WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 569

aforesaid tentative relocated center line of River Road to a
point on the present southerly boundary line of the old Town
of Bladensburg (Quincy Street extended), said point being
approximately 675 feet east of the easterly right of way line
of the Alexandria Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Kail-
road, saving and excepting from the aforesaid description so
much of the land covered thereby as may be now within the
corporate limits of the Town of Cheverly, and that portion
of the land now owned by Prince George's County, thence
along Quincy Street in an easterly direction to the eastern
line of Decatur Heights, Section 1, thence in a northerly
direction along said eastern line of Decatur Heights, Section
1, to the northeast corner of said Section 1, thence in an
easterly direction along Defense Highway to the point of
beginning.

POWERS

37. The Town of Bladensburg shall have and is hereby
granted authority to exercise all powers relating to municipal
affairs and to pass ordinances and take measures for the
welfare, health, safety and improvement of the town, and to
exercise the police power of the town. No enumeration of
powers in this or any law shall be deemed to restrict the
general grant of authority hereby conferred unless expressly
so stated in such law. The following shall be deemed a part
of the powers conferred upon the town by this section:

a. To levy, assess and collect taxes according to the
assessable valuation set by the county, and to borrow money
within the limits provided by this charter; to levy and collect
special assessments for benefits conferred; and to receive
payments in lieu of taxes, and to account for, expend, and
otherwise treat such payments in the manner provided by law
in connection with taxation.

b. To furnish any or all public services; to own or dispose
of stock in, purchase, hire, construct, own, maintain and
operate or lease public utilities or public utility services;
to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of public utilities or public
utility services; to acquire by condemnation or otherwise,
within the corporate limits, property necessary for any such
purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by laws of the State
of Maryland; and to grant local public utility franchises.

c. To make and maintain public improvements and to
acquire property within the corporate limits necessary for
such improvements; and also to acquire an excess over that
needed for any such improvements; and to sell, lease or other-
wise dispose of such excess property with such restrictions