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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

front thereof agreeable to ordinances which may hereafter be
passed ;
(4.) To open and keep open and free from obf-tructions all
streets, public squares and reservations, grade and pave, close
or alter the same, and their rights, powers and duties in relation
thereto shall, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, be the
same as is provided by the Code of Public General Laws of
this State for opening, altering and closing public roads by the
Board of County Commissioners, with the right of appeal to
the Circuit Court for the county ;
(5.) To keep the streets and crossings and town's bridges
clean and in repair;
(6.) To adequately provide for the maintenance of an effi-
cient police force and fire department ;
(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, oper-
ated 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 tines, penalties and forfeitures for the
violation of their ordinances, including the committal of offen-
ders to the Montgomery county jail, until the same with costs
are paid.
SEC. 15. They may adopt suitable measures for the removal
of sewage and garbage and fix the amount to be paid therefor,
which shall be paid by a special tax for that purpose to be

Removal of
sewage and
garbage.

imposed on the occupants of the respective buildings and col-
lected therefrom, provided that the owners of the property
shall be responsible for said tax in case the same cannot be
collected from the occupants of the buildings, and the same
shall be a lien on said property and collected as other taxes are
collected, and the Council may pass suitable ordinances to enable
the proper officer to collect and remove all filth from the town
and provide for the disposal thereof. A special tax may be
imposed to carry out the provisions of this section, not exceed-
ing the sum of fifty cents per month on any one house, to be
paid by the occupant or owner thereof, as aforesaid.