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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such purposes until said commissioners shall deem it advis-

able to establish and regulate said station house or lock-up ;

to levy a tax aud impose a license on dogs or other animals

running at large ; to prevent horses, cattle, sheep and swine

from running at large in the streets of said town, and to

regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures and

traffics in offensive fertilizer or other commodities, and to

prohibit hog pens and slaughter houses within the town

limits, and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing

powers, and for the preservation of the peace, health and

cleanliness and good order of the coinmuuity, and for the

protection of bhe lives and property of the citizens, and to

suppress, abate or discontinue, or to cause to be suppressed,

abated or discontinued, all nuisances within the corporate

limits of said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws

from time to time necessary, and to insure the observation

of such ordinances in addition to an action of debt or such

other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for

the recovering of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may

affix thereto such reasonable fines not exceeding fiity dollars

in any case, as to them may appear right, and in default of

the payment of any fine imposed they may provide for the

imprisonment of the offender, not exceeding thirty days, or

until the fine is paid.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That whenever said commis-

sioners shall by ordinance direct that any street, alley or

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sidewalk within the limits to be opened, widened, narrowed,

piked, paved, repaired, extended stopped up or discon-

tinued, in whole or in part, they shall upon a certain day to

be named in said ordinance, and within three days, inclu-

sive of the day of meeting, proceed to ascertain what

amount of value in damages will be caused thereby, and

what amount the contemplated improvement will cost, and

they shall have power to provide tor the payment of the

damages and costs aforesaid by levying and assessing the

the same generally upon the whole of the assessable prop-

erty of said bown, or specially upon the assessable value of

the property benefited thereby, or in their discretion, partly

upon the property benefited, and balance upon the whole of

the assessable property of said town, and the said commis-

sioners shall have the power to ascertain aud determine

what amount of benefits will thereby accrue to any lot or

parcel of ground adjacent to said street, alley or sidewalk,

or the owner thereof, and whicli lot or parcel of ground or

lot thereof the owner ought to pay, and they shall on the

day fixed by said ordinance and within three days inclusive

of said meeting, so ascertain and determine and their de-

cision in writing shall be filed with the clerk, and shall be by