ART. 22.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 1075

Sac. 26. The Burgess and Commissioners may also grant
franchises to any corporations, private companies or individ-
uals to construct and operate a system for supplying water to
the municipal authorities and inhabitants generally of Sharps-
burg, and to contract .with such corporations, private companies
or individuals for the erection and maintenance of fire plugs
and for supplying water for the public service of the town, and
to regulate by ordinance all the operations of such corporations,
private companies or individuals within the town.

SEC. 27. Nothing contained in the foregoing sections 25 and
26 shall be construed as authorizing the Burgess and Commis-
sioners to issue bonds for the purposes therein mentioned.

SEC. 28. The Burgess and Commissioners shall have power to
impose licenses upon all corporations, companies or individ-
uals now operating or that may hereafter operate within the
corporate limits of the town, telegraph, telephone, railway,
water, electric or other lighting, heating and power systems
and all property so employed shall be liable to municipal and
State taxation; provided, that no greater sum than twenty dol-
lars be charged for any license.

SEC. 29. The Burgess and Commissioners may by ordinance
provide for the exemption from municipal taxation, for a period
not exceeding five years, such manufacturing industries or es-
tablishments as they may deem expedient, which may hereafter
be located in the town and shall emploY not less than twenty
hands.

SEC. 13. The Burgess and Commissioners shall have power
to pass all ordinances necessary, in their judgment, for the
good government of the town and to secure the safety thereof
and its inhabitants; to prevent, remove and abate all nuisances
or obstructions in or upon the streets, highways, lanes, alleys,
draws, water courses, or in or upon any lot or lots adjacent
thereto; to provide for imposing fine or fines upon any person
or corporation causing or maintaining any such nuisance or
obstruction; to repair or remove or cause to be repaired or
removed, at the cost of the owner, any house, structure or ob-
ject that may be dangerous to persons passing along or over
any highway or that may be peculiarly liable to take fire;
to make reasonable regulations in regard to building or repair-
ing the same; to make and establish grades upon the streets,
alleys or highways; to cause the sidewalks and gutters along
the streets and highways to be graded, paved or improved at the
cost of the abutting property or the owner thereof, to cause curbs
to be set at the cost of the abutting property or the owner there-