ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

sembly passed at the January session, eighteen
hundred and eighty, be and the same are hereby
repealed and the following enacted in lieu
thereof :
SEC. 42. And be it enacted, That the commis-

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sioners of Chestertown shall have power to
adopt and enforce, by proper fines and penalties,
all by-laws and ordinances necessary for the
good government of said town ; to protect and
preserve the property and health of the inhabit-
.ants thereof ; to prevent, abate and remove nui-
sances ; to lay out and establish new streets and
alleys, and to widen, straighten, grade, extend
or close up any street or alley ; to locate, lay out,
construct and keep in repair all necessary drains,
sewers, sidewalks, culverts and bridges ; to pro-
vide for the appointment and compensation of
bailiffs, police and other officers, and to define
their duties ; to erect and regulate markets ; to pro-
vide for the inspection and cleaning of chimneys
and private premises ; to establish and regulate
wards and fire companies ; to restrain or prohibit
gaming ; to license bowling alleys, billiard and
pool tables, theatrical and other public amuse-
ments ; to regulate and protect water pipes, fire
plugs, hydrants, sewers, fountains, pumps and
water apparatus in the streets and alleys of the
town ; to fix, impose and collect fines, penalties
and forfeitures for the breach of the by-laws or

Power of com-
missioners.

ordinances of the town ; to levy and collect taxes
on the assessable property within the town
limits ; to require the laying of gutters and
paving the sidewalks by the owners of the ad-
joining property, and to keep them in repair ; to
provide for the arrest and fining, or committing
to the Kent county jail, of all vagrants, tramps,
drunken or disorderly persons ; to cause surveys
and plats of the streets and town -lots to be
made, and when adopted by said commissioners,
to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the
circuit court for Kent county ; to prevent and
prohibit all encroachments upon the streets ; to
impose an annual tax upon dogs and public carts ;
prohibit horses, cows or other animals from
running at large ; to regulate the erection of
buildings, and prohibit the construction of
wooden building where the fire risk would war-

Levy taxes.

Preserve
order.