ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 495

the property of the said owner; and the jury shall reduce their
inquisition to writing, and shall sign and seal the same, and it
shall then be returned by the sheriff to the clerk of the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County, and shall be confirmed by the
said court at its next session, if no sufficient cause to the con-
trary be shown, and when confirmed, shall be recorded by the
said clerk at the expense of the said Commissioners; and if the
said inquisition shall be set aside by the Circuit Court for
Anne Arundel County, the said court may direct another to be
taken in the same manner as the first. That every inquisition
shall describe the property taken or the bounds of the land
condemned, and the quantity or duration of the interest of the
same therein valued, and such valuation when paid or tendered
to the owner or owners of the property taken, or his legal
representatives, shall entitle the said Commissioners to the
estates, use and interest in the same so valued for the purposes
aforesaid, as fully as if the same had been conveyed by the
owner or his legal representatives.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to pass ordinances regulating the limits
within which it shall be lawful to erect steps, porticoes, bay
windows, or other architectural ornaments to houses fronting
on any part of streets of said town; to regulate party walls and
partition fences; to direct in what part of said town buildings of
wood may not be erected; to regulate the manner in which pub-
lic halls, churches, school houses, bath houses, or places of
amusement shall be constructed, and to fix the penalty for viola-
tion thereof.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That said Commissioners shall
have the power to license and regulate all hacking coaches, car-
riages, carts, drays, omnibuses, wagons or other vehicles kept for
hire or hired in said town, and to license and regulate the em-
ployment of all hackmen, draymen, wagoners, carters, porters,
boatmen and watermen plying for hire within the limits of said
town, and to pass all necessary and proper regulations respect-
ing the same; and to fix the price of compensation for hackney
carriages, and to fix the penalties for the violation of such reg-
ulations: to regulate the location and conduct of livery stables,
and to enact ordinances respecting the keeping and boarding
of horses thereat; providing the regulating of such keeping
and boards of such stables shall not be inconsistent with the
laws of this State.