774 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

sioners shall be and they are hereby authorized and empow-
ered : To borrow money on negotiable paper; provided that the
sum so borrowed shall not exceed the sum of six thousand dol-
lars ($6,000.00); to pass and enact all by-laws and ordinances
not contrary to law for the good government of the town of
Cambridge or that may be necessary or proper to promote and.
preserve the health of the town and the people thereof; and to
protect and to safeguard the town generally and every section
and part of it, and to protect and safeguard the property be-
longing to the town as a corporate body, and as well the prop-
erty of the residents thereof; and also to protect and safeguard
persons who are not residents and the property of such non-
residents while they or their property are within said town; to
forbid and prevent nuisances; to define and describe what shall
be a nuisance and to declare any existing thing within said
town or within a radius of one mile of the corporate limits
thereof to be a nuisance which prejudices or is liable to pre-
judice the health of the people thereof, or of any considerable
number of the same, and to prescribe and appoint means for
removing any nuisance or nuisances, and to enforce the use of
such means, and to prescribe penalties for a refusal or failure
to remove any nuisance after the Commissioners have ordered
the removal thereof; to prevent and remove all nuisances and
obstructions from the streets, lanes and alleys and from lots
adjoining streets or any other place within the limits of said
city; to restrain all disorder, disturbances, annoyances, dis-
orderly conduct and drunkenness therein; to prevent breaches
of the day called Sunday, so as to forbid traffic, barter and sale
in all commodities except medicines, and to prohibit gambling,
unseemly amusements, games, exhibitions and entertainments,
and to prescribe penalties for violations of the ordinance or
ordinances passed in the matter of the premises; to suppress
street walkers and bawdy houses; to prevent firing of guns,
cannons, pistols, rifles, slingshots, firecrackers or other fire-
works or other explosives therein; to suppress fires and prevent
the dangers thereof; to establish and maintain a fire depart-
ment; to regulate the erection or repairing of buildings and
grant permits therefor, specifying the material of which same
shall be built and purpose for which the same is to be used; to
direct in what part of the city wooden buildings shall not be
erected; to provide for taking down and removing any build-
ing of wood erected in any part or section of the town in viola-
tion of an ordinance wherein the erection of buildings of wood
are forbidden, and for taking down and removing any building
erected without a permit first had and obtained from the Com-
missioners; to provide for establishing a building line for the
erection of buildings on the streets, lanes, alleys and thorough