EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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

to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all travel-

ing persons who dispense medicine or medical advice and secret

or patented inventions and remedies ; and for licensing com-

mercial travelers and all retail dealers and solicitors now resi-

dents of the city ; to regulate and license hackney carriages.

omnibuses, or other vehicles used in the city for carriage of

passengers or travelers ; and if they see fit, they may require

every such vehicle to be numbered to correspond with the num-

ber upon the license issued to it in pursuance of this authority ;

to levy or collect a license or tax upon all vehicles of every kind

owned by residents of the city and habitually kept therein

and used upon the streets thereof ; and the Mayor and Alder-

men shall also have power by ordinance or ordinances to levy

and collect a license tax and regulate any and all callings,

trades, professions and occupations conducted, pursued, carried

on or operated within the limits of said city, and may levy and
collect special taxes upon all telegraph, telephone, electric

Special taxes.

light and trolley poles or posts erected and maintained within

the corporate limits of Frederick.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage and that all Acts or parts of Acts

inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved April 7. 1904.

CHAPTER 296.

AN ACT to prevent any person from removing and bringing

any poor, indigent or insane persons from any State, county

or town into Garrett County with the intent to leave such

person a charge and burden upon Garrett County.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to

Poor, indigent

remove, bring or entice any poor, indigent or insane person

or insane per-
sons.

from any State, county or town to Garrett County with intent

to make said Garrett County chargeable with the support of

such poor, indigent or insane person, under penalty of a fine

of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred

dollars, or to be imprisoned in the Maryland House of Correc-

tion for a period of not less than two months nor more than

two years, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion

of the court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

of Garrett County shall have the power to return and remove