856 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

1874, ch. 216.

256. The proprietors of lots binding on and entitled to the
privileges of the water in said town may, subject to the rules and
ordinances of the president and commissioners, wharf out and
extend and improve the whole front of their lots for such dis-
tance as from time to time they shall think proper; and they shall
be entitled exclusively to such emoluments arising from the
wharfage thereof as may be fixed upon by the president and
commissioners; but nothing contained in this or the preceding
section shall prevent the owner of any wharf erected in said
town, from having the exclusive right to use, occupy and enjoy
the same at pleasure.

Ibid.

257. The president and commissioners shall have the power
to pass ordinances regulating the market, measurement and
weight of all provisions sold in and to be consumed in said town;
to suppress al] disorderly meetings; to prevent firing guns, squibs
or any kind of firearms or fire-works in said town; to suppress
and abate all nuisances; to punish parties for exposing for sale or
selling unsound provisions; to prevent tame 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, so as to endanger the lives or limbs or
property of the citizens of the town, or disturb the quiet enjoy-"
ment of the streets and thoroughfares; to prevent the parading
and indecent exhibition of any stallion, through the streets; to
prevent the passage through any part of the town, of any
locomotive at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour;
and to pass all other 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 violence,
danger or destruction, and they may impose fines, penalties 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 and disorderly conduct,
or driving or riding through the streets when, in the judgment
of the president, or any two of said commissioners, the delay