PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 453

and limits thereof and mode of dealing therein; to grant licenses
or permits for the sale of marketable commodities, such as fresh
meats, fruits, vegetables, poultry, etc.; to control and protect
the public grounds, cemeteries, and property of town; to provide
for and regulate the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawk-
ing, peddling and the vending of any goods, wares and mer-
chandise of every description upon the streets or highways of
said town or to itinerant peddlers that go from house to house
to sell their goods, wares or merchandise, or to itinerant persons
who dispense patent medicines or medical advice; to regulate
and license all nine or ten pin alleys, bowling alleys, skating
rinks, pool and billiard tables, theatres and moving picture
shows within said town, or to prohibit and restrain them, and to
prohibit and restrain gambling and games of chance of all kinds;
to regulate and provide for license and tax on all carts, wagons,
carriages, hacks and vehicles of all kinds that ply for hire within
the limits of said town; to regulate and provide for a tax on
dogs; to provide for and prevent the running at large of all
horses, cattle, hogs, geese, chickens and other fowl upon the
streets or within the limits of said town; to provide for ordi--
nance for condemning, laying out, opening, extending and mak-
ing new streets or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widen-
ing, grading, improving or closing up in whole or in part any
existing street or alley, and for removing trees, -posts and other
obstructions, and for laying out public squares, drains, water-
courses, and all benefits or damages done, suffered or in-
curred by the laying out, opening and making of new streets
or alleys, or by altering, straightening, widening, grading, im-
proving or closing up, in whole or in part, any existing street
or alley, or laying out public squares, drains or watercourses,
shall be determined and assessed by three disinterested persons,
residents of said town, appointed by the Board of Commis-
sioners, who shall within ten days after the notification of their
appointment take an oath before a Justice of the Peace of Wi-
comico County, that they will faithfully and fairly, without
partiality or prejudice, value and assess the loss and damage to
be suffered and incurred by any person interested in the said
property, over, through, and by which the said street, alley,
square, drain or waterway is to be opened, closed, extended,
widened, graded or improved, and also to estimate the benefits
that may accrue therefrom to any such property over, through,
and by which the said street, alley, square, drain or waterway
is to be opened, closed, extended, widened, graded or improved,
or any property adjacent thereto, or any other property injured