PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 953

Peace or Notary Public of the taking of such oaths among the
records of the Corporation, and the said oath and Certificate
shall be recorded among the minutes of the proceedings of the
Commissioners.

12. That the said Commissioners shall determine all ques-
tions arising from or under any election held under this Act,
but any person feeling aggrieved by their decision may appeal
therefrom to the Circuit Court of Dorchester County at any
time within ten days from such decision, which Court shall hear
and determine such appeal and who shall pay the cost thereof.

13. That the Commissioners may pass any and all ordi-
nances not inconsistent with the laws of Maryland, they may
deem beneficial to the town; and the good government thereof;
to prevent, remove or abate all nuisances; to suppress all dis-
orderly meetings; to prohibit the use of profane language, and
indecent and disorderly conduct in said town; to prevent ob-
structing the sidewalks or streets; to regulate or prevent the
firing of guns, pistols, quibs or any kind of firearms in said
town; the running at large in said town of all animals; immod-
erate riding or driving through the streets of said town; inde-
cent exhibitions of every kind; to preserve order and secure-
persons and property from violence, danger or destruction; to
prevent obstructing the streets or sidewalks by unnecessary
assemblies of persons; to regulate or prevent the use of fire-
crackers and other explosives on the streets and alleys of said
town; to regulate the erection and location of buildings, fences
and enclosures in said town and to grant permits therefor; to
protect public property, sidewalks, shade and ornamental trees,
from injury and destructions; to provide for the paving of the
sidewalks and assessing and taxing the expenses thereof, in
whole or in part upon the respective owners of the property
fronting thereon; to impose a license or tax on street venders
of so-called patent medicines and nostrums, public exhibitions
or amusements of all kinds which charge admission fees, except
those for charitable and benevolent purposes; to impose a tax
on the owners or reputed owners of all dogs and bitches kept by
them in the said town; to promote the morality, health, con-
venience and safety of the inhabitants of said town; to enforce
sanitary observances and the removal of filth, and to pass all
such other ordinances as they may deem necessary for the pres-
ervation of the health of the town and the removal of nuisances
from said town; to prohibit all business within the said town
as shall, in their opinion, injuriously affect the saintary condi-