessed property within the corporate
limits, an equal tax from time to time, not exceeding in any one
year the sum of fifteen cents on each hundred dollars of assessed
valuation.