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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

(7.) To light the streets, public squares and reservations ;
(8.) To compel the owners of property or tenants, to keep
the sidewalks in front of their property clean and in repair ;
(9.) To impose a tax on dogs, fowls, hogs and other
animals running at large, or totally prohibit the same ;
(10.) To authorize the use of the streets for railroads, ope-
rated by electric, steam or other mechanical motive power, and
to regulate the same as to grades, crossing, paving between and
outside tracks and otherwise ; to require and compel all lines
of railway in any one street to run on and use one and the
same track, and to keep in repair the bridges and crossings
through which or over which their cars run ;
(11.) To prescribe fines, penalties and forfeitures for the
violation of their ordinances, including the committal of
offenders to the Montgomery county jail, until the same with
costs are paid.

Adopt meas-
ures for the
removal of
sewerage
and gar-
bage.

SEC. 14. They may adopt suitable measures for the removal
of sewerage and garbage, and fix the amount to be paid there-
for, which shall be paid by a special tax for that purpose, to
be imposed on the occupants of the respective buildings and
collected therefrom, provided that the owners of the property
shall be responsible for said tax in case the same cannot be col-
lected from the occupants of the buildings, and the same shall be
alien on said property and collected as other taxes are collected,
and the council may pass suitable ordinances to enable the proper
officers to collect and remove all filth from the town and pro-
vide for the disposal thereof. A special tax may be imposed
to carry out the provisions of this section, not exceeding, the
sum of fifty cents per month on any one house, to be paid by
the occupant or owner thereof, as aforesaid.

Assessment
to be made.

SEC. 15. On or before the first day of June in each year, the
council shall cause an assessment to be made on all the real
and personal property within said town or corporate limits
thereof, by an assessor or assessors to be appointed and paid by
them, which assessments shall not exceed the assessment of the
same for county purposes, and the council shall immediately
thereupon levy a tax thereon not exceeding fifty cents on the
one hundred dollars' worth of assessable property in any one
year; any person may appeal from the valuation of the assessor
or assessors to the council which shall meet on the first Monday
in June after said assessment, and remain in session from day
to day, as long as may be reasonable, to hear and determine
said appeals, and shall give reasonable notice of said meet-
ings, and shall increase or abate said assessment as they