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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Regulate and
license
saloons, etc.

licensing theatres, and to regulate or restrain theatrical or
other public amusement within the said town; to regulate
and license or tax saloons and restaurants, hacking, carriages,
omnibuses or other vehicles used in the said town for the
carriage of passengers and travelers; to regulate and license
auctioneers who cry any sale or sales on the public streets;
provided, that no greater sum than one hundred dollars be
charged for any one license; and to regulate and control
all offensive traders, manufacturers and traffic in offensive
fertilizer or other commodities within the town limits; they
shall also have power to provide for the codification of all
ordinances which may have been or may hereafter be passed;
and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and
for the preservation cf the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives

May pass all
ordinances or
by-laws neces-
sary, etc.

and property of the citizens, and to suppress or abate or dis-
continue, or to cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued
all nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits of said
town; they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to
time necessary; and to the observance of said ordinances, in
addition to the action of debt or such other civil remedies as
may eist in such cases by law for the recovery of the penal-
ties thereto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable
fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may
appear right, and in default of the payment of any fine
imposed, they may provide for the imprisonment of the
offender for a period not exceeding twenty days, or until the
fine be paid. Instead of the aforesaid penalties, it shall be
lawful in case of the conviction of any person for vagrancy to
sentence such person to hard work on the streets of said
town for a period not exceeding ten days.

Power to tax
property
within limits
of said town.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners shall
have power to lay an equal tax on the property within the
limits of said town to such an amount each year not exceeding
the sum of fifty cents on each hundred dollars' worth of prop-
erty, as may be deemed necessary for the government of said
town, which taxes so levied and assessed shall be collected
promptly by the bailiff of said town, and by said bailiff paid
over as collected, or within ten days thereafter, to the treasurer

How collected
etc.

of said town appointed by said Commissioners; and the said
bailiff shall have the same power to distrain for said taxes as the
collector of public county taxes has to distrain for the same;
and the said Commissioners shall fix the amount of bond rate ot
compensation, and prescribe the duties respectively of said bailiff
and treasurer on all property within the limits of Barton, or