THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 47

town, and cause the same to be lighted at public expense,
and shall have the power to fix building lines and issue
building permits, and may pass all laws and ordinances
for the preservation of the health of said town, and to
prevent the introduction of contagious diseases therein^ or
within three miles thereof; they may prohibit the running
of vehicles unreasonably fast in said town; prohibit firing
of guns or pistols, or use of fireworks; and the storage of
gun-powder or any other explosive matter within the limits
of said town, make all necessary regulations in reference
to wells and pumps therein, and provide for the licensing
of dogs; provided that they shall not have the power to
pass any ordinance imposing restrictions pertaining to
canneries unless it shall conform with State Board of
Health requirements.

322G. (400H). The Commissioners may pass all laws
and ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to
the powers vested in them, and may impose such fines,
penalties and forfeitures for breach of their laws and
ordinances as they may think proper, not exceeding five
dollars for any one offense; and the said Commissioners
may pass all laws and ordinances necessary for grading,
regulating, paving and repairing the footways in the
streets, lanes and alleys of said town, and impose a tax
on any lot fronting on any street, lane or alley, for the
purpose of grading, regulating, paving and repairing the
footways in front thereof, or compel by fine or otherwise,
the owner of any lot, to pave or repair the footways in
front thereof agreeably to the ordinances to be passed by
them; and shall have power to open and establish new
streets, lanes and alleys, and to straighten and widen old
streets, lanes and alleys, and to provide for the payment
of damages and expenses incurred by opening, widening
or straightening the streets, lanes and alleys, as aforesaid,
by levying and assessing the same generally upon the whole
of the assessable property of the town, or upon the prop-
erty of persons to be benefited thereby.

322H. (400I). The corporate limits of the town of
Queen Anne are hereby declared to be as follows:

Beginning in Talbot County at a stone on the west bank
of Tuckahoe River at the mean low water mark said stone
being 134 feet west from the concrete wing wall of bridge
over said river; thence with the meanderings of the low
water mark of said River 1020 feet to a stone at edge of
marsh; said stone being in Queen Anne's County 40 feet
north of County line; thence leaving said River north 61
degrees 00 minutes west 204 feet to a stone at west side