456 ARTICLE 2.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 13.

319. The said Commissioners shall have power to pass ordinances re-
quiring all circus or theatrical performances, shows, plays and public
entertainments for which an admission fee is charged, to take out a
license before giving an exhibition in said town, and to fix the cost of said
license; and shall have the power to pass all ordinances to provide for reg-
ulating pawnbrokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions, patents, secret or pre-
tended inventions and remedies, on the streets, alleys or sidewalks of said
town.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 14.

320. Said Commissioners may provide by ordinance for the -immediate
arrest without warrant of any person violating any town ordinance, when
in the judgment of the said Mayor, or of the constable or police of the
town, the delay necessary to the issuing of warrants would be dangerous
to the peace and quiet of the town, or to the lives, limbs or property of the
citizens; and when it shall appear that offender is intoxicated so as to
render it unsafe to permit him to ride or drive through the streets of said
town, shall provide for the custody of the horses, vehicle or vehicles, rid-
den or driven by such persons, in some place of safety until such offender
or offenders shall become sober; and the said Commissioners shall by
ordinance, subject the property so taken and deposited to the payment of
all costs of the proceedings, and the keeping of the said property, until
the same shall be released according to law.

1922, ch. 213, Bee. 15.

321. The bailiff and that the other officers of the peace appointed by the
said Commissioners, under the powers conferred by this Act, are hereby
vested with the same power and authority as any constable or police officer
may have under the laws of the State.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 16.

322. The said Commissioners shall have the power to levy and collect
taxes in said town, not exceeding in any one year one and one-quarter
cents on the dollar" on all assessable property in said town, on the same
basis of assessment as the said property shall for the said year be assessed
for State and county purposes; provided, that all property in said cor-
porate limits used for agricultural purposes shall only be assessed as such
agricultural property and not as town lots. The said Commissioners of
Highland Beach shall, annually, on or before March 1st of each year, cer-
tify to the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County the rate of
taxation desired by them to be assessed and collected on the property with-
in the corporate limits of said town, and such rate or percentage shall be
by the county authorities duly extended upon said property upon the tax
books of said county in a separate column, said taxes to be extended upon
the certificate of the Commisisoners as aforesaid, and collected in the same
way and with the same fees and commissions to officers, if any, as State