144 ARTICLE 1.

1912, ch. 217, sec. 15.

399. In case of a tie for any place on the ballot, the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen shall select publicly, by lot, an officer from among the candidates
so tied.

1890, ch. 132, sec. 15. 1892, ch. 425, sec. 15. 1902, ch. 499, sec. 15.

1918, ch. 492, sec. 15.

400. The Mayor and Councilmen of Lonaconing shall have power to
pass all, ordinances necessary for the good government of the town; to pre-
vent, remove and abate all nuisances, or obstructions in or upon the streets,
highways, lanes or alleys, drains or water courses, in or upon any lot or
lots adjacent thereto; to prohibit or license the keeping of hogs or hog
pens or the rendering in open kettles of tallow, or the running about the
streets of animals and to punish therefor; to remove or cause to be re-
moved houses or other structures that may be dangerous to persons pass-
ing along and over any of the highways of the town; to make reasonable
regulations in regard to buildings to be erected in said town and to grant
building permits for the same; to make and establish grades upon the
streets and highways of the town; to cause sidewalks, curbs and gutters
along the public streets and highways of said town to be laid, graded,
paved, repaired or improved at the cost and expense of the abutting prop-
erty or the owner thereof; to cause the water courses, drains or sewers of
the town to be paved, kept in repair and cleaned; to establish markets
and regulate the hours and limits thereof, and the mode of dealing in
relation thereto; to grant licenses for marketable commodities; to control
and protect public grounds and property of the town; to establish and
regulate a station house or lock-up for temporary confinement of violators
of the law 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, or shall frequent or visit 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 any description upon the streets, alleys or high-
ways of the town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers
who may go from house to house to sell or vend any wares or merchandise;
to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons
who dispense medicine or medical advice; they shall also have power to
demand a license from all circuses, menageries, players or showmen ex-
hibiting within the limits of said town, and to provide for licensing the
rates and regulate or restrain theatrical or other public amusements within
said town; they shall also have power to regulate and license or tax
saloons, restaurants or places in which spirituous or fermented liquor or
lager beer is bartered or sold; to regulate and license all vehicles of every
description used in said town for hire; to regulate and license auctioneers
who cry any sale or sales on the public streets, provided that no greater
sum than one hundred dollars shall be charged for any one license; and