HOWARD COUNTY. 893

which the judges of election shall cause to be prepared before
such election, and there shall be at least one thousand of said
tickets or ballots as aforesaid prepared for every such election,
which shall consist of as many complete tickets as shall be filed
with the said judges of election on or before the 25th day of
March prior to said election, each ticket bearing some particu-
lar emblem and some designation by name when filed.

56p. There shall be an entire new registration of voters for
said city every twelve years, accounting from the first Monday
in February, 1911, in the manner as hereinbefore provided.

61. The Mayor and City Council may pass ordinances to
preserve the health of the city; to prevent and remove
nuisances, to suppress gambling; to license public amusements
not taxed by the State; to open and keep open streets, lanes and
alleys, with the consent of the owners of the land through which
the same may pass, or by paying damages therefor, which said
damages in all cases when property is condemned for city pur-
poses shall be determined by a jury of twelve disinterested
male citizens of the said city, whom for that purpose the
Mayor shall cause to be summoned and sworn; and the said
jury so summoned and sworn shall return, under their hands
and seals, to the Mayor of said city, the result of their findings;
and such damages so found shall be paid out of the treasury of
the said city. The Mayor and City Council shall further have
power to enact all laws and ordinances necessary to prevent
the introduction of contagious diseases within said city; to
establish night watches and patrols; to light the city; to
erect and repair bridges; to pave, construct and keep in repair
all necessary drains and sewers, and to pass all necessary
regulations for the regulation, repair and preservation of the
same; to regulate party walls and partition fences; to provide
for the licensing and regulating the sweeping and burning of
chimneys and fixing the rates therefor, and to prescribe the
size of those to be built in the city; to establish and regulate
fire companies; to provide for the licensing, regulating or
restraining theatrical or other public amusements within the
said city; to license hawkers, pedlars, traveling physicians,
vendors of patent medicines or other articles; to sink wells;
to make and regulate pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water
plugs, fountains, sewers, and so forth, in the streets, lanes and
alleys of the city, and to pass laws to protect the same; to
impose and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for the
breach of their by-laws or ordinances; to pass ordinances for
the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to purchase
and keep in repair a fire engine and apparatus, and to provide
for the establishment of a fire and water department; to pass
ordinances for paving and keeping in repair the streets, lanes