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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

house or lockup for confinement of violators of the laws and

ordinances of the town ; to suppress vagrancy, to prohibit or

restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or houses of ill fame

within the limits of the town, and to provide for the punishment

of all persons who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be kept

any such bawdy house or house of ill fame; to regulate and

provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all hawking,

peddling and vending of wares and merchandise of every de-

Licenses to

scription upon the streets and highways of the town, and to

itinerant ped-
dlers.

issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go

from house to house to vend or sell any wares or merchandise ;

to issue licenses to any and all persons entering into or begin-

ning transient business in said town for the sale of any goods,

wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for the issuing

of licenses to all traveling persons who dispense medicines

or medical advice ; they shall also have power to demand a

license from all players or showmen exhibiting within said

town, and to provide for licensing theatres and to regulate

or restrain theatrical or other public amusements within said

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town; to regulate licenses and tax restaurants and all saloons

taurants and

and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous and fermented

saloons.

liquors are sold ; to regulate, license and tax all hackney,

carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in said town for

the carriage of passengers, all vehicles used for the carriage

or transportation of freight or merchandise, and all carts or

other vehicles which ply for hire; to levy a tax and impose a

license upon dogs, and to impose a license upon all gas com-

panies, electric light companies, water companies and telephone

companies, brokers, real estate and insurance agencies located

in or doing business in said town, and to regulate and license

auctioneers who cry any public sales within the corporate

limits of the town, provided, that no greater sum than fifty dol-

lars be charged for any one license ; and to regulate and control

all offensive trades, manufactures and traffics in offensive fer-

tilizers or other commodities within the town limits ; they shall

Codification of

also have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances

all ordi-

which may have been or may hereafter be passed ; and for the

nances.

purpose of carrying ont the foregoing powers and for the

preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good order

of the community, and for the protection of the lives and prop-

erty of the citizens from fire or otherwise, and to suppress.

abate or discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or dis-

continued, all nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits

of said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time

to time necessary, and to insure the observance of said or-