670 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for other purposes, to condemn property, public or private,
necessary in establishing same; to establish a water system with
the powers of condemnation aforesaid in establishing same, for
supplying water for all municipal purposes, or to contract with
any water company for supplying water for said purposes; to
employ all labor, and authorize the baliff to do so, that may be
necessary, and to make all contracts for public improvement, and
to fix the price to be paid for same. The Commissioners shall
have power to make such by-laws and pass such ordinances, not
contrary to law, and in conformity with this charter, as they
may deem necessary for the good government of the town and
the inhabitants thereof; to prevent remove and abate all nuis-
ances and obstructions in or upon the streets, sidewalks, high-
ways, lanes, alleys, drains, water-ways or sewers, or in or upon
any lot, and to provide for imposing a fine upon any person
causing or creating such nuisances or obstructions; and to
establish a building line; to grant permits for all buildings, and
to have power to remove, or order the removal of any buildings,
that may be a nuisance, or that may have been erected, contrary
to any ordinance herebefore passed or hereafter to be passed,
or that may endanger any building contiguous thereto in case
of fire, or to enact ordinances and impose fines for the enforce-
ment of these provisions; to establish grades upon the streets,
alleys, gutters and sidewalks of said town and prescribe the
width thereof and the material of which they shall be built; to
cause the sidewalks along said public streets to be graded, re-
paired, improved or paved, and in the case of paving said side-
walks or putting down concrete, cement or other similar side-
walks, to assess one-half of the cost of doing same against the
abutting property owners, said charge to be a lien against said
property and to be collectible as taxes are collectible under
this charter; to provide for and regulate licenses, or permits, for
all exhibitions and shows within said corporation, or to prohibit
or restrain them; and to regulate and provide for a tax on dogs
and bitches; to provide for and prevent 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 by ordinance
for condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making new
streets, or alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening, grad-
ing, improving or closing up, in whole or in part any existing
street or alley, and for removing trees, posts and other obstruc-
tions, and for laying out public squares, drains, water-courses
and sewers, and all benefits or damages done, suffered or in-
curred by the laying out, opening and making of new streets or