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Bounds of Lau- up the road to the late Doctor Theodore Jenkins, thence leaving said road and running with the road leading by James Coursey's and the Mine Banks now owned by Charles E. Coffin, and with said road to John D. Latchford's, so as to include said Latchford's residence in the district hereby created, crossing the turnpike and railroad west of the said Latchford's house in a straight line to the Furnace road near Thomas Mitchell's, and running with said furnace road to the new county road leading to Contee's station, and thence with said road to the Montgomery county line, thence with the Prince George's county line to the beginning.

Polls.

58. The polls for the district hereby created and designated and bounded as aforesaid shall be opened and held at the Laurel or at such other place within the limits of said district as the county commissioners of Prince George's county may hereafter designate; and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners Judges of elec- of said county to appoint judges of election for said district, and to do whatever else within the scope of their power may be necessary to effect the object of this act.

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List of voters.

Justices of peace.

Constables.

Per diem of judges and clerks.

59. The registration officer of the first and the tenth election districts of said county shall meet at Beltsville as soon as practicable, after their respective appointments, and from the list of registered voters of the first election district, make out and prepare a new list of voters for the said first and tenth district respectively, which said list when so corrected and made out shall be returned to the office of the clerk of the circuit court.

60. The governor shall appoint justices of the peace for said new election district according to the existing law for the other election districts of said county, and the county commissioners shall appoint constables as the said officers are now appointed for the other election districts of the said county.

61. The judges and clerks of election in said county shall receive three dollars per day as heretofore for each day they may act in the discharge of their official duties.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

LINE DIVIDING PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

See under Public Local Laws, Art. XV, Montgomery County, the act of 1868, c. 466 relating to the boundary between above counties.

PATUXENT River.

See under Public Local Laws, Art. II, Anne Arundel County, the act of 1868, c. 202 protecting the navigation of above river.

RAIL ROADS.

See under Public Local Laws, Art. IX, Charles County, the act of 1868, c. 310 entilted an act to appoint commissioners to have a survey made and estimate of cost of constructing a rail road from some point in Prince George's County to Point Lookout. By the act of 1868, c. 150 a corporation is created and chartered by the name of the Southern Maryland Rail Road Company, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and working a rail road from some point in Prince George's county to Point Lookout..

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1868, c. 53 repeals sections 37, 38, 39, 46, 47, 48 and 54 of this article and enacts the following sections therefor:

Powers and duties of commissioners.

SEC. 37. The said commissioners shall cause all nui-, 1868, c. 53. sances and obstructions that may interrupt the passage or injure the health of the inhabitants of the town to be removed from the streets, lanes and alleys, and may

Nuisances, &c.

Fine.

provide for the mending, improving and cleansing the same, and shall have power to prohibit and punish by ordinance the placing any dirt, filth or other matter therein, and may also erect lamps in any of the streets, lanes and alleys of said town, and cause the same to be lighted at the public expense, and may pass all laws and ordinances for the preservation of the health of said town, and to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases within said town or within three miles thereof.

38. The said commissioners shall have full power to cause any nuisance to be abated, upon complaint or view, if they shall be satisfied it is detrimental to the health of the inhabitants of said town or injurious to the trade of said town, and for this purpose are empowered and directed to enter upon any private grounds or premises within the corporate limits of said town; and the said commissioners shall see that the town is kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, and to this end are empowered and directed once in a month, and oftener if they shall deem it necessary, beginning with the month of April and ending with the month of November, in each and every year, to enter upon and examine into the condition of all the private grounds and premises within the corporate limits of said town, and if in their judgment any such grounds and premises are not in a cleanly and sanitary condition, they shall forthwith cause a written notification to be served by the bailiff upon the person or persons occupying or having charge of said grounds and premises, to put the same in a cleanly and sanitary condition; and if said person or persons shall fail or refuse for ten days after the service of such notification to obey the same, the said commissioners shall impose a fine upon such person or persons so offending of not less than one dollar and not more than five dollars, in their discretion; and in like manner an additional fine for every successive ten days' failure or refusal to obey said notification, until said grounds and premises are put in a cleanly and sanitary condition, unless said person or persons occupying or having charge of said grounds or premises

shall, in the judgment of said commissioner, be unable, from the want of adequate means, to obey said notification, in which event the commissoners shall direct the bailiff of said town to put the same in a cleanly and sanitary condition at the expense of the town; and the said commissioners may pass all laws and ordinances By-laws, &c. necessary for grading, regulating, paving and repairing the footways in the streets, lanes, and alleys of said town, and impose a tax upon any lot or lots fronting on any paved street, lane or alley for the purpose of grading, regulating, paving or repairing the footways in front thereof, or compel, by fine or otherwise, the owner or proprietor of any lot or lots to pave or repair the footways in front thereof, agreeably to the ordinances to be passed by them; and the said commissioners may prohibit the running or riding of any horses, or driving of carts, wagons, or carriages unreasonably fast in said town, may regulate and provide for the sweeping of chimneys, prohibit the firing of guns or pistols, the throwing of lighted squibs, fire-crackers, roman candles or any other combustible matter, and the storage of gunpowder or any combustible matter within the limits of said town, and make all necessary regulations relative to wells and pumps therein.

39. No person shall keep a dog or bitch in said Dogs. town without first obtaining a license from the clerk of the commissioners for that purpose in the month of April of each and every year, and paying at the time of the license being granted for every dog one dollar, and for every bitch two dollars; and the owner of every dog or bitch for which a license shall be obtained shall have a collar put around his or her neck, and every other dog or bitch found going at large at said town shall be shot or otherwise destroyed by the bailiff of said town; and if any person shall bring a dog or bitch into said town after the month of April in any year, he or she shall obtain a license within ten days thereafter, and pay for the same as hereinbefore directed, and place a collar around his or her neck, or otherwise said dog or bitch shall be shot or otherwise destroyed. Any person or persons failing or refusing

Penalty.

Ordinances.

Fines, penal

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to comply with the provisions of this law shall be liable to a fine of not less than one dollar for each dog and two dollars for each bitch brought or kept by him or her in said town in addition to the penalty of having the same shot or otherwise destroyed if found going at large without a collar about his or her neck.

46. Said 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 said commissionLimits of town. ers shall forthwith locate and define the limits of said town, and cause surveys and plots thereof to be made, and have the same filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for Queen Anne's county for reference and safe keeping, and said commissioners shall have power to open and establish new streets, lanes and alleys in said town, with the consent of twothirds of the owners of property fronting on same.

New streets.

Justices, conservators of

peace.

and duties.

47. The justices of the peace of Queen Anne's county resident in said town are hereby declared to be conservators of the peace of said town, and it shall be their Their powers duty to order the arrest of any person or persons found breaking the peace or disturbing the quiet and order of said town, or violating any of the ordinances made by the commissioners for securing the safety of the property or lives of the inhabitants of said town, and shall have power to require any person or persons so offending to give security to keep the peace, or in default thereof, may commit such person or persons to the county jail for not more than forty-eight hours, and in addition thereto, may impose a fine upon such person or persons of not more than five dollars, to be collected by execution as officers fees now are, and such fines to go to the benefit of the town; all fines, penalties, and forfeitures which may be incurred under the provisions of this act, and the supplements and amendments thereto relating to the town of Centreville, and not otherwise provided for, shall be recovered before a justice of

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