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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be a hen upon the respective lots until paid, and whenever pay-

Alien

ment thereof is refused, the mayor and common council may

recover the same by law, in the same manner as other debts of

like amount are recoverable in this State; the remaining one-

third of said expense shall be paid by the mayor and common

council out of the taxes levied upon the citizens generally.

236. The mayor or common council of Westminster shall have

full power and authority to regulate and provide for the issuing

of licenses or permits for all hawking, peddling and vending of

goods, wares and merchandise of every description upon the

streets, lanes, alleys or highways of the city of Westminster, and

Licenses.

to issue licenses or permits to all itenerant peddlers who may go

from house to house to vend or sell any goods, wares or merchan-

dise, to issue licenses to any and all persons entering into or be-

ginning any transient business in said city, for the sale of any

goods, wares or merchandise; to regulate and provide for the

issuing of licenses to all travelling persons who dispense medi-

cines or medical advice; to regulate, license and tax restaurants

and saloons, and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous or

fermented liquors are sold; to regulate, license and tax all hack-

ney carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in said city for

the carriage of passengers; all carriages for private use, all

vehicles used for the carnage, transportation or delivery of freight

or merchandise, and all carts or other vehicles which ply for hire ;

to suppress vagrancy, to levy a tax and impose a license upon dogs,

and to provide for the killing of all worthless, dangerous or an-

noying dogs, and of all dogs not properly licensed; and to regu-

late or prevent the going at large in the city limits of horses,

cattle, sheep, goats, swine, geese, dogs or any other brute, beast cr

Pass ordi-

fowl, and they may pass all ordinances necessary from time to

nances.

time to carry out and enforce the foregoing provisions, and to en-

force the observance of such ordinances by reasonable fines and

penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars in any one case, as may ap-

pear to them right, and they may recover said fine or penalty by

an action of debt, and in addition thereto they may provide for

the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding thirty

Proviso.

days, or until the fine be paid; provided, that no greater sum than

one hundred dollars be charged for any one license, and instead

of the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful, in case of the con-

viction of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such person to

hard work for a period not exceeding ten days.

236 A. The said mayor and common council shall have full

To codify

power and authority to provide for the codification of all ordi-

nances which may have been or may hereafter be passed, and to

provide for the payment of the same.

253. In default of payment of any fine or penalty imposed by

him for a violation of any ordinance of the corporation, the jus-