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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 528

Acts of 1900, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, and to add five new sections,
one of said new sections to follow immediately after Section

Now sections
added.

50, to be designated Section 50 A, the other four new sections
to follow immediately after Section 59 B, to be designated as
Sections 59 C, 59 D, 59 E and 59 F of said Article, to read as
to all the sections, as follows :
50 A. The citizens of Chestertown, in Kent county, are a
body corporate, by the name of "The Commissioners of

Body
corporate.

Chestertown," with all the powers and privileges of a body
politic and corporate, and by said corporate name may have
perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded in any court of law or equity, and have and use a
common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure; may hold,
possess, purchase or otherwise acquire for corporate pur-
poses property, real, personal and mixed, and may sell, dis-
pose of and convey any such property for the benefit of said
town; provided, that the real estate to be purchased shall

Proviso.

be limited to gravel and sand lots, and the amounts to be
expended therefor shall not exceed one thousand dollars,
in any one year.
51. There shall be three commissioners for Chestertown,

Commission-
ers elected.

all of whom shall be taxpayers upon real or leasehold
property in said town and at least thirty years of age, who
shall each be elected for a term of three years; one of said
commissioners shall be elected annually, as provided by the
next succeeding section.
59 A. In addition to the powers conferred on the commis-
sioners of Chestertown by Section 59 of this Article, they

Regulate the
building of
party walls,
etc.

shall have power to regulate by ordinance the building and
maintenance of party walls, partition fences, parapet and
fire walls, smoke flues, fire-places, hot-air flues, boilers,
smokestacks, chimneys and stovepipes, and to have any
such removed, repaired or reconstructed, whenever in the
judgment of said commissioners the same may be dangerous
to or menace the property wherein such structures are,
or any adjacent or contiguous property, and the expenses
of such alteration, removal, repairing or reconstruction
when done by. the town commissioners shall be a lien
on the property where such work is done, and may by
ordinance require the owners or occupants of any lot
abutting on the streets, lanes and alleys of said town to