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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to prohibit the use of profane, indecent, seditious or riotous
language, drunkenness, fighting and disorderly conduct;
to regulate or prevent the firing of cannon, guns, pistols,
squibs, or any kind of firearms or explosives; to prevent the
running at large of all animals; to prevent any immoderate
riding or driving through the streets With carriage, stage, cart,
wagon, sleigh or other vehicle, or on horseback, so as to en-
danger the lives, limbs or property of the citizens, or disturb
the quiet use and enjoyment of the streets or thoroughfares;
to prevent indecent exhibitions of every kind; to regulate the
sale of merchandise, including sales of candy, soda and mineral
waters, spirituous and fermented liquors; to preserve order
and secure persons and property from violence, danger or

May impose
fines and
penalties.

destruction, and to prevent all kinds of hunting, trapping and
fishing within the town limits, and may impose fines, penal-
ties and forfeitures for the violation of any of the said ordi-
nances; but no fine or penalty shall be in excess of the sum of
one hundred dollars, and all fines and penalties so imposed
shall be collected as other fines, penalties and forfeitures are
collected under the laws of this State; and in case of default
in the payment of such fines, penalties and forfeitures and the
costs attending the imposition and collection of the same, the
offender may be imprisoned in the town or county jail for a
term not exceeding thirty days, in the same manner as com-
mitments are made for fines imposed by the Circuit Court for
the judicial district in which said town is situated, on convic-
tion for misdemeanor; but the Commissioners shall have the
power to remit or release said fines, penalties, forfeitures and
costs, or any part thereof, at their discretion; but any party
so fined under the provisions of this Act may, within five days
.after the same be imposed , suppress or stay the same for thirty
days, by giving ample personal security to the officer impos-
ing the same; and shall have the right to appeal within five
days thereafter to the Circuit Court for Calvert County, and
shall have the right, if he so elects, to a trial by jury upon
giving ample security for the payment of such fine and costs
as may be adjudged against him in said Circuit Court.

Regulations
and ordinan-
ces.

14. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall have
full power to make all regulations and ordinances, not incon-
sistent with the Constitution and laws of the State, as from
time to time they may deem necessary or expedient for the
comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of the said town
and its inhabitants ; for the prevention , removal or abatement of
any nuisance and preservation of health, suppression of vice
and immorality, and generally to prescribe police regulations
within the limits of said town.