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ART. XXVA] EXPRESS POWERS. 179
(L) Highways, Bridges and Streets.
To provide for grading, shelling, graveling, paving and curbing, or
for regrading, reshelling, regraveling, repaving, recurbing and repairing
any street, road, lane, alley, footway, bridge, culvert, highway or public
place within said county, or any part thereof, now or hereafter con-
demned, ceded, opened, widened, extended or straightened as public
property; and for assessing the cost of any such work upon the assess-
able basis of the county; to compel by fine or penalty the owner or
possessor of any lot to grade, regrade, pave, repave or repair the foot-
ways in front thereof; to regulate the opening of street surfaces.
(M) Live Stock.
To regulate the conditions under which dogs, cows, sheep, pigs, cattle
and live stock of any and every kind may be at large, or may pass over
the streets, roads, alleys, lanes, bridges, highways and public places.
(N) Fish and Game.
To pass local fish and game laws.
(O) Fences.
To regulate the making and keeping secure of fences and provide for
the procedure to enforce the rights of the parties, and a lien for repairs
made by an owner not in default.
(P) Assessments, Levy and Collection of Taxes.
To direct the class or sub-class of improvements on land and personal
property which shall be made subject to the county tax levy, and to
provide for the levy thereupon and upon the value of land in accordance
with Article 15 of the Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of
Maryland as amended, of any sum which may be necessary to pay and
discharge the principal and interest of any loan which may heretofore
have been obtained, or which may hereafter be obtained by such county,
according to law, and to create a sinking fund to meet the liabilities
thus incurred, and levy upon the property so subject to taxation from
time to time such sums as may be necessary to provide therefor; as well
as to collect from such property so subject to the levy such sums as may
be necessary for the support and maintenance of the county government.
To provide for the prompt collection of all taxes due the county, and
for the sale of real estate, as well as leasehold and personal property, for
the payment of the same.
To rectify errors in the assessment of property; to provide for the
reduction or abatement of assessments improperly made, and for the
reimbursement of moneys paid in consequence of such errors.
(Q) Bonds or Evidences of Indebtedness.
To provide for the borrowing, on the faith and credit of the County,
and for the corporate uses of the County, of any sum or sums of money
not exceeding in the aggregate with any outstanding bonds seven per
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