2218                               Municipal Charters

plosives; for preventing swine, cattle, fowls, dogs, chickens or other ani-
mals from running at large on the streets, for licensing, taxing and regu-
lating all useful trades and occupations and all amusements and theatrical
exhibitions; for the purpose of raising revenue to meet current expenses
of the town, as well as for the purpose of proper protection of the health,
good order and peace of the town; for the suppression of gambling, vice
and immorality; and apprehending and punishing all tramps and vagrants;
it may pass all ordinances necessary from time to time to carry out and
enforce the foregoing provisions, and to give full force and effect to the
powers and authority conferred on said corporation, and may enforce such
ordinances by reasonable fines and penalties, not exceeding [twenty-five]
one hundred dollars in any one case, as may appear to them right; it may
recover said fine or penalty by action of debt, and in addition thereto, may
imprison the offender until the fine is paid, not exceeding thirty days, im-
prisonment to be in the town lock-up, if one be provided, or in the county
jail, and the sheriff of Prince George's County shall receive and confine
any person so committed.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED AND ORDAINED that
any section or sections of the Charter of the Town of Landover Hills, Mary-
land which are inconsistent with the above enacted section, be and the
same are hereby repealed.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
the aforegoing proposed amendment shall be posted in the Town Hall for
a period of at least forty (40) days following its adoption, and shall fur-
ther be published in the Prince George's Post once in each of four succes-
sive weeks before the 29th day of March, 1971.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
the proposed amendment will become and be considered a part of the
Municipal Charter of the Town of Landover Hills on the 10th day of April,
1971, unless a petition is filed pursuant to Article 23A, Section 13, of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957 Edition, as amended, said petition to
be filed on or before the 29th day of March, 1971.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, ENACTED and ORDAINED that
the aforegoing Resolution and Ordinance be and the same is hereby adopted
this 17th day of February, 1971.

Charles R. Kline, Mayor
ATTEST:
Frances A. Davidson, Town Clerk

Telford P. Falls

Robert G. Dougherty

Anna A. Lex

Dorothy L. Schwartz

Henry T. Rinck, Jr.

Charter Amendment No. 71-2
Mayor and Town Council of Landover Hills, Maryland

A Resolution and Ordinance to repeal and re-enact, with amend-
ments, Section 48-7 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County, Maryland (1963 Edition), titled "Landover Hills"
and subtitled, "Treasurer," being a section of the Charter of the
Mayor and Town Council of Landover Hills, and increasing the limit of
the amount of compensation to be paid to the Treasurer from Five
Hundred ($500.00) Dollars to Six Hundred Fifty ($650.00) Dollars.