ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1071

of twelve disinterested male citizens of said City, who,
for that purpose, the President of the Commissioners of Elli-
cott City shall cause to be summoned and sworn; and the said
jury so summoned and sworn shall return, under their hands
and seals, to the President of the Commissioners of said City
the result of their finding; and such damages so found shall
be paid out of the treasury of said City. The Com-
missioners of Ellicott City shall have the further power
to enact all laws and ordinances necessary to prevent
the introduction of contagious diseases within said City; to
establish night watches and patrols; to light the City: to
erect and repair bridges; to pave, construct and keep in re-
pair all necessary drains and sewers; and pass all necessary
regulations for the regulation, repair and preservation of the
same; to regulate party walls and partition fences; to provide
for the licensing and regulating the sweeping and burning of
chimneys and fixing the rates therefor; and to prescribe the
size of those to be built in the City; to establish and regulate
fire companies; to provide for the licensing, regulating or re-
straining of theatrical or other public amusements within the
said City; to license hawkers, peddlers, traveling physicians,
vendors of patent medicines or other articles; to sink wells;
to make and regulate pumps, water pipes, hydrants, water
plugs, fountains, sewers etc., in the streets, lanes and alleys
of the said City; and pass laws to protect the same; to impose
and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures for the breach
of their by-laws or ordinances; to pass ordinances for the pre-
vention and extinguishment of fires; to purchase or lease and
keep in repair a fire engine and apparatus, and to provide
for the establishment of a fire and water department; to pur-
chase or lease for a term of years any real estate deemed nec-
essary for said fire department; to pass ordinances for pav-
ing and keeping in repair the streets, lanes and alleys of the
said City; to provide for the taking up, fining or committing
to the Howard County jail of all vagrants, drunken, loose
or disorderly persons, and such as have no visible means of
support and livelihood; and common disturbers of the peace
that may be found within the jurisdiction of the said City;
to declare and adjudge as nuisances any encroachments on the
streets, lanes and alleys of said City; and to cause the same
to be removed at the expense of the party offending; to re-
strain or prohibit the running at large of horses, cows, sheep,
goats or other animals; to direct in what parts of the City
buildings of wood shall not be erected; and to regulate the