374 ARTICLE 2.

1924, ch. 320.

78. The Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis
shall have authority to pass ordinances providing for the summoning of
such persons as it shall deem necessary before that body or any of its

committees and to compel their testimony on such matters as shall relate
to the business of the City of Annapolis or in connection with any of its

officials or employees and to preserve order at the sessions of the said
Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis or any of its

committees and to punish by fine any violation of such ordinances as
may be passed in pursuance of the authority vested by this section.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 70. 1914 Code, sec. 97.

79. It shall not be lawful for the owners or lessees of any public hall,

church, school or place of amusement, in the cities of Annapolis, Balti-
more, Cumberland, Frederick, Hagerstown or Frostburg, to obstruct, or
allow to be obstructed by others, any of the aisles or passage-ways in the
auditorium of said halls, churches, schools or places of amusement, by
placing therein any benches, chairs or stools, or any other articles that
may prevent free ingress or egress during the hours that said places may be

open to the public.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 71. 1914 Code, sec. 98.

80. Said owners or lessees, or their agents, are required to keep open

at all hours during the time said halls, churches, schools or other places
of amusement are open to the public, all doors giving means of ingress or

egress, unless said doors open outward from said places, then the same
may be closed, but no hindrance, such as locks or catches of any kind,
shall be allowed to obstruct or prevent instant and easy egress through
the same; and when said doors open inwards, it is required of said owners,
lessees and their agents, that said doors shall be fastened securely and
firmly open.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 72. 1914 Code, sec. 99.

81. Owners or lessees, or any person holding under them, or their

agents, violating either of the two preceding sections, shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined by the court before whom such conviction is had for any
violation, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered as
other fines in this State, one-half of which shall go to the State and the
other half to the city where such violation occurs and conviction thereof
is had.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 73. 1914 Code, sec. 100.

82. It is made the special duty of the judge or judges of the courts
having criminal jurisdiction in said cities of Annapolis, Baltimore, Cum-
berland, Frederick, Hagerstown and Frostburg, to specially charge the
grand juries of said courts upon the execution of the three preceding sec-
tions, and the police authorities of said cities are specially charged with