CARROLL COUNTY. 1839

imprisonment of the offender until the fine is paid, not exceeding thirty
days, such imprisonment to be in the town lockup, if one be provided, or
in the county jail; and the Sheriff of Carroll County shall receive and
confine any person so committed.

1908, ch. 232, sec. 7A (p. 706).

359. The Mayor and Common Council shall have full power or author-
ity to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses or permits for all
hawking, peddling and vending of goods, wares and merchandise of every
description upon the streets, lanes, alleys or highways of the town of
Sykesville, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who
may go from house to house to vend or sell any goods, wares or merchan-
dise; to issue licenses to any and all persons entering into or beginning
any transient business in said city, 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; to levy a tax
on all gas companies, water companies and electric light companies; to im-
pose a license on all telephone and telegraph companies, which license shall
not exceed one dollar for each pole erected within the limits of the said cor-
poration; to license dogs, and to provide for the killing of all worthless,
dangerous and annoying dogs, and of all dogs not properly licensed; and
they may pass all ordinances necessary from time to time to carry out and
enforce the foregoing provisions, and to enforce the observance of such
ordinances by reasonable fines and penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars in
any one case, as may appear to them right, and they may recover said fine
or penalty by an action of debt, and in addition thereto they may provide
for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding thirty
days, or until the fine is paid.

1904, ch. 256, sec. 8. 1914, ch. 193, sec. 8.

360. The Mayor and Common Council of Sykesville shall have full
power to provide for the introduction of water, electric light or gas into
said town, and to effectuate such object may grant to or contract with any
other corporate body, public or private, or any individual or partnership,
the right or franchise within the limits of said town for the purpose of
operating a passenger railway, water works or electric light or gas plant,
the granting of such franchise to be regulated by the ordinances of the
Mayor and Common Council; and also may grant the right to lay con-
duits, gas or water mains through the streets, alleys or highways of said
town, and authority is hereby given to said Mayor and Common Council
to condemn private property, if the same should become necessary for the
operation of the aforesaid franchises; said condemnation proceedings to
be in accordance with the General Laws of the State of Maryland as are
in such cases applicable thereto; and also to construct, purchase and oper-
ate an electric light plant or water or gas works for the benefit of the said
town whenever, in their judgment, the interests of the town demand the
same, and to contract or provide for the furnishing or supplying of water,