1190 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 184-A10. The Mayor and Council of Midland shall
have power to pass all ordinances necessary for the welfare and
good government of the town; to prevent, remove and abate-
all nuisances or obstructions in or on the streets, highways,
lanes or other public places in said town and to prevent, re-
move and abate all nuisances of whatsoever kind and whereso-
ever situated within the corporate limits of said town; to make
reasonable regulations in regard to buildings erected in said
town and to require and grant building permits for the same;
to establish quarantine regulations and to authorize the re-
moval or confinement of persons having infectious or contagi-
ous diseases; to regulate or prohibit the ringing of bells, sound-
ing of whistles, or any other loud or unseemly noises; to regu-
late or prevent the storage of gunpowder, dynamite, gasoline,
or any other explosive or combustible material; to pass all
ordinances which may be necessary to maintain peace and order
within the town; to make and establish and re-establish grades;
upon the highways and streets of the town, to cause sidewalks,
curbings and gutters, streets and alleys to be made, graded,
paved, repaired or improved at the cost and expense of the-
abutting property owners, or to grade, pave, lay, repair and
improve streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters and to collect the
cost of the same from abutting property owners by suit at law
or by bill in equity, or otherwise, and in such case the Mayor
and Council shall be entitled to recover the said cost and ex-
pense from the said abutting property owners in a civil suit
at law, or by a bill in equity, and said cost and expense is
hereby made a lien upon the abutting property; to cause the
Water courses, ditches, drains and sewers of the town to be
kept in repair and cleansed; to establish such sewers in the
town as the said Mayor and Council may deem necessary and
to compel the owners of property adjoining the same, or for
the benefit of which any sewer may be laid, to connect with and
tap the same and to charge a reasonable sum for such con-
nection and tappage; to regulate the making of private con-
nections with sewers, gas a'nd water pipes, and to compel the
owners of property to bring such connections inside the curb
of streets before permanent improvements of said streets are
made, and in default of the owner of such property making any
such connection and tappage, the Mayor and Council is hereby
authorized to do the work at the owner's expense and to collect
the same by suit at law, and such expense shall also be a lien
upon the property in favor of the Mayor and Council, which
lien may be enforced against the property by a bill in equity