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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

city; to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to

all travelling persons who dispense medicines 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 hackney

carriages, omnibuses or other vehicles used in said city for

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

vehicles used for the carriage transportation or delivery of

freight or merchandise, and all carts and other vehicles

which ply for hire ; to suppress vagrancy ; to levy a tax and

impose license upon dogs and to provide for the killing of

all worthless, dangerous or annoying dogs, and of all dogs

not properly licensed ; and to regulate or prevent the going

at large in the city limits of horses, cattle, sheep, goats,

swine, geese, dogs or any other brute, beast or fowl ; and

they may pass all ordinances necessary from time to 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 appear 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 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 conviction of any

person for vagrancy, to sentence such persons to hard work

for a period not exceeding ten days.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws inconsistent with

Repeal

or repugnant to the provisions of this act, be and they are

and effect

hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, and

this act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.