246 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 126

as may be provided for by the Council, and the money due from
the abutting property owners shall be a lien on said abutting
property and collected as other taxes are collected; provided,
that before any special tax for such purpose shall be levied,
notice shall be served upon said abutting property owners of
the purpose and amount of said tax, either by personal service
by the marshal or by the mailing of a copy thereof by the
clerk to the last known residence of the owner or owners of
said abutting property, which notice shall provide a time and
place when and at which said owner or owners shall have the
right to be heard with reference thereto; (4) to open and keep
open and free from obstructions and to condemn for public use
all streets, roads, public squares and reservations, grade, pave,
alter and control the same, and their rights, powers and duties
in relation thereto shall, except as hereinafter otherwise pro-
vided, be the same as is prescribed by the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of this State for opening, altering and closing public
roads by the Board of County Commissioners, with the right
of appeal to the Circuit Court for the county; (5) to keep the
streets, curbs, sidewalks, crossings and town bridges clean and
in repair; (6) to adequately provide for the maintenance of an
efficient police department and fire department; (7) to light
the streets, public squares and reservations, and regulate the
use of same for telegraph, telephone and other poles and wires;
(8) to compel the owners of property or tenants to keep the
sidewalks clear; (9) to impose a tax or license on, or totally
prohibit the running at large of dogs, fowls, hogs and other
animals; (10) to authorize the use of the streets for railroads
operated by electric, steam or other mechanical motive power,
and to regulate the same as to grade and crossings, paving be-
tween outside tracks and otherwise; to require and compel all
lines of railway in any one street to run on and use one and the
same track, and to keep in repair the bridges and crossings
through which or over which their cars run; (11) to provide
for meeting and defraying the incidental expenses of the town
government, including the cost of the bond prescribed for the
clerk and treasurer; (12) to prescribe fines, penalties and for-
feitures for the violation of their ordinances, including the
committal of offenders to the Montgomery County jail until
said fines, penalties or forfeitures are paid; provided, that no
such fine, penalty or forfeiture shall exceed the sum or value of
Fifty Dollars; and no imprisonment shall exceed the period
of thirty days.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved March 14, 1951.