1140 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

son ordered to correct or remove said encroachment or obstruc-
tion to remove or have the same removed at the charge and ex-
pense of the party or persons so ordered, with a right on the
part of the Mayor and Council to sue for and recover all sums
of money laid out and expended by them in removing or cor-
recting said obstruction or encroachment in an action at law
.without relieving the said parties or persons so responsible for
such nuisance from criminal prosecution. (12) To prohibit
the keeping of any vicious or dangerous dog or other beasts in
said town by order noted on the minute book and served on the
owner, reputed owner or controlling occupant of the premises
where the animal is kept, and to direct such animal to be killed
or to be sent out of the town, if not immediately removed
on receiving notice of such order, and also to prescribe penal-
ties for keeping such dangerous beasts in the town after such
notice. (13) To regulate, restrain or prohibit by ordinance
the running at large of horses, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks,
geese and chickens on any of the streets, lanes, alleys or thor-
oughfares of the said town, and to prescribe penalties for vio-
lating such ordinance, and to forbid or regulate the keeping of
swine in said town, and to provide penalties for violation of
such ordinances. (14) To regulate and prescribe by ordinance,
as a protection against fire, whether houses built or erected in
said town shall be built of wood or other material, and to pre-
scribe in what parts and sections thereof buildings of wood may
be erected, and in what part or sections of the same buildings
of wood shall not be erected and to prescribe penalties for vio-
lating said ordinance; that every person or party who wishes
or proposes to erect any building in said town to make a writ-
ten application to the Mayor and Council for a permit to erect
the same before beginning work thereon, and in such applica-
tion to set forth the location, character, materials, purposes
and uses of said building, and to require every such person be-
fore beginning work on the erection of any building in said
town to obtain a permit, printed or written, signed by the town
secretary on the order of the Mayor and Council, and entered
in the minute book, and to require a reasonable fee for issuing
such permit, and to prescribe penalties for erecting or begin-
ning to erect any building without such permit. (16) To pro-
vide by ordinance for taking down and removing any building
of wood erected in any part or section of town in violation of
any ordinance wherein the erection of a building of wood is for-
bidden. (17) To prevent by ordinance breaches or violation's
of the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, so as to forbid
traffic, barter or sale in all commodities except medicine, milk
and ice, and to prohibit unseemly amusements, games, exhibi-