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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

rant it, unless the same be protected by fire-
walls ; to preserve order, and protect persons
and property from violence, danger and destruc-
tion ; to erect hospitals or pest houses, and pro-
vide for the proper management of the same ;
to restrain or prohibit fast driving through the
streets ; the firing of guns, pistols, cannons or
fireworks ; contract for water supply for fire
purposes, and provide for the payment of the
same ; to erect lamps and light the streets, or
contract for the lighting of the same, and pro-
vide for the payment thereof ; to locate and re-
strain, or to prohibit and suppress the keeping
of hogs or shoats, slaughter houses, fertilizer
factories, or houses for the storage of fertilizer,

Protect
property.

within the town limits ; to purchase and keep in
proper condition hose, hose carriages, engines,
ladders, trucks, and other apparatus for extin-
guishing fire and protecting property from fire,
and to erect and keep in repair proper buildings
therefor ; to require bonds, with penalties from,
officers of the town, for the faithful performance
of duty ; to protect the property of any water
company, or gas or electric light company, or
the owner of such, which may supply water,
gas or electric light to the town or citizens
thereof, and generally for the promotion and
securement of the health and good government
of the town, and to give effect to the powers
vested in said commissioners.
SEC. 43. And be it enacted, That the corporate
limits of Chestertown, "Kent County," Mary-

Metes and
bounds of
Chestertown.

land, be and the same are hereby extended so as
to embrace all the territory within the following
metes and bounds : Beginning on Chester river,
at the eastern bounds of the town, and the divis-
ion line between the lands leased out by Wash-
ington college and the lands of Mrs. Mary R.
Perkins, and running thence, in a northerly
direction with said division line and the easterly
bounds of said college lands, to the intersection
of Washington avenue with College avenue ;
thence westerly, in a straight line, to the point
where the.public road, from Chestertown to Fair-
lee, crosses the mill-stream, the headwaters of
Radcliffe creek ; thence in a southerly direction
to the point of intersection of the lands of Wm.