JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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15. And be it enacted, That tke said Commissioners shall have
power to pass ordinances requiring all circus or theatrical per-
formances, shows, plays and public entertainments for which an
admission fee is charged, to take out a license before giving an
exhibition in said town, and to fix the cost of said license; and
shall have power to enact ordinances for the regulation of
pawnbrokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions, patents, secret
or pretended inventions, and remedies on the streets, alleys
or sidewalks of said town; provided, that the Chesapeake
Beach Railway Company and the Chesapeake Beach Hotel
Company, and either of them, shall have the right to grant
privileges for all such exhibitions and other forms of amuse-
ment for the entertainment of passengers or guests, free from
any license charge whatsoever by said Commissioners.

Power to pass
Ordinances
requiring
licenses.

16. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners may provide
by ordinance for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any
person violating any town ordinance, when in the judgment of
the Mayor or of any constable or police officer of the town, the
delay incident to the issuing of a warrant would be dangerous to
the peace and quiet of the town, or to the lives, limbs or property
of its inhabitants or others; and if it shall appear that any person
is so intoxicated as to render it unsafe to permit him to drive
or ride through the streets of said town, shall arrest the
offender and provide for the custody of the horse or horses,
vehicle or vehicles, ridden or driven by such persons, in some
place of safety until such offender or offenders shall become
sober; and the said Commissioners shall subject the property
so taken and deposited to the payment of all costs of the pro-
ceedings and the keeping of the said property until the same
be released according to law.

May arrest
without war-
rant.

17. And be it enacted, That the bailiff and the other officers
of the peace appointed by the said Commissioners under
the powers conferred by this Act are hereby vested with the
same power and authority as any constable or police officer
may now have under the laws of this State, and shall receive
such compensation for his services as the said Commissioners
may provide.

Powers of
bailiffs and
other officers.

18. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners shall have the
power to levy and collect taxes in said town, not exceeding in
any one year one and a-half cents on the dollar, on all assessa-
ble property of the said town, on the same basis of assessment
as the said property is now or may hereafter be assessed for
State and county purposes; provided, that all property in said
corporate limits used only for agricultural purposes shall only
be assessed as such agricultural property, and not as town lots;

Levy and col-
lect taxes.