778 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

plugs, or for improperly interfering with any street lamp or
lamp-post; to provide proper and suitable lights on the public
streets, and to make contracts for furnishing such lights, to
pass all ordinances for defining the duties of all town officers,
where not fixed by the charter to require bond, and to approve
the same in order to secure the faithful performance of all con-
tracts entered into by the Commissioners, and by ordinance to
require any and all things to be done which will promote the
welfare, good government and prosperity of the people of the
town, and to forbid whatever that will oppress or injure them
in their persons and property.

61. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County, on
the first day of October in each and every year after the pas-
sage of this Act, shall pay to the Commissioners of Cambridge,
to be used and applied by the said Commissioners of Cam-
bridge for the corporate purposes of the said town of Cam-
bridge a sum equal to five per centum of the full amount of the
county taxes collected by said County Commissioners, through
the County Treasurer or Tax Collector for No. 7 or Cambridge
election district of said County, out of the levy for the year
preceding the year in which said payments, respectively, are
made as aforesaid; provided that all payments heretofore made
by the County Commissioners of Dorchester County to the
Commissioners of Cambridge for the corporate purposes of
said town, shall be and the same are hereby ratified and con-
firmed.

59A. Whenever the owners, tenants or occupants of three or
more lots, dwellings, storehouses, offices or other buildings,
fronting on the same side of any square or block of any street
within the corporate limits of the town of Cambridge, shall
jointly petition the Commissioners of Cambridge, in writing,
to require the paving of the sidewalks or pavements in front
of all the property fronting on said side of said square or block,
it shall be the duty of said Commissioners of Cambridge, and
they are hereby required to give proper notice within 30 days
after receipt of said petition, to require the property owners,
property holders or other person or persons properly charge-
able therewith, of all property fronting on the said side of said
block or square, to pave in front of their respective property
with brick, cement, asphalt or other similar and suitable ma-
terial or substance within 30 days after the service of said
notice to pave, in accordance with the requirements and under
the penalties of Section 71 of Article 10 as aforesaid, as
amended by Chapter 339 of the Acts of 1900.