ALLEGANY COUNTY.

gasoline stations, doctors, dentists, skating rinks, dance halls, boxing or
sparring exhibitions, moving picture shows, theatres and all other places of
public amusement, auctioneers, automobiles used for hire, trucks, carts
or wagons used for hire, livery stables, hucksters, and any and all retail
stores, public exhibitions to which an admission is charged, and any and
all other trades, professions or businesses carried on or conducted within
the corporate limits of the town; to establish and regulate a station house
or lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the law and ordi-
nances of the town, and to erect suitable buildings to be used as Council
Chambers and for fire companies; to suppress vagrancy; to open and close
streets, roads, lanes and alleys, and to establish footways, when in their
judgment the public welfare or convenience may require; to provide for
ascertaining any and in what amount damages may be caused thereby, for
which the owner or possessor of any property through which such street,
road, lane or alley may pass are to be compensated; to provide for grant-
ing appeals to the Circuit Court for Allegany County from the decisions
of Commissioners or other persons appointed by virtue of any ordinance
to open and close streets; to ascertain the damage occasioned by the open-
ing, closing or establishing or altering of streets, roads, lanes, or alleys,
in said town, and to secure for the person or any person injured the right,
on application within thirty days from the return of the commissioners,
to have decided by Jury trial, whether any and what damage, if any, has
been sustained by him; to provide for collecting and paying the compen-
sation or award to any person before any street, road, lane or alley shall
be opened, closed, established or altered, and to enact all ordinances from
time to time necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers granted
in this section; provided, however, that whenever the Mayor and Council
proposes to open, close, alter or establish any street, road, lane or alley
at least thirty days' notice by advertising in a newspaper published once
a week in Allegany County, or by hand bills freely distributed, shall be
given to all parties interested, of the intention of the Mayor and Council
and of the time of the consideration of such action; to provide for the
codification of all ordinances that may be passed and for the printing and
publishing of the same; and the printed copy of all such ordinances, when
approved by the Mayor and Council shall be legal evidence of the passage
of such ordinance and of the contents thereof in any Court of this State;
to provide penalties not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or a term of im-
prisonment not exceeding thirty days, for the violation of any ordinance,
or both fine and imprisonment; to require bonds of all officers and agents
of the corporation, and where not otherwise prescribed, said bonds shall be
made payable to the Mayor and Council of Midland and shall be in such
form and with such sureties and for such amount as the Mayor and Coun-
cil may prescribe; to create and fill and to discontinue all offices and
employments, not otherwise prescribed herein, according to their judg-
ment of the needs and requirements of the town; and in their discretion
to remove for or without cause the incumbent of any such office or employ-