EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 927

defined at common law, by this Act or by the Laws of the State
of Maryland, whether the same are herein specifically named
or not. The Mayor and Council may establish and provide a
market house in the town for the use and convenience of the
inhabitants thereof, and may, by by-laws and ordinances, pro-
vide for and regulate the sale of all provisions brought to said
city for sale, the trying and adjusting of the scales, weights and
measures used at the market by the standards of the county, and
the seizure and sale to the highest bidder or the destruction of
any found false or untrue, the renting of the stalls and sham-
bles of the market and for the seizure and sale for the use of
the Council of articles of any kind, and especially of all butter
in print or parcel brought to the said market for sale, or any
other article found wanting in weight or unsound or unwhole-
some. The police shall have charge of and supervision over the
market house and market therein, under the direction and con-
trol of the Mayor and Council. If any person shall feel ag-
grieved by any seizure made by the police, he may within three
days after such seizure appeal to the Mayor and Council, who
shall make such order therein as they or he may deem just. The
rent of the stalls and shambles of the market house may be re-
covered in the name of the Mayor and Council of Crisfield be-
fore a justice of the peace, as small debts are recovered.

Section 88. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall have
charge of all the streets and alleys of said City; shall have
power to make by-laws and pass ordinances to establish grades
for the streets, gutters and sidewalks of the city, regulate the
width thereof, and prescribe the material of which they shall be
built; to cause the sidewalks along said public street to be
graded, curbed, paved, repaved or improved at the cost and ex-
pense of the owners of the abutting property, which cost shall
be a lien on the abutting property and recoverable by an action
at law, or to compel by fines or otherwise the owners or pro-
prietors of any such lot to grade, pave, repave and curb the side-
walks in front thereof, agreeable to an ordinance that may here-
after be passed; the tenant or occupant of any house or parcel
of land bordering on any street in said City, under a lease for
less than seven years, shall be chargeable with and pay the taxes
thereon and may collect same from the owner or deduct the
amount paid with interest from the rent due or to become due
and shall be entitled to credit thereon to the extent of the tax
so paid; tenants under leases for more than seven years shall
be regarded as owners; to provide by ordinance for condemn-
ing, laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or