PHILLIPS LEE .GOLDSBOROUGH; GOVERNOR. 1191

for the sale of the property to pay the said lien; to regulate
sales upon the streets, alleys and public places of the town, and
to license, tax and regulate public hackmen, draymen, omnibus
drivers, carters, cabmen, wagons, sleds, automobiles, motor
trucks, and all other vehicles using the streets of the town and
their drivers or owners; to license, tax and regulate porters,
expressmen, haulers, bill posters, and all other persons pursu-
ing like occupations and to prescribe their compensation; to
license, tax and regulate peddlers, hawkers and venders of
merchandise or any patent medicines; to license, tax and regu-
late pool and billiard rooms, bowling alleys, moving picture
shows, opera houses, dance halls, theatres, and all places of
public amusement, and all travelling circuses and shows of
every description; to establish and regulate a station house or
lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the law and
ordinances of the town, and to erect suitable buildings to be
used as Council Chambers and for fire companies; to suppress
vagrancy; to open and close streets, roads, lanes and alleys, and
to establish footways, when in their judgment the public wel-
iare or convenience may require; to provide for ascertaining
any and in what amount damages may be caused thereby, for
which the owner or possessor of any property through which

such street, road, lane or alley may pass are to be compensated;
to provide for granting appeals to the Circuit Court for Alle-
gany County from the decisions of commissioners or other per-
sons appointed by virtue of any ordinance to open and close
streets; to ascertain the damage occasioned by the opening,
closing or establishing or altering of streets, roads, lanes, or

alleys, in said town, and to secure for the person or any per-
son injured the right, on application within thirty days from
the return of the commissioners, to have decided by jury trial,
whether any and what damages, if any, has been sustained by
him; to provide for collecting and paying the compensation or
award to any person before any street, road, lane or alley shall
be opened, closed, established or altered, and to enact all ordi-
nances from time to time necessary and proper for the exer-
cise of the powers granted in this Section; provided, however,
that whenever the Mayor and Council proposes to open, close,
alter or establish any street, road, lane or alley at least thirty
days' notice by advertisement in a newspaper published once
a week in Allegany County, or by handbills freely distributed,
shall be given to all parties interested, of the intention of the
Mayor and Council and of the time of the consideration of
such action; to provide for the codification of all ordinances