4470 ARTICLE 20.

town, and may employ any person sentenced to the town jail for thirty
days or more and confined therein for non-payment of any fine and costs,
and to abate by appropriate ordinance all nuisances in said town which
are so defined at common law, by this Act, or by the laws of the State of
Maryland, whether the same are herein specifically named or not. The
President and Commissioners of Princess Anne are further authorized
generally to pass all necessary by-laws and ordinances not contrary to law
for preservation of health, comfort, convenience, morals, cleanliness,
peace and good order of the community, and for protection of the lives
and property of the citizens and inhabitants of said town, and for the sup-
pression, abatement and discontinuance of nuisances within the limits of
said town; for the purpose of carrying out the aforegoing powers, the
President and Commissioners may pass any and all ordinances and by-
laws from time to time deemed necessary, and may enforce and insure the
observance of such by-laws and ordinances in addition to the usual action
of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for
the recovery of fees, fines and penalties thereto affixed, they may affix
thereto reasonable penalty for default of payment of any fine and costs
imposed for a violation of any ordinance or by-law; and they may provide
by ordinances for the immediate arrest, without warrant, of any person
violating any town ordinance by notorious and disorderly conduct or driv-
ing or riding through the streets, when, in the judgment of the president
or any of said commissioners, the delay necessary for the issuing of the
warrant may be dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town or the lives,
limbs and property of its citizens. Provided, that the provisions of this
Act relating to the granting and regulation of franchises by the said Presi-
dent and Commissioners shall in no way affect or abridge the rights, privi-
leges or franchises heretofore granted by the said President and Commis-
sioners to any telephone or telegraph company or now enjoyed by any such
company now in practical operation, or which has laid and constructed its
pole lines or other structures or any part thereof in the said town of
Princess Anne.

1900, ch. 531, sec. 204A.

311. The president -and Commissioners of Princess Anne shall have
power to pass such ordinance or ordinances as they may deem proper and
necessary for the granting of licenses to individuals, firms or corporations
not having any fixed and permanent place of business in the town of
Princess Anne, to solicit or receive orders in said town, from any indi-
vidual, firm or corporation, not licensed as traders under the General
Laws of this State, for any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise to be
delivered in the future; provided, no license shall be required of any
individual, firm or corporation where such individual, firm or corporation
is the grower, maker or manufacturer of the goods, wares, chattels or mer-
chandise, for which orders are solicited or received in said town.