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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

pave and repair such roads, streets, lanes and alleys

as have been or may be laid out for that purpose ;

to prevent and remove nuisances; to provide against

fires, and for the extinguishment of the same; to

regulate fire companies; to provide for the safety

of houses, buildings and chimneys from fire; to pre-

vent the discharge of explosive materials; to regu-

late party walls and division fences; to levy a tax

on dogs and bitches, and to regulate their running

What to pre-

at large; to prevent and regulate the going at large

vent and that
to provide for.

of beasts, cattle, sheep and hogs; to restrain or

regulate public amusements, entertainments or exhi-

bitions and to license .the same; to restrain disorders

and disturbances and immoralities; to make, repair

or keep in order the roads, streets, lanes, footways

and alleys of said town, and the drains, sewers and

culverts thereof, and to build or secure a place of

confinement for persons charged or convicted of

violating the laws and ordinances for the suppres-

sion of vice and immorality and disorders.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the said com-

missioners shall cause to be made an assessment

from time to time of all property, real and per-

sonal, within the limits of said town; and shall levy

a tax upon all such property, not to exceed in any

one year twenty cents on the one hundred dollars,

Assess prop-
erty.

as they may deem necessary for said corporate gov-

ernment expenses; and said commissioners may

borrow, to be used for corporate purposes, a sum

not exceeding one thousand dollars, before the col-

lection of said taxes, which debt shall be cancelled

as rapidly -as the collection of taxes succeeding said

borrowing will permit.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That said commission-

ers may direct by ordinances what material shall be

used in the paving, repairing and curbing the foot-

Paving mate-
rial.

ways, or any of them, in said town, and provide

that the same shall be done at the expense of the

owners of the land before which said footway shall

be made or repaired.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That if the owner

or owners of any land shall refuse or neglect for

Neglect to

thirty days after notice to pave, curb or repair any

comply.

footway immediately before his or her land, on the

same side of the road, street, lane or alley there-

with, as directed by any ordinance of the commis-