170 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 85

by the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport for any of
the purposes mentioned herein are hereby made a lien upon
the abutting real estate, equal in rank to corporate taxes, and
may be collected as taxes levied by the Mayor and Commis-
sioners of Westernport and enforceable and collected in the
same manner as the general corporate taxes of said town can
be collected, provided that each owner may have the privilege
of three years in which to make the said payments with
interest thereon at the rate of six (6%) per cent, for assess-
ments, the time of each payment being determined by the
Mayor and Commissioners. They shall have power to make
reasonable regulations in regards to buildings to be erected in
said town and to grant building permits for the same; to make
and establish grades on the streets and highways of the town;
to cause the sidewalks and gutters along the public streets and
highways of said town to be graded, paved or repaired at the
cost and expense of the abutting property or owner thereof
and to collect from said abutting property owner thereof
the cost of making said improvements thereto, when made by
the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport, after refusal or
neglect on the part of the property owner to do so after rea-
sonable notice, the cost of which improvement as made by the
Mayor and Commissioners, shall be a lien against said abut-
ting property and collectable as are liens for taxes against said
property or owner thereof; to charge for and grant licenses
for marketable commodities and for carrying on any business,
trade, industry, profession or occupation within the limits of
said town, and more specifically in connection therewith but
not by way of limitations or restrictions, to regulate and pro-
vide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking,
peddling and vending and vending of wares, merchandise of
every description upon the streets and highways of the town,
to impose and demand a license from all players or showmen
exhibiting within said town and to provide for licensing thea-
tres and to regulate or restrain theatrical or other public
amusements within said town; to regulate and license the busi-
ness of conducting restaurants, saloons, hotels or any other
business enterprise carried on within the said town, to license
carriages, wagons or other vehicles used in said town and upon
the streets thereof for the purpose of carrying passengers or
goods; to regulate and license auctioneers, who cry any sale or
sales on the public street. To insure the observance of said or-
dinances, occupations, activities or offenses set forth in said