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Dec. Ses. 1816
Mayor's pow-
ers—oath.
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and ordinances necessary to preserve the health of the town; pre-
vent and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction of con-
tagious diseases within the town, and within three miles of the
same; to establish night watches or patroles, and erect lamps;
to establish new streets, lanes and alleys, with the consent of
three-fourths of the proprietors of the lots or houses adjoining
such streets, lanes and alleys; to erect and repair bridges; to
pave and keep in repair all necessary drains and sewers, and to
pass all regulations necessary for the preservation of the same ;
to regulate and fix the assize of bread; to provide for the appoint-
ment, and define the duties of market-masters, guagers, wood-
corders, hay-weighers and inspectors; to provide for the safe
keeping and preservation of the standard of weights and measures
fixed by congress, or by an act of the state of Maryland, and
for the regulating thereby all weights and measures used
within the town; to regulate party walls and partition fences ;
to erect, and regulate markets; to provide for licensing and
regulating the sweeping or burning of chimneys, and fixing the
rates thereof, within the town, and for regulating the sweeping
of any chimney, by the neglect of which the safety of the town
may be endangered, and to ascertain the size of those to he built
in the town; to establish and regulate fire-wards and fire compa-
nies; to regulate and establish the size of bricks that are to be
used in the said town; to restrain or prohibit gaming, and to
provide for licensing, regulating, or restraining theatrical, or
other public amusements, within the limits of the corporation ;
to erect and regulate pumps in the streets, lanes and alleys; to
impose and appropriate fines, penalties and forfeitures, for the
breach of their by-laws or ordinances; to lay and collect taxes;
to enact by-laws for the prevention and extinguishment of fire ;
and to pass all ordinances necessary for paving and keeping in
repair the streets, lanes and alleys, in the town aforesaid, and
for widening the same with the consent of three-fourths of those in-
terested; to tax any particular part or district of the town
for paving the streets, lanes and alleys therein, or for sinking
wells and erecting pumps, which may appear for the benefit of
such particular part or district; to make a new assessment of
all real and personal property, as often as it may bo necessary ;
to punish corporally any servant or slave guilty of a breach of
any, ordinance, unless the master or mistress pay the fine annexed
to the offence; and to pass all ordinances necessary to give effect
and operation to all the powers vested in the corporation of the
town of Frederick; all laws to be signed by the mayor.
11. And be it enacted, 'That the mayor and each of the aldermen,
shall in virtue of their office, have and exercise within the limits
of the corporation, all the jurisdiction and powers of a justice of
the peace, except as to the recovery of small debts; the mayor
may call upon any officer of the town entrusted with the receipt
and expenditure of public money, for a statement of his accounts,
as often as he or the corporation may conceive it necessary; he
shall see that the ordinances are duly and faithfully executed,
and shall report annually to the corporation, during the first five,
days of their session, a general state of the town, with an accu-
rate account of the money received and. expended, to be pub-
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