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lars be charged for any one license; and to regulate and control all offen-
sive trades, manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other com-
modities 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 citi-
zens, and to suppress, abate or discontinue, or cause to be suppressed,
abated or discontinued, all nuisances, within the corporate and sanitary
limits of said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to
time necessary; and to ensure the observance of said ordinances, in addi-
tion to the action of debt, or such other civil remedies as may exist in such
cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may
affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case,
as to them appear right; and in default of the payment of any fine im-
posed, they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender for a period
not exceeding twenty days, or until the fine be paid; and instead of the
aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful in case of the conviction of any per-
son for vagrancy, to sentence such person to hard work for a period not
exceeding ten days.

Hagerstown v. Witmer, 86 Md. 294. Magaha v. Hagerstown, 95 Md. 71. Hagers-
town v. B. & O. R. R., 107 Md. 187. Hagerstown v. Hagerstown Ry., 123 Md. 184.

1900, ch. 394.

327. The Mayor and Council shall have power to impose a license on
telegraph companies doing business in the town of Hagerstown; provided
that no greater sum than one hundred dollars be charged for any one
license.

1892, ch. 59.

328. The mayor and council shall have and are hereby vested with
full power and authority to grant the use of the streets, alleys or high-
ways, of the town unto any person or persons, corporation or corporations,
for the purpose of constructing a system of sanitary sewerage in Hagers-
town; to enter into contract with the same with respect to the construction
and operation of such system of sanitary sewerage, and to levy taxes in
addition to the amount now authorized by law sufficient to meet any obli-
gation incurred by said mayor and council under the terms of such con-
tract, provided that an election to be held on a day designated by the
mayor and council, whereof ten days' notice shall be given by the mayor,
a majority of the qualified voters of Hagerstown, voting at said election
shall ratify and confirm said contract.

1892, ch. 126, aec. 171B.

329. The mayor and council of Hagerstown shall have and are hereby
vested with power and authority to contract with any water company for
the purpose of securing water for the use of the citizens of the town and
for use in case of fire, and the mayor and council shall have and are hereby