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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the payment of such help. This Act shall
not be retroactive in its provisions, and shall not be applicable
to any accounts prior to the end of the last fiscal year next
preceding the passage of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27, 1900.

CHAPTER 112.
AN ACT to add a new section to the Charter of the town
Takoma Park, in Prince George's and Montgomery counties,
as said Charter was enacted by Chapter four hundred and
eighty of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
at its session of 1890, and amended by Chapter five hundred
and fifty-eight of the Acts of the General Assembly of
1894, and further amended by Chapter three hundred and
ten of the Acts of the Assembly of 1896.

Takoma park.
Amendment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following section, to be known as Section 14A,
be and the same is hereby added to the Charter of the Town
of Takoma Park, in Prince George's and Montgomery
counties, as said Charter was enacted by Chapter four hun-
dred and eighty of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland at its session of 1890 and amended by Chapter
five hundred and fifty-eight of the Acts of the Assembly of
1894, and further amended by Chapter three hundred and ten
of the Acts of Assembly of 1896.

Power to
license and
regulate sale
of liquors.

Public
Amusements.

14A. The council shall have power to license, regulate and
restrain the sale of intoxicating liquors within such portions
of the corporate limits of said town as are not within the
confines of Montgomery county; also to license, regulate
and control any place of public amusement, of recreation,
pleasure park, picnic grounds, club-house, and any theatrical
or other exhibition, show or amusement, baseball game,
bowling alleys or pool-rooms, and for these purposes shall
have power to pass all ordinances that from time to time may
be necessary, and to insure the observances of said ordinances,
in addition to the action of debt and such other civil reme-
dies as may exist in such cases by law for the recovery of the