JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

relating to the town of Taneytown, in Carroll County, as
amended by Section one hundred and fifty-four, Chapter five
hundred and eighty-four, of the Acts of eighteen hundred and
ninety-four, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, so as to read as follows:

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154. A majority of the Commissioners shall have power to
enact and pass all such laws and ordinances not inconsistent
with the laws of this State or of the county, or this sub-title
of this Article, as they may deem wise and expedient for the
comfort, health, order, prosperity, peace and convenience of
said town and the inhabitants thereof to open and establish
grade, kerb, pave and repair such roads, streets, lanes and
alleys as have been or may be laid out for that purpose; to
prevent and remove nuisances; to provide against fires, and
the extinguishment of the same; to regulate fire companies;
to provide for the safety of houses, buildings and chim-
neys from fire; to prevent and regulate the use of ex-

Power to pass
laws and ordi-
nances.

plosive materials; to regulate party walls and division fences;
to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or per-
mits for all hawking, peddling and vending of goods, wares
and merchandise of every description upon the streets,
lanes, alleys or highways of said town of Taneytown,
and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers
who may go from house to house to vend or sell any
goods, wares or merchandise; to impose a license upon all
fire insurance company or companies and agencies located in
or doing business in said town of Taneytown; to issue
licenses to any and all persons entering into or beginning
any transient business in said town for the sale of any goods,
wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing
of license to all traveling persons who dispense medicines or
medical advice; to regulate, license and tax all public shows,
amusements, entertainments or exhibitions; to restrain dis-
orders, disturbances and immoralities; to regulate, license
and tax restaurants and saloons, and other places where malt,
spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors are sold; to regulate,
license and tax all hackney carriages, omnibuses or other
vehicles used in said town for the carriage of passengers; to
regulate and license all carriages for private use, all vehicles
used for the carriage, transportation or delivery of freight or
merchandise, and all carts or other vehicles which ply for
hire; to suppress vagrancy; to levy a tax and impose a license
upon dogs and bitches, and to provide for the killing of all
worthless, dangerous or annoying dogs and bitches, and of
all dogs and bitches not properly licensed, and to regulate

Issue licenses
or permits.