946 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 456

of the State Board of Health, or any Public General Laws of
the State relating to the subject of health.

(L) Highways, Bridges and Streets.

To provide for grading, shelling, graveling, paving and curb-
ing, or for regrading, reshelling, regraveling, repaving, re-
curbing and repairing any street, road, lane, alley, footway,
bridge, culvert, highway or public place within said county,
or any part thereof, now or hereafter condemned, ceded,
opened, widened, extended or straightened as public property;
and for assessing the cost of any such work upon the assessable
basis of the county; to compel by fine or penalty the owner
or posessor of any lot to grade, regrade, pave, repave or repair
the footways in front thereof; to regulate the opening of street
surfaces.

(M) Live Stock.

To regulate the conditions under which dogs, cows, sheep,
pigs, cattle and live stock of any and every kind may be at
large, or may pass over the streets, roads, alleys, lanes, bridges,
highways and public places.

(N) Fish and Games.
To pass local fish and game laws.

(O) Fences.

To regulate the making and keeping secure of fences and
provide for the procedure to enforce the rights of the parties,
and a lien for repairs made by an owner not in default.

(P) Assessments, Levy and Collection of Taxes.

To direct the class or sub-class of improvements on land and
personal property which shall be made subject to the county
tax levy, and to provide for the levy thereupon and upon the
value of land in accordance with Article 15 of the Declara-
tion of Rights of the Constitution of Maryland as amended,
of any sum which may be necessary to pay and discharge the
principal and interest of any loan which may heretofore have
been obtained, or which may hereafter be obtained by such
county, according to law, and to create a sinking fund to meet
the liabilities thus incurred, and levy upon the property so
subject to taxation from time to time such sums as may be
necessary to provide therefor; as well as to collect from such