334 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 315

(1930 Edition), title "Worcester County, " sub-title "Poco-
moke City, " increasing the amount which the Mayor and
Council of Pocomoke City may borrow on promissory notes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 222 of Article 24 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Worcester
County", sub-title "Pocomoke City", be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

222. Besides the power and authority conferred upon the
Mayor and Council in the other sections of this sub-title of
this Article, the Mayor and Council shall have power and
authority to make such by-laws, and to pass such ordinances
not contrary to law and in conformity with this charter as
they may deem necessary for the good government of said
town, for the following purposes, to wit:

(1) To promote and preserve the health of the town and
the people thereof, and to protect and safeguard the town
generally and every section thereof, and to protect and safe-
guard the property belonging to the town as a corporate body
as well as the property of the residents thereof, and also to
protect and safeguard persons who are non-residents, and the
property of such non-residents, while they or their property
are within said town.

(2) To forbid and prevent or remove and abate all nuis-
ances and to define and describe what shall be a nuisance, and
to declare any existing thing within said town to be a nuisance
which prejudices or is liable to prejudice the health of the
people thereof, or of any considerable number of the same,
and to prescribe and appoint means for removing any nuisance,
and to enforce the use of such means, and to prescribe penal-
ties for a refusal or failure to remove any nuisance after the
Mayor and Council have ordered the removal thereof.

(3) To open, build or construct and to enclose or keep open,
and to regulate and to keep in repair all necessary and useful
drains and sewers, and to demand and obtain for the police-
men, employees, workmen and laborers in the service of the
town the right to enter any private property and premises for
the purpose of improving the condition of any such drain or
sewers; for opening the same when they become closed or ob-
structed; to rebuild or repair them when they require re-
building or repairing, and also to provide penalties in the case
of persons who resist any employees, workmen, or laborers in
the service of the town, and to forbid and prevent any parties
or persons from obstructing such drains or from placing upon
or over any drain or sewer, coal, wood, or any heavy mass of