LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

in the same manner as the first. That every inquisition shall
describe the property taken or the bounds of the land con-
demned, and the quantity or duration of the interest of the
same therein valued, and such valuation when paid or tendered
to the owner or owners of the property taken, or his legal
representatives, shall entitle the said commissioners to the
estates, use and interest in the same so valued for the purposes
aforesaid, as fully as if the same had been conveyed by the
owner or his legal representatives.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners

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shall have the power to pass ordinances regulating the limits
within which it shall be lawful to erect steps, porticoes, bay
windows, or other architectural ornaments to nouses fronting
on any part of streets of said town ; to regulate party walls
and partition fences ; to direct in what part of said town build-
ings of wood may not be erected ; to regulate the manner in
which public halls, churches, school houses, bath houses, or
places of amusement shall be constructed, and to fix the penalty
for violation thereof.
SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That said Commissioners shall
have the power to license and regulate all hacking coaches, car-
riages, carts, drays, omnibuses, wagons or other vehicles kept
for hire or hired in said town, and to license and regulate the
employment of all hackmen, draymen, wagoners, carters, por-
ters, boatmen and watermen plying for hire within the limits
of said town, and to pass all necessary and proper regulations
respecting the same ; and to fix the price of compensation for
hackney carriages, and to fix the penalties for the violations of
such regulations; to regulate the location and conduct of livery
stables, and to enact ordinances respecting the keeping and
boarding of horses thereat ; providing the regulating of such
keeping and boards of such stables shall not be inconsistent
with the laws of this State.
SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to license and regulate the sweeping of
chimneys, and fix the rates thereof; to regulate the sweeping of
any chimneys by neglect of which the said town may be endan-
gered.
SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to enact ordinances for the prevention of
cruelty to animals, and fix the penalties for the violation thereof
not inconsistent with the laws of this State.
SEC. 23. And be it enacted. That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to fix by ordinance the disposition of all

Commission-
ers given
certain
powers.