HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 421

removal of garbage, sewerage, etc., and fix the amount to be
paid therefor.

The Mayor and Common Council shall have power to enter
into contract with any person, corporation or association to
purchase and erect lamps, arches or poles for lighting the
streets, promenades, plazas, or parks of the town or owned by
the town and to make such changes and alterations as they may
deem proper, employ lamp-lighters and other necessary labor
and equipment; to set curbs and lay gutters and to cause the
water courses, drains and sewers of the town to be paved, kept
in repair and cleaned or covered, to establish and regulate a
station house or lockup for temporary confinement of violators
of the law and ordinances of the town; to suppress vagrancy
and to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or
houses of ill-fame within the limits of the said corporation.

The Mayor and Common Council of said town shall have
full power to contract with any railroad passing through, ad-
joining or reaching said town in any matter relative to polic-
ing, fire protection, water, lighting, entertainment, laying out
of streets, avenues, lanes, parks, or promenades, sanitation or
sewerage, and shall have the power to regulate the speed at
which the cars or trains of any such railway shall pass through
the town.

The Mayor and Common Council are empowered to acquire
by gift, grant, lease or purchase or by condemnation any or
all property, in their judgment needed for parks, electric
lights, water system, promenades or streets whether said land
or property are situated wholly or partly within the corporate
limits of Seat Pleasant and for the purpose of carrying out
any or all the powers herein granted or implied arid when and
so often as resort shall be had to condemnation proceedings
the procedure shall be as provided by the laws of the State of
Maryland.

The Mayor shall have authority to try all or any case
arising under this Charter and an appeal shall lie to the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George's County, provided the appeal
is taken within ten days after rendering of judgment and pro-
vided the party appealing shall enter into a good and suffi-
cient bond for faithful prosecution of the appeal. Any person
or corporation or association to whom any benefits have been
awarded, or against whom any damages have been assessed,
who shall feel aggrieved by said decision, shall have the right
of appeal to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County
within ten days after the decision has been made.

The Mayor and Common Council are hereby empowered to
borrow money for the purpose of public improvements in said
town, in such sums as they may deem proper in their discre-
tion not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of fifty thou-