336 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 315

move the same, and on refusal or failure of the person ordered
to correct or remove said encroachment or obstruction to re-
move or have the same removed at the charge and expense of
the party or persons so ordered, with a right on the part of
the Mayor and Council to sue for and recover all sums of
money laid out and expended by them in removing or correct-
ing said obstruction or encroachment in an action at law with-
out relieving the said parties or persons so responsible for
such nuisance from criminal prosecution.

(12) To prohibit the keeping of any vicious or dangerous
dog or other beasts in said town by order noted on the minute
book and served on the owner, reputed owner or controlling
occupant of the premises where the animal is kept, and to
direct such animal to be killed or to be sent out of the town,
If not immediately removed on receiving notice of such order,
and also to prescribe penalties for keeping such dangerous
beasts in the town after such notice.

(13) To regulate, restrain or prohibit by ordinance the
running at large of horses, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, ducks,
geese and chickens on any of the streets, lanes, alleys, or
thoroughfares of the said town, and to, prescribe penalties for
violating such ordinance, and to forbid or regulate the keeping
of swine in said town, and to provide penalties for violation
of such ordinances.

(14) To regulate and prescribe by ordinance, as a pro-
tection against fire, whether houses built or erected in said
town shall be built of wood or other material, and to prescribe
in what parts and sections thereof buildings of wood may be
erected, and in what parts of sections of the same buildings
of wood shall not be erected, and to prescribe penalties for
violating said ordinance.

(15) To require by ordinance that every person or party
who wishes or proposes to erect any building 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, ma-
terials, purposes and uses of said building, and to require
every such person before beginning work on the erection of
any building in said town to obtain a permit, printed or writ-
ten, signed by the town clerk, or the order of the Mayor and
'Council, and entered in the minute book, and to require a
reasonable fee for issuing such permit, and to prescribe penal-
ties for erecting or beginning to erect any building without
such permit.

(16) To provide by ordinance for taking down and remov-
ing any building of wood erected in any part or section of