WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4Y03

vagrancy, to prohibit or restrain the keeping of bawdy houses or houses of
ill fame within the limits of the town, and to provide for the punishment
of all persons who shall keep, authorize or suffer to be kept any such
bawdy house or house of ill fame; to regulate and provide for the issuing
of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of wares and
merchandise of every description upon the streets and highways of the
town, and to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may
go from house to house to vend or sell any wares or merchandise; to issue
licenses to any and all persons entering into or beginning transient busi-
ness in said town for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise; to regu-
late and provide for the issuing of licenses to all traveling persons who
dispense medicines or medical advice; they shall also have power to de-
mand a license from all players or showmen exhibiting within said town,
and to provide for licensing theatres and to regulate or restrain theatrical
or other public amusements within said town; to regulate licenses and tax
restaurants and all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous
and fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all hackney,
carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in said town for the carriage
of passengers, all vehicles used for the carriage or transportation of freight
or merchandise, and all carts or other vehicles which ply for hire; to levy
a tax and impose a license upon dogs, and to impose a license upon all gas
companies, electric light companies, water companies and telephone com-
panies, brokers, real estate and insurance agencies located in or doing
business in said town, and to regulate and license auctioneers who cry any
public sales within the corporate limits of the town, provided, that no
greater sum than fifty dollars be charged for any one license; and to regu-
late and control all offensive trades, manufactures and traffics in offensive
fertilizers or other commodities within the town limits; they shall also
have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances which may
have been or may hereafter be passed; and for the purpose of carrying out
the foregoing powers and for the preservation of the cleanliness, health,
peace and good order of the community, and for the protection of the lives
and property of the citizens from fire or otherwise, and to suppress, abate
or discontinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all nui-
sances within the corporate and sanitary limits of said town, they may
pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary, and to insure
the observance of said ordinances, in addition to the action of debt or such
other civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for the recovery of
penalties thereto affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not
exceeding twenty-five dollars in any case, as to them appear right, and in
default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may provide for the im-
prisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding ten days, or until
the fine be paid; and, instead of the aforesaid penalties, it shall be law-
ful, in case of the conviction of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such
person to hard work for a period not exceeding ten days. Imprisonment
may, in the discretion of the Burgess, be either in the Washington County
jail or in the lockup or station house of Boonsboro, if such be constructed.