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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, license and tax
restaurants and all saloons and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous,
and fermented liquor are sold, to levy a tax and impose a license upon
dogs, or, if in their judgment it be necessary to prohibit dogs from run-
ning at large upon the streets of the town, to prohibit the running at large
upon the streets of the town swine, cattle and fowls, to impose a license
upon all gas companies, electric light companies, water companies, street
railway companies and telephone companies located in or doing business
in said town, and to regulate and license auctioneers who cry at public
sales within the limits of the town; provided, that no greater sum than
fifty ($50.00) dollars be charged for any one license; to regulate and
control all offensive trades, manufacturers, traffic and 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 fore-
going 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 nuisances
within the corporate 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 or by-laws 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 ($25.00) dollars in any case, as to them appear right, and in
default of payment of any fine imposed, they may provide for the im-
prisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding ten (10) days, or
until the fine be paid, imprisonment, in the discretion of the Burgess, be
either in the Washington county jail or in the lock-up of said Keedysville.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 291. 1872, ch. 251. 1896, ch. 326, sec. 291.

597. They may lay an equal tax on the property within said town to
such an amount as may from time to time be deemed necessary, and may
appoint a collector to collect the same and prescribe his term of office, re-
sponsibility and compensation, and the said collector shall have the same
power to distrain for the taxes so levied, as the collector of county taxes,
has and shall collect and pay the same to the said Burgess and Commis-
sioners, o'r the said collector may collect said taxes by an action of debt,
as other debts are collected.

1896, ch. 326, sec. 291A.

598. All property within the limits of Keedysville, or what may have
a situs there, by reason of a residence of the owner therein, shall be taxed