ART. 8.] CHESAPEAKE CITY. 811

selling unsound provisions; to prevent swine, ducks and geese
from going at large; to prevent any immoderate driving or
riding through the streets in any carriage, stage, cart, wagon or
other vehicle, or on horseback, eo as to endanger the lives or
limbs or property of the citizens of the town, or disturb the quiet
enjoyment of the streets and thoroughfares; to prevent the-
parading and indecent exhibition of any stallion through the
streets; and to impose a tax upon all circuses, menageries and
like traveling exhibitions when exhibiting within the limits of
the town; and to pass all ordinances and by-laws necessary to
give effect and operation to the powers vested in said corporation;
and to preserve order and secure property and persons from vio-
lence, danger or destruction; and they may impose fines, penal-
ties or forfeitures for the breach thereof; but no ordinance of
said corporation shall impose a fine, penalty or forfeiture, for any
offence, of more than ten dollars; and they may provide by ordi-
nance for the immediate arrest without warrant, of any person
violating any town ordinance by riotous or disorderly conduct, or
driving or riding through the streets, when the delay necessary
to the issuing of a warrant will be dangerous to the peace and
quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs or property of its citizens;
and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated so as to
render it unsafe to permit him to drive or ride through the
streets, they shall provide for the removal of the horse, or horse
and vehicle, without the limits of the town, or for the deposit
thereof in some place of safety until the offender shall be sober.

1876, ch. 140.

92. The president and commissioners shall have power to
build a lockup or jail in said town, for the purpose of confining
therein such persons as they may be authorized to commit there-
to by the laws of this State, or the ordinances of the town.

Ibid.

23. They shall have power to levy and collect taxes in the
town, not exceeding in any one year thirty cents in the hun.
dred dollars on the assessable property of the town. They shall,
once in every five years, or oftener if they think proper, appoint
an assessor, who shall, under oath, value and assess the property