CECIL COUNTY. 1947

1908, ch. 545, sec. 89D (p. 716).

97. The said board shall appoint a secretary and prescribe his duties
and the entire compensation for all the services which he shall render as
aforesaid he shall receive a sum not more than twenty-five dollars annu-
ally, who shall have charge of the seal of said town and shall enter all
the ordinances and proceedings of said board in a book kept by him for
that purpose.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 90. 1876, ch. 140.

98. All ordinances passed by the President and Commissioners shall be
entered by the secretary in a book to be kept by him for that purpose;
and said ordinances, or printed copies thereof, shall be kept for the in-
spection of any person interested.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 91. 1876, ch. 140.

99. The President and Commissioners shall have power to pass ordi-
nances regulating the market, measurement and weight of all provisions
sold in and to be consumed in the town; to suppress all disorderly meet-
ings; to prevent the firing of guns, squibs or any kind of firearms or
fireworks in the town; to suppress and abate all nuisances; to punish
parties for exposing for sale or selling unsound provisions; to prevent
swine, ducks and geese from going at large; to prevent any immoderate
driving or riding through the streets in any carriage, stage, cart, wagon
or other vehicle, or on horseback, so as to endanger the lives or limbs or
property of the citizens of the town, or disturb the quiet enjoyment of
the streets and thoroughfares; to prevent the parading and indecent exhi-
bition of any stallion through the streets; and to impose a tax upon all
circuses, menageries and like traveling exhibitions when exhibiting within
the limits of the town; and to pass all ordinances and by-laws necessary
to give effect and operation to the powers vested in said corporation; and
to preserve order and secure property and persons from violence, danger
or destruction; and they may impose fines, penalties or forfeitures for the
breach thereof; but no ordinance of said corporation shall impose a fine,
penalty or forfeiture, for any offense, of more than ten dollars; and they
may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest without warrant, of
any person violating any town ordinance by riotous or disorderly conduct,
or driving or riding through the streets, when the delay necessary to the
issuing of a warrant will be dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town,
or the lives, limbs or property of its citizens; and when it shall appear
that the offender is intoxicated so as to render it unsafe to permit him
to drive or ride through the streets, they shall provide for the removal of
the horse, or horse and vehicle, without the limits of the town, or for the
deposit thereof in some place of safety until the offender shall be sober.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. S, sec. 92. 1876, ch. 140.

100. The President and Commissioners shall have power to build a
lockup or jail in said town, for the purpose of confining therein such per-