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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

judgment become dangerous ; they may pass ordinances to

cause the streets, lanes and alleys to be paved, graded,

repaired, repaved, regraded, drained or sewered ; they may

erect or establish houses of correction, hospitals, or pest

houses, within or without the city, if necessary, and pass

ordinances for the government of the same ; they may pass

all such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the

protection and preservation of any of 'the city's property

rights and privileges ; they may direct in what part of the

city buildings of wood shall not be erected ; they may erect

and establish market houses, and regulate markets, and

pass ordinances for regulating the sale of meats, vegetables,

fruits, butter, eggs and poultry therein, and confine the

sales thereof in said city to the limits of the market places

during the hours of market, and may require a license

therefor from each vendor, but such ordinances shall not

apply to licensed dealers in such fruits, vegetables, butter,

eggs and poultry, occupying regular places of business in

said city, unless they offer their- goods also in the market

space, nor to persons offering for sale products of their own

farms or garden to customers, whether private citizens or

licensed dealers, unless they do so in the market- space,

which market space shall include the market house and

streets bounding the same, and said mayor and city council

shall not impose any restraint or hindrance upon the sale

of such vegetables, fruits, butter, eggs, poultry or country

produce by persons raising or producing the same ; but if

Licenses

such person shall desire to sell the same in the market

space, may require from them a license or fee for the privi-

lege of so doing ; they may require a license from all per-

sons owning and keeping for public hire drays, wagons or

other vehicles for transporting goods or passengers in said

city, and may requiie that all such drays, wagons or other

vehicles shall be numbered to correspond with the number

upon the license issued to it in pursuance of this authority ;

they may prevent the storage of gunpowder or other com-

bustible matter in such quantities or place within the city

as they may deem dangerous ; pass all ordinance to provide

for regulating pawnbrokers, peddlers of nostrums, notions,

patents, secret or pretended inventions and remedies on the

streets, lanes, alleys or sidewalks of the city, and for

licensing commercial travelers and retail dealers, non-resi-

dents of the city, auction, bargain and bankrupt sales and

all other kind of business or commercial ventures to be

carried on for a shorter period than one year, aud pass all

such ordinances as may be necessary to establish, maintain,

govern and control a paid fire department in the city ; pass

all such ordinances in addition to those already existing,