736

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

within or upon said street, lane or alley, for which

such owner or possessor ought to pay a compensa-

tion, said benefits shall be assessed and paid by

the owner or possessor in like manner as above

provided; to erect and repair bridges; to have,

construct and keep in repair all necessary drains,

and sewers, and to pass all necessary regulations for
the regulation, repair and preservation of the same ;

to regulate and fix the assize of bread ; to provide for

Define duties

the appointment, and define the duties of city com-

of city com-
missioner, &c

missioner, police officers, market masters, gaugers,

wood corders, harbor masters, hay weighers coal

weighers and inspectors, and all other officers which

they may create, and to define the duties and com-

pensation thereof; to provide for the safe keeping

of the standard of the weights and measures, fixed

by Congress, or by an act of the State of Maryland,

and for regulating thereby all weights and measures
used within the city ; to regulate party walls and

partition fences ; to erect and regulate markets ; to

provide for licensing and regulating the sweeping

and burning of chimneys, and fixing the rates there-

of, and to prescribe the size of those to be built in

the city ; to establish and regulate fire wards and

Regulate fire
companies.

fire companies ; to restrain or prohibit gaming ; to
license bowling saloons, bowlings alleys, nine or ten

pin alleys, billiard tables, rondo tables, bagatelle

tables, or any other tables or devices, or structures

of a similar kind ; to license carriages of pleasure

and burden, and to provide for licensing, regulating

or restraining theatrical or other public amusements
within the limits of the city ; to license hawkers,

pedlers, travelling physicians, vendors of patent

medicines or other articles, and their vehicles; to

sink wells; to make and regulate pumps, water

pipes, hydrants, water plugs, fountains, sewers, and

so forth, in the streets, lanes and alleys of the city,

and to pass laws to protect the same ; to impose and

appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for the

breach of their by-laws and ordinances ; to levy and

Levy and col-

collect taxes, not exceeding one per centum per an-

lect taxes.

num on all the assessable property in the city ; to pass

ordinances for the prevention and extinguishment

of fires, and for paving and keeping in repair the

streets, lanes and alleys in said city; and in addition

to the power aforesaid, to tax any particular part or