1664 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 18.

may pass all laws and ordinances necessary for grading, regu-
lating, paving and repairing the footways in the streets, lanes and
alleys of the town, and may impose a tax upon any lot fronting-
on any paved street, lane or alley for the purpose of grading,
regulating, paving or repairing the footways in front thereof, or
compel, by fine or otherwise, the owner or proprietor of any lot
to pave or repair the footways in front thereof, agreeably to the
ordinances to be passed by them; and they may prohibit the run-
ning or riding of any horses, or driving of carts, wagons or car-
riages unreasonably fast in said town; may regulate and provide
for the sweeping of chimneys, prohibit the firing of guns or pis-
tols, the throwing of lighted squibs, fire-crackers, Roman candles.
or any other combustible matter, and the storage of gunpowder
or any combustible matter within the limits of said town, and
make all necessary regulations relative to wells and pumps,
therein.

1868, ch. 53.

50. No person shall keep a dog or bitch in the town without
first obtaining a license from the clerk of the commissioners for
that purpose in the month of April of each and every year, and
paying at the time the license shall be granted, for every dog one-
dollar, and for every bitch two dollars; and the owner of every
dog or bitch for which a license shall be obtained shall have a
collar put around his or her neck; and every dog or bitch found
going at large in such town, not thus licensed, shall be shot
or otherwise destroyed by the bailiff; and if any person shall
bring a dog or bitch into the town after the month of April
in any year, he shall obtain a license within ten days there-
after, and pay for the same as hereinbefore directed, and place
a collar around the neck of such dog or bitch, or otherwise
said dog or bitch shall be shot or otherwise destroyed; any
person failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this
section shall be liable to a fine of not less than one dollar for each
dog and two dollars for each bitch brought or kept by him in
said town, in addition to the penalty of having the same shot or
otherwise destroyed if found going at large without a collar about
his or her neck.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 17, sec. 40.

51. The public grounds in said town shall be vested in said
commissioners, so far as to preserve the same and prevent depre-