1154                      LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 459.

and regulate markets; to provide by ordinance for condemning,
opening or closing, widening, improving streets or alleys; to
regulate all offensive trades, manufacture or traffic, and pro-
hibit hog pens, stables, cow yards or slaughter houses, and regu-
late the manner of disposal of offal and waste products except
sewage, garbage, refuse and ashes; to enter upon private prop-
erty and designate restraint or injury to such entry a misde-
meanor; to fix the duties and compensation of the County
Commissioners from the Fourth and Fifth Commissioner Dis-
tricts for Montgomery County and provide for the appointment
and compensation of clerks and an attorney and prescribe their
duties; to authorize and empower the said board to issue and
sell county bonds for the construction of roads within the said
district in an amount not to exceed two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars ($250, 000. 00) par value, and to provide for the
levy and collection of taxes for the payment of interest and
retirement of such bonds at maturity; to authorize the said
board to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding 30 cents on
each one hundred dollars of assessable property in the said
district and allocate the moneys so received for certain pur-
poses; to grade, construct, reconstruct, pave or otherwise im-
prove streets, sidewalks, alleys or highways and assess the cost
of certain parts thereof against abutting property found bene-
fited according to the classification of such property and to pro-
vide for notice and hearings with respect to such improvements
and assessments and provide for the collection of such assess-
ments, and to empower the said board to borrow money for
such work; to exempt certain property from taxes for road con-
struction; to authorize the said board to classify for the pur-
poses of assessment and taxation all property within the said
district and to exempt from taxation for the purpose of this
Act certain classes of property and provide for notice and hear-
ing in connection therewith; to provide penalties for the hear-
ing in connection therewith; to provide penalties for the viola-
tion of this Act or ordinances promulgated in pursuance here-
of; to provide for a conflict with other existing laws and make
it effective from the date of its passage, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

1. That the area in Montgomery County within the bound-
aries hereinafter in this section designated be and the same is
hereby constituted a special tax area or district for the purpose
of this Act to. be known as the Montgomery County Suburban
District, hereinafter referred to in this Act as the district.