566
Proviso.
To levy and
collect taxes,
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
or riding through the streets, in any carriage, stage,
cart, wagon or other vehicle, or on horseback, so as
to endanger the lives or limbs, or property of the
citizens of said town, or disturb the quiet enjoyment
of the streets and thoroughfares; to prevent the
parading and indecent exhibition of any stud horse
through the streets; to prevent the passage through
any part of said town of any locomotive at a greater
rate of speed than six miles per hour; and to pass all
other ordinances and Ivy-laws necessary to give effect
and operation to the powers vested in said corpora-
tion; and to preserve order and secure property and
persons from violence, danger or destruction, and
may impose fines, penalties or forfeitures for the
breach thereof; but no ordinance of said corporation
shall impose a fine, penalty or forfeiture for any
offence of more than ten dollars; and they may pro-
vide by ordinance for the immediate arrest, without
warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance
by riotous and disorderly conduct, or driving or
riding through the streets when, in the judgment of
the President, or any two of said commissioners, the
delay necessary to the issuing of a warrant would be
dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town, or the
lives, limbs and property of its citizens; and when
it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated, so as
to render it unsafe to permit him to drive through
the streets, shall provide for the removal of the horse
and vehicle without the limits of the town, or for the
deposit thereof in some place of safety until the
offender shall be sober; provided, that nothing herein
contained shall authorize the passage of any by-law
or advertisement in conflict with the Constitution
and Laws of this State.
152. They shall have power to levy and collect
taxes in said town, not exceeding in anyone year
thirty cents in the one hundred dollars on the assess-
able property of said town; and shall also, for the
purpose of grading and paving the streets of said
town, have power to levy such other taxes upon the
property fronting on the street, or portion thereof to
be paved, as will pay the cost of grading and paving
the same.
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