PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1417

penalties and forfeitures for the violation of their ordinances,
including the committal of offenders to the Montgomery county
jail until the same, with costs, are paid. (12) The council shall
have the power to grant licenses for stores, shops, stands, games,
amusements, shows, theatrical exhibitions, for all hawking,
peddling or vending of wares or merchandise of every descrip-
tion, upon the streets or highways of the town; to issue licenses
or permits to all itinerant persons or companies or corporations
who dispense medicine or medical advice; to demand a license
from all players or showmen exhibiting within the town; to
provide for the licensing of theatres and to regulate and restrain
theatrical or other public amusements within the said town;
to regulate and license hacking, carriages, cars or other vehi-
cles used in the town for carriage of passengers and travellers;
to regulate and license auctioneers who cry sales upon the
public streets, provided that no greater sum than one hundred
dollars be charged for any license; provided, that nothing con-
tained in this paragraph shall authorize the licensing, permit-
ting or doing of anything prohibited by the general laws of
the State or local laws applicable to Montgomery county. (13)
The council shall have the power to establish and regulate a
station house lockup for the temporary confinement of violat-
ors of the laws and ordinances of the town. (14) The council
shall have the power to suppress vagrancy, tramps and gypsies,
commonly known as nomads. (15) The council shall have the
power to prohibit, suppress and restrain the keeping of bawdy
houses or houses of ill-fame or disorderly houses within the
corporate limits of said town, and to provide for the punish-
ment of all persons who shall keep or suffer to be kept in,, upon
or on their property any such house or houses. (16) The
council shall have power to regulate the speed of all convey-
ances upon the streets or any public highway or road within
the town, such as carriages, bicycles, autocycles, motorcycles,
automobiles, locomobiles and street cars. (17) The council
shall have the power to annually levy a water tax for the use
of water provided by the town. (18) The council shall have
the power to cause and compel all railroad corporations to
light all street crossings over or by which their cars pass. (19)
The council shall have the power to prohibit and provide for
the punishment of all wife-beaters, habitual drunkards, loafers,
vagrants, tramps, beggars, disorderly characters, disturbers of
religious meetings or public meetings or disturbers of the peace
and quiet of the town. (20) The council shall have the power
to, and it shall be lawful for them to provide in the case of
conviction of any person for vagrancy, habitual drunkenness,