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CHAP. 194.
Mayor, recorder,
and aldermen, to
exercise powers of
justices of the
peace--mayor's
duties.
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contagious diseases within the city; to establish night-watches and
patroles, and erect lamps; to establish new streets, lanes and al-
leys, 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 appointment and define the duties of city commissioners, city
constables, market-masters, guagers, wood corders, harbour in as-
ters, 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 art of the state of Maryland, and for the re-
gulating thereby all weights and measures used within the city; to
regulate party walls and partition fences; to erect and regulate
markets; to provide for licensing and regulating the sweeping or
burning of chimnies, 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 city might be endangered, and to ascertain
the size of those to be built in the city; to establish and regulate
fire wards and lire companies; to regulate and establish the size of
bricks that are to be burned in the said city; to restrain or prohibit
gaining, and to provide for licensing, regulating, or restraining
theatrical or other public amusements within the limits of the cor-
poration; to erect and regulate pumps in the streets, lanes and al-
leys; to impose and appropriate lines, penalties and forfeitures, fop
the breach of their by-laws or ordinances; to collect and lay taxes
not exceeding one per centum on the assessable property; 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 city aforesaid, and for widening the same,
with the consent of three fourths of those interested; to tax any
particular part or district of the city 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 be 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 ne-
cessary to give effect and operation to all the powers vested in the
corporation of the city of Annapolis. All laws to be signed by the
mayor.
9. And be it enacted, That the mayor, recorder, 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; the mayor may call upon any officer of the
city intrusted 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 du-
ly and faithfully executed, and shall report annually to the corpo-
ration, during the first five days of their session, a general state
of the city, with an accurate account of the money received and
expended, to be published for the information of the citizens. The
mayor and corporation of the city of Annapolis, the judges and
clerks of the elections, and all other officers of the city, before
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