36 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 18

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 70-A of Article 21 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County" sub-title
"Easton" as amended by Chapter 458 of the Acts passed by
the General Assembly of Maryland at the January Session of
1906, be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments so as to read as follows:

70-A. The Mayor and City Council have the power to reg-
ulate and prescribe by ordinance, as a protection against fire,
whether houses to be built or erected in said town shall be built
of wood or other materials, and to prescribe in what parts and
sections thereof buildings of wood may be erected and in what
parts or sections of the same buildings of wood shall not be
erected, and to prescribe penalties for violating said ordinance
by erecting buildings of wood in parts or sections thereof where
the same are not allowed under said ordinance; to require by
ordinance that every person who wishes or purposes to erect or
add to any building or buildings in said town to make a written
application to the Mayor and Council for a permit to erect the
same before beginning work thereon, and in such application to
set forth the location, character, materials, purposes and uses
of said building, and to obtain, before beginning work on the
same, a permit, printed or written, signed by the town clerk,
on the order of the Mayor and Council, and entered at length
in the minute book, and by ordinance to prescribe the charge
for the issuing of the permit and penalties for erecting or begin-
ning to erect or add to any buildings without such permit; to
provide by ordinance for taking down and removing any build-
ing of wood erected in any part or section of the town in
violation of an ordinance wherein the erection of buildings of
wood are forbidden, and for taking down and removing any
buildings erected without a permit first had and obtained from
the Mayor and Council; to provide by ordinance for establish-
ing a building line for the erection on the streets, lanes and
thoroughfares of said town or by order in the case of particular
buildings, except that on Harrison Street in said town there is
hereby established a building line as follows: For the Easterly
building line of Harrison Street—beginning at a point on the
Southerly property line of the lot belonging to William Reddie
(Now part of Easton) distant at right angles sixty-two and one-
half feet (62 1/2') from the Easterly curb line of Harrison Street;
thence Southwardly in a straight line to a point on the North-
erly side of the Right of Way of The Baltimore, Chesapeake &
Atlantic Railway Company distant Eastwardly at right angles
sixty-two and one-half feet (62 1/2') from the Easterly curb line
of Harrison Street; to order the taking down and removal of
any house or building or chimney deemed dangerous and unsafe